Chapter?34The iniquities and calamities of God?s Israel had been largely and pathetically lamented before, in this book. Now in this chapter the sheph...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter?37This chapter brings us very near the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, for the story of it lies in the latter end of Zedekiah?s rei...
Chapter?10In this chapter, I. The people of Israel are charged with gross corruptions in the worship of God and are threatened with the destruction of...
Chapter?6The most remarkable thing we have upon record concerning the old world is the destruction of it by the universal deluge, the account of which...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. A general charge drawn up against Israel for those high crimes and misdemeanors by which they had obstructed the ...
Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. Orders given about the making and using of silver trumpets, which seems to have been the last of all the command...
Chapter?19Jerusalem?s great distress we read of in the foregoing chapter, and left it besieged, insulted, threatened, terrified, and just ready to be ...
Chapter?12It is generally agreed by the most learned expositors that the narrative we have in this and the two following chapters, from the sounding o...
Chapter?67This psalm relates to the church and is calculated for the public. Here is, I. A prayer for the prosperity of the church of Israel (v.?1). I...
Fulfillment State, process, or act by which a situation comes to a complete end, whether ultimately good or bad. While fulfillment may be extended ove...
JERUSALEM, 2 IV. General Topography of Jerusalem. From the foregoing description of the natural site, it will be seen that we have to deal with 5 nat...
Chapter?1The history of Job begins here with an account, I. Of his great piety in general (v.?1), and in a particular instance (v.?5). II. Of his grea...
Chapter?6Joshua opened the campaign with the siege of Jericho, a city which could not trust so much to the courage of its people as to act offensively...
Chapter?1This chapter is the description of a lamentable devastation made of the country of Judah by locusts and caterpillars. Some think that the pro...
Chapter?4Comparing this chapter with the close of the foregoing chapter, the comfortable promises here with the terrible threatenings there, we may, w...
Chapter?23Hitherto the levitical law had been chiefly conversant about holy persons, holy things, and holy places; in this chapter we have the institu...
Chapter?4In this chapter, we have, I. The parable of the seed, and the four sorts of ground (v.?1-9), with the exposition of it (v.?10-20), and the ap...
Chapter?17In this chapter we have, I. Christ in his pomp and glory transfigured (v.?1-13). II. Christ in his power and grace, casting the devil out of...
Chapter?38This is one of the penitential psalms; it is full of grief and complaint from the beginning to the end. David?s sins and his afflictions are...