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Selected Verse: Judges 8:26 - Strong Concordance

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Jud 8:26 Strong Concordance And the weight [04948] of the golden [02091] earrings [05141] that he requested [07592] was a thousand [0505] and seven [07651] hundred [03967] shekels of gold [02091]; beside ornaments [07720], and collars [05188], and purple [0713] raiment [0899] that was on the kings [04428] of Midian [04080], and beside the chains [06060] that were about their camels [01581]' necks [06677].
  King James And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
ornaments--crescent-like plates of gold suspended from the necks, or placed on the breasts of the camels.

collars--rather, "earrings," or drops of gold or pearl.

purple--a royal color. The ancient, as well as modern Arabs, adorned the necks, breasts, and legs, of their riding animals with sumptuous housing.
 
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