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4041 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 …
4042 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 …
4043 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 …
4044 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 …
4045 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 …
4046 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 …
4047 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 292.12 (Matthew Henry)
… make choice whether it shall be by war, famine, or pestilence, three sore judgments, which greatly weaken and diminish a people. God, by putting him thus to his …
4048 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 292.13 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice of the pestilence rather ( 2 Samuel 24:14 ): I am in a great strait; and well he might be when fear, and the pit, and the snare, were before him, and if he escape …
4049 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 292.14 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice; he suffers by miracle, and not by ordinary means. For the continuance of it, it lasted from morning (this very morning on which it was put to David’s …
4050 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 293.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice, we give our vote for Solomon, nemine contradicente—unanimously, and since we can bring nothing to pass, much less establish it, without the concurrence …
4051 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 293.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice, and that he was not forced upon them, but cheerfully accepted by them. The power of a prince can be little satisfaction to himself, unless he knows …
4052 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 295.8 (Matthew Henry)
… intelligent choice as this when he was asleep, and the powers of reason were least active, showed that it came purely from the grace of God, which wrought in …
4053 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 295.12 (Matthew Henry)
… this choice Solomon made it appear that he desired to be good more than great, and to serve God’s honour more than to advance his own. Those are accepted of God …
4054 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 296.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of whom, no doubt, his wisdom much appeared. It is observable, 1. That several of them are the same that were in his father’s time. Zadok and Abiathar …
4055 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 296.7 (Matthew Henry)
… by choice, but over all the neighbouring kingdoms, who were his subjects by constraint. All the princes from the river Euphrates, north-east to the border of …
4056 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 304.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of his ambassador as before of his counsellors. 2. Some think he was also unadvised in quitting his ground, and making so much haste to Jerusalem …
4057 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.19 (Matthew Henry)
… our choice whom we will serve, Joshua 24:15. If we can find one that has more right to us, or will be a better master to us, than God, we may take him at our peril. God demands …
4058 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , of choice, their advocate, but now he is necessitated to be their accuser, before God. Thus John 5:45; There is one that accuseth you, even Moses, whom you trust. Those …
4059 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice and not by constraint, not pressed men, but volunteers. 3. That it was a pleasant and acceptable call to him, which appears by the farewell-feast he made …
4060 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ; of choice, and as his own act and deed, he submitted to the dominion of sin. It was no excuse of his crimes that Jezebel his wife stirred him up to do wickedly, and …