John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:27
And King Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields ,.... For the king of Egypt had so stripped him of his gold, that he was not able to replace golden ones: and committed them into the hands of the chief of the guard ; or "runners" F16 הרצים "cursorum", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; , that went before the king, or attended him as his bodyguard when he went abroad: which kept the door of the king's house ; which kept guard night and day in their turns. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-31
Judah's story and Israel's are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam's reign may be laid together; and a sad account it is. I. Here is no good said of the king. All the account we have of him here is, 1. That he was forty-one years old when he began to reign, by which reckoning he was born in the last year of David, and had his education, and the forming of his mind, in the best days of... read more