Chapter?140This and the four following psalms are much of a piece, and the scope of them the same with many that we met with in the beginning and midd...
Chapter?141David was in distress when he penned this psalm, pursued, it is most likely, by Saul, that violent man. Is any distressed? Let him pray; Da...
Chapter?27David was a man after God?s own heart, and yet he had his faults, which are recorded, not for our imitation, but for our admonition; witness...
Chapter?11Jerusalem was walled round, but it was not as yet fully inhabited, and therefore was weak and despicable. Nehemiah?s next care is to bring p...
Chapter?22Out of the eater comes forth meat.?? It was upon occasion of the terrible judgment inflicted on Israel for the sin of David that God gave in...
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth Or Creators F2; as Makers, ( Job 35:10 ) ( Psalms 149:2 ) ( Isaiah 54:5 ) ; for mo...
DERBE dur'-be (Derbe, Acts 14:20,21; 16:1; Derbaios, 20:4; Derbetes, Strabo, Cicero): A city in the extreme Southeast corner of the Lycaonian plain i...
COURT OF THE SANCTUARY; TABERNACLE; TEMPLE kort, sank'~-tu-a-ri: By court (chatser) is meant a clear space enclosed by curtains or walls, or surround...
Leaven [T] [E] [S]In the New Testament the noun for leaven is zume [zuvmh] and the verb for to leaven is zumoo [zumovw]. The noun occurs eleven times,...
Chapter?5It is now time to enquire what has become of the ark of God; we cannot but think that we shall hear more of that sacred treasure. I should ha...
Chapter?13Those that desired a king like all the nations fancied that, when they had one, they should look very great and considerable; but in this ch...
Chapter?56It seems by this, and many other psalms, that even in times of the greatest trouble and distress David never hung his harp upon the willow-t...
Chapter?77This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. The com...
Chapter?95For the expounding of this psalm we may borrow a great deal of light from the apostle?s discourse, Heb.?3, and 4, where it appears both to ...
Chapter?7Ezra?s precious name saluted us, at first, in the title of the book, but in the history we have not met with it till this chapter introduces ...
Chapter?2We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of...
Chapter?7This chapter begins with an exhortation to progressive holiness and a due regard to the ministers of the gospel (v.?1-4). Then the apostle re...
Chapter?8In this chapter the apostle pursues his former subject, the priesthood of Christ. And, I. He sums up what he had already said (v.?1, v.?2). I...
Chapter?10There was no place in which the apostle Paul met with more opposition from false apostles than at Corinth; he had many enemies there. Let no...
Chapter?14After an account of the great trials and sufferings which the servants of God had endured, we have now a more pleasant scene opening; the da...