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...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 34\\ \\\\. The author of this psalm is expressed by name; and the time and occasion of it are plainly intimated: it was comp...
Overview - 2?Kings 23 1?Josiah causes the book to be read in a solemn assembly. 3?He renews the covenant of the Lord. 4?He destroys idolatry. 15?He ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 56\\ \\\\. The words jonathelemrechokim are by our translators left untranslated. Aben Ezra takes them to be the beginning 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...
OFFENCE; OFFEND o-fens', o-fend' (mikhshol, 'asham, chaTa'; skandalon, skandalizo): Offend is either transitive or intransitive As transitive it is p...
\\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...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 28Chapter Overview: The conference between Achish and David, ver. 1 - 2. The preparation of the Philistines, and the dis...
JESSE jes'-e (yishay, meaning doubtful; according to Gesenius it = wealthy; Olshausen, Gram., sections 277, conjectures yesh yah, Yahweh exists; Wellh...
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 ...
\\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...
The Book of HebrewsChapter 11Verses:11:1The definition of faith given in this verse, and exemplified in the various instances following, undoubtedly i...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Oppressors have it not all their own way, they have their fits of trembling and their appointed seasons of overthrow. There -- whe...
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...
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...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 12Chapter Overview: Samuel clears himself from all imputation of abusing the power which he now resigns to Saul, ver. 1 ...