In the previous chapter, the future looked very bleak for the saints. The Beast arose from the sea, empowered by the dragon, and was given authority o...
overcomes See. Who is the Overcomer? I will make him a pillar in the temple Some have seen this as an allusion to the pillars in Solomon?s Temple. 1K....
Chapter?112This psalm is composed alphabetically, as the former is, and is (like the former) entitled Hallelujah,?? though it treats of the happiness ...
Chapter?2We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of...
Chapter?13This psalm is the deserted soul?s case and cure. Whether it was penned upon any particular occasion does not appear, but in general, I. Davi...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have some account of the genealogies, I. Of Issachar (v.?1-5). II. Of Benjamin (v.?6-12). III. Of Naphtali (v.?13). IV. Of...
Chapter?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a gracious promise of deliverance in Mount Zion and Jerusalem; now this whole chapter is a comme...
Chapter?9In this psalm, I. David praises God for pleading his cause, and giving him victory over his enemies and the enemies of his country (v.?1-6), ...
Chapter?3Solomon having shown the vanity of studies, pleasures, and business, and made it to appear that happiness is not to be found in the schools o...
Chapter?33Yet Moses has not done with the children of Israel; he seemed to have taken final leave of them in the close of the foregoing chapter, but s...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter?6Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially...
Chapter?15In this chapter we have a solemn treaty between God and Abram concerning a covenant that was to be established between them. In the former c...
Chapter?54The death of Christ is the life of the church and of all that truly belong to it; and therefore very fitly, after the prophet had foretold t...
Chapter?4We have here proper instructions given us (very proper to close the canon of the Old Testament with), I. Concerning the state of recompence a...
Chapter?29 Verse 1 Here, 1. The obstinacy of many wicked people in a wicked way is to be greatly lamented. They are often reproved by parents and frie...
Chapter?25The law of this chapter concerns the lands and estates of the Israelites in Canaan, the occupying and transferring of which were to be under...
Chapter?14 Verse 1 Note, 1. A good wife is a great blessing to a family. By a fruitful wife a family is multiplied and replenished with children, and ...
Chapter 1This is the shortest of all the books of the Old Testament, the least of those tribes, and yet is not to be passed by, or thought meanly of, ...
Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. The peaceable times Israel enjoyed under the government of two judges, Tola and Jair (v.?1-5). II. The troubleso...