OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 17:6

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He had bronze shin armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.

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Verse 6. Legs, on the forepart, from the knee to the ankle. Vegetius observes, that the infantry wore such greaves of iron, only on one leg. Calmet.—Shoulders, when he marched. Menochius.—Some understand a dart, and so forth but without any proof. Calmet.

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