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they could not enter--though desiring it.
Woman--in Hebrew, "man-ess."
favour--Hebrew, "face" (Ps 45:12).
make mention--Hebrew, "cause it to be remembered."
stayed--Hebrew, "a limit shall be set to."
yourselves--Hebrew, "souls."
so--thus relying on the promise.
the Lord--Hebrew, "Jehovah."
Ethiopia--Cush in the Hebrew. Either Ethiopia, or the south of Arabia, near the Tigris.
in this place--In this passage of the Psalm again, it is implied that the rest was even then still future.
in blood--not literally. In Hebrew, "blood" expresses every premature kind of death.
and they know not--Hebrew for "suddenly, unexpectedly, before they are aware of it" (Ps 35:8); "at unawares"; Hebrew, which "he knoweth not of" (Joe 2:14; Pr 5:6).
Shemuel--that is, Samuel. This is the exact representation of the Hebrew name.
was afraid--The root meaning in Hebrew is "to crawl" (De 32:24).
hid--Hebrew, "caused Him to hide" (La 3:44).
all--The Scriptures are intended for all, young and old, not merely for ministers. Compare the different classes addressed, "wives," Eph5:22; little children, 1Jo 2:18; "all," 1Pe 3:8; 5:5. He says...
vesture--Greek, "an enwrapping cloak." fold them up--So the Septuagint, Ps 102:26; but the Hebrew, "change them." The Spirit, by Paul, treats the Hebrew of the Old Testament, with independence of...
Bashan--celebrated for its oaks, as Lebanon was for its cedars. the company of...Ashurites--the most skilful workmen summoned from Assyria. Rather, as the Hebrew orthography requires, "They have...
there were men lying in wait, abiding...in the chamber--The Hebrew, literally rendered, is, "in the inner," or "most secret part of the house."
wasteness...desolation--The Hebrew terms by their similarity of sounds, Shoah, Umeshoah, express the dreary monotony of desolation (see on Na 2:10).
Quotation from Ps 110:1. The image is taken from the custom of conquerors putting the feet on the necks of the conquered (Jos 10:24,25).
They--Turning from a direct address to Ephraim, he uses the third person plural to characterize the people in general. The Hebrew is against the Margin, their doings will not suffer them" the...
Maaleh-akrabbim--Hebrew, "the ascent of scorpions"; a pass in the "bald mountain" (see on Jos 11:17), probably much infested by these venomous reptiles.
caterpillar--the Hebrew name, from its voracity, and that of-- locust--from its multitude.
This verse is more fitly joined to the last chapter, as verse 23 in the Hebrew (compare Isa 22:4; La 2:11; 3:48).
The Hebrew expresses "one merciful and good in relation to man," rather than to God. is perished out of the earth--(Ps 12:1).
rivers--in Hebrew, "two rivers." Hence Hebrew expositors think that the waters from the temple were divided into two branches, the one emptying itself into the eastern or Dead Sea, the other into...
Unto Shem--The historian introduces him with marked distinction as "the father of Eber," the ancestor of the Hebrews.