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Job 5:13
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Paul (1Co 3:19) quoted this clause with the formula establishing its inspiration, "it is written." He cites the exact Hebrew words, not as he usually does the Septuagint, Greek version (Ps 9:15)....
Revelation 11:11
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This eleventh chapter is a compendious summary of, and introduction to, the more detailed prophecies of the same events to come in the twelfth through twentieth chapters. Hence we find anticipatory...
1 Samuel 29:1
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Aphek--(Jos 12:8), in the tribe of Issachar, and in the plain of Esdraelon. A person who compares the Bible account of Saul's last battle with the Philistines, with the region around Gilboa, has t...
Song of Solomon 1:14
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cluster--Jesus Christ is one, yet manifold in His graces. camphire--or, "cypress." The "hennah" is meant, whose odorous flowers grow in clusters, of a color white and yellow softly blended; its...
Hosea 5:2
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revolters--apostates. profound--deeply rooted [Calvin] and sunk to the lowest depths, excessive in their idolatry (Ho 9:9; Isa 31:6) [Henderson]. From the antithesis (Ho 5:3), "not hid from me," I...
Nehemiah 2:2 - 5
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the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad?--It was deemed highly unbecoming to appear in the royal presence with any weeds or signs of sorrow (Es 4:2); and hence it was no wonder that the...
1 Kings 13:18
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an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord--This circuitous mode of speaking, instead of simply saying, "the Lord spake to me," was adopted to hide an equivocation, to conceal a double me...
Song of Solomon 1:4
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(1) The cry of ancient Israel for Messiah, for example, Simeon, Anna, &c. (2) The cry of an awakened soul for the drawing of the Spirit, after it has got a glimpse of Christ's loveliness and its...
1 Samuel 13:3 - 4
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And Jonathan--that is, "God-given." smote the garrison of the Philistines...in Geba--Geba and Gibeah were towns in Benjamin, very close to each other (Jos 18:24, 28). The word rendered "garrison"...
Psalms 3:5
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the Lord sustained me--literally, "will sustain me," as if his language or thought when he laid down, and the reason of his composure.
Joshua 17:11
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Beth-shean and her towns--Greek, "Scythopolis" (now Beisan), in the valley of the Jordan, towards the east end of the plain of Jezreel. "Beth-shean" means "house of rest," so called from its being...
1 Kings 20:22 - 26
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the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said--The same prophet who had predicted the victory shortly reappeared, admonishing the king to take every precaution against a renewal of hostilities...
Genesis 35:7
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El-Beth-el--that is, "the God of Beth-el."
Esther 9:1
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in the twelfth month,...on the thirteenth day of the same--This was the day which Haman's superstitious advisers had led him to select as the most fortunate for the execution of his exterminating...
Ecclesiastes 10:6
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rich--not in mere wealth, but in wisdom, as the antithesis to "folly" (for "foolish men") shows. So Hebrew, rich, equivalent to "liberal," in a good sense (Isa 32:5). Mordecai and Haman (Es 3:1,...
Deuteronomy 3:1
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we turned, and went up the way to Bashan--Bashan ("fruitful" or "flat"), now El-Bottein, lay situated to the north of Gilead and extended as far as Hermon. It was a rugged mountainous country,...
Amos 5:6
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break out like fire--bursting through everything in His way. God is "a consuming fire" (De 4:24; Isa 10:17; La 2:3). the house of Joseph--the kingdom of Israel, of which the tribe of Ephraim,...
Isaiah 29:10
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Jehovah gives them up judicially to their own hardness of heart (compare Zec 14:13). Quoted by Paul, with variations from the Septuagint, Ro 11:8. See Isa 6:10; Ps 69:23. eyes; the prophets, &c....
Esther 2:5
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Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew--Mordecai held some office about the court. But his "sitting at the king's gate" (Es 2:21) does not necessarily imply that he was in the humble...
1 Kings 13:11
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Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el--If this were a true prophet, he was a bad man.
Joshua 7:2
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Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai--After the sacking of Jericho, the next step was to penetrate into the hills above. Accordingly, spies went up the mountain pass to view the country. The precise...
Mark 5:22
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And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue--of which class there were but few who believed in Jesus (Joh 7:48). One would suppose from this that the ruler had been with the...
Daniel 6:7
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The Persian king was regarded as representative of the chief god, Ormuzd; the seven princes near him represented the seven Amshaspands before the throne of Ormuzd; hence Mordecai (Es 3:4) refused...
Job 9:25
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a post--a courier. In the wide Persian empire such couriers, on dromedaries or on foot, were employed to carry the royal commands to the distant provinces (Es 3:13, 15; 8:14). "My days" are not...
2 Chronicles 32:4
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So there was gathered much people...who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land--"Where these various fountains were, we have now no positive means of...
Numbers 34:5
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river of Egypt--the ancient brook Sihor, the Rhinocolura of the Greeks, a little to the south of El-Arish, where this wady gently descends towards the Mediterranean (Jos 13:3).
Amos 1:2
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will roar--as a lion (Joe 3:16). Whereas Jehovah is there represented roaring in Israel's behalf, here He roars against her (compare Ps 18:13; Jer 25:30). from Zion...Jerusalem--the seat of the the...
Isaiah 58:5
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for a man to afflict his soul--The pain felt by abstinence is not the end to be sought, as if it were meritorious; it is of value only in so far as it leads us to amend our ways (Isa 58:6, 7). ...
John 6:57
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As the living Father hath sent me--to communicate His own life. and I live by the Father--literally, "because of the Father"; My life and His being one, but Mine that of a Son, whose it is to be...
Isaiah 38:16
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by these--namely, by God's benefits, which are implied in the context (Isa 38:15, "He hath Himself done it" "unto me"). All "men live by these" benefits (Ps 104:27-30), "and in all these is the...
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