Ezr 8:31, Pro 1:11, Jer 5:26, Act 9:23-24, 20:19, 23:12-15, 25:3, 2Cor 7:5 | TSK | STEP | the river of Ahava. the hand. and he delivered.Ezra and his company had now entered upon a journey of several hundred miles through the desert, which they were nearly four months in completing, encumbered with families and possessions, and carrying large treasures with them, which would invite the attempts of the Arabian hordes, and others, that infested that neighbourhood; yet, having declared to the king, "that the hand of God was upon all them for good that seek him, and that his power and wrath were against all them that forsook him," (ver. 22,) he determined to travel without a guard, except that of the Almighty, being ashamed to ask any other, after his former avowed confidence in Him! Having, therefore, humbled themselves before the Lord, and besought his guidance and protection, he was intreated by them, their enemies were restrained or disabled, and they arrived unmolested at Jerusalem.

Ezra 8:31

the river of Ahava.

the hand.

22; 7:9,28; Job 5:19-24; Ps 91:9-14; Isa 41:10-14; Ac 25:3; 26:22

and he delivered.Ezra and his company had now entered upon a journey of several hundred miles through the desert, which they were nearly four months in completing, encumbered with families and possessions, and carrying large treasures with them, which would invite the attempts of the Arabian hordes, and others, that infested that neighbourhood; yet, having declared to the king, "that the hand of God was upon all them for good that seek him, and that his power and wrath were against all them that forsook him," (ver. 22,) he determined to travel without a guard, except that of the Almighty, being ashamed to ask any other, after his former avowed confidence in Him! Having, therefore, humbled themselves before the Lord, and besought his guidance and protection, he was intreated by them, their enemies were restrained or disabled, and they arrived unmolested at Jerusalem.

Proverbs 1:11

let us lay.

16; 12:6; 30:14; Ps 56:6; 64:5,6; Jer 5:26; Mic 7:2; Ac 23:15; 25:3

let us lurk.

18; Ps 10:8-10; 17:12; 35:7; Jer 11:19; 18:18-20; Mt 26:3,4

Joh 15:25

Jeremiah 5:26

For.

4:22; Isa 58:1; Eze 22:2-12

lay wait. or, pry as fowlers lie in wait.

18:22; 1Sa 19:10,11; Ps 10:9,10; 64:5; Pr 1:11,17,18; Hab 1:14,15

catch.

Lu 5:10

Acts 9:23-24

Cir. A.M. 4040. A.D. 36. the Jews.

16; 13:50; 14:2,19; 22:21-23; Jos 10:1-6; Mt 10:16-23; 2Co 11:26

1Th 2:15,16

their.

29,30; 14:5,6; 17:10-15; 23:12-21; 25:3,11; Jud 16:2,3; 2Co 11:32

And they.

Ps 21:11; 37:32,33

Acts 20:19

Serving.

27:23; Joh 12:26; Ro 1:1,9; 12:11; Ga 1:10; Eph 6:7; Col 3:24

1Th 1:9; 2Pe 1:1; Re 7:15

with all.

1Co 15:9,10; 2Co 3:5; 7:5; 12:7-10; Ga 4:13,14

many.

31; Ps 119:136; Jer 9:1; 13:17; Lu 19:41; 2Co 2:4; Php 3:18; 2Ti 1:4

temptations.

1Co 4:9-13; 2Co 4:7-11; 11:23-30; Jas 1:2; 1Pe 1:6

by the.

3; 9:23-25; 13:50,51; 14:5,6,19,20; 17:5,13; 2Co 11:26

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