PSALM 144 OVERVIEW. Albeit that this Psalm is in some measure very similar to Psalms 18:1-50 , yet it is a new song, and in its latter portion it is...
Chapter?1Israel was now to be formed into a commonwealth, or rather a kingdom; for the Lord was their King?? (1 Sa.?12:12 ), their government a theocr...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
the ten horns which you saw on the beast The TR stands alone in having the ten horns on the beast. Both MT and NU texts say ?the ten horns which you s...
the great river Euphrates and its water was dried up At the sounding of the sixth trumpet, the second woe, four angels were released who had previous...
Chapter 99:2? In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the p...
PETER. CHAPTER III. The End of All Things. SUMMARY.--The Purpose of the Second Epistle. The Sayings of Scoffers. God's Apparent Delay to Give Oppo...
Nature, Natural The Hebrew language has no word for nature equivalent to the Greek word physis [fuvsi]. Hebrew thought and language were essentially c...
Chapter 6Hitherto, it should seem, Isaiah had prophesied as a candidate, having only a virtual and tacit commission; but here we have him (if I may so...
SOUL AND SPIRIT IN THE MIDST OF DEATH. Sec. I. Sleep, as we have shown in Div. IV. Sec. XIV., is the periodical sinking down of the seventh, sixth, f...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. Christ, the royal bridegroom, goes on to describe the beauties of his spouse, the church, in many instances, and to expre...
Chapter?62This psalm has nothing in it directly either of prayer or praise, nor does it appear upon what occasion it was penned, nor whether upon any ...
Chapter?77This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. The com...
Chapter?32In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition ...
THORN IN THE FLESH thorn (skolops te sarki): Paul thus characterizes some bodily ailment which afflicted him and impaired his usefulness (2?Corinthia...
Chapter?2The scope of the first two chapters of this epistle may be gathered from ch.?3:9 , We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they ar...
in the midst The Levites, who performed the priestly duty of the OT, camped around the glory of the Lord which resided in the Tabernacle (Num. Num. 1:...
Chapter?128This, as the former, is a psalm for families. In that we were taught that the prosperity of our families depends upon the blessing of God; ...
Chapter?26We have here an account of the business of the Levites. That tribe had made but a very small figure all the time of the judges, till Eli and...
Chapter?3The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the two foregoing chapters, but the composition is somewhat different; that was in long ve...