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2541 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 882.6 (Matthew Henry)
… commissioned to make known the mind of God to them, to show them what is pleasing to God and what displeasing, to reprove them for their faults and warn them …
2542 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.2 (Matthew Henry)
… God has a mouth to speak we must have an ear to hear; it is our duty, it is our interest, yet so stupid are most men that they need to be again and again called upon …
2543 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 888.8 (Matthew Henry)
… in God’s sanctuary as a fish upon dry ground. Note, Those are strangers to God, and enemies to themselves, that love market days better than sabbath days, that …
2544 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 889.7 (Matthew Henry)
… are to God as children of the Ethiopians; he rejects them, and their services.
2545 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 891.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his calling, that was his occupation, that was it that he made a business of: “ I fear the Lord Jehovah; that is the God I worship, the God I pray to, even the God of heaven …
2546 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 892.11 (Matthew Henry)
… to it as to be able to call it their own, if they would but keep close to God and their duty. Those that think to go any where to be from under the eye of God, as Jonah …
2547 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 893.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , saying to us, Now return to the duties which before you neglected, and which by these providences you are called to. God now said, in effect, to Jonah, as Christ …
2548 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 893.17 (Matthew Henry)
… of God he called upon the inferior creatures to join with him therein, so when the Ninevites were full of sorrow for sin, and dread of God’s judgments, they would …
2549 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 895.6 (Matthew Henry)
… gods cast into the fire, for they were no gods ( Isaiah 37:19 ); and this was the Lord’s doing: I will lay the idols desolate. Note, If the law of God prevail not to make …
2550 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 896.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God, and our generation, let it never be said that we left that to be done to-morrow which we could do to-day. 5. They stick at nothing to compass their …
2551 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 896.7 (Matthew Henry)
… to speak in God’s name?” Note, It is an honour and privilege to be named of the house of Jacob. Thou art called a Jew, Romans 2:17. But, when those who are called by …
2552 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 900.3 (Matthew Henry)
… ever to his service. Or they may refer to the controversy now pleaded between God and Israel; let them remember God’s many favours to them and their fathers …
2553 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 902.17 (Matthew Henry)
… his service, to his honour; and now that the deliverance is wrought they are called upon to perform their vows; the promise they had then made must now be made …
2554 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 903.5 (Matthew Henry)
… course to make his best of the opportunity to escape; they shall not so much as look back to see who calls for them. Note, God can dispirit the strongest and boldest …
2555 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.13 (Matthew Henry)
… God with one consent, with one shoulder (so the word is), alluding to oxen in the yoke, that draw even. When Christians are unanimous in the service of God the …
2556 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 911.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s word. He was a man that had been eminently useful in his day, and serviceable to the interest of the church, yet did not plead his former merits in answer …
2557 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 912.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the service of God shall receive fresh encouragements from him to proceed in it, as their case calls for them. Set the wheels a going, and God will oil them.
2558 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 912.14 (Matthew Henry)
… . Note, God has given to his ministers diversities of gifts, and calls them out to do diversities of services, so that they have need one of another, should make …
2559 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 912.16 (Matthew Henry)
… are called to consider, and to observe whether God would not be to the utmost as good as his word, and by his providence remarkably countenance and recompense …
2560 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 915.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s commandments, and walk circumspectly. He must also keep God’s charge, must carefully do all the services of the priesthood, and must see to it that …