Chapter?93This short psalm sets forth the honour of the kingdom of God among men, to his glory, the terror of his enemies, and the comfort of all his ...
He is coming The OT Scriptures predicted a ?coming one? (Deu. Deu. 18:15-18; Ps. Ps. 2:1; Ps. 22:1; Ps. 118:26; Isa. Isa. 9:6; Isa. 48:16; Isa. 53:1;...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Hannah?s song of thanksgiving to God for his favour to her in giving her Samuel (v.?1-10). II. Their return to th...
Chapter?1The foundation of all religion being laid in our relation to God as our Creator, it was fit that the book of divine revelations which was int...
Chapter?33This is a psalm of praise; it is probable that David was the penman of it, but we are not told so, because God would have us look above the ...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Chapter?45Cyrus was nominated, in the foregoing chapter, to be God?s shepherd; more is said to him and more of him in this chapter, not only because h...
Chapter?16Hagar is the person mostly concerned in the story of this chapter, an obscure Egyptian woman, whose name and story we never should have hear...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
Chapter?10We may conjecture that the prophecy of this chapter was delivered after the first captivity, in the time of Jeconiah or Jehoiachin, when man...
Chapter?104It is very probable that this psalm was penned by the same hand, and at the same time, as the former; for as that ended this begins, with B...
Chapter?26The narrative of the death and sufferings of Christ is more particularly and fully recorded by all the four evangelists than any part of his...
Chapter?31This chapter goes on with the good words and comfortable words which we had in the chapter before, for the encouragement of the captives, as...
Chapter?12The apostle (Gal.?4:25, Gal.?4:26 ) distinguishes between Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children???the remaining carcas...
Chapter?9Solomon, in this chapter, for a further proof of the vanity of this world, gives us four observations which he had made upon a survey of the ...
Chapter?13We have not yet met with any things concerning the spreading of the gospel to the Gentiles which bears any proportion to the largeness of th...
Chapter?23In this chapter the prophet, in God?s name, is dealing his reproofs and threatenings, I. Among the careless princes, or pastors of the peopl...
Chapter 17This chapter gives us an account of the captivity of the ten tribes, and so finishes the history of that kingdom, after it had continued abo...
Chapter?3As prophecy had ceased for many ages before the coming of Christ, that the revival and perfection of it in that great prophet might be the mo...
Chapter?8In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s evading the snare which the Jews laid for him, in bringing to him a woman taken in adultery (v.?1-11). I...