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2401 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 …
2402 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 …
2403 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 …
2404 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 …
2405 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 …
2406 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 …
2407 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 …
2408 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 …
2409 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 …
2410 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 …
2411 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 …
2412 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 …
2413 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 …
2414 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 …
2415 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 722.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s kingdom, and so he was God’s servant. 2. As one chosen by him: He is my elect. He did not thrust himself into the service, but was called of God, and pitched …
2416 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 722.10 (Matthew Henry)
… brought to it ( Hebrews 5:4 ): I have called thee in righteousness. God not only did him no wrong in calling him to this hard service, he having voluntarily offered …
2417 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 723.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the service that idolaters did to their false gods, they were light, and not to be called services nor found fault with as wearisome. God did not require them …
2418 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.4 (Matthew Henry)
… obnoxious to God’s wrath, and already given to the curse and to reproaches; but, as if God’s bowels yearned towards him and his repentings were kindled together …
2419 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.3 (Matthew Henry)
… here called God’s anointed, because he was both designed and qualified for this great service by the counsel of God, and was to be herein a type of the Messiah …
2420 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 726.10 (Matthew Henry)
… please to call a god they fall down, yea, they worship it. If they magnified themselves too much in pretending to make a god, as if they would atone for that, they …