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3441 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 708.4 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal. God has an officer ready to make a seizure for him, has one at his beck, a mighty and strong one, who is able to do the business, even the king of Assyria, who …
3442 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 708.7 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal-peor. Three things are here observed as aggravations of this sin:—(1.) That those were guilty of it whose business it was to warn others against it and to …
3443 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 712.14 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal. (2.) That the cities too, the cities of Judah, where they lived at ease, spent their rents, and made themselves merry with their dainties, should be laid …
3444 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.1 (Matthew Henry)
… , if Baal be God, then follow him;” and in the people’s acknowledgment, upon the issue of the trial, “Jehovah he is the God, Jehovah he is the God.”
3445 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 725.31 (Matthew Henry)
… and Baal. Bring them near, and let them take counsel together what to say in defence of themselves and their idols. It shall, as before, be put upon this issue: let …
3446 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 726.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal; others rather think not, but that it was Belus, one of their first kings, who after his death was deified. As Bel was a deified prince, so (some think) Nebo …
3447 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of Baal’s prophets that leaped upon the altar, and cut themselves, 1 Kings 18:26, 18:28. Note, Vile corruptions, the more they are gratified the more they are inflamed …
3448 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.7 (Matthew Henry)
… Baal, in his name, to his honour, being backed and supported by the wicked kings to confront the Lord’s prophets. Baal’s prophets joined with Baal’s priests …
3449 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.16 (Matthew Henry)
… worshipped Baal-peor ( Deuteronomy 34:6, 25:3 ), as if the prophet looked as far back as the iniquity of Peor; but, if it mean any particular valley, surely it is the …
3450 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 753.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal, a dunghill-deity, that sets up as a rival with the great Jehovah, and, not content with that, will you walk after other gods too, whom you know not, and by all …
3451 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 753.17 (Matthew Henry)
… for Baal, and of which they had made cakes to the queen of heaven. (2.) There is no extinguishing it: It shall burn and shall not be quenched; prayers and tears shall …
3452 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 753.23 (Matthew Henry)
… and Baal. The heart is the place which God has chosen to put his name there; if sin have the innermost and uppermost place there, we pollute the temple of the Lord …
3453 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 755.15 (Matthew Henry)
… many Baals, Baal-peor and Baal-berith, the Baal of this place and the Baal of the other place; for they had lords many, which their fathers taught them to worship …
3454 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal, which they ought to have been ashamed of, with which they did reproach the Lord and bring confusion upon themselves. But now in their distress their …
3455 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.12 (Matthew Henry)
… unto Baal, setting up other mediators between them and the supreme God besides the promised Messiah; nay, setting up other gods in competition with the true …
3456 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 758.19 (Matthew Henry)
… by Baal. It was bad enough that they did themselves swear by Baal, worse that they taught God’s own people, who had been better taught; and yet, if they will at length …
3457 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.15 (Matthew Henry)
… Israel, Baal, though all Israel presented their prayers to him in the days of Ahab, could not relieve them; it was that God only who answered by fire that could …
3458 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 765.6 (Matthew Henry)
… to Baal ( Jeremiah 19:5 ), which was the most insolent defiance to all the laws both of natural and revealed religion that ever mankind was guilty of; and by it they …
3459 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in Baal, in Baal’s name; so Ahab’s prophets did, and so they caused my people Israel to err, to forsake the service of the true God and to worship Baal, Jeremiah …
3460 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.18 (Matthew Henry)
… in Baal’s name, as being less guarded against.