OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 6:39

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Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains lit up, and blazed like flaming torches.

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Verse 39. Gold. The Argyraspides of Alexander had “shields of silver.” His successors might surpass this magnificence; or the officers might have golden and the soldiers brazen bucklers.

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