Psalms 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night That is, he could not eat for sorrow, like Hannah, 1Sa 1:7,8; or while he was eating tears fell i...
Overview - Matthew 5 1?Christ's sermon on the mount. 3?Who are blessed; 13?the salt of the earth; 14?the light of the world. 17?He came to fulfil the...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 52\\ \\\\. Of the title Maschil, \\see Gill on Ps 32:1\\, title. The occasion of this psalm is here related, the history of ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 34\\ \\\\. The author of this psalm is expressed by name; and the time and occasion of it are plainly intimated: it was comp...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 63\\ \\\\. This psalm was composed by David, either when he was persecuted by Saul, and obliged to hide himself in desert pl...
1 Timothy 3:4 One that ruleth well his own house His family, wife, children, and servants; and is not to be understood of his body, and of keeping of ...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
DAVID da'-vid (dawidh, or dawidh, beloved; Daueid, also in New Testament, Dauid, Dabid; see Thayer's Lexicon): $I. NAME AND GENEALOGY$ $II. EARLY YE...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 56\\ \\\\. The words jonathelemrechokim are by our translators left untranslated. Aben Ezra takes them to be the beginning o...
OFFENCE; OFFEND o-fens', o-fend' (mikhshol, 'asham, chaTa'; skandalon, skandalizo): Offend is either transitive or intransitive As transitive it is p...
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...
The Book of HebrewsChapter 11Verses:11:1The definition of faith given in this verse, and exemplified in the various instances following, undoubtedly i...
JONATHAN (2) (yehonathan; also yonathan, Yahweh has given; Ionathan): The eldest son of Saul, the first king of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin. 1....
OMNIPOTENCE om-nip'-o-tens: 1. Terms and Usage: The noun omnipotence is not found in the English Bible, nor any noun exactly corresponding to it in ...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 28Chapter Overview: The conference between Achish and David, ver. 1 - 2. The preparation of the Philistines, and the dis...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES\\ The title of this book in the Hebrew copies is Sepher Shophetim, the Book of Judges; but the Syriac and Arabic interprete...
\\INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS\\ This, and the following book, properly are but one book, divided into two parts, and went with the Jews under the co...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. When I remember thee upon my bed. Lying awake, the good man betook himself to meditation, and then began to sing. He had a feast i...
JESSE jes'-e (yishay, meaning doubtful; according to Gesenius it = wealthy; Olshausen, Gram., sections 277, conjectures yesh yah, Yahweh exists; Wellh...
RUTH, THE BOOK OF 1. Order in the Canon: The place which the Book of Ru occupies in the order of the books of the English Bible is not that of the He...