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2441 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 766.10 (Matthew Henry)
… infirmity to complain thus of God as putting a hardship upon him in calling him to be a prophet, which he would not have done had he considered the lasting honour …
2442 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 768.12 (Matthew Henry)
… . First, God accepted him: “ Was not this to know me, saith the Lord ? Did he not hereby make it to appear that he rightly knew his God, and worshipped him, and consequently …
2443 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 773.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to animate them to a vigorous resistance; and, though they had no ground for it, they hoped hereby to do them service. But he tells them that it would prove to their …
2444 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 776.3 (Matthew Henry)
… indeed to us when by them we find ourselves engaged to and enlarged in the service of God. They shall serve their own God, and neither be inclined, as they had …
2445 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 776.6 (Matthew Henry)
… they called that an outcast; now all was in ruins, there was no resort to it, no residence in it, none asked the way to Zion, as formerly; no man seeks after it. When …
2446 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 776.13 (Matthew Henry)
… called to his office, shall draw near to God to consult him upon all occasions. God will cause him to approach to him, for, otherwise, who would engage to take …
2447 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 777.25 (Matthew Henry)
… here called the gate of the corner, the hill Gareb, etc. 2. When built it shall be consecrated to God and to his service. It shall be built to the Lord ( Jeremiah 31 …
2448 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 779.18 (Matthew Henry)
… likewise to be forgotten during the captivity, when there was no altar, no temple service, for the priests to attend upon; but this also shall revive. It did so …
2449 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 782.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , here called the scribe’s chamber, Jeremiah 36:12. It should seem, though the princes had called the people to meet in the house of God, to fact, and pray, and hear …
2450 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 784.2 (Matthew Henry)
… plainly to bring men to repent and turn to God, which would have been as much as any thing a strengthening to the hands both the soldiery and of the burghers …
2451 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 785.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s promise to Jeremiah, in recompence for his services. I will cause the enemy to treat thee well in the day of evil, Jeremiah 15:11. Jeremiah had been faithful …
2452 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 794.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, when they shall find by woeful experience the utter inability of the gods they have served to do them any service. 2. There will be great sorrow; there …
2453 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 795.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , and God has long designed him, for his old sins, Jeremiah 49:8. The time is at hand when God will visit him, and call him to an account, and then they shall flee from …
2454 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 795.13 (Matthew Henry)
… nearest to the Jews which was called Elymais, and adjoined to Media-Elam, which, say they, had acted against God’s Israel, bore the quiver in an expedition against …
2455 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 796.8 (Matthew Henry)
… counsel to do this execution. God will raise them up to do it, will incline them to and fir them for this service, and then he will cause them to come up, for all their …
2456 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 797.8 (Matthew Henry)
… called to, Jeremiah 51:27, 51:28. Let a standard be set up, under which to enlist soldiers for this expedition; let a trumpet be blown to call men together to it and …
2457 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 797.9 (Matthew Henry)
… walls, to summon all that owed suit and service to that mother-city, now to come in to her assistance; let them make the watch as strong as they can, and appoint …
2458 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 799.12 (Matthew Henry)
… from God’s wrath; so the church does here. 1. She is as one in a fever, and the fever is of God’s sending: “ He has sent fire into my bones ( Lamentations 2:13 ), a preternatural …
2459 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 799.14 (Matthew Henry)
… none to comfort her ( Lamentations 2:17 ), none that can do it, none that cares to do it; she called for her lovers, and, to engage them to help her, called them her lovers …
2460 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 800.7 (Matthew Henry)
… was God’s footstool, under the mercy-seat, between the cherubim; this was of all others the most sacred symbol of God’s presence (it is called his footstool …