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2381 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.21 (Matthew Henry)
… here calls upon them to forsake their sins, which hindered the acceptance of their services, and then all would be well. Let them not say that God picked quarrels …
2382 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.22 (Matthew Henry)
… —who call drunkenness good fellowship, and covetousness good husbandry, and, when they persecute the people of God, think they do him good service—and, on the …
2383 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 686.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of God; and therefore the prophet, when he reflects upon sin, calls it uncleanness; for the sinfulness of sin is its contrariety to the holy nature of God, and …
2384 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 686.21 (Matthew Henry)
… the service.” Behold me; so the word is. God says to us, Behold me ( Isaiah 65:1 ), and, Here I am ( Isaiah 58:9 ), even before we call; let us say so to him when he does call. (2.) His resolution …
2385 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 693.4 (Matthew Henry)
… here called, 1. God’s sanctified ones ( Isaiah 13:3 ), designed for this service and set apart to it by the purpose and providence of God, disengaged from other projects …
2386 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 698.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , and calls in all her friends and well-wishers into her service, Isaiah 18:3. He gives notice that he is about to do some great work, as Lord of hosts. 2. All the world …
2387 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 699.11 (Matthew Henry)
… them, calling them to, and accepting them in, the worship of the one only living and true God; and these blessings of grace were much more valuable than all the …
2388 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 702.11 (Matthew Henry)
… public service, or contribute in money to it, which they raised by a poll, so much a head or so much a house. (5.) Because private property ought to give way to the public …
2389 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 702.12 (Matthew Henry)
… is called an ancient river, Judges 5:21. Whatever in nature is at any time serviceable to us, we must therein acknowledge the goodness of the God of nature, who …
2390 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 702.21 (Matthew Henry)
… ; but God calls him to it: and what God calls us to we may expect he will own us in. It is here foretold, 1. That Eliakim should be put into Shebna’s place of lord-chamberlain …
2391 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 703.10 (Matthew Henry)
… holiness to the Lord. The trade of Tyre, and all the gains of her trade, shall be devoted to God and to his honour and employed in his service. It shall not be treasured …
2392 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 704.6 (Matthew Henry)
… them to do him service. Even those that had no benefit by God’s covenant with Abraham had benefit by his covenant with Noah and his sons, which is called an everlasting …
2393 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 705.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to tremble before the judgments of God and call in vain to rocks and mountains to hide them. Or, 2. Of those that shall be now made strong and terrible for God and …
2394 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 706.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God, God suffered their enemies to have dominion over them, that they might know the difference between his service and the service of the kingdoms …
2395 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 708.10 (Matthew Henry)
… by his word calls us to nothing but what is really for our advantage; for the service of God is the only true rest for those that are weary of the service of …
2396 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 713.7 (Matthew Henry)
… used to rejoice in its own productions for the service of God’s Israel, but now the enemies of Israel eat them up, or tread them down: it mourns and languishes …
2397 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 713.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of God made they were in a great fright, being conscious to themselves that they had provoked this God by their secretly worshipping other gods; and therefore …
2398 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 718.19 (Matthew Henry)
… period to that course of service for the glory of God and the good of the church which he was now pursuing, Isaiah 38:18. Heaven indeed praises God, and the souls …
2399 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 720.27 (Matthew Henry)
… he calls them out to any service, so obsequious are they that, by the greatness of his might, not one of them fails, but, as when the stars in their courses fought …
2400 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.10 (Matthew Henry)
… are God’s servants, and he will not see them abused, especially for what they do in his service: Thou art my servant ( Isaiah 41:8 ), and ( Isaiah 41:9 ) “ I have said unto …