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3961 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 38.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
But sin is ever also folly. In asking for a monarchy like those around them, the people were courting a despotism whose intolerable yoke it would not be possible …
3962 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 94.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… 17:38, 39; Judges 3:16; 2 Samuel 20:8. But I cannot see how (as in The Speaker’s Commentary vol. 2, p. 325) it can be supposed to comprise “the sword, bow, and girdle.” These three …
3963 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 102.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… 4:38; 6:1 ). Lastly, whereas we read of only one prophetic community, Naioth, in the time of Samuel, and that close to his residence at Ramah, there were several such …
3964 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 111.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Jeremiah 38:7, is supposed to have been Baruch, because he differed by his deeds from all the other servants.
3965 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 113.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ( Genesis 38:1; Joshua 12:15; 15:35, and many other passages), which has, with much probability, been identified with the modern Aid el Mia (Adlem). In the largest of the …
3966 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 153.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ” ( vers. 38, 39 )—David spoke more unreservedly, lamenting the circumstances which still made him comparatively powerless in face of such reckless chiefs as …
3967 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 167.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
Psalm 38 and 70 in our Psalter may be mentioned as examples of this class. As to the second and third classes, we need only remark that Psalm 55 is the first of …
3968 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 185.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… : Psalm 38, 6, 51, and 32 —when at last it is felt that all “transgression is forgiven,” all “sin covered.”Comp. Delitzsch Commentar u. d. Psalter, Vol. 1 pp. 44, 45, 297. For reasons …
3969 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 38.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
The pestilence, terrible as it was in its desolations, was shortened from three days to less than one day, “from the morning to the time of the assembly,” viz. for the evening sacrifice. This is the proper rendering of 2 Samuel 24:15 .
3970 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 38.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
Meanwhile “David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth” ( 1 Chronicles 21:16 ), were lying on their faces in humiliation before the Lord. Significantly, it was as …
3971 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 38.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
It was a fitting spot for mercy upon Israel, this place where of old faithful Abraham had been ready to offer his only son unto God; fitting also as still outside …
3972 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 75.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… 7:38; 2 Chronicles 4:6 ). They were placed on square “bases,” or, rather, wagons of brass, four cubits long and broad, and three cubits high, which rested on “four feet” (not …
3973 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 86.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… verses 38-40 may mark the transition from, and connection between the first and second parts of the prayer. The fifth petition ( vers. 41-43 ), which concerns the …
3974 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 109.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ( ver. 38 ). But Jeroboam was of far other spirit than David. His main motive had been personal ambition. Unlike David, who, though anointed king, would make no attempt …
3975 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 139.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… 11:38 ). At the same time, it seems also to cast an important side-light on the transaction between Ahijah the prophet and Jeroboam, when the former first announced …
3976 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 38.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
Presently, at Ahab’s invitation, Ben-hadad himself was brought, and made to stand by the side of the king in his chariot—both in token of companionship and for …
3977 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 38.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
We have said that it is not easy to understand what motives could have prompted an act which, even politically, was a grave mistake. Was it flattered vanity …
3978 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 38.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
This explains the commission with which God now charged one of “the sons of the prophets.” We mark that the expression here occurs for the first time. It referred …
3979 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 49.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… 22:38 ). But this was in Samaria, not in Jezreel, nor in the portion of Naboth, for, as the prophet had foretold, God brought not “the evil” itself, only its warning remembrance …
3980 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 63.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… 22:38 ), “and they washed his armor,” is untenable. The words mean, “And the harlots bathed,” and the terrible significance of the event lies in this: that the blood of …