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2161 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 220.18 (Matthew Henry)
… . Aaron called for the ear-rings to make the golden calf of, Exodus 32:2. These Gideon begged Judges 8:24. And he had reason enough to think that those who offered …
2162 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 220.20 (Matthew Henry)
… so called because his worshippers joined themselves by covenant to him, in imitation of Israel’s covenanting with God; for the devil is God’s ape. In this …
2163 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 221.3 (Matthew Henry)
… not called of him), yet this he insinuates to pave the way to his own pretensions. Note, Those who design ill themselves are commonly most apt to suspect that …
2164 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , to make vows to God of some instance of acceptable service to him, not as a purchase of the favour we desire, but as an expression of our gratitude to him and …
2165 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 224.4 (Matthew Henry)
… obligation to pay that respect to them, but they had declined the service: I called you, and you delivered me not out of their hands. Had that been true which they …
2166 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 225.4 (Matthew Henry)
… was to be, and not only so (his services to Israel not seeming to answer to the grandeur of his entry) but for the Messiah’s sake, whose type he was to be, and whose …
2167 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 226.5 (Matthew Henry)
II. Samson, by a special providence, is animated and encouraged to attack the Philistines. That being the service for which he was designed, God, when he called him to it, prepared him for it by two occurrences:—
2168 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 227.13 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s servant in what he had been doing: “Lord, wilt thou not own a poor servant of thine, that has spent himself in thy service? I am thine, save me .” He calls his victory …
2169 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 227.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s service God, to recompense him, made an instrument of his supply. But I rather incline to our marginal reading: God clave a hollow place that was in Lehi …
2170 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 229.5 (Matthew Henry)
… began to dote she called to remembrance the follies of her youth, and perhaps told her son that this way of worshipping God by images was, to her knowledge, the …
2171 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 229.11 (Matthew Henry)
… forsake God’s service will never better themselves, nor find a better master. The ministry is the best calling but the worst trade in the world.
2172 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 232.2 (Matthew Henry)
… appeal to the people. The people of God were 400,000 footmen that drew the sword, that is, were armed and disciplined, and fit for service, and some of them perhaps …
2173 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 233.11 (Matthew Henry)
… were called together, they quietly departed in God’s peace, every man to his family. Public services must not make us think ourselves above our own private …
2174 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 237.10 (Matthew Henry)
… very serviceable, to his grandmother. It is no dishonour to those that are ever so well born to be servants to God, their friends, and their generation. The motto …
2175 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.3 (Matthew Henry)
… feasts to the tabernacle at Shiloh, to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts. I think this is the first time in scripture that God is called the Lord of …
2176 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.23 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, but lent to God. And observe, (1.) Whatever we give to God, it is what we have first asked and received from him. All our gifts to him were first his gifts to us …
2177 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 239.16 (Matthew Henry)
… ready to him to fetch and bring as he had occasion, and that is called ministering to the Lord. Some little services perhaps he was employed in about the altar …
2178 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 240.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the call; for the purpose of God, according to which we are called, shall certainly stand. 2. Samuel was still ignorant that it was the Lord that called him ( 1 Samuel …
2179 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 244.23 (Matthew Henry)
… good services that Samuel did to Israel. Having parted them from their idols, and brought them home to their God, he had put them into a capacity of receiving …
2180 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 246.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, and an honourable man. Note, Men of God are honourable men, and should be so in our eyes. Acquaintance with the things of God, and serviceableness to the …