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sought an to and 1 Chron. 12 24, 34 2 Chron. 14 8. 17 17. The light-armed troops ero commoni taken rom the tribes of Ephraim and Benjamin, 2 Chron. 14 8. 17 17. comp. Gen. 49 27. Ps. 78 9. The Roman soldiera ere divide into legions eaeli legion as

there ere a numberi cohoris, ome of hieli consiste of a thousand oot, an other of ni si hundred oot an an hundred and tWent horae Comp. Mati. 27 27, 28. Mur 15 16, an Acts 10:1. 21 31 27 1. In addition to the cavalry there ere certain light troops in the Palestine cohoris called δεῖ oλάβot armed illi a jaVelin and Spear, et 23 23. It is necessar to distinguisti the Roman Soldiers, mention sed in the e Testament, not ni from

the Roma manne by quaternioris i. e. our at a time; ut alSOsrom the and of Levites that watehed the temple, holad a prieSto high standinisor thei captain, Luke 22 4 52. Acts 4 1 5 24. It is no objectio at ad aso conceive, to this statement that the

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ed ehiefl in the division o a bod of soldier into different corpsaecordiri to the Lind of arms, With hicli the were urnished,

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ered illi hin plates of brass, and eveni silve and old, 1 ings10 16 17. 14 25 28 2 Chron. 13 13 16. There a a bossin the centre of the hield; and the margin, in orde to prevent itabeing injured by the moisture hen place iapo the arth, as u rounde by a thin platem iron. The andie illi,hiel tho hiold

17. Cant. 4 4. Egeh. 27 10,11 Shield were orne by soldiers, When the wentri War, and were confine to thema a thong, whichwent round the lest arm and the nech, 1 Chron. 5 18 12 8 24 2 Chron. 9 15 14 8. When about O attac an nemy the hel the hiel by the handi in the est arid, and where there Was a bod of themtogether, the were able, by merely Oining Shiel to hield, to oppose,

ascit ere, a Wal against the assauit of their oes. When about oscule the alis of a city the place them ne against another verthei heads, and in his a serme so themselves an impenetrabie desene against missile eapons, 2 Chron. 25 5. Job 1 7. Thephrases, a sese the hieta, etc. ore sed metaphoricallyrio denote preparatio sor ar 2 Chron. 25 5. Egeh. 38 4 5. Jer. 46 9 51:11. T lose a hiel in batile as ignominious to takemne romthe enemy, O the contrary, was attended illi honor 1 ing 14 26 2 Sam 1 2 l. comp. Caryophilus de veterum clypeis.

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th large German Editio of this Wota, P. II. Vol. II. Tab. XI. no. 5 and 7. It appear Do 2 Chron. 26 14 that in Uggiah ad urnishedan armor With helm et so the se of his soldiem. The materiai from hicli the helmet was made, as an OX-hiden ut it Was usually, speciali in the more recent ageS, OV-

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A the long robe, hicli as Sualty Orn, as 'indrance totha celerit os movement expecte fro me engage in militarylis e the oldiers aecordingly luid it fide, and wor in iis stea a

against the enemy. A cit of this Lind was uili an sortis0d by Cain soro talia a cit anxio fori fit, in the oriental idiom, are

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o the militar establishment 2 Chron. 17 2, 19 26 14, 15 32 5. 33 14. The principa paris of a fortiscation ere, as follows.

I. TH WALL, In om instances the wall, erected around cities, a triple an doubie 2 Chron. 32 5. Walis ere commonlymade lost an broad, o as to e either readit passe over norbrohen through, Jer. 51 58. The main ali terminate at the topi a parape so the accommodatio of the oldiers, hichipened atintervat in a sortis embrasures, O acto give them an opportunityo fighting illi missile eaponS. II. Towers, tr 3: ranara, rara. Towers, hieli ere erecte at certain distances rom eaeli ther o the o of Walis, and ascende to a great height terminate at the to in a fatis fand were surrounde With a parapet, hie exhibite openingssimila to those, hieli have been just mentione a mahing their appearance in the parape of the walis. Towers of this indwere rected likeWise ver the gales o cities. In theseooweraguard Were epi constanti stationed. At east his a thecas in the time of the Lings It was their usines to mahe known any thing that the discovere at a distanee, and wheneve the notice an eruption rom an nemy the ble thetrumpet 2 Sam. 13 34. 18 26, 27 2 ings 9 17 19. Nahum 2:

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jections, as O nable the inhabitant of the eglege cit toattae the assallant in sanh. e leam rom the Histor of Tacitus, V. I. that the walis of Jerusalem, at the time o itabein attached by the Romans, ere bulli in his Way. The prinjections above mentioned are meant tot designate by the Hebrewword -zz. The were introduce by in Uggiali, I years besere Christ, and are subsequently mentione in the prophe Zephaniali 1 16.

IV. TAE FOSSE, 'ri, j. The diggingi a fosse ut it in thepower of the inhabitant of a cit iocinereas the elevatio of the walis, and of itfel thre a serious dissiculi in the way of an enemy's approach, 2 Sam. 20 15. Isa. 26 1. Neh. 3 8. s. 48 13. Thelasse, is the siluatio of the place admitte it, a fide With water. This a the eas a Babylon. V. ΗΕ ΑΤΕ S, ere es, Um. The were a first madems, d,

and were mali in sige. The were constructe in the anne of ValVe oors, bd, and were secured by means os, de bars. Subsequently the were made large an Stronger an in orde to prevent theiraein burni, ere covere With plates O bras Orciron rΣ The ars ere covere in the Same manner in Orderio prevent theiraeing ut Munder; ut it was Sometime the caSe,

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arme imops, Ps. 57 4. 1 Sam. 13 22. 18 10 21 8. 22 6. Sam. 23 18. Ino Chron. 12 34, it is indeed joined illi riza, the large fori os buchler, ut it is evident Domo Sam. 18 11 19:10 20 33, that this ea pon, hateve might have been iis hape,

counts so the faet, that the epithet Uu sciolae loci a sollows,

9, 14, 29 42.

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to flach, and hicli, in consequene oscit injure the person, hoaime it, a denominate a decet ut boto τ' a' dicin Ps. 78 57. Hos 7 16. The bow, in orde to prevent ita ein injured, a carried in a case, made so that purpose. The string for OWs ere madeof thong of leuther of horse air, and of the ineWs of Xen, Iliad IV. 116, 124. The oldier carried the bomon the lest arm or