Chapter?147This is another psalm of praise. Some think it was penned after the return of the Jews from their captivity; but it is so much of a piece w...
Chapter?81This psalm was penned, as is supposed, not upon occasion of any particular providence, but for the solemnity of a particular ordinance, eit...
NINEVEH nin'-e-ve (nineweh; Nineue, Nineui; Greek and Roman writers, Ninos): I. BEGINNINGS, NAME, POSITION 1. First Biblical Mention 2. Etymology o...
Chapter?50In this chapter, I. Those to whom God sends are justly charged with bringing all the troubles they were in upon themselves, by their own wil...
Chapter?22We have here the famous story of Abraham?s offering up his son Isaac, that is, his offering to offer him, which is justly looked upon as one...
Chapter?2David had paid due respect to the memory of Saul his prince and Jonathan his friend, and what he did was as much his praise as theirs; he is ...
Chapter?3As prophecy had ceased for many ages before the coming of Christ, that the revival and perfection of it in that great prophet might be the mo...
Chapter?23In this chapter we have Balak and Balaam busy at work to do Israel a mischief, and, for ought that appears, neither Moses nor the elders of ...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. Christ, the royal bridegroom, goes on to describe the beauties of his spouse, the church, in many instances, and to expre...
Chapter?63This psalm has in it as much of warmth and lively devotion as any of David?s psalms in so little a compass. As the sweetest of Paul?s epistl...
Chapter 5In this chapter the prophet, in God?s name, shows the people of God their transgressions, even the house of Jacob their sins, and the judgmen...
Chapter?64This chapter goes on with that pathetic pleading prayer which the church offered up to God in the latter part of the foregoing chapter. They...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Hannah?s song of thanksgiving to God for his favour to her in giving her Samuel (v.?1-10). II. Their return to th...
Chapter?4The great gospel doctrine of justification by faith without the works of the law was so very contrary to the notions the Jews had learnt from...
Chapter?13Our Saviour having finished his public discourses, in which he endured the contradiction of sinners,?? now applies himself to a private conv...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Chapter?3I. The apostle exhorts us to set our hearts upon heaven and take them off from this world (v.?1-4). II. He exhorts to the mortification of si...
Chapter?28Preparations are herein making for that war which will put an end to the life and reign of Saul, and so make way for David to the throne. In...
Chapter?8Sinful times are here attended with sorrowful times, so necessary is the connexion between them; it is threatened here again and again that t...
Chapter?4This chapter gives a further account of the miraculous passage of Israel through Jordan. I. The provision that was made at that time to prese...