_NOW WHEN THESE THINGS WERE DONE, THE PRINCES CAME TO ME, SAYING, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, AND THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, HAVE NOT SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE LANDS, DOING ACCORDING TO THEIR ABOMINATIONS, EVEN OF THE CANAANITES, THE HITTITES, THE PERIZZITES, THE JEBUSITES, THE AMMONI... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN OF THEIR DAUGHTERS FOR THEMSELVES, AND FOR THEIR SONS: SO THAT THE HOLY SEED HAVE MINGLED THEMSELVES WITH THE PEOPLE OF THOSE LANDS: YEA, THE HAND OF THE PRINCES AND RULERS HATH BEEN CHIEF IN THIS TRESPASS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN I HEARD THIS THING, I RENT MY GARMENT AND MY MANTLE, AND PLUCKED OFF THE HAIR OF MY HEAD AND OF MY BEARD, AND SAT DOWN ASTONIED._ When I heard this ... I rent my garment and my mantle ... - the outer and inner garment, which was a token not only of great grief, but of dread at the same ti... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN WERE ASSEMBLED UNTO ME EVERY ONE THAT TREMBLED AT THE WORDS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY; AND I SAT ASTONIED UNTIL THE EVENING SACRIFICE._ Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled ... All the pious people who reverenced God'... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AT THE EVENING SACRIFICE I AROSE UP FROM MY HEAVINESS; AND HAVING RENT MY GARMENT AND MY MANTLE, I FELL UPON MY KNEES, AND SPREAD OUT MY HANDS UNTO THE LORD MY GOD,_ At the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness х_ QAMTIY_ (H6965) _ MITA`ªNIYTIY_ (H8589)] - I rose up from my humiliatio... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAID, O MY GOD, I AM ASHAMED AND BLUSH TO LIFT UP MY FACE TO THEE, MY GOD: FOR OUR INIQUITIES ARE INCREASED OVER OUR HEAD, AND OUR TRESPASS IS GROWN UP UNTO THE HEAVENS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOW FOR A LITTLE SPACE GRACE HATH BEEN SHEWED FROM THE LORD OUR GOD, TO LEAVE US A REMNANT TO ESCAPE, AND TO GIVE US A NAIL IN HIS HOLY PLACE, THAT OUR GOD MAY LIGHTEN OUR EYES, AND GIVE US A LITTLE REVIVING IN OUR BONDAGE._ To give us a nail in his holy place. Edifices in ancient times, and i... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR WE WERE BONDMEN; YET OUR GOD HATH NOT FORSAKEN US IN OUR BONDAGE, BUT HATH EXTENDED MERCY UNTO US IN THE SIGHT OF THE KINGS OF PERSIA, TO GIVE US A REVIVING, TO SET UP THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD, AND TO REPAIR THE DESOLATIONS THEREOF, AND TO GIVE US A WALL IN JUDAH AND IN JERUSALEM._ And to give us... [ Continue Reading ]