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Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. Shoes - Were anciently evidences of a free and comfortable state, whereas slaves and mourners used to go bare-foot. 4. Like fishpools - Full, and clear, and quiet, and pleasant.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
4. Spake good - Which he could not do without hazard to himself. Herein therefore he performed the duty of a true friend, and of a valiant man. 6. As the Lord, &c.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Heshbon - Heshbon was one of the principal cities of the Moabites. Probably the enemies sat there in counsel, when they had taken it, against the other parts of the country.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. Jazer - A city and country of the Amorites; Gilead - A mountainous country, famous for pasturage 6. Ye sit here - In ease and peace, while your brethren are engaged in a bloody war.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. A. concubine - Hebrew. a wife, a concubine, that is, such a concubine as was also his wife: called a concubine, only because she was not endowed. Perhaps he had nothing to endow her with,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. She destroyed - This was the fruit of Jehoshaphat's marrying his son to a daughter of that idolatrous house of Ahab. And this dreadful judgment God permitted upon him and his,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Gathered, &c. - To declare God's mind and his own will, that Solomon should be his successor: and to acquaint them with those directions which he had received from God by the spirit.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Learn not - The Jews being to live among the Chaldeans in their captivity, where many of them were already, the prophet admonishes them against the Chaldean idolatries,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. We should not have had this story of Pharaoh's butler and baker recorded in scripture, if it had not been serviceable to Joseph's preferment. The world stands for the sake of the church,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. On the day - It seems day is for time, and on the day, for about the time. For all the princes did not offer these things upon one and the same day, but on several days, as here it follows.