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Ask a QuestionHere is an explanation of the parable in the last chapter. It is declared that the Lord was about to cut off Jerusalem and the whole land, that all might know it was his decree against a wicked and...
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets--Towards the close of the seventh circuit, the signal was given by Joshua, and on the Israelites' raising their loud war cry, the walls...
the battle went sore against Saul, &c.--He seems to have bravely maintained his ground for some time longer; but exhausted with fatigue and loss of blood, and dreading that if he fell alive into...
Assyrian--Sennacherib, representative of some powerful head of the ungodly in the latter ages [Horsley]. sword, not of...mighty...mean man--but by the unseen sword of God. flee--Sennacherib alone...
my mouth...sword--(Isa 11:4; Re 19:15). The double office of the Word of God, saving and damnatory, is implied (Isa 50:4; Joh 12:48; Heb4:12). shaft--(Ps 45:5). "Polished," that is, free from all...
He--Jehovah. made many to fall--literally, "multiplied the faller," that is, fallers. one fell upon another--(Jer 46:6, 12): even before the enemy strikes them (Le 26:37). let us go again to our...
bowels...troubled--(Job 30:27; Isa 16:11; Jer 4:19; 31:20). Extreme mental distress affects the bowels and the whole internal frame. heart...turned--(Ho 11:8); is agitated or fluttered. ...
Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword--The barbarous atrocities perpetrated against this city seem to have been designed to terrify all the subjects of Saul from...
The king is addressed as ready to go forth to battle. sword--(Compare Re 1:16; 19:15). mighty--(Compare Isa 9:6). glory and...majesty--generally used as divine attributes (Ps 96:6; 104:1; 111:3),...
Jeremiah, from addressing the sword in the second person, turns to his hearers and speaks of it in the third person. Lord...given it a charge--(Eze 14:17). the sea-shore--the strip of land between...
as the wounded--famine being as deadly as the sword (Jer 52:6). soul...poured...into...mothers bosom--Instinctively turning to their mother's bosom, but finding no milk there, they breathe out...
We gat our bread with...peril--that is, those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldeans. because of...sword of...wilderness--because of the liability to attack by the robber Arabs...
all...about him--his satellites: his bodyguard. bands--literally, "the wings" of an army (Isa 8:8). draw out...sword after them--(See on Eze 5:2; Eze 5:12).
Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar (God's sword, Isa 10:5) conquered Egypt, with which Ethiopia was closely connected as its ally (Jer46:2-9; Eze 30:5-9). Ye--literally, "They." The third person...
Then said Jesus--"Suffer ye thus far" (Lu 22:51). Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?--This expresses both the feelings which struggled in...
judge thee, as women that break wedlock--(Le 20:10; compare Eze16:2). In the case of individual adulteresses, stoning was the penalty (Joh 8:4, 5). In the case of communities, the sword. Also...
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David--To receive any part of the dress which had been worn by a sovereign, or his eldest son and heir, is deemed, in the...
Isaiah said...Be not afraid--The prophet's answer was most cheering, as it held out the prospect of a speedy deliverance from the invader. The blast, the rumor, the fall by the sword, contained a...
sword, and...bow--for any instruments of violence. slay--literally, "slaughter" (1Sa 25:11). poor and needy--God's people (Ps 10:17; 12:5). The punishment of the wicked as drawn on...
two--classes of evils, for he enumerates four, namely, desolation and destruction to the land and state; famine and the sword to the people. who shall be sorry for thee--so as to give thee...
Rather, "With fire will Jehovah judge, and with His sword (He will judge) all flesh." The parallelism and collocation of the Hebrew words favor this (Isa 65:12). all flesh--that is, all who are the...
nor their fathers have known--alluding to Jer 9:14, "Their fathers taught them" idolatry; therefore the children shall be scattered to a land which neither their fathers nor they have known. send a...
Jeremiah, in the person of the Philistines afflicting themselves (Jer 47:5), apostrophizes the "sword of the Lord," entreating mercy (compare De 32:41; Eze 21:3-5, 9, 10). up thyself--Hebrew,...
We read not of any appearance of God's glory to Joshua till now. There appeared to him one as a man to be noticed. This Man was the Son of God, the eternal Word. Joshua gave him Divine honours:...
smite...hands together--(Nu 24:10), indicative of the indignant fury with which God will "smite" the people. sword...doubled the third time--referring to the threefold calamity:--(1) The taking of...
Beat your ploughshares into swords--As the foes are desired to "beat their ploughshares into swords, and their pruning hooks into spears," that so they may perish in their unhallowed attack on...
The prophet must shave off the hair of his head and beard, which signifies God's utter rejecting and abandoning that people. One part must be burned in the midst of the city, denoting the...
waste--literally, "eat up": following up the metaphor of "shepherds" (compare Nu 22:4; Jer 6:3). land of Nimrod--Babylon (Mic 4:10; Ge 10:10); or, including Assyria also, to which he extended his...
horseman--distinct from "the horses" (in the chariots, Na 3:2). lifteth up--denoting readiness for fight [Ewald]. Gesenius translates, "lifteth up (literally, 'makes to ascend') his horse."...
Why is Jerusalem in such terror? Her slain men are not slain with the sword, but with famine; or, slain with fear, disheartened. Their rulers fled, but were overtaken. The servants of God, who...