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Numbers 14:9

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Only rebel: Deuteronomy 9:7, Deuteronomy 9:23-24; Isaiah 1:2, Isaiah 63:10; Daniel 9:5, Daniel 9:9; Philippians 1:27

neither: Deuteronomy 7:18, Deuteronomy 20:3

are bread: Numbers 24:8; Deuteronomy 32:42; Psalms 14:4, Psalms 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. Psalms 91:1, Psalms 121:5; Isaiah 30:2-3, Isaiah 32:2; Jeremiah 48:45

the Lord: Genesis 48:21; Exodus 33:16; Deuteronomy 7:21, Deuteronomy 20:1-4, Deuteronomy 31:6, Deuteronomy 31:8; Joshua 1:5; Judges 1:22; 2 Chronicles 13:12, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 20:17, 2 Chronicles 32:8; Psalms 46:1-2, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11; Isaiah 8:9-10, Isaiah 41:10; Matthew 1:23; Romans 8:31

fear them not: Isaiah 41:14

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