Worship [N] [E]If Christianity is the transformation of rebels into worshipers of God, then it is imperative for the Christian to know and understand ...
Chapter?46How judgment began at the house of God we have found in the foregoing prophecy and history; but now we shall find that it did not end there....
Chapter?15This chapter, which is mostly concerning sacrifice and offering, comes in between the story of two rebellions (one ch. 14, the other ch. 16)...
Faith [N] [T] [E]Belief, trust, and loyalty to a person or thing. Christians find their security and hope in God as revealed in Jesus Christ, and say ...
Chapter?1We have here the first alphabet of this lamentation, twenty-two stanzas, in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and her pre...
Chapter?26This chapter is a solemn conclusion of the main body of the levitical law. The precepts that follow in this and the following book either re...
Chapter?3We are now called to attend the public affairs of Israel, in which we shall find Elisha concerned. Here is, I. The general character of Jehor...
Chapter?3In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s discourse with Nicodemus, a Pharisee, concerning the great mysteries of the gospel, in which he here pri...
Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. Daniel?s prayer for the restoration of the Jews who were in captivity, in which he confesses sin, and acknowledge...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s declining for some time to appear publicly in Judea (v.?1). II. His design to go up to Jerusalem at the ...
Chapter?1In this chapter, after the introduction (v.?1), we have, I. An awakening call to a sinful people to repent of their sins and return to God (v...
Chapter?25The prophecy of this chapter bears date some time before those prophecies in the chapters next foregoing, for they are not placed in the exa...
Chapter 4Prophets were sent to be reprovers, to tell people of their faults, and to warn them of the judgments of God, to which by sin they exposed th...
Chapter?27This whole chapter is taken up with an account of Paul?s voyage towards Rome, when he was sent thither a prisoner by Festus the governor, up...
Chapter?8In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one...
Chapter?13In the close of the foregoing chapter we left Jeroboam attending his altar at Beth-el, and there we find him in the beginning of this, when ...
Chapter?62The business of prophets was both to preach and pray. In this chapter, I. The prophet determines to apply closely and constantly to this bus...
Amos, Theology of Like all biblical prophets, Amos spoke the oracles of Yahweh, Israel's God, to people in a particular context. In order to comprehen...
War, Holy War Despite the fact that many nations have used Scripture passages out of context to promote martial ventures, the Old Testament does not g...
Chapter?12The apostle (Gal.?4:25, Gal.?4:26 ) distinguishes between Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children???the remaining carcas...