Bible Encyclopedia: Shields: A Part of Defensive Armour

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Guests at an Imperial Banquet
... for he has played a great part in recent ... Gratian, they actually laid aside their
defensive armour because it ... nor carry broadsword, nor pilum, nor even shields! ...
/.../chapter xix guests at an.htm

A Discourse
... Shields and targets are weapons defensive, weapons provided for self ... armour of God,
yet the whole and every part thereof is spiritual, and only defensive. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse.htm

On the Soul and the Resurrection.
... Why do we have corslets, and long shields, and greaves, and helmets, and all the
defensive armour, and inclosures ... that is left; but of the part that has ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/on the soul and the 2.htm

The First Theban Empire
... and the great skill with which the shields were used ... prince of the Hare nome; the
eastern part of the ... this connexion was to remain strictly on the defensive. ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... and helmets, or of duplicating their shields, with the ... this side, they fell back
upon that part of Naharaim ... been content, into an offensive and defensive treaty ...
/.../chapter iithe reaction against egypt.htm

The Rise of the Assyrian Empire
... Like Susiana, this part of the country was divided up into parallel valleys, separated
from ... He figures on it in full armour, wearing a turban on his head, and ...
/.../chapter iithe rise of the.htm

The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... He trusted that the inhabitants, who had taken no part in the affair, would ... tells
us that, feeling himself mortally wounded, he called his armour-bearer to him ...
/.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Psalm 115:9
O Israel, trust you in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Psalm 140:7
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Subtopics

Shields

Shields in Times of Peace Were Hung up in Towers or Armouries

Shields of the Vanquished, often Burned

Shields were Scarce in Israel in the Days of Deborah and Barak

Shields: A Disgrace to Lose, or Throw Away

Shields: A Part of Defensive Armour

Shields: Before War: Anointed

Shields: Before War: Gathered Together