Bible Commentaries

1 Kings 12:25-33 — JEROBOAM ESTABLISHED HIS IDOLATROUS KINGDOM "Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence and built Penuel. And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return to the house of David:

Leviticus 16:6-10 — "And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house. And he shall take the two goats, and set them before Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting. And Aaron shall cast

Hosea 13:6 — "According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore, have they forgotten me." "They were filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted" "Here we see the evil results that often flow from

Jonah 1:17 — "And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." The word "prepared" as used here actually means "commissioned" or appointed, or "ordered."Harold E. Monser, Cross-Reference

Jonah 4:11 — "And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" Jonah's reply is not given. He could make none. The

Haggai 2:6-7 — "For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 — "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah; and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them

John 4:24 — God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth. God is a Spirit … The countless anthropomorphisms of the Old Testament probably caused Jesus to set such a statement as this over against them all. God may be spoken

Romans 1:16 — For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. With reference to any possible slander to the effect that he was ashamed to preach in the sophisticated

Romans 2:17-20 — But if thou bearest the name of the Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind,

Romans 6:17-18 — But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye become obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered; and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. The KJV rendition "But God be

Ephesians 1:4 — Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love. Inherent in this is the fact of God's calling and electing people before the foundation of the world; and very few theological

Ephesians 2:8-9 — For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works that no man should glory. The jubilation with which some hail this text would be much more restrained by a little careful study of it. There

Joshua 2:1-7 — THE SPIES GO TO THE HOUSE OF RAHAB "And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go view the land, and Jericho. And they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there. And it was told

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 — Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. As so frequently in Paul's writings, there is here an eloquent

James 2:26 — For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. See under James 2:17, above, for elaboration of the meaning of the comparison here. Ward warned against "pressing the parallelism too far"; Ronald A. Ward,

1 Peter 2:5 — ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Ye also, as living stones … The figure of the spiritual temple of God is continued in