Bible Commentaries

Genesis 49:8 — grown lion, and to a nursing lioness, the fiercest of all. Hence a lion was the standard of Judah; compare Numbers 2:3, Ezekiel 1:10. The city of David, where he reposed himself after his conquests, secure in the terror of his name, 1 Chronicles 14:17, was called Ariel, the lion of God, Isaiah 29:1; and our Lord himself, his most illustrious descendant, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, Revelation 5:5."The duration of the power of this famous tribe is next determined: 'the sceptre of dominion,' as

Exodus 12:22 — leprosy, Leviticus 14:4; Leviticus 14:6; Leviticus 14:51-52; in composing the water of purification, Numbers 19:6, and sprinkling it, Numbers 19:18. It was a type of the purifying virtue of the bitter sufferings of Christ. And it is plain, from Psalms 51:7, that the psalmist understood its meaning. Among botanists hyssop is described as "a genus of the gymnospermia (naked-seeded) order, belonging to the didynamia class of plants. It has under-shrubby, low, bushy stalks, growing a foot and a half high,

Exodus 25:1 — kinds of offerings, gold, silver, and brass, 3. Purple, scarlet, fine linen, and goats' hair, 4. Rams' skins, badgers' skins, (rather violet-coloured skins,) and shittim wood, 5. Oil and spices, 6. Onyx stones, and stones for the ephod and breastplate, 7. A sanctuary is to be made after the pattern of the tabernacle, 8, 9. The ark and its dimensions, 10. Its crown of gold, 11. Its rings, 12. Its staves, and their use, 13-15. The testimony to be laid up in the ark, 16. The mercy-seat and its dimensions,

Exodus 29:1 — CHAPTER XXIX Ceremonies to be used in consecrating Aaron and his sons, 1-3. They are to be washed, 4. Aaron is to be clothed with the holy vestments, 5, 6; to be anointed, 7. His sons to be clothed and girded, 8, 9. They are to offer a bullock for a sin-offering, 10-14; and a ram for a burnt-offering, 15-18; and a second ram for a consecration-offering, 19-22. A loaf, a cake, and a wafer or thin cake, for a wave-offering,

Exodus 4:6 — Israelites; hence, when the king of Syria sent his general Naaman, to the king of Israel to cure him of his leprosy, he rent his clothes, saying, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? 2 Kings 5:7. This appears, therefore, to be the reason why God chose this sign, as the instantaneous infliction and removal of this disease were demonstrations which all would allow of the sovereign power of God. We need, therefore, seek for no other reasons for

Psalms 105:45 — into Christ's kingdom.ANALYSIS OF THE HUNDRED AND FIFTH PSALMThe title of this Psalm is Hallelujah, as are also the two following; and the first fifteen verses of it were sung at the bringing up of the ark by David, 1 Chronicles 16:1; 1 Chronicles 16:7-36.The scope of it is the same with the two former Psalms, "that we praise God;" but yet with this difference: in the hundred and third, that he be magnified "for his benefits of redemption;" in the hundred and fourth, "for the manifestation of his

Psalms 14:3 — Señor, ¿qué es el hombre?. La Vulgata, la copia romana de la Septuaginta, la etiópica y la árabe, añaden aquí esos seis versos que cita San Pablo,  Romanos 3:13 . Vea las notas sobre esos pasajes, y vea las observaciones al final de este Salmo. Salmo 14:7 .

Psalms 31:1 — SALMO XXXI El salmista, con gran confianza en Dios, en un tiempo de angustia ora fervientemente por liberación , 1-5. Expresa su aborrecimiento del mal , 6; menciona con agradecimiento anteriores interposiciones de Dios , 7, 8; continúa detallando las miserias de su caso , 9-18; señala los privilegios de los que temen a Dios , 19, 20; muestra que Dios había escuchado sus oraciones, a pesar de que se dio por perdido , 21, 22; llama a los santos a amar a Dios y a tener confianza

Psalms 40:7 — Versículo Salmo 40:7 . En el volumen del libro. במגלת ספר bimegillath sepher, "en el rollo del libro". Antiguamente, los libros se escribían en pieles, y se enrollaban. Entre los romanos, éstos se llamaban volumina, de volvo, rollo; y el Pentateuco en las sinagogas judías

Psalms 61:7 — Versículo Salmo 61:7 . Permanecerá delante de Dios para siempre.  Literalmente, "Se sentará para siempre ante los rostros de Dios". Siempre aparecerá en la presencia de Dios por nosotros. Y se sentará para siempre a la diestra de la Majestad en las alturas; porque asumió

Psalms 66:1 — SALMO LXVI El salmista exhorta a todos a alabar a Dios por las maravillas que ha forjado , 1-4; llama a Israel a considerar sus poderosos actos en favor de sus padres , 5-7; su bondad en favor de ellos , 8-12; decide pagar sus votos a Dios, y ofrecer sus sacrificios prometidos, 13-15; llama a todos a escuchar lo que Dios había hecho por su alma , 15-20. NOTAS SOBRE EL SALMO LXVI El título del salmo no tiene nada de particular.

Numbers 18:1 — XVIII The priests are to bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, 1. The Levites to minister to the priests, and have charge of the tabernacle, 2-4. The priests alone to have the charge of the sanctuary, c., no stranger to come nigh on pain of death, 5-7 The portion allowed for their maintenance, 8. They shall have every meat-offering and they shall eat them in the holy place, 9, 10. The wave-offerings, 11. The first-fruits of the oil, wine, and wheat, and whatever is first ripe, and every devoted thing,

Deuteronomy 11:1 — CHAPTER XI The people are exhorted to obedience from a consideration of God's goodness to their fathers in Egypt, 1-4, and what he did in the wilderness, 5, and the judgment on Dathan and Abiram, 6, and from the mercies of God in general, 7-9. A comparative description of Egypt and Canaan, 19-12. Promises to obedience, 13-15. Dissuasives from idolatry, 16,17. The words of God to be laid up in their hearts, to be for a sign on their hands, foreheads, gates, c., 18, taught to their children,

Deuteronomy 22:1 — CHAPTER XXII Ordinances relative to strayed cattle and lost goods, 1-3. Humanity to oppressed cattle, 4. Men and women shall not wear each other's apparel, 5. No bird shall be taken with her nest of eggs or young ones, 6, 7. Battlements must be made on the roofs of houses, 8. Improper mixtures to be avoided, 9-11. Fringes on the garments, 12. Case of the hated wife, and the tokens of virginity, and the proceedings thereon, 13-21. The adulterer and adulteress to be put

Deuteronomy 4:1 — of God, 2. The people are exhorted to recollect how God had destroyed the ungodly among them, 3; and preserved those who were faithful, 4. The excellence of the Divine law, 5, 6. No nation in the world could boast of any such statutes, judgments, c., 7, 8. They are exhorted to obedience by the wonderful manifestations of God in their behalf, 9-13. Moses exhorts them to beware of idolatry, and to make no likeness of any thing in heaven or earth as an object of adoration, 14-20. He informs them that

Judges 21:1 — They inquire who of Israel had not come to this war, as they had vowed that those who would not make this a common cause should be put to death, 5, 6. They consult how they shall procure wives for the six hundred men who had fled to the rock Rimmon, 7. Finding that the men of Jabesh-gilead had not come to the war, they send twelve thousand men against them, smite them, and bring off four hundred virgins, which they give for wives to those who had taken refuge in Rimmon, 8-14. To provide for the two

1 Samuel 10:1 — company of prophets, the Spirit of the Lord comes on him, and he prophesies among them, 9-13. He meets his uncle, and converses with him, 14-16. Samuel calls the people together to Mizpeh, and upbraids them for having rejected the Lord as their king, 17-19. Lots are cast to find out the person proper to be appointed king; Saul is chosen, 20-24. Samuel shows the manner of the king, and writes it in a book, 25. Saul goes to Gibeah; and certain persons refuse to acknowledge him as king, 26, 27. NOTES

2 Samuel 12:1 — David; which he does by means of a curious parable, 1-4. David is led, unknowingly, to pronounce his on condemnation, 5, 6. Nathan charges the guilt home on his conscience; and predicts a long train of calamities which should fall on him and his family, 7-12. David confesses his sin; and Nathan gives him hope of God's mercy, and foretells the death of the child born in adultery, 13, 14. The child is taken ill; David fasts and prays for its restoration, 15-17. On the seventh day the child dies, and David

2 Samuel 12:7 — Verse 2 Samuel 12:7. Thou art the man. — What a terrible word! And by it David appears to have been transfixed, and brought into the dust before the messenger of God.THOU ART this son of death, and thou shalt restore this lamb FOURFOLD. It is indulging fancy too

2 Samuel 21:1 — account of Saul and his bloody house, who had slain the Gibeonites, 1. David inquires of the Gibeonites what atonement they require, and they answer, seven sons of Saul, that they may hang them up in Gibeah, 2 6. Names of the seven sons thus given up, 7-9. Affecting account of Rizpah, who watched the bodies through the whole of the time of harvest, to prevent them frown being devoured by birds and beasts of prey, 10. David is informed of Rizpah's conduct, and collects the bones of Saul, Jonathan, and