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4001 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice their fathers had made, that though they were gods of wood and stone they would not change them for gods of silver and gold, no, not for the living and …
4002 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.20 (Matthew Henry)
… with choice vines. But it proved otherwise; they very next generation knew not the Lord, nor the works which he had done ( Judges 2:10 ), and so they were worse and …
4003 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.31 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of their confidences: “Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? Doubtless it is because thou meetest not with that in those thou didst confide …
4004 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 754.4 (Matthew Henry)
… —the choice of the living, not because there appears in it any thing delightsome; on the contrary, death never appeared in more horrid frightful shapes than …
4005 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 758.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of their paths, they are all agreed to walk in. The ways of holiness and heavenly-mindedness, of love and peaceableness, the ways of prayer and sabbath …
4006 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.6 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice and their pleasure, which should have been their shame and pain, and therefore they will be their ruin. They cannot expect God should take up his …
4007 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.7 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice for this judgment, let him take it, or for that, let him take it, but by the one or the other they shall all fall and none shall escape. It is a choice like …
4008 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 763.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , a choice tree, about which great care has been taken to set it in the best soil, so far from being like the heath in the wilderness; he shall be like a tree that spreads …
4009 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 768.8 (Matthew Henry)
… thy choice cedars; and yet, when they are down, shall value them no more than thorns and briers; they shall cast them into the fire, for their choicest cedars have …
4010 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 772.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of place and time, nor say that he might have delivered his message more privately, in a corner, among his friends that he could confide in, and that …
4011 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.19 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice of them as his people. Note, As it is God’s prerogative to fashion men’s hearts, so it is his promise to his people to fashion theirs aright; and a heart …
4012 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 783.5 (Matthew Henry)
… no choice, for they are all alike miserable lodging-places. There Jeremiah remained many days, and for aught that appears, nobody came near him or enquired …
4013 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 789.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice, but by constraint, God withdrew not his wonted favour from him. 2. What he received of the Lord he delivered to the people. Wherever we are we must endeavour …
4014 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 797.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of such a man to be his envoy to the king of Babylon, and Jeremiah might safely entrust such a man with his errand too. Note, it is the real honour of great …
4015 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 806.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , Our choice is often made our punishment; and it is a righteous thing with God to remove teachers into corners when they, or their people, or both, grow indifferent …
4016 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 807.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice, that we may the better bear it if ever we should come to be stinted by necessity. And in times of public distress and calamity it ill becomes us to make …
4017 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 809.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of their gods (they must have gods that they could see), and then their eyes followed their hearts in the adoration of them. Now the malignity of this …
4018 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 817.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice what judgment he would be punished with for his sin in numbering the people; for any of them would serve to answer the end, which was to lessen the …
4019 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 818.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a choice and noble vine, wholly a right seed ( Jeremiah 2:21 ); and, if it had brought forth fruit suitable to its character as a holy city, it would have been the glory …
4020 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 827.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of the flock ( Ezekiel 24:5 ), with the choice pieces ( Ezekiel 24:4 ), and the marrow-bones, and let the other bones serve for fuel, that, one way or other, either …