1 Kings 14 · Verse 28

1 Kings 14:28

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.
1 Kings 14:28, King James Version

1 Kings 14:28 in other translations

BSBAnd whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
WEBIt was so, that as often as the king went into the LORD’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.
ASVAnd 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.
YLTand 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.
DARBYAnd 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.
BBEAnd whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.
WebsterAnd 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.

What does 1 Kings 14:28 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 The guard bare them - The guard probably were just three hundred, answering to the number of the shields.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 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…

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1 Kings 14:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְהִ֛יvay.Hiand it wasH1961
מִדֵּי\־mi.dei-as often asH1767
בֹ֥אvo'wentH935
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428
בֵּ֣יתbeit[the] house ofH1004
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
יִשָּׂאוּם֙yi.sa.'Umthey carried themH5375
הָֽרָצִ֔יםha.ra.Tzimthe runnersH7323
וֶהֱשִׁיב֖וּםve.he.shi.Vumand they returned themH7725
אֶל\־'el-toH413
תָּ֥אta'[the] guardroom ofH8372
הָרָצִֽים\׃ha.ra.Tzimthe runnersH7323

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 14:28

  • 2 Chronicles 12:11

    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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the guard chamber.
2Ch 12:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Kings 14:27

    And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.

  • 1 Kings 14:28

    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.

  • 1 Kings 14:29

    Now 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?

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1 Kings 14:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y cuando el rey entraba en la casa de Jehová, los de la guardia los llevaban; y poníanlos después en la cámara de los de la guardia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et toutes les fois que le roi entrait dans la maison de l’ Éternel, il arrivait que les coureurs les portaient, puis ils les rapportaient dans la chambre des coureurs.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und es geschah: So oft der König in das Haus Jehovas ging, trugen die Läufer dieselben, und brachten sie dann wieder in das Gemach der Läufer zurück.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Cumque ingrederetur rex in domum Domini, portabant ea qui præeundi habebant officium: et postea reportabant ad armamentarium scutariorum.