Deu 1:28, 9:1, Dan 4:11, 22 | 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 9:1

1 Moses dissuades them from the opinion of their own righteousness, by rehearsing their several rebellions.

to pass.

3:18; 11:31; 27:2; Jos 1:11; 3:6,14,16; 4:5,19

this day.The Hebrew {hyyom,} "this day," frequently denotes, as here, this time. They had come, 38 years before this, nearly to the verge of the promised land, but were not permitted, because of their unbelief and rebellion, at that day or time, to enter; but this time they shall certainly pass over. This was spoken in the eleventh month of the fortieth year of their journeying; and it was on the first month of the following year they passed over: and during this interval Moses died.

nations.

4:38; 7:1; 11:23

cities.

1:28; Nu 13:22,28-33

Daniel 4:11

reached.

21,22; Ge 11:4; De 9:1; Mt 11:23

Daniel 4:22

thou.

2:37,38; 2Sa 12:7; Mt 14:4

thy greatness.

5:18-23; Ge 11:4; 28:12; 2Ch 28:9; Ps 36:5; 108:4; Jer 27:6-8

Re 18:5