Bible Commentaries

Exodus 6:2 — "And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, As God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them." This passage must be hailed as one of the most difficult in the Bible,

Psalms 34:1-6 — "I will bless Jehovah at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in Jehovah: The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify Jehovah with me, And let us exalt his name together. I sought Jehovah, and

Psalms 34:20-22 — "He keepeth all his bones: Not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned. Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; And none of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned." "All his

Psalms 40:6-8 — THE GREAT PROPHECY OF MESSIAH "Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me: I delight to

Leviticus 23:9-14 — "And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest

Isaiah 53 overview — JESUS CHRIST, GOD'S SERVANT We should not be surprised at this title assigned to the Holy Messiah in the Sacred Scriptures, because there is a magnificent profusion of names and titles bestowed upon the Son of God by the inspired writers of the Bible.

Ezekiel 18:5-9 — "But if a man be just and do that which is lawful and right, and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes unto the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor's wife, neither hath come near to a woman in

Deuteronomy 16:21-22 — "Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee. Neither shalt thou set up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth." "An Asherah" (Deuteronomy 16:21). "She was a false deity whose

Deuteronomy 16:9-12 — THE FEAST OF PENTECOST "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute

Deuteronomy 2:16-25 — "So it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, that Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Thou art this day: to pass over Ar, the border of Moab: and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, vex them

Deuteronomy 24:1-5 — LAWS OF FAMILY "When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out

Deuteronomy 3:5-11 — "All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many. And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

John 6:14 — When therefore the people saw the sign which he did they said, This is of a truth the prophet that cometh into the world. Nothing sheds any more light on the wonder recorded here than this deduction from it by the people who saw it. The prophet (Deuteronomy

Romans 12:6-8 — And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching; or he that

Romans 5:20 — And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly. Here is the fifth of the great series of "much more's" which mark this portion of Paul's letter. See under Romans 5:17.

Galatians 3:22 — But the Scripture shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. As rendered here, this verse makes no sense whatever, for the paraphrase of the latter part of it is, "that the promise

Galatians 3:29 — And if ye are Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise. This is not merely a continuation of the argument Paul has been making, but it is continued into Galatians 4. The true seed of Abraham (in the plural sense) are all of

Hebrews 7:19 — (For the law made nothing perfect), and the bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God. Not once in this whole epistle is there the slightest suggestion of a meaning for the expression "the law" that would

James 4:12 — One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor? One only is lawgiver … judge … Moses was known as the great "lawgiver" of the Old Testament; and it is not

Judges 17:1-3 — REGARDING THE 1,100 PIECES OF SILVER "And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst