1 Kings 14:27
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.
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Gill's Exposition
And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord,.... The temple; for though he had fallen into idolatry, he had not wholly forsaken the worship of God in the temple, and perhaps by the…
Judah's story and Israel's are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam's reign may be laid together;…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
brasen shields R.V. - shields of brass " (or, rather, -bronze") which is the form in 2Ch 12:10, and which represents the original more precisely.
chief of the guard The margin of A.V. gives Heb.…
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