Bible Commentaries

1 Kings 11:19 — And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. So that he gave him to wife, … — Orphans are God’s clients: he ordinarily pitieth outcasts, as he did Ishmael, and promiseth to do to his poor people in that condition. Jeremiah 30:17 See Isaiah 16:4 .

1 Kings 4:4 — And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests: Ver. 4: And Zadok and Abiathar were the priests. — Abiathar had been so, and still retained the title. It may be also that upon his suit, Solomon had re-admitted him, though degraded, to serve at the altar as an ordinary priest, according to 1 Samuel 2:36 .

1 Kings 7:48 — And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread [was], The altar of gold, and the table of gold. — Yea, tables, as it is in 2 Chronicles 4:19 , ten tables for one made by Moses; to set forth the superabundant grace under Christ, figured by Solomon.

2 Kings 25:3 — And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. The famine prevailed in the city. — Insomuch as that the fathers did eat their sons, and the sons their fathers. Ezekiel 5:10 Lamentations 4:10 The pestilence also prevailed at the same time. Jeremiah 21:6-7 ; Jeremiah 24:10

2 Chronicles 1:3 — So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness. Went to the high place. — This word is usually taken in an ill sense: but here in a good. Vatab. See on 1 Kings 3:4 .

2 Chronicles 24:13 — So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it. And the work was perfected by them. — Heb., The healing went up upon the work. Metaphora tracta a corporibus quae medicina curantur: so the sun is said in spring to "heal" those deformities that winter had brought upon the earth. Malachi 4:2

Ezra 5:7 — They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace. All peace — See Trapp on " Ezra 4:17 " Peace is a complexive mercy - Pacem te poscimus omnes. It is well with bees when they make a noise in their hive; but with men when they are at quiet in their hearts, in their houses, and in the public.

Psalms 102:7 — I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. I watch — I can as little sleep as eat, Psalms 102:4 . That nurse of nature, and sweet parenthesis of men’s griefs and cares, sleep, departeth from me, And am as a sparrow — That hath lost his mate, so have I mine associates, which is a sore loss, for optimum solatium sodalitium.

Psalms 107:14 — He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. He brought them out of darkness — He sent his mandamus Originally applied generically to a number of ancient writs, letters missive, or mandates, issued by the sovereign, directing the performance of certain acts. , as Psalms 44:4 , and that did the deed, as Acts 5:19 ; Acts 12:7 .

Psalms 78:43 — How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: How he had wrought his signs in Egypt — That stage of wonders. See Psalms 78:12 . In the field of Zoan — A great city in Egypt, whereof read Isaiah 19:11 ; Isaiah 19:13 ; Isaiah 30:4 Ezekiel 30:14 . Josephus, Antiq. lib. 1, cap. 9. See Psalms 78:12 .

Psalms 78:58 — For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. For they provoked him to anger with their high places — After the manner of the heathens; yet with a good intention, as they called it; because God is to be everywhere worshipped. But this was against an express law, Deuteronomy 12:2 Exodus 20:3-4 .

Psalms 89:20 — I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: I have found David — The Father seeketh such as worship him in spirit and in truth, John 4:23 . The whole Trinity agreed upon Christ for a mediator. With my holy oil have I anointed him — How Christ was appointed and anointed to the mediatorship. See Trapp on " Psalms 45:7 "

Psalms 89:24 — But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. But my faithfulness and my mercy — My power without him according to promise, and my peace within him that passeth all understanding, shall guard his heart and mind in Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:7 . Shall his horn be exalted — He shall be eminent and eximious.

Psalms 94:17 — Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. Unless the Lord had been my help — He loveth to help at a pinch; he usually reserveth his hand for a dead lift. See 2 Timothy 4:16-17 . My soul had almost dwelt in silence — i.e. In the dark cloisters of death. The Greek and Latin translators render it, In hell.

Leviticus 16:26 — And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. Shall wash his clothes. — To show, (1.) That it was for our sins that Christ suffered; (2.) That all that partake of his benefits must wash their hearts from wickedness. Jeremiah 4:14 ; 2 Corinthians 5:15 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1

Leviticus 16:6 — And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which [is] for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. And for his house. — Whereof a minister must be mainly careful, 1 Timothy 3:4 lest, as Augustus doing justice on others, he be hit in the teeth with his own disordered family. Aaron had lately smarted in his two eldest.

Leviticus 2:12 — As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour. Ye shall offer them, — i.e., With the firstfruits ye shall offer both leaven Leviticus 23:17 and honey. 2 Chronicles 31:5 Both which are sometimes taken in the better part. Matthew 13:33 Song of Solomon 4:11

Leviticus 26:1 — Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God. Ye shall make you no idols. — See Trapp on " Exodus 20:4 " See Trapp on " Exodus 20:5 " God knew the people’s proneness to idolatry.

Deuteronomy 24:9 — Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. Did unto Miriam. — When he spat in her face, and spared her not, though a prophetess, and a conductress of God’s people to Canaan. Micah 6:4 God will not pass by the sins of his saints, if scandalous especially, without a sensible check.

1 Samuel 5:1 — And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. And the Philistines took the ark of God. — Which had been so greatly abused by the Israelites, that God justly suffered it to be taken from them by the Philistines; to whom also it proved as fatal as the gold of Tholouse to the Romans. See 1 Samuel 4:11 .