Ezekiel 13:23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations, &c.] They should not be suffered any longer to impose upon the people; an...
Psalms 49:20 Man [that is] in honour A wicked man, as the Targum; (See Gill on Psalms 49:12); and understandeth not; from whence his riches and honou...
Jeremiah 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? &c.] This seems chiefly, and in the first place, to respect the false prophets an...
Ezekiel 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God Perish by sword, famine, or pestilence, or go into captivity; ...
Esther 8:11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together In some part of the city they should choose, and ...
1 Corinthians 8:11 And through thy knowledge These words contain an aggravation of the sin such persons are guilty of, who are the means, by their exa...
Jeremiah 40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly Partly that he might, as he thought, more easily prevail upon him, ...
Proverbs 3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour Either to whom thou art indebted, and who comes for the payment of a just debt; or to any poor and indigent p...
Ezekiel 38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself All warlike stores and provisions: this is ironically said; and suggests that he would do so, a...
Matthew 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your father which is in heaven This is the accommodation, or application of the parable of the lost sheep ...
I gave her time Herein is the evidence of God?s grace which is so often turned against Him. Those who complain that a perfect and loving God would no...
Jeremiah 4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the Lord When Nebuchadnezzar should be come up from Babylon into the land of Judea, and lay ...
Overview - 2?Peter 3 1?He assures them of the certainty of Christ's coming to judgment, against those scorners who dispute against it; 8?warning the ...
2 Kings 3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, what have I to do with thee? &c.] An idolater; I can hold no discourse nor have any conversation...
1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart Within himself, and to himself; while he was pondering things in his own mind, and considering the circumsta...
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise The Syriac version reads in the plural, his promises, any of his promises; though the words s...
Romans 14:15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat The apostle proceeds to give reasons why, though he was so fully persuaded that nothing was u...
\\INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES 5\\ This chapter contains some rules and directions concerning the worship of God; how persons should behave when they...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 130\\ \\\\. This psalm is by some thought to have been written by David either when persecuted by Saul, and in great distres...
Chapter 27 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now a perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should spe...