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2121 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 165.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God, as the one thing needful, much more needful than either the rules of decency or the calling they must live by in this world. Great care and …
2122 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 169.2 (Matthew Henry)
… was God’s gift to them, that all their increase was the fruit of God’s blessing upon them, and therefore they were bound in duty to him to use and dispose of their …
2123 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 169.6 (Matthew Henry)
… Israel called unto liberty. 2. That if, when their six years’ service had expired, they had no mind to go out free, but would rather continue in service, as having …
2124 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 170.4 (Matthew Henry)
… God, and in their returns of service and sacrifice to him; our duty must be our delight as well as our enjoyments. They must have their very servants to rejoice …
2125 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 171.7 (Matthew Henry)
… great service, as Othniel, Deborah, Gideon, etc.) or in the high-priest (when he was by the eminency of his gifts called of God to preside in public affairs, as Eli …
2126 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 180.2 (Matthew Henry)
… him to be the first and best of beings. Those that consecrate the days of their youth, and the prime of their time, to the service and honour of God, bring him their …
2127 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 185.9 (Matthew Henry)
… themselves to be God’s servants, because he had loosed their bonds. The year of release was typical of gospel grace, which therefore is called the acceptable …
2128 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.14 (Matthew Henry)
… said to be found in a desert land; for one might as reasonably expect a crop of corn from a barren wilderness as any good fruit of service to God from a people …
2129 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.22 (Matthew Henry)
… are called strange gods, because they were other than the one only true God, to whom they were betrothed and ought to have been faithful. (2.) To new gods, that came …
2130 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.12 (Matthew Henry)
I. To the high priest, here called God’s holy one ( Deuteronomy 33:8 ), because his office was holy, in token of which, Holiness to the Lord was written upon his forehead …
2131 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.20 (Matthew Henry)
… up to the Creator for the benefit and serviceableness of all the inferior creatures, for they are all that to us which he makes them to be. He prays, [1.] For seasonable …
2132 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.25 (Matthew Henry)
… be serviceable in their places to the honour of God and the interests of religion in the nation ( Deuteronomy 33:19 ): They shall call the people to the mountain …
2133 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.26 (Matthew Henry)
… serviceable to its interest by helping to quicken, encourage, and build up, those that are within. And it is good work to call people to God’s ordinances, to put …
2134 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.27 (Matthew Henry)
… others to the service of God, but they shall abound in it themselves: There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness. They shall not send others to the …
2135 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.33 (Matthew Henry)
… to all the spiritual seed of Abraham, that God will wisely proportion their graces and comforts to the services and sufferings he calls them out to. Have …
2136 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 188.4 (Matthew Henry)
… more serviceable than any of theirs, die at 120, especially since he felt not the decays of age, but was as fit for service as ever? Israel could ill spare him at …
2137 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 188.9 (Matthew Henry)
… him to be his successor, and praying to God to qualify him for the service to which he had called him; and this comes in as a reason why God gave him a more than ordinary …
2138 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 189.7 (Matthew Henry)
… service he was now called out to: “ Arise, go over this Jordan, this river which you have in view, and on the banks of which you lie encamped.” This was a trial to the …
2139 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 189.15 (Matthew Henry)
… , When God by his providence has given us rest we ought to consider how we may honour him with the advantages of it, and what service we may do to our brethren who …
2140 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 191.16 (Matthew Henry)
… your service, and when he pleases shall be employed for you.” When we are praising and worshipping God as Israel’s God, and ours through Christ, we must remember …