Bible Commentaries

Exodus 7:3 — Verse Exodus 7:3. I will harden Pharaoh's heart — I will permit his stubbornness and obstinacy still to remain, that I may have the greater opportunity to multiply my wonders in the land, that the Egyptians may know that I only am Jehovah, the self-existent God. Exodus 4:21; Exodus 4:21.

2 Chronicles 32:7 — Verse 2 Chronicles 32:7. There be more with us than with him — We have more power than they have. (These words he quotes from the prophet Elisha, 2 Kings 6:16.) This was soon proved to be true by the slaughter made by the angel of the Lord in the Assyrian camp.

2 Chronicles 4:1 — CHAPTER IV The brazen altar, 1. Molten sea, and its supporters, 2-5. The ten lavers, 6. Ten golden candlesticks, 7. Ten tables, the hundred golden basons, and the priests' court, 8-10. The works which Huram performed, 11-17. Solomon finishes the temple, and its utensils, 18-22. NOTES ON CHAP. IV

Nehemiah 7:8 — Verse Nehemiah 7:8. The children of Parosh — As this chapter is almost entirely the same with the second chapter of the book of Ezra, it is not necessary to add any thing to what is said there; and to that chapter, and the accompanying notes, the reader is requested to refer.

Job 17:7 — Verse Job 17:7. Mine eye also is dim — Continual weeping impairs the sight; and indeed any affliction that debilitates the frame generally weakens the sight in the same proportion.All my members are as a shadow. — Nothing is left but skin and bone. I am but the shadow of my former self.

Job 7:9 — Verse Job 7:9. As the cloud is consumed — As the cloud is dissipated, so is the breath of those that go down to the grave. As that cloud shall never return, so shall it be with the dead; they return no more to sojourn with the living. See on the following verses.

Psalms 79:7 — Verse Psalms 79:7. Laid waste his dwelling-place. — The Chaldee understands this of the temple. This, by way of eminence, was Jacob's place. I have already remarked that these two verses are almost similar to Jeremiah 10:25, which has led many to believe that Jeremiah was the author of this Psalm.

Psalms 96:6 — Verse Psalms 96:6. Honour and majesty are before him — Does this refer to the cloud of his glory that preceded the ark in their journeying through the wilderness? The words strength and beauty, and glory and strength, Psalms 96:7, are those by which the ark is described, Psalms 78:61.

Proverbs 10:7 — Verse Proverbs 10:7. The memory of the just is blessed — Or, is a blessing.But the name of the wicked shall rot. — This is another antithesis; but there are only two antithetic terms, for memory and name are synonymous.-Lowth. The very name of the wicked is as offensive as putrid carrion.

Proverbs 17:7 — Verse Proverbs 17:7. Excellent speech becometh not a fool — This proverb is suitable to those who affect, in public speaking, fine language, which neither comports with their ordinary conversation, nor with their education. Often fine words are injudiciously brought in, and are as unbecoming and irrelevant as a cart wheel among clockwork.

Proverbs 30:7 — Verse Proverbs 30:7. Two things have I required of thee — These two petitions are mentioned in the next verse; and he wishes to have them answered before he should die. That is, he wishes the answer now, that he may live the rest of his life in the state he describes.

Isaiah 36:7 — Verse Isaiah 36:7. But if thou say - "But if ye say"] Two ancient MSS. have תאמרו tomeru in the plural number; so likewise the Septuagint, Chaldee, and the other copy, 2 Kings 18:22.Ye shall worship before this altar - "To worship only before this altar"] See 2 Chronicles 32:12.

Jeremiah 29:26 — Verse Jeremiah 29:26. For every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet — Mad, משגע meshugga, in ecstatic rapture; such as appeared in the prophets, whether true or false, when under the influence, the one of God, the other of a demon. See 2 Kings 9:11; Hosea 9:7.

Ezekiel 6:1 — CHAPTER VI In this chapter, which forms a distinct section, the prophet denounces the judgments of God against the Jews for their idolatry, 1-7; but tells them that a remnant shall be saved, and brought to a sense of their sins by their severe afflictions, 8-14. NOTES ON CHAP. VI

Luke 10:7 — Verse Luke 10:7. The labourer is worthy — See on Matthew 10:8; Matthew 10:12.Go not from house to house. — Matthew 10:11. It would be a great offence among the Hindoos if a guest, after being made welcome at a house, were to leave it and go to another.

John 7:14 — Verse John 7:14. The midst of the feast — Though the canons required him to be there on the first day, for the performance of a great variety of rites, yet, as these were in general the invention of their doctors, he might think it very proper neither to attend nor perform them.

Acts 18:7 — Verse Acts 18:7. And he departed thence — From his former lodging, or that quarter of the city where he had dwelt before with Aquila and Priscilla; and went to lodge with Justus, apparently a proselyte of the gate. This person is called Titus, and Titus Justus, in several MSS. and versions.

Romans 2:7 — Verse Romans 2:7. To them, &c.] In this manner will God, in the great day, dispense punishments and rewards:1. He will give eternal life to them who, in all the trials and difficulties of the present state, have persevered in well doing-seeking for and expecting glory, honour, and immortality.

1 Corinthians 7:13 — Verse 1 Corinthians 7:13. And the woman — Converted from heathenism to the Christian faith; which hath a husband, who still abides in heathenism; if he be pleased to dwell with her, notwithstanding she has become a Christian since their marriage; let her not leave him because he still continues a heathen.

Joshua 13:7 — Verse Joshua 13:7. The nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh — The other half tribe of Manasseh, and the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, had got their inheritance on the other side of Jordan, in the land formerly belonging to Og king of Bashan, and Sihon king of the Amorites.