2 Chronicles 12:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ but King Rehoboam made in place of them shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard who kept the door of the king’s house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Instead of them King Rehoboam made shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard who kept the door of the king's house.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, that kept the door of the king’s house.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and assigned them to the officers of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace. (

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ In place of these, the king made bronze ones, and he delivered them to the leaders of the shield bearers, who were guarding the vestibule of the palace.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the palace.

2 Chronicles 12:10 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:23

He was renowned among the Thirty, but he did not attain to the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

2 Samuel 8:18

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.

1 Kings 10:16

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each large shield.

1 Kings 14:27

so King Rehoboam made shields of bronze instead and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard who kept the door of the king’s house.

1 Chronicles 11:25

He was renowned among the Thirty, but he did not attain to the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

2 Chronicles 12:11

Whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard would come along bearing them and would then bring them back to the guardroom.

2 Chronicles 12:9

So King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made,

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has grown dim; how the pure gold is changed! The sacred stones lie scattered at the head of every street.