1 Kings 14:27

brasen shields R.V. - shields of brass " (or, rather, -bronze") which is the form in 2 Chronicles 12:10, and which represents the original more precisely.

chief of the guard The margin of A.V. gives Heb. runners. We see from this that the Cherethites (or Cretans) and Pelethites, of David and Solomon, had disappeared, and that Rehoboam had only native troops, and those much more meanly armed.