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2241 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.26 (Matthew Henry)
… hereafter, to receive from him a reproof, admonition, or command, with the same preface. If, in God’s name, he can help them, in God’s name let him teach and rule them …
2242 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.27 (Matthew Henry)
… to be abusive to them. He intended hereby to punish the parents and to make them afraid of God’s judgments. (2.) God must be glorified as a righteous God, that …
2243 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.15 (Matthew Henry)
… , When God calls away our dearest relations by death it becomes us quietly to say, “It is well both with us and them;” it is well, for all is well that God does; all is …
2244 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 320.17 (Matthew Henry)
… against God and his prophets deceive themselves, and are justly given up to delusions. 3. When he had brought them to Samaria he prayed to God so to open their …
2245 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 323.8 (Matthew Henry)
… wherefore God had quarrel with them, that he might have an eye to that which God had an eye to, and that was the blood of God’s servants, the prophets and others …
2246 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 324.4 (Matthew Henry)
… relation to him, all the officers of his household, ministers of state, and those in command under him, called here his great men ( 2 Kings 10:11 ), all his kinsfolks …
2247 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 324.8 (Matthew Henry)
… to stand guard at all the avenues to Baal’s temple, that none might escape ( 2 Kings 10:24 ), then the guards were sent in to put them all to the sword and to mingle …
2248 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 324.10 (Matthew Henry)
I. God’s approbation of what Jehu had done. Many, it is probable, censured him as treacherous and barbarous—called him a rebel, a usurper, a murderer, and prognosticated …
2249 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 325.6 (Matthew Henry)
… title to the crown than Athaliah had. By his eminent gifts and graces he was fitted to serve his country, and better service he could not do it than to free it …
2250 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 331.10 (Matthew Henry)
… places, to the honour of strange gods, for it was to the dishonour of the true God, 2 Kings 17:11. (7.) They followed vanity. Idols are called so, because they could do …
2251 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 331.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the God of the land, which they could not, because they knew not how, 2 Kings 17:26. The God of Israel was the God of the whole world, but they ignorantly call him the …
2252 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 337.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God, no, nor reserved for any common use; they must all be burnt, and the ashes of them carried to Bethel. That place had been the common source of …
2253 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 338.4 (Matthew Henry)
… was called to mind, but especially the innocent blood that he shed, much of which, we may suppose, was the blood of God’s witnesses and worshippers, which the …
2254 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 338.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , to weaken it, that he might effectually secure to himself the dominion of it and prevent its revolt, and to enrich himself with the wealth or service of those …
2255 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 345.4 (Matthew Henry)
… service of the ark was much superseded by its rest they had other work cut out for them (for Levites should never be idle) and were employed in the service of …
2256 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 354.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to sanctify themselves, that is, to cleanse themselves from all ceremonial pollution and to compose themselves for the solemn service of God, so as to strike …
2257 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 355.5 (Matthew Henry)
… in God. Those that give glory to God’s name are allowed to glory in it ( 1 Chronicles 16:10 ), to value themselves upon their relation to God and venture themselves …
2258 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 358.2 (Matthew Henry)
… said to be the men of 700 chariots, 2 Samuel 10:18. For, as now in a man of war for sea-service they allot ten men to a gun, so then, in land-service, ten men to a chariot …
2259 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 …
2260 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 …