1 Kings 14:28
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New International Version (©2011)
Whenever the king went to the LORD's temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Whenever the king went to the Temple of the LORD, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the LORD, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards' room.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Whenever the king entered the LORD's temple, the royal escorts would carry the shields, then they would take them back to the royal escorts' armory.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Whenever the king entered the LORD's Temple, the guards would carry them to and from the guard's quarters.

NET Bible (©2006)
Whenever the king visited the LORD's temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Whenever the king went into the LORD's temple, guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

American King James Version
And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

American Standard Version
And it was so, that, as oft as the king went into the house of Jehovah, the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

Darby Bible Translation
And it was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Jehovah, the couriers bore them, and brought them again into the chamber of the couriers.

English Revised Version
And it was so, that as oft as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

World English Bible
It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass, from the going in of the king to the house of Jehovah, the runners bear them, and have brought them back unto the chamber of the runners.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:21-31 Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen for his temple and his worship, shows that nothing can mend the hearts of fallen men but the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit. On this alone may we depend; for this let us daily pray, in behalf of ourselves and all around us. The splendour of their temple, the pomp of their priesthood, and all the advantages with which their religion was attended, could not prevail to keep them close to it; nothing less than the pouring out the Spirit will keep God's Israel in their allegiance to him. Sin exposes, makes poor, and weakens any people. Shishak, king of Egypt, came and took away the treasures. Sin makes the gold become dim, changes the most fine gold, and turns it into brass.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 28. And it was so, when the king went unto the house of the Lord, that the guards [runners] bare them [Whatever idolatries Rehoboam tolerated or encouraged, it is clear that he maintained the temple worship with great pomp and circumstance. The state visits of the Sultan to the Mosque may perhaps be best compared with these processions. Ewald sees in this circumstance a proof of Rehoboam's vanity. The brazen shields were "borne before him in solemn procession, as if everything were the same as before"], and brought them back into the guard chamber [Heb." chamber of the runners." Solomon's golden shields were kept "in the house of the forest of Lebanon" (1 Kings 10:17). These shields of Brass were of so little value that the guard chamber sufficed for their custody.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 late humbling providence he might be stirred up to attend there more frequently:

that the guard bare them: before him, partly for pomp and grandeur, and partly to keep in awe such as were inclined to mutiny and sedition:

and brought them back into the guard chamber; when the king returned, the place where the guard lodged and slept by turns.

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Shishak Raids Jerusalem
…27And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house. 28And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber. 29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? …

2 Samuel 11:9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.
1 Kings 14:27 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.
1 Kings 14:29 As for the other events of Rehoboam's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 12:11 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.