Num 14:1-3, 7-9, Pro 22:5, 13, 26:13 | TSK | STEP | The people murmur at the news. Joshua and Caleb labour to still them. God threatens them. Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon. The murmurers are debarred from entering into the land. The men who raised the evil report die by a plague. The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten.

defence. Heb. shadow.{Tzillam,} a metaphor highly expressive of protection and support in the sultry eastern countries. (See the Parallel Passages.) The Arabs and Persians use the same word to express the same thing; using the expressions, "May the shadow {zulli} of thy prosperity be extended." "May the shadow of thy prosperity be spread over the heads of thy well-wishers." And in an elegant distich, "May your protection never be removed from my head; may God extend your shadow {zullikem} eternally." The loftiest and most esteemed title of the sultan, says Thornton, because given him by the kings of Persia, is {zil ullah,} shadow of God.

Ps 91:1; 121:5; Isa 30:2,3; 32:2; Jer 48:45

the Lord.

Ge 48:21; Ex 33:16; De 7:21; 20:1-4; 31:6,8; Jos 1:5; Jud 1:22

2Ch 13:12; 15:2; 20:17; 32:8; Ps 46:1,2,7,11; Isa 8:9,10; 41:10

Mt 1:23; Ro 8:31

fear them not.

Isa 41:14

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns.

13:15; 15:19; Jos 23:13; Job 18:8; Ps 11:6; 18:26,27

he.

13:3; 16:17; 19:16; Ps 91:1; 1Jo 5:18; Jude 1:20,21

Proverbs 22:13

The slothful.That is, the slothful man uses any pretext, however improbable, to indulge his love of ease and indolence.

15:19; 26:13-16; Nu 13:32,33

Proverbs 26:13

15:19; 19:15; 22:13