Bible Commentaries

Exodus 5:16 — Verse Exodus 5:16. The fault is in thine own people. — חטאת chatath, the SIN, is in thy own people. 1st. Because they require impossibilities; and 2dly, because they punish us for not doing what cannot be performed.

Ezra 9:5 — Verse Ezra 9:5. Fell upon my knees — In token of the deepest humility. Spread out my hands, as if to lay hold on the mercy of God. We have already had occasion to explain these significant acts.

Nehemiah 8:5 — Verse Nehemiah 8:5. All the people stood up — This was out of respect to the sacred word: in imitation of this, when the gospel for the day is read in our churches, all the people stand up.

Job 2:5 — Versículo Job 2:5 . Él te maldecirá en tu misma cara.  Literalmente, Si él no te bendecirá en tu rostro o apariencias . Su piedad hacia ti estará siempre regulada por tu generosidad hacia él . Job 1:11 .

Job 29:12 — Versículo Job 29:12 . Porque libré a los pobres que lloraban. Esto parece tener la intención de refutar los cargos producidos por Elifaz , Job 22:5 , para esto Job apela a los hechos , y al testimonio público .

Psalms 135:5 — Verse Psalms 135:5. The Lord is great — Unlimited in his power: another reason.Is above all gods. — Every class of being, whether idolized or not; because he is the Fountain of existence. This is a fifth reason.

Psalms 147:5 — Verse Psalms 147:5. His understanding is infinite. — To his intelligence there is no number: though he numbers the stars, his understanding is without number. It is infinite; therefore, he can know, as he can do, all things.

Psalms 18:29 — Versículo Salmo 18:29 . He corrido a través de una tropa. Esto puede relacionarse con alguna victoria notable, y la toma de algún lugar fortificado, posiblemente Sión, de los jebuseos. Véase el relato 2 Samuel 5:6 .

Psalms 67:5 — Versículo Salmo 67:5 . Que el pueblo te alabe. Al ver la abundancia de las bendiciones que los gentiles iban a recibir, él los llama una y otra vez para que engrandezcan a Dios por tales misericordias.

Ecclesiastes 3:5 — Verse Ecclesiastes 3:5. A time to cast away stones, - to gather stones, - to embrace, - to refrain — "One while domestic cares abortive prove, And then successful. Nature now invites Connubial pleasures: but, when languid grown, No less rejects."

Jeremiah 2:5 — Verse Jeremiah 2:5. What iniquity have your fathers found in me — Have they ever discovered any thing cruel, unjust, oppressive in my laws? Any thing unkind or tyrannical in my government? Why then have they become idolaters?

Jeremiah 20:15 — Verse Jeremiah 20:15. A man child is born — Borun is to thee a knave child.-Old MS. Bible. This is the old English word for man or servant; and is so used by Wiclif, Revelation 12:5.

Jeremiah 5:8 — Verse Jeremiah 5:8. After his neighbour's wife. — This may have been literally true, as the abominations of idolatry, in which they were so deeply practised, would necessarily produce such a state of things as that here mentioned.

Ezekiel 29:5 — Verse Ezekiel 29:5. I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness — Referring to his being obliged to take refuge in Upper Egypt. But he was afterwards taken prisoner, and strangled by Amasis. Herod. lib. ii. s. 169.

Micah 2:5 — Verse Micah 2:5. None that shall cast a cord — You will no more have your inheritance divided to you by lot, as it was to your fathers; ye shall neither have fields nor possessions of any kind.

Malachi 4:5 — Verse Malachi 4:5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet — This is meant alone of John the Baptist, as we learn from Luke 1:17, (where see the note,) in whose spirit and power he came.

1 Corinthians 16:8 — Verse 1 Corinthians 16:8. I will tarry at Ephesus — And it is very probable that he did so; and that all these journeys were taken as he himself had projected. See note on 1 Corinthians 16:5.

1 Corinthians 6:5 — Verse 1 Corinthians 6:5. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? — Have you none among yourselves that can be arbitrators of the differences which arise, that you go to the heathen tribunals?

Judges 4:5 — Verse Judges 4:5. The palm tree of Deborah — It is common for the Hindoos to plant trees in the names of themselves and their friends; and some religious mendicants live for a considerable time under trees. - Ward.

2 Samuel 4:5 — Verse 2 Samuel 4:5. Lay on a bed at noon. — It is a custom in all hot countries to travel or work very early and very late, and rest at noonday, in which the heat chiefly prevails.