Overview - Judges 14 1?Samson desires a wife of the Philistines. 6?In his journey he kills a lion. 8?In a second journey he finds honey in the carca...
DR John Gill was born at Kettering, in Northamptonshire, Nov. 23. 0. S. 1697. his parents were Edward Gill and Elizabeth his wife, whose maiden name w...
Overview - Exodus 7 1?Moses and Aaron are encouraged to go again to Pharaoh. 7?Their age. 8?Aaron's rod is turned into a serpent. 11?The sorcerers d...
Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth Which may respect some particular sin, and by the context it seems to be the sin of covetousness, or...
William Charke was fellow of Peter-house, Cambridge, in 1572, where, most probably, he received his education. Cambridge, at this time, was a nest of...
Job 34:5 For Job hath said, I am righteous Not in express words, but what amounted to it: no doubt he was a righteous man in an evangelic sense, being...
Overview - Genesis 38 1?Judah begets Er, Onan, and Shelah. 6?Er's marriage with Tamar, and death. 8?The trespass of Onan. 11?Tamar is reserved for S...
Christopher Love, A.M.?This person was the son of Mr. Christopher Love, born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire, in the year 1618, and educated at New-inn-...
RACHEL'S TOMB (matstsebheth qebhurath rachel): In Genesis 35:20 we read: Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel's gra...
Job 33:16 Then he openeth the ears of men Not the ears of his body, which remaining shut while things are presented to his mind in a dream or vision, ...
Overview - Daniel 9 1?Daniel, considering the time of the captivity, 3?makes confession of sins, 16?and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem. 20?Ga...
Overview - Ezra 2 1?The number that return of the people; 36?of the priests; 40?of the Levites; 43?of the Nethinims; 55?of Solomon's servants; 61?of t...
Overview - Exodus 8 1?Frogs are sent. 8?Pharaoh sues to Moses, who by prayer removes them away. 16?The dust is turned into lice, which the magicians ...
Overview - Deuteronomy 3 1?The conquest of Og, king of Bashan. 11?The size of his bed. 12?The distribution of his lands to the two tribes and half. 23...
Overview - 2?Chronicles 28 1?Ahaz reigning very wickedly, is greatly afflicted by the Syrians. 6?Judah being captivated by the Israelites, is sent ho...
Courteous Reader, AS I was considering with myself, what I had written concerning the progress of the Pilgrim from this world to glory; and how it h...
Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed They have not. But what then? is the God of Israel to be put ...
Hospitality. [N] [T] [B]Hospitality was regarded by most nations of the ancient world as one of the chief virtues. The Jewish laws respecting strange...
Ezekiel 26:7 For thus saith the Lord God What follows; and declares by name the person that should be the instrument of this ruin, and the manner in w...
GOODMAN good'-man ('ish; oikodespotes): The word occurs once in the Old Testament and is a translation of the ordinary word for man, 'ish (Proverbs 7...