“shieldbearers” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word shieldbearers appears 6 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 6 matching verses are shown below.
- 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.
- 3 Kings 14:28 And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.
- 4 Kings 11:6 Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch of the king’s house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur; and let a third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the shieldbearers; and you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa.
- 4 Kings 11:19 And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the shieldbearers into the palace, and he sat on the throne of the kings.
- 2 Paralipomenon 12:10 Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the palace.
- 2 Paralipomenon 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.