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1. Book One of the Psalms: The Suffering of Christ
(OT Writings Commentary/Psalms Commentary)

... information is one of the last things added to the Psalms.  There is debate as to whether these should be understood as Biblical. Book One: Subtitles The historical information does not ...

2. The Unity of Isaiah
(OT Prophets Commentary/Isaiah Commentary)

... are all present earlier in the vision of Isaiah and other Biblical prophets seem to borrow from Isaiah 40-66 (requiring the early date).  These scholars explain away the similarities of the two halves ...

3. The Style of Biblical Poetry: Part 2, Imagery & Genre
(OT Writings Commentary/Psalms Commentary)

... discusses when approaching Biblical poetry.  However, I have done it last because I wanted us to first look at the details and then take a step back and look at the big picture.  The commentary ...

4. The Style of Biblical Poetry
(OT Writings Commentary/Psalms Commentary)

... in other areas of the Scriptures too (including the parts that are not poetry).  This is the first post on the style of Biblical Poetry and we will talk about the cultural disadvantages we face when ...

5. The Disputations of Malachi
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... move the people to cheer the prophet's words before then moving to oracles against Judah-Jerusalem.  It has a description reminiscent of judgment day in other biblical literature like “I have laid ...

6. Solomon's Wisdom & Folly
(OT Prophets Commentary/Kings Commentary)

... Temple is at the center of the the Solomon chiasm.  Thus this is the really important part of the narrative. The temple is a three-story structure (like all Biblical tabernacles/temples).  This ...

7. How to Read Zechariah (especially Zechariah 1-6)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... He makes similar observations showing a similar relationship of the two “burdens” in Zechariah 9-14. The appendix on Kline's book called Glory in Our Midst: A Biblical-Theological Reading of Zechariah's ...

8. 2 Samuel 21-24 and the Poems of Samuel
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... like a Pharaoh rather than the way a Biblical king should act.  Until he repented. David did not pick the third option because it was the shortest.  It was the worst option in terms of how many ...

9. The Bible Miniseries: Episode Three
(teaching/general teachings)

... to be "biblically literate" about those parts that we can see depicted in video and know nothing else.  Perhaps that is better than nothing, but still I would prefer that we show the value of reading ...

10. The Fall of David: 'You Da Man' (2 Sam 10-12)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... that both tasted forbidden fruit (so to speak). Also we noted before that the sin of Saul and the sin of David are parallel.  David, like Saul, was acting like an ANE king rather than a Biblical ...

11. The House of Saul v. The House of David and David as King (2 Sam 2-9)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... have been Esh-Baal (“fire of Baal,” cf. 1 Chron 8:33, 9:39) and shame replaced Baal in the name.  “Shame” was a common substitution in Biblical texts when someone was named for a Canaanite Baal god. ...

12. The Bible Miniseries: Episode Two
(teaching/general teachings)

... the Giant of Gath.  My only major complaint about their telling of the story is the episode with Bathsheba.  In the biblical text there is more of a gap between God's covenant with David and ...

13. Restoration Vision, Sign-Acts, and Apocalypse (Ezekiel 37-39)
(teaching/Copy of Ezekiel Commentary)

... "Since Ezekiel's terms have recognizable equivalents in use at his own time and geographically proximate to the biblical world, speculation about some sort of Russian invasion of other lands in the Middle ...

14. Restoration Vision, Sign-Acts, and Apocalypse (Ezekiel 37-39)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Ezekiel Commentary)

... "Since Ezekiel's terms have recognizable equivalents in use at his own time and geographically proximate to the biblical world, speculation about some sort of Russian invasion of other lands in the Middle ...

15. Sea Monsters, The Underworld, and the Pattern of Patterns (Ezekiel 29-32)
(teaching/Copy of Ezekiel Commentary)

... (1) he labored, because (2) they worked for me."  Thus we see the Biblical principle that the "laborer deserves his wages" applied to the siege of Tyre -- because he and his army was employed by YHWH ...

16. Sea Monsters, The Underworld, and the Pattern of Patterns (Ezekiel 29-32)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Ezekiel Commentary)

... (1) he labored, because (2) they worked for me."  Thus we see the Biblical principle that the "laborer deserves his wages" applied to the siege of Tyre -- because he and his army was employed by YHWH ...

17. The Soul Who Sins Shall Die (Ezekiel 18-20)
(teaching/Copy of Ezekiel Commentary)

... there remains no strong stem and no ruler's scepter. The vineyard is a common Biblical metaphor for Israel and so if the former half of the lament dealt with the kings, then this latter half deals with ...

18. The Soul Who Sins Shall Die (Ezekiel 18-20)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Ezekiel Commentary)

... there remains no strong stem and no ruler's scepter. The vineyard is a common Biblical metaphor for Israel and so if the former half of the lament dealt with the kings, then this latter half deals with ...

19. Prophetic Signs, Proverbs, & Patterns in Ezekiel 12-14
(teaching/Copy of Ezekiel Commentary)

... whose story is told in the Biblical book of Daniel.  And part of the reason that this is so is because the examples before and after Daniel are meant to refer to persons set in the ancient past but ...

20. Prophetic Signs, Proverbs, & Patterns in Ezekiel 12-14
(OT Prophets Commentary/Ezekiel Commentary)

... whose story is told in the Biblical book of Daniel.  And part of the reason that this is so is because the examples before and after Daniel are meant to refer to persons set in the ancient past but ...