Reference: Guard Body-guard
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The former is used in English Version almost exclusively for the body-guard of royal and other high-placed personages, such as Nehemiah (Ne 4:22 f.) and Holofernes (Jdt 12:7). 'Body-guard' occurs only 1Es 3:4 RV of the 'guard' (AV) of Darius. The members of the body-guard of the Pharaoh of Ge 37:35 and of Nebuchadnezzar (2Ki 25:8 etc.) are, in the original style, 'slaughterers (of animals for food),' not as Revised Version margin 'executioners.' Those composing the body-guard of the Hebrew kings, on the other hand, are styled 'runners' (1Sa 22:17 RV and marg., 2Ki 10:25; 11:4 etc.), one of their duties being to run in front of the royal state-chariot (cf. 2Sa 15:1; 1Ki 1:5). In 1Ki 14:28 we hear of a guard-chamber. The office of 'the captain of the guard' was at all times one of great dignity and responsibility. David's body-guard consisted of foreign mercenaries, the Cherethites and Pelethites (see p. 122), commanded by Benaiah (2Sa 20:23 compared with 2Sa 23:23). The famous Pr
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All his sons and daughters showed up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He kept saying, "Leave me alone! I'll go down to the next world, still mourning for my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.
The king told the guards, who were standing beside him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD because they supported David, and because they knew he was fleeing, but didn't inform me." But the officials of the king did not want to lift their hands to attack the priests of the LORD.
Sometime later, Absalom acquired a chariot equipped with horses and recruited 50 men to accompany him.
Joab commanded the entire army of Israel, Jehoiada's son Benaiah commanded the special forces and mercenaries,
He was well known among the platoons, but he didn't measure up to the Three. David placed him in charge of his security detail.
Whenever the king entered the LORD's Temple, the guards would carry them to and from the guard's quarters.
As soon as he had completed the burnt offering, Jehu ordered the guards and the officers, "Go in and execute them. Don't let even one man escape." So they executed them with swords, and the guards and the officers threw the bodies out and proceeded into the inner room of Baal's temple,
But during the seventh year of her reign, Jehoiada went out and called together the rulers of hundreds, the captains, and the guards, and assembled them together inside the LORD's Temple. He made a covenant with them, making them take an oath in the LORD's Temple, and then he revealed the king's son to them.
On the seventh day of the fifth month, which was during the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar's reign as king of Babylon, captain of the guard Nebuzaradan, a servant of the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem
At the same time I told the people, "Let's have everyone sleep at night inside Jerusalem with their servants, so they can guard us at night and work during the day.
When we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who was guarding him.
As a result, it has become clear to the whole imperial guard and to everyone else that I am in prison for preaching about the Messiah.