Overview - 2?Kings 18 1?Hezekiah's good reign. 4?He destroys idolatry, and prospers. 9?The inhabitants of Samaria are carried captive for their sins...
Nahum 2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive The Targum translates it the queen; and Jarchi and Aben Ezra, after R. Samuel, take it to be the name o...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 71\\ This psalm is without a title, but is thought to be David's: the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, and all the Ori...
2 Samuel 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men This Joab said, not only to encourage Abishai and himself, but in the hearing of the rest o...
Jeremiah 41:3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, [even] with Gedaliah, at Mizpah Not only those that were at table, but that were in t...
Nahum 1:11 There is [one] come out of thee That is, out of Nineveh, as the Targum explains it; meaning Sennacherib, who had his royal seat and palace ...
Jeremiah 51:5 For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts That is, not totally and finally; for though they migh...
Nehemiah 9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy The same titles Nehemiah gives to th...
Jeremiah 42:1 Then all the captains of the forces Having taken up their residence at the habitation of Chimham, in their way to Egypt, where they were...
Jeremiah 49:12 For thus saith the Lord This that follows shows that what goes before is not said by way of promise and comfort, but threatening: behol...
Jeremiah 49:3 Howl, O Heshbon Which was a city of Moab, though it formerly belonged to the Amorites; see ( Jeremiah 48:2 ) ( Numbers 21:26 ) ; it was ...
Daniel 2:46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel Imagining there was something of divinity in him, that he could so ...
Zephaniah 1:8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice, &c.] When the above sacrifice prepared shall be offered, and the slaughter...
Jeremiah 43:3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us First they charge the prophet with a lie, and deny his mission from the Lord; an...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 106\\ This psalm is without the name of its author, as the Syriac interpreter observes. Aben Ezra, on \\#Ps 106:47\\, says, ...
Acts 2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews The Ethiopic version adds, proselytes; but they were not all such, as appears from the following a...
2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon Which was at this time under the dominion of the king of Assyria; though in a little ti...
2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria Into the land of Israel; he is called by a Jewish chronologer F3...
1 Samuel 4:21 And she named the child Ichabod Which some render, where is the glory? as in the margin of our Bibles; but it signifies no glory, as Jar...
Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread upon him Meaning the Chaldean army, which the Lord raised up, and brought against him, and gave success unto: ...