1 Kings 14:28

And it was so, when the king went unto the house of the Lord, that the guard s [ runners ] bare them [Whatever idolatries Rehoboam tolerated or encouraged, it is clear that he maintained the temple worship with great pomp and circumstance. The state visits of the Sultan to the Mosque may perhaps be best compared with these processions. Ewald sees in this circumstance a proof of Rehoboam's vanity. The brazen shields were "borne before him in solemn procession, as if everything were the same as before"], and brought them back into the guard chamber [Heb." chamber of the runners ." Solomon's golden shields were kept "in the house of the forest of Lebanon" ( 1 Kings 10:17 ). These shields of Brass were of so little value that the guard chamber sufficed for their custody.