Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
PSALM 9 OVERVIEW Title. To the Chief Musician upon Muth-labben, a Psalm of David. The meaning of this title is very doubtful. It may refer to the tune...
Fear [N]Of some ten Hebrew nouns and eight verbs that are regularly translated fear, to fear, to be afraid, and the like, only one of each is commo...
Hypocrisy [N]Although no distinct Hebrew word for hypocrisy occurs in the Old Testament, the concept doesprimarily in terms of insincere worship. The ...
PSALM 48 Psalms 48:1-14 . This is a spirited Psalm and song (compare Psalms 30:1 ), having probably been suggested by the same occasion as t...
PSALM 63 Psalms 63:1-11 . The historical occasion referred to by the title was probably during Absalom's rebellion (compare 2 Samuel 15:23 ...
PSALM 86 Psalms 86:1-17 . This is a prayer in which the writer, with deep emotion, mingles petitions and praises, now urgent for help, and no...
PSALM 57 Psalms 57:1-11 . Altaschith--or, Destroy not. This is perhaps an enigmatical allusion to the critical circumstances connected with t...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 9. And all men shall fear. They shall be filled with awe by the just judgments of God, as the Canaanites were by the overthrow of Pha...
PSALM 25 Psalms 25:1-22 . The general tone of this Psalm is that of prayer for help from enemies. Distress, however, exciting a sense of sin,...
PSALM 26 OVERVIEW Title. A Psalm of David. The sweet singer of Israel appears before us in this Psalm as one enduring reproach; in this he was the typ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 16. With long life will I satisfy him. The man described in this Psalm fills out the measure of his days, and whether he dies young ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 10. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing. It had become his daily occupation to mourn; he spent all his days in...
PSALM 92 Psalms 92:1-15 . should be praised for His righteous judgments on the wicked and His care and defense of His people. Such a topic, a...
?EXPOSITION Verse 10. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. May they have neither house nor home, settlement nor substance; and while th...
Humility [N] [T] [E]Biblical humility is grounded in the character of God. The Father stoops down to help the poor and needy ( Psalm 113:4-9 ; 138:6-...
Hades [N] [E] [S]Greek term widely used to denote the deity of the underworld and the abode of the dead. The New Testament use of Hades (hades [a&/dh...
?EXPOSITION Verse 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, in abundance, and apparent strength, hastening on their progress like verdant plants, which ...
PSALM 9 Psalms 9:1-20 . Upon Muthlabben, or, after the manner according to death to the Son, by which some song was known, to whose air or me...
PSALM 31 Psalms 31:1-24 . The prayer of a believer in time of deep distress. In the first part, cries for help are mingled with expressions o...