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The royal apparel; his outward garment, which was made of purple, interwoven with gold, as Justin and Curtius relate. The horse that the king rideth upon usually; which was well known, both by his excellency, and especially by his peculiar trappings and ornaments: compare 1Ki_1:33.
Upon his head; either,
1. Upon the king’s head; or,
2. Upon the horse’s head; which seems best to agree,
1. With that ancient Chaldee interpreter, and other Jews, who take it thus.
2. With the signification and order of the Hebrew words.
3. With the following verses, in which there is no further mention of this crown, but only of the apparel, and of the horse, to which the crown belonged, as one of his ornaments.
4. With the custom of the Persians, which some affirm to have been this, to put the crown upon the head of that horse upon which the king rode.