And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
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Gill's Exposition
Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did,.... In the course of his reign, that was memorable:
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? who had…
Barnes' Notes
It appears from this verse that Rehoboam, notwithstanding that he encouraged, and perhaps secretly practiced, idolatry (1Ki 14:22-24, compare 1Ki 15:3, 1Ki 15:12; 2Ch 12:1), maintained a public…
Adam Clarke
The guard bare them - The guard probably were just three hundred, answering to the number of the shields.
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;…
Cambridge Bible
And it wasso, when For -when" the R.V. gives, as often as. The Hebrew word is not common. It occurs 1Sa 18:30; 2Ki 4:8; in the latter place the A.V. gives -as oft as," and in the former the R.V., has…