What Tecmos said. Bash is great if youre a warrior and don't have a ton of stuns or you're fighting something resistant that casts spells, but as a paladin whos not rich the answer is pretty much baton of faith for 200pp and never look back until you can afford something higher end -- and most of those higher end options short of epic are also 2hb.
You keep aggro with spells and you can stun. There may be situations in which you want a sword/shield combo for bashing but it's going to be very rare. The only other potential argument for the shield is the extra ac or maybe hp -- even with how terrible paladin dps is in a typical exp group the ac from a shield isn't going to come close to equaling the benefit of just killings things faster. See some of the ac threads for more info
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