Chapter?64This whole psalm has reference to David?s enemies, persecutors, and slanderers; many such there were, and a great deal of trouble they gave ...
Chapter?52David, no doubt, was in very great grief when he said to Abiathar (1 Sa.?22:22 ), I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy fath...
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...
PSALM 121 OVERVIEW. TITLE, ETC. -- This bears no other title than A Song of degrees. It is several steps in advance of its predecessor, for it tells ...
Chapter?7Still the ark is David?s care as well as his joy. In this chapter we have, I. His consultation with Nathan about building a house for it; he ...
Chapter?32We have here Jacob still upon his journey towards Canaan. Never did so many memorable things occur in any march as in this of Jacob?s little...
Chapter?4The good work of rebuilding the temple was no sooner begun than it met with opposition from those that bore ill will to it; the Samaritans we...
Chapter?37Elihu here goes on to extol the wonderful power of God in the meteors and all the changes of the weather: if, in those changes, we submit to...
In our day, the most striking presence upon the Temple Mount is the Islamic Dome of the Rock.Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock 1 The Dome of the...
Homily LIV.Homily LIV. John viii. 31, 32.-Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples ind...
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?50In this chapter, I. Those to whom God sends are justly charged with bringing all the troubles they were in upon themselves, by their own wil...
Homily IX.Homily IX. 2 Timothy iii. 16, 17.-All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,...
Chapter?34Having read how Moses finished his testimony, we are told here how he immediately after finished his life. This chapter could not be written...
Chapter?9The prophet had, in vision, seen the wickedness that was committed at Jerusalem, in the foregoing chapter, and we may be sure that it was not...
Chapter?6Daniel does not give a continued history of the reigns in which he lived, nor of the state-affairs of the kingdoms of Chaldea and Persia, tho...
Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. The answer which God, in a vision, gave to Solomon?s prayer, and the terms he settled with him (v.?1-9). II. The ...
Chapter?13We have here a much fuller account of the reign of Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, than we had in the Kings. There we found that his character ...
Chapter?25 Verse 1 This verse is the title of this latter collection of Solomon?s proverbs, for he sought out and set in order many proverbs, that by...
Chapter?9The design of Moses in this chapter is to convince the people of Israel of their utter unworthiness to receive from God those great favours t...