3 Kings 14:27
And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- pro quibus fecit rex Roboam scuta ærea, et tradidit ea in manum ducum scutariorum, et eorum qui excubabant ante ostium domus regis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐποίησεν Ῥοβοὰμ ὁ βασιλεὺς ὅπλα χαλκᾶ ἀντ᾽ αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐπέθεντο ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν οἱ ἡγούμενοι τῶν παρατρεχόντων, οἱ φυλάσσοντες τὸν πυλῶνα οἴκου βασιλέως.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּ֨עַשׂ הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ רְחַבְעָם֙ תַּחְתָּ֔ם מָגִנֵּ֖י נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וְהִפְקִ֗יד עַל יַד֙ שָׂרֵ֣י הָרָצִ֔ים הַשֹּׁ֣מְרִ֔ים פֶּ֖תַח בֵּ֥ית הַמֶּֽלֶךְ
Haydock's commentary
Hand. Symmachus, "the place where the courtiers" (guards) stood, (Haydock) in the hall; (Calmet) or he made the guards carry these shields before him, ver. 28. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.