BEL bel, bal (bel): Appellative name of a Bah god (compare BAAL), in the Old Testament and Apocrypha identified with Marduk or Merodach, the tutelary...
Chapter?34 Dinah defiled by Shechem. (1-19) The Shechemites murdered by Simeon and Levi. (20-31) Verses 1-19 Young persons, esp...
Titus 2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine.] Concerning sound doctrine, and the form of it, (See Gill on 2 Timothy 1:13). The thi...
Chapter?12 Rehoboam, forsaking the Lord, is punished. - When Rehoboam was so strong that he supposed he had nothing to fear from Jeroboam, he cast o...
Numbers 31:18 But all the women children The females among the little ones: that have not known a man by lying with him; which might be pretty clear,...
NISROCH nis'-rok, niz'-rok (nicrokh): The Assyrian god in whose temple Sennacherib was worshipping when put to death by his sons (2?Kings 19:37; Isai...
Psalms 36:3 The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit Not only sinful, but sin itself; his mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, of filthy a...
Psalms 119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear Either for the sake of religion, which was disagreeable to him; and he might be afraid it would be to...
Acts 19:10 And this continued by the space of two years Reckoning from the end of the three months, which had been spent in teaching in the synagogue:...
1 Kings 17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, now by this I know that thou art a man of God She took him to be one at his first coming to her; she was i...
Chapter?2 Solomon's message to Huram respecting the temple, His treaty with Huram. - Solomon informs Huram of the particular services to be performe...
XIII. PAUL IN THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM. The question how far it is proper for the sake of doing good, to yield to the prejudices of others, or to co...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17\\ This chapter relates the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel, and how it came about, \\#2Ki 17:1-6\\, the cause of ...
1 Kings 12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, &c,] As he was musing about the state of his kingdom and the affairs of it: now shall the kingdom retur...
A Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by race (Hellhni, Suropoinikissa twi genei). A Greek in religion, a Syrian in tongue, a Phoenician in race (Bruce), from E...
SectA group or division; a party.My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; Which ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 17\\ This chapter relates the accession of Jehoshaphat to the throne, his settlement on it, his piety, and reformatio...
Lamentations 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.] Like lions and other beasts of prey, to devour us; or in way of scorn and deri...
That your faith should not stand (ina h pisti umwn mh h). Purpose of God, but mh h is not be merely. The only secure place for faith to find a rest i...
2 Kings 4:9 And she said unto her husband Not being willing to do any thing without his leave and consent: behold now, I perceive that this is an hol...