who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
Chapter?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a gracious promise of deliverance in Mount Zion and Jerusalem; now this whole chapter is a comme...
Chapter?48This psalm, as the two former, is a triumphant song; some think it was penned on occasion of Jehoshaphat?s victory (2 Chr 17), others of Sen...
The scene which John is shown next is an extension of what has preceded. In the previous chapter, Revelation 11 , John was shown two witnesses who pro...
Chapter?137There are divers psalms which are thought to have been penned in the latter days of the Jewish church, when prophecy was near expiring and ...
JUDAH, KINGDOM OF || I. CANAAN BEFORE THE MONARCHY 1. The Coming of the Semites 2. The Canaanites 3. The Israelite Confederacy 4. Migration into ...
Chapter?15In this chapter we have a solemn treaty between God and Abram concerning a covenant that was to be established between them. In the former c...
Chapter?4In this chapter, I. The oppressors in Israel are threatened for their oppression of the poor (v.?1-3). II. The idolaters in Israel, being joi...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. The dispute between God and Moses finishes, and Moses applies himself to the execution of his commission, in obedience to...
Chapter?9We left two royal edicts in force, both given at the court of Shushan, one bearing date the thirteenth day of the first month, appointing tha...
Chapter?20This chapter is a prediction of the carrying away of multitudes both of the Egyptians and the Ethiopians into captivity by the king of Assyr...
Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s parabolical discourse concerning himself as the door of the sheepfold, and the shepherd of the sheep (v...
Chapter?52The greater part of this chapter is on the same subject with the chapter before, concerning the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, whic...
Chapter?27Job had sometimes complained of his friends that they were so eager in disputing that they would scarcely let him put in a word: Suffer me t...
Chapter?28The former part of this psalm is the prayer of a saint militant and now in distress (v.?1-3), to which is added the doom of God?s implacable...
Chapter?19This chapter is only concerning the preparing and using of the ashes which were to impregnate the water of purification. The people had comp...
Chapter?21In this chapter we have, I. Isaac, the child of promise born into Abraham?s family (v.?1-8). II. Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman, cast out...
Chapter?17David being in great distress and danger by the malice of his enemies, does, in this psalm, by prayer address himself to God, his tried refu...
Chapter?23This chapter begins Job?s reply to Eliphaz. In this reply he takes no notice of his friends, either because he saw it was to no purpose or b...
Chapter?24In this chapter we have, I. A repetition of the laws concerning the lamps and the show-bread (v.?1-9). II. A violation of the law against bl...