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I. 1. And, First, Why must we be born again What is the foundation of this doctrine The foundation of it lies near as deep as the creation of the world; in the scriptural account whereof we read, "And...

I. 1. And, First, Why must we be born again What is the foundation of this doctrine The foundation of it lies near as deep as the creation of the world; in the scriptural account whereof we read, "And...

God's Approbation Of His Works "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Gen. 1:31. 1. When God created the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, at the co...

3. To this creature, endued with all these excellent faculties, thus qualified for his high charge, God said, "Have thou dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every...

12. But what change will the element of water undergo when all things are made new! It will be, in every part of the world, clear and limpid; pure from all unpleasing or unhealthful mixtures; rising h...

7. Again: He writes to the Christians at Ephesus, of "putting on the new man, which is created after God, in righteousness and true holiness;" and to the Colossians, of "the new man, renewed after the...

Lastly, Noah's obedience to the instructions given him, ver. 22. Men began to multiply upon the face of the earth - This was the effect of the blessing, Gen 1:28, and yet man's corruption so abused th...

2. A dominion over them, without which the title would avail little; The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast - This revives a former grant, Gen 1:28, only with this difference, ...

2. A dominion over them, without which the title would avail little; The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast - This revives a former grant, Gen 1:28, only with this difference, ...

Set up - Heb. anointed, constituted to be the person by whom the Father resolved to do all his works, to create, to uphold and govern and judge, to redeem and save the world. From the beginning - Befo...

Set up - Heb. anointed, constituted to be the person by whom the Father resolved to do all his works, to create, to uphold and govern and judge, to redeem and save the world. From the beginning - Befo...

My heart - Is disturbed within me. Because - I have heard in the spirit of prophecy; it is as certain, as if I now heard the trumpet sounding. Destruction - Good Josiah slain, and four of his successo...

There was no violent winter, or sultry summer; no extreme, either of heat or cold. No soil was burned up by the solar heat; none uninhabitable through the want of it. Thus earth, water, air, and fire,...

11. It has been already observed that the calm, placid air will be no more disturbed by storms and tempests. There will be no more meteors, with their horrid glare, affrighting the poor children of me...

A God performing what he had promised, and so giving being to his promises. A God perfecting what he had begun, and finishing his own work. In the history of the creation God is never called Jehovah, ...

[1.] A strict prohibition. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain - Supposing that, having taken Jehovah for their God, they would make mention of his name, this command gives a caut...

Chapter XXXVII The vision of the resurrection of the dry bones, ver. 1 - 10. The explication of it, ver. 11 - 14 A type of the happy coalition which would be between Israel and Judah, ver. 15 - 22. A ...

7. By "the righteousness which is of faith" is meant, that condition of justification, (and, in consequence, of present and final salvation, if we endure therein unto the end,) which was given by God ...

2. But, although man was made in the image of God, yet he was not made immutable. This would have been inconsistent with the state of trial in which God was pleased to place him. He was therefore crea...

On The Fall Of Man "Dust thou are, and unto dust shalt thou return." Gen. 3:19. 1. Why is there pain in the world; seeing God is "loving to every man, and his mercy is over all his works" Because th...

I. 1. In the First place let us briefly consider the preceding part of this chapter. "Now the serpent was more subtil," or intelligent, "than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made;" (Gen....

I. 1. In the First place let us briefly consider the preceding part of this chapter. "Now the serpent was more subtil," or intelligent, "than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made;" (Gen....

I. 1. In the First place let us briefly consider the preceding part of this chapter. "Now the serpent was more subtil," or intelligent, "than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made;" (Gen....

And unbelief brought forth actual sin: "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and pleasant to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit, and did eat;" and so co...

3. One cannot but observe, throughout this whole narration, the inexpressible tenderness and lenity of the almighty Creator, from whom they had revolted, the Sovereign against whom they had rebelled. ...

4. Then error, pain, and all bodily infirmities cease: All these are destroyed by death. And death itself, "the last enemy" of man, shall be destroyed at the resurrection. The moment that we hear the ...

And this branch is to be joined with the former, both properties being necessary for the allowed beasts. But the reason hereof must be resolved into the will of the law - giver; though interpreters gu...

Chapter XVI Samson is greatly endangered by his intercourse with an harlot, ver. 1 - 3. Betrayed by Delilah to the Philistines thrice, ver. 4 - 14. Weakened and effectually betrayed, ver. 15 - 20. Sei...

Undressed - Not cut off by thee, but suffered to grow for the use of the poor. The sabbath of the land - That is, the growth of the sabbath, or that fruit which groweth in the sabbatical year. For thy...

Jubilee - So called either from the Hebrew word Jobel which signifies first a ram, and then a ram's horn, by the sound whereof it was proclaimed; or from Jubal the inventor of musical instruments, Gen...

In her occasion - That is, when she has an occasion to run impetuously to her male, she bears down all opposition. In her month - Perhaps the sense is, though Jerusalem be now madly bent upon going af...

3. "And unto dust thou shalt return." How admirably well has the wise Creator secured the execution of this sentence on all the offspring of Adam! It is true He was pleased to make one exception from ...

Original Sin "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Gen. 6:5. 1. How widely different is ...

The Mystery of Iniquity "The mystery of iniquity doth already work." 2 Thess. 2:7. 1. Without inquiring how far these words refer to any particular event in the Christian Church, I would at present ...

The Mystery of Iniquity "The mystery of iniquity doth already work." 2 Thess. 2:7. 1. Without inquiring how far these words refer to any particular event in the Christian Church, I would at present ...

Chapter X This chapter contains, the only certain account extant of the original of nations; and yet, perhaps, there is no nation, but that of the Jews, that can be confident from which of these seven...

The same spirit that the giants before the flood were acted by, Gen 6:4, now revived in him; so soon was that tremendous judgment, which the pride and tyranny of those mighty men brought upon the worl...

Chapter VII An account of Ezra and his expedition to Jerusalem, ver. 1 - 10. The commission which Artaxerxes gave him, ver. 11 - 26. His thankfulness to God for it, ver. 27, 28. Artaxerxes - The same ...

He adorned it with flowers of every hue, and with shrubs and trees of every kind. And every part was fertile as well as beautiful; it was no way deformed by rough or ragged rocks; it did not shock the...

He adorned it with flowers of every hue, and with shrubs and trees of every kind. And every part was fertile as well as beautiful; it was no way deformed by rough or ragged rocks; it did not shock the...

Chapter XI Of clean and unclean beasts, ver. 1 - 8. Fishes, ver. 9 - 12. Fowls, ver. 13 - 19. Creeping things whether flying, ver. 20 - 28. or creeping upon the earth, ver. 29 - 43. An exhortation to ...

The grave - The grave is not only a resting - place, but an hiding - place to the children of God. He hides them in the grave, as we hide our treasure in a place of secrecy and safety. Hide me there, ...

And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth - These Noah begat (the eldest of these) when he was six hundred years old. It should seem that Japheth was the eldest, Gen 10:21, but Shem is put first, because ...

Some think they intended hereby to secure themselves against the waters of another flood, but if they had, they would have chosen to build upon a mountain rather than upon a plain. But two things it s...

And when the sun was going down - About the time of the evening oblation. Early in the morning, while the stars were yet to be seen, God had given him orders concerning the sacrifices, Ge 15:5, and we...

And this is the more probable because the Egyptians might not taste of fish, nor of the leeks and onions, which they worshipped for Gods, and therefore the Israelites, might have them upon cheap terms...

Called for them - Probably not only the messengers, but the elders of Gibeon were now present. Ye are cursed - You shall not escape the curse of God which by divine sentence belongs to all the Canaani...

Correction - To scourge or correct men by immoderate showers. Earth - The whole earth, which is said to be the Lord's, Psal 24:1 50:12, and so this may denote a general judgment by excessive rains inf...

And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth - These Noah begat (the eldest of these) when he was six hundred years old. It should seem that Japheth was the eldest, Gen 10:21, but Shem is put first, because ...

We may here lament the loss of the universal use of the Hebrew tongue, which from henceforth was the vulgar language of the Hebrews only, and continued so till the captivity in Babylon, where, even am...

God's kindness to Israel, in multiplying them exceedingly, ver. 1 - 7. The Egyptians wickedness to them; Oppressing and enslaving them, ver. 8 - 14. Murdering their children, ver. 15 - 22. Chapter I E...

Shall be wasted - Shall be by degrees diminished by the incursions of divers enemies, till at last the Assyrian comes to compleat the work and carries them into captivity. For the Kenites who lived pa...

Chapter II Their march from Kadesh - barnea, ver. 1 - 3. A charge not to trouble the Edomites, ver. 4 - 8. Nor the Moabites, ver. 9 - 12. (They pass the river Zered, ver. 13 - 16.) Nor the Ammonites, ...

The Caphtorim - A people a - kin to the Philistines, Gen 10:14, and confederate with them in this enterprize, and so dwelling together, and by degrees uniting together by marriages, they became one pe...

They - The Israelites. Their spot - The wickedness with which they are stained, is not of his children - Plainly shews they are not his children, but the devil's. God's children have no such spot. Ind...

And all these descended from Canaan, though some of them were afterwards extinct or confounded with others of their brethren by cohabitation or mutual marriages, whereby they lost their names: which i...

Lud - Lydians, not those Cresus was king over, but those that dwelt in Egypt about the lake Maraeolis. Phut - Lybians, a people of Africa; these were their hired soldiers. Hanged the shield - In time ...

They - The Israelites. Their spot - The wickedness with which they are stained, is not of his children - Plainly shews they are not his children, but the devil's. God's children have no such spot. Ind...

7. By "the righteousness which is of faith" is meant, that condition of justification, (and, in consequence, of present and final salvation, if we endure therein unto the end,) which was given by God ...

He kissed him; in token of particular affection to him. Those that are blessed of God are kissed with the kisses of his mouth, and they do by love and loyalty kiss the son, Psa 2:12. 2. He praised him...

The more we see of God, the more cause we see for holy trembling and blushing before him. Those whom God is pleased to manifest himself to, are laid and kept very low in their own eyes, and see cause ...

But probably the greatest part was but a rude unthinking mob, that followed they knew not why: It is likely, when they understood that the children of Israel were to continue forty years in the wilder...

Beside the plains of Moreh - This was one of the first places that Abram came to in Canaan. So that in sending them thither to hear the blessing and the curse, they were minded of the promise made to ...

Nothing will make them see how wretched they are, so much as to see, how happy they might have been." Might have been! What on the supposition of absolute decrees How happy might a person not elected ...

Before God - As in God's presence, to hear what Joshua was to speak to them in God's name, and to receive God's commands from his mouth. He had taken a solemn farewell before: but as God renewed his s...

Chapter IV An invitation to true repentance, by promises, ver. 1 - 4. And judgments coming on them by the Babylonians, contrary to the predictions of their false prophets, for their sins, ver. 5 - 18....

Chapter XIV The good character of Amaziah, ver. 1 - 4. He avenges his father's death, ver. 5, 6. Overthrows the Edomites, ver. 7. Is defeated by Joash, ver. 8 - 14. The death and burial of Joash, ver....

The sea - Unto the dead sea, once a goodly plain, Gen 13:10, which was their southern border. Was bitter - Whereby he was moved to pity and help them, though they were an unworthy people. Nor any left...

The elders only that lived by faith obtained a good report. Nor doth the genealogy go any farther than the third and fourth generation, the very names of all after are buried in oblivion; it is only t...

Both together proclaim God to be the Alpha and Omega of his peoples salvation. The wilderness - This word here and elsewhere in scripture notes not a land wholly desert and uninhabited, but one thin o...

8. Now, this covenant saith not to sinful man, "Perform unsinning obedience, and live." If this were the term, he would have no more benefit by all which Christ hath done and suffered for him, than if...

Thus must we comfort others with the same comforts wherewith we ourselves have been comforted of God, and encourage them to rest on those promises which have been our support. Joseph was, under God, b...

This deliverance was typical of our redemption by Christ, and in that the eternal Word did indeed come down from heaven to deliver us. A large land - So it was, according to its true and ancient bound...

Chapter VII A command to destroy the Canaanites, with all pertaining to their idols, ver. 1 - 5. And to obey God, considering their relation to him, ver. 6 - 11. Promises to the obedient, ver. 12 - 15...

Every place - That is, within the following bounds. This Lebanon - Emphatically, as being the most eminent mountain in Syria, and the northern border of the land: or this which is within thy view. Hit...

Chapter IX God in a vision answers Solomon's prayer, ver. 1 - 9. The mutual presents of Solomon and Hiram, ver. 10 - 14. His workmen and buildings, ver. 15 - 24. His devotion, ver. 25. His navy, ver. ...

Backsliding - Running after idols; or seeking help from foreign nations, instead of applying to God. A woman - This seems to be a promise of the Jewish church in its time, and of the gospel - church, ...

She stood - The relation seems to be a little perplexed, but may be thus conceived. It is in this verse recorded in the general, that the prophet sent Gehazi to call her, and that she came to him upon...

Shall he - That is unrighteous. Govern - Elihu's argument is the same with that of Abraham, Gen 18:25, and that of St. Paul, Rom 3:5,6. If God be unrighteous, how shall he judge or govern the world An...

Chapter V Directions concerning trespass - offerings. Both this and the sin - offering were intended to make atonement for sin, but the former was more general: The latter was to be offered only in so...

Thus, he lays the blame upon the people; whereas they could not do it without his consent; and he should have used his power to over - rule them. A journey - So easy was the service, and so certain th...

And when the sun was going down - About the time of the evening oblation. Early in the morning, while the stars were yet to be seen, God had given him orders concerning the sacrifices, Ge 15:5, and we...

The watering of the host of Israel. In the wilderness they wanted water, ver. 1. In their want they chide with Moses, ver. 2, 3. Moses cried to God, ver. 4. God ordered him to smite the rock, and fetc...

Chapter XXXII Some account of Elihu, and his sentiments concerning the dispute between Job and his friends, ver. 1 - 5. He excuses his own youth, ver. 6 - 10. and pleads, that he had heard all they ha...

Chapter XXV Their disobedience to the prophets reproved, ver. 1 - 7. The seventy years of captivity foretold, ver. 8 - 11. and after that the destruction of Babylon, ver. 12 - 14. By a cup of wine is ...

It should rather seem they were images for a religious use, penates, household gods, either worshipped, or consulted as oracles; and we are willing to hope, that she took them away, not out of covetou...

The experience we have had of God's seasonable kindness in distress should encourage us to hope for the like help in the like exigencies. Even there, where there is little cry of devotion, the God of ...

Than Agag - Than the King of the Amalekites, which King and people were famous and potent in that age, as may be guessed by their bold attempt upon so numerous a people as Israel. And it is probable, ...

Shall we - Shall we poor worms give laws to our supreme Lord, and oblige him never to afflict us And shall not those great and manifold mercies, which from time to time God hath given us, compensate t...

Ointments - Because of those excellent gifts and graces of God's Spirit wherewith thou art replenished. Thy name - Thy report, the very mention of thee, and all those things by which thou makest thyse...

Chapter XXV Their disobedience to the prophets reproved, ver. 1 - 7. The seventy years of captivity foretold, ver. 8 - 11. and after that the destruction of Babylon, ver. 12 - 14. By a cup of wine is ...

Chapter XXV Their disobedience to the prophets reproved, ver. 1 - 7. The seventy years of captivity foretold, ver. 8 - 11. and after that the destruction of Babylon, ver. 12 - 14. By a cup of wine is ...

The elders only that lived by faith obtained a good report. Nor doth the genealogy go any farther than the third and fourth generation, the very names of all after are buried in oblivion; it is only t...

And he builded a city - In token of a settled separation from the church of God. And here is an account of his posterity, at least the heirs of his family, for seven generations. His son was Enoch, of...

Their folly had given sin and death entrance into the world, and now they smarted by it, being by means thereof deprived of both their sons in one day, Gen 27:45. When parents are grieved by their chi...

The rainbow appears when the clouds are most disposed to wet; when we have most reason to fear the rain prevailing, God shews this seal of the promise that it shall not prevail. The rainbow appears wh...

Chapter XVII This chapter contains articles of agreement betwixt the great Jehovah, the father of mercies, and pious Abram, the father of the faithful. Mention was made of this covenant, chap. xv. 18....

He kissed him; in token of particular affection to him. Those that are blessed of God are kissed with the kisses of his mouth, and they do by love and loyalty kiss the son, Psa 2:12. 2. He praised him...

Chapter XXVI A form of confession made by him that offered the first - fruits, ver. 1 - 11. A prayer to be made after the disposal of the third year's tithe, ver. 12 - 15. He binds all these precepts ...

The anointing of Saul, ver. 1. Samuel gives him signs and instruction, ver. 2 - 8. The signs accomplished, ver. 9 - 13. His return to his father's house, ver. 14 - 16. He is elected, solemnly inaugura...

Cursed be their anger - Not their persons. We ought always in the expressions of our zeal carefully to distinguish between the sinner and the sin, so as not to love or bless the sin for the sake of th...

Causing - The most dull, and stupid, and sleepy persons to speak. I am - This and the following verses contain the words of the bride, in answer to the bridegroom's endearing expressions delivered in ...

The preceding books of scripture are, for the most part, plain and easy narratives, which he that runs may read and understand: but in the five poetical books, on which we are now entering, Job, Psalm...

It is likely, Job was of the posterity of Nahor, Abraham's brother, whose first - born was Uz, and in whose family religion was kept up, as appears Gen 31:53, where God is called not only the God of A...

Cursed them - Nor was this punishment too great for the offence, if it be considered, that their mocking proceeded from a great malignity of mind against God; that they mocked not only a man, and an a...

Executed by the task - masters, ver. 10 - 14. Complained of to Pharaoh, but in vain, ver. 15 - 19. Complained of by the people to Moses, ver. 20, 21. and by him to God, ver. 22, 23. Thus saith the Lor...

These giants having either recovered their cities, or defended themselves in the mountains. Three sons of Anak - Either the same who are mentioned, Numb 13:33, and so they were long - lived men, such ...

The sense is, who is this Shechemite For so he was by the mother's side, born of a woman of your city, and she but his concubine and servant; why should you submit to one so basely descended Of Jerubb...

The sense is, who is this Shechemite For so he was by the mother's side, born of a woman of your city, and she but his concubine and servant; why should you submit to one so basely descended Of Jerubb...

Chapter XVII This chapter contains articles of agreement betwixt the great Jehovah, the father of mercies, and pious Abram, the father of the faithful. Mention was made of this covenant, chap. xv. 18....

Before God - As in God's presence, to hear what Joshua was to speak to them in God's name, and to receive God's commands from his mouth. He had taken a solemn farewell before: but as God renewed his s...

And all these descended from Canaan, though some of them were afterwards extinct or confounded with others of their brethren by cohabitation or mutual marriages, whereby they lost their names: which i...

Shall we - Shall we poor worms give laws to our supreme Lord, and oblige him never to afflict us And shall not those great and manifold mercies, which from time to time God hath given us, compensate t...

Shall we - Shall we poor worms give laws to our supreme Lord, and oblige him never to afflict us And shall not those great and manifold mercies, which from time to time God hath given us, compensate t...

Chapter VII We have here the sin of Achan in taking the accursed thing, ver. 1. The defeat of Israel before Ai, ver. 2 - 5. Joshua's humiliation and prayer, ver. 6 - 9. God's directions to him, ver. 1...

Chapter I Naomi removes to Moab, ver. 1, 2. Her husband and sons die, ver. 3 - 5. Designing to return to Bethlehem, she addresses her daughters - in - law, ver. 6 - 13. Orpah stays, but Ruth returns w...

This passage is referred to Hos 12:3, and from hence he had his name Jacob, a supplanter. Esau was an hunter - And a man that knew how to live by his wits, for he was a cunning hunter. A man of the fi...

Chapter XXVI In this chapter we have, Isaac in adversity, by reason of a famine in the land; which, Obliges him to change his quarters, ver, 1. but, God visits him with direction and comfort, ver. 2 -...

God's kindness to Israel, in multiplying them exceedingly, ver. 1 - 7. The Egyptians wickedness to them; Oppressing and enslaving them, ver. 8 - 14. Murdering their children, ver. 15 - 22. Chapter I E...

- If the anguish of their spirit makes them deaf to that which would compose and comfort them, much more will his pride and insolence, make him deaf to that which will but exasperate him. Who am of un...

Their fathers - The people were divided into twelve tribes, the tribes into great families, Num 26:5, these great families into lesser families called the houses of their fathers, because they were di...

Their fathers - The people were divided into twelve tribes, the tribes into great families, Num 26:5, these great families into lesser families called the houses of their fathers, because they were di...

Holy water - Water of purification appointed for such uses. This was used, that if she were guilty, she might be afraid to add profaneness to her other crime. An earthen vessel - Because, after this u...

One whole family of that tribe, (Ohad mentioned Exo 6:15) was extinct in the wilderness. Some think most of the twenty four thousand, cut off by the plague for the iniquity of Peor, were of that tribe...

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, ...

Their fathers - The people were divided into twelve tribes, the tribes into great families, Num 26:5, these great families into lesser families called the houses of their fathers, because they were di...

Judah - This tribe was in the first post, and in their marches led the van, not only because it was the most numerous, but chiefly because Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, was to descend from i...

The good will - For all other effects of the good will and kindness of God who not long since did for a time dwell or appear in the bush to me in order to the relief of his people, Ex 3:2. Of Joseph -...

I. 1. Let us, in the First place, inquire, What times were those concerning which our Lord is here speaking It is easy to answer; the times of the Messiah; the times ordained before the foundation of ...

He sets before him death and a curse; but, if not well - Seeing thou didst not do well, not offer in faith, and in a right manner, sin lieth at the door - That is, sin only hinders thy acceptance. All...

He kissed him; in token of particular affection to him. Those that are blessed of God are kissed with the kisses of his mouth, and they do by love and loyalty kiss the son, Psa 2:12. 2. He praised him...

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah till Shiloh come - Jacob here foretels, (1.) That the sceptre should come into the tribe of Judah, which was fulfilled in David, on whose family the crown was e...

Their fathers - The people were divided into twelve tribes, the tribes into great families, Num 26:5, these great families into lesser families called the houses of their fathers, because they were di...

Than Agag - Than the King of the Amalekites, which King and people were famous and potent in that age, as may be guessed by their bold attempt upon so numerous a people as Israel. And it is probable, ...

One whole family of that tribe, (Ohad mentioned Exo 6:15) was extinct in the wilderness. Some think most of the twenty four thousand, cut off by the plague for the iniquity of Peor, were of that tribe...

Chapter XXXIII The blessing of Moses. He pronounces them all blessed, in what God had done for them, already, ver. 1 - 5. He pronounces a blessing upon each tribe, ver. 6 - 25. He pronounces them all ...

so the word signifies, which speaks not only the dearest love, but the most tender and careful protection. All God's saints or holy ones, that is, his people, were in thy hand, that is, under God's ca...

Let Reuben live in life eternal, says Onkelos, and not die the second death. Let Reuben live in this world, so Jonathan and the Jerusalem Targum, and not die that death which the wicked die in the wor...

Let Reuben live in life eternal, says Onkelos, and not die the second death. Let Reuben live in this world, so Jonathan and the Jerusalem Targum, and not die that death which the wicked die in the wor...

To harden their hearts - It was the design of God's providence not to soften their hearts to a compliance with the Israelites, but to give them up to their own animosity, pride, confidence and stubbor...

Chapter XIX The lot of Simeon, ver. 1 - 9. Of Zebulon, ver. 10 - 16. Of Issachar, vet 17 - 23. Of Asher, ver. 24 - 31. Of Naphtali, ver. 32 - 39. Of Dan, ver. 40 - 48. The inheritance assigned to Josh...

Chapter XIX The lot of Simeon, ver. 1 - 9. Of Zebulon, ver. 10 - 16. Of Issachar, vet 17 - 23. Of Asher, ver. 24 - 31. Of Naphtali, ver. 32 - 39. Of Dan, ver. 40 - 48. The inheritance assigned to Josh...

Chapter XXI The motion of the Levites, to have their cities appointed, which is done, ver. 1 - 8. A catalogue of those cities, ver. 9 - 42. A testimony, that God had fulfilled his word, ver. 43 - 45. ...

The distress of Jabesh - gilead, ver. 1 - 3. Saul's readiness to relieve them, and success, ver. 4 - 11. His tenderness to them that opposed him, ver. 12 - 13. He is confirmed in his kingdom, ver. 14 ...

Chapter II The sons of Jacob, ver. 1 - 2. Of Judah, to Jesse, ver. 3 - 12. Of Jesse, ver. 13 - 17. Of Caleb, the son of Hezron, ver. 18 - 20. Of Hezron, ver. 21 - 24. Of Jerahmeel down to Elishama, ve...

There are - He seems to oppose their present servitude to their former glory, and to shew their mean spirits that had rather tarry among the Heathen to do their drudgery, than return to Jerusalem to s...

Chapter XXIX Job, after pausing a little while, shews, what comfort he formerly had in his house and family, ver. 1 - 6. What honour and power he had in his country, ver. 7 - 10. What good he did as a...

The bones of Joseph - Joseph died two hundred years before in Egypt, but gave commandment concerning his bones, that they should not rest in a grave, 'till Israel rested in the land of promise. Now th...