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