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 Samuel 10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, &e.] According to Ben Gersom, he laid before them the power a king had over his ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALMS 9\\ \\\\. Some, take muthlabben to be the name of the tune to which this psalm was sung, and to design the same note which ...
TRIBULATION trib-u-la'-shun (tsar, tsar, staid, narrow, pent up; compare Numbers 22:26): 1. In the Old Testament: Closely pressed, as of seals (Job ...
EMERODS em'-er-odz `ophalim, techorim: These words are used in the account of the plague which broke out among the Philistines while the captive Ark ...
Overview - Matthew 5 1?Christ's sermon on the mount. 3?Who are blessed; 13?the salt of the earth; 14?the light of the world. 17?He came to fulfil the...
Overview - Judges 18 1?The Danites send five men to seek out an inheritance. 3?At the house of Micah they consult with Jonathan, and are encouraged o...
VOW vou (nedher; euche; 'iccar, found only in Numbers 30:6,8,10 and translated horismos, by the Septuagint: A vow could be positive (nedher) and incl...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 56\\ \\\\. The words jonathelemrechokim are by our translators left untranslated. Aben Ezra takes them to be the beginning o...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 28Chapter Overview: The conference between Achish and David, ver. 1 - 2. The preparation of the Philistines, and the dis...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 4\\ \\\\. This psalm is inscribed to the chief musician, or conqueror {c}: who excelled others in the art of music, and carr...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES\\ The title of this book in the Hebrew copies is Sepher Shophetim, the Book of Judges; but the Syriac and Arabic interprete...
The Book of HebrewsChapter 11Verses:11:1The definition of faith given in this verse, and exemplified in the various instances following, undoubtedly i...
\\INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS\\ This, and the following book, properly are but one book, divided into two parts, and went with the Jews under the co...
RUTH, THE BOOK OF 1. Order in the Canon: The place which the Book of Ru occupies in the order of the books of the English Bible is not that of the He...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Oppressors have it not all their own way, they have their fits of trembling and their appointed seasons of overthrow. There -- whe...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 8Chapter Overview: Samuel's decay and the degeneracy of his sons, ver. 1 - 3. The people petition him for a king, who re...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. When I remember thee upon my bed. Lying awake, the good man betook himself to meditation, and then began to sing. He had a feast i...
JESSE jes'-e (yishay, meaning doubtful; according to Gesenius it = wealthy; Olshausen, Gram., sections 277, conjectures yesh yah, Yahweh exists; Wellh...
OFFENCE; OFFEND o-fens', o-fend' (mikhshol, 'asham, chaTa'; skandalon, skandalizo): Offend is either transitive or intransitive As transitive it is p...