\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 59\\ \\\\. The history of Saul's sending messengers to watch the house of David, and to kill him when he rose in the morning...
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 ...
The Book of HebrewsChapter 11Verses:11:1The definition of faith given in this verse, and exemplified in the various instances following, undoubtedly i...
Overview - Luke 2 1?Augustus taxes all the Roman empire. 6?The nativity of Christ. 8?An angel relates it to the shepherds, and many sing praises to ...
Overview - Matthew 18 1?Christ warns his disciples to be humble and harmless, 7?to avoid offences, 10?and not to despise the little ones; 15?teaches ...
Overview - Acts 9 1?Saul, going towards Damascus, is stricken down to the earth, and led blind to Damascus; 10?is called to the apostleship; 18?and is...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 116\\ Theodoret applies this psalm to the distresses of the Jews in the times of the Maccabees under Antiochus Epiphanes; an...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 7\\ \\\\. The name of this psalm, Shiggaion, either respects the music or the matter of the psalm. Some take it to be the na...
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...
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 JUDGES\\ The title of this book in the Hebrew copies is Sepher Shophetim, the Book of Judges; but the Syriac and Arabic interprete...
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 - 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...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
OMNIPOTENCE om-nip'-o-tens: 1. Terms and Usage: The noun omnipotence is not found in the English Bible, nor any noun exactly corresponding to it in ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 13. For thou hast delivered my soul from death. His enemies were defeated in their attempts upon his life, and therefore he vowed to ...
OFFENCE; OFFEND o-fens', o-fend' (mikhshol, 'asham, chaTa'; skandalon, skandalizo): Offend is either transitive or intransitive As transitive it is p...
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 FIRST KINGS\\ This, and the following book, properly are but one book, divided into two parts, and went with the Jews under the co...
JESSE jes'-e (yishay, meaning doubtful; according to Gesenius it = wealthy; Olshausen, Gram., sections 277, conjectures yesh yah, Yahweh exists; Wellh...