2 Chronicles 12:10
Good News Translation
To replace them, Rehoboam made bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates.

New Revised Standard Version
but King Rehoboam made in place of them shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

Contemporary English Version
Rehoboam had bronze shields made to replace the gold ones, and he ordered the guards at the city gates to keep them safe.

New American Bible
To replace them, King Rehoboam made bronze shields, which he entrusted to the officers of the attendants on duty at the entrance of the king’s house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the palace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the palace.

shields of brass

1 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.

Lamentations 4:1 Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street?

the chief

2 Samuel 8:18 And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi: and the sons of David were the princes.

2 Samuel 23:23 And he was renowned among the three valiant men, who were the most honourable among the thirty: but he attained not to the first three: and David made him of his privy council.

1 Chronicles 11:25 And the first among the thirty, but yet to the three he attained not: and David made him of his council.

Songs 3:7,8 Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon? . . .

Context
Egypt Plunders Jerusalem
9So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made, 10Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the palace.11And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their armoury.…
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 12:9
So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made,

2 Chronicles 12:11
And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their armoury.

2 Chronicles 12:9
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