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4081 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 221.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a choice, but the motion came first from himself. None would have dreamed of making such a one king, if he had not dreamed of it himself. And see here, 1. How he wheedled …
4082 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 221.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of their guides. The bramble, being chosen to the government, takes no time to consider whether he should accept it or no, but immediately, as if he …
4083 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 222.11 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice by putting his Spirit upon him ( Judges 11:29 ); so that this instance is of use for direction and encouragement in after-ages, when extraordinary …
4084 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.1 (Matthew Henry)
… Gileadites’ choice of him to be commander-in-chief against the Ammonites, and the terms he made with them, Judges 11:4-11:11. III. His treaty with the king of Ammon …
4085 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of a general, having come to this resolve, that whoever would undertake to lead their forces against the children of Ammon should by common consent …
4086 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.8 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice to the office and his execution of the office, as one that had his eye ever towards the Lord, and would do nothing without him, that leaned not to his …
4087 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 …
4088 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 …
4089 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 …
4090 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 …
4091 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 …
4092 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 …
4093 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 …
4094 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 …
4095 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 …
4096 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 …
4097 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 …
4098 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.
4099 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 …
4100 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 …