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4021 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 834.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice falls upon the cedar, that is stately and strong, and casts a great shadow, but bears no fruit. 1. The Assyrian monarch was a tall cedar, such as the cedars …
4022 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 837.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice upon the mountains and hills ( Ezekiel 34:6 ), where they were exposed to the beasts of prey and became meat to them, Ezekiel 34:5. Every one is ready to seize …
4023 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 839.7 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice; and we ourselves must bear the blame and shame of it. The sin of a people defiles their land, renders it abominable to God and uncomfortable to themselves …
4024 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 847.6 (Matthew Henry)
… this choice, they had not regard to merit and qualification for the work: “ You have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves, such as you had some …
4025 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 852.1 (Matthew Henry)
… . The choice made of Daniel, and some other young men, to be brought up in the Chaldean literature, that they might be fitted to serve the government, and the provision …
4026 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 852.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of these youths, Daniel 1:4. They must not choose such as were deformed in body, but comely and well-favoured, whose countenances were indexes of ingenuity …
4027 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 852.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of the persons they employ, to see with th fc0 eir own eyes, to exercise their own judgment, and not trust too much to the representation of others …
4028 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 854.14 (Matthew Henry)
… by choice, they in Babylon would not be brought to it by constraint, but, as if they were good by antiperistasis, were most zealous against idolatry in an idolatrous …
4029 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 855.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of which he thinks he was very happy and that it was a good omen: “His name was Belteshazzar, from Bel, the name of my god .” He applauds his rare endowments …
4030 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 865.26 (Matthew Henry)
… in choice and love, and founding the nearest relation: I will betroth thee unto me; and again, and a third time, I will betroth thee. Note, All that are sincerely …
4031 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 866.7 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice. They shall have no sacrifice or altar (so the LXX.), and therefore no sacrifice because no altar. They shall have no ephod, nor teraphim, no legal priesthood …
4032 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 871.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice he had made of Jerusalem to put his name there. Israel has forgotten his Maker, Hosea 8:14. They pretended to know him, and yet forgot him, for they liked …
4033 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 872.15 (Matthew Henry)
… a choice vine, a right seed ( Jeremiah 2:21 ), and found them no better than he himself made them, good grapes at first. I saw them with pleasure, as the first-ripe in …
4034 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice and with delight. Those who thus love good will seek it, will contrive to do all the good they can, enquire for opportunities of doing it, and endeavor …
4035 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 888.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice young men; they shall faint for thirst, when those that hunger and thirst after the righteousness of Christ shall be abundantly satisfied and …
4036 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 894.8 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice, his own doing, a house of his own building, let him make the best of it; but he looked on him with compassion, as the tender mother does on the froward …
4037 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 898.10 (Matthew Henry)
… our choice.”
4038 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.21 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice, which they like best. (2.) They are very nice and curious in the framing of them: The maker of the work has performed his part admirably well, the fashioner …
4039 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.12 (Matthew Henry)
… a choice language (so some read it); they shall not speak rashly, but with caution and deliberation; they shall choose out their words. Note, An air of purity and …
4040 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 912.19 (Matthew Henry)
… makes choice of he will make use of. Our Lord Jesus is chosen of God, 1 Peter 2:4. And he is the head of the chosen remnant; in him they are chosen. 3. It is promised that …