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2281 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 411.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, and qualified and inclined to do this, all generations have reason to call him blessed, and to bless God for him. God sent to the Jews prophets and scribes …
2282 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 412.4 (Matthew Henry)
… reason to be thankful for them); but now that the temple at Jerusalem was opened, to the service of which they were ordained, they ought to have preferred the …
2283 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 414.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, Ezra 10:9. Those that had no zeal for the work they were called to, nay, perhaps had a dislike to it, being themselves delinquents, yet paid such a deference …
2284 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 415.3 (Matthew Henry)
… instruments to do it with. 2. That those whom God designs to employ in his service he will find out proper ways both to fit for it and to call to it. 3. That God has …
2285 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 416.16 (Matthew Henry)
… king to do service to Israel, were exceedingly grieved that all their little paltry arts to weaken Israel were thus baffled and frustrated by a fair, and noble …
2286 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 417.3 (Matthew Henry)
… him to signalize himself in this service. The priests repaired the sheep-gate, so called because through it were brought the sheep that were to be sacrificed …
2287 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 420.14 (Matthew Henry)
… good services, he did not covetously or ambitiously prescribe to God what reward he should give him, but modestly prayed, Think upon me, my God ( Nehemiah 5:19 …
2288 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 422.6 (Matthew Henry)
… this service. None so fit to expound and preach as he who was such a ready scribe in the law of his God. 1. His call to the service was very clear; for being in office …
2289 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 422.11 (Matthew Henry)
… when God gives us occasion to rejoice. Even sorrow for sin must not grow so excessive as to hinder our joy in God and our cheerfulness in his service. (2.) They commanded …
2290 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 426.5 (Matthew Henry)
… home to their respective posts, to mind their cures in the country; but now their presence and assistance were again called for. 2. Pursuant to this summons …
2291 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 426.6 (Matthew Henry)
… than call for it themselves. The people were many of them careless and would not bring their dues unless they were called upon; and therefore some were appointed …
2292 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 427.10 (Matthew Henry)
… to oblige ministers to do their duty, and people to do theirs. Nehemiah began with the rulers, and called them to an account: “ Why is the house of God forsaken …
2293 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 436.17 (Matthew Henry)
… obliged to be thankful to God for deliverance. Call upon me in the time of trouble, and then offer to God thanksgiving .
2294 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.5 (Matthew Henry)
… for service and present use more than by that which was for show and state, and fit only to be hoarded. As soon as God had made man, and provided for his maintenance …
2295 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.30 (Matthew Henry)
… Job to say, It is in vain to serve God. (2.) The messenger called the lightning the fire of God (and innocently enough), but perhaps Satan thereby designed to strike …
2296 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 440.14 (Matthew Henry)
… use to reconcile us to death when it comes, and to make us easy under the arrest of it; but they ought not to be made use of as a pretence to quarrel with life while …
2297 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 440.17 (Matthew Henry)
… is called light, because pleasant and serviceable for walking and working. It is candle-light; the longer it burns the shorter it is, and the nearer to the socket …
2298 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 448.13 (Matthew Henry)
… fit to contend with God or call him to an account? Did we but better know God and ourselves, we should better know how to conduct ourselves towards God.
2299 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.3 (Matthew Henry)
… no service either to God or our neighbour, or no justice to ourselves, which are no way to the use of edifying, were better unspoken. Those words which are as wind …
2300 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.10 (Matthew Henry)
… to God and easy to ourselves, Psalms 18:24. 2. Man, in his fallen state, cannot pretend to be clean and righteous before God, either to acquit himself to God’s justice …