Chapter 55:4? For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. world kosmos = wo...
ABSALOM (2) (Apocrypha) (Codex Vaticanus, Abessalomos and Abessalom; Codex Alexandrinus, Absalomos, the King James Version Absalon): Father of Mattat...
JUDAS joo'-das (Ioudas; Greek form of Hebrew Judah): (1) A Levite mentioned in 1 Esdras 9:23 = JUDAH (3). (2) Judas Maccabeus, 3rd son of Mattathias...
We call blessed (makarizomen). Old word (present active indicative of makarizw), from makario (happy), in N.T. only here and Luke 1:48 . We felicita...
Proverbs 9:14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, &e.] Idle and inactive, looking out for her prey; not active and laborious, as Wisdom, buildin...
Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth Which include the whole of a man's substance; all his estate, personal and r...
Chapter 5151:1? Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressi...
Psalms 46:3 [Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled The noise of which causes men's hearts to fail them for fear, ( Luke 21:25 Luke 21:26 ...
Ecclesiastes 9:8 Let thy garments be always white That is, neat and clean, not vile and sordid; what is comely and decent, and suitable to a man's cir...
Chapter?47The scope of this psalm is to stir us up to praise God, to stir up all people to do so; and, I. We are directed in what manner to do it, pub...
Chapter?27Here is a very short account of the reign of Jotham, a pious prosperous prince, of whom one would wish to have known more: but we may better...
Chapter?20This short chapter is concerning the cities of refuge, which we often read of in the writings of Moses, but this is the last time that we fi...
Chapter?114The deliverance of Israel out of Egypt gave birth to their church and nation, which were then founded, then formed; that work of wonder oug...
Chapter?9In this chapter the apostle seems to excuse his earnestness in pressing the Corinthians to the duty of charity (v.?1-5), and proceeds to give...
Chapter?25David, having settled the courses of these Levites that were to attend the priests in their ministrations, proceeds, in this chapter, to put...
Chapter?7Relief is here brought to Samaria and her king, when the case is, in a manner, desperate, and the king despairing. I. It is foretold by Elish...
Chapter?18Whatever country it is that is meant here by the land shadowing with wings,?? here is a woe denounced against it, for God has, upon his peop...
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...
Chapter?92It is a groundless opinion of some of the Jewish writers (who are usually free of their conjectures) that this psalm was penned and sung by ...
Song of Solomon 1:17 The beams of our house [are] cedar Or houses F11; where their bed was, and where they had fellowship and communion together. By w...