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4021 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.22 (Matthew Henry)
… unanimous choice of him for their leader that he had so clear a call to engage, and by the obstinate deafness of the king of Ammon to the proposals of accommodation …
4022 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 224.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of Jephthah and in the war with Ammon, above all the families of Israel, and yet are most basely and unjustly called fugitives. It is an ill thing to …
4023 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 226.3 (Matthew Henry)
… children’s choices, nor to deny their consent, especially to those that have seasonably and dutifully asked it, without some very good cause. As children …
4024 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 226.4 (Matthew Henry)
… this choice, that he might have occasion against the Philistine. It was not a thing evil in itself for him to marry a Philistine. It was forbidden because of …
4025 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 234.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice, then it becomes a great sin. It should seem she began to think of returning immediately upon the death of her two sons, (1.) Because she looked upon that …
4026 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 234.20 (Matthew Henry)
… deliberate choice, and to sit down first and count the cost, as it concerns those to do that may take up a profession of religion. It is good for us to be told the …
4027 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 …
4028 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 …
4029 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 …
4030 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 …
4031 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 …
4032 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.
4033 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 …
4034 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 …
4035 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 …
4036 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 …
4037 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 …
4038 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 …
4039 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 …
4040 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 …