An abiding city (menousan polin). Jerusalem has lost its charm for followers of Christ. Vincent rightly argues that the Epistle must have been writte...
Miphkad (appointed place ), The gate, one of the gates of Jerusalem. ( Nehemiah 3:31 ) It was probably not in the wall of Jerusalem proper, but in th...
Luke 13:33 Nevertheless, I must walk The Syriac version reads, I must work, and so the Arabic: as going about doing good, casting out devils, and heal...
John Darby commentary for Acts 11Acts Chapter 11Chapter 11:19 begins the narration of the new order of things by which the ministry of Paul is distin...
Isaiah 37:8 So Rabshakeh returned To the king of Assyria his master, to give him an account how things went at Jerusalem, and that he could get no dir...
The holy city, new Jerusalem (thn polin thn agian Ierousalhm kainhn). The New Earth must have a new metropolis, not another Babylon, but another and ...
Jeremiah 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem Here is a particular enumeration of the persons that had made the covenant, and tran...
Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? &c.] These people fill into sin, and rise not again by repe...
Coming up (epistasa). Second aorist active participle. The word often has the notion of coming suddenly or bursting in as of Martha in Luke 10:40 . ...
Acts 11:2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem From Caesarea, after he had stayed some certain days in Cornelius's house; so a journey from Caesare...
Tarried (dietribon). Imperfect active of diatribw, old verb to pass time, seen already in Matthew 12:19 ; Matthew 14:3 Matthew 14:28 . With many o...
Having found (aneuronte). Second aorist active participle of aneuriskw, to seek for, to find by searching (ana). There was a church here, but it was ...
Ezekiel 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations.] That is, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as the Targum; these are mentioned instead ...
Jeremiah 19:10 Then shall thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee.] The earthen bottle he was bid to get of the potter, ( Jere...
Matthew 15:1 Then came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees After he had wrought so many miracles, particularly that of feeding five thousand men; besides w...
Salem [N] [E] [H](peace ). The place of which Melchizedek was king. ( Genesis 14:18 ; Hebrews 7:1 Hebrews 7:2 ) No satisfactory identification of i...
Luke 2:45 And when they found him not In the company that came from Jerusalem with them, nor among any of their relations and friends, with whom they ...
Overview - Ezekiel 21 1?Ezekiel prophesies against Jerusalem with a sign of sighing. 8?The sharp and bright sword; 18?against Jerusalem; 25?against t...
Overview - Acts 21 1?Paul calls at the house of Philip, whose daughters prophesy. 10?Agabus, foretelling what should befall him at Jerusalem, he will ...
Overview - Acts 21 1?Paul calls at the house of Philip, whose daughters prophesy. 10?Agabus, foretelling what should befall him at Jerusalem, he will ...