2 Chronicles 18:29

18:29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter ¹  the battle; but you wear your royal attire.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and they entered the battle.

Matthew 6:29

6:29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

Matthew 11:8

11:8 What ²  did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? ³  Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings! ⁴ 

¹ tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives (see IBHS 594 §35.5.2a). Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.

² tn Grk “But what.” Here ἀλλά (alla, a strong contrastive in Greek) produces a somewhat awkward sense in English, and has not been translated. The same situation occurs at the beginning of v. 9.

³ sn The reference to fancy clothes makes the point that John was not rich or powerful, in that he did not come from the wealthy classes.

⁴ tn Or “palaces.”