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When we pray this petition, we acknowledge five truths.
The king received a narrow escape when Jeroboam's schism drove faithful priests and worshippers southward, strengthening his kingdom.
Such a theory stands 'clean against facts.' A man does not persecute unto death those he secretly believes in.
Spurgeon perceived in this verse a magnificent architecture of the believer's spiritual experience, constructed in three movements.
King Josiah had fallen in an ill-advised battle; Assyria's power waned while Babylon's ascended.
When they differ, it is commonly from ignorance and want of mutual explanation; and therefore when their understandings are informed, as their hearts were right before, they are like so many drops of water on a table—when they touch they...
Her posture reveals the soul's constraint in desolation—constrained to cling to One who sticks closer than a brother.
The Word visited men before the Incarnation through nature and conscience, came fully at the Incarnation, and still comes through the Spirit who interprets His name (John 14:25; 16:13).
First, in *number*: Under the ancient dispensation, spiritual Israel remained comparatively few.
When Elohim displays His supremacy through knowledge—by announcing events before they occur—He addresses our judgment directly, without the bewilderment that miracles may produce.
Spurgeon identifies five reasons why this upholding prayer is essential.
Like the mythological Twins of Love, *eros* and *anteros*, Truth and Mercy weep together, smile together, sicken together, and recover jointly.
First, it serves as a humbling remembrance—deepening his sense of guilt, illustrating Yahweh's greatness in mercy, and inspiring courage for future ministry.
They possessed no human sympathy for the sufferer whom hope deferred had made sick and hopeless.
The world swarms with 'all unrighteousness and wickedness, lust and immorality, intemperance, cruelty, hatred; all manner of buzzing evils that stink and sting around us.' Yet our Lord 'passes them all by and points to a mere negative thing, to...
Eleazar carried four sacred charges: oil for light, sweet incense, the daily meat-offering, and anointing oil.
One managed the vast treasures of an Ethiopian queen; the other carried the gospel commission into the Gaza desert.
Why may we multiply requests before the throne?
The metaphor derives from the husbandman's practice: he reserves a portion of grain annually for seed, though small compared to his harvest.
The exiles returning from Babylon carry both weapons and sacred implements—they are simultaneously soldiers and priests.
This declaration from Psalm 10:7 captures a foundational truth: *dikaiosyne* (righteousness) is not merely a divine attribute among many, but the quality binding all of Elohim's perfections into perfect unity.
One infant—Joash—remained hidden in the Temple storerooms, guarded by his aunt and Jehoiada the high priest.
First, the MODEL of prayer demands wholehearted engagement.
The prophet's promise reaches its climax precisely where the people need it most: not in the initial rush of joy and anticipation, when they rose "on the wings of an eagle," but in the exhausting, monotonous tramp of the actual...