1 Kings 14:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ King Rehoboam made in their stead bronze shields and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard who kept the door of the king's house.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

Common English Bible

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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ In place of these, king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and he delivered them into the hand of the commanders of the shield bearers, and of those who were keeping the night watch before the gate of the king's house.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 14:27 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:9

But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

2 Samuel 15:1

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

1 Kings 14:1

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

1 Kings 14:28

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

1 Kings 14:5

And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

1 Kings 18:46

and the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

2 Kings 11:19

And he took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard unto the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

2 Kings 11:4

And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds, of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

1 Samuel 22:17

And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

1 Samuel 8:11

And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots: