9:16a He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold;

He also made three hundred small shields of beaten gold.
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He also had people make three hundred (300) small shields. They used hammers to beat thin gold and covered them with it.

9:16b three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

He used three hundred (300) measures of gold to make each of these shields.
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They used about one and a half (1½) kilograms of gold to cover each one.
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They used about three (3) pounds of gold to cover each one.

9:16c And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

The king placed these shields in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.
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The king put the shields in his Palace called Lebanon Forest.

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