Job 18:20 They that come after [him] shall be astonished at his day, &c.] At the day of his calamity and distress, ruin and destruction, see ( Psalms ...
BEAR bar (dobh; compare Arabic dubb): In 1?Samuel 17:34-37, David tells Saul how as a shepherd boy he had overcome a lion and a bear. In 2?Kings 2:2...
John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael Who was of Cana of Galilee, ( John 21:2 ) and where, it is very likely, Philip found him; since we quickly read of ...
Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up This is to be understood of the foolish rich man before described, as taking root and flourishing; though h...
Matthew 7:23 Then will I profess unto them Publicly before men and angels, at the day of judgment, I never knew you; which must be understood consist...
1. And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was ...
Guide to Book AbbreviationThe following table lists (in alphabetical order) the names of each of the books of the Bible and it's corresponding shortes...
1 Corinthians 14:11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice The force and power of a language, the signification of it, the ideas its words c...
Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands The great controversy in the world after the coming of Christ, which is expressly spoken of in the prece...
Job 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money Or, the strength thereof without silver F2; see ( Genesis 4:12 ) , silver being the money c...
BALANCE bal'-ans The English word balance is from the Latin bilanx = having two scales (bi = two and lanx = plate, or scale). It is used to render thr...
Acts 4:25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David has said In ( Psalms 2:1 Psalms 2:2 ) from whence we learn, that that psalm, though it is without a t...
Matthew 4:18 And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee Not for his recreation and diversion, or by accident: but on purpose to look out for, and call so...
R. Phinehas, in the name of R. Hoshaia, saith, There were four hundred and sixty synagogues in Jerusalem: every one of which had a house of the book, ...
CHRISTS, FALSE fols (pseudo-christoi). 1. Christ's Warnings: In His discourse on the last things, uttered by Him on the Tuesday of the week of His ...
Job 1:14 And there came a messenger unto Job Not a messenger of Satan, as Jarchi, or one of his angels, or evil spirits; though this is a sense which ...
Job 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb Or of my belly F13, or womb; which Aben Ezra interprets of the navel, by which the inf...
Isaiah 3:3 The captain of fifty A semi-centurion, such an one as in ( 2 Kings 1:9-13 ) . So far should there be from being captains of thousands, and ...
Sorcery (Divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits)Forbidden Leviticus 19:26-28 Leviticus 19:31 ; 20:6 ; Deuteronomy 18:9-14 Denounced ...
Divination [N] [T] [B] [E]is a foretelling future events, or discovering things secret by the aid of superior beings, or other than human means. It i...