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Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
4. To whom - For whose instruction hast thou uttered these things? For mine? Dost thou think I do not know, that which the meanest persons are not unacquainted with; that God is incomparably greater and better than his creatures? Whose spirit - Who inspired thee with this profound discourse of thine? 5.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. Sojourn - In any convenient place out of the land of Israel. The Lord, &c. - Hath appointed to bring a famine. This expression intimates, that all afflictions are sent by God,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Jealousy - With great care that she should not, as formerly, sin against my love, and her own welfare, and with a great desire to do her good, and to rescue her from her enemies.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Jerusalem - That weak, unwalled city, and much more the church which is the antitype of Jerusalem. In the siege - Now when all this is in readiness, and no visible means of escape,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Can do - He speaks ambiguously, as he did before. 5. He trembled - Had he kept close to God, he needed not fear all the armies of the Philistines. 7. That hath, &c.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Even - Of Saul's own tribe: who were moved hereto by God's spirit, by the conscience of their duty to David; and by their observation of God's departure from Saul,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. The waters - Freely and liberally bestow it upon the waters; upon those poor creatures, on whom it may seem to be as utterly lost, as the seed which a man casts into the sea or river.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. Damascus - Both of that city and kingdom. A heap - This was fulfilled by Tiglath-pilneser, 2 Kings xvi, 9, although afterwards it was re-edified. 2. Aroer - Of that part of Syria, called Aroer,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. Was a child - In the infancy of Israel. I loved him - Manifested my tender and paternal affection to him. Called my son - Adopted him to be my son, and as my son, provided for him,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. The sixth part - I will leave in thy country but one in six. 3. Thy bow - What is said of the bow rendered useless, is to be understood of all other weapons of war; this is one kind, the bow,…