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A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge · 1890

Armor. Of defensive armor among the Hebrews there were the Coat of Mail, the

Helmet, Greaves of brass for the feet (1 Sam. xvii. 6), and two kinds of Shields, one protecting the entire person, and the other smaller, a buckler for hand-to-hand fighting. (1 Kings x. 16, 17.)

A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Biblical, Biographical, Geographical, Historical, Practical and Theological, Elias Benjamin Sanford, editor (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890). Public domain in the USA. Text from Oldpedia. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: articles our source ran together split apart; false headings joined back to their articles; duplicate articles merged; stray text from the page edges left out.