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Under the Levitical dispensation, tithes, firstfruits, and firstlings were consecrated to the Lord.
Such a theory stands 'clean against facts.' A man does not persecute unto death those he secretly believes in.
Human nature is marred, life is gnarled and twisted—a realm of broken columns, snapped friendships, and strained relationships.
The principle rests on two foundations: love to Christ involving obedience to His word, and living not unto ourselves but unto God and for others' welfare.
The psalmist's passion for Yahweh's courts flowed from a metropolis entirely structured around the Almighty's house.
The Lord expects to hear from you before you can expect to hear from Him.
Spurgeon perceived in this verse a magnificent architecture of the believer's spiritual experience, constructed in three movements.
Man is a creature requiring help, and the text instructs where that help originates.
The critical error lay not in taking up arms, but in the absence of *penitent return to Him*—the prerequisite that Elohim Himself establishes for victory.
Not scientific philosophy occupied Paul's proclamation—only Christ's atoning death and certified resurrection.
First, the object of love is clear: "Thy commandments"—not the psalmist's own desires or the world's counsel, but the very Word of Elohim *theos* (God).
They possessed no human sympathy for the sufferer whom hope deferred had made sick and hopeless.
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...
The previous verse (Proverbs 16:14) describes a king's anger as *messengers of death* — swift, certain, and irreversible.
Eleazar carried four sacred charges: oil for light, sweet incense, the daily meat-offering, and anointing oil.
The believer's refuge under God's *hesed* (covenant love) mirrors the sanctuary's protective design.
The Greek word *ergastērion* (workshop) reveals where this transaction occurs—in the very matrix of falsehood itself.
Exell, the Victorian biblical expositor, unpacks with precision: the greatest gifts carry corresponding sorrows.
Righteousness means God cannot deviate from what is right and just—He is the eternal standard of moral perfection.
This command demands reading with utmost attention, diligence, and devotion—weeping as John did until the sealed book was opened, digging deep in the mine of Scripture for the mind of God, and holding it fast lest it slip away.
The people of Israel, mowed down and removed from their native soil, lay upon the threshing floor of captivity under tyrannical rule.
First, *believing prayer* speaks of deliverance and help, looking to God alone as the sole source of rescue.
He will turn"—was no empty threat, but a statement of divine justice grounded in Israel's own experience.
The Church exists for the world's sake more than for its own comfort.