- ("shield
bearer").
Other terms include scutifer and the
Latin armiger ("arms
bearer"). The
duties of a
squire was to take care of the knight’s
armor, ensuring...
- and his
armor-
bearer.
After being fatally injured by some Philistines, King Saul
asked his
armor bearer to kill him. But when his
armor-
bearer refused...
- asks his
armor-
bearer to run his
sword through him
rather than let him be
captured by the Philistines, but does it
himself when the
armor-
bearer refuses...
- Jesse's flock, with
gifts as a tribute, and
David is
appointed as Saul's
armor bearer. With Jesse's
permission he
remains at court,
playing the harp as needed...
- him of the
death of Saul and of Jonathan."..The son of Doeg was Saul's
armor-
bearer, who was
killed by
David for
daring to slay the king even
though he longed...
-
Shield bearer usually refers to a
Macedonian version of a
heavy armored hoplite,
whose tasks were
protecting flanks of the
sarrisa phalanx, and carrying...
- Abimelech's head.
Realizing the
wound was mortal,
Abimelech ordered his
armor-
bearer to
thrust him
through with his sword, so
nobody would know he was killed...
-
through the
heart and
Absalom was
subsequently killed by ten of Joab's
armor-
bearers. When
David heard that
Absalom was killed,
although not how he was killed...
-
pilgrim Bertrand de la
Broquierre p****ed
through here, then the
first armor bearer of
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, who
traveled to the Holy Sepulcher...
-
Mortally wounded in
battle by a
stone thrown by a woman, he
asked his
armor-
bearer to kill him. "Let me die with the Philistines.": 142 ("תָּמוֹת נַפְשִׁי...
