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2501 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.11 (Matthew Henry)
… :18 ), to make it to appear that thou art a merciful God.” The good things we ask of God we call mercies, because we expect them purely from God’s mercy. And, because …
2502 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 860.30 (Matthew Henry)
… do God a real service, and man a real kindness, must be the destruction of this. Christ undertakes to be so, and for this purpose he is manifested, to destroy the …
2503 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 862.2 (Matthew Henry)
… three to be Cyrus, Artaxasta or Artaxerxes, called by the Greeks Cambyses, and Ahasuerus that married Esther, called Darius son of Hystaspes. To these three …
2504 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 862.8 (Matthew Henry)
… reason to bless God for the human learning with which many have done great service to divine truths.
2505 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 862.18 (Matthew Henry)
… put to the torture, and put to death, by his rage. Though they are so excellent and intelligent themselves, and so useful and serviceable to others, yet Antiochus …
2506 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 865.5 (Matthew Henry)
… resolution to go on in it. See the folly of idolaters, to call those their lovers that had not so much as life; yet let us learn to call our God our lover; let us keep …
2507 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 866.7 (Matthew Henry)
… -service. Desolate indeed is their condition that are shut out from communion with God, that have no opportunity of directing their addresses to God by sacrifice …
2508 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 866.8 (Matthew Henry)
… called Lord ( Psalms 110:1 ), and to whom God gave the throne of his father David, Luke 1:32. The Chaldee reads it, They shall seek the service of the Lord their God, and …
2509 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 868.14 (Matthew Henry)
… pains to go about to creatures, who can do them no service. Those who repent not that they have offended God by their sins are loth to be beholden to him in their …
2510 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 870.25 (Matthew Henry)
… cry to God, because their hearts were not right with him, not subjected to his will, devoted to his honour, nor employed in his service. To pray is to lift up the …
2511 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 871.19 (Matthew Henry)
… own to excuse themselves from the obligation of all God’s moral precepts. But how did they speed? [1.] God makes no reckoning of their services: The Lord accepts …
2512 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 872.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , says God, Leviticus 25:23. They had used it, or abused it rather, as if it had been their own, had not paid the rent, nor done the services, due to God as their landlord …
2513 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 873.12 (Matthew Henry)
… husbandman’s calling. If they would not be brought into bondage by their oppressors, let them return to God’s service. (1.) Let them break up the fallow ground …
2514 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 874.3 (Matthew Henry)
… . When God demanded Israel’s discharge from Pharaoh he called them his son, his first-born. Note, Those whom God loves he calls out of the bondage of sin and Satan …
2515 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 874.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to preach the gospel to the dispersed children of Israel, the children of God that were scattered abroad. And then observe, 1. How they were to be called and brought …
2516 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 875.19 (Matthew Henry)
… title to them and to their service. (2.) He preserved them, as sheep are kept by the shepherd’s care. He preserved them from Pharaoh’s rage at the sea, even at the …
2517 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 876.5 (Matthew Henry)
… priests called upon the people thus to pay their homage, or the people, who were not allowed to come so near themselves, called upon the men that sacrificed …
2518 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 878.8 (Matthew Henry)
… to the service of his sanctuary.” It is intimated, 1. That the people, as long as they had the fruits of the earth brought in in their season, presented to the Lord …
2519 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 878.10 (Matthew Henry)
… Lord God calls to weeping and mourning. With all the marks of sorrow and shame sin must be confessed and bewailed, the righteous of God must be acknowledged …
2520 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 878.14 (Matthew Henry)
… being serviceable to the sin of man and subject to the curse of God for it. Cursed is the ground for thy sake .