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1 Kings 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." 1 Samuel 14:6, 1 Samuel 14:12-13, 1 Samuel 17:44-47; Proverbs 27:1; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 10:15-16; Matthew 26:33-35, Matthew 26:75

harness: The word harness is an obsolete word for armour, derived from the French harnois:. See note on Exodus 13:18.

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