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3341 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.3 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal with which God should have been served, and now God justly sends an enemy to take it away in the season thereof, Hosea 2:8, 2:9. [2.] The consequence of God’s …
3342 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal ruined them, and would not help them. When God judges he will overcome; and sinners shall be made either to bend or break before him.
3343 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.13 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal ( Judges 5:25 ), which we may suppose this son, as far as was in his power, witnessed against. He was of the half tribe of Manasseh that lay in Canaan, of the family …
3344 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.26 (Matthew Henry)
… down Baal’s altar, which it seems hi father had, either for his own house or perhaps for the whole town. See the power of God’s grace, that he could raise up a reformer …
3345 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.27 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal, and therefore were forward to assist him in destroying the altar of Baal. 2. He did not scruple taking his father’s bullock and offering it to God without …
3346 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.28 (Matthew Henry)
… at Baal’s altar, and so to begin the day with their god, such a one as he was, a shame to those who say the true God is their God, and yet, in the morning, direct no prayer …
3347 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.32 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal, though he had complied with them formerly in the worship of Baal. Note, It is good to appear for God when we are called to it, though there be few or none …
3348 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.33 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal. “Will you that are Israelites, the worshippers of the one only living and true God, plead for Baal, a false god? Will you be so sottish, so senseless? Those …
3349 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.34 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal: “Now that Gideon is taking up arms against the Midianites that worship Baal, let him defend his worshippers if he can.” It likewise gave honour to Gideon …
3350 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.35 (Matthew Henry)
… destroying Baal’s altar brought them over, and that they came to plead for Baal and to make that a pretence for quarrelling with Israel; but it is more likely …
3351 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.36 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, and though they had condemned him to death as a criminal, were now convinced of their error, bravely came in to his assistance, and submitted to him as …
3352 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 219.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal. We are here told, I. What direction God gave to Gideon for the modelling of his army, by which it was reduced to 300 men, Judges 7:1, 7:8. II. What encouragement …
3353 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 219.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal. He must take him and no one else with him, must take him with him to be a witness of what he should hear the Midianites say, that out of the mouth of these …
3354 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 220.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, or in the interests of Midian. The men of Penuel gave the same answer to the same request, defying the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, Judges 7:8 .
3355 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 220.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , as Baal by the sun. With there he took all their other ornaments, as appears Judges 8:26; where we find that he did not put them to so good a use as one would have wished …
3356 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 220.20 (Matthew Henry)
… name, Baal-berith (a goddess, say some); Berith, some think, was Berytus, the place where the Phoenicians worshipped this idol. The name signifies the Lord of a covenant …
3357 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 221.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal-berith, that is, out of the public treasury, which, out of respect to their idol, they deposited in his temple to be protected by him; or out of the offerings …
3358 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 221.15 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal, turning that to his reproach which was his praise. (3.) Of his prime minister of state, Zebul his officer, and ruler of the city. “We may well be ashamed to serve …
3359 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 221.24 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal-berith, not considering that the tower of an idol-temple lay more exposed to divine vengeance than any other tower. He attempted to set fire to this …
3360 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 232.16 (Matthew Henry)
… at Baal-tamar came upon them at the same time ( Judges 20:33 ); so that the Benjamites were quite surrounded, which put them into the greatest consternation that …