Recent Commentaries

David’s enemies spent all their waking hours planning treachery and trying to kill him (v. 12). At times David sat deaf and dumb in God’s presence (v.13). David never expected anything like this when he first began to play with sin. Neither do we. David was deaf to all their threats and silent …

This chapter includes an invitation of the nations (v. 1), God’s coming judgment on the nations (vv. 2-4), and an announcement of judgment on Edom (vv. 5-17). The Lord invited all nations and people to hear (v. 1). He was angry, condemning them to be slaughtered. Their blood would flow …

When the people complained against God and against Moses He could have said, “I will rain fire and brimstone upon these ungrateful sinners!” Instead, in His mercy and by His grace He supplied them with bread each day. Every morning the desert was covered with thin …

Israel was now on the eastern shore of the Red Sea having been rescued from the clutches of her enemies by God. Moses now leads the people in a song of praise which is the first recorded song in the Bible. He is accompanied by his sister Miriam and her woman companions with instr …

This chapter opens with a historic reminder of the fall of Ar, the capital of Moab and their chief fortress (v. 1). For centuries, Moab, located east of the Dead Sea, had been an enemy of Israel. The Moabites were the product of Lot’s incestuous union with his daughter (Gen. 19:30-38) …

In the passage Isaiah recounts his call to the ministry:
1. He saw the Lord (vv. 1-4). King Uzziah dies. He had been a godly king, in spite of his sinful intrusion into the priest’s office ten years prior to his death (2 Chron. 26:18-21) …

Normally the Pharisees and Sadducees opposed each other, but in today’s passage they united in an effort to silence Jesus (v. 1). The Pharisees were the traditionalists of their day, and the Sadducees were the liberals. For the fourth time these religious leaders were asking for a sign more …

Right after Jesus’ injunction to ask for laborers we find the twelve apostles listed (vv. 1-5). The qualifications for being an apostle were as follows:

1. Must have seen the risen Christ (1st Corinthians 9:1) …

“Herod the king” mentioned here was known as Herod the Great (v. 1), whose family though nominally Jewish, was an Edomite who became king with Rome’s help. It is no surprise that he was disturbed when the wise men came to Jerusalem looking for the one who had been “born king” …

Attention is given in this passage to doing good for those whom you have the opportunity and power to do so. The poor and the neighbor are to be the objects of this kind of good neighbor policy. From these verses we can see three groups of relation¬ships with others and how to be good …