1 Samuel 16:2
<03212> [How can I go.]
Take ... heifer <03947 01241> [Take an heifer.]
For the prudent management of the affair, and to avoid suspicion, Samuel was directed to go to Bethlehem to sacrifice, as he probably did from time to time in many different places; and the answer which he was instructed to return was strictly true though he did not tell the principal design of his coming; for though no man in any circumstances should tell a lie, yet, in all circumstances, he is not bound to tell the whole truth, though he must tell nothing but the truth, and so tell that truth that the hearer shall not believe a lie by it.
<03027> [with thee. Heb. in thine hand.]
come <0935> [I am come.]
Proverbs 21:27
sacrifice <02077> [sacrifice.]
evil intent <02154> [with a wicked mind. Heb. in wickedness.]
Isaiah 58:4
fasting ........... fast <06684> [ye fast.]
brawls <05221> [and to smite.]
fasting ........... fast ..... today <03117 06684> [shall not fast as ye do this day. or, fast not as this day. to make.]
Matthew 2:8
Go <4198> [go.]
so that <3704> [that.]
Matthew 23:14
Josephus says that this sect pretended to a more exact knowledge of the law, on which account the women were subject to them, as pretending to be dear to God.
<3117> [long.]
That these were long we learn from Bab. Berachoth, where we are told that the very religious prayed nine hours a day.
<1223> [therefore.]
