Overview - Judges 16 1?Samson at Gaza escapes, and carries away the gates of the city. 4?Delilah, corrupted by the Philistines, entices Samson. 6?Th...
FEIGN fan (badha, nakhar; plastos): Occurs (1) in the sense of to devise, invent as the translation of badha', to form, to fashion (Nehemiah 6:8, Th...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 68\\ \\\\. The Targum makes the argument of this psalm to be the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and the givi...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 83\\ \\\\. This is the last of the psalms that bear the name of Asaph, and some think it was written by him on occasion of D...
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 ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 84\\ \\\\. Of gittith, \\see Gill on Ps 8:1\\. The Targum renders it here, as there, ``to praise upon the harp that was br...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 60\\ \\\\. The words shushaneduth are thought, by Aben Ezra, to be the beginning of a song, to the tune of which this psalm ...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
MASTER mas'-ter ('adhon, ba`al, rabbi; despotes, didaskalos, kurios, rhabbi): Master, when the translation of 'adhon, ruler, lord (Sir), often transl...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth. Kings have usually small care to hea...
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 FIRST KINGS\\ This, and the following book, properly are but one book, divided into two parts, and went with the Jews under the co...
JOAB jo'-ab (yo'-abh, Yahweh is father; Ioab): (1) Son of Zeruiah, David's sister. He was captain of the host (compare 2?Samuel 19:13) under David. ...
DAVID da'-vid (dawidh, or dawidh, beloved; Daueid, also in New Testament, Dauid, Dabid; see Thayer's Lexicon): $I. NAME AND GENEALOGY$ $II. EARLY YE...
\\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...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 33. The conqueror's feet had been shod by a divine hand, and the next note must, therefore, refer to them. He maketh my feet like hi...
TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT || I. EARLIEST FORM OF WRITING IN ISRAEL 1. Invention of Alphabet 2. The Cuneiform 3. References to Writing in the Old T...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. The Lord of hosts is with us. This is the reason for all Zion's security, and for the overthrow of her foes. The Lord rules the an...
SAMUEL, BOOKS OF || I. PLACE OF THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL IN THE HEBREW CANON II. CONTENTS OF THE BOOKS AND PERIOD OF TIME COVERED BY THE HISTORY III. SU...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. But there is forgiveness with thee. Blessed but. Free, full, sovereign pardon is in the hand of the great King: it is his preroga...