1Ki 20:11-12 | TSK | e4.org | 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." , , ; ; ; ; , harness The word harness is an obsolete word for armour, derived from the French harnois . See note on .

‏ 1 Kings 20:11-12

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

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

message Heb. word

drinking 1Kgs 20:16, 1Kgs 16:9; 1Sam 25:36; 2Sam 13:28; Prov 31:4-5; Dan 5:2, Dan 5:30; Luke 21:34; Eph 5:18

pavilions or, tents, That persons of regal dignity regaled themselves in this manner, we may learn from Dr. Chandler, who, when he went to visit the Aga of Suki, after his return from hawking, found him vexed and tired; and "a couch was prepared from him beneath a shed made against a cottage, and covered with green boughs to keep off the sun. He entered as we were standing by, and fell down on it to sleep, without taking any notice of us." Jer 43:10

Set yourselves in array, And they set etc. or, Place the engines, And they placed engines