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2081 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 112.3 (Matthew Henry)
… sacred service, and therefore must not be either diverted from or disfitted for the services they were called to. If they pollute themselves, they profane …
2082 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 114.2 (Matthew Henry)
… were to be sanctified and solemnized with holy convocations, that the services of these feasts might appear the more honourable and august, and the people …
2083 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 114.3 (Matthew Henry)
… also called a sabbath), they were to do no work at all, no, not the dressing of meat. 2. On that day they must employ themselves in the service of God. (1.) It is a holy convocation …
2084 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 114.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of God and religion, and to prevent their inclining to the superstitions of the heathen. God kept them fully employed in his service, that they might not have …
2085 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 114.12 (Matthew Henry)
… called ( John 7:37 ) that great day of the feast; it was the day on which they returned from their booths, to settle again in their own houses. (4.) They were to rejoice …
2086 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 114.18 (Matthew Henry)
… .) That calls to extraordinary services will not excuse us from our constant stated performances. Within the days of the feast of tabernacles there must fall …
2087 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 116.15 (Matthew Henry)
… return to his own family, Leviticus 25:41. This typified our redemption from the service of sin and Satan by the grace of God in Christ, whose truth makes us free …
2088 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 118.3 (Matthew Henry)
… vowed to God by a singular vow, Leviticus 27:2. If a man consecrated himself, or a child, to the service of the tabernacle, to be employed there in some inferior …
2089 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 119.11 (Matthew Henry)
… were called of God to the service. Thus we all are unfit and unworthy to have fellowship with God until we are first called by his grace into the fellowship …
2090 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 120.3 (Matthew Henry)
… God; Eliab, my God a Father; Elizur, my God a rock; Shelumiel, God my peace; Eliasaph, God has added; Elishama, my God has heard: Gamaliel, God my reward; Pagiel, God has …
2091 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 122.10 (Matthew Henry)
… Shepherd calls his own sheep by name, John 10:3. Here were thousands of men employed about these services, though a much less number would have served for the …
2092 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 122.11 (Matthew Henry)
… 2750 serviceable men, not a third part. The Gershonites, in all, 7500, and of them but 2630 serviceable men, little more than a third part. Note, Of the many that add …
2093 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 125.12 (Matthew Henry)
… to us, and we must not be weary of well doing. If extraordinary service be required to be done for twelve days together, we must not shrink from it, nor call it a …
2094 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 126.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to themselves, but were called of God to it; nor was it enough that they were distinguished from their neighbours, but they must be solemnly devoted to God. Note …
2095 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 126.5 (Matthew Henry)
… their service (to which, as a part, the whole body of the people was entitled) to God and to his sanctuary. They presented them to God as living sacrifices, holy …
2096 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 126.7 (Matthew Henry)
… in calling them wave-offerings it was intimated to them that they must continually lift up themselves towards God in his service, lift up their eyes, lift …
2097 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 128.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the calling of the assembly together ( Numbers 10:7 ): yet when the people were called together to deprecate God’s judgments we find an alarm sounded, Joel 2:1 …
2098 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 129.11 (Matthew Henry)
… pleasant to the eye, every grain like an orient pearl; it was wholesome food and nourishing; it was not to be called dry bread, for it tasted like fresh oil; it was …
2099 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 129.16 (Matthew Henry)
… prophecy to prove their divine call to it, the government being a Theocracy. Note, (1.) Those whom God employs in any service he qualifies for it, and those that …
2100 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 129.22 (Matthew Henry)
… solemn call. Note, Those that expect favour from God must humbly offer themselves and their service to him. 2. God was not wanting to do his part. He gave of his …