Neh 5:14-19, Isa 23:18, 49:23, 60:5-16, Act 13:36, Rom 15:18-19 | TSK | STEP

one ox.This was food sufficient for more than two hundred men. Bp. Pococke says that the bey of Tunis had daily twelve sheep, with fish and fowls, soups, oranges, eggs, onions, boiled rice, etc., etc. His nobles dined with him; after they had done, the servants sat down; and when they had finished, the poor took what was left. Here the bey's twelve sheep are equal to Nehemiah's one ox and six choice sheep; and probably the mode of living between the two was nearly alike. It is still the practice in the East to calculate the expenses of the table, not by the money paid, but by the provisions consumed by the guests.

required.

14,15

because the bondage.

Ps 37:21,26

Think.

13:14,22,31; Ge 40:14; Ps 25:6,7; 40:17; 106:4; Jer 29:11

according to.

Ps 18:23-25; Mt 10:42; 25:34-40; Mr 9:41

Isaiah 23:18

her merchandise.

60:6,7; 2Ch 2:7-9,11-16; Ps 45:12; 72:10; Zec 14:20,21; Mr 3:8

Ac 21:3-5

it shall.

Mt 6:19-21; Lu 12:18-20,33; 16:9-13

for them.

De 12:18,19; 26:12-14; Pr 3:9,10; 13:22; 28:8; Ec 2:26; Mal 3:10

Mt 25:35-40; Lu 8:3; Ac 9:39; Ro 15:25-27; Ga 6:6; Php 4:17,18

durable. Heb. old.

Isaiah 49:23

kings.Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes, and other Persian monarchs, as well as Alexander the Great, and his successors, particularly Demetrius, conferred many privileges and immunities on the Jewish people, and were munificent benefactors to their temple. But the prophecy was more remarkably and fully fulfilled in the favour which Constantine the Great, and other Christian princes and princesses from his time to the present day, have shewn to the church of Christ; though it cannot be disputed, that the grand and signal accomplishment of these predictions is yet future.

7; 52:15; 60:3,10,11,16; 62:2; Ezr 1:2-4; 6:7-12; 7:11-28; Ne 2:6-10

Es 8:1-10:3; Ps 2:10-12; 68:31; 72:10,11; 138:4; Re 21:24-26

nursing fathers. Heb. nourishers.

Nu 11:12

queens. Heb. princesses. bow.

45:14; 60:14; Ge 43:26; Ps 72:9; Re 3:9

lick up.

Mic 7:17

for they.

25:9; 64:4; Ps 25:3; 34:22; 69:6; Ro 5:5; 9:33; 10:11; 1Pe 2:6

Isaiah 60:5-16

thou shalt see.

Jer 33:9; Ho 1:10,11; 3:5; Ac 10:45; 11:17

be enlarged.

54:2; 1Sa 2:1; 2Co 6:1-13; 10:15; Re 21:26

abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee. or, noiseof the sea shall be turned towards thee.

24:14,15; Ps 96:7-9; 98:7-9; Ro 11:25

forces. or, wealth.

11; 23:18; 61:6; Ac 24:17; Ro 15:26

multitude.

30:6; Jud 6:5; 7:12; 1Ki 10:2; 2Ki 8:9

Midian.

Ge 25:4,13

all.

45:14; Ge 10:7; 25:3; 2Ch 9:1; Ps 72:10,15

bring.

61:6; Mal 1:11; Mt 2:11

they shall shew.

Ro 15:9; Php 2:17; 1Pe 2:5,9; Re 5:9,10; 7:9-12

the flocks.

42:11; Ge 25:13

they shall.

56:7; Job 42:8; Ro 12:1; 15:16; Heb 13:10,15,16

I will.

Hag 2:7-9

fly.

4; 45:22; Lu 13:29; Re 7:9

a cloud.

Heb 12:1

as the.

Ge 8:8-11

the isles.

42:4,10; 49:1; 51:5; 66:19,20; Ge 9:27; 10:2-5; Ps 72:10; Zep 2:11

the ships.

2:16; 1Ki 10:22; 22:48

thy sons.

4; Ps 68:30,31; Zec 14:14; 2Co 8:4,5; Ga 3:26; 4:26

unto.

Ex 33:19; 34:5-7; Jos 9:9; 1Ki 8:41; 10:1; Pr 18:20; Jer 3:17

Joh 17:26; Ac 9:15

because.

14:1,2; 43:4; 52:1-6; 55:5; 57:17; Jer 30:19; Lu 2:32

the sons.

61:5; 66:21; Zec 6:15

their kings.

3; 49:23; Ezr 6:3-12; 7:12-28; Ne 2:7-9; Re 21:24,26

in my wrath.

12:1; 54:7,8; 57:17,18; Ps 30:5

Therefore.The subject of this chapter, says Bp. Lowth, is the great increase and flourishing state of the church of God, by the conversion and accession of the heathen nations to it; which is set forth in such ample and exalted terms, as plainly shew that the full completion of this prophecy is reserved for future times. This subject is displayed in the most splendid colours, under a great variety of images highly poetical, designed to give a general idea of the glories of that perfect state of the church of God, which we are taught to expect in the latter times; when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in, and the Jews shall be converted and gathered from their dispersions, and "the kingdom of this world shall become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ."

thy gates.

Ne 13:19; Re 21:25

forces. or, wealth.

5; *marg:

41:11; 54:15; Ps 2:12; Da 2:35,44,45; Zec 12:2-4; 14:12-19

Mt 21:44; Lu 19:27; Re 2:26,27

The glory.That is, the cedar; and as the choice timber of Lebanon beautified Solomon's temple, that footstool of Jehovah; so shall the peculiar advantages of every nation, and of every description of men, concur to beautify the church of Christ, which He has determined to make glorious. The language then becomes more energetic, and the images employed more grand and magnificent; and nothing can answer to the glorious description but some future exalted state of the church on earth, or the church triumphant in heaven; though several expressions seem to limit it to the church below.

35:2; 41:19,20; 55:13; Ho 14:6,7

to beautify.

Ezr 7:27

the place.

66:1; 1Ch 28:2; Ps 96:6; 132:7

sons.

14:1,2; 45:14; 49:23; Jer 16:19; Re 3:9

The city.

62:12; Ps 87:3; Heb 12:22; Re 3:12; 14:1

thou.

49:14-23; 54:6-14; Ps 78:60,61; Jer 30:17; La 1:1,2; Re 11:2,15-17

a joy.

35:10; 61:7; Jer 33:11

suck the milk.

49:23; 61:6; 66:11,12

thou shalt know.

43:3,4; 66:14; Eze 34:30

Acts 13:36

served, etc. or, in his own age served the will of God.

22; 1Ch 11:2; 13:2-4; 15:12-16,25-29; 18:14; 22:1-29:30; Ps 78:71,72

fell.

7:60; 2Sa 7:12; 1Ki 2:10; 1Co 15:6,18; 1Th 4:13

and was.

2:29; 1Ch 17:11; 2Ch 9:31; 12:16; 21:1; 26:23

and saw.

Ge 3:19; Job 17:14; 19:26,27; 21:26; Ps 49:9,14; Joh 11:39

1Co 15:42-44,53,54

Romans 15:18-19

I will.

Pr 25:14; 2Co 10:13-18; 11:31; 12:6; Jude 1:9

which.

Mr 16:20; Ac 14:27; 15:4,12; 21:19; Ga 2:8; 1Co 3:6-9; 2Co 3:1-3; 6:1

to make.

1:5; 6:17; 16:26; Mt 28:18-20; Ac 26:20; 2Co 10:4,5; Heb 5:9; 11:8

by word.

Col 3:17; 2Th 2:17; Jas 1:22; 1Jo 3:18

mighty.

Ac 14:10; 15:12; 16:18; 19:11,12; 2Co 12:12; Ga 3:5; Heb 2:4

by the.

Mt 12:28; Ac 1:8; 1Co 12:4-11; 1Pe 1:12

so that.

24; Ac 9:28,29; 13:4,5,14,51; 14:6,20,25; 16:6-12; 17:10,15

Ac 18:1,19; 19:1; 20:2,6

Illyricum.Illyricum, or Illyria, was a country of Europe, lying N. and N. W. of Macedonia, on the eastern coast of the Adriatic gulf, opposite Italy. It was distinguished into two parts; Liburnia north, now Croatia; and Dalmatia south, still retaining the same name. The account of Paul's second visit to the peninsula of Greece, Ac 20:1, 2, says Dr. Paley, leads us to suppose that, in going over Macedonia, he had passed so far to the west, as to come into those parts of the country which were contiguous to Illyricum, if he did not enter Illyricum itself. The history and the Epistle therefore so far agree; and the agreement is much strengthened by a coincidence of time; for much before the time when this epistle was written, he could not have said so, as his route, in his former journey, confined him to the eastern side of the peninsula, a considerable distance from Illyricum.

fully.

1:14-16; Ac 20:20; Col 1:25; 2Ti 4:17