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.

Thorns

Bible References

The elders

Judges 8:7
And Gideon will say, For this in Jehovah's giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my band, and I threshed your flesh with thorns of the desert and threshing-sledges.
Proverbs 10:13
In the lips of him understanding, wisdom shall be found: and a rod for the back of him wanting heart
Proverbs 19:29
Judgment was prepared for those mocking, and blows for the back of the foolish.
Ezra 2:6
The sons of Pahath-Moab, to the sons of Joshua of Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

Thorns

Micah 7:4
Their good as the thorn, the upright more than the thorn-hedge: the day of thy watchings and thy reviewings came; now shall be their perplexity.