◄ 2 Chronicles 23:9 ►
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Good News Translation
Jehoiada gave the officers the spears and shields that had belonged to King David and had been kept in the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
The priest Jehoiada delivered to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of God;

Contemporary English Version
Jehoiada went into the temple and brought out the swords and shields that had belonged to King David, and he gave them to the commanders.

New American Bible
Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, shields, and bucklers of King David which were in the house of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the shields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house of the Lord.

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And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the shields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house of the Lord.

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1 Samuel 21:9 And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here there is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, give it me.

2 Samuel 8:7 And David took the arms of gold, which the servants of Adarezer wore and brought them to Jerusalem.

Context
Joash Anointed King in Judah
…8So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the high priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to succeed one another every week. 9And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the shields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house of the Lord.10And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the right side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the altar, and the temple, round about the king.…
Cross References
1 Kings 10:16
And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.

2 Chronicles 23:8
So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the high priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to succeed one another every week.

2 Chronicles 23:10
And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the right side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the altar, and the temple, round about the king.

2 Chronicles 23:8
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