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Revelation 22:1

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pure--A, B, Vulgate, and Hilary 22, omit. water of life--infinitely superior to the typical waters in the first Paradise (Ge 2:10-14); and even superior to those figurative ones in the millennial...

Psalms 51:7 - 15

Matthew Henry Concise

Purge me with hyssop, with the blood of Christ applied to my soul by a lively faith, as the water of purification was sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop. The blood of Christ is called the blood of...

Lamentations 5:4

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water for money--The Jews were compelled to pay the enemy for the water of their own cisterns after the overthrow of Jerusalem; or rather, it refers to their sojourn in Babylon; they had to pay tax...

Ezekiel 47:9

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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...

1 John 5:6

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This--the Person mentioned in 1Jo 5:5. This Jesus. he that came by water and blood--"by water," when His ministry was inaugurated by baptism in the Jordan, and He received the Father's testimony to...

Genesis 11:2

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land of Shinar--The fertile valley watered by the Euphrates and Tigris was chosen as the center of their union and the seat of their power.

Deuteronomy 11:12

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A land which the Lord thy God careth for--that is, watering it, as it were, with His own hands, without human aid or mechanical means.

Job 26:8

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in...clouds--as if in airy vessels, which, though light, do not burst with the weight of water in them (Pr 30:4).

Ecclesiastes 11:1

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Ec 11:2 shows that charity is here inculcated. bread--bread corn. As in the Lord's prayer, all things needful for the body and soul. Solomon reverts to the sentiment (Ec 9:10). waters--image from...

Exodus 17:2 - 3

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the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink, &c.--The want of water was a privation, the severity of which we cannot estimate, and it was a great trial to the...

Ezekiel 34:18 - 19

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Not content with appropriating to their own use the goods of others, they from mere wantonness spoiled what they did not use, so as to be of no use to the owners. deep waters--that is, "limpid," as...

Genesis 26:18 - 22

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Isaac digged again the wells of water--The naming of wells by Abraham, and the hereditary right of his family to the property, the change of the names by the Philistines to obliterate the traces of...

Judges 5:21

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the river of Kishon swept them away--The enemy was defeated near "the waters of Megiddo"--the sources and side streams of the Kishon: they that fled had to cross the deep and marshy bed of the...

Job 3:24

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my sighing cometh before I eat--that is, prevents my eating [Umbreit]; or, conscious that the effort to eat brought on the disease, Job must sigh before eating [Rosenmuller]; or, sighing takes the...

Acts 11:16 - 17

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Then remembered I the word...John...baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Forasmuch then, &c.--that is, "Since God Himself has put them on a level with ourselves, by...

2 Peter 3:6

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Whereby--Greek, "By which" (plural). By means of which heavens and earth (in respect to the WATERS which flowed together from both) the then world perished (that is, in respect to its occupants,...

Numbers 5:23 - 24

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write these curses in a book--The imprecations, along with her name, were inscribed in some kind of record--on parchment, or more probably on a wooden tablet. blot them out with the bitter water...

Job 21:24

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breasts--rather, "skins," or "vessels" for fluids [Lee]. But [Umbreit] "stations or resting-places of his herds near water"; in opposition to Zophar (Job 20:17); the first clause refers to his...

Psalms 23:2

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green pastures--or, "pastures of tender grass," are mentioned, not in respect to food, but as places of cool and refreshing rest. the still waters--are, literally, "waters of "stillness," whose...

Isaiah 44:4

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they--thy "seed" and "offspring" (Isa 44:3). as among--needlessly inserted in English Version. Rather, "The seed shall spring up as willows among the grass beside canals of water" [Horsley]. Or,...

Nahum 3:14

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Ironical exhortation to Nineveh to defend herself. Draw...waters--so as not to be without water for drinking, in the event of being cut off by the besiegers from the fountains. make strong the...

Haggai 2:13

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On the other hand, a legally "unclean" person imparts his uncleanness to any thing, whereas a legally holy thing cannot confer its sanctity on an "unclean" person (Nu 19:11, 13, 22). Legal sanctity...

Isaiah 32:20

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While the enemy shall be brought "low," the Jews shall cultivate their land in undisturbed prosperity. all waters--well-watered places (Isa 30:25). The Hebrew translation, "beside," ought rather to...

Job 9:30

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snow water--thought to be more cleansing than common water, owing to the whiteness of snow (Ps 51:7; Isa 1:18). never so clean--Better, to answer to the parallelism of the first clause which...

Ezekiel 31:15

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covered the deep--as mourners cover their heads in token of mourning, "I made the deep that watered the cedar" to wrap itself in mourning for him. The waters of the deep are the tributary peoples...

Joshua 4:18

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it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark...were come out of the midst of Jordan...that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place--Their crossing, which was the final act, completed...

Isaiah 15:7

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Therefore--because of the devastation of the land. abundance--literally, "that which is over and above" the necessaries of life. brook of...willows--The fugitives flee from Nimrim, where the waters...

Jeremiah 8:14

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assemble--for defense. let us be silent--not assault the enemy, but merely defend ourselves in quiet, until the storm blow over. put us to silence--brought us to that state that we can no longer...

Jeremiah 47:2

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waters--(Isa 8:7). The Chaldeans from the north are compared to the overwhelming waters of their own Euphrates. The smiting of Gaza was to be only the prelude of a greater disaster to the...

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