Bible Commentaries

Exodus 14:1 — CHAPTER XIV The Israelites are commanded to encamp before Pi-hahiroth, 1, 2. God predicts the pursuit of Pharaoh, 3, 4. Pharaoh is informed that the Israelites are fled, and regrets that he suffered them to depart, 5. He musters his troops and pursues them, 6-8. Overtakes them in their encampment by the Red Sea, 9. The Israelites are terrified at his approach, 10. They

Exodus 28:1 — CHAPTER XXVIII Aaron and his sons are set apart for the priest's office, 1. Garments to be provided for them, 2, 3. What these garments were, 4, and of what made, 5. The ephod, its shoulder-pieces, and girdle, 6-8. The two onyx stones, on which the names of the twelve tribes were to be engraven, 9-14. The breastplate of judgment; its twelve precious stones, engraving, rings, chains, and its

Exodus 3:15 — Exodus 3:15. This is my name for ever — The name here referred to is that which immediately precedes, יהוה אלהים Yehovah Elohim, which we translate the LORD GOD, the name by which God had been known from the creation of the world, (see Genesis 2:4.) and the name by which he is known among the same people to the present day. Even the heathens knew this name of the true God; and hence out of our יהוה Yehovah they formed their Jao, Jeve, and Jove; so that the word has been literally fulfilled, This

Exodus 33:1 — commanded to depart from the mount, and lead up the people towards the promised land, 1. An angel is promised to be their guide, 2. The land is described, and the Lord refuses to go with them, 3. The people mourn, and strip themselves of their ornaments, 4-6. The tabernacle or tent is pitched without the camp, 7. Moses goes to it to consult the Lord, and the cloudy pillar descends on it, 8, 9. The people, standing at their tent doors, witness this, 10. The Lord speaks familiarly with Moses; he returns

Exodus 5:1 — CHAPTER V Moses and Aaron open their commission to Pharaoh, 1. He insultingly asks who Jehovah is, in whose name they require him to dismiss the people, 2. They explain, 3. He charges them with making the people disaffected, 4, 5; and commands the task-masters to increase their work, and lessen their means of performing it, 6-9. The task-masters do as commanded, and refuse to give the people straw to assist them in making brick, and yet require the fulfilment of their daily

Exodus 6:28 — 6:30 of this chapter is intimately connected with the 1st verse of the succeeding.THE principal subjects in this chapter have been so amply considered in the notes, that little of importance remains to be done. On the nature of a covenant (Exodus 6:4.) ample information may be obtained by referring to Genesis 6:18, and Genesis 15:9-18, which places the reader will do well to consult.Supposing Moses to have really laboured under some defect in speech, we may consider it as wisely designed to be a

2 Kings 4:13 — Verse 2 Kings 4:13. Wouldest thou be spoken for to the king — Elisha must have had considerable influence with the king, from the part he took in the late war with the Moabites. Jehoram had reason to believe that the prophet, under God, was the sole cause of

Ezra 7:1 — Artaxerxes in behalf of the Jews, 11-26. Ezra's thanksgiving to God for these mercies, 27, 28. NOTES ON CHAP. VIIVerse Ezra 7:1. In the reign of Artaxerxes — This was Artaxerxes Longimanus, the seventh of whose reign chronologers place A.M. 3547, sixty-eight years after Cyrus had sent back Zerubbabel. - Calmet. See the introduction.Son of Seraiah — Either this could not have been Seraiah the high priest, who had been put to death by Nebuchadnezzar one hundred and twenty-one years before

Psalms 80:9 — el suelo a distancias adecuadas. Así, cuando Dios hubo expulsado a los paganos, hizo que se repartiera la tierra por sorteo a las diferentes tribus, y luego a las diversas familias de que se componían estas tribus. Y la hizo arraigar profundamente. 4. Al abrigar, apuntalar y aflojar la tierra en torno a las plantas tiernas, se hace que echen raíces profundas y firmes en el suelo. De este modo, Dios, mediante manifestaciones especiales de su bondadosa providencia, apoyó y protegió a los israelitas

Psalms 87:1 — SALMO LXXXVII La naturaleza y los gloriosos privilegios de Sión y Jerusalén , 1-3. No hay otra ciudad que se compare con esta , 4. El privilegio de nacer en ella , 5, 6. Sus alabanzas celebradas , 7. NOTAS SOBRE EL SALMO LXXXVII El título, Salmo o Canción para los hijos de Coré, no nos da ninguna luz sobre el autor o el significado de este Salmo. Comienza y termina tan abruptamente

Leviticus 14:1 — CHAPTER XIV Introduction to the sacrifices and ceremonies to be used in cleansing the leper, 1-3. Two living birds, cedar-wood, scarlet, and hyssop, to be brought for him who was to be cleansed, 4. One of the birds to be killed, 5; and the living bird, with the cedar-wood, scarlet, and hyssop, to be dipped in the blood, and to be sprinkled on him who had been infected with the leprosy, 6, 7; after which he must wash his clothes, shave his head,

Leviticus 16:1 — CHAPTER XVI The solemn yearly expiation for the high priest, who must not come at all times into the holy place, 1, 2. He must take a bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, bathe himself, and be dressed in his sacerdotal robes, 3, 4. He shall take two goats, one of which is to be determined by lot to be a sacrifice; the other to be a scapegoat, 5-10. He shall offer a bullock for himself and for his family, 11-14. And shall kill the goat as a sin-offering for the people, and sprinkle

Numbers 22:1 — CHAPTER XXII The Israelites pitch in the plains of Moab, 1. Balak, king of Moab, is greatly terrified, 2-4; and sends to Balaam, a diviner, to come and curse them, 5, 6. The elders of Moab take a reward and carry it to Balaam, 7. He inquires of the Lord, and is positively ordered not to go with them, 8-12. He communicates this to the elders of Moab, 13.

Numbers 35:1 — CHAPTER XXXV The Israelites are commanded to give the Levites, out of their inheritances, cities and their suburbs for themselves and for their cattle, goods, c., 1-3. The suburbs to be 3,000 cubits round about from the wall of the city, 4, 5. The cities to be forty-two, to which six cities of refuge should be added, in all forty-eight cities, 6, 7. Each tribe shall give of these cities in proportion to its possessions, 8. These cities to be appointed for the person who might slay his

Deuteronomy 20:1 — CHAPTER XX Directions concerning campaigns, 1. The priest shall encourage the people with the assurance that God will accompany and fight for them, 2-4. The officers shalt dismiss from the army all who had just built a new house, but had not dedicated it, 5. All who had planted a vineyard, but had not yet eaten of its fruits, 6. All who had betrothed a wife, but had not brought her home, 7. And all

Joshua 1:1 — THE BOOK OF JOSHUA -Year before the common Year of Christ, 1451. -Julian Period, 3263. -Cycle of the Sun, 10. -Dominical Letter, B. -Cycle of the Moon, 10. -Indiction, 15. -Creation from Tisri or September, 2553. CHAPTER I Moses being dead, God commissions Joshua to bring the people into the promised land, 1,

Joshua 3:6 — carry the ark; yet on certain occasions the priests alone performed this office.1. In the present case.2. When they encompassed Jericho, Joshua 6:6.3. When it was carried to the war against the Philistines by the priests, the sons of Eli, 2 Samuel 15:25.4. When David sent it back to Jerusalem, at the time he was obliged to fly from it, through the rebellion of his son Absalom, 2 Samuel 15:25; and,5. At the time that it was taken out of the tabernacle, to be deposited in the temple; see 1 Kings 8:6-11.

1 Samuel 23:1 — Philistines fight against Keilah — Keilah was a fortified town in the tribe of Judah near to Eleutheropolis, on the road to Hebron.Rob the threshing-floors. — This was an ancient custom of the Philistines, Midianites, and others. See Judges 6:4. When the corn was ripe and fit to be threshed, and they had collected it at the threshing-floors, which were always in the open field, then their enemies came upon them and spoiled them of the fruits of their harvest.

1 Samuel 5:6 — mice were produced, and there was the confusion of a great death in the city." This addition Houbigant contends was originally in the Hebrew text; and this gives us the reason why golden mice were sent, as well as the images of the emerods, (1 Samuel 6:4), when the ark was restored.

2 Samuel 8:4 — Verse 2 Samuel 8:4. A thousand chariots] It is strange that there were a thousand chariots, and only seven hundred horsemen taken, and twenty thousand foot. But as the discomfiture appears complete, we may suppose that the chariots, being less manageable, might be more