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3321 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 218.5 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal, though he had joined formerly in the worship of Baal. Let us do our duty, and trust God with our safety. Here is a challenge to Baal, to do either good or …
3322 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 304.4 (Matthew Henry)
… worship Baal; but it made way for that idolatry. Blessed Lord, give us grace to reverence thy temple, thine ordinances, thine house of prayer, thy sabbaths, and …
3323 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 310.4 (Matthew Henry)
… or Baal was the self-existent, supreme God, the Creator, Governor, and Judge of the world, and to follow him alone. It is dangerous to halt between the service of …
3324 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 310.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal's prophets, was so far accepted, that God poured out blessing upon the land. Elijah long continued praying. Though the answer of our fervent and believing …
3325 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 317.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, yet he maintained the worship of the calves. Those do not truly repent or reform, who only part with the sins they lose by, but continue to love the sins …
3326 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 324.1 (Matthew Henry)
Ahab's sons and Ahaziah's brethren put to death. (1-14) Jehu destroys the worshippers of Baal. (15-28) Jehu follows Jeroboam's sins. (29-36)
3327 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 40.9 (Matthew Henry)
… that Baal-peor. 3. She was urgent and violent in the temptation. Often she had been denied with the strongest reasons, and yet as often renewed her vile solicitations …
3328 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 141.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , Baal was worshipped, and it was thence called Baal-peor. He chose this place with a hope, either, First, That it being the residence (as he fancied) of Baal, the god …
3329 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 143.2 (Matthew Henry)
… unto Baal-peor, Numbers 25:3. Not all, nor the most, but very many, were taken in this snare. Now concerning this observe, 1. That Balak, by the advice of Balaam, cast …
3330 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 143.6 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal-peor, so that this gives no countenance at all to private persons, under pretence of zeal against sin, to put offenders to death, who ought to be prosecuted …
3331 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 150.11 (Matthew Henry)
… and Baal were names of their gods, which they were forbidden to make mention of ( Exodus 23:13 ), and which, by changing the names of these cities, they endeavoured …
3332 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.20 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal-peor and the preservation of those that clave to the Lord, from which they might easily infer the danger of apostasy from God and the benefit of adherence …
3333 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 168.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , as Baal’s prophets did ( 1 Kings 18:28 ), or their marking themselves by incisions in their flesh for such and such deities, which in them, above any, would be an inexcusable …
3334 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal.” Samuel’s mission was proved by this, that God let none of his words fall to the ground, 1 Samuel 3:19, 3:20. And by the miracles Christ wrought, especially …
3335 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 188.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , whenever Baal-peor boasted of the Israelites being joined to him, the grave of Moses over against his temple might be a check to him.” 3. The particular place …
3336 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 200.4 (Matthew Henry)
… from Baal-gad near Lebanon in the north to Halak, which lay upon the country of Edom in the south, Joshua 12:7. The boundaries are more largely described, Numbers …
3337 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 207.5 (Matthew Henry)
… and Baal in Elijah’s time, yet it was made much more illustrious in the New Testament; for within the lot of this tribe was Nazareth, where our blessed Saviour …
3338 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 212.12 (Matthew Henry)
… and Baal to the consciences of those with whom he was treating, 1 Kings 18:21. Joshua’s putting the matter here to this issue plainly intimates two things:— First …
3339 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 214.9 (Matthew Henry)
… them. Baal and Ashtaroth, he-gods and she-gods; they made their court to sun and moon, Jupiter and Juno. Baalim signifies lords, and Ashtaroth blessed ones, both …
3340 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 215.11 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal, Hosea 2:8. What should have been paid to the divine grace, and was not, was distrained for, and paid to the divine justice. The former servitude ( Judges …