NOTES ON The Book of EZEKIEL NOTES ON The Book of EZEKIEL The name Ezekiel signifi...
Overview - 2?Peter 1 1?Confirming them in hope of the increase of God's graces, 5?he exhorts them, by faith, and good works, to make their calling su...
Megiddo [N] [E] [H](place of crowns ) was in a very marked position on the southern rim of the plain of Esdraelon, on the frontier line of the territ...
Overview - Numbers 17 1?Aaron's rod, among all the rods of the tribes, only flourishes. 10?It is left for a monument against the rebels. Treasury of S...
Luke 1 Luke 1:5 - 4.17.3.2.3 Luke 1:10 - 3.5.8 Luke 1:11 2 - 3.1.1, 3.8.3 Luke 1:12 - 3.1.1 Luke 1:13 - 3.1.1 Luke 1:14 - 3.1.1 Luke 1:15 - 3...
Resurrection of Christone of the cardinal facts and doctrines of the gospel. If Christ be not risen, our faith is vain ( 1?Corinthians 15:14 ). The wh...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JOB 6\\ This and the following chapter contain Job's answer to the speech of Eliphaz in the two foregoing; he first excuses his im...
Psalms 103:18 To such as keep his covenant The covenant of grace, which is peculiarly the Lord's covenant, as distinct from man's; and which he keeps ...
Howbeit (de). One of the most delicate and difficult particles to translate, varying from and to but. When he, the Spirit of truth, is come (otan elq...
Beersheba [H]well of the oath, or well of seven, a well dug by Abraham, and so named because he and Abimelech here entered into a compact ( Genesis 21...
When therefore (Hw oun). Reference to Luke 3:22 . the work of the Baptist and the jealousy of his disciples. Oun is very common in John's Gospel in ...
MEREMOTH mer'-e-moth, me-re'-moth (meremoth, heights; Mereimoth): (1) Son of Uriah (Ezra 8:33), who was head of the 7th course of priests appointed b...
John 17:24 Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me Not all the world, but a select number; not apostles only, nor as such; nor believers...
Psalms 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me Or, are mightier than I {h}; this may be understood either of the iniquities of others, his enemies; their w...
\\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...
Overview - Ezekiel 37 1?By the resurrection of dry bones, 11?the dead hope of Israel is revived. 15?By the uniting of two sticks, 18?is shewn the inco...
Overview - Jeremiah 34 1?Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah and the city. 8?The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servant...
BEAR bar (dobh; compare Arabic dubb): In 1?Samuel 17:34-37, David tells Saul how as a shepherd boy he had overcome a lion and a bear. In 2?Kings 2:2...
Persecution [N] [T] [B]The first great persecution for religious opinion of which we have any record was that which broke out against the worshippers ...
APOSTASY; APOSTATE a-pos'-ta-si, a-pos'-tat (he apostasia, a standing away from): I.e. a falling away, a withdrawal, a defection. Not found in the En...