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3981 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 130.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of the seventy elders, was for the present somewhat disgusted, and so was the sooner drawn in to take his sister’s part. It would grieve one to see …
3982 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 135.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice would fall upon them, and all of them thinking it honour enough to be competitors with Aaron, and to stand candidates, even for the priesthood ( Numbers …
3983 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 137.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of the heifer that was to be burnt, much more than in the choice of any other offering, Numbers 19:2. It must not only be without blemish, typifying the …
3984 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 140.18 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice of all the preferments that were in his gift; he therefore thinks himself affronted by Balaam’s delays, which looked as if he thought the honours …
3985 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 144.6 (Matthew Henry)
… those choice fruits even out of that bitter root. The children of families that have been stigmatized should endeavour, by their eminent virtues, to roll …
3986 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 145.7 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice and love, and to them death gathered him. (3.) Moses must die, but only as Aaron died before him, Numbers 27:13. And Moses had seen how easily and cheerfully …
3987 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 150.3 (Matthew Henry)
… this choice and this motion upon it, the lust of the eye and the pride of life, 1 John 2:16. 1. The lust of the eye. This land which they coveted was not only beautiful …
3988 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 154.3 (Matthew Henry)
… was choice enough in the family of their father: Let them marry to whom they think best. As children must preserve the authority of their parents, and not marry …
3989 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 155.7 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice must be directed purely by the qualifications of wisdom, experience, and integrity. “Choose those,” says Moses, “whose praise is in your tribes, and …
3990 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 161.9 (Matthew Henry)
… . The choice which God had made of this people for his own, Deuteronomy 7:6. There was such a covenant and communion established between God and Israel as was …
3991 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 161.10 (Matthew Henry)
… this choice. (1.) There was nothing in them to recommend or entitle them to this favour. In multitude of the people is the king’s honour, Proverbs 14:28. But their …
3992 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 164.14 (Matthew Henry)
… gracious choice he made of Israel, Deuteronomy 10:15. “He had a delight in thy fathers, and therefore chose their seed.” Not that there was any thing in them to merit …
3993 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 166.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice to himself, as he does the designation of the Redeemer and the institution of holy ordinances. 3. He does not appoint the place now, as he had appointed …
3994 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 167.7 (Matthew Henry)
… by choice, and are to us as our own souls, Deuteronomy 13:6. Satan tempted Adam by Eve and Christ by Peter. We are therefore concerned to stand upon our guard against …
3995 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 171.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice and duty of a king, Deuteronomy 17:14-17:20
3996 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 171.9 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice, Deuteronomy 17:14, 17:15. 1. It is here supposed that the people would, in process of time, be desirous of a king, whose royal pomp and power would be …
3997 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.5 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice must be owned and countenanced, and those honoured by us whom he honours; and because they stood to minister, and ought to be recompensed for their …
3998 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.14 (Matthew Henry)
… avowed choice and desire at Mount Sinai, Deuteronomy 18:16, 18:17. There God had spoken to them in thunder and lightning, out of the midst of the fire and thick …
3999 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 178.2 (Matthew Henry)
… another choice, would find the next worse, and something in her more disagreeable, so that he would wish for his first wife again. “No” (says this law) “you shall not …
4000 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 183.2 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice too well to change. But the far greater part were a new generation, and therefore the covenant must be made afresh with them, for it is fit that the …