Bible Commentaries

Exodus 28:28 — Otro. Por lo tanto, el efod, racional, urim, etc., se usan para denotar lo mismo. Ver 1 Reyes xxx. 7. (Calmet)

2 Kings 25:26 — Chaldees. They went under the conduct of Johanan, in opposition to the declaration of Jeremias, xliii. 7., and xliv. 1. (Calmet)

2 Chronicles 1:6 — Victims. Hebrew, "holocausts," either with his own hand, or by the ministry of the priests. See 1 Kings xiii. 12. (Calmet)

Psalms 112:7 — Poor. Jesus Christ and his servants, as well as Joseph, Mardochai, &c., 1 Kings ii. 8., and Luke i. 51. (Calmet)

Psalms 142:4 — Troubled. David knew not what course to take, 1 Kings xv. 25, 31. Our Saviour was in the greatest agony. (Calmet)

Isaiah 1:2 — Earth. He apostrophises these insensible things, (Calmet) because they contain all others, and are the most durable. (Theodoret) (Deuteronomy xxxi. 1.)

Lamentations 1:5 — Lords. Literally, "at the head," (Haydock) which Moses had threatened, Deuteronomy xxvi. 1, 43. (Calmet) --- This would be most cutting. (Worthington)

Ezekiel 35:6 — Blood. The Machabees sprung from the same stock. Pursue the Idumeans, and force them to receive circumcision, 1 Machabees iv. 15.

Ezekiel 45:8 — Rob. Instead of their right, (1 Kings viii. 11.) the source of continual vexations, a certain revenue is specified, ver. 13.

Hosea 13:10 — Princes. It was on this pretext that a king was demanded, 1 Kings viii. 20. Will any now save you? (Menochius)

Hosea 9:2 — Deceive. The grapes shall yield no wine. (Calmet) --- Spem mentita seges. (Horace ii. ep. 2. and 3. ode 1. and 16.)

Wisdom of Solomon 10:17 — Stead. Luke i. 52. (Calmet) --- "Thales being asked what was difficult to be seen; replied, a tyrant grown old." (Laertius 1.)

Wisdom of Solomon 23:14 — In vain. Without a design to execute, (Grotius) or through levity, or rather falsely, Exodus xxiii. 1., and Deuteronomy v. 11.

Letter of Jeremiah 10:11 — Appointed. So Lysias gave out, chap. ix. 29. He had been governor before the journey of Epiphanes, 1 Machabees iii. 32.

Letter of Jeremiah 11:3 — Temple, as of a farm, by selling offices and requiring money of those who offered victims, 1 Machabees x. 42. (Calmet)

Letter of Jeremiah 12:2 — Timotheus and Apolloinus. Others of the same name were slain before, chap. x. 37., and 1 Machabees iii. 11. (Worthington) (Calmet)

Letter of Jeremiah 14:30 — A few. Greek and Syriac, "not a few." (Haydock) --- Nicanor attacked him, and lost 5000 men, 1 Machabees xii. 27. (Calmet)

1 Samuel 30:29 — Rachel; quizás lo mismo con Hachila, cap. xxiii. 19. y xxvi. 1. &mdash Ceni, un cantón al sur del Mar Muerto.

2 Samuel 5:11 — Hiram fue un príncipe magnífico, que mantuvo correspondencia con Salomón. Adornó mucho la ciudad de Tiro. Ver Jospehus, contra Apion 1.)

2 Samuel 7:21 — Por el amor de la palabra. Algunas copias (Haydock) de la Septuaginta dicen "amor del siervo", como 1 Paralipomenon xvii. (Calmet)