Targets — 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 shew he took more pleasure in his power to defend and protect the good.
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1 Kings 10:16
16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.