Num 14:9, 42-43, Jos 7:12, 1Sa 16:14, 18:12, 28:14-16, 2Ch 15:2 | TSK | STEP | Only rebel. neither. are bread. 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. the Lord. fear them not.

Numbers 14:9

Only rebel.

De 9:7,23,24; Isa 1:2; 63:10; Da 9:5,9; Php 1:27

neither.

are bread.

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

Numbers 14:42-43

De 1:42; Jos 7:8,12; Ps 44:1,2-11

25; 13:29; Le 26:17; De 28:25

because.

Jud 16:20; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; Isa 63:10; Ho 9:12

Joshua 7:12

the children.

22:18-20; Nu 14:45; Jud 2:4; Ps 5:4,5; Pr 28:1; Isa 59:2; Hab 1:13

they were.

6:18; De 7:26; Hag 2:13,14

neither.

Jer 6:8; 23:33; Ho 9:12

1 Samuel 16:14

the Spirit.

11:6; 18:12; 28:15; Jud 16:29; Ps 51:11; Ho 9:12

evil spirit.The evil spirit was either sent immediately from the Lord, or permitted to come; but whether this was a diabolic possession, or a mere mental malady, is not agreed: it seems to have partaken of both. That Saul had fallen into a deep melancholy, there is little doubt; and that an evil spirit might work more effectually on such a state of mind, there can be little question. His malady appears to have been of a mixed kind, natural and diabolical: there is too much of apparent nature in it to permit us to believe it was all spiritual; and there is too much of apparently supernatural influence, to suffer us to believe it was all natural.

18:10; 19:9,10; Jud 9:23; 1Ki 22:22; Ac 19:15,16

troubled. or, terrified.