Overview - 2?Samuel 19 1?Joab causes the king to cease his mourning. 9?The Israelites are earnest to bring the king back. 11?David sends to the pries...
Revelation 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, &c.] Things for delight and pleasure, for the gratifying of the senses; ci...
Song of Solomon 4:12 A garden enclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse At a little distance from Bethlehem are pools of water, and below these runs a narr...
Transfiguration [N]An event in Jesus' life in which his appearance was radiantly transformed. The transfiguration is recorded in each of the Synoptic ...
Now by that these pilgrims had been at this place a week, Mercy, had a visiter, that preten ded some good will unto her, and his name was Mr. Brisk ;...
Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written As the high priest had on his mitre upon his forehead written, holiness to the Lord, ( Exodus...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JOEL\\ In some Hebrew Bibles this prophecy is called Sepher Joel, the Book of Joel; in the Vulgate Latin version, the Prophecy of J...
Samuel Newman.?This pious divine was born at Banbury in Oxfordshire, in the year 1600, and educated in the university of Oxford. He imbibed the spiri...
SACRIFICE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 1 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT I. TERMS OF SACRIFICE EPITOMIZED II. ATTITUDE OF JESUS AND NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS TO THE OLD ...
Job 40:23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not The elephant is indeed a very thirsty animal, and drinks largely; the philosopher F12 says...
Deuteronomy 3:25 I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan The land of Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey; a l...
Sebastian Benefield, D. D.?This learned divine was born at Prcstbury in Gloucestershire, August 12,1569, and educated in Corpus Christi college, Oxfo...
Hospitality. [N] [T] [B]Hospitality was regarded by most nations of the ancient world as one of the chief virtues. The Jewish laws respecting strange...
Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth Who though mentioned last, the genealogy begins with him, by a figure which rhetoricians call a chiasm. The posterity...
\\INTRODUCTION TO AMOS\\ This book in the Hebrew Bibles is called Sepher Amos, the Book of Amos; and, in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, the P...
\\INTRODUCTION TO MALACHI\\ This book, in the Hebrew copies, is called Sepher Malachi, the Book of Malachi; in the Vulgate Latin version, the Prophec...
John Penry, A. M.?This distinguished puritan was born in Brecknockshire, in the year 1559, and educated first at Cambridge, then at St. Albans-hall, O...
Wiseman, /GOOD morrow, my good neighbour Mr Attentive; whither are you walking so early this morning? Methinks you look as if you were concerned abou...
Job 3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day Their own day, either their birthday, or any day on which evil befalls them; and now such as are used to ...
Job 26:5 Dead [things] are formed from under the waters It is difficult to say what things are here meant; it may be understood of lifeless things, as...