From Reformation to Reformation

[We could use your help: If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way.   Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] [ 1017 BC ]  Verse 1: [1]   And ( 2 Sam. 21:2 ) again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he ( Satan , see 1 Chron. 21:1; Jam. 1:13, 14 ) moved David against them to say, ( 1 Chron. 27:23, 24 ) Go, number Israel and Judah. [ And the fury of the Lord added to be angry

David, tempted by Satan, forceth Joab to number the people; who are thirteen hundred thousand fighting men , 1-9 .  David acknowledgeth his sin in it:  having three judgments propounded by God, he is in great distress, and chooseth the pestilence; of which seventy thousand men die , 10-15 .  David by his humiliation preventeth the destruction of Jerusalem , 16, 17 .  He by Gad’s direction and order from God purchaseth Araunah’s threshing-floor to build an altar there; on whic

Verse 24: [1]   ( 2 Sam. 2:18 ) Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem… [ Asahel in the thirty [2] ]  Or, over those thirty , that is, the last man indeed of the second order, or ternion; but more excellent than the thirty Chiliarchs, when he next names in order.  For those six of the two ternions hitherto mentioned were put in charge of five Chiliarchs apiece, as Joab was the commander-in-chief of all:  for these two words, ov

Verse 18: [1]   And ( 1 Chron. 11:20 ) Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three.  And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them  ( Heb. slain [2] ), and had the name among three. [ He was chief of the three , ה֚וּא רֹ֣אשׁ הַשְּׁלֹשִׁ֔י]  The Qere is ‎ה֚וּא רֹ֣אשׁ הַשְּׁלֹשָׁ֔ה, he was head , or chief , of the three  (Montanus, Pagnine, Septuagint, Junius and Tremellius), that is, he was holding the first rank among the three la

But you may say that the text alleged in the first place from Psalm 97:7 hinders.  Since that, καὶ προσκυνησάτωσαν αὐτῷ πάντες ἄγγελοι Θεοῦ, and let all the angels of God worship Him , could appear to be a divine mandate of such a sort that no creature would be capable of commanding the good Angels with such authority, in which manner the Most Illustrious WESSELIUS reasons, Dissertationibus Academicis , XVIII, § I, “Suddenly by an Apostrophe [1] the speech is turned toward E

Verse 13: [1]   And three of the thirty chief ( or, the three captains over the thirty , 1 Chron. 11:15 [2] ) went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto ( 1 Sam. 22:1 ) the cave of Adullam:  and the troop of the Philistines pitched in ( 2 Sam. 5:18 ) the valley of Rephaim. [ Previously the three had gone down, etc .]  Question:  Who then were these?  Response 1:  The three mentioned above (Junius, Malvenda, Josephus and Vatablus and Mariana in Sanchez).  Jashobeam,

Moreover, with our text the Pauline pericope in Romans 15:9-12 is able to be compared, τὰ δὲ ἔθνη ὑπὲρ ἐλέους δοξάσαι τὸν Θεόν, καθὼς γέγραπται, Διὰ τοῦτο ἐξομολογήσομαί σοι ἐν ἔθνεσι, etc . Καὶ πάλιν λέγει, Εὐφράνθητε, ἔθνη, μετὰ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ.  Καὶ πάλιν, Αἰνεῖτε τὸν Κύριον πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, etc.  Καὶ πάλιν Ἠσαΐας λέγει, etc., and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, etc .  And again H

Lest anyone should much hesitate in admitting the observation that I have proposed, it is fitting for me to provide illustration and confirmation of the same by one and another example.  We have in Acts 13:35, διὸ καὶ ἐν ἑτέρῳ λέγει, Οὐ δώσεις τὸν ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν, wherefore he saith also in another, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption .  Our Version  translates it, Waarom hy ook in enen anderen  [Psalm] zegt, etc ., wherefore he also says in anoth

Verse 11: [1]   And after him was ( 1 Chron. 11:27 ) Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite.  ( see 1 Chron. 11:13, 14 ) And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop ( or, for foraging [2] ), where was a piece of ground full of lentiles:  and the people fled from the Philistines. [ And the Philistines were gathered together in station , לַחַיָּה  [3] ]  They render it variously.  To Haiatha  (Jonathan) [as if it were the proper name of a place].  To wild beasts  (Sep

But, so that I might return to the question proposed, Interpreters appear to have raised a tempest in a teacup, and to have applied excessive labor in resolving the doubt, where all things appear to me to be altogether plain.  Certainly that λέγει, he says , or διὸ λέγει, wherefore he says , thus posited absolutely as it occurs here, is to the Apostle a familiar formula for citing the text of the Old Testament, answering to the Hebrews’ manner of speech in citing the old Scri

Verse 9: [1]   And after him was ( 1 Chron. 11:12; 27:4 ) Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away… [ After him [2] ]  That is, who was of the second dignity after him (Vatablus). [ The son of his paternal uncle [3] ]  Namely, adoptive and legal, by the Law in Deuteronomy 25:6.  He was the natural son of the living brother; tha

As far as the first Question is concerned, you can see the diverse opinions of Interpreters concerning this matter enumerated both in POOLE’S Synopsi Criticorum , [1] and in WOLF’S Curis philologicis et criticis , on this passage .  Namely, various interpreters think that the supplement of the phrase, διὸ λέγει, wherefore he says , is to be fetched from the context, whether they reach back to Πνεῦμα, the Spirit , mentioned in verse  9, or to Κύριον, the Lord , in verse  10,

When the Apostle had admonished the Ephesians, Ephesians 5:8, that, with the manner of their remarkable conversion considered, which they had undergone with respect to their spiritual state, through which these, who previously were pure darkness , were made light in the Lord , they should walk worthily  as children of light :  and when he had added that other precept, verse  11, by which he not only wills that the faithful Ephesians stay far from communion with the works of d

Verse 8: [1]   These be the names of the mighty men whom David had:  The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains ( or, Josheb-bassebet the Tachmonite, head of the three [2] ); the same was Adino the Eznite:  ( see 1 Chron. 11:11; 27:2 ) he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew ( Heb. slain [3] ) at one time. [ These are the names of the mighty men of David ]  Of the heroes of that time, whose strength seemed to exceed human measure (Grotius).

Verse 6: [1]   But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands… [ But transgressors shall be rooted out like thorns, all of them ,‎ וּבְלִיַּ֕עַל כְּק֥וֹץ מֻנָ֖ד כֻּלָּ֑הַם]  But the impious  (or and Belial [Montanus, Vatablus], man of Belial , as it is found fully stated in 2 Samuel 16:7, with an Ellipsis of אִישׁ/ man , as in Ruth 3:2 [Glassius], or men of wickedness [Castalio]) all  (understanding are , or shall

Verse 5: [1]   Although my house be not so with God; ( 2 Sam. 7:15, 16; Ps. 89:29; Is. 55:3 ) yet he hath made with me an everlasting...

Verse 4: [1]   And ( Judg. 5:31; Ps. 89:36; Prov. 4:18; Hos. 6:5; see Ps. 110:3 ) he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun...

Verse 2: [1]   ( 2 Pet. 1:21 ) The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. [ The Spirit of the Lord spoke through...

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David’s last words:  a character of himself; of a good ruler, and his usefulness , 1-4 .  His faith on God’s covenant with him , 5 . ...