Bible Commentaries

1 Kings 11:23 — Verse 23. Rezon the son of Eliadah — Thus God fulfilled his threatening by the prophet Nathan: If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 2 Samuel 7:14.

1 Kings 21:20 — Verse 1 Kings 21:20. Thou hast sold thyself to work evil — See a similar form of speech, Romans 7:14. Thou hast totally abandoned thyself to the service of sin. Satan is become thy absolute master, and thou his undivided slave.

1 Kings 9:10 — Verse 1 Kings 9:10. At the end of twenty years — He employed seven years and a half in building the temple, and twelve years and a half in building the king's house; see 1 Kings 7:1; 2 Chronicles 8:1.

1 Chronicles 28:4 — Verse 1 Chronicles 28:4. Over Israel for ever — The government should have no end, provided they continued to walk according to the commandments of God; see 1 Chronicles 28:7. The government, as referring to Christ, is, and will be, without end.

1 Chronicles 7:3 — Verse 1 Chronicles 7:3. The sons of lzrahiah - five — There are, however, only four names in the text. Instead of five, the Syriac and Arabic read four. If five be the true reading, then Izrahiah must be reckoned with his four sons.

Ezra 3:7 — Verse Ezra 3:7. They gave money also — They copied the conduct of Solomon while he was building his temple; see 1 Kings 5:11. He employed the Tyrians, gave them meat and drink, c. and this permission they now had from Cyrus.

Nehemiah 1:7 — Verse Nehemiah 1:7. Have not kept thy commandments — The moral precepts by which our lives should be regulated.Statutes — What refers to the rites and ceremonies of thy religion.Judgments — The precepts of justice relative to our conduct to each other.

Song of Solomon 2:7 — Verso Cantares de los Cantares 2:7 . Te conjuro - por las corzas. Probablemente se trataba de un modo rústico de adjuración. Los versículos en sí no requieren mucho comentario. Con este versículo se supone que termina la primera noche del primer día.

Song of Solomon 5:7 — Versículo de los Cantares de los Cantares 5:7 . Me quitaron el velo. Me lo arrancaron con rudeza, para descubrir quién era. Ver  Cantares de los Cantares 5:2 . Rasgar el velo significa, en frase oriental, desflorar o deshonrar a una mujer.

Isaiah 1:17 — Verse Isaiah 1:17. Relieve the oppressed - "Amend that which is corrupted"] אשרו חמוץ asheru chamots. In rendering this obscure phrase I follow Bochart, (Hieroz. Part i., lib. ii., cap. 7.,) though I am not perfectly satisfied with this explication of it.

Isaiah 11:7 — Verse Isaiah 11:7. In this verse a word is omitted in the text, יחדו yachdav, together; which ought to be repeated in the second hemistich, being quite necessary to the sense. It is accordingly twice expressed by the Septuagint and Syriac.

Jeremiah 4:7 — Verse Jeremiah 4:7. The lion is come up — Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. "The king (Nebuchadnezzar) is come up from his tower." - Targum.The destroyer of the Gentiles — Of the nations: of all the people who resisted his authority. He destroyed them all.

Lamentations 3:7 — Verse 7. He hath hedged me about — This also may refer to the lines drawn round the city during the siege. But these and similar expressions in the following verses may be merely metaphorical, to point out their straitened, oppressed, and distressed state.

Ezekiel 7:5 — Verse Ezekiel 7:5. An evil, an only evil — The great, the sovereign, the last exterminating evil, is come: the sword, the pestilence, the famine, and the captivity. Many MSS. read אחר achar, after. So evil cometh after evil; one instantly succeeds another.

Hosea 11:7 — Verse Hosea 11:7. Though they called them to the Most High — Newcome is better: "And though they call on him together because of the yoke, he will not raise it. He shall receive no refreshment." See the metaphor, Hosea 11:4.

Malachi 3:7 — Verse Malachi 3:7. Gone away from mine ordinances — Never acting according to their spirit and design.Return unto me — There is still space to repent.Wherein shall we return? — Their consciences were seared, and they knew not that they were sinners.

Matthew 7:2 — Verse Matthew 7:2. For with what judgment — He who is severe on others will naturally excite their severity against himself. The censures and calumnies which we have suffered are probably the just reward of those which we have dealt out to others.

Mark 6:7 — Verse Mark 6:7. By two and two — That they might encourage and support each other; and to show that union among the ministers of the Gospel is essential to the promotion of the cause of truth. Luke 10:1; Luke 10:1.

Ephesians 6:7 — Verse 7. With good will — μετ ευνοιας. With cheerfulness; do not take up your service as a cross, or bear it as a burden; but take it as coming in the order of God's providence, and a thing that is pleasing to him.

Joshua 15:9 — Verse Joshua 15:9. Baalah, which is Kirjath-jearim — This place was rendered famous in Scripture, in consequence of its being the residence of the ark, for twenty years after it was sent back by the Philistines; see 1 Samuel 5:1-7.