1 Samuel 15:3
Now go.The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petræa, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given: all the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right. utterly destroy.Le 27:28,29; Nu 24:20; De 13:15,16; 20:16-18; Jos 6:17-21slay.Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22ox and sheep.Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-22Isaiah 10:6
against.9:17; 19:17; 29:13; 30:9-11; 33:14; Jer 3:10; 4:14; Mt 15:7will I give.13,14; 37:26,27; 41:25; 45:1-5; Jer 25:9; 34:22; 47:6,7tread them. Heb. lay them a treading.22:5; 63:3,6; 2Sa 22:43; Mic 7:10; Zec 10:5Isaiah 13:3
commanded.23:11; 44:27,28; 45:4,5; Jer 50:21-46mighty ones.Jer 51:20-24; Joe 3:11; Re 17:12-18them that.Ezr 1:1-11; 6:1-22; 7:12-26; Ps 149:2,5-9; Re 18:4-8,20-24; 19:1-7Isaiah 37:26
long ago, etc. or, how I have made it long ago, and formedit of ancient times? Should I now bring it to be laid waste, and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps?. how I.10:5,6,15; 45:7; 46:10,11; Ge 50:20; Ps 17:13; 76:10; Am 3:6Ac 2:23; 4:27,28; 1Pe 2:8; Jude 1:4Isaiah 45:1-3
1 God calls Cyrus for his church's sake.5 By his omnipotency he challenges obedience.20 He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power. to his.13:3; 44:28; 1Ki 19:15; Jer 27:6whose.41:13; 42:6; Ps 73:23holden. or, strengthened.Eze 30:21-24to subdue.41:2,25; Ezr 1:1; Jer 50:3,35; 51:11,20-24; Da 5:6,28-30; 7:5; 8:3to open.All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king. Na 2:6 go before.13:4-17make.40:4; 42:16; Ac 1:15; Lu 3:5break.Ps 107:16 I will give.Jer 27:5-7; 50:37; 51:53; Eze 29:19,20that thou.41:23; Ezr 1:2which call.43:1; 48:15; 49:1; Ex 33:12,17Isaiah 46:10-11
the end.41:22,23; 44:7; 45:21; Ge 3:15; 12:2,3; 49:10,22-26; Nu 24:17-24De 4:24-31; 28:15-68; Ac 15:18My counsel.11; 43:13; Ps 33:11; 135:6; Pr 19:21; 21:30; Da 4:35; Ac 3:23Ac 4:27,28; 5:39; Ro 11:33,34; Eph 1:9-11; Heb 6:17 Calling.13:2-4; 21:7-9; 41:2,25; 45:1-6; Jer 50:29; 51:20-29a ravenous bird.Or, "an eagle," a very proper emblem for Cyrus, says Bp. Lowth, as in other respects, so particularly because the ensign of Cyrus was a golden eagle, [aetos chrusous,] the very word {ayit,} which the prophet uses here, expressed as near as may be in Greek letters. Eze 39:4the man.44:28; 45:13; 48:14,15; Ezr 1:2; Ps 76:10; Ac 4:28that executeth my counsel. Heb. of my counsel.Ps 119:24; *marg:I have spoken.14:24-27; 38:15; Nu 23:19; Job 23:13; Jer 50:45; Ac 5:39; Eph 1:11Eph 3:11Ezekiel 14:17
I bring.5:12,17; 21:3,4,9-15; 29:8; 38:21,22; Le 26:25; Jer 25:9; 47:6so that.13; 25:13; Jer 33:12; Ho 4:3; Zep 1:3Amos 3:6
a trumpet.Jer 4:5; 6:1; Eze 33:3; Ho 5:8; Zep 1:16and the people.Jer 5:22; 10:7; 2Co 5:11be afraid. or, run together. shall there.That is, Shall there be any evil, or calamity, (not moral evil,) inflicted on a wicked city, which does not proceed from me, as the effect of my wrath? These animated interrogatives were intended to convince the people that they had cause for alarm, as their monstrous iniquities called down the vengeance of God to punish them with these calamities. Ge 50:20; Isa 14:24-27; 45:7; Ac 2:23; 4:28the Lord hath not done it? or, and shall not the Lord dosomewhat?
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