Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
The elders
Thorns
Bible References
The elders
Judges 8:7
And Gideon said, "Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmun'na into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of an intelligent man wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of the foolish.
Ezra 2:6
The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Thorns
Micah 7:4
The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, worse than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.