And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down to his house, David said to Uriah, Did you not come from your journey? why then did you not go down to your house?
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
And king Rehoboam made in their place brass shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.