1 Kings 14:27

27 So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to put in their place and gave them to the commanders of the guards for the palace gates.

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 the fifth year Rehoboam was king, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

26 He took the treasures from the Temple of the Lord and the king's palace. He took everything, even the gold shields Solomon had made.

27 So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to put in their place and gave them to the commanders of the guards for the palace gates.

28 Whenever the king went to the Temple of the Lord, the guards carried the shields. Later, they would put them back in the guardroom.

29 Everything else King Rehoboam did is written in the book of the history of the kings of Judah.