² He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon.^(A) It was forty-five metres^[a] long, twenty-three metres^[b] wide, and thirteen and a half metres^[c] high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.

¹⁷ He made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; nearly two kilograms^[a] of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.^(A)