Bible Commentaries

1 Chronicles 2:4 — Y Tamar su nuera le dio a luz a Fares y a Zera. Todos los hijos de Judá fueron cinco. Ver. 4. Y Tamar. ] Ver Trapp en " Mat 1: 3 "

2 Chronicles 27:4 — Además, edificó ciudades en los montes de Judá, y en los bosques construyó castillos y torres. Ver. 4. Construyó castillos y torres. ] Para la defensa contra la invasión de enemigos.

2 Chronicles 28:23 — them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. Unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him. — So he thought, at least - for they could not smite him Jeremiah 10:5 1 Corinthians 8:4 - in the same sense as Christ is said to have bought reprobates, 2 Peter 2:1 putative scilicet. And he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria. — That he might not seem to be mad without reason, he had somewhat to say for this absurd practice

2 Chronicles 9:26 — Y reinó sobre todos los reyes desde el río hasta la tierra de los filisteos y hasta el límite de Egipto. Ver. 26. Y reinó. ] Ver 1 Reyes 4:21 .

2 Chronicles 9:3 — Y cuando la reina de Sabá vio la sabiduría de Salomón y la casa que él había edificado, Ver. 3. Había visto la sabiduría de Salomón. ] 1 Reyes 10:4 .

Nehemiah 13:28 — the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. And one of the sons of Joiada — His grandson Manasses, brother to Jaddua the high priest, a vile apostate, and first author of that famous schism and deadly feud between the Samaritans and Jews, John 4:20 (Joseph. lib. xi.). Was son-in-law to Sanballat — Who, to keep him to his wife, built a fair temple on Mount Gerizim, hard by the city of Sychem, and made Manasses chief priest thereof. Therefore I chased him from me — I caused him to

Nehemiah 5:2 — a mercy, had we but keeping for them. Their wives were very fruitful; sed luctuosa faecunditate (as Jerome saith of Laeta); for they had more mouths than meat for them. Tho young children asked for bread, and no man brake it unto them, Lamentations 4:4 . Therefore we take up corn for them — Grain upon use, to keep us from starving; and that by pawning or selling our dear children to the rich creditors for servants; till we can redeem them, which we are never like to do, Nehemiah 5:5 . That

Job 16:20 — rhetorical mockers at feasts, that made as it were set speeches against him. One rendereth it, My friends are interpreters, or rather misinterpreters, of my speeches. "For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer," Psalms 109:4 . But mine eye poureth out tears unto God — Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor. The Hebrew hath it, Mine eye droppeth or distilleth to God. Prayers and tears are the weapons of the saints, whose eyes, glazed with tears, are fitly compared to

Job 19:5 — If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach: If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me — Or, Will you indeed magnify yourselves against me? sc. because of mine error, as Job 19:4 , which yet ye have not convinced me of? Will ye insult me, therefore, and throw dirt upon me? Of Bonassus, a certain beast as big as an ox, Aristotle reporteth, that having horns bending inward and unfit for fight, after that he is wounded by the hunters,

Job 27:14 — begotten after God had threatened to root out his posterity. He, therefore, as it were to cross the Almighty, gives himself so much the more strenuously to the work of generation; but this was (like Ephraim) to bring forth children to the murderer, Hosea 4:13 . See the like of Ahaziah and his forty-two brethren slain at the shearing house. 2 Kings 10:14 And his offspring — Heb. His issues, or egressions, his shoots or branches, his pledges: so Mercer rendereth it. Shall not be satisfied with bread

Job 3:16 — mother, as untimely fruit falleth off from the tree. See Revelation 6:13 . Hidden it is called, because cast aside as an unsightly spectacle, that cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name is covered with darkness, Ecclesiastes 6:4 . Job could have wished some way or other never to have been, rather than to have been in so calamitous a condition; and herein he sinned, no doubt: for that which is of the flesh is flesh, John 3:6 . As infants which never saw light — But were

Leviticus 8:6 — Y Moisés trajo a Aarón y a sus hijos, y los lavó con agua. Ver. 6. Y Moisés trajo a Aarón. ] No se entrometieron. Ver Trapp en " Heb 5: 4 "

Mark 6:18 — Porque Juan había dicho a Herodes: No te es lícito tener la mujer de tu hermano. Ver. 18. Ver Trapp en " Mat 14: 3 " Ver Trapp en " Mat 14: 4 "

Luke 22:35 — And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. See Matthew 10:9 ; Luke 10:4 .

Luke 6:21 — Bienaventurados los que ahora tenéis hambre, porque seréis saciados. Bienaventurados los que ahora lloráis, porque reiréis. Ver. 21. Ver Trapp en " Mat 5: 4 " Ver Trapp en " Mat 5: 6 "

Colossians 3:8 — Pero ahora también vosotros dejáis todo esto; ira, ira, malicia, blasfemia, comunicación sucia de tu boca. Ver. 8. Comunicación sucia ] Las tonterías del diablo. Ver Trapp en " Efesios 5: 4 "

2 Thessalonians 1:10 — This is the chief end of his coming, like as he reprobateth some that his mercy in electing others may the more appear. To be admired — When they shall be seen to shine as the firmament, nay, as the stars, Daniel 12:3 , nay, as the sun,Matthew 13:43; Matthew 13:43 , nay, as Christ himself, that Sun of righteousness, to the great admiration of all men. Admiration is the overplus of expectation; Christ admired at his own work in the Centurion’s faith, in Nathanael’s integrity ("Behold

Titus 2:4 — of a Spartan woman, that when her neighbours were showing their apparel and jewels, she brought out her children, virtuous and well taught, and said, These are my ornaments and jewels. Mothers must learn to love their children’s souls,1 Peter 3:4; 1 Peter 3:4 .

Judges 5:6 — recounted, that the present freedom may be the better prized. The miseries also of war, especially civil, when “ vi geritur res, ” are lively described, an evil so great as no words, how wide soever, are able to express. See Lamentations 1:4 ; Lamentations 4:18 .

1 John 2:3 — perficiamus; If we think upon his commandments to do them, Psalms 103:18 , aim at them, as at a mark, Psalms 119:6 . " Non semper feriet quodcunque minabitur arcus. " Wish well to an exact obedience which yet we cannot attain to,Psalms 119:4-5; Psalms 119:4-5 ; be doing at it as we can, following after righteousness,Proverbs 15:9; Proverbs 15:9 , as a poor aprentice follows his trade, though he be nothing less than his craftmaster; and lastly, be humbled for our daily aberrations, resolving