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2481 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 826.14 (Matthew Henry)

… of God’s solemn ordinances when those that are grossly and openly profane and vicious impudently and impenitently so intrude upon the services and privileges …

2482 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 829.5 (Matthew Henry)

… is called a great service which he served against Tyrus. He shall besiege it in form ( Ezekiel 26:8 ), make a fort, and cast a mount, and ( Ezekiel 26:9 ) shall set engines …

2483 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 835.12 (Matthew Henry)

… speak to him out of the midst of hell, as it were congratulating his arrival and calling him to join with them in acknowledging that which neither he nor they …

2484 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 840.7 (Matthew Henry)

… begin to move when they are called to hear the word of the Lord. This was fulfilled when, upon Cyrus’s proclamation of liberty, those whose spirits God had stirred …

2485 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 843.6 (Matthew Henry)

service of the house. And it becomes such as are made spiritual priests to God to content themselves with little chambers and not to seek great things to themselves …

2486 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 845.4 (Matthew Henry)

… approached to those things which were for the people, that is, to do that part of their service which related to the people, to teach them the law and to answer …

2487 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 846.7 (Matthew Henry)

to them and spoiled the acceptableness of their services to him. See what an indignity sinners do to God, setting up their walls in opposition to his, and …

2488 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 846.12 (Matthew Henry)

… up to those on the lower bench, and handed by them to those on the higher, and they laid it on the altar. Thus in the service of God we must be assistant to one another …

2489 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 846.13 (Matthew Henry)

… if God now accept our works, if our services be pleasing to him, it is enough, we need no more. Those that give themselves to God shall be accepted of God, their persons …

2490 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 847.9 (Matthew Henry)

… the service thereof. Note, Those who may not be fit to be employed in one kind of service may yet be fit to be employed in another; and even those who have offended …

2491 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 848.2 (Matthew Henry)

… is called ( Ezekiel 45:1 ) an oblation to the Lord; for what is given in works of piety, for the maintenance and support of the worship of God and the advancement …

2492 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 849.5 (Matthew Henry)

… would call it the nearest way home. Some observe that this may remind us, in the service of God, to be still pressing forward ( Philippians 3:13 ) and not to look back …

2493 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 851.2 (Matthew Henry)

… study to be serviceable to the place, some way or other, according as our capacity is. They must not come out of the tribes of Israel to the city to take their ease …

2494 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 853.27 (Matthew Henry)

… ) worship God, by confessing ( Daniel 2:47 ), Of a truth your God is a God of gods, such a God as there is no other, above all gods in dignity, over all gods in dominion. He …

2495 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 854.13 (Matthew Henry)

… thy gods yet we are not atheists; there is a God whom we can call ours, to whom we faithfully adhere.” (2.) “That we serve this God; we have devoted ourselves to his honour …

2496 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 856.3 (Matthew Henry)

… he called him to weeping, and mourning, and girding with sackcloth. God’s voice cried in the city, as Jonah to Nineveh, Yet forty days, or fewer, and Babylon shall …

2497 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 856.5 (Matthew Henry)

… eminent services that live to be overlooked and taken no notice of; but, whatever men are, God is not unrighteous to forget the services done to his kingdom …

2498 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 857.5 (Matthew Henry)

… him to accuse him of crimes he was innocent of, and to swear treason upon him, wherein they shame many that were called Jews and are called Christians.

2499 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 857.7 (Matthew Henry)

… glory to God, fetch in mercy from God; and so keep up our communion with God; and to interdict prayer for thirty days is for so long to rob God of all the tribute …

2500 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 857.11 (Matthew Henry)

… crime to be serving his God continually, and continuing to do so even when it was made a crime. (2.) He leaves it to God to free him from punishment, since he could …