1 Kings 17:6
And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a buckler of brass covered his shoulders.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ocreas æreas habebat in cruribus, et clypeus æreus tegebat humeros ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κνημῖδες χαλκαῖ ἐπάνω τῶν σκελῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀσπὶς χαλκῆ ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ὤμων αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּמִצְחַ֥ת נְחֹ֖שֶׁת עַל רַגְלָ֑יו וְכִיד֥וֹן נְחֹ֖שֶׁת בֵּ֥ין כְּתֵפָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
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, &c., but without any proof. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.