Wesley Corpus

Chapter VII The prosperity of Issachar, ver. 1 - 5. Of Benjamin, ver. 6 - 12. Of Naphtali, ver. 13. Of Manasseh, ver. 14 - 19. Of Ephraim, ver. 20 - 29. Of Asher, ver. 30 - 40. Three - They were ten, ...

Circumcised - Which God would have done, As a testimony of God's reconciliation to the people, and that he would not farther impute their parents rebellion to them. Because the great impediment of cir...

Drawn - In readiness to fight, not, as Joshua thought, against him, but for him and his people. As captain - I am the chief captain of this people, and will conduct and assist thee and them in this gr...

Commanded Joshua - Not particularly, but in general; because he commanded Joshua to observe and do all that God had commanded him by Moses, and all that he should command him any other way. Hasted - T...

Circumcised - Which God would have done, As a testimony of God's reconciliation to the people, and that he would not farther impute their parents rebellion to them. Because the great impediment of cir...

The passover - Which was their third passover: the first was in Egypt, Exod 12:11 - 24, the second at mount Sinai, Numb 9:1 - 5, the third here; for in their wilderness travels, these and all other sa...

This land, before the conquests of Sihon and Og, belonged partly to the Ammonites, and partly to the Moabites. And indeed, Moab and Ammon did for the most part join their interests and their forces. T...

4. "But does not the Scripture" (it has been objected, Fourthly) "direct us to wait for salvation? Does not David say, 'My soul waiteth upon God, for of him cometh my salvation'? And does not Isaiah t...

Among you - Is present with you to strengthen and help you. Twelve men - For the work described, Jos 4:2,3. The ark of the Lord - That so it may appear this is the Lord's doing, and that in pursuance ...

Chapter IV Israel revolting from God is oppressed by Jabin, ver. 1 - 3. Deborah concerts their deliverance with Barak, ver. 4 - 9. Barak takes the field and conquers, ver. 10 - 16. Sisera flies and is...

8. Nor can we expect, till then, to be wholly free from temptation. Such perfection belongeth not to this life. It is true, there are those who, being given up to work all uncleanness with greediness,...

And though he mentions this only concerning David's young men, and out of reverence forbears to name him; yet he is also included in the number, as David's answer shews. Three days - As long as the la...

For what altar could be built of the earth which two mules could carry into Syria Unless they were as large and as strong as Elephants. Rimmon - A Syrian idol, called here by the LXX, Remman, and Acts...

Hath taken off - Withdrawn his hand from hurting or wronging the poor, tho' he had power to do it securely. Shall not bear - This is a most unquestionable truth; and tho' perhaps it may seem otherwise...

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat - Blood made atonement for the soul, Lev 17:11. The life of the sacrifice was accepted for the life of the sinner. Blood m...

Do, &c. - Kill him, though he be there; take him from that place, and then kill him: for, Exod 21:14, doth not command the ruler to kill the murderer there, but to remove him thence, to take him from ...

Chapter V The poor complain of being oppressed by the rich, ver. 1 - 5. Nehemiah removes the oppression, ver. 6 - 13. He sets an example of compassion on the poor, ver. 14 - 19. Many - Which is in its...

Chapter III Another type of the spiritual whoredom of Israel, ver. 1 - 3. The punishment of it, ver. 4. Their reformation, ver. 5. Of her friend - Her husband. An adulteress - Either already tainted, ...

Cut off - By the sword or famine. The flesh - Either live to be besieged, 'till hunger makes the living eat the dead, or by seditions and bloody intestine quarrels, destroy each other. Even beauty - W...

David escapes to the cave of Adullam, where many resort to him, ver. 1, 2. Lodges his parents with the king of Moab, ver. 3, 4. Comes to the forest of Hareth, ver. 5. Saul complains of his servants as...

Chapter XII Nathan delivers and applies his parable, ver. 1 - 12. David repents and is forgiven, but punished, ver. 13. 14. The sickness and death of the child, with David's behaviour on the occasion,...

Chapter XXIV Job shews that open sinners are often prosperous, ver. 1 - 12. That secret sinners often pass undiscovered, ver. 13 - 18. That God punishes such by secret judgments, and reserves them for...

The women - The widows. Of my people - Of Israelites, not strangers, that were by peculiar provision from God's law, to be tenderly dealt with, Exod 22:22. Cast out - You have turned out of their old ...

Into Egypt - Where they long lived in grievous bondage; which God having delivered us from, I shall now pass it over. Your eyes - He speaketh this to the elders, ver.1, who were so, not only by power ...

Broken down - By some of the Baalites, out of their enmity to the true God, whose temple, because they could not reach, they shewed their malignity in destroying his altars. Twelve stones - This he di...

Partition - He made a veil, which was a farther partition between the holy, and the most holy; which veil did hang upon these golden chains. Before the oracle - In the outward part of the wall, or par...

The priests - For although the Levites might do this, Numb 4:15, yet the priests did it at this time, for the greater honour of the solemnity; and because the Levites might not enter into the holy - p...

Chapter XIII Abijah sets the battle in array against Jeroboam, ver. 1 - 3. He declares the justice of his cause, ver. 4 - 12. Trusts in God and gains the victory, ver. 13 - 20. His wives and children,...

Chapter XLI The dimensions of the house and various parts of it, ver. 1 - 13. An account of another building, ver. 14, 15. The manner of the building of the house, ver. 16, 17. The ornaments of the ho...

Closer and closer let us cleave To his beloved Embrace; Expect his fullness to receive, And grace to answer grace. 4. Allowing then, that every believer has done with the law, as it means the Jewish ...

Committed - Both by encouraging the people, and joining with them in their idolatries. Stand - He now turns his speech to the people, and gives them counsel; by a metaphor taken from travellers, that ...

9. And in becoming all things to all men, "love seeketh not her own." In striving to please all men, the lover of mankind has no eye at all to his own temporal advantage. He covets no man's silver, or...

Chapter XVII Micah provides an image for his God, ver. 1 - 6. And a Levite for his priest, ver. 7 - 13. There was, &c. - The things mentioned here, and in the following chapters, did not happen in the...

Too much - Too great a trouble and charge, and neither necessary, nor safe for them, as things now stood. Behold thy gods - Not as if he thought to persuade the people, that these calves were that ver...

"Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3.) "Therefore now, saith the Lord," who is not willing any should perish, "turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with w...

The priests - For although the Levites might do this, Numb 4:15, yet the priests did it at this time, for the greater honour of the solemnity; and because the Levites might not enter into the holy - p...

Chapter XXII David prepares for building the temple, ver. 1 - 5. Instructs Solomon concerning the work, ver. 6 - 16. Commands the princes to assist him therein, ver. 17 - 19. Said - Thro' the instinct...

Talents - A talent of Gold in the first constitution was three thousand shekels, as may be gathered from Exod 38:24,25,26, and so this amounts to a vast sum, yet not impossible for David to get, consi...