Bible Commentaries

1 Kings 14:12 — Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: [and] when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. The child shall die. — This heavy news could not but pierce through the mother’s soul as a sword. Luke 2:35 A child he is called, because dearly beloved of his parents; but he was of age enough to choose the good and refuse the evil. 1 Kings 14:13

1 Kings 7:7 — Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other. Then he made a porch for the throne. — That stately throne of ivory. 1 Kings 10:18-20 Even the porch of judgment. — Built for the conveniency of such as came to the king for judgment.

1 Kings 9:23 — These [were] the chief of the officers that [were] over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work. Five hundred and fifty. — Nothing so many as he had about his temple work. 1 Kings 5:16 These also took their turns, two hundred and fifty at a time, and fifty to be over them also. 2 Chronicles 8:10

Leviticus 21:12 — Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God [is] upon him: I [am] the LORD. For the crown of the anointing. — Noting thereby that Christ, now risen, is crowned with glory and honour; Hebrews 2:7 Zechariah 6:12 and so shall we with him. Hebrews 2:9-10 1 Corinthians 15:47-49

Leviticus 25:35 — And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. That he may live with thee, — i.e., Live in good fashion; for a necessitous life is a lifeless life. Thus shall ye say to him that liveth. 1 Samuel 25:6 So John 4:50 , "Thy son liveth."

Numbers 22:7 — And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. With the rewards of divination. — Which Jude calls the wages of wickedness. Judges 1:11 2 Peter 2:15 The Athenians complained, that Philip by his gold had corrupted the oracle of Apollo, which now did φιλιππιζειν .

Numbers 3:4 — And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father. And Nadab and Abihu. — Such a cross had David in his two eldest, Amnon and Absalom. See Trapp on " Leviticus 10:1 " See Trapp on " Leviticus 10:2 "

Deuteronomy 29:28 — And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as [it is] this day. And cast them into another land. — Cast them with a violence, with a vengeance; - in the Hebrew the word cast hath an extraordinary large letter ì ; - "sling them out as out of a sling." 1 Samuel 25:29 Hebrew Text Note

Joshua 9:4 — They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; They did work wilily. — They exercised a serpentine subtilty, and dealt fraudulently, as Genesis 3:1 ; but where was their columbine simplicity? Matthew 10:16 They strain hard to save their lives. But a man should rather die than lie.

Judges 1:21 — Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Keep yourselves — Remit nothing of your former fervour. But keep afoot and alive that twofold love of God: 1. That of desire, and earnest delight and intense longing after him, as our chiefest good. 2. Of delight and complacency, whereby we hug and embrace him, solacing ourselves in the fruition of him.

Judges 13:14 — She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing]: all that I commanded her let her observe. She may not eat, …, — viz., While she is with child, or a nurse: and let her see that the child do much more refrain the use of those things forbidden him by the law. Numbers 6:1-27

Judges 19:21 — So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink. And they washed their feet. — So they usually did in those hot countries before they sat down to eat; Genesis 18:4 ; Genesis 19:2 Luke 7:44 2 Samuel 11:8 1 Timothy 5:10 for men used, because of the great heat there, to go barefooted.

1 Samuel 1:4 — And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: And when the time was that Elkanah offered. — He did not forbear to offer, because the priests were wicked and slubbering, as some weak ones did, 1 Samuel 2:17 abhorring God’s sacrifice for their sakes: wherein they are said to have transgressed, even to a cry.

1 Samuel 10:24 — And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that [there is] none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king. God save the king. — Heb., Let the king live; Sit faelix rex. - Chald. Paraph. that is, live happily, as 1 Samuel 25:6 . To live, is to live in prosperity. Princes must be prayed for.

1 Samuel 2:18 — But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a child, girded with a linen ephod. But Samuel ministered before the Lord. — He did some small charges, as setting up lights, laying up vestments, learning music, or the like. See 1 Samuel 2:11 . Girded with a linen ephod. — Theoderet saith, Quest. 8. that for the excellent grace appearing in him, and the hopes conceived of him, Eli imparted unto him this honour.

1 Samuel 23:25 — Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. He pursued after David. — Hunting him up and down as a partridge in the mountains this made him so tender, as we see he was. 1 Samuel 24:5

1 Samuel 26:2 — Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. Then Saul arose. — Though he had otherwise resolved. 1 Samuel 24:16-22 Good motions that fall into wicked hearts, are like some sparks that fall from the flint and steel into wet tinder; light some for the time, but soon go out.

1 Samuel 28:4 — And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa. And pitched in Shunem. — A city in the tribe of Issachar, ennobled afterwards by the good Shunamite with whom Elisha hosted. 2 Kings 4:8 Pitched in Gilboa. — Baleful and baneful to Saul and his sons: and therefore cursed by David. 2 Samuel 1:21

2 Samuel 23:15 — And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which [is] by the gate! Oh that one would give me drink of the water, — q.d., If wishing were anything, I had as lief as any good, … Id certe mallem, quam multum argenti accipere. Joseph. He had like longings after God. Psalms 42:1-2 ; Psalms 119:5 ; Psalms 119:20

2 Samuel 9:6 — Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant! And David said, Mephibosheth. — He is also called Meribbaal, 1 Chronicles 8:34 but his name was, haply, turned to Mephibosheth, saith Martyr, for some deformity that happened to his face in his fall. 2 Samuel 4:4