\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 116\\ Theodoret applies this psalm to the distresses of the Jews in the times of the Maccabees under Antiochus Epiphanes; an...
Overview - Leviticus 24 1?The oil for the lamps. 5?The shew-bread. 10?Shelomith's son blasphemeth. 13?The law of blasphemy. 17?Of murder. 18?Of damag...
Overview - Genesis 34 1?Dinah is ravished by Shechem. 4?He sues to marry her. 13?The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechem...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 63\\ \\\\. This psalm was composed by David, either when he was persecuted by Saul, and obliged to hide himself in desert pl...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
\\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 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...
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 PSALM 56\\ \\\\. The words jonathelemrechokim are by our translators left untranslated. Aben Ezra takes them to be the beginning o...
\\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...
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...
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...