Search for: Choice
3861 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 234.24 (Matthew Henry)
… resolute choice of the better part. Draw me thus, and we will run after thee. Her mother’s dissuasions made her the more resolute; as when Joshua said to the people …
3862 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 236.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of yoke-fellows, virtue should especially be regarded, known approved virtue. Let religion determine the choice, and it will certainly crown the …
3863 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 236.12 (Matthew Henry)
… kinsman’s choice, and he would make this his reason for refusing Ruth, that Boaz and she had been together. 2. He dismissed her with a good present of corn, which …
3864 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 245.12 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice. This he must protest solemnly to them ( 1 Samuel 8:9 ), that, if they would have a king to rule them, as the eastern kings ruled their subjects, they would …
3865 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 245.13 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice, that they would be such that if they had any reason left them, and would allow themselves to consult their own interest, they would withdraw their …
3866 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 245.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice to Samuel they should hear further from him; in the mean time let them keep the peace and expect the issue.
3867 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice, not only his consent to it, but his complacency in it, though it abridged his power and eclipsed his glory and the glory of his family. “ God has anointed …
3868 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice if it depended upon his single testimony; and therefore, that every tribe and every family of the chosen tribe might please themselves with having …
3869 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.15 (Matthew Henry)
… another choice, or thus to express his modesty; for, by what had already passed, he knew he must be the man. We may suppose he was at this time really averse to take …
3870 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.16 (Matthew Henry)
… that choice well made which God himself made, would leave no way untried to find him out on whom t 2202 he lot fell. They enquired of the Lord, either by the high …
3871 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.17 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice, and their acceptance of him; they shouted and said, Let the king live, that is, “Let him long reign over us in health and prosperity.” Subjects were wont …
3872 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.20 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice of a king, or because they had so much more sense than their neighbours as to conclude that if he was a king he ought to be respected accordingly, went …
3873 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 248.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of the person whom, if he did not find fit, yet he made fit, for the great trust he called him to, and enabled, in some measure, to merit the crown by his public …
3874 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 248.17 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice by lot or Samuel’s anointing him. They had not courage thus to move for the prosecution of those that opposed him when he himself looked mean, but …
3875 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 249.20 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s choice is owing to the freeness of it; we may therefore hope he will not forsake his people, because it has pleased him to make them his people. Had he chosen …
3876 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 251.29 (Matthew Henry)
… make choice of. (2.) How he employed his army. He guarded his country against the insults of its enemies on every side, and prevented their incursions, 1 Samuel …
3877 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 253.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice, one of these would certainly have been chosen; but God will magnify his sovereignty in passing by some that were most promising as well as in fastening …
3878 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 261.2 (Matthew Henry)
… 3000 choice men, and goes with them at his feet in pursuit of him upon the rocks of the wild goats, where, one would think, David should not have been envied a habitation …
3879 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 271.8 (Matthew Henry)
… . Israel’s choice ( 2 Samuel 3:17 ): “ You sought for him in times past to be king over you, when he had signalized himself in so many engagements with the Philistines …
3880 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 283.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice of the place. See how willing tender parents are to believe the best concerning their children, and, upon the least indication of good, to hope, even …