1 Kings 14:28

Every time that the king went into the temple, those guards carried those shields; and when he left the temple they returned the shields to the storeroom.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

In Context

27King Rehoboam’s workers made bronze shields to replace them and entrusted them to officers who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace.

29Everything else that Rehoboam did is written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 12:11After that, whenever the king went to the temple, the guards went with him, carrying those bronze shields. Then when the king left, they would return the shields to the guards’ room.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 14:22-31

Rehoboam's Disgrace and Death. ( b. c. 960.) 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they… Read the whole commentary →

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