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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 2 Chronicles 18:33

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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a certain man: Kg1 22:34 at a venture: Heb. in his simplicity, Sa2 15:11 between the: etc. Heb. between the joints and between the breast plate, The shiryon, in Syriac, sheryono, seems to have covered both the back and breast of the warrior, and was consequently not properly a breast-plate, but a coat of mail or corslet. The corslet was made of flax or of wool woven very thick, of ox-hide, of brass, or of iron. The metallic corslet consisted not of solid piece, but of scales, hooks, or rings, connected like the links of a chain, that the warrior might move with greater ease. It was between the joints of this harness that Ahab received his mortal wound. Kg1 22:34, Kg1 22:35 wounded: Heb. made sick, Ch2 35:23 2 Chronicles 18:34
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