◄ 1 Kings 14:28 ►
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Good News Translation
Every time the king went to the Temple, the guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.

New Revised Standard Version
As often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.

Contemporary English Version
Whenever Rehoboam went to the LORD's temple, the guards carried the shields. But they always took them back to the guardroom as soon as he was finished.

New American Bible
Whenever the king visited the house of the LORD, those on duty would carry the shields, and then return them to the guardroom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

the guard chamber

2 Chronicles 12:11 And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their armoury.

Context
Shishak Raids Jerusalem
…27And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house. 28And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.29Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:9
But Urias slept before the gate of the king's house, with the other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.

1 Kings 14:27
And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.

1 Kings 14:29
Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.

2 Chronicles 12:11
And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their armoury.

1 Kings 14:27
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