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1 Kings 14:27-29
New Catholic Bible
1 Kings 14:27-29
New Catholic Bible
27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them. He entrusted them into the hands of the commanders of the guard who watched over the entrance to the king’s palace. 28 The guards would carry them whenever the king went into the temple of the Lord. Afterwards, they would return them to the guardroom.
29 As for the rest of the deeds of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?[a]
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- 1 Kings 14:29 The author of the Books of Kings shares the sources that were used: the Annals of the Kings of Judah in this verse; the Annals of the Kings of Israel (v. 19) and the History of Solomon (1 Ki 11:41). Although they probably existed in some form, they have never been found.
