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2461 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 804.18 (Matthew Henry)
… to purpose, bring nothing to pass; they have wings, but no hands: whereas God’s servants, the angels, not only go when he sends them and come when he calls them, but …
2462 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 804.22 (Matthew Henry)
… is to go (whatever God wills and purposes to be done and brought to pass) thither their spirit is to go; that is, the angels, knowingly and designedly, set themselves …
2463 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 806.9 (Matthew Henry)
… closely to the service of God may be sure of the favour of God, and then they need not be dismayed at the proud looks of men. Let not the angry countenance that …
2464 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 807.6 (Matthew Henry)
… to our duty, and we must never call God’s service in any instance of it a hard service. (3.) It could not but be very much against the grain with him to appear …
2465 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 809.11 (Matthew Henry)
… sin to be an abominable thing, that abominable thing which the Lord hates and which makes sinners, and even their services, odious to him, Jeremiah 44:4, 1:11. It …
2466 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 810.8 (Matthew Henry)
… to face the enemy. Note, If God be against us, none can be for us to do us any service. 5. They shall have no hope of the return of their prosperity, with which to support …
2467 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 810.12 (Matthew Henry)
… here called their abominations and their detestable things (for so they were to God, and so they should have been to them), and these they set up in God’s temple …
2468 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 812.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s wrath, Revelation 16:1. They came with every one a slaughter-weapon in his hand, prepared for the work to which they were called. The nations of which …
2469 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 813.6 (Matthew Henry)
… were to be preserved is to be employed in this service; for the same Jesus that is the protector and Saviour of those that believe, having all judgement committed …
2470 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 814.16 (Matthew Henry)
… idols, to confront God in his temple, when he dwelt there ( 1 Kings 11:7 ), and thence it was called the mount of corruption ( 2 Kings 23:13 ); therefore there God does as …
2471 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 816.4 (Matthew Henry)
… time to do them service; but you have done nothing to help them.” They should have made intercession for them, to turn away the wrath of God; but they were not praying …
2472 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 819.9 (Matthew Henry)
… said to Abraham, I will be a God to thee and to thy seed; they had the seal of the covenant in their flesh from eight days old; they were to bear God’s name, and keep …
2473 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.4 (Matthew Henry)
… instruments God shall please to make use of in executing his judgments, he will fill them with strength, courage, and fury, according to the service they are …
2474 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , according to the rules of divination, determined him that way. Note, What services God designs men for he will be sure in his providence to lead them to, though …
2475 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 824.12 (Matthew Henry)
… that God had appointed to seize you and to hold you and out of which you cannot escape.” Men are said to be God’s hand when they are made use of as the ministers …
2476 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 826.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , and to me they bore sons and daughters ;” there were many among them that were devoted to God’s honour, and employed in his service, and were the strength and beauty …
2477 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 826.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s solemn ordinances when those that are grossly and openly profane and vicious impudently and impenitently so intrude upon the services and privileges …
2478 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 829.5 (Matthew Henry)
… is called a great service which he served against Tyrus. He shall besiege it in form ( Ezekiel 26:8 ), make a fort, and cast a mount, and ( Ezekiel 26:9 ) shall set engines …
2479 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 835.12 (Matthew Henry)
… speak to him out of the midst of hell, as it were congratulating his arrival and calling him to join with them in acknowledging that which neither he nor they …
2480 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 840.7 (Matthew Henry)
… begin to move when they are called to hear the word of the Lord. This was fulfilled when, upon Cyrus’s proclamation of liberty, those whose spirits God had stirred …