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4101 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 …
4102 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 …
4103 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 …
4104 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 …
4105 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 …
4106 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 …
4107 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 …
4108 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 …
4109 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 …
4110 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 …
4111 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 …
4112 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 …
4113 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 …
4114 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 …
4115 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 …
4116 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 …
4117 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 …
4118 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 …
4119 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 …
4120 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 …