Chapter?1This book begins with the laws concerning sacrifices, of which the most ancient were the burnt-offerings, about which God gives Moses instruc...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. The eclipsing of the glory of the ark, by its privacy in Kirjath-jearim for many years (v.?1, v.?2). II. The appe...
Chapter?8David having sought first the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, settling the ark as soon as he was himself well settled, we are h...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. A threatening of the destruction of Israel for their idolatry, and the destruction of their idols with them (v.?1...
OF THE OBJECT OF WORSHIP. TWO things are to be observed and considered,?That the Lord God is the object of worship,?that he alone is the object of w...
PALESTINE, 3 IV. Palestine in the Poetic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Job: In Job the scene is distinctively Edomite. Uz (Job 1:1; compare...
Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before That is, that went before Christ; accordingly the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, and ...
Chapter?6Much ado there was to bring Moses to his work, and when the ice was broken, some difficulty having occurred in carrying it on, there was no l...
Chapter?24In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a general prediction of the utter ruin of Jerusalem, that it should be forsaken and forgotten, ...
Chapter?4This chapter is concerning the sin-offering, which was properly intended to make atonement for a sin committed through ignorance, I. By the p...
Chapter?13In this chapter we have, I. The commands God gave to Israel, 1. To sanctify all their firstborn to him (v.?1, v.?2). To be sure to remember ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have the return of the ark to the land of Israel, whither we are now gladly to attend it, and observe, I. How the Philisti...
Chapter?50This psalm, as the former, is a psalm of instruction, not of prayer or praise; it is a psalm of reproof and admonition, in singing which we ...
Chapter?3Still the correspondence is kept up between God and his prophet. In the first chapter he spoke to God, then God to him, and then he to God ag...
Chapter?56After the exceedingly great and precious promises of gospel grace, typified by temporal deliverances, which we had in the foregoing chapter,...
Chapter?32In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition ...
Chapter?28We have here, I. Jacob parting with his parents, to go to Padanaram; the charge his father gave him (v.?1, v.?2), the blessing he sent him a...
Chapter?110This psalm is pure gospel; it is only, and wholly, concerning Christ, the Messiah promised to the fathers and expected by them. It is plain...
Chapter?12In the foregoing chapter we had the vexation which the people gave to Moses; in this we have his patience tried by his own relations. I. Mir...
Chapter?30One would have thought that the threatenings in the close of the foregoing chapter had made a full end of the people of Israel, and had left...