So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
He was held in greater honor than any of the Thirty, but he was not included among the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
How the gold has lost its luster, the fine gold become dull! The sacred gems are scattered at every street corner.