2 Chr 18:33

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a certain man.

1Ki 22:34

at a venture. Heb. in his simplicity.

2Sa 15:11

between the, etc. Heb. between the joints and between thebreast 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.

1Kgs 22:34; 1Kgs 22:35

wounded. Heb. made sick.

2Chr 35:23