Bible Commentaries

Genesis 48:1 — hearing that his father was near death, took his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, and went to Goshen, to visit him, 1. Jacob strengthens himself to receive them, 2. Gives Joseph an account of God's appearing to him at Luz, and repeating the promise, 3, 4. Adopts Ephraim and Manasseh as his own sons, 5, 6. Mentions the death of Rachel at Ephrath, 7. He blesses Ephraim and Manasseh, preferring the former, who was the younger, to his elder brother, 8-17. Joseph, supposing his father had mistaken in giving

Exodus 32:33 — through ignorance, I have given you my law, and thus published my covenant; the people themselves have acknowledged its justice and equity, and have voluntarily ratified it. He then that sins against me, (for sin is the transgression of the law, 1 John 3:4, and the law must be published and known that it may be binding,) him will I blot out of my book." And is it not remarkable that to these conditions of the covenant God strictly adhered, so that not one soul of these transgressors ever entered into

2 Kings 15:1 — CAPÍTULO XV Azarías comienza a reinar sobre Judá, y actúa bien, pero  no quita los lugares altos, 1-4. Se leprosa y muere, después de haber reinado cincuenta y dos años,  y Jotam, su hijo, reina en su lugar, 5-7. Zacarías reina sobre Israel, y actúa con maldad; y Salum conspira contra él y lo mata, después de haber reinado seis meses, 8-12. Salum reina

1 Chronicles 4:9 — Versículo 1 Crónicas 4:9 . Y Jabes fue más honorable.   Algunas de las principales versiones interpretan este relato de forma diferente. Adjuntaré una traducción de cada una de ellas. SEPTUAGINTA. - "E Igabes era más glorioso que sus hermanos; y su madre le puso por nombre

Psalms 64:10 — Versículo Salmo 64:10 . Los justos se alegrarán. Verán que Dios no abandona a sus seguidores a la malicia de los hombres malos. La vara de los malvados puede entrar en la herencia de los justos; pero allí no descansará. Calmet cree que se trata de una predicción de la

Leviticus 19:1 — CHAPTER XIX Exhortations to holiness, and a repetition of various laws, 1, 2 Duty to parents, and observance of the Sabbath, 3. Against idolatry, 4. Concerning peace-offerings, 5-8. The gleanings of the harvest and vintage to be left for the poor, 9, 10. Against stealing and lying, 11; false swearing, 12; defrauding the hireling, 13. Laws in behalf of the deaf and the blind, 14. Against respect

Leviticus 21:1 — CHAPTER XXI The priests shall not mourn for the dead, except for near relatives, such as mother, father, son, daughter, and sister if a virgin, 1-4. They shall not shave their heads nor beards, nor make any cuttings in the flesh, because they are holy unto God, 5, 6. A priest shall not marry a woman who is a whore, profane, or divorced from her husband, 7, 8. Of the priest's daughter who profanes

Leviticus 4:27 — Verso Levítico 4:27. La gente común.  עם הארץ soy haarets, la gente de la tierra , es decir, cualquier individuo que no fuera un sacerdote , rey , o gobernante entre la gente; cualquiera de los pobres u ordinarios. Cualquiera de ellos, habiendo transgredido

Leviticus 5:1 — CHAPTER V Concerning witnesses who, being adjured, refuse to tell the truth, 1. Of those who contract defilement by touching unclean things or persons, 2, 3. Of those who bind themselves by vows or oaths, and do not fulfil them, 4, 5. The trespass-offering prescribed in such cases, a lamb or a kid, 6; a turtle-dove or two young pigeons, 7-10; or an ephah of fine flour with oil and frankincense, 11-13. Other laws relative to trespasses, through ignorance in holy things, 14-16.

Leviticus 9:1 — CHAPTER IX Aaron is commanded to offer, on the eighth day, a sin-offering and a burnt-offering, 1, 2. The people are commanded also to offer a sin-offering, a burnt-offering, peace-offerings, and a meat-offering, 3, 4. They do as they were commanded; and Moses promises that God shall appear among them, 5, 6. Aaron is commanded to make an atonement for the people, 7. He and his sons prepare and offer the different sacrifices, 8-21. Aaron and Moses bless the congregation,

Numbers 1:2 — posterity.2. That they might observe due order in their march toward the promised land.3. That the tribes and families might be properly distinguished; that all litigations concerning property, inheritance, c., might, in all future times, be prevented.4. That the promise concerning the Messiah might be known to have its due accomplishment, when in the fulness of time God should send him from the seed of Abraham through the house of David. And,5. That they might know their strength for war for although

Numbers 15:1 — CHAPTER XV Directions concerning the different offerings they should bring unto the Lord when they should come to the land of Canaan, 1-3. Directions relative to the meat-offering, 4; to the drink-offering, 5. Of the burnt-offering, vow-offering, peace-offering, drink-offering, &c., 6-12. All born in the country must perform these rites, 13, and the strangers also, 14-16. They shall offer unto the Lord a heave-offering of the

Numbers 5:1 — CHAPTER V The Israelites are commanded to purify the camp by excluding all lepers, and all diseased and unclean persons, 1-3. They do so, 4. Law concerning him who has defrauded another-he shall confess his sin, restore the principal and add besides one fifth of its value, 5-7. If he have no kinsman to whom the recompense can be made, it shall be given unto the Lord, 8. All the holy things

Deuteronomy 29:12 — that in a covenant were these seven particulars:1. The parties about to contract were considered as being hitherto separated.2. They now agree to enter into a state of close and permanent amity. 3. They meet together in a solemn manner for this purpose.4. A sacrifice is offered to God on the occasion, for the whole is a religious act.5. The victim is separated exactly into two equal parts, the separation being in the direction of the spine; and those parts are laid opposite to each other, sufficient

Deuteronomy 9:1 — are informed that they shall shortly pass over Jordan, and that God shall go over before them, to expel the ancient inhabitants, 1-3. They are cautioned not to suppose that it is on account of their righteousness that God is to give them that land, 4-6. They are exhorted to remember their various provocations of the Divine Majesty, especially at Horeb, 7-14; and how Moses interceded for them, and destroyed the golden calf, 15-21. How they murmured at Taberah, 22; and rebelled at Kadesh-barnea, 23;

Joshua 23:1 — CHAPTER XXIII Joshua, being old, calls for the rulers and different heads of the Israelites, 1, 2, to whom he relates how God had put them in possession of the promised land, 3, 4; from which all their remaining enemies should be expelled, 5. Exhorts them to be faithful to God, and to avoid all connections with the idolatrous nations, 6-8. Encourages them with the strongest promises, that no enemy should ever be able to prevail

Joshua 9:4 — Verse Joshua 9:4. They did work wilily — Finesse of this kind is allowed by the conduct of all nations; and stratagems in war are all considered as legal. Nine tenths of the victories gained are attributable to stratagem; all sides practise them, and therefore

Judges 8:27 — idolatrous worship to the ephod or sacerdotal establishment made by Gideon at Ophrah, and this is called going a whoring after it; see on Judges 8:33. For a description of the ephod, see Exodus 25:7; and for the other garments of the priests, see Exodus 28:4, &c.

1 Samuel 28:25 — Consultó a la mujer y tuvo su conferencia con Samuel esa misma noche; por ningún tiempo parece haberse perdido después de su llegada a En-dor . 3. Fue abrumado por las malas noticias que escuchó; y que por un tiempo parecen haberlo privado de todo poder. 4. La mujer mata un ternero; prepara una parte; hace y hornea pan; y Saúl y sus siervos comen. Y, 5. Se levantaron y se fueron esa noche , 1 Samuel 28:25 . Al día siguiente , con toda probabilidad, ocurrió la batalla en la que Israel fue derrotado, y

1 Samuel 4:21 — Verse 1 Samuel 4:21. She named the child I-chabod — The versions are various on the original words כבוד I-chabod; the Septuagint, ουαιβαρχαβωθ ouaibrachaboth; the Syriac, [Syriac] yochobor; the Arabic, [Arabic] yochabad. But none of these give us much light on