a hundred shekels made one pound; so that these were but half the value of the former, and one of them was worth but two hundred and twenty five pounds: Eupolemus (o), an Heathen writer, makes mention of those golden shields Solomon made, and which were made for show, and not for war, as follows: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon; one part of which was made an armoury of, see Sol 4:4 . (o) Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 34.