Jos 1:6, 8, 1Ch 22:13, 28:20, Isa 35:4, Hag 2:4-9, Zec 8:13, 18, Eph 6:10 | TSK | STEP | Be strong. unto this people, etc. or, thou shalt cause this people toinherit the land. divide. which I sware.

saith.Whoever compares the description of the temple of Solomon, in the first book of Kings, with the most splendid accounts of the second temple, however adorned with costly stones and other magnificent decorations in after ages, must perceive that the former, being wholly overlaid with pure gold, was incomparably more glorious than the latter in its greatest magnificence; and the Jews themselves allow that the ark of the covenant, fire from heaven, the {Urim} and {Thummim,} the anointing oil, the {Shechinah,} or visible glory, and the spirit of prophecy, which distinguished the former temple, were wanting in this. In nothing, in fact, could the second temple excel the first in glory, except in the personal presence of "the Desire of all nations," He who is "the glory of the Lord," and the true temple, "in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily," and who was the true {Shechinah,} of which that of Solomon's temple was merely a type. And if it be admitted that the presence of the promised Messiah was intended, then it will follow that "Jesus of Nazareth" was He; for the second temple, in which as the "Prince of peace" he preached peace and reconciliation with God, has been utterly destroyed for upwards of seventeen hundred years.

give.

Ps 85:8,9; Isa 9:6,7; 57:18-21; Mic 5:5; Lu 2:14; Joh 14:27

Ac 10:36; Eph 2:14-17; Col 1:19-21

Zechariah 8:13

a curse.

De 28:37; 29:23-28; 1Ki 9:7,8; 2Ch 7:20-22; Ps 44:13,14,16

Ps 79:4; Isa 65:15,16; Jer 24:9; 25:18; 26:6; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12,22

La 2:15,16; 4:15; Eze 5:15; Da 9:11

O house.

1:19; 9:13; 10:6; 2Ki 17:18-20; Isa 9:20,21; Jer 32:30-32; 33:24

Eze 37:11,16-19

ye shall.The consideration that all nations who now worship the true God, and receive the Sacred Scriptures as His word, have derived the whole of their divine knowledge, under God, from Jewish prophets, apostles, and teachers, and that the Saviour "in whom all nations shall be blessed," sprang from that favoured race, emphatically explains what is meant by "ye shall be a blessing." The full accomplishment of this prediction, however, is probably reserved for the future restoration of the Jews.

20-23; 10:6-9; Ge 12:2,3; 26:4; Ru 4:11,12; Ps 72:17; Isa 19:24,25

Mic 5:7; Zep 3:20; Ga 3:14,28,29; Hag 2:19

fear not.

9; Isa 35:3,4; 41:10-16; 1Co 16:13

Zechariah 8:18

Ephesians 6:10

Finally.

2Co 13:11; Php 3:1; 4:8; 1Pe 3:8

be.

1:19; 3:16; De 20:3,4; 31:23; Jos 1:6,7,9; 1Sa 23:16; 1Ch 28:10,20

2Ch 15:7; Ps 138:3; Isa 35:3,4; 40:28,31; Hag 2:4; Zec 8:9,13

1Co 16:13; 2Co 12:9,10; Php 4:13; Col 1:11; 2Ti 2:1; 4:17; 1Pe 5:10