Psalms, Theology of The Book of Psalms is a sizable collection of musical poems and prayers of diverse authorship and form. Psalms are independent lit...
THE SONG OF DEGREES OR THE GRADUAL PSALMS. This little psalter within the psalter consists of fifteen brief songs. Why they are grouped together and...
CHAPTER VII. Reading and Studying?At Family Prayers?A Word, in Season?Helpful Questions. MERELY reading the Bible is not what God wants. There is n...
?EXPOSITION Verse 12. They, that is the angels, God's own angels, shall cheerfully become our servants. They shall bear thee up in their hands; as nur...
?EXPOSITION Verse 13. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder. Over force and fraud shalt thou march victoriously; bold opponents and treacherous adv...
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...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. His affliction had now lasted so long that he could hardly remember when it co...
Punishment of the wicked, the Is from God Leviticus 26:18 ; Isaiah 13:11 ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR Sin Lamentations 3:39 Iniquity Jeremiah 36...
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law In the law which was given unto them, of which they boasted, and pretended to understand...
Life [N] [E]God (Yahweh) as the Source and Sustainer of Life. According to Genesis 2:7, the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and br...
?EXPOSITION Verse 7. A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand. So terribly may the plague rage among men that the bills of...
Widow [N] [S]Married woman whose husband has died and who remains unmarried. The Hebrew word translated widow is almana [hn'm.l; ], and it occurs fift...
Lawlessness The Old Testament. The concept of lawlessness comes to expression frequently in the Old Testament through more than twenty Hebrew terms (a...
Flesh [N] [E] [S]The range of meanings borne by this term in the Bible starts from the literal use denoting the material of which the human body is ch...
Age, Ages The Greek aion [aijwvn] in the Septuagint and New Testament corresponds to the Hebrew olam ['l/[] of the Old Testament. Both words usually d...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 26. My flesh and my heart faileth. They had failed him already, and he had almost fallen; they would fail him in the hour of death, a...
?EXPOSITION Verse 9. Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies. Many foes beset us, we cannot overcome them, we cannot even escape from them; but Jehovah ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 89. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. The strain is more joyful, for experience has given the sweet singer a comforta...
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 ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 11. For he shall give his angels charge over thee. Not one guardian angel, as some fondly dream, but all the angels are here alluded...