?EXPOSITION Verse 9. Keep me from, the snares which they have laid for me. He had before asked, in Psalms 141:3 , that the door of his mouth might be...
?EXPOSITION Verse 8. The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind. Jesus did this very frequently, and hereby proved himself to be Jehovah. He who made the ...
Antichrist [N] [T] [E] [H] [S]The term antichrist occurs only in 1 and 2 John, and there in both singular and plural forms. It is part of a complex of...
Grave [N] [E] [S]Place where the physical remains of a deceased person are interred. It is the place appointed for all living ( Job 30:23 ). It is whe...
Flesh [N] [E] [S]The range of meanings borne by this term in the Bible starts from the literal use denoting the material of which the human body is ch...
Evil [N]As a prerequisite for any discussion of evil, moral evil must be distinguished from physical or natural evil. This essay uses the term moral e...
?EXPOSITION Verse 9. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. This would inevitably be the case when the man died, but the psalmist uses ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 9. As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. To the Lord who had covered his he...
Necromancy [N]Form of divination in which a person calls upon the dead to receive communication that clarifies knowledge. Ugaritic texts from the midd...
Revelation, Theology of The theology of Revelation stands in the mainstream of first-century Christian thought, for it presupposes, with other New Tes...
Friend, Friendship Most of the Old Testament words translated friend, friendship, or be friendly come from two Hebrew roots, rh and hb. The most com...
Flood, the Terminology. The Genesis flood is denoted in the Old Testament by the technical Hebrew term mabbul [lWB;m] (etymology uncertain; perhaps fr...
Fire [N] [T] [E] [S]One of the most arresting and suggestive metaphors in the Bible is that of fire, a phenomenon common to all cultures ancient and ...
PSALMS, BOOK OF samz, (tehillim, praises, cepher tehillim, book of praises; Psalmoi, Psalterion): I. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS 1. Title 2. Place in the C...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. Despite the bragging of this base wretch, it seems that he is as cowardly as he is cruel. He sitteth in the lurking places of the...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 18. Thou hast ascended on high. The ark was conducted to the summit of Zion; God himself took possession of the high places of the ea...
Disease [N]To understand the biblical records concerning illness it is necessary to think oneself back into a world that knew nothing of germs, bacter...
Create, Creation Who created and sustains the universe? Why was it created? What is the nature of the Creator-creature relationship? These are the sor...
?EXPOSITION Verse 10. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. It is its first principle, but it is also its head and chief attainment. The wo...
Hell [N] [T] [E] [S]Place of God's final retributive punishment. Scripture progressively develops this destiny of the wicked: the Old Testament outli...