ESV Expository Commentary Series Collection | ESVEC (12 vols.)
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Designed to strengthen the global Church with a widely accessible, theologically sound, and pastorally wise resource for understanding and applying the overarching storyline of the Bible, this commentary series features crisp and theologically rich exposition and application.
Editors Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton, and Jay A. Sklar have gathered a team of experienced pastor-theologians to provide a new generation of pastors and other teachers of the Bible around the world with a globally minded commentary series rich in biblical theology and broadly Reformed doctrine, making the message of redemption found in all of Scripture clear and available to all.
This includes the newest and final volume Genesis–Numbers.
- Features passage-by-passage commentary on the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel, taking a biblical-theological and broadly Reformed approach to interpreting and applying the text
- Characterized by sound exegesis, biblical theology, global awareness, accessible application, and pastoral usefulness
- Places a priority on efficiency and conciseness in commentary writing
- Includes introductions to each book featuring an outline, key themes, author and date information, literary features, relationship to the rest of the Bible, and interpretive challenges
- W. Brian Aucker
- Eric Ortlund
- Douglas Sean O’Donnell
- C. John Collins
- Max Rogland
- Ryan Patrick O’Dowd
- Bob Fyall
- Jerry Hwang
- Jonathan Gibson
- Michael G. McKelvey
- Daniel C. Timmer
- Jason S. DeRouchie
- Anthony R. Petterson
- Jason C. Meyer
- David W. Chapman
- Dennis E. Johnson
- Sam Storms
- Ray Van Neste
- James M. Hamilton Jr.
- Daniel M. Doriani
- J. Gary Millar
- Miles V. Van Pelt
- Stephen G. Dempster
- August H. Konkel
- Iain M. Duguid
- Robert W. Yarbrough
- Andrew David Naselli
- Dane C. Ortlund
- Frank Thielman
- Jay Sklar
- Mitchell L. Chase
- George M. Schwab
- Allan M. Harman
- Mary Willson Hannah
- David G. Firth
- Michael Stead
- Benjamin L. Merkle
- Alistair I. Wilson
- Denny Burk
- Robert L. Plummer
- Matthew S. Harmon
- Thomas R. Schreiner
- Brian J. Vickers
- Hans F. Bayer
- John L. Mackay
- John W. Olley
- David Reimer
The ESV Expository Commentary will be a welcome addition to the toolbox of those who are committed to expounding the inerrant and infallible Word of God. It is biblically sound, theologically faithful, and practically helpful. I look forward to using it in my own preaching and teaching ministry.
- Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
The ESV Expository Commentary is one of the best, most useful building blocks for a Bible teacher’s basic library. Readily accessible to lay readers and at the same time sufficiently learned to assist experienced expositors, this twelve-volume set seems destined to become a standard Bible reference tool for serious students of Scripture around the world.
- Philip Graham Ryken, President, Wheaton College
The ESV Expository Commentary is truly a treasure of outstanding biblical exposition and thoughtful biblical theology. Not only will readers find high-quality scholarship, but they will discover a readable, accessible, and well-designed commentary. Pastors, Bible teachers, and interested students will find this excellent resource to be an incredibly helpful and trustworthy guide. Highly recommended!
- David S. Dockery, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Sheer exposition! Based on top-level scholarship which has been distilled into a form that is helpful to all students of the Bible, the easy-to-access format of the material is ideal for quick reference. This is a commentary I will refer to often in my study and preparation.
- Ajith Fernando, Teaching Director, Youth for Christ, Sri Lanka; author, Discipling in a Multicultural World
Iain M. Duguid (PhD, University of Cambridge) is professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary and the pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Glenside, Pennsylvania. He has also served as a missionary in Liberia, taught at Westminster Seminary California and Grove City College, and planted churches in Pennsylvania, California, and England.
James M. Hamilton Jr. (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of biblical theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and preaching pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church. He is the author of God's Glory in Salvation through Judgment and the Revelation volume in the Preaching the Word commentary series.
Jay Sklar has led youth and children’s ministries in both church and camp settings and is a frequent speaker at church and college events. Dr. Sklar has a keen interest in developing theological education overseas, serving on the Seminary’s International Partnerships Committee and teaching overseas. Dr. Sklar’s doctoral studies focused on the theology of sin, impurity, sacrifice, and atonement in the Old Testament sacrificial system, resulting in the book Sin, Impurity, Sacrifice, Atonement: The Priestly Conceptions. Dr. Sklar also served as a partial contributor and editor of Leviticus notes for the ESV Study Bible.
Reviews
3 ratings
Larry Griess
7/18/2025
The Logos linking with ESVEC is haphazard and damages the usefulness of this great commentary. Some books in the commentary do well to stay in sync with the Bible text to keep the remarks in line with the text in the Bible window. Often however, the link at the beginning of a chapter takes priority and as a result, the commentary does not follow the Bible text. One example – click on the commentary highlighted Proverbs 18:24, the Bible goes to 18:24, and the commentary goes to the beginning of the section for Proverbs 18. Go to the next chapter, Proverbs 19:1–4 jumps to the top of the commentary and the next section 19:5–9 stays where it should. A small sample with examples of faulty linking are: 1 Chronicles 26:1–19, (1 Chronicles 26:20–28 works as expected), 1 Chronicles 26:29–32, Psalm 5:11–12, Psalm 10:3, For some of the ESVEC books, the user is best served by turning off the linking to keep the commentary in line with the Bible text. The commentary deserves 4.5 stars and the Logos linking deserves 1.5.William Sabota
6/30/2025
Fabian Jovanovic
6/17/2025