Chapter?35Orders having been given before for the dividing of the land of Canaan among the lay-tribes (as I may call them), care is here taken for a c...
Chapter?89Many psalms that begin with complaint and prayer end with joy and praise, but this begins with joy and praise and ends with sad complaints a...
Chapter?25The sacred historian, in this chapter, I. Takes his leave of Abraham, with an account, I. Of his children by another wife (v.?1-4). Of his l...
Chapter?19 Verse 1 Here see, 1. What will be the credit and comfort of a poor man, and make him more excellent than his neighbour, though his poverty ...
Chapter?11With this chapter Moses concludes his preface to the repetition of the statutes and judgments which they must observe to do. He repeats the ...
Homily XXI.Homily XXI. John i. 49, 50.-Nathanael answered and saith unto Him, Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God, Thou art the King of Israel. Jesus answe...
MESSIAH me-si'-a (mashiach; Aramaic meshicha'; Septuagint Christos, anointed; New Testament Christ): 1. Meaning and Use of the Term 2. The Messianic...
Chapter?15Though the land was not completely conquered, yet being (as was said in the close of the foregoing chapter) as rest from war for the present...
Chapter?57The prophet, in this chapter, makes his observations, I. Upon the deaths of good men, comforting those that were taken away in their integri...
Chapter?19The contents of this chapter we have, 2 Pt.?2:6-8 , where we find that God, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned ...
Chapter?12This chapter gives an account of one of the most memorable ordinances, and one of the most memorable providences, of all that are recorded i...
Chapter?17 Verse 1 These words recommend family-love and peace, as conducing very much to the comfort of human life. 1. Those that live in unity and q...
Chapter?50This psalm, as the former, is a psalm of instruction, not of prayer or praise; it is a psalm of reproof and admonition, in singing which we ...
Chapter?28In this chapter we have, I. A prediction of the fall and ruin of the king of Tyre, who, in the destruction of that city, is particularly set...
Chapter 9: OTHER PRE-EXILIAN PROPHETIC BOOKS. In the preceding historical survey we have passed by several books which can better be consider...
Chapter?3We are now called to attend the public affairs of Israel, in which we shall find Elisha concerned. Here is, I. The general character of Jehor...
Chapter?10The Septuagint translation joins this psalm with the ninth, and makes them but one; but the Hebrew makes it a distinct psalm, and the scope ...
Chapter?20We have here, I. The great danger and distress that Jehoshaphat and his kingdom were in from a foreign invasion (v.?1, v.?2). II. The pious ...
WISDOM wiz'-dum: 1. Linguistic 2. History 3. Religious Basis 4. Ideals 5. Teaching of Christ 6. Remainder of the New Testament (1) James (2) P...
Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...