Bible Commentaries

2 Kings 4:2 — Verse 2 Kings 4:2. Save a pot of oil. — Oil was used as aliment, for anointing the body after bathing, and to anoint the dead. Some think that this pot of oil was what this widow had kept for her burial: see Matthew 26:12.

2 Kings 5:4 — Verse 2 Kings 5:4. Thus and thus said the maid — So well had this little pious maid conducted herself, that her words are credited; and credited so fully, that an embassy from the king of Syria to the king of Israel is founded upon them!

2 Chronicles 4:6 — Verse 2 Chronicles 4:6. He made also ten lavers — The lavers served to wash the different parts of the victims in; and the molten sea was for the use of the priests. In this they bathed, or drew water from it for their personal purification.

Esther 4:13 — Verse Esther 4:13. Think not - that thou shalt escape — This confirms the suspicion that Haman knew something of the relationship between Mordecai and Esther; and therefore he gives her to understand that, although in the king's palace, she should no more escape than the Jews.

Esther 6:4 — Verse Esther 6:4. Who is in the court? — This accords with the dream mentioned by the Targum; and given above.Now Haman was come — This must have been very early in the morning. Haman's pride and revenge were both on the tenters to be gratified.

Psalms 10:4 — Verse Psalms 10:4. Will not seek after God] He is too proud to bend his knee before his Judge; he is too haughty to put on sackcloth, and lay himself in the dust, though without deep repentance and humiliation he must without doubt perish everlastingly.

Psalms 106:4 — Verse Psalms 106:4. Remember me — This and the following clauses are read in the plural by several MSS.: Remember US - that WE may rejoice, - that WE may glory, c.: and thus all the Versions except the Chaldee and this is more agreeable to the context.

Psalms 107:4 — Verse Psalms 107:4. They wandered in the wilderness — Here begins the FINEST comparison: the Israelites in captivity are compared to a traveller in a dreary, uninhabited, and barren desert, spent with hunger and thirst, as well as by the fatigues of the journey, Psalms 107:5.

Psalms 37:4 — Verse Psalms 37:4. Delight thyself also in the Lord — Expect all thy happiness from him, and seek it in him.The desires of thine heart. — משאלות mishaloth, the petitions. The godly man never indulges a desire which he cannot form into a prayer to God.

Leviticus 7:4 — Verse Leviticus 7:4. The fat that is on them — Chiefly the fat that was found in a detached state, not mixed with the muscles; such as the omentum or caul, the fat of the mesentery, the fat about the kidneys, &c. Leviticus 3:9, &c.

Ezekiel 26:4 — Verse Ezekiel 26:4. I will also scrape her dust from her — I will totally destroy her fortifications, and leave her nothing but a barren rock, as she was before. This cannot refer to the capture of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. It flourished long after his time.

Numbers 7:9 — Verse Numbers 7:9. Unto the sons of Kohath he gave none — Because they had the charge of the ark, table, candlestick, altars, c., Numbers 4:5-15, which were to be carried upon their shoulders for those sacred things must not be drawn by beasts.

Romans 10:21 — del mismo tema, sino sólo para dar a entender que las expresiones fuertes y vivas que Moisés utilizó en relación con la doctrina que enseñaba, eran igualmente aplicables a la fe del Evangelio. Así, de la misma manera,  Romanos 10:18 , cita Salmo 19:4 , aunque es probable (ver la nota en ese lugar) que esas expresiones fueran usadas por los antiguos judíos en aplicación al Mesías como el apóstol las aplica. 2. A veces el propósito de la cita es sólo para mostrar que los casos son paralelos: o, que

Joshua 4:2 — Verse Joshua 4:2. Take you twelve men — From Joshua 3:12, it appears that the twelve men had been before appointed, one taken out of each of the twelve tribes; and now they are employed for that purpose for which they had been before selected.

Judges 4:18 — Verse Judges 4:18. Jael went out to meet Sisera — He preferred the woman's tent because of secrecy; for, according to the etiquette of the eastern countries, no person ever intrudes into the apartments of the women. And in every dwelling the women have a separate apartment.

Ruth 4:3 — Verse Ruth 4:3. Naomi - selleth a parcel of land — She was reduced to want; the immediate inheritors were extinct, and it was now open for the next heir to purchase the land, and thus preserve the inheritance in the family according to the custom of Israel.

1 Samuel 13:4 — Verse 1 Samuel 13:4. The people were called together — The smiting of this garrison was the commencement of a war, and in effect the shaking off of the Philistine yoke; and now the people found that they must stand together, and fight for their lives.

1 Samuel 26:8 — Verse 1 Samuel 26:8. God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand — Here Abishai uses the same language as did David's men, when Saul came into the cave at En-gedi, (see 1 Samuel 24:4, &c.,) and David uses the same language in reply.

2 Samuel 5:21 — Verse 2 Samuel 5:21. They left their images — It was the custom of most nations to carry their gods with them to battle: in imitation of this custom the Israelites once took the ark and lost it in the field; see 1 Samuel 4:10-11.

2 Samuel 6:6 — Verse 2 Samuel 6:6. Uzzah put forth his hand] In Numbers 4:15-20, the Levites are forbidden to touch the ark on pain of death, this penalty was inflicted upon Uzzah, and he was the first that suffered for a breach Of this law.