Treasury of Scripture
discouraged [heb] melted
Deuteronomy 20:8 And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?...
Exodus 15:15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold on them...
Joshua 2:9,11,24 And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror is fallen on us...
Joshua 14:8 Nevertheless my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Isaiah 13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say to you, Why sigh you? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes...
The people
Deuteronomy 9:1,2 Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself...
Numbers 13:28-33 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great...
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 9:2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say...
Joshua 11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
Joshua 15:14 And Caleb drove there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
Judges 1:10,20 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelled in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai...
2 Samuel 21:16-22 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight...