David told GOD that because of Saul’s strength, David would look to GOD for his help and protection. And he was confident that GOD would, out of His goodness, take care of him. Because of his strength I will watch for You, For God is my stronghold. My God in His lovingkindness wi...
Upon the whole, the true meaning of the words κἀγώ οὐκ ῆδειναὐτόν would seem to be as follows: And I, even I, though standing in so near a relation to him, both personally and ministerially, had no assured knowledge of him as the Messiah. I did not ...
His placing them there under the protection of the Moabitish king implies that it was the chief city, or royal-residence of the Moabites; and under that view we may, perhaps identify it as an appellative (i.q. the acropolis or stronghold of Moab) with KIR-MOAB SEE KIR-MOAB (q.v.) ...
is something to be admired. After all, they stop short of killing each other. Their brotherly camaraderie after a bout is heart-warming. It should be the beauty of the art we focus on—the mastery—not the base violence of the activity. ...
the shout of commanders and the battle cry. 26 “Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread its wings toward the south?27 Does the eagle soar at your command and build its nest on high?28 It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night; a rocky crag is ...
9 Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,”declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem. The Kingdom of Righteousness 32 See, a king will reign in righteousness and rulers w...
It is described in Jos 18:16 as on the south side of Jebusi, that is, Mount Zion, on which the ancient stronghold of the Jebusites stood. The valley obtained wide notoriety as the scene of the barbarous rites of Molech and Chemosh, first introduced by Solomon, who built" a high ...
The abstract argument is the stronghold of scepticism, and to deal with it at all it is necessary to meet it on its own ground. On the other hand, the strength of the Christian argument rests mainly on the special contents of the Gospel narrative, particularly as regards the character of...
in Hebrews chapter 42: 11), and bore in Hebrew the name of סֵלִע, Sela, which has the same meaning as Petra in Greek, viz. "a rock," that circumstance has led to the conjecture that the Petra of the Nabathaeans had been the Sela of Edom. SEE SELAH. This latter ...