Time [N] [T]It is debatable whether the Bible contains enough information to formulate a full-scale doctrine of time; nonetheless, the significance of...
?EXPOSITION Verse 12. God's blessing works wonders for a people. That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth. Our sons are of first import...
INTRODUCTION The Hebrew title of this book is Tehilim (praises or hymns), for a leading feature in its contents is praise, though the word occurs i...
VII.?THE EXILE? Continued. THERE are many echoes of this period of Engedi in the Psalms. Perhaps the most distinctly audible of these are to be found...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 13. The pastures are clothed with flocks. The clothing of man first clothes the fields. Pastures appear to be quite covered with nume...
Psalms 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter What is valuable and excellent, concerning the excellency of Christ's person, of his kingdom, of his lo...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. Happy is that people that is in such a case. Such things are not to be overlooked. Temporal blessings are not trifles, for the m...
?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Now our royal poet multiplies metaphors to extol his God. My goodness, and my fortress. The word for goodness signifies mercy. W...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. My soul, wait thou only upon God. When we have already practised a virtue, it is yet needful that we bind ourselves to a continuan...
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...
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 16 David anointed King over all Israel - Taking of Fort Zion - Philistine Defeat - The Ark brought to Jerusalem - Liturgical arrangements and ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? What a contrast between Jehovah and man! The Psalmist turns from the glorio...
Evil [N]As a prerequisite for any discussion of evil, moral evil must be distinguished from physical or natural evil. This essay uses the term moral e...
Chapter?145The five foregoing psalms were all of a piece, all full of prayers; this, and the five that follow it to the end of the book, are all of a ...
PSALM 18 Psalms 18:1-50 . The servant of the LORD, which in the Hebrew precedes David, is a significant part of the title (and not a mere epi...
PSALMS, BOOK OF samz, (tehillim, praises, cepher tehillim, book of praises; Psalmoi, Psalterion): I. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS 1. Title 2. Place in the C...
?EXPOSITION Verse 160. The sweet singer finishes up this section in the same way as the last by dwelling upon the sureness of the truth of God. It wil...
Chapter?144The four preceding psalms seem to have been penned by David before his accession to the crown, when he was persecuted by Saul; this seems t...
?EXPOSITION Verse 113. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. In this paragraph the Psalmist deals with thoughts and things and persons which ar...