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 to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
Now Joab was over all the host 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 attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
And it was so, that, as oft as the king went into the house of Jehovah, the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Jehovah; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Jehovah, and showed them the king's son.
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.
And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him.
so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;