Chapter?29This chapter gives us an account of God?s providences concerning Jacob, pursuant to the promises made to him in the foregoing chapter. I. Ho...
Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. The peaceable times Israel enjoyed under the government of two judges, Tola and Jair (v.?1-5). II. The troubleso...
Chapter 15In this chapter, I. The history of two of the kings of Judah is briefly recorded:?1. Of Azariah, or Uzziah (v. 1-7). Of Jotham his son (v. 3...
Chapter?22This chapter begins the story of the reign of good king Josiah, whose goodness shines the brighter because it came just after so much wicked...
Chapter?35As after a prediction of God?s judgments upon the world (ch4) follows a promise of great mercy to be had in store for his church (ch5), so h...
Chapter?132It is probable that this psalm was penned by Solomon, to be sung at the dedication of the temple which he built according to the charge his...
Chapter?32This psalm, though it speaks not of Christ, as many of the psalms we have hitherto met with have done, has yet a great deal of gospel in it....
Chapter?85Interpreters are generally of the opinion that this psalm was penned after the return of the Jews out of their captivity in Babylon, when th...
Chapter?88This psalm is a lamentation, one of the most melancholy of all the psalms; and it does not conclude, as usually the melancholy psalms do, wi...
Chapter?48In this chapter we have particular directions given for the distribution of the land, of which we had the metes and bounds assigned in the f...
Chapter?45In this chapter is further represented to the prophet, in vision, I. The division of the holy land, so much for the temple, and the priests ...
Chapter?10Moses having, in the foregoing chapter, reminded them of their own sin, as a reason why they should not depend upon their own righteousness,...
Chapter?11With this chapter Moses concludes his preface to the repetition of the statutes and judgments which they must observe to do. He repeats the ...
Chapter?20This chapter settles the militia, and establishes the laws and ordinances of war, I. Relating to the soldiers. 1. Those must be encouraged t...
Chapter?6The first seven verses of this chapter might fitly have been added to the foregoing chapter, being a continuation of the law of the trespass-...
Chapter?7Here is, I. The law of the trespass-offering (v.?1-7), with some further directions concerning the burnt-offering and the meat-offering (v.?8...
Chapter?19This chapter is only concerning the preparing and using of the ashes which were to impregnate the water of purification. The people had comp...
Chapter?24Moses, as mediator between God and Israel, having received divers laws and ordinances from God privately in the three foregoing chapters, in...
Chapter?22The laws of this chapter provide, I. For the preservation of charity and good neighbourship, in the care of strayed or fallen cattle (v.?1-4...
Chapter?24In this chapter we have, I. The toleration of divorce (v.?1-4). II. A discharge of new-married men from the war (v.?5). III. Laws concerning...