There was a great earthquake (seismo mega egeneto). There came a great earthquake. Jesus spoke of earthquakes in his great eschatological discourse (...
RIZPAH riz'-pa (ritspah, hot stone; Josephus, Rhaispha): In 2?Samuel 3:7 the subject of a coarse slander. 2?Samuel 21 contains the pathetic story of ...
Overview - Exodus 26 1?The ten curtains of the tabernacle. 7?The eleven curtains of goats' hair, and the covering of rams' and badgers' skins. 15?The...
I counsel (sumbouleuw). Present active indicative, old compound from sumboulo, counsellor ( Romans 11:34 ), as in John 18:14 . Almost ironical in to...
Where is thy Father? (pou estin o pathr sou;). The testimony of an unseen and unheard witness would not satisfy them (Vincent). Bernard understands t...
The Book of ExodusChapter 36Chapter Overview:In this chapter, The work of the tabernacle is begun, ver. 1 - 4. A stop put to the people's contributio...
Chapter?4 The siege of Jerusalem. (1-8) The famine the inhabitants would suffer. (9-17) Verses 1-8 The prophet was to represent the siege ...
ApparelIn Old Testament times the distinction between male and female attire was not very marked. The statute forbidding men to wear female apparel ( ...
Overview - Leviticus 11 1?What beasts may; 4?and what may not be eaten. 9?What fishes. 13?What fowls. 29?The creeping things which are unclean. Trea...
Isaiah 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? &c.] That is, can this be thought to be a fast approved of by me, and acceptable to me, before descr...
THE GOAT.There are two kinds of goat in the countries where the Bible waswritten; one very much like those that we sometimes see; the otherdiffering f...
Isaiah 45:15 Verily thou art a God that hideth thyself Who hid himself from the Gentile world for some hundreds of years, who had no knowledge of the ...
STRAW; STUBBLE stro, stub'-'-l: The cognates of Hebrew tebhen, straw and qash, stubble, have been retained in the modern Arabic terms tibn and qashsh...
Daniel 1:5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat Every day a portion was ordered them, from the king's table, of the riches...
PEN (`et, cheret; kalamos): The first writing was done on clay, wax, lead or stone tablets by scratching into the material with some hard pointed ins...
Belshazzar [N] [H] [S]Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon ( Daniel 5:1 ). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who was the dau...
CHAPTER 26 Exodus 26:1-37 . TEN CURTAINS 1. cunning work--that is, of elegant texture, richly embroidered. The word cunning, in old English, ...
Jonah 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh Who was not Sardanapalus, a very dissolute prince, and abandoned to his lusts; but rather Pul, the sa...
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation Either their religious feasts, the feasts of pentecost, taber...
Ecclesiastes 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness To all that has been said is added another evil, that attends such whose hearts are inordina...