Bible Commentaries

Leviticus 22:6 — eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. Unless he wash his face with water. — Whereby he was led to the laver of Christ’s blood, which is opposed to legal washings. Hebrews 9:9 Run we to that open fountain, Zechariah 13:1 and be every day washing and cleansing ourselves therein from all filthiness of flesh and spirit. Every Jew had his water pots for daily purification. John 2:6 We have a far better bath.

Leviticus 6:12 — And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. It shall not be put out. — No more should our faith, love, zeal (that flame of God, as Solomon calls it, Song of Solomon 8:9 ), that should never go out; the waters should not quench it, nor the ashes cover it. Song of Solomon 8:10 2 Timothy 1:6

Numbers 10:33 — days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them. Three days’ journey. — Three days together without resting: this made them murmur. Numbers 11:1 Went before them. — And, as the Jews conceive, for the facilitating of their march the cloud levelled mountains, raised valleys, and laid all of a flat; that is, burnt up bushes, smoothed rocks, and made all plain, … Non quia dura sed

Numbers 5:18 — offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: Uncover the woman’s head. — Because she stood now upon her justification, and thereupon laid aside, for present, this sign of subjection to the man. 1 Corinthians 11:7 The offering of memorial. — Brought by her husband, Numbers 5:15 who was now sick of one of those three diseases, that they say are hardly cured, jealousy, frenzy, and heresy.

Numbers 8:3 — lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses. He lighted the lamps. — This candlestick, on the south side of the tabernacle, over against the table, figured the law of God shining in his Church; Proverbs 6:23 2 Peter 1:19 and the lighting of one lamp from another, showed the opening of one text by another. The Rabbins have a saying, Nulla est obiectio in lege quae non habet solutionem in latere; i.e., there is not any doubt in the law, but may be resolved in the context.

Deuteronomy 1:12 — your cumbrance. — A prince’s temples are not so compassed with a crown, as his mind besieged with cares; nor is he so lifted up with the splendour of his train, as cast down with the multitude of his fears. See Trapp on " Deuteronomy 1:9 " St Paul also had the "cumber επισυστασις, μεριμνα of the churches." 2 Corinthians 11:28 All care cumbered and mustered together, and that

Deuteronomy 19:8 — And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; And give thee all the land. — From Nile to Euphrates; Genesis 15:18 which by reason of their sins he never did. Pray we with Jabez, 1 Chronicles 4:10 "Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast (my heart), and that thine hand might be with me," … "When thou shalt have enlarged

Deuteronomy 28:2 — thee. — Unexpectedly befall thee. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow thee," Psalms 23:6 as the evening sunbeams follow the passenger, as the rock water followed the Israelites in the wilderness, and overtook them at their stations. 1 Corinthians 10:4 "O continue," or draw out to the length, "thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee." Psalms 36:10 There will be a continued series, a connection between them, to all such.

Joshua 15:3 — Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: To Maalehacrabbim, — i.e., To the ascent of scorpions, or of the mountains that were crooked as scorpions, or that abounded with scorpions. Judges 1:36 Passed along to Zin. — A city whence that wilderness, not the same with that of Sin or Sinai, had its name. To Hezron, and went up to Adar. — These two places are Numbers 34:4 called Hazaraddar.

Joshua 3:10 — drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites. Hereby ye shall know that the living God. — "Living" and "giving," as 1 Timothy 6:17 . "Trust in the living God, who giveth us all things richly to enjoy." The Canaanites, and the Hittites, … — To these seven were those ten nations Genesis 15:19 reduced, belike, either by mixture, or diminution of

Judges 12:9 — conjunction. The man misseth his rib, and the woman would be in her old place again, under the man’s arm or wing. "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee" - that is, a husband - "that it may be well with thee?" Ruth 3:1

Judges 13:25 — move him at times. — Or, Hither and thither, as the bells which hung in the skirts of Aaron’s garment. Those bells have their name (pagnamon) from pagham Agere sive impellere, verberare ut incus, quae nominatur "Pagnain" Isaiah 41:7 here used; because they were shaken to and fro. In the camp of Dan. — Whence some think he is called Bedan; 1 Samuel 12:11 others quasi Ben Dan, the son of Dan.

1 Samuel 13:2 — stationarios, for a selected band to be ready on all occasions: and it was but needful; for the Philistines had well nigh ousted him from his kingdom: and therefore after that he had defeated them, he is said to "take the kingdom again," say some. 1 Samuel 14:47

1 Samuel 14:36 — And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God. Let us not leave a man of them. — Here he expresseth, say some, his excessive desire of revenge, his arrogancy, and his cruelty. He had an express command not to leave a man of the Amalekites, and yet he could spare many of them. 1 Samuel 15:7-8

1 Samuel 16:18 — answered one of the servants. — Junius thinketh this might be Jonathan; Lyra, that it might be Doeg. But it is not likely that it was either, but another who had heard of David’s great acts and worth, since the Spirit of God came upon him. 1 Samuel 16:13

1 Samuel 17:20 — commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. And left the sheep with a keeper. — A commendable care: neither was there cause that Eliab should so check and chide him for the contrary. 1 Samuel 17:28 And shouted for the battle. — This was the old way of beginning the fight: so to show their courage, and to fright the enemy.

1 Samuel 22:4 — And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold. And he brought them before the king of Moab. — To whom Jesse, a grave godly man, might haply be as useful and as dear as Solon was to Croesus, or Croesus afterwards to King Cyrus; by whose good counsel he was more enriched and benefited than by all his wealth. That David was in the hold. — In the cave of Adullam, or, as others think, in Mizpeh of Moab. See 1 Samuel 22:3 .

1 Samuel 23:1 — they rob the threshingfloors. Then they told David. — The men of Keilah in the land of Judah seek help of David their countryman; but having served themselves of him, they soon proved false hearted to him, and would have made him an ill requital. 1 Samuel 23:12 In trust I have found treason, said Queen Elizabeth. Camden. And they rob the threshingfloors. — Vatablus hath it, Horrea, the barns. Horreum ab hauriendo, barns and threshingfloors were without the city, as Judges 6:11 , but necessary

1 Samuel 23:22 — there: for it is told me [that] he dealeth very subtilly. Go, I pray you, prepare yet. — Saul maketh use of these traitors, which a Roman Fabricius would have scorned to have done. For it is told me. — Or, My heart telleth me so; Psalms 36:1 or, He hath told me, viz., David, when I have asked him sometimes how he so easily overcame his enemies, hath told me that he used subtlety and policy.

1 Samuel 6:18 — this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite. Both of fenced cities. — So that the golden mice seem to have been many more than the emerods. Unto the great stone of Abel, — i.e., Of grief, so called from the great slaughter there made. 1 Samuel 6:19 See Genesis 50:11 .