Topic
Body-Guard
1 passage cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- 1 Esdras 3:4ISBE
Then three young men, that were of the guard that kept the king’s body, spake one to another;
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 1 references
bod'-i-gard: The expression occurs in Apocrypha (1 Esdras 3:4), "the body-guard that kept the king's person."
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.