SCOURGE; SCOURGING skurj, skur'-jing (@mastix], mastigoo; in Acts 22:25 mastizo, in Mark 15:15 parallel Matthew 27:26 phragelloo): A Roman implement ...
Chapter?19The story is here repeated of David?s war with the Ammonites and the Syrians their allies, and the victories he obtained over them, which we...
Chapter?3The apostle makes an apology for his seeming to commend himself, and is careful not to assume too much to himself, but to ascribe all praise ...
Chapter?13This psalm is the deserted soul?s case and cure. Whether it was penned upon any particular occasion does not appear, but in general, I. Davi...
JOSU? 23DIVISIONES DE P?RRAFO DE LAS TRADUCCIONES MODERNASLBLARVR AntiguaRVR60DHHBJDiscurso de despedida de Josu?23:1-1323:14-16Exhortaci?n de Josu? a...
Chapter?124David penned this psalm (we suppose) upon occasion of some great deliverance which God wrought for him and his people from some very threat...
Chapter 55:1? Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. flying roll A roll, in Scripture symbolism, means the writ...
Chapter?28The former part of this psalm is the prayer of a saint militant and now in distress (v.?1-3), to which is added the doom of God?s implacable...
Chapter?142This psalm is a prayer, the substance of which David offered up to God when he was forced by Saul to take shelter in a cave, and which he a...
Chapter?5This chapter, and part of the next, concern the trespass-offering. The difference between this and the sin-offering lay not so much in the sa...
Chapter?18We have here, I. An angel proclaiming the fall of Babylon (v.?1, v.?2). II. Assigning the reasons of her fall (v.?3). III. Giving warning to...
Chapter?47This chapter reads the Philistines their doom, as the former read the Egyptians theirs and by the same hand, that of Nebuchadnezzar. It is s...
Chapter?4We have here a further account of the furniture of God?s house. I. Those things that were of brass. The altar for burnt-offerings (v.?1), the...
Song of Solomon 1:12 While the King [sitteth] at his table These are the words of the church, relating what influence the presence of Christ, her Lord...
Chapter?61David, in this psalm, as in many others, begins with a sad heart, but concludes with an air of pleasantness?begins with prayers and tears, b...
Chapter?67This psalm relates to the church and is calculated for the public. Here is, I. A prayer for the prosperity of the church of Israel (v.?1). I...
Chapter?112This psalm is composed alphabetically, as the former is, and is (like the former) entitled Hallelujah,?? though it treats of the happiness ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. A threatening of the destruction of Israel for their idolatry, and the destruction of their idols with them (v.?1...
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God In private conversation care should be t...
Necromancy [N]Form of divination in which a person calls upon the dead to receive communication that clarifies knowledge. Ugaritic texts from the midd...