Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold For pomp and magnificence, and to be carried before him by his guard when he went abroad. The Roman magistrates had rods and axes carried before them, in token of their power to correct the bad; but Solomon shields and targets, to show he took more pleasure in his power to defend and protect the good. Three hundred shields Smaller than targets. The king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon Where, it is likely, he kept his most precious treasures.

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