Cheboygan Covenant Church

But the belt was also important for another reason. It gave a soldier ease of movement. People back in that day, men and women wore robes. And if you're if it was the wintertime, they would wear long and heavy robes that would go down to their ankles. And if you're in battle with that robe hanging down, it could literally be fatal. You could trip over your robe, fall, and that could be the end. And so what they would do, they would lift the robe up to wrap their knees, and then they would take a sash, a belt, and wrap it around their waist to hold that, that robe above the the ground so they wouldn't trip over it. This was not only done by soldiers when they're going into battle, but pretty much by anyone who was preparing for hard work or task or running, fishing, tradesman work. They would regularly pull up their robe. They would gird, as the old King James version says, they would gird up their loins.