1 Kings 10:17
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
He made three hundred shields of beaten gold, with three hundred shekels of gold going to each shield, and set them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. The work was an ambitious display of royal magnificence, revealing the scale of his wealth and extravagance. Means that should have relieved the poor and been put into lasting public improvements were instead consumed in splendor for the king's own exaltation.