Overview - Mark 10 1?Christ disputes with the Pharisees touching divorcement: 13?blesses the children that are brought unto him; 17?resolves a rich ma...
Esther 9:13 Then said Esther, if it please the king For she was all submission to his will: let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan; for n...
Had been instructed in the way of the Lord (hn kathchmeno thn odon tou kuriou). Periphrastic past perfect passive of kathcew, rare in the old Greek a...
1 Samuel 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue That is, in his family, nor in his tribe, but be removed to another: the Lord hath sought him a...
BEAR bar (dobh; compare Arabic dubb): In 1?Samuel 17:34-37, David tells Saul how as a shepherd boy he had overcome a lion and a bear. In 2?Kings 2:2...
ApparelIn Old Testament times the distinction between male and female attire was not very marked. The statute forbidding men to wear female apparel ( ...
Poor. [N] [E]The general kindly spirit of the law toward the poor is sufficiently shown by such passages as ( 15:7 ) for the reason that (ver. 11) t...
?EXPOSITION Verse 13. To him which divided the Red sea into parts. He made a road across the sea bottom, causing the divided waters to stand like wall...
Passover [B] [E] [S]Institution of Exodus 12:3-49 ; 23:15-18 ; 34:18 ; Leviticus 23:4-8 ; Numbers 9:2-5 Numbers 9:13 Numbers 9:14 ; 28:16-25 ...
RETAIN re-tan': Several Hebrew words are thus translated: chazaq, to hold fast (Judges 7:8; 19:4; Job 2:9 the King James Version (the Revised Version...
Overview - Jeremiah 34 1?Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah and the city. 8?The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servant...
Patience (upomenh). Endurance as in Isaiah 13:10 ; Isaiah 14:12 as also in 2?Thessalonians 3:5 . Thou didst keep (ethrhsa) --I also will keep (ka...
GIANTS ji'-ants The word appears in the King James Version as the translation of the Hebrew words nephilim (Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33); repha'im (Deu...
RESPECT OF PERSONS re-spekt': The phrase nasa' phanim, means literally, lift up the face, and, among other translations, is rendered indifferently ac...
Overview - Jeremiah 7 1?Jeremiah is sent to call to true repentance, to prevent the Jews' captivity. 8?He rejects their vain confidence, 12?by the ex...
Was taken (epiasqh). First aorist (prophetic) passive indicative of the Doric piazw (Attic piezw). Cf. 2?Thessalonians 2:8 . The false prophet (o ps...
HYPOCRISY; HYPROCRITE hi-pok'-ri-si, hip'-o-krit (choneph, chaneph; hupokrisis, hupokrites): (1) Hypocrisy occurs only once in the Old Testament as t...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 13Chapter Overview: Saul and Jonathan's life - guard, ver. 1, 2. Jonathan smites a garrison, and the people are called t...
Chapter 77:1? And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind s...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 148\\ This psalm seems to have been written about the same time, and by the same person, as the preceding; even by the psalm...