Bible Commentaries

Ezra 4 overview — CHAPTER 4 :-. THE BUILDING HINDERED.

Job 4 overview — CHAPTER 4 :-. FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.

Psalms 136:4 — 4. alone—excluding all help.

Psalms 20:4 — 4. thy counsel—or plan.

Psalms 55:4 — 4, 5. express great alarm.

Psalms 80:4 — 4. be angry—(Compare Margin.)

Proverbs 1:1 — 1-4. (See :- Part I).

Proverbs 6:4 — 4, 5. The danger requires promptness.

Song of Solomon 3:11 — mother," that so crowned Him, is the human race, for He is "the Son of man," not merely the son of Mary. The same mother reconciled to Him (Revelation 19:12- :), as the Church, travails in birth for souls, which she presents to Him as a crown (Philippians 4:1; Revelation 4:10). Not being ashamed to call the children brethren (Revelation 4:10- :), He calls their mother His mother (Psalms 22:9; Romans 8:29; Revelation 12:1; Revelation 12:2). behold— (Revelation 12:2- :). day of his espousals—chiefly the

Isaiah 40:2 — Jerusalem—Jerusalem though then in ruins, regarded by God as about to be rebuilt; her people are chiefly meant, but the city is personified. cry—publicly and emphatically as a herald cries aloud ( :-). warfare—or, the appointed time of her misery ( :-, Margin; Job 14:14; Daniel 10:1). The ulterior and Messianic reference probably is the definite time when the legal economy of burdensome rites is at an end (Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:4). pardoned—The Hebrew expresses that her iniquity is so expiated that God now delights

Isaiah 48:5 — 5. (See on :-; Isaiah 48:4).

Isaiah 8:4 — 4. before, &c.—within a year.

Jeremiah 34:4 — 4, 5. Mitigation of Zedekiah's punishment.

Daniel 4:13 — one—rather, "even an holy one." Only one angel is intended, and he not one of the bad, but of the holy angels. Called a "watcher," because ever on the watch to execute God's will [JEROME], (Psalms 103:20; Psalms 103:21). Compare as to their watchfulness, Revelation 4:8, "full of eyes within . . . they rest not day and night." Also they watch good men committed to their charge (Psalms 34:7; Hebrews 1:14); and watch over the evil to record their sins, and at God's bidding at last punish them (Jeremiah 4:16; Jeremiah

Daniel 7:19 — prophetically exhibit to the hostile world powers Israel as triumphant over them at last, though the world powers of the East (Asshur) and the West (Chittim) carry all before them and afflict Eber (Israel) for a time (Numbers 23:8-10; Numbers 23:28; Numbers 24:2; Numbers 24:7-9; Numbers 24:22-24). To Balaam's "Asshur" correspond Daniel's two eastern kingdoms, Babylon and Medo-Persia; to "Chittim," the two western kingdoms, Greece and Rome (compare Genesis 10:4; Genesis 10:11; Genesis 10:22). In Babel, Nimrod

Amos 3:3 — Spirit were not joined with them, or if their prophecies were false? The Israelites were "at ease," not believing that God was with the prophets in their denunciations of coming ruin to the nation (Amos 6:1; Amos 6:3; compare 1 Kings 22:18; 1 Kings 22:24; 1 Kings 22:27; Jeremiah 43:2). This accords with Amos 3:7; Amos 3:8. So "I will be with thy mouth" (Exodus 4:12; Jeremiah 1:8; Matthew 10:20). If the prophets and God were not agreed, the former could not predict the future as they do. In Amos 2:12 He

Numbers 4 overview — CHAPTER 4 :-. OF THE LEVITES' SERVICE.

Numbers 5:6 — implied, in the case supposed, that the offense has been aggravated by prevaricating—by a false oath, or a fraudulent lie in denying it, which is a "trespass" committed against God, who is the sole judge of what is falsely sworn or spoken (Acts 5:3; Acts 5:4). and that person be guilty—that is, from the obvious tenor of the passage, conscience-smitten, or brought to a sense and conviction of his evil conduct. (See on Acts 5:4- :). In that case, there must be: first, confession, a penitential acknowledgment of

Deuteronomy 33:2 — 2-4. The Lord came—Under a beautiful metaphor, borrowed from the dawn and progressive splendor of the sun, the Majesty of God is sublimely described as a divine light which appeared in Sinai and scattered its beams on all the adjoining region in directing

Deuteronomy 4 overview — CHAPTER 4 :-. AN EXHORTATION TO OBEDIENCE.