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2241 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 361.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God and Israel, yet made him unfit to be employed in this service, or rather less fit than another that had never been called to such bloody work …
2242 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 361.8 (Matthew Henry)
… him to honour God, that God had honour in store for him; let him build up God’s house, and God will build up his throne. Note, God’s gracious promises should quicken …
2243 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 362.6 (Matthew Henry)
… it, God would not call any to it till they had come to their full strength; for he considers our frame, and, in service as well as sufferings, will lay no more upon …
2244 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 362.7 (Matthew Henry)
… therein to wait on the sons of Aaron ( 1 Chronicles 23:28 ), were to do the drudgery-work (if any work for God is to be called drudgery ) of the house of God, to keep the …
2245 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 363.3 (Matthew Henry)
… said to cast lots over against their brethren (so they are called, not their lords ), the sons of Aaron, who were not to lord it over God’s clergy, as the original …
2246 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 364.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of God is here called prophesying ( 1 Chronicles 25:1-25:3 ), not that all those who were employed in this service were honoured with the visions of God, or could …
2247 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 364.3 (Matthew Henry)
… here called a service, and the persons employed in it workmen, 1 Chronicles 25:1. Not but that it is the greatest liberty and pleasure to be employed in praising …
2248 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 364.8 (Matthew Henry)
… to keep up the service in the house of God; for they were all skilful in the work to which they were called. When David the king was so much addicted to divine …
2249 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 365.3 (Matthew Henry)
… whatever service God calls men to he either finds them fit or makes them so.
2250 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 365.4 (Matthew Henry)
… were called to attend it in God’s house. He that is trusty in little shall be trusted with more. He that keeps God’s ordinances in his own tent is fit to have the …
2251 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 366.2 (Matthew Henry)
… accustomed to, military exercises; and yet none were compelled to be in service, and at expenses, above one month in the year (which they might very well afford …
2252 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 367.15 (Matthew Henry)
… able to finish. Be not dismayed. (1.) God will help thee, and thou must look up to him in the first place ( 1 Chronicles 28:20 ): The Lord God, even my God, whom I have chosen …
2253 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 368.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of God. When he had done his prayer he called to them to testify their concurrence ( Now bless the Lord your God, 1 Chronicles 29:20 ), which accordingly they did …
2254 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 369.6 (Matthew Henry)
… grace to enable me to do the duty of it.” What service we have reason to believe God calls us to we have reason to hope he will qualify us for. But that is not all. “Lord …
2255 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 374.2 (Matthew Henry)
… . The service was appointed him, and the honour of it designed him, by the divine promise; so that he did not do it of his own head, but was called of God to do it. It is …
2256 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 374.6 (Matthew Henry)
… own to plead, but, Lord, remember the mercies of David thy servant .” Christ is God’s servant ( Isaiah 42:1 ), and is called David, Hosea 3:5. “Lord, remember his mercies …
2257 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 376.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , according to the law of David, who is here called the man of God, as Moses was, because he was both instructed and authorised of God to make these establishments …
2258 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 382.5 (Matthew Henry)
… bows, to reach the enemy at a distance. Both did good service, and neither could say to the other, I have no need of thee. Different gifts and employments are for …
2259 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 385.10 (Matthew Henry)
… so call them) are here named, with the numbers of those under their command (the serviceable men, that were fit for war in their respective districts), three in …
2260 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 392.4 (Matthew Henry)
… is called Israel, because, the other tribes having revolted from God, they only were Israelites indeed. Note, It is the greatest honour to do good in our generations …