Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Numbers 14:9

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Only rebel: Deu 9:7, Deu 9:23, Deu 9:24; Isa 1:2, Isa 63:10; Dan 9:5, Dan 9:9; Phi 1:27 neither: Deu 7:18, Deu 20:3 are bread: Num 24:8; Deu 32:42; Psa 14:4, Psa 74:14 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. Psa 91:1, Psa 121:5; Isa 30:2, Isa 30:3, Isa 32:2; Jer 48:45 the Lord: Gen 48:21; Exo 33:16; Deu 7:21, Deu 20:1-4, Deu 31:6, Deu 31:8; Jos 1:5; Jdg 1:22; Ch2 13:12, Ch2 15:2, Ch2 20:17, Ch2 32:8; Psa 46:1, Psa 46:2, Psa 46:7, Psa 46:11; Isa 8:9, Isa 8:10, Isa 41:10; Mat 1:23; Rom 8:31 fear them not: Isa 41:14 Numbers 14:10

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