Category Archives: Commentary

1 Thessalonians 2:17 – 3:13

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Paul’s Desire to Visit Again: Desire for their Blessing 1 Thessalonians 2:17 – 3:13   1 Thessalonians 3. In the close of ch.2 through ch.3 of the epistle, Paul expresses his desire to be with the saints and for their continued growth and blessing. This chapter gives us a number of helpful principles […]

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Practical and Doctrinal Instructions 1 Thessalonians 4 – 5   1 Thessalonians 4 – 5. Apparently, Timothy’s report of the Thessalonians involved a number of matters. Paul addressed these in ch.4-5 of the epistle. They needed to be reminded to continue in practical holiness and love (1 Thess. 4:1-12). Being converted only a […]

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Knowledge of the Rapture and its Effect on Believers 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18   1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. This passage dovetails with 1 Cor. 15. In Corinthians, we don’t have the detail of the saints being taken up, and in 1 Thessalonians we don’t have the detail of our bodies being changed. The two fit […]

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Practical Exhortations: Preservation until the Coming of the Lord 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28   1 Thessalonians 5:12-28. The remainder of chapter 5 deals with the practical exhortations that will help the Christian be preserved until the coming of the Lord. He first mentions ten things the believer can do to be preserved: (1) recognize […]

1 Thessalonians 1

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Paul’s Relationship with the Thessalonians 1 Thessalonians 1 – 3   1 Thessalonians 1 – 3. In ch.1 of First Thessalonians, Paul commends the saints for believing the gospel, and maintaining a bright testimony for the Son of God, in the midst of a pagan world. In ch.2, Paul reminds the Thessalonians of […]

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Paul’s Conduct Among them: As a Nurse and a Father 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16   1 Thessalonians 2. In this chapter Paul presents himself and his companions as an example for the young believers in Thessalonica to imitate. Examples are often used by God to teach us how we should conduct ourselves. In some […]

1 Chronicles 29

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   David’s Public Speech and Prayer, Solomon made King a Second Time 1 Chronicles 29     CHAPTER 29 1 And king David said to all the congregation, Solomon my son, the one whom God has chosen, is young and tender, and the work is great; for this palace is not to be for […]

1 Chronicles 23

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Solomon Established King & The Levites Established in Courses 1 Chronicles 23     CHAPTER 23 1 And David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3 And the […]

1 Chronicles 24

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Priests 1 Chronicles 24     CHAPTER 24 1 And the divisions of the sons of Aaron: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 2 And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood. 3 And David distributed them, […]

1 Chronicles 25

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Singers 1 Chronicles 25     CHAPTER 25 1 And David and the captains of the host separated for the service those of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun who were to prophesy with harps and lutes and cymbals; and the number of the men employed according to […]

1 Chronicles 26

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Doorkeepers, Treasure Keepers, Officers and Judges 1 Chronicles 26     CHAPTER 26 1 The divisions of the doorkeepers. Of the Korahites: Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. 2 And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 3 Elam the […]

1 Chronicles 27

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Service of the King 1 Chronicles 27     CHAPTER 27 1 And these are the children of Israel after their number, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in every matter of the divisions, which came in and went out month by […]

1 Chronicles 28

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   David’s Address to Solomon 1 Chronicles 28     CHAPTER 28 1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the princes of the divisions that ministered to the king, and the captains over thousands, and the captains over hundreds, and the comptrollers of all the substance […]

1 Chronicles 14

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   David’s Victories, Dependence Learned 1 Chronicles 14     CHAPTER 14 1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him a house. 2 And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, for his kingdom was highly exalted, because […]

1 Chronicles 15

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Ark Brought to Zion 1 Chronicles 15     CHAPTER 15 1 And he made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and spread a tent for it. 2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites, […]

1 Chronicles 16

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   David’s Song at the Beginning of His Kingdom 1 Chronicles 16     CHAPTER 16 1 And they brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had spread for it; and they presented burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before God. 2 And when David had ended […]

1 Chronicles 17

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Jehovah Communes with David: The Davidic Covenant 1 Chronicles 17         CHAPTER 17 1 And it came to pass as David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah under curtains. […]

1 Chronicles 18 – 20

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Wars of David 1 Chronicles 18 – 20     CHAPTER 18 1 And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines. 2 And he smote the Moabites; and the Moabites became David’s […]

1 Chronicles 21

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Numbering the People & Ornan’s Threshing Floor 1 Chronicles 21     CHAPTER 21 1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. 2 And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of […]