Chapter?9We left two royal edicts in force, both given at the court of Shushan, one bearing date the thirteenth day of the first month, appointing tha...
Chapter?106We must give glory to God by making confession, not only of his goodness but our own badness, which serve as foils to each other. Our badne...
Chapter?13In this chapter we have, I. The commands God gave to Israel, 1. To sanctify all their firstborn to him (v.?1, v.?2). To be sure to remember ...
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?44We are not told either who was the penman of this psalm or when and upon what occasion it was penned, upon a melancholy occasion, we are sur...
CHAPTER 6. REDEMPTION FOR MAN LOST TO BE SOUGHT IN CHRIST. The parts of this chapter are, I. The excellence of the doctrine of Christ the Redeemer--a...
Chapter?38In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job?s friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he t...
Chapter?17In this chapter, I. God convicts the Jews of the sin of idolatry by the notorious evidence of the fact, and condemns them to captivity for i...
Chapter?28In the foregoing chapters, we saw the Captain of our salvation engaged with the powers of darkness, attacked by them, and vigorously attacki...
Chapter?20This chapter is the history of a war between Ben-hadad king of Syria and Ahab king of Israel, in which Ahab was, once and again, victorious....
CHAPTER 1 Haggai 1:1-15 . HAGGAI CALLS THE PEOPLE TO CONSIDER THEIR WAYS IN NEGLECTING TO BUILD GOD'S HOUSE: THE EVIL OF THIS NEGLECT TO THEM...
Chapter?17 Verse 1 These words recommend family-love and peace, as conducing very much to the comfort of human life. 1. Those that live in unity and q...
Chapter?57The prophet, in this chapter, makes his observations, I. Upon the deaths of good men, comforting those that were taken away in their integri...
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?9At this chapter begins another sermon, which is continued to the end of ch. 11. It is called, The burden of the word of the Lord,?? for every...
Chapter?78This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked hi...
Chapter?13There are three good lessons taught us in this chapter, where the apostle enlarges more upon his precepts than he had done in the foregoing ...
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?79This psalm, if penned with any particular event in view, is with most probability made to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temp...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth. Upon consideration, the psalmist finds little room to bewail the length of life,...