Reference: Guard Body-guard
Hastings
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 said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
And the king said to the couriers that stood about him, Turn and put the priests of Jehovah to death; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not inform me. But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared for himself chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
And Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
He was honoured above the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David set him in his council.
And it was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Jehovah, the couriers bore them, and brought them again into the chamber of the couriers.
And it came to pass as soon as they had ended offering up the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the couriers and to the captains, Go in, slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the couriers and the captains cast them there. And they went to the city of the house of Baal,
And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains of the hundreds, of the bodyguard and the couriers, and brought them to him into the house of Jehovah, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Jehovah, and shewed them the king's son.
And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which was in the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzar-adan, captain of the body-guard, servant of the king of Babylon, came unto Jerusalem;
Likewise at the same time I said to the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and be for labour in the day.
And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but Paul was allowed to remain by himself with the soldier who kept him.
so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;