Bible Commentaries

Genesis 22:2 — but delivered him up for us all, let Abraham feel by experience what it was to lose a beloved son, the son born miraculously when Sarah was past child-bearing, as Jesus was miraculously born of a virgin. The duration, too, of the action, Genesis 22:4, was the same as that between Christ's death and resurrection, both which are designed to be represented in it; and still farther not only the final archetypical sacrifice of the Son of God was figured in the command to offer Isaac, but the intermediate

Genesis 4:7 — Verse Genesis 4:7. If thou doest well — That which is right in the sight of God, shalt thou not be accepted? Does God reject any man who serves him in simplicity and godly sincerity? But if thou doest not well, can wrath and indignation against thy righteous

1 Kings 1:1 — Scaliger, Langius, and Strauchius. He was the thirty-seventh monarch, (including Belus,) according to Africanus, and the thirty-third according to Eusebius. -Year of Alba Silvius, the sixth king of the Latins, 15. -Year of David, king of the Hebrews, 40. CHAPTER I David, grown old, is, by the advice of his physicians, cherished by Abishag the Shunummite, 1-4. Adonijah conspires with Joab and Abiathar to seize on the government, 5-10. Nathan and Bathsheba communicate these tidings to the aged king,

Psalms 123:4 — Verse Psalms 123:4. Those that are at ease — The Babylonians, who, having subdued all the people of the neighbouring nations, lived at ease, had none to contend with them, and now became luxurious, indolent, and insolent: they were contemptuous and proud.ANALYSIS

Psalms 5:1 — PSALM V David continues instant in prayer, 1, 2; makes early application to God, 3; and shows the hatred which God bears to the workers of iniquity, 4-6. His determination to worship God, and to implore direction and support, 7, 8. He points out the wickedness of his enemies, 9, and the destruction they may expect, 10; and then shows the happiness of those who trust in the Lord, 11, 12. NOTES ON

Psalms 74:4 — Verse Psalms 74:4. Thine enemies roar — Thy people, who were formerly a distinct and separate people, and who would not even touch a Gentile, are now obliged to mingle with the most profane. Their boisterous mirth, their cruel mockings, their insulting commands,

Proverbs 30:29 — Verse Proverbs 30:29. There be three things which go well — Here is another set of emblems; four things which walk beautifully and with majesty. 1. The Lamentations 2:0; Lamentations 2:0. The greyhound. 3. The he-goat. And, 4. A king.1. Nothing can be more majestic than the walk of the lion. It is deliberate, equal, firm, and in every respect becoming the king of the forest.2. The greyhound. זרזיר מתנים zarzir mothnayim, the girt in the loins; but what this beast is we do

Proverbs 30:29 — Versículo Proverbios 30:29 . Hay tres cosas que van bien. Aquí hay otro conjunto de emblemas; cuatro cosas que caminan con hermosura y majestad . 1. Las langostas. 2. El ceñido de lomos.  3. El macho cabrío . Y, 4. Un rey . 1. Nada puede ser más majestuoso que el andar del león . Es deliberado, igualitario, firme y, en todos los aspectos, se convierte en el rey del bosque. 2. El galgo . זרזיר מתנים zarzir mothnayim, el ceñido en los lomos ; pero qué es esta

Leviticus 12:4 — Verse Leviticus 12:4. The blood of her purifying — A few words will make this subject sufficiently plain.1. God designs that the human female should bring forth children.2. That children should derive, under his providence, their being, all their solids and all their

Song of Solomon 4:8 — Verse Song of Solomon 4:8. My spouse. — The כלה callah which we translate spouse, seems to have a peculiar meaning. Mr. Harmer thinks the Jewish princess is intended by it; and this seems to receive confirmation from the bridegroom calling her sister, Song of Solomon

Jeremiah 17:1 — CHAPTER XVII This chapter begins with setting forth the very strong bias which the people of Judah had to idolatry, with the fatal consequences, 1-4. The happiness of the man that trusted in Jehovah is then beautifully contrasted with the opposite character, 5-8. God alone knows the deceitfulness and wretchedness of the heart of man, 9, 10. The comparison of a bird's hatching the eggs of another

Jeremiah 17:1 — CAPÍTULO XVII Este capítulo comienza con la exposición de la muy fuerte inclinación que el pueblo de Judá tenía hacia la idolatría, con las fatales consecuencias, 1-4. La felicidad entonces era solo del hombre que confiaba en  Jehová, 5-8. Sólo Dios conoce el engaño y la miseria del corazón del hombre, 9, 10. La comparación de un pájaro que empolla los huevos de otro de una especie diferente, que pronto lo abandonará,

Ezekiel 18:1 — XVIII The Jews, in Ezekiel's time, complained of God's dealing hardly with them in punishing them for the sins of their forefathers, 1, 2; their temporal calamities having been long threatened as the consequence of the national guilt, (Jeremiah 15:4, c.) and, from the general complexion of this chapter, it appears that the Jews so interpreted the second commandment of the Decalogue and other passages of like import, as if the sins of the forefathers were visited upon the children, independently

Daniel 7:7 — extent of dominion, and length of duration.It had ten horns — The ten kingdoms into which the Roman empire was afterwards divided. Calmet says, ten Syrian kings: and he finds them thus: -1. Seleucus Nicator.2. Antiochus Soter.3. Antiochus Theos.4. Antiochus Callinicus.5. Seleucus Ceraunus.6. Antiochus the Great.7. Seleucus, surnamed Philopater, brother of Antiochus Epiphanes.8. Laomedon of Mitylene, to whom Syria and Phoenicia had been intrusted.9. Antigone. And,10. His son Demetrius, who possessed

Hosea 8:1 — in short and broken sentences, full of rapidity, and expressive of sudden danger and alarm: "The trumpet to thy mouth; he cometh as an eagle," 1. And why? For their hypocrisy, 2; iniquity, 3; treason (see 2 Kings 15:13; 2 Kings 15:17) and idolatry, 4; particularly the worshipping of the calves of Dan and Bethel, 5, 6. The folly and unprofitableness of pursuing evil courses is then set forth in brief but very emphatic terms. The labour of the wicked is vain, like sowing of the wind; and the fruit

Zechariah 1:21 — secretly, or in silence; hence applied as a noun to an artificer of any kind, and to any work which disposes to silent attention. Thus, to potters' ware, Leviticus 6:28; Job 2:8; and in many other places. So also to ploughing, Deuteronomy 22:10; Proverbs 20:4, which requires constant attention to make 'the right-lined furrow.' Let it be remembered that in ancient times such works were more esteemed than the useless ones we have learned to admire. So again, in Genesis 24:21, and elsewhere, it implies to be

Deuteronomy 6:13 — Verse Deuteronomy 6:13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God — Thou shalt respect and reverence him as thy Lawgiver and Judge; as thy Creator, Preserver, and the sole object of thy religious adoration.And serve him — Our blessed Lord, in Matthew 4:10; Luke 4:8, quotes these words thus: And him ONLY (αυτω μονω) shalt thou serve. It appears, therefore, that לבדו lebaddo was anciently in the Hebrew text, as it was and is in the SEPTUAGINT, (αυτωμονω,) from which our Lord quoted it. The COPTIC preserves

Romans 10:18 — within the reach of all those who sojourn in the different Gentile countries where we have preached the Gospel, as well to the Jews as to the Gentiles themselves? Yes: for we may say of the preaching of the Gospel what the psalmist has said (Psalms 19:4) of the heavenly bodies: Their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. As the celestial luminaries have given testimony of the eternal power and Godhead of the Deity to the habitable world, the Gospel of Christ has

Hebrews 1:7 — Maker, for he was made in the image and likeness of God; but of the angels, even the highest order of them, this is never spoken. It is very likely that the apostle refers here to the opinions of the Jews relative to the angels. In Pirkey R. Elieser, c. 4, it is said: "The angels which were created the second day, when they minister before God, נעשין של אש become fire." In Shemoth Rabba, s. 25, fol. 123, it is said: "God is named the Lord of hosts, because with his angels he doth whatsoever he wills:

Hebrews 4:3 — Verse Hebrews 4:3. For we which have believed do enter into rest — The great spiritual blessings, the forerunners of eternal glory, which were all typified by that earthly rest or felicity promised to the ancient Israelites, we Christians do, by believing in