BARUCH ba'-ruk, bar'-uk (baruk; Barouch, blessed): (1) Son of Neriah and brother of Seraiah, King Zedekiah's chamberlain (Jeremiah 51:59). He was the...
False Prophet Even though the Old Testament does not use the term false prophet, it is clear that such professional prophets existed throughout much ...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 18Chapter Overview: David becomes the friend of Jonathan, the constant attendant of Saul, and the favourite of all the p...
Job 6:6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? &c.] As any sort of pulse, peas, beans, lentiles which have no savoury and agreeable taste ...
Job 20:23 [When] he is about to fill his belly Either in a literal sense, when he is about to take an ordinary meal to satisfy nature; or in a figurat...
Luke 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments Which may design the place of torment, and the miserable state the Scribes and Pharisees...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. They shall stand there to be judged, but not to be acquitted. Fear shall lay hold upon them there; they shall not stand their grou...
Job 13:19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me Enter the lists with him; dispute the point, and try the strength of his arguments he had to plead for...
Luke 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground Beat down all the houses in it, the stately edifices, and even the temple itself; (See Gill on Matt...
SISERA sis'-er-a (cicera', of doubtful meaning; S(e)isara): (1) Given in Judges 4 as the captain of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor. The accounts gi...
Matthew 26:7 There came unto him a woman By some thought to be the same that is spoken of in ( Luke 7:37 ) , and by most, to be Mary, the sister of La...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 3. The indictment being read, and the petition presented, the evidence is now heard upon the first count. The evidence is very full a...
4.16.5.1 - Garden of Eden4.16.5.2 - Tabernacle in the Wilderness4.16.5.3 - Solomon?s Temple4.16.5.4 - Second Temple4.16.5.5 - Temple of the Believer4....
1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ The author, or rather the writer of the following epistle; for the Holy Ghost was the a...
Divination [N] [T] [B] [S]of false prophets ( Deuteronomy 18:10 Deuteronomy 18:14 ; Micah 3:6 Micah 3:7 Micah 3:11 ), of necromancers ( 1?Samuel 2...
Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, &c.] Or Jesus, when he was baptized and began his public ministry, was about thirty...
Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place The northern hemisphere, which is the chief and best known, at least it was in the time of J...
Reuben [N] [E] [H](behold a son ), Jacobs firstborn Child, ( Genesis 29:32 ) the son of Leah. (B.C. 1753.) The notices of the patriarch Reuben give, ...
Job 1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them Or, Sheba fell F5; that is, as Aben Ezra and Simeon Bar Tzemach supply it, an host of the Sabeans, or a compan...
Job 38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? &c.] That is, of man, in his heart, as explained in the next clause; such wisdom as to guide the st...