?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Let my prayer come before thee. Admit it to an audience; let it speak with thee. Though it be my prayer, and therefore very imper...
Animals [N]God as Creator and Sustainer. Animals, like the rest of the uNIVerse, are created by God. In Genesis 1, God's approval of the created world...
Soul [N]The Old Testament. The Hebrew word so rendered is nepes [v,p,n]. It appears 755 times in the Old Testament. The King James Version uses 42 dif...
Decrees [N]Decrees issued by rulers, written commands having the effect of law, and the metaphor of God as King of the world provide the imagery behin...
Command, Commandment The term commandment in the Bible (mainly Heb. miswa [hw.xim]; Gk. entole [ejntolhv]) refers to orders or adjurations given by au...
PSALM 132 OVERVIEW. Title. A Song of Degrees. A joyful song indeed: let all pilgrims to the New Jerusalem sing it often. The degrees or ascents are ve...
PSALM 110 Psalms 110:1-7 . The explicit application of this Psalm to our Saviour, by Him ( Matthew 22:42-45 ) and by the apostles ( Acts 2:34...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 3-4. See Psalms on Psalms 12:3 for further information. ?EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGSVerse 4. Who have said, With our tongues...
PSALM 104 Psalms 104:1-35 . The Psalmist celebrates God's glory in His works of creation and providence, teaching the dependence of all livin...
PSALM 109 Psalms 109:1-31 . The writer complains of his virulent enemies, on whom he imprecates God's righteous punishment, and to a prayer f...
Glorification In the Scripture the idea of glorification deals with the ultimate perfection of believers. The word glorification is not used in the He...
Hebrews, Theology of The theological epicenter of the Epistle to the Hebrews may be summed up in one word: Christology. No biblical document outside o...
?EXPOSITION Verse 10. The tenth and last verse sets forth very forcibly the contrast between the righteous and the ungodly, thus making the blessednes...
Purity [N](Heb. niqqayon [/y'QIn]; Gk. hagneia [aJgneiva]). The Old Testament. In the Old Testament, the basic sense of the Hebrew word for purity is ...
Restore, Renew The Old and New Testaments use terms such as restore and renew to image God's control of history and the believer's spiritual life. Bot...
Presence of God The Scriptures often speak of God's presence in human history. The most common Hebrew term for presence is panim [yIn'P], which is als...
Good, Goodness The main Old Testament words for good/goodness come from the Hebrew word tob [b'f] while the most common New Testament words are kalos ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 65. The Lord awaked as one out of sleep. Justly inactive, he had suffered the enemy to triumph, his ark to be captured, and his peopl...
?EXPOSITION Verse 19. Sihon king of the Amorites. Let the name be mentioned that the mercy may be the better remembered. Sihon smote Moab, but he coul...
Ignorant, Ignorance The Old Testament. While the concept of ignorance is found often in variousequivalents, the word itself rarely appears (only twice...