Bible Commentaries

Genesis 47:1 — that his father and brethren are arrived in Goshen, 1. He presents five of his brethren before the king, 2, who questions them concerning their occupation; they inform him that they are shepherds, and request permission to dwell in the land of Goshen, 3, 4. Pharaoh consents, and desires that some of the most active of them should be made rulers over his cattle, 5, 6. Joseph presents his father to Pharaoh, 7, who questions him concerning his age, 8, to which Jacob returns an affecting answer, and blesses

Genesis 50:1 — CHAPTER L Joseph bewails the death of his father, and commands the physicians to embalm him, 1, 2. The Egyptians mourn for him seventy days, 3. Joseph begs permission from Pharaoh to accompany his father's corpse to Canaan, 4, 5. Pharaoh consents, 6. Pharaoh's domestics and elders, the elders of Egypt, Joseph and his brethren, with chariots, horsemen, c., form the funeral procession, 7-9.

Exodus 20:3 — Verse Exodus 20:3. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. — אלהים אחרים elohim acherim, no strange gods - none that thou art not acquainted with, none who has not given thee such proofs of his power and godhead as I have done in delivering thee from the Egyptians,

Exodus 3:6 — Verse Exodus 3:6. I am the God of thy father — Though the word אבי abi, father, is here used in the singular, St Stephen, quoting this place, Acts 7:32, uses the plural, Ὁ Θεος των πατερων σου, The God of thy FATHERS; and that this is the meaning the following

Exodus 31:6 — Verse Exodus 31:6. In the hearts of all that are wisehearted I have put wisdom — So every man that had a natural genius, as we term it, had an increase of wisdom by immediate inspiration from God, so that he knew how to execute the different works which Divine

Exodus 36:1 — CHAPTER XXXVI Moses appoints Bezaleel, Aholiab, and their associates, to the work, and delivers to them the free-will offerings of the people, 1-3. The people bring offerings more than are needed for the work, and are only restrained by the proclamation of Moses, 4-7. The curtains, their loops, taches, c., for the tabernacle, 8-18. The covering for the tent, 19. The boards, 20-30. The bars, 31-34.

Exodus 38:24 — Verso Éxodo 38:24. Todo el oro que se ocupó para la obra. Para poder determinar el monto y el valor del oro, la plata y el bronce que se empleaban en el tabernáculo y sus diferentes utensilios, altares, etc., será necesario entrar en el tema con considerable detalle. En

Exodus 40:15 — priesthood without the repetition of this unction, as they should enjoy this honour in their father's right, who had it by a particular grant from God. But it appears that the high priest, on his consecration, did receive the holy unction; see Leviticus 4:3; Leviticus 6:22; Leviticus 21:10. And this continued till the destruction of the first temple, and the Babylonish captivity; and according to Eusebius, Cyril of Jerusalem, and others, this custom continued among the Jews to the advent of our Lord, after

Exodus 9:3 — The FIFTH plague - the MURRAINVerse Exodus 9:3. The hand of the Lord — The power of God manifested in judgment.Upon the horses — סוסים susim. This is the first place the horse is mentioned; a creature for which Egypt and Arabia were always famous. sus is supposed to have the same meaning

Psalms 2:12 — príncipes y jueces de la tierra. I. Los enemigos de Cristo son grandes hombres, que son descritos aquí, en parte por su maldad, y en parte por su debilidad. En primer lugar, su maldad es evidente. 1. Se enfurecen furiosamente. 2. Se reúnen tumultuosamente. 3. Se ponen - se levantan, y toman consejo, contra el Señor y contra su ungido. 4. Se alientan a sí mismos en la maldad, diciendo: "Venid, y echemos de nosotros sus cuerdas". Todo lo cual se agudiza con la interrogación ¡Por qué! En segundo lugar, su

Isaiah 5:1 — their wickedness; particularly for their covetousness, 8-10; intemperance, 11; and inattention to the warnings of Providence, 12. Then follows an enumeration of judgments as the necessary consequence. Captivity and famine appear with all their horrors, 13. Hades, or the grave, like a ravenous monster, opens wide its jaws, and swallows down its myriads, 14. Distress lays hold on all ranks, 15; and God is glorified in the execution of his judgments, 16; till the whole place is left desolate, a place for

Isaiah 5:1 — maldad; particularmente por su codicia , 8-10; intemperancia , 11; y desatención a las advertencias de la Providencia , 12. Luego sigue una enumeración de juicios como las necesarias consecuencias. El cautiverio y el hambre aparecen con todo su horrores , 13. Hades, o la tumba, como un monstruo voraz, abre de par en par sus fauces, y traga sus miríadas , 14. La angustia se apodera de todos los rangos , 15; y Dios es glorificado en la ejecución de sus juicios , 16; hasta que todo el lugar quede desierto,

Numbers 18:21 — Verse Numbers 18:21. Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth —First, the Levites had the tenth of all the productions of the land.2. They had forty-eight cities, each forming a square of 4,000 cubits.3. They had 2,000 cubits of ground round each city.Total of the land they possessed, 53,000 acres.4. They had the first-fruits and certain parts of all the animals killed in the land.Canaan contained about 11,264,000 acres; therefore the portion possessed

Numbers 24:21 — Verse Numbers 24:21. He looked on the Kenites — Commentators are not well agreed who the Kenites were. Dr. Dodd's opinion is, I think, nearest to the truth. Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, is called a priest or prince of Midian, Exodus 3:1, and in Jdg 1:16 he is called a Kenite; we may infer, therefore, says he, that the Kenites and the Midianites were the same, or at least that the Kenites and the Midianites were confederate tribes. Some of these we learn from Judg. i., followed the

Matthew 6:9 — El cielo de los cielos no te puede contener.  1 Reyes 8:27: es decir, Tú, la inmensa inmensidad. 2° Su MAJESTAD y DOMINIO sobre sus criaturas. ¿No eres Dios en los cielos, y no gobiernas sobre todos los reinos de los  paganos ? 2 Crónicas 20:6. 3° Su PODER. ¿No eres tú Dios en los cielos, y en no están en tu mano el  poder y la fortaleza, para que ninguna criatura pueda resistirlo ?  2 Crónicas 20:6. Nuestro Dios está en los cielos, y ha hecho todo lo que quiso . Salmo 115:3. 4° Su OMNISCIENCIA.

Luke 2:52 — most abject than in distributing them among persons of elevated rank. Here is an example: for while he sent the wise men of the east to Herod, he sent an angel of heaven to the shepherds, and conducted them to the cradle of the Saviour of the world.3. ln this meeting of the angels and shepherds, you see a perpetual characteristic of the economy of Jesus Christ; wherein the highest and most sublime things are joined with the meanest and lowest. In his person, the eternal WORD is united to a creature,

Acts 1:26 — his bowels gushed out.2. That, having hanged himself, he was thrown on the dunghill, and, the carcass becoming putrid, the abdomen, which soonest yields to putrefaction burst, and the bowels were thus shed from the body, and possibly torn out by dogs.3. That, being filled with horror and despair, he went to the top of the house, or to some eminences and threw himself down and thus, failing headlong, his body was broken by the fall, and his bowels gushed out.4. That Satan, having entered into him,

Romans 1:7 — las varias acepciones de esta palabra gracia que se dan en las Sagradas Escrituras. 1. La palabra χαριν significa en general favor o benevolencia , pero especialmente aquel favor que es poderoso y activo , y carga sus objetos con beneficios . Lucas 1:30 : No temas, María, has hallado FAVOR, χαριν, con Dios . Lucas 2:40 : Y el niño crecía, y la GRACIA de Dios , χαρις θεου, el favor de Dios estaba sobre él . Lucas 1:52 : Y Jesús crecía en FAVOR, χαριτι GRACIA, con Dios y con los hombres . Hechos

Joshua 1:4 — should be from the desert of Arabia Petraea on the SOUTH to Lebanon on the NORTH: and from the Euphrates on the EAST to the Mediterranean Sea on the WEST. The Israelites did not possess the full extent of this grant till the days of David. See 2 Samuel 8:3, c., and 2 Chronicles 9:26.Land of the Hittites — These are generally reputed to have been the most hardy and warlike of all the Canaanitish nations and as they occupied the mountainous countries on the south of the land of Canaan, it is natural

Hebrews 4:12 — supposing the whole of Divine revelation to be intended; others, the doctrine of the Gospel faithfully preached; others, the mind of God or the Divine intellect; and others, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is thus denominated in John 1:1, c., and Revelation 19:13 the only places in which he is thus incontestably characterized in the New Testament. The disputed text, 1 John 5:7, I leave at present out of the question. In the introduction to this epistle I have produced sufficient evidence to make it very probable