2 Chronicles 9:15-16

9:15 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ¹  of hammered gold were used for each shield. 9:16 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; 300 measures ²  of gold were used for each of those shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. ³ 

2 Chronicles 9:4

9:4 the food in his banquet hall, ⁴  his servants and attendants ⁵  in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, ⁶  she was amazed. ⁷ 

[9:15]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “600,” with no unit of measure given.

[9:16]  ² tn The Hebrew text has simply “300,” with no unit of measure given.

[9:16]  ³ sn This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest. See 1 Kgs 7:2.

[9:4]  ³ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[9:4]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (’olato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.

[9:4]  ⁶ tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”