Fatherhood of God Throughout the Bible we find God portrayed as a Father. This portrayal, however, is surprisingly rare in the Old Testament. There Go...
Hospitality [N] [T] [S]Hospitality plays no small role in the realm of biblical ethics. Biblical admonitions exhorted the Israelites and the early Chr...
Glorification In the Scripture the idea of glorification deals with the ultimate perfection of believers. The word glorification is not used in the He...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. Let the saints be joyful in glory. God has honoured them, and put a rare glory upon them; therefore let them exult therein. Shall...
Fool, Foolishness, Folly TheOld Testament. Several Hebrew words are rendered fool, with nuances ranging all the way from the naive but teachable pers...
Obedience [B]General scriptures concerning Genesis 18:19 ; Exodus 19:5 ; 20:6 ; 24:7 ; Numbers 9:23 ; 14:24 ; Deuteronomy 5:10 ; Joshua 14:6-...
Disease [N]To understand the biblical records concerning illness it is necessary to think oneself back into a world that knew nothing of germs, bacter...
Touch Bringing into bodily contact of one thing with another. The Hebrew naga [[;gn] and Greek hapto [a&ptomai] (-omai) are the main biblical terms fo...
Motives Motives pose at least a twofold dilemma: (1) the status of a good deed done for the wrong reason or an evil deed done with good (or even witho...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. His ways are always grievous. To himself they are hard. Men go a rough road when they go to hell. God has hedged up the way of sin...
Chapter?5The psalm is a prayer, a solemn address to God, at a time when the psalmist was brought into distress by the malice of his enemies. Many such...
Forgiveness [N]Terminology. There are several Hebrew terms equivalent to the English to forgive, as defined below. The three most common are verbs (u...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. I cried unto thee, O Lord. As man would not regard him, David was driven to Jehovah, his God. Was not this a gain made out of a l...
To understand the Campaign of Armageddon, we need to grasp the full sweep of the pattern of rebellion against God which characterizes the history of ...
Thankfulness, Thanksgiving The Old Testament. Early in the Old Testament both the language and the concept of thanksgiving are conspicuous by their ab...
Prayer [N] [B] [E] [S] Commanded Isaiah 55:6 ; Matthew 7:7 ; Philippians 4:6 TO BE OFFERED To God Psalms 5:2 ; Matthew 4:10 To Christ ...
War, Holy War Despite the fact that many nations have used Scripture passages out of context to promote martial ventures, the Old Testament does not g...
177 Job iii. 18. S.M. 1?Lie down, frail body, here; Earth has no fairer bed, No gentler pillow to afford ;? Come, rest thy home-sick head. 2?Li...
Chapter?143This psalm, as those before, is a prayer of David, and full of complaints of the great distress and danger he was in, probably when Saul pe...
The Prophetical Books Prophets were men raised up of God in times of declension and apostasy in Israel. They were primarily revivalists and patriots, ...