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4161 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 728.11 (Matthew Henry)
… a choice one by the good which the affliction has done thee, and then designed thee for great things.” Many have been brought home to God as chosen vessels and …
4162 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 729.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice he had made.
4163 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice, and with delight. If sometimes, through infirmity, they come short in doing that which pleases God, yet they choose it, they endeavour after it, and …
4164 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice he had made of the place where he would record his name, and the promise he had made that there he would meet them and bless them. [2.] Their own with that …
4165 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.20 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice and pursuit of that which is evil. See the malignity of sin; it is evil in God’s eyes, highly offensive to him, and yet it is committed before his eyes …
4166 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 746.3 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice (as Mr. Gataker paraphrases it), and now I will make mine; they have taken what course they pleased with me, and I will take what course I please with …
4167 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice their fathers had made, that though they were gods of wood and stone they would not change them for gods of silver and gold, no, not for the living and …
4168 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.20 (Matthew Henry)
… with choice vines. But it proved otherwise; they very next generation knew not the Lord, nor the works which he had done ( Judges 2:10 ), and so they were worse and …
4169 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.31 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of their confidences: “Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? Doubtless it is because thou meetest not with that in those thou didst confide …
4170 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 754.4 (Matthew Henry)
… —the choice of the living, not because there appears in it any thing delightsome; on the contrary, death never appeared in more horrid frightful shapes than …
4171 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 758.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of their paths, they are all agreed to walk in. The ways of holiness and heavenly-mindedness, of love and peaceableness, the ways of prayer and sabbath …
4172 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.6 (Matthew Henry)
… their choice and their pleasure, which should have been their shame and pain, and therefore they will be their ruin. They cannot expect God should take up his …
4173 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.7 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice for this judgment, let him take it, or for that, let him take it, but by the one or the other they shall all fall and none shall escape. It is a choice like …
4174 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 763.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , a choice tree, about which great care has been taken to set it in the best soil, so far from being like the heath in the wilderness; he shall be like a tree that spreads …
4175 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 768.8 (Matthew Henry)
… thy choice cedars; and yet, when they are down, shall value them no more than thorns and briers; they shall cast them into the fire, for their choicest cedars have …
4176 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 772.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of place and time, nor say that he might have delivered his message more privately, in a corner, among his friends that he could confide in, and that …
4177 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.19 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice of them as his people. Note, As it is God’s prerogative to fashion men’s hearts, so it is his promise to his people to fashion theirs aright; and a heart …
4178 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 783.5 (Matthew Henry)
… no choice, for they are all alike miserable lodging-places. There Jeremiah remained many days, and for aught that appears, nobody came near him or enquired …
4179 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 789.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice, but by constraint, God withdrew not his wonted favour from him. 2. What he received of the Lord he delivered to the people. Wherever we are we must endeavour …
4180 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 797.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of such a man to be his envoy to the king of Babylon, and Jeremiah might safely entrust such a man with his errand too. Note, it is the real honour of great …