Favor [N]Finding favor means gaining approval, acceptance, or special benefits or blessings. There is also a close association among favor, grace, and...
Water [N] [T]The word water is used in a variety of metaphorical ways in Scripture. It is used to symbolize the troublesome times in life that can and...
OLD TESTAMENT RELIGION Psa. 51:12: Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. and David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 3-5. David now gives us his own experience: no instructor is so efficient as one who testifies to what he has personally known and fe...
Judgment [N] The Hebrew term mispat [f'P.vim] is an important Old Testament concept and one closely linkedwith God. It may denote the process whereby ...
Bread, Bread of Presence Bread was the essential food of the ancient Israelites. Indeed, the very word bread could be used generically for any kind of...
Worship [N] [E]If Christianity is the transformation of rebels into worshipers of God, then it is imperative for the Christian to know and understand ...
Anthropomorphism (Gk. anthropos [a[nqrwpo] [human] + morphe [morfhv] [form]). Assignment of human attributes to nonhuman things. Biblical anthropomorp...
?EXPOSITION Verse 13. That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. The chastening hand and instr...
Gospel [N] [E]Glad tidings or good news, from Anglo-Saxon godspell.The Old Testament. Good news is proclaimed widely ( 1 Sam 31:9 ; Psalm 96:2-3 ; ...
Resurrection [N] The Old Testament. In the Old Testament, the idea of bodily resurrection evolves from a vague concept into a developed expectation. B...
?EXPOSITION Verse 23. Therefore he said that he would destroy them. The threatening of destruction came at last. For the first wilderness sin he chast...
Drink [N] [E]Palestine lacks fresh water rivers and lakes and its dependence upon rain after its yearly hot, dry period makes drought an ongoing possi...
Psalms 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled As it did quickly after Christ called upon the Lord, and cried to his God upon the cross, ( Matthew 27:5...
PSALM 90 Psalms 90:1-17 . Contrasting man's frailty with God's eternity, the writer mourns over it as the punishment of sin, and prays for a ...
PSALM 34 Psalms 34:1-22 . On the title compare 1?Samuel 21:13 . Abimelech was the general name of the sovereign ( Genesis 20:2 ). After cele...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 34. He teacheth my hands to war. Martial prowess and skill in the use of weapons are gratefully acknowledged to be the result of divi...
The Book of PsalmsChapter 48Chapter Overview: The glory and excellency of the church, ver. 1 - 3. Which God preserves from her enemies, ver. 4 - 8. ...
Know, Knowledge The Old Testament. The Hebrew root yada [[;dy],translated know/knowledge, appears almost 950 times in the HebrewBible. It has a wider...
Tabernacle [N] [T] [E] [S]The structure referred to in Scripture as the tabernacle was the center of the worship of Yahweh by the people of Israel fro...