Verse 6
6. Greaves of brass upon his legs Rather, upon his feet. These were shin covers bound by thongs around and above the ankles. Among the ancient Greeks they were elastic behind, and extended upward above the knees.
Target Margin, gorget. This word is elsewhere variously translated shield, (1 Samuel 17:45, and Job 39:23;) spear, (Joshua 8:18; Joshua 8:26; Job 41:29; Jeremiah 6:23;) lance, (Jeremiah 50:42.)
The word is best translated spear, and this Goliath carried between his shoulders, that is, slung upon his back, as the ancients often carried their heavy swords. (Homer, Iliad, book 2:45.) So Josephus understood it: “His spear was such as was not carried like a light thing in his right hand, but he carried it as lying on his shoulders.”
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