Eternal Punishment [N]Divinely instituted penalty of endless suffering, including banishment from God's blessed presence.The Old Testament. A study of...
CHAPTER 12 David at Nob - Observed by Doeg - Flight to Gath - David feigns Madness - The Cave of Adullam - Shelter in Moab - Return to the land of Isr...
CHAPTER 15 The Oppression of Jabin and Sisera - Deborah and Barak - The Battle of Taanach - The Song of Deborah (JUDGES 4, 5) DARKER and darker are ...
Magic [N] [E]The Old Testament. Magicthe attempt to exploit supernatural powers by formulaic recitations to achieve goals that were otherwise unrealiz...
Psalms 22:16 For dogs have compassed me By whom are meant wicked men, as the following clause shows; and so the Chaldee paraphrase renders it, the wic...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight. Sinners are fools written large. A little sin is a great folly, and the greatest of all ...
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...
Flood, the Terminology. The Genesis flood is denoted in the Old Testament by the technical Hebrew term mabbul [lWB;m] (etymology uncertain; perhaps fr...
John Darby commentary for Matthew 22Matthew Chapter 22In chapter 22, their conduct with respect to the invitations of grace is presented in its turn....
Abortion [N]Humankind as God's Unique Image-Bearer. Although only a handful of Old Testament texts, all in Genesis, explicitly portray humankind as Go...
Elder [N] [E] [S]In both the Old and New Testaments, the term elder indicates one of advanced age (Heb. zaqen [eqz]; Gk. presbyteros [presbuvtero]) wh...
Church, the [T] Definition of the Church. The New Testament word for church is ekklesia [ejkklhsiva], which means the called out ones. In classical Gr...
David [B] [E] [H] [S]King of IsraelGenealogy of Ruth 4:18-22 ; 1?Samuel 16:11 ; 17:12 ; 1?Chronicles 2:3-15 ; Matthew 1:1-6 ; Luke 3:31-38 A s...
Demon [E] [S]Spirit being who is unclean and immoral in nature and activities. When demons were created, how they came to be demonic, and their organi...
Discipline [N]The Old Testament Concept of Discipline. The notion of the discipline of God, and eventually the concept of the community and its leader...
Atonement [N] [E]That the Bible's central message is atonement, that is, that God has provided a way for humankind to come back into harmonious relati...
12:1? And he began to speak unto them in parables1. A man2 planted a vineyard3, and set a hedge about it4, and digged a pit for the winepress5, and bu...
2. Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. [Why do they transgress the tradit...
Leadership [N]The Old Testament. In the earliest days of the Old Testament, leadership of the people of God was by the family head or patriarch, to wh...
CHAPTER 19 John 19:1-16 . JESUS BEFORE PILATE--SCOURGED--TREATED WITH OTHER SEVERITIES AND INSULTS--DELIVERED UP, AND LED AWAY TO BE CRUCIFIE...