\\INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 43\\ This chapter informs us how that the famine continued in the land of Canaan, and the corn that Jacob's family had from...
Ruth 3:7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, &c.] Having ate and drank freely, though not to excess; and innocent mirth was al...
Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie Who pretends to be a prophet, and a spiritual man, and to be under the inspiration and ...
Chapter?5 Exhortations to wisdom. The evils of licentiousness. (1-14) Remedies against licentiousness, The miserable end of the wicked. (15-23) ...
Chapter?1 Micah was raised up to support Isaiah, and to confirm his predictions, while he invited to repentance, both by threatened judgments and pro...
James 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? &c.] As the people of God generally are; they are commonly a poor, and an afflicted people; at least there are ...
Purim [N](lots ), the annual festival instituted to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the massacre with which they were threate...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. I remember the days of old. When we see nothing new which can cheer us, let us think upon old things. We once had merry days, day...
-. SECOND GREAT GROUP OF PARABLES. (Probably in Per?a.)Subdivision D.PARABLE OF THE LOST SON. c?LUKE 15:11-32. ? ? ? c?11 And he said, A cert...
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go thy way Thou righteous man, as Jarchi paraphrases it; and indeed epicures and voluptuous persons have no need of the following exh...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 15. He made a pit, and digged it. He was cunning in his plans, and industrious in his labours. He stooped to the dirty work of diggin...
Luke 15:23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it By which Christ is designed, in allusion to the calves offered in sacrifice, which were offer...
Ezekiel 21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter To cut easily, and wound deeply, and make a slaughter of men, like beasts for sacrifice; a sacr...
MOCK; MOCKER; MOCKING mok, mok'er, mok'-ing (hathal, la`agh, empaizo): To mock is the translation of hathal, to play upon, mock, deride (Judges 16:10...
Chapter 4343:1 And the a famine [was] sore in the land. (a) This was a great temptation to Jacob to suffer such a great famine in the land where God h...
The Book of IsaiahChapter 24Chapter Overview: Judgments on Judah for their defilements and transgression, ver. 1 - 12. A remnant shall praise God, ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 12. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. How refreshing are these words! What...
15:1? Now all the publicans1 and sinners2 were drawing near unto him to hear him.SECOND GREAT GROUP OF PARABLES. (Probably in Perea.) A. INTRODUCTIO...
Chapter 4 4:2 And these [were] the a princes which he had; b Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, (a) That is, his chief officers. (b) He was the son ...
Luke 15:29 And he answering, said to his father Commending himself, and reflecting on his father: lo, these many years do I serve thee; for though he...