Bible Commentaries

2 Chronicles 14:9 — Verse 2 Chronicles 14:9. Zerah the Ethiopian — Probably of that Ethiopia which lay on the south of Egypt, near to Libya, and therefore the Libyans are joined with them, 2 Chronicles 16:8.A thousand thousand — If this people had come from any great distance, they could not have had forage for such an immense army.

Ezra 9:6 — Verse Ezra 9:6. I am ashamed and blush — God had been so often provoked, and had so often pardoned them, and they had continued to transgress, that he was ashamed to go back again to the throne of grace to ask for mercy in their behalf. This is the genuine feeling of every reawakened backslider.

Job 15:9 — Verse Job 15:9. What knowest thou — Is it likely that thy intellect is greater than ours; and that thou hast cultivated it better than we have done ours?What understandest thou — Or, Dost thou understand any thing, and it is not with us? Show us any point of knowledge possessed by thyself, of which we are ignorant.

Psalms 118:9 — Verse Psalms 118:9. In princes. — Men of high estate are generally proud, vain-glorious, self-confident, and rash: it is better to trust in God than in them. Often they cannot deliver, and often they will not when they can. However, in the concerns of our salvation, and in matters which belong to Providence, they can do nothing.

Psalms 30:9 — Verse Psalms 30:9. What profit is there in my blood — My being cut off will not magnify thy mercy. Let not the sword, therefore, come against me. If spared and pardoned, I will declare thy truth; I will tell to all men what a merciful and gracious Lord I have found. Hear, therefore, O Lord; Psalms 30:10.

Psalms 35:9 — Verse Psalms 35:9. My soul — My life, thus saved -Shall be joyful in the Lord — I am so circumstanced at present as to be in the utmost danger of being destroyed by my foes; if I escape, it must be by the strong arm of the Lord; and to him shall the glory be given.

Psalms 48:9 — Verse Psalms 48:9. We have thought of thy loving-kindness — We went to thy temple to worship thee; we meditated on thy goodness; we waited for a display of it; and the panic that in the first instance struck us, was transferred to our enemies; and fear took hold upon them, they marvelled, were troubled, and hasted away.

Psalms 73:9 — Verse Psalms 73:9. Set their mouth against the heavens — They blaspheme God, ridicule religion, mock at Providence, and laugh at a future state.Their tongue walketh through the earth. — They find fault with every thing; they traduce the memory of the just in heaven, and ridicule the saints that are upon earth. They criticize every dispensation of God.

Psalms 9:11 — Verse Psalms 9:11. Declare among the people his doings. — It is the duty of all those who have received the salvation of God, to recommend him and his salvation to the whole circle of their acquaintance, Christians, so called, when they meet, seldom speak about God! Why is this? Because they have nothing to say.

Psalms 91:9 — Verse Psalms 91:9. Because thou hast made the Lord — Seeing thou hast taken Jehovah, the Most High, for thy portion and thy refuge, no evil shall come nigh thy dwelling; thou shalt be safe in thy soul, body, household, and property, Psalms 91:10. Every pious man may expect such protection from his God and Father.

Isaiah 19:9 — Verse Isaiah 19:9. They that work in fine flax — פשתים שריקות pishtim sericoth, heckled flax, i.e., flax dressed on the heckle, or comb used for that purpose. The Vulgate uses the word pectentes, combing.They that weave networks shall be confounded - And confounden schul ben that wrogten flax, plattinge and wevynge sotel thingis. - Old MS. Bible.

Isaiah 64:9 — Verse Isaiah 64:9. Neither remember iniquity — For לעד תזכר laad tizcor, one of my MSS. has לעד תקצף laad tiktsoph, "be not angry," as in the preceding clause. This has been partially obliterated, and תזכר tizcor, written in the margin by a later hand: but this MS. abounds with words of this kind, all altered by later hands.

Jeremiah 41:9 — Verse Jeremiah 41:9. Now the pit - was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha — See 1 Kings 15:22. Asa made this cistern as a reservoir for water for the supply of the place; for he built and fortified Mizpah at the time that he was at war with Baasha, king of Israel.

Jeremiah 7:9 — Verse Jeremiah 7:9. Will ye steal, murder — Will you continue to commit such abominations, and pretend to worship me; and thus defile the place that is called by my name; and so make my house a den of robbers? I have seen this,-and can you expect to escape condign punishment? Ye shall not escape.

Lamentations 5:9 — Verse 9. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives — They could not go into the wilderness to feed their cattle, or to get the necessaries of life, without being harassed and plundered by marauding parties, and by these were often exposed to the peril of their lives. This was predicted by Moses, Deuteronomy 28:31.

Ezekiel 17:9 — Verse Ezekiel 17:9. Shall it prosper? — Shall Zedekiah succeed in casting off the yoke of the king of Babylon, to whom he had sworn fealty?Shall he not pull up the roots — Nebuchadnezzar will come and dethrone him.And cut off the fruit — The children of Zedekiah.The leaves — All the nobles; all shall perish with Zedekiah.

Ezekiel 9:8 — Verse Ezekiel 9:8. Wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel, On thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? — These destroyers had slain the seventy elders, the twenty-five adorers of the sun, and the women that mourned for Tammuz; and on seeing this slaughter the prophet fell on his face, and began to make intercession.

Hosea 6:6 — Verse Hosea 6:6. I desired mercy, and not sacrifice — I taught them righteousness by my prophets; for I desired mercy. I was more willing to save than to destroy; and would rather see them full of penitent and holy resolutions, than behold them offering the best and most numerous victims upon my altar. See Matthew 9:13.

Amos 9:8 — Verse Amos 9:8. The eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom — The kingdom of Israel, peculiarly sinful; and therefore to be signally destroyed by the Assyrians.I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob — The race shall not become extinct: I will reserve them as monuments of my justice, and finally of my mercy.

Micah 7:9 — Verse 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord — The words of the penitent captives, acknowledging their sins and praying for mercy.Until he plead my cause — And wo to the slanderers, when God undertakes to plead for the fallen who have returned to him with deep compunction of heart, seeking redemption in the blood of the cross.