Bible Commentaries

Isaiah 21:1 — The burden - (see the note at Isaiah 13:1).Of the desert - There have been almost as many interpretations of this expression, as there have been interpreters. That it means Babylon, or the country about Babylon, there can be no doubt; but the question why this phrase was applied, has given

Isaiah 7:11 — shall confirm the promise now made, and that shall be an evidence that Jerusalem shall be safe. The word used here, and translated “sign” - ‘owt - אות 'ôth - means “a flag,” or “a standard,” Numbers 2:2; “a memorial or pledge” of a covenant, Genesis 17:11; any “pledge, token, or proof” of a divine mission, Judges 6:17; or a miracle performed in attestation of a divine promise or message. This is its sense here. That which Isaiah had spoken seemed highly improbable to Ahaz, and he asked him to seek

Jeremiah 17:5-18 — In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin.Jeremiah 17:6Like the heath - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or fear) and “shall inhabit” plainly show that a man is here meant and not a plant.Jeremiah 17:8The river - Or, “water-course” Isaiah 30:25, made for purposes of

Jeremiah 24 overview — Esta profecía Jeremias 24:1 es el resultado final de lo que ha sucedido antes. Tal vez nunca se haya abordado a un rey reinante en términos tan despectivos. Cuando Jeconías fue llevado a Babilonia, Sedequías, los sacerdotes, los profetas y el pueblo de Jerusalén se felicitaron por haberse salvado de tal destino: en realidad, todo lo que era bueno entre ellos fue eliminado y puesto a salvo; y se quedaron atrás porque no valían la pena.

Jeremiah 29:3 — Elasah - Probablemente hermano de Ahikam Jeremias 26:24, y por lo tanto una persona aceptable en la corte caldea. Como Sedequías tuvo que ir personalmente a Babilonia en su cuarto año Jeremias 51:59, esta embajada probablemente fue enviada dos o tres años antes. Su fecha, sin embargo, fue posterior a la visión en Jeremias 24:1. Por lo tanto, se agrega a Jeremias 28, no como más tarde en el tiempo, sino debido a la similitud del sujeto.

Jeremiah 51:32 — historiadores afirman que cuando Cyrus capturó la ciudad, sus tropas se trasladaron por el lecho del río y ocuparon todos estos transbordadores, encontrando en cada uno de ellos las puertas dejadas negligentemente abiertas. Consulte la nota Daniel 5:1. Las cañas - literalmente, las marismas o estanques, que formaban una parte importante de las defensas de Babilonia, se secaron tan completamente como se consumiría un trozo de madera por fuego.

Lamentations 3 overview — Esta elegía Lamentaciones 3 es la forma más elaborada y la más sublime en sus ideas de los cinco poemas que componen el Libro de las Lamentaciones. Presenta la imagen del sufrimiento más profundo, pasando a la confesión del pecado, el reconocimiento de la justicia de Dios y la oración de fe por el perdón. Es la representación ideal de ese dolor piadoso que hace que el arrepentimiento para salvación no se arrepienta de 2 Corintios 12:1.

Ezekiel 35:5 — Derramar sangre - Omitir "sangre:" mejor que en el margen, i. e., y has entregado a los hijos de Israel a la espada; dispersaste a los hijos de Israel confundidos como piedras caídas por la ladera de una montaña Miqueas 1:6. Que su iniquidad tuvo un final - O, "de la iniquidad del final", i. e., el momento en que por la captura de la ciudad la iniquidad de Israel llegó a su fin Ezequiel 21:29.

Hosea 9:7 — mad,” , as Festus thought of Paul; “Thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad” Acts 26:24. Jehu’s captains called by the same name the young prophet whom Elisha sent to anoint him. “Wherefore came this mad fellow unto thee?” 2 Kings 9:11. Shemaiah, the false prophet, who deposed God’s priest, set false priests to “be officers in the house of the Lord,” to have an oversight as to “every man who is mad and maketh himself a prophet,” calling Jeremiah both a false prophet and a “madman”

Numbers 6:1-21 — only regulate one already familiar to the Israelites Numbers 6:2.Numbers 6:2A Nazarite - Strictly, Nazirite. This term signifies “separated” i. e., as the words following show, “unto God.” It became a technical term at an early date; compare Judges 13:5, Judges 13:7; Judges 16:17.Numbers 6:3Liquor of grapes - i. e. a drink made of grape-skins macerated in water.Numbers 6:4From the kernels even to the husk - A sour drink was made from the stones of unripe grapes; and cakes were also made of the husks

Micah 7:20 — it, His truth. Abraham also stands for all those, who in him and his Seed should be blessed, those who were “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world” Ephesians 2:12, in no covenant or relation with God, as well as those who were the children of the faith; pagan, as well as Jews. Jacob represents these who were immediately his children, such of the children of Israel, as were also the true Israel and children of

Matthew 28:1 — began to dawn,” etc.As it began to dawn toward the first day of the week - The word “dawn” is not of necessity in the original. The word there properly means as the first day “approached,” or drew on, without specifying the precise time. Mark says Mark 16:1-2 that it was after “the sabbath was past, and very early in the morning, at the rising of the sun” - that is, not that the sun “was risen,” but that it was about to rise, or at the early break of day. Luke says Luke 24:1 that it was “very early

Matthew 5:5 — surrender of our rights, nor cowardice; but it is the opposite of sudden anger, of malice, of long-harbored vengeance. Christ insisted on his right when he said, “If I have done evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?” John 18:23. Paul asserted his right when he said, “They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves, and fetch us out,” Acts 16:37. And yet Christ

Matthew 9:1 — Y entró en un barco ... - Jesús accedió a la solicitud de la gente de Gadara Mateo 8:34, volvió a cruzar el Lago de Gennesareth y regresó a su propia ciudad. Por "su propia ciudad" se entiende Capernaum Marco 2:1, la ciudad que en ese momento era su hogar, o donde tenía su vivienda. Vea las notas en Mateo 4:13. Esta misma cuenta, con algunas circunstancias adicionales, está contenida en Marco 2:3 y Lucas 5:18.

Luke 2:14 — bring peace. The Saviour was predicted as the Prince of peace, Isaiah 9:6. The world is at war with God; sinners are at enmity against their Maker and against each other. There is no peace to the wicked. But Jesus came to make peace; and this he did,1. By reconciling the world to God by His atonement.2. By bringing the sinner to a state of peace with his Maker; inducing him to lay down the weapons of rebellion and to submit his soul to God, thus giving him the peace which passeth all understanding.3.

Acts 8:26 — And the angel of the Lord - The word “angel” is used in the Scriptures in a great variety of significations. See the notes on Matthew 1:20. Here it has been supposed by some to mean literally a celestial messenger sent from God; others have supposed that it means a “dream”; others a “vision,” etc. The word properly means a “messenger”; and all that it can be shown to signify here is,

1 Corinthians 5:11 — keep company - To be wholly separated and withdrawn from such a person. Not to associate with him in any manner.If any man that is called a brother - Any professing Christian; any member of the church.Be a fornicator ... - Like him who is mentioned, 1 Corinthians 5:1.Or an idolater - This must mean those persons who, while they professed Christianity, still attended the idol feasts, and worshipped there. Perhaps a few such may have been found who had adopted the Christian profession hypocritically.Or

1 Corinthians 5:5 — would be subject to corporal inflictions by the agency of Satan, which are here called the “destruction of the flesh.” Satan is elsewhere referred to as the author of bodily diseases. Thus, in the case of Job, Job 2:7. A similar instance is mentioned in 1 Timothy 1:20, where Paul says he had delivered Hymeneus and Alexander to “Satan, that they might learn not to blaspheme.” It may be observed here that though this was to be done by the concurrence of the church, as having a right to administer discipline,

Ephesians 5:4 — The meaning is, that Christians should aim to have their conversation sensible, serious, sincere - remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, “that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment;” Matthew 12:36.Nor jesting - εὐτραπελία eutrapelia. This word occurs also nowhere else in the New Testament. It properly means, that which is “well-turned” εὐ eu - well, and τρεπω trepō - to turn); and then that which is sportive, refined, courteous; and then

Revelation 1:13 — the likeness of the Son of man could stand in the midst of them.One like unto the Son of man - This was evidently the Lord Jesus Christ himself, elsewhere so often called “the Son of man.” That it was the Saviour himself is apparent from Revelation 1:18. The expression rendered “like unto the Son of man,” should have been “like unto a son of man”; that is, like a man, a human being, or in a human form. The reasons for so interpreting it are: (a)That the Greek is without the article, and (b)That,