When the New Testament opens, we find John the Baptist preaching, Mat. 3:2) [emphasis added]. Later, when John was imprisoned, Jesus too preached, ?t...
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...
TAKE tak: Most of the very numerous examples of this word are still in good use and only a few call for special attention. To take in the sense of ca...
Chapter?92It is a groundless opinion of some of the Jewish writers (who are usually free of their conjectures) that this psalm was penned and sung by ...
Chapter?46God, by the prophet here, designing shortly to deliver them out of their captivity, prepared them for that deliverance by possessing them wi...
Music [T] [E] [S]Teachers of 1?Chronicles 15:22 ; 1 Chronicles 25:7 1 Chronicles 25:8 ; 2?Chronicles 23:13 Physical effect of, on man 1 Samuel ...
Chapter?10We have in this chapter an account of the conquest of the kings and kingdoms of the southern part of the land of Canaan, as, in the next cha...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Another vision which the prophet saw, not for his own entertainment, but for his satisfaction and the edification...
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...
Praise [N] [B] God is worthy of 2?Samuel 22:4 Christ is worthy of Revelation 5:12 God is glorified by Psalms 22:23 ; 50:23 Offered to Chr...
Chapter?84Though David?s name be not in the title of this psalm, yet we have reason to think he was the penman of it, because it breathes so much of h...
Chapter 22:3? And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. sanct...
Chapter?5The temple being built and furnished for God, we have here, I. Possession given to him, by bringing in the dedicated things (v.?1), but espec...
Chapter?130This psalm relates not to any temporal concern, either personal or public, but it is wholly taken up with the affairs of the soul. It is re...
Chapter?1In this chapter, after the title of the book (v.?1), we have Christ and his church, Christ and a believer, expressing their esteem for each o...
JOY joi (simchah; chara): 1. Terms: The idea of joy is expressed in the Old Testament by a wealth of synonymous terms that cannot easily be differen...
Chapter 11:4? And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Fath...
TRUMPETS, FEAST OF 1. Description: In Leviticus 23:23-25 the first day (new moon) of the seventh month is set apart as a solemn rest, a memorial of b...
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...
IV. THE NATURAL CONDITION. Nil dignius est anima, nil exccllentius bac tinica cognitione, quaro qui perfectam haberet Deo similis esset, imo Deus i...