1 Kings 14:27

27 King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and assigned them to the officers of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

1 Kings 14:27 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 14:27

And King Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields
For the king of Egypt had so stripped him of his gold, that he was not able to replace golden ones:

and committed them into the hands of the chief of the guard;
or "runners" ^F16, that went before the king, or attended him as his bodyguard when he went abroad:

which kept the door of the king's house;
which kept guard night and day in their turns.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (Myurh) "cursorum", Pagninus, Montanus

1 Kings 14:27 In-Context

25 During King Rehoboam's fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

26 He seized the treasures of the LORD's temple and the royal palace. He took everything, even all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

27 King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and assigned them to the officers of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

28 Whenever the king entered the LORD's temple, the guards would carry the shields and then return them to the guardroom.

29 The rest of Rehoboam's deeds and all that he accomplished, aren't they written in the official records of Judah's kings?