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And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed with a breastplate of scales. Moreover, the weight of his breastplate was five thousand shekels of brass. (1 Samuel 17, 5)
Now the shaft of his spear was like the beam used by a weaver. And the iron of his spear held six hundred shekels of iron. And his armor bearer went before him. (1 Samuel 17, 7)
And when he shaved off his hair, for he shaved it off once a year, because his long hair was burdensome to him, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, by the public weights. (2 Samuel 14, 26)
And Joab said to the man who had reported it to him, “If you saw him, why did you not stab him to the ground, and I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a belt?” (2 Samuel 18, 11)
And in response, the king said to him: “It shall not be as you wish. Instead, I will purchase it from you at a price. For I will not offer to the Lord, my God, holocausts that cost nothing.” Therefore, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. (2 Samuel 24, 24)
Also, king Solomon made two hundred large shields from the purest gold. He dispensed six hundred shekels of gold for the layers of one shield. (1 Kings 10, 16)
Now a four-horse chariot would be sent from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty. And in this manner, all the kings of the Hittites and of Syria were selling horses. (1 Kings 10, 29)
And Menahem proclaimed a tax upon Israel, on all who were powerful and wealthy, so that each one would give to the king of the Assyrians fifty shekels of silver. Then the king of the Assyrians turned back, and he did not remain in the land. (2 Kings 15, 20)
Therefore, David gave Ornan, for the place, the very just weight of six hundred shekels of gold. (1 Chronicles 21, 25)
Then he also made nails of gold, such that each nail weighed fifty shekels. Also, he covered the upper rooms in gold. (2 Chronicles 3, 9)
But the former governors, the ones who had been before me, were a burden to the people, and they took from them bread and wine, and forty shekels of money each day. And their officials also oppressed the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God. (Nehemiah 5, 15)
And I give, every year, fifteen thousand shekels of silver from the allotment of the king, from what belongs to me. (1 Maccabees 10, 40)