Bible Commentaries

Genesis 49:25 — Blessings, &c. 1. Of rain; 2. of springs; 3. of milk, (uberum); and 4. (vulvæ) of children and cattle.

2 Kings 17:13 — Seers. See 1 Kings ix. 9. (Menochius) --- God never ceased to admonish the rebels. (Haydock) --- Jeremias xxv. 5. (Menochius)

2 Kings 21:12 — Tingle, through astonishment, as if he had been stunned with too loud a noise, 1 Kings iii. 11. (Calmet)

1 Chronicles 13:6 — Hill. Hebrew, "to Baalah," which was another name, as well as "Baslim," for Cariathiarim, 1 Kings vii. 2. (Calmet)

2 Chronicles 22:10 — All, except Joas, (v. 11., and 4 K. xi. 1.; C.) ninety-five years after Solomon’s death. Mariana) D.

Ezra 5:17 — Library. Septuagint, "treasury-house." Arabic, "for the archives." It is called "the house of books," chap. vi. 1. (Calmet)

Proverbs 19:13 — Through. It cannot be endured long. (Calmet) --- Dos est uxoria lites. (Ovid, Art. 1.) --- "Quarrels are a wife’s dowry."

Proverbs 23:33 — Mujeres. El vino excita la lujuria. (Calmet) Ver el cap. xx. 1. &mdash- Deberá. Septuaginta, "serán estos". (Haydock)

Isaiah 14:22 — CHAPTER XIV. Name. It shall lose all its splendour, and be mentioned only with abhorrence, 1 Peter v. 13.

Isaiah 54:6 — Youth. This enhances her fault. God is pleased to overlook it, in the captives (chap. l. 1.) and Gentiles.

Isaiah 61:5 — Vines. Bishops were soon chosen from among the Gentiles. The Machabees subdued the neighbouring nations, 1 Machabees xv. 28.

Isaiah 7:11 — Encima. Pídele que truene, (1 Reyes xii. 17.) o que la tierra se abra, Números xvi. 28. (Calmet)

Lamentations 3:12 — Flechas. Tales lugares eran comunes donde se practicaba el tiro, 1 Reyes xx. 36. y Job xvi. 11.

Ezekiel 32:18 — CHAPTER XXXII. Down: announce this catastrophe. (Calmet) --- Apries was slain by order of Amasis. (Diodorus 1.) (Jeremias xliv. 30.)

Zechariah 2:13 — Silent: obey with reverence. (Haydock) See Habacuc ii. 20., and 1 Machabees i. 3. (Calmet) --- Habitation, becoming man. (Menochius)

Matthew 12:42 — Queen of Saba, a province of Arabia, situated to the south of Judea. (3 Kings x. 1. and seq.)

Deuteronomy 1:30 — For you. Septuagint, "he will defeat them along with you." For man must do something. (St. Augustine, q. 1.)

Wisdom of Solomon 19:2 — Off. From God (Calmet) and religion. See Genesis xix. 33., and 2 Kings xi. 1., and Osee iv. 11.

2 Samuel 14:4 — Save me. So the Jews frequently repeated Hosanna; and David addressed God, save us, 1 Paralipomenon xvi. 35. (Tirinus)

2 Samuel 24:25 — Holocausts; a second time. The former victims had been consumed by fire from heaven, 1 Paralipomenon xxvi. 28. (Calmet)