Chapter?21The ruins of the tribe of Benjamin we read of in the foregoing chapter; now here we have, I. The lamentation which Israel made over these ru...
Chapter?4In this chapter we have, I. A threatening of the paucity and scarceness of man (v.?1), which might fitly enough have been added to the close ...
Chapter?31This chapter is an abridgment of the foregoing chapter; the heads of it are much the same. Here is, I. A woe to those who, when the Assyrian...
Chapter?143This psalm, as those before, is a prayer of David, and full of complaints of the great distress and danger he was in, probably when Saul pe...
Chapter?2We now come closer to Nineveh, that great city; she took, not warning by the destruction of her armies and the fall of her king, and therefor...
Chapter?52David, no doubt, was in very great grief when he said to Abiathar (1 Sa.?22:22 ), I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy fath...
Chapter?57This psalm is very much like that which goes next before it; it was penned upon a like occasion, when David was both in danger of trouble an...
Chapter?58It is the probable conjecture of some (Amyraldus particularly) that before Saul began to persecute David by force of arms, and raised the mi...
Chapter?60After many psalms which David penned in a day of distress this comes which was calculated for a day of triumph; it was penned after he was s...
Chapter?30This is a psalm of thanksgiving for the great deliverances which God had wrought for David, penned upon occasion of the dedicating of his ho...
Chapter?75Though this psalm is attributed to Asaph in the title, yet it does so exactly agree with David?s circumstances, at his coming to the crown a...
Chapter?46This psalm encourages us to hope and trust in God, and his power, and providence, and gracious presence with his church in the worst of time...
Chapter?13Moses is still upon that necessary subject concerning the peril of idolatry. In the close of the foregoing chapter he had cautioned them aga...
Chapter?13The next ceremonial uncleanness is that of the leprosy, concerning which the law was very large and particular; we have the discovery of it ...
Chapter?20The laws which before were made are in this chapter repeated and penalties annexed to them, that those who would not be deterred from sin by...
Chapter?32In this chapter we have, I. The humble request of the tribes of Reuben and Gad for an inheritance on that side Jordan where Israel now lay e...
Chapter?9This chapter is, I. Concerning the great ordinance of the passover; 1. Orders given for the observance of it, at the return of the year (v.?1...
Chapter?15Asa and his army were now returning in triumph from the battle, laden with spoils and adorned with the trophies of victory, the pious prince...
Chapter?26This chapter gives us an account of the reign of Uzziah (Azariah he was called in the Kings) more fully than we had it before, though it was...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. The proclamation which Cyrus, king of Persia, issued out for the release of all the Jews that he found captives i...