Deu 1:28, 20:8, Jos 5:1, 7:5, 14:8, Isa 13:7, Nah 2:10 | TSK | STEP | discouraged. Heb. melted. The people. walled.That is, with very high walls, which could not be easily scaled. Harmer says, high walls are still to be seen in Arabia, and are deemed a sufficient defence against the Arabs, who scarcely ever attempt to plunder except on horseback. The monastery on Mount Sinai, and the convent of St. Anthony in Egypt, are surrounded with a very high wall, without gates; the persons and things being taken up and let down through an opening in the upper part, by means of a pulley and a basket. This kind of walling is a sufficient defence. we have seen.

Deuteronomy 1:28

discouraged. Heb. melted.

The people.

walled.That is, with very high walls, which could not be easily scaled. Harmer says, high walls are still to be seen in Arabia, and are deemed a sufficient defence against the Arabs, who scarcely ever attempt to plunder except on horseback. The monastery on Mount Sinai, and the convent of St. Anthony in Egypt, are surrounded with a very high wall, without gates; the persons and things being taken up and let down through an opening in the upper part, by means of a pulley and a basket. This kind of walling is a sufficient defence.

we have seen.

9:2; Jos 11:22; 15:14; Jud 1:10,20; 2Sa 21:16-22

Deuteronomy 20:8

fearful.

1:28; 23:9; Jud 7:3; Lu 9:62; Ac 15:37,38; Re 3:16; 21:8

lest his brethren's.

Nu 13:31-33; 14:1-3; 32:9; 1Co 15:33

faint. Heb. melt.

1:28; *marg:

Ex 15:15

Joshua 5:1

1 The Canaanites are afraid.

2 Joshua renews circumcision.

10 The passover is kept at Gilgal

12 They eat the corn of the land and the manna ceases.

13 An angel appears to Joshua.

all the kings.

12:9-24; 24:15; Ge 10:15-19; 15:18-21; 48:22; Jud 11:23; 2Sa 21:2

Eze 16:3; Am 2:9

Canaanites.

17:12,18; Ge 12:6; Ex 23:28; Jud 1:1; 4:2; Ezr 9:1; Ps 135:11

which were by.

Nu 13:29; Jud 3:3; Zep 2:4-6

heard.

2:9-11; Ex 15:14,15; Ps 48:4-6; Re 18:10

neither was.

1Sa 25:37; 1Ki 10:5; Isa 13:6-8; Eze 21:7; Da 5:6

Joshua 7:5

for they.

De 1:44

the going down. or, Morad. wherefore.

2:9,11; 5:1; Le 26:36; Ps 22:14; Isa 13:7

Joshua 14:8

wholly.

14; Nu 14:24; De 1:36; Re 14:4

Isaiah 13:7

shall all.

10:3,4; 37:27; 51:20; Jer 50:43; Eze 7:17; 21:7; Na 1:6

be faint. or, fall down. every.

19:1; Ex 15:15; Na 2:10

Nahum 2:10

She is.Nineveh was taken and utterly ruined by Assuerus, or Cyaxares, king of Media, and Nabuchodonosor, or Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, B.C. 606, or 612. Diodorus, who with others ascribes the taking of it to Arbaces the Mede and Belesis the Babylonian, says that he "dispersed the citizens in the villages, levelled the city with the ground, transferred the gold and silver, of which there were many talents, to Ecbatana the metropolis of the Medes, and this subverted the empire of the Assyrians."

empty.

3:7; Ge 1:2; Isa 13:19-22; 14:23; 24:1; 34:10-15; Jer 4:23-26

Jer 51:62; Zep 2:13-15; 3:6; Re 18:21-23

the heart.

Jos 2:11; Ps 22:14; Isa 13:7,8

the knees.

Da 5:6

and much.

Isa 21:3; Jer 30:6

and the faces.

Joe 2:6