Chapter?8We had some account given us of Benjamin in the foregoing chapter; here we have a larger catalogue of the great men of that tribe. 1. Because...
Fast, Fasting Abstinence from food and/or drink as an element of private or public religious devotion. Fasting is nowhere commanded in the Torah and, ...
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 ...
Chapter?145The five foregoing psalms were all of a piece, all full of prayers; this, and the five that follow it to the end of the book, are all of a ...
Chapter?1The first part of Moses?s farewell sermon to Israel begins with this chapter, and is continued to the latter end of the fourth chapter. In th...
Chapter?8Moses had charged parents in teaching their children to whet the word of God upon them ch.?6:7 ) by frequent repetition of the same things ov...
Chapter?4The good work of rebuilding the temple was no sooner begun than it met with opposition from those that bore ill will to it; the Samaritans we...
Chapter?61In this chapter, I. We are sure to find the grace of Christ, published by himself to a lost world in the everlasting gospel, under the type ...
Chapter?10The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter?to encourage the Jews that had returned with hopes that though...
Chapter?3A stupid, senseless, heedless people, are, in this chapter, called upon to take notice, I. Of the judgments of God denounced against them and...
Chapter?10This chapter gives us an account of a war David has with the Ammonites and the Syrians their allies, with the occasion and success of it. I....
Chapter?7Relief is here brought to Samaria and her king, when the case is, in a manner, desperate, and the king despairing. I. It is foretold by Elish...
Chapter?37In this chapter we have a further repetition of the story which we had before in the book of Kings concerning Sennacherib. In the foregoing ...
Chapter?146This and all the rest of the psalms that follow begin and end with Hallelujah, a word which puts much of God?s praise into a little compass...
Chapter?19The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the 17th, to foretel and lament the ruin of the house of David, the royal family of ...
Chapter?101David was certainly the penman of this psalm, and it has in it the genuine spirit of the man after God?s own heart; it is a solemn vow whic...
Chapter?30In this chapter we have, I. A continuation of the prophecy against Egypt, which we had in the latter part of the foregoing chapter, just bef...
Chapter?35It was promised, in the foregoing chapter, that when the time to favour Zion, yea, the set time, should come, especially the time for sendin...
Chapter?3A very black and mournful scene here opens, and which threatens the ruin of all the people of God. Were there not some such dark nights, the ...
Chapter?21Never surely did any kingdom change its king so much for the worse as Judah did, when Jehoram, one of the vilest, succeeded Jehoshaphat, one...