1Ki 21:10, 13, Mat 26:59-60, 28:12-15, Act 23:12-15, 24:1-13, 25:3, 7 | TSK | STEP | two men. sons of Belial. Thou didst blaspheme.Some, with Parkhurst, would render the original, {bairachta elohim wamailech,} "Thou hast blessed the gods and Molech;" a sense, however, which seems extremely forced, and is not acknowledged by any of the ancient versions, though the LXX. and Vulgate render {bairachta} by [eulogese,] {benedixit,} "blessed." It is no unusual thing for a word to have opposite senses.

1 Kings 21:10

two men.

sons of Belial.

Thou didst blaspheme.Some, with Parkhurst, would render the original, {bairachta elohim wamailech,} "Thou hast blessed the gods and Molech;" a sense, however, which seems extremely forced, and is not acknowledged by any of the ancient versions, though the LXX. and Vulgate render {bairachta} by [eulogese,] {benedixit,} "blessed." It is no unusual thing for a word to have opposite senses.

Ex 22:28; Le 24:15; Mt 26:59-66; Joh 10:33; Ac 6:13

1 Kings 21:13

the men of Belial.

Ex 20:16; De 5:20; 19:16-21; Ps 27:12; 35:11; Pr 6:19; 19:5,9; 25:18

Mal 3:5; Mr 14:56-59

blaspheme God.

Job 1:5,11; 2:9; Mt 9:3; Ac 6:11

the king.

Ec 10:20; Isa 8:21; Am 7:10; Lu 23:2; Joh 19:12; Ac 24:5

they carried him.

Le 24:11-16; Nu 15:35,36; De 13:10; 21:21; 22:21,24; Jos 7:24,25

2Ki 9:26; Ec 4:1; Ac 7:57-59

Matthew 26:59-60

sought.

De 19:16-21; 1Ki 21:8-13; Ps 27:12; 35:11,12; 94:20,21; Pr 25:18

Mr 14:55,56; Ac 6:11-13; 24:1-13

found none.

Da 6:4,5; Tit 2:8; 1Pe 3:16

At.

De 19:15; Mr 14:57-59

Matthew 28:12-15

26:3,4; 27:1,2,62-64; Ps 2:1-7; Joh 11:47; 12:10,11; Ac 4:5-22

Ac 5:33,34,40

stole.

26:64

we.

Ac 12:19

they took.

26:15; 1Ti 6:10

until.

27:8

Acts 23:12-15

certain.

21,30; 25:3; Ps 2:1-3; 64:2-6; Isa 8:9,10; Jer 11:19; Mt 26:4

bound.

1Ki 19:2; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 27:25; Mr 6:23-26

under a curse. or, with an oath of execration.

Le 27:29; Jos 6:26; 7:1,15; Ne 10:29; Mt 26:74; *Gr:

1Co 16:22; Ga 3:13

that.Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (ch. 25:2, 3.) If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud.

1Sa 14:24,27,28,40-44; Ps 31:13

which.

2Sa 15:12,31; Joh 16:2

Ps 52:1,2; Isa 3:9; Jer 6:15; 8:12; Ho 4:9; Mic 7:3

that he.

25:3; Ps 21:11; 37:32,33; Pr 1:11,12,16; 4:16; Isa 59:7; Ro 3:14-16

Acts 24:1-13

1 Paul being accused by Tertullus the orator,

10 answers for his life and doctrine.

24 He preaches Christ to the governor and his wife.

26 The governor hopes for a bribe, but in vain.

27 At last, going out of his office, he leaves Paul in prison.

five.

11; 21:27

Ananias.

23:2,30,35; 25:2

orator.

12:21; Isa 3:3; 1Co 2:1,4

informed.

25:2,15; Ps 11:2

Seeing.Felix, bad as he was, had certainly rendered some services to Judaea. He had entirely subdued a very formidable banditti which had infested the country, and sent their captain, Eliezar, to Rome; had suppressed the sedition raised by the Egyptian impostor (ch. 21:38); and had quelled a very afflictive disturbance which took place between the Syrians and Jews of Cæsarea. But, though Tertullus might truly say, "by thee we enjoy great quietness," yet it is evident that he was guilty of the grossest flattery, as we have seen both from his own historians and Josephus, that he was both a bad man and a bad governor.

26,27; Ps 10:3; 12:2,3; Pr 26:28; 29:5; Jude 1:16

most.

23:26; *Gr:

26:25; Lu 1:3; *Gr:

that.

Heb 11:32

we have.

6:13; 16:20,21; 17:6,7; 21:28; 22:22; 28:22; 1Ki 18:17,18; Jer 38:4

Am 7:10; Mt 5:11,12; 10:25; 1Co 4:13

and a mover.

1Sa 22:7-9; Ezr 4:12-19; Ne 6:5-8; Es 3:8; Lu 23:2,5,19,25

1Pe 2:12-15,19