Helmet

How Nave’s arranged it

• A defensive head-gear worn by soldiers1 Samuel 17:51 Samuel 17:382 Chronicles 26:14Jeremiah 46:4Ezekiel 23:24
• FIGURATIVEIsaiah 59:17Ephesians 6:171 Thessalonians 5:8

The passages, in Bible order (8)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Samuel 17:5

   and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 17:52 voices

   “And a bronze helmet on his head, etc. If you inquire what a chain mail is, read in Virgil, a coat linked with hooks, and triple with gold.

   “And he had an helmet of brass upon his head,....

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2. 1 Samuel 17:38

   Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor.

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   “We sometimes see a bad example drawn from good things. For if someone presumes to do the same things but not with the same disposition and orientation or with unlike virtue, he easily falls into the snares of deception and death on account of those very things from which others acquire the fruits of eternal life.

   “And Saul armed David with his armour,....

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3. 2 Chronicles 26:14

   Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.

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   “And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host,.... For every soldier in the army: shields and spears; defensive and offensive weapons, the one to cover and protect their bodies, the other to push and pierce their enemies: and helmets, and habergeons; the first of these were a covering for the head in the day of battle, and the other coats of mail, to defend the body: and bows; to shoot arrows out of: and slings to cast stones; at which the Benjaminites formerly were very expert.

   “Shields, and spears - He prepared a vast number of military weapons, that he might have them in readiness to put into the hands of his subjects on any exigency.

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4. Isaiah 59:17

   He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.

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   “But God has strengthened him with his arm and righteousness, and confirmed him with mercy, so that those who desire to turn from error may be saved not by their own merit, but by God's mercy. Finally, he has put on the armor of righteousness, and the helmet of salvation, and the garments of vengeance, and has wrapped himself in the cloak of zeal. Thus, armed, he has gone forth to battle, to exact vengeance upon his enemies. Without a doubt, this signifies the Jews, who persist in blasphemies, and the Roman army surrounding their enemies.

   “(Verse 16, 17.) And the Lord saw, and evil appeared in his eyes: because there is no justice, and he saw that there is no man, and he was astonished, because there is no one to oppose. And his own arm will save him: and his righteousness itself will strengthen him. He is clothed with righteousness as with a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head. He is clothed with garments of vengeance, and covered with a cloak of zeal.

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5. Jeremiah 46:4

   Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

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   “Harness the horses,....

   “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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6. Ezekiel 23:24

   They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.

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   “And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels,....

   “(v. 22ff.) Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and with a host of peoples.

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7. Ephesians 6:17

   And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

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   “Because of this helmet of salvation all the senses in our head remain intact. It especially protects the eyes. Solomon in Ecclesiastes notes that "the eyes of the wise are in the head." Paul understood the importance of headship. He knew why the eyes are located in the head. If Christ is the head of a person of faith and "the eyes of the wise are in the head," it follows that all our senses, mind, thought, speech and counsel (if, that is, we are wise) are in Christ.

   “And take the helmet of salvation,....

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8. 1 Thessalonians 5:8

   But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

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   “But if we must also examine the statement, "And it was night," so that it has not been interjected to no purpose by the Evangelist, we must say that the perceptible night at that time was symbolic, an image of the night that was in Judas's soul when Satan, the darkness that lies over the abyss, entered him.

   “Sleeping here the apostle calls those who remain in evil, as being immovable toward virtue and immersed in dreamlike delusions. Such, indeed, are the affairs of the present life, in no way differing from the visions of sleep. Furthermore, by drunkenness he means not only …

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