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When he shaved his head--which he used to do at the end of every year, because his hair became too heavy for him--the hair weighed two hundred shekels according to the royal standard. (2 Samuel 14, 26)
Dadu, one of the Rephaim, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels, was about to take him captive. Dadu was girt with a new sword and planned to kill David, (2 Samuel 21, 16)
The king, however, replied to Araunah, "No, I must pay you for it, for I cannot offer to the LORD my God holocausts that cost nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty silver shekels. (2 Samuel 24, 24)
Moreover, King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold (six hundred gold shekels went into each shield) (1 Kings 10, 16)
A chariot imported from Egypt cost six hundred shekels, a horse one hundred and fifty shekels; they were exported at these rates to all the Hittite and Aramean kings. (1 Kings 10, 29)
Menahem secured the money to give to the king of Assyria by exacting it from all the men of substance in the country, fifty silver shekels from each. The king of Assyria did not remain in the country but withdrew. (2 Kings 15, 20)
So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the place. (1 Chronicles 21, 25)
and would then bring up chariots from Egypt and export them at six hundred silver shekels, with the horses going for a hundred and fifty shekels. At these rates they served as middlemen for all the Hittite and Aramean kings. (2 Chronicles 1, 17)
The weight of the nails was fifty gold shekels. The upper chambers he likewise covered with gold. (2 Chronicles 3, 9)
Moreover, King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of beaten gold going into each shield, (2 Chronicles 9, 15)
and three hundred bucklers of beaten gold, three hundred shekels of gold going into each buckler; these the king put in the hall of the Forest of Lebanon. (2 Chronicles 9, 16)
The earlier governors, my predecessors, had laid a heavy burden on the people, taking from them each day forty silver shekels for their food; then too, their men oppressed the people. But I, because I feared God, did not act thus. (Nehemiah 5, 15)
