For many are called, but few chosen (polloi gar eisin klhtoi oligoi de eklektoi). This crisp saying of Christ occurs in various connections. He evide...
Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few chosen.] (See Gill on Matthew 20:16)...
Joshua 21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs Called Ramoth, ( 1 Chronicles 6:73 ) ; very probably the same with Remeth, ( Joshua 19:21 ) ; Engannim with her ...
Psalms 49:2 Both low and high Or both the sons of Adam and the sons of men. By the sons of Adam are meant the multitude of the people, as Ben Melech e...
Psalms 44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat To be butchered, and then eaten as sheep are; and therefore are called the flock of sl...
1 Corinthians 8:5 For though there be that are called gods That are so by name, though not by nature; who are called so in Scripture, as angels and ma...
Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never full The grave, as the word used often signifies; and which may be called destruction, because bodies la...
1 Corinthians 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren That is, those that were called by the grace of God among them; for as circumcision and uncircumc...
BROOK brook (nachal, 'aphiq, ye'or, mikhal; cheimarrhos): In Palestine there are few large streams. Of the smaller ones many flow only during the win...
Overview - 1?Corinthians 8 1?To abstain from meats offered to idols. 8?We must not abuse our Christian liberty, to the offence of our brethren; 11?bu...
1 Chronicles 7:1 Now the sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.] The same number is given, ( Genesis 46:13 ) with a small variat...
JOZACAR joz'-a-kar, jo-za'-kar (yozakhar, Yahweh has remembered; the King James Version Jozachar): Servant and murderer (with Jehozabad)of Joash, kin...
Chosenspoken of warriors ( Exodus 15:4 ; Judges 20:16 ), of the Hebrew nation ( Psalms 105:43 ; Deuteronomy 7:7 ), of Jerusalem as the seat of the t...
Psalms 18:31 For who [is] God save the Lord? &c.] Or Jehovah: there is but one God, and Jehovah is he; there is none besides him, nor any like him: th...
Revelation 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood Because of the bitter afflictions, sorrows, and distresses which it was the instrument of;...
Acts 15:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord The rebuilder and proprietor of this tabernacle, and who dwells in it; that is, attend hi...
MAANI ma'-a-ni (Maani): (1) the King James Version Meani (1 Esdras 5:31), corresponding to Meunim in Ezra 2:50; Nehemiah 7:52. (2) the Revised Versi...
Hebrews 7:4 Now consider how great this man was Melchizedek, of whom so many great and wonderful things are said in the preceding verses: and as follo...
Romans 4:17 As it is written I have made thee a father of many nations, &c.] The passage referred to, is in ( Genesis 17:4 Genesis 17:5 ) ; which pro...
Numbers 3:27 And of Kohath [was] the family of the Amramites So called from Amram, the first son of Kohath, and father of Aaron and Moses; so that Mos...