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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And all his sons, and all his daughters, rose up to comfort him. But he refused to be comforted. And he said, For I will go down into the grave to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
And the king said to the guard that stood around him, Turn and kill the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.
And it happened after this, Absalom prepared himself chariots and horses and fifty men to run before him.
And Joab was over all the army of Israel. And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites.
He was more honorable than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
And it happened when the king went into the house of Jehovah, the guard carried them and brought them back into the guard chamber.
And it happened when he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the commanders, Go in. Kill them! Do not let any come out! And they struck them with the edge of the sword. And the guard and the commanders threw them out. And they went to the city, to the house of Baal.
And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the rulers over hundreds, with the commanders and the guards, and brought them to him into the house of Jehovah. And he made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the house of Jehovah, and revealed to them the king's son.
And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month; it was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
Also at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant stay inside Jerusalem, so that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labor in the day.
And when we came into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the camp commander. But Paul was allowed to dwell by himself, with a soldier guarding him.
so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places.