Category: Whole-Bible Commentary

This free resource includes detailed commentary on each book of the Bible (66) as well as a chapter-by-chapter study of each chapter of the Bible (1,189).  The chapter studies are excluded from the normal search results and are best found by selecting from the list below.

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Pentateuch

Genesis

Overview or Chapter Studies:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.

Exodus

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.

Leviticus

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.

Numbers

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.

Deuteronomy

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34.

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Old Testament History

Joshua

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

Judges

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

Ruth

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4.

1 Samuel

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.

2 Samuel

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

1 Kings

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.

2 Kings

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.

1 Chronicles

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29.

2 Chronicles

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.

Ezra

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Nehemiah

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Esther

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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Wisdom Literature

Job

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42

Psalms

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150.

Proverbs

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

Ecclesiastes

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Song of Songs (Song of Solomon)

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

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Major Prophets

Isaiah

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66.

Jeremiah

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52.

Lamentations

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Ezekiel

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48.

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Minor Prophets

Daniel

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Hosea

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Joel

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3.

Amos

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Obadiah

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1.

Jonah

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Micah

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Nahum

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3.

Habakkuk

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3.

Zephaniah

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3.

Haggai

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2.

Zechariah

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Malachi

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4.

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New Testament Gospels

Matthew

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.

Mark

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

Luke

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

John

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

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Church History

Acts (of the Apostles)

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.

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Apostolic Letters

Romans

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

1 Corinthians

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

2 Corinthians

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Galatians

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Ephesians

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Philippians

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Colossians

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4.

1 Thessalonians

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

2 Thessalonians

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3.

1 Timothy

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

2 Timothy

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Titus

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3.

Philemon

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1.

Hebrews

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

James

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

1 Peter

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

2 Peter

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3.

1 John

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

2 John

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1.

3 John

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1.

Jude

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1.

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John’s Prophecy

Revelation

Overview or Chapter Studies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.

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Dispensational Theology Viewpoint Used Throughout

Here’s a plain-language orientation to Dispensational Theology—what it is, why I’m using it beneath the surface of these chapter studies, and how to spot its thread even when the label itself doesn’t appear.

At heart, dispensationalism is a way of reading the Bible that pays close attention to God’s unfolding plan across history, takes promises and prophecies at face value (according to normal grammar and context), and keeps Israel and the church distinct without breaking the unity of God’s salvation in Christ. It notices that God has administered His will in recognizable stages—each with revealed responsibilities, clarifying tests, and fresh light—yet salvation is always by grace through faith because there has only ever been one Savior. The approach expects real fulfillment of God’s covenants to Israel in the future, while recognizing genuine foretastes of the kingdom in the present through the Spirit.

The classic stages (“dispensations”) at a glance

Writers describe the stages with minor variations; the classic seven are:

1. Innocence (Eden) — Humanity lives under God’s direct favor and commission in the garden (Genesis 1–2). Failure: sin and expulsion (Genesis 3).
2. Conscience — From the Fall to the Flood, people live with moral awareness but without civil structures (Genesis 4–6). Failure: violence and corruption; judgment by the Flood.
3. Human Government — After the Flood, God institutes post-Flood order and accountability (Genesis 8–9). Failure: corporate pride at Babel; scattering (Genesis 11).
4. Promise — God calls Abraham, pledging land, seed, and blessing to his descendants and through them to the nations (Genesis 12; 15; 17). Failure: repeated unbelief and sojourning ends in bondage—but the promise stands.
5. Law — Israel receives the Mosaic covenant at Sinai; worship, priesthood, and civil life are regulated (Exodus–Deuteronomy). Failure: idolatry and injustice lead to exile. The Law exposes sin and points to the Messiah.
6. Grace (Church age) — Christ dies and rises; the Spirit indwells believers; Jew and Gentile are united in one body (Acts–Revelation 3). The gospel advances worldwide amid opposition; apostasy is predicted, but the mission continues.
7. Kingdom (Messianic reign) — Christ returns and reigns on earth; covenant promises to Israel are fulfilled; nations experience righteous rule (Revelation 20:1–6; many prophets). Final rebellion is judged; then comes the eternal state.

The point of mapping these stages is not to box God into charts but to recognize how Scripture itself marks turns in the road—from Eden to exile to Pentecost—and to let each passage speak within its historical setting while tracing the one plan that moves toward Christ’s reign and renewal.

Think of these as the load-bearing beams you’ll see throughout my essays:

1. Grammatical-historical reading (normal interpretation).
   Words mean what they mean in sentences, in real history, for original audiences. Poetry is poetry and prophecy is prophecy, but both communicate real things. This guards against reading past the text to make it say what we wish, especially in prophetic and covenant passages.
2. Progressive revelation.
   God does not change, but He reveals more over time. Later Scripture never contradicts earlier Scripture; it clarifies and advances it. That’s why later light (say, the New Testament) resolves earlier shadows without erasing them.
3. Israel–church distinction.
   God’s promises to national Israel (land, people, throne, kingdom) are not dissolved into the church. The church shares spiritual blessings now and blesses the nations, but Israel’s promises are kept—literally and finally—in God’s time. This protects the integrity of the covenants.
4. Covenant literalism with Christ at the center.
   The Abrahamic, Davidic, and New Covenants mean what they say. Their ultimate fulfillment gathers around the Messiah, who brings spiritual blessings now and completes national/territorial aspects in the future.
5. One Savior, one salvation, distinct administrations.
   People are always saved by grace through faith on the basis of Christ’s work. What changes across the stages is how God administers life and worship (e.g., sacrifices under Moses versus Spirit-indwelt priesthood of all believers today).
6. Kingdom “tastes now / fullness later.”
   We genuinely taste the powers of the age to come (new birth, the Spirit, gospel transformation), yet we await the King’s visible reign and creation’s liberation. This keeps us from both triumphalism and despair.
7. Doxological aim.
   God’s glory—His character displayed and delighted in—is the overarching goal, which includes but isn’t limited to human salvation. The plan is as wide as creation and as personal as redemption.

Why I won’t keep naming it (and how you’ll still see it)

The Chapter Studies do not to use the word dispensational (or its variants) in the body of each chapter study. That’s intentional. Labels can distract; Scripture should lead. Instead, I’ll use plain phrases that carry the same freight: “stage in God’s plan,” “administration under Moses,” “future fullness,” “the King’s rule tasted now,” and so on. You’ll also see a dedicated Redemptive-Plan Thread woven through each essay—especially in the “Theological Significance” section—that quietly does this work:

• Progressive revelation: I’ll show how later passages clarify earlier ones and how the storyline builds—promise, partial realization, and completion in Christ.
• Israel/church clarity: Where a text addresses Israel’s calling or future, I’ll keep it in its lane, while also noting present spiritual blessings shared in Christ.
• Kingdom now/not-yet: I’ll point out present foretastes (conversion, holiness, mission, healing of relationships) and the promised consummation (justice, peace, restored creation).
• Covenant integrity: I’ll treat covenants as solid anchors, not metaphors that evaporate. If a prophet speaks of land, throne, or a righteous Davidic ruler, I’ll trace how that hope converges on the Messiah and moves toward real completion.
• Law to Spirit: I’ll contrast external regulation under Moses with indwelling power and new-heart obedience under the Spirit, without caricaturing the Law or flattening differences.
• One Savior through all: Whether we’re in Genesis, the Gospels, or the Epistles, I’ll keep the line clear: Christ is the center, and grace through faith is the way.

How this shapes the tone and aims of each chapter study

1. It protects context.
   A passage to Israel is not quietly reassigned to the church; a promise with geographic edges keeps its edges. This yields cleaner exposition and better application: we learn from Israel without stealing to ourselves what God has reserved to fulfill for Israel.
2. It elevates hope.
   You’ll see me speak of “tastes now / fullness later.” Present mercy is real; the harvest is ahead. That expectancy fuels mission, prayer, endurance, and ethical seriousness.
3. It clarifies application.
   By honoring the stage of history, we avoid misplaced obligations (for instance, importing ceremonial law) and we maximize what truly carries over—God’s character, moral will, promises in Christ, and the Spirit’s power.
4. It keeps the gospel at the center.
   The storyline is not a set of disconnected eras; it is a single rescue unfolding to its appointed end in Jesus. Every essay will tether to explicit Scripture and keep the cross and resurrection central.
5. It encourages humility.
   This approach resists reading the Bible backward from our preferences. It asks us to listen to the text where it lives, then to follow the Spirit’s inspired connections forward.

A quick word on debated points

Within the dispensational family there are intramural debates (e.g., timing of the rapture, certain prophetic sequences). Those questions matter, but the pillars above are the bedrock beneath my essays. Where timing questions arise, I’ll keep the focus on what the passage clearly teaches, majoring on the hope of Christ’s return, the integrity of God’s promises, and our present calling.

 

How to read these essays with the thread in mind

• When you see language like “administration under Moses” or “future fullness,” you’re watching the framework at work without the label.
• When I stress both the present work of the Spirit and the future reign of the King, that’s the now/not-yet horizon.
• When I trace a promise from Abraham → David → the Messiah, I’m honoring covenant pathways rather than jumping straight to us.
• When I differentiate Israel’s vocation and the church’s mission, I’m not erecting walls; I’m keeping biblical categories clear so that unity in Christ is meaningful, not mushy.

Bottom line

Dispensational Theology, as I’m using it, is not a grid pasted on the Bible; it’s a commitment to let the Bible’s own storyline, covenants, and categories stand as written, to hear every text in its time, and to follow the thread to Christ—the one Savior for all who believe. You’ll rarely see the label. You will see the fruit: context-honoring exposition, covenant confidence, present power by the Spirit, and durable hope in the King who will keep every promise.