1 Kgs 20:11

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Let not him, etc.

This was no doubt a proverbial mode of expression. Jonathan renders it: "Let not him who girds himself, and goes down to battle, boast as one who has conquered and returned from it."

1Sam 14:6; 1Sam 14:12; 1Sam 14:13; 1Sam 17:44-47; Prov 27:1; Eccl 9:11; Isa 10:15; Isa 10:16 Matt 26:33-35; Matt 26:75

harness.The word harness is an obsolete word for armour, derived from the French {harnois;} see Ex 13:18.