I was about to write Since John was instructed, ?What you see, write in a book? (Rev. Rev. 1:11+) and ?Write the things which you have seen, and the 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?116This is a thanksgiving psalm; it is not certain whether David penned it upon any particular occasion or upon a general review of the many g...
you are about to suffer The Smyrnaeans were about to enter a time of testing. God often warns his servants prior to a time of trial (Eze. Eze. 2:3-7;...
In our day, the most striking presence upon the Temple Mount is the Islamic Dome of the Rock.Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock 1 The Dome of the...
overcomes See. Who is the Overcomer? I will make him a pillar in the temple Some have seen this as an allusion to the pillars in Solomon?s Temple. 1K....
Chapter?5Eliphaz, in the foregoing chapter, for the making good of his charge against Job, had vouched a word from heaven, sent him in a vision. In th...
Wormwood ??????? [Apsinthos] : ?Artemisia Absinthium?1 . Derived from ?absinthe, a bitter, dark green oil made from certain strong-smelling plants wit...
was given Again, we see the sovereignty of God Who provides for her. See commentary concerning God?s sovereignty at Revelation 6:2. two wings of a gre...
He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword In a passage whose context is the time...
Overview - Judges 18 1?The Danites send five men to seek out an inheritance. 3?At the house of Micah they consult with Jonathan, and are encouraged o...
Chapter?5This chapter, though it has the same number of verses with the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, is not alphabetical, as they were, but the scope of it is t...
Chapter?8Job?s friends are like Job?s messengers: the latter followed one another close with evil tidings, the former followed him with harsh censures...
they sing ??????? [Adousin] , present tense, they are singing. the song of Moses Some take the song of Moses to commemorate the victory which God gav...
Chapter?11Jerusalem was walled round, but it was not as yet fully inhabited, and therefore was weak and despicable. Nehemiah?s next care is to bring p...
Chapter?29It is the probable conjecture of some very good interpreters that David penned this psalm upon occasion, and just at the time, of a great st...
Chapter?15The scope of this short but excellent psalm is to show us the way to heaven, and to convince us that, if we would be happy, we must be holy ...
Chapter?99Still we are celebrating the glories of the kingdom of God among men, and are called upon to praise him, as in the foregoing psalms; but tho...
Chapter?10This chapter gives us an account of a war David has with the Ammonites and the Syrians their allies, with the occasion and success of it. I....
Chapter?3The apostle, in this chapter, carries on his discourse concerning justification. He had already proved the guilt both of Gentiles and Jews. N...