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32161 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 800.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a character we give to majesty), to be trampled upon and profaned; and no marvel that the king and the priest, whose characters were always deemed venerable …
32162 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 800.13 (Matthew Henry)
… no character, no, not the most distinguished; even the priest and the prophet, who of all men, one would think, might expect protection from heaven and veneration …
32163 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.28 (Matthew Henry)
… bad characters they give me, laying to my charge things that I know not, all the methods they use to make me odious and contemptible, even the lips of those that …
32164 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 805.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , [1.] God knew this concerning them, how inflexible, how incorrigible, they were. Note, God is perfectly acquainted with every man’s true character, whatever his …
32165 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 805.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of God. 1. God tells the prophet what was the character of those to whom he sent him, as before, Ezekiel 2:3, 2:4. They are briers and thorns, scratching, and tearing …
32166 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 806.8 (Matthew Henry)
… what God had already told him of the bad character of those to whom he was sent, that, if he met with discouragement and disappointment in them, he might not be …
32167 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 806.17 (Matthew Henry)
… their character was. He must not, as other watchmen, look round to spy danger and gain intelligence, but he must look up to God, and further he need not look: Hear …
32168 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 808.14 (Matthew Henry)
… that character of Hezekiah, that there was none like him, before or after him. (2.) They shall be such as will force them to break the strongest bonds of natural …
32169 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 812.7 (Matthew Henry)
… distinguishing character of this remnant that is to be saved. They are such as sigh and cry, sigh in themselves, as men in pain and distress, cry to God in prayer …
32170 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 814.3 (Matthew Henry)
… general character which God gives of these men to the prophet ( Ezekiel 11:2 ): “ These are the men that devise mischief; under pretence of concerting measures …
32171 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 814.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the characters and accounts given them of their idols, and the ideas they had of them, and of them they learned lewdness and cruelty. Here lies the root of all …
32172 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 815.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , whose character it was that they were like the idols they worshipped, which have eyes and see not, ears and hear not, Psalms 115:5, 115:6, 115:8. Note, Those are to be …
32173 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 816.4 (Matthew Henry)
… put God’s character upon Satan, in worshipping devils, arrived at length at such a pitch of impiety as to put Satan’s character upon God. 3. They took no care …
32174 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 816.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of God against them for these sins, from which their pretending to the character of prophets would not exempt them. 1. In general, here is a woe against them ( Ezekiel …
32175 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 816.10 (Matthew Henry)
… invidious characters, to make them either despicable or odious to the people, and pretended to do it in God’s name, which made them go many a time with a sad heart …
32176 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 817.3 (Matthew Henry)
… they wore, and as such he received them with respect, and, it is likely, was glad to see them so well disposed. But God gives him their real character ( Ezekiel …
32177 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 818.2 (Matthew Henry)
… its character as a holy city, it would have been the glory both of God and Israel. It was a vine which God’s right hand had planted, a branch out of a dry ground, which …
32178 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 819.5 (Matthew Henry)
… God and Israel was sealed and ratified then thou becamest mine .” God called them his people, and himself the God of Israel. Note, Those to whom God gives spiritual …
32179 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 819.9 (Matthew Henry)
… unto God, and his children,; as such, and under that character, we are to love them, and pray for them, bring them up for him, and, if he calls for them, cheerfully part …
32180 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 819.20 (Matthew Henry)
… . The character of the mother was that she loathed her husband and her children, she had all the marks of an adulteress; and that is the character of the daughter …