Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
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Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
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Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
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Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 46:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 21:9-11 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says: “A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished. It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree. It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer.” ’
- Jeremiah 51:3 Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!
- 1 Samuel 17:5 He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
- 1 Samuel 17:38 Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
- 2 Chronicles 26:14 Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
- Nehemiah 4:16 From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
- Ezekiel 21:28 “You, son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says this concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: “A sword! A sword is drawn! It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye…
Jer 46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the brigandines.
Ver. 4. Harness the horses.] Those warlike creatures, but yet vain things for safety. {Psa 33:17 Pro 21:31} Egypt was famous for the best horses; {Deu 17:16 1Ki 10:26; 1Ki 10:28} but the Lord delighteth not in the strength of a horse, &c. {Psa 147:10-11}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Art hath so much improved all things in later…
Art hath so much improved all things in later ages, that it is very hard to determine of what form the several weapons and pieces of armour, whether offensive or defensive, in use at this time were; the most here mentioned seem to have been defensive, and the whole speech of the prophet directed to the Egyptians seems to be ironical, calling to this army of Pharaoh-necho to get ready to defend themselves, for they were to encounter with an enemy would put them very hard to it, so as they had need to have their helmets, and bucklers, and shields, and brigandines all in a readiness, and know the use of them well; the horses for war had need be harnessed, the spears furbished, and the riders got up.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Harness the horses,.... Put on their bridles and saddles…
Harness the horses,.... Put on their bridles and saddles and gird them: or, "bind the horses" (r); that is, to the chariots; put them to, as we commonly express it: Egypt abounded in horses, and so no doubt brought a large cavalry, and a multitude of chariots, into the field of battle:
and get up, ye horsemen; upon the horses, or into the chariots, and so be ready to receive the enemy, or to attack him:
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and stand forth with your helmets; present themselves on horseback, or in their chariots, with their helmets on their heads, to cover them in the day of battle:
furbish the spears; that they may be sharp and piercing, and look bright and glittering, and strike terror in the enemy:
and put on the brigandines; coats of mail, to cover the whole body, which were made of iron, consisting of rings, as Kimchi observes.
(r) "ligate equos", Montanus, Calvin; "alligate", Schmidt.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Brigandines - Coats of mail.
Brigandines - Coats of mail.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. Furbish the spears] Cleanse, brighten, and sharpen…
Verse 4. Furbish the spears] Cleanse, brighten, and sharpen them; from the Franco-Gallic fourbir, to polish, brighten.
Brigandines.] A coat of mail, especially that which was made scale fashion; one plate overlapping the other, like the scales of fish.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain From the infantry the prophet proceeds to the chariots,…
From the infantry the prophet proceeds to the chariots, in which the Egyptians placed great confidence.
Get up, ye horsemen - Or, “mount the steeds.”
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Furbish - i. e., polish, sharpen.
Brigandines - In old times brigand meant a soldier, and we still call a division of an army a brigade, and a commander a brigadier, i. e., a brigandier, or captain of brigands. Similarly a brigandine means a soldier’s equipment, and is put here for a coat of mail.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Harness the horses--namely, to the war chariots, for which…
Harness the horses--namely, to the war chariots, for which Egypt was famed (Exo 14:7; Exo 15:4).
get up, ye horsemen--get up into the chariots. MAURER, because of the parallel "horses," translates, "Mount the steeds." But it is rather describing the successive steps in equipping the war chariots; first harness the horses to them, then let the horsemen mount them.
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brigandines--cuirasses, or coats of mail.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Harness the horses — That is, to the…
4. Harness the horses — That is, to the chariots.
Get up, ye horse-men — The original of this last word means riding-horses in 1Ki_4:26; 1Ki_10:26; Eze_27:14; and Joe_2:4. Hence Keil translates here “mount the steeds.”
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Stand forth with your helmets — Implying that battle is at hand.
Brigandines — Coats of mail. Brigand, brigade, brigadier, brigandine, are all words of a family, and the original meaning of brigand (soldier) is a key to the whole.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. Harness the horses] to the chariots which formed…
4. Harness the horses] to the chariots which formed a very important feature of Egyptian armies.
get up, ye horsemen] probably, mount the steeds.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Harness the horses; viz. to the war chariots, for…
Harness the horses; viz. to the war chariots, for which Egypt was famous. (comp. Exo_14:6, 9 1Ki_10:28, 29 Isa_31:1) Get up, ye horsemen. An equally possible rendering, and one which better suits the parallelism, is, "mount the chargers." Put on the brigandines. "Brigandine" is an archaic word (Hakluyt"s "Voyages"), meaning the armour of a "brigand "or member of a "brigade," or "troop" (comp. Italian, brigata). The Hebrew word means "coats of mail."
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