Richard Sedgwick.?This eminent minister was born at East Dereham in Norfolk, in the year 1574, and educated in Peter-house, Cambridge. It does not app...
ARK OF NOAH ark, no'-a: A structure built by Noah at the command of God to preserve from the Flood a remnant of the human race and of the animals ass...
CEDAR se'-dar, se'-der ('erez, from Hebrew root meaning to be firm; kedros): The 'erez was in almost all the Old Testament references the true cedar,...
JEHU je'-hu (yehu; meaning uncertain, perhaps Yahweh is he; 1?Kings 19:16,17; 2?Kings 9; 10; Eiou): Son of Jehoshaphat, and descendant of Nimshi, hen...
Richard Rogers.?This excellent divine was educated at Cambridge, and was afterwards for many years the laborious and useful minister of Wethersficld ...
CHAPTER 21 Matthew 21:1-9 . CHRIST'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. ( = 11:1-11 Luke 19:29-40 John 12:12-19...
CHAPTER 2 Haggai 2:1-9 . SECOND PROPHECY. The people, discouraged at the inferiority of this temple to Solomon's, are encouraged nevertheless...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. The Christian life has two elements in it, the ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. This verse records a past deliverance, and is an instance of the way in which experience should be employed to reassure our faith ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 4. I sought the Lord, and he heard me. It must have been in a very confused manner that David prayed, and there must have been much o...
Edward Philips, A.' M.?-This zealous puritan was educated in Pembroke college, Oxford. Afterwards he settled in London, and became preacher at St. Sa...
Genesis 4:17 And Cain knew his wife Who this woman was is not certain, nor whether it was his first wife or not; whether his sister, or one that desce...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. They are corrupt. They rot above ground; their heart and life are depraved. And speak wickedly concerning oppression. The reek of...
GOLGOTHA gol'-go-tha (Golgotha, from a skull): In three references (Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; John 19:17) it is interpreted to mean kraniou topos, t...
Thomas Foxley.?This pious and reverend divine was lecturer at St, Martin's in the Fields, London; where he suffered grievous persecution from the int...
SYRIANS sir'-i-anz ('aram; Suroi; Assyrian Aramu, Arumu, Arimu): 1. Division of Aram 2. A Semitic Race 3. Syria and Israel 4. Under Nabateans and ...
Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise. Or ten kingdoms which sprung out of the Roman empire, or into which ...
The Book (biblo). There is no article in the Greek, but the following genitives make it definite. It is our word Bible that is here used, the Book as...
Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day Before spoken of, and which includes the whole Gospel dispensation: [that] the Lord shall set his h...
NUMBER num'-ber: I. NUMBER AND ARITHMETIC II. NOTATION OF NUMBERS 1. By Words 2. By Signs 3. By Letters III. NUMBERS IN OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY I...