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# King Solomon made
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It might be best to translate so that the reader understands that other people helped Solomon do this. AT: "King Solomon's men made" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# two hundred large shields
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"200 large shields" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# Six hundred shekels of gold
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A shekel is a unit of weight equal to about 11 grams. AT: "About 6.6 kilograms of gold" or "Six and one half kilograms of gold" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight]])
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# Six hundred shekels
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Because the word "shekels" does not appear here in the Hebrew text, some modern versions assume instead the unit of bekah, which was equivalent to only a half shekel. Any version making this assumption would signal a metric equivalent of about three kilograms.
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# He also made
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It might be best to translate so that the reader understands that other people helped Solomon do this. AT: "The king's men also made" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# three hundred shields
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"300 shields" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# Three minas of gold
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A mina is a unit of weight equal to about 550 grams. AT: "About 1.7 kilograms of gold" or "One and three-quarters kilograms of gold" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight]])
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# the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon
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"the house called the House of the Lebanon Forest." See how you translated this in [1 Kings 7:2](../07/01.md).
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/shield]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/palace]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/lebanon]] |