Scripture · Old Testament
2 Chronicles 12:11
2 Chronicles 12:11 is verse 11 of 2 Chronicles chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
King James Version
And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
World English Bible
As often as the king entered into Yahweh’s house, the guard came and bore them, then brought them back into the guard room.
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2 Chronicles 12:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible
9 So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
10 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
11 And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
12 Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.
13 Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
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