Chapter?23Six years bloody Athaliah had tyrannised; in this chapter we have her deposed and slain, and Joash, the rightful heir, enthroned. We had the...
Chapter?17This chapter contains articles of agreement covenanted and concluded upon between the great Jehovah, the Father of mercies, on the one part,...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. An earnest exhortation to the nation of the Jews to repent and make their peace with God, and so to prevent the j...
Chapter?38This is one of the penitential psalms; it is full of grief and complaint from the beginning to the end. David?s sins and his afflictions are...
Homily XXVI.Homily XXVI. ACTS XII. 1, 2.-Now at that time Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church. And he killed James t...
Chapter?8Job?s friends are like Job?s messengers: the latter followed one another close with evil tidings, the former followed him with harsh censures...
Chapter?1We have here the first alphabet of this lamentation, twenty-two stanzas, in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and her pre...
Chapter?1After the introduction (v.?1) the apostle begins with a thanksgiving to God for the saving benefits bestowed on them (v.?2-5). And then menti...
Chapter?3In this chapter the apostle gives further evidence of his love to the Thessalonians, reminding them of his sending Timothy to them, with the ...
Chapter?45It is a pity that this chapter and the foregoing should be parted, and read asunder. There we had Judah?s intercession for Benjamin, with wh...
Chapter?20We are here returning to the story of Abraham; yet that part of it which is here recorded is not to his honour. The fairest marbles have the...
Chapter?31In the foregoing chapter we had David conquering, yea, more than a conqueror. In this chapter we have Saul conquered and worse than a captiv...
Chapter?31This chapter is an abridgment of the foregoing chapter; the heads of it are much the same. Here is, I. A woe to those who, when the Assyrian...
Chapter?52David, no doubt, was in very great grief when he said to Abiathar (1 Sa.?22:22 ), I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy fath...
Chapter?30This is a psalm of thanksgiving for the great deliverances which God had wrought for David, penned upon occasion of the dedicating of his ho...
Chapter?20The laws which before were made are in this chapter repeated and penalties annexed to them, that those who would not be deterred from sin by...
Chapter?1We have here, I. God?s kindness to Israel, in multiplying them exceedingly (v.?1-7). II. The Egyptians? wickedness to them, 1. Oppressing and...
Chapter?27The last verse of the foregoing chapter seemed to close up the statute-book; yet this chapter is added as an appendix. Having given laws con...
Chapter?13We have here a much fuller account of the reign of Abijah, the son of Rehoboam, than we had in the Kings. There we found that his character ...
Chapter?15Asa and his army were now returning in triumph from the battle, laden with spoils and adorned with the trophies of victory, the pious prince...