Can't find the answer are looking for?
Ask a Questionpour out their blood by the force of the sword--literally, "by the hands of the sword." So Eze 35:5. Maurer with Jerome translates, "deliver them over to the power of the sword." But compare Ps...
blast--rather, "I will put a spirit (Isa 28:6; 1Ki 22:23) into him," that is, so influence his judgment that when he hears the report (Isa 37:9, concerning Tirhakah), he shall return [Gesenius];...
For--Such diligent striving (Heb 4:11) is incumbent on us FOR we have to do with a God whose "word" whereby we shall be judged, is heart-searching, and whose eyes are all-seeing (Heb 4:13). The...
Then Peter took him--aside, apart from the rest; presuming on the distinction just conferred on him; showing how unexpected and distasteful to them all was the announcement. and began to rebuke him...
take--a different Greek word from that in Eph 6:13, 16; translate, therefore, "receive," "accept," namely, the helmet offered by the Lord, namely, "salvation" appropriated, as 1Th 5:8, "Helmet, the...
out of his mouth...sword--(Re 1:16; 2:12, 16). Here in its avenging power, 2Th 2:8, "consume with the Spirit of His mouth" (Isa 11:4, to which there is allusion here); not in its convicting and...
he had--Greek, "having." John takes up the description from time to time, irrespective of the construction, with separate strokes of the pencil [Alford]. in...right hand seven stars--(Re 1:20; Re...
He addresses "the daughter of Zion" (Jer 6:23); caution to the citizens of Jerusalem not to expose themselves to the enemy by going outside of the city walls. sword of the enemy--literally, "there...
every man's sword...against his brother--I will destroy them partly by My people's sword, partly by their swords being turned against one another (compare 2Ch 20:23).
"From the sword" which proceedeth "from their mouth" (Ps 59:7;57:4).
power--(Jer 5:12). Hebrew, "hands." of the sword--(Eze 35:5, Margin). Hands are given to the sword personified as a living agent.
And thus--omitted in the oldest manuscripts and versions. secrets of his heart made manifest--He sees his own inner character opened out by the sword of the Spirit (Heb 4:12; Jas 1:23), the word of...
houses...thrown down by the mounts--namely, by the missiles cast from the besiegers' mounds (Jer 32:24); "and by the sword" follows properly, as, after missiles had prepared the way, the foe next...
terrors by reason of the sword, &c.--rather, "they (the princes of Israel) are delivered up to the sword together with My people" [Glassius]. smite...upon...thigh--a mark of grief (Jer 31:19).
the sword--invaders. An appropriate illustration at the time of the invasion of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar.
he beareth not the sword in vain--that is, the symbol of the magistrate's authority to punish.
sword--namely, of God (De 32:41). The Chaldeans are His instrument.
brandish my sword before them--literally, "in their faces," or sight.
darkness--namely, danger or calamity. Glancing at Job, who despaired of restoration: in contrast to good men when in darkness (Mic7:8, 9). waited for of--that is, He is destined for the sword...
the wood devoured more people than the sword--The thick forest of oaks and terebinths, by obstructing the flight, greatly aided the victors in the pursuit.
The "sword" did not, literally, slay all; but the judgments of God by the foe swept through the land "from the south to the north."
sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you--The very evils we think to escape by sin, we bring on ourselves thereby. What our hearts are most set on often proves fatal to us. Those who think to...
tent--the sacred tabernacle. David dedicated the sword of Goliath as a votive offering to the Lord.
The three oldest manuscripts read, "Repent, therefore." Not only the Nicolaitanes, but the whole Church of Pergamos is called on to repent of not having hated the Nicolaitane teaching and practice....
(Jer 5:12, 13). By sword and famine...consumed--retribution in kind both to the false prophets and to their hearers (Jer 14:16).
The Chaldean sword, to escape which ye abandoned your God, shall be brought on you by God because of that very abandonment of Him.
she is delivered to the sword--namely, by God. draw her--as if addressing her executioners: drag her forth to death.
two swords...enough--they thinking He referred to present defense, while His answer showed He meant something else.
The repetition of "A sword" in the beginning of each verse, by the figure anaphora, heightens the effect; the reiterated judgment is universal; the same sad stroke of the sword is upon each and all...
The speedy death by the sword is better than the lingering death by famine. pine away--literally, "flow out"; referring to the flow of blood. This expression, and "stricken through," are drawn from...