1 Kings 14:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:9

But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord and did not go down to his house.

2 Samuel 15:1

After this Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

1 Kings 14:1

At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam fell sick.

1 Kings 14:28

As often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.

1 Kings 14:5

But the Lord said to Ahijah, “The wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her when she comes. She will pretend to be another woman.”

1 Kings 18:46

But the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran in front of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

2 Kings 11:19

He took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land; then they brought the king down from the house of the Lord, marching through the gate of the guards to the king’s house. He took his seat on the throne of the kings.

2 Kings 11:4

But in the seventh year Jehoiada summoned the captains of the Carites and of the guards and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord; then he showed them the king’s son.

1 Samuel 22:17

The king said to the guard who stood around him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David; they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not raise a hand to attack the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 8:11

He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots,