The “targets” seem to have been long shields protecting the whole body, while the “shields” of the next verse were bucklers of a smaller size, prob…

The shields overlaid with gold—the larger called “targets,” and the lesser called “shields”—were evidently used for ornamenting the king’s palace a…

And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold ,
&c.] Which were a larger sort of shields, which covered t…

Solomon increased his wealth. Silver was considered of no value. Such is the nature of worldly wealth: plenty of it makes it le valuable. Even more…