Chapter?35We are here to attend Josiah, I. To the temple, where we see his religious care for the due observance of the ordinance of the passover, acc...
Chapter?22We read, in the foregoing chapter, of the carrying away of Jehoram?s sons and his wives; but here we find one of his sons and one of his wiv...
Chapter?23Six years bloody Athaliah had tyrannised; in this chapter we have her deposed and slain, and Joash, the rightful heir, enthroned. We had the...
Chapter?27In this chapter we have the civil list, including the military, I. The twelve captains for every separate month of the year (v.?1-15). II. T...
Chapter?3It was a much larger and more particular account of the building of the temple which we had in the book of Kings than is here in this book of...
Nations, the The Old Testament. The English word nations is used in the New International Version to translate several Hebrew terms. Most often it ref...
Chapter?21The date of the events of this chapter is uncertain. I incline to think that they happened as they are here placed, after Absalom?s and Sheb...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Another vision which the prophet saw, not for his own entertainment, but for his satisfaction and the edification...
Chapter?5In this chapter we have a further, and no less terrible, denunciation of the judgments of God, which were coming with all speed and force upo...
Chapter?25This psalm is full of devout affection to God, the out-goings of holy desires towards his favour and grace and the lively actings of faith i...
Chapter?116This is a thanksgiving psalm; it is not certain whether David penned it upon any particular occasion or upon a general review of the many g...
Chapter?5In this chapter we have, I. A prediction of the troubles and distresses of the Jewish nation (v.?1). II. A promise of the Messiah, and of his...
Chapter 24It is agreed that here begins a new sermon, which is continued to the end of chap7. And in it the prophet, according to the directions he ha...
Chapter?49This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; an...
Chapter?6After the precious promises in the two foregoing chapters, relating to the Messiah?s kingdom, the prophet is here directed to set the sins of...
Chapter?1In this epistle the apostle congratulates Gaius upon the prosperity of his soul (v.?1, v.?2), upon the fame he had among good Christians (v.?...
Chapter?1After the introduction (v.?1) the apostle begins with a thanksgiving to God for the saving benefits bestowed on them (v.?2-5). And then menti...
Chapter?3In this chapter the apostle gives further evidence of his love to the Thessalonians, reminding them of his sending Timothy to them, with the ...
Chapter?20We are here returning to the story of Abraham; yet that part of it which is here recorded is not to his honour. The fairest marbles have the...
Chapter?12In this chapter we have, I. Jephthah?s rencounter with the Ephraimites, and the blood shed on that unhappy occasion (v.?1-6), and the conclu...