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4181 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 …
4182 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 …
4183 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 …
4184 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 …
4185 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 806.24 (Matthew Henry)
… , Our choice is often made our punishment; and it is a righteous thing with God to remove teachers into corners when they, or their people, or both, grow indifferent …
4186 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 807.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice, that we may the better bear it if ever we should come to be stinted by necessity. And in times of public distress and calamity it ill becomes us to make …
4187 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 809.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of their gods (they must have gods that they could see), and then their eyes followed their hearts in the adoration of them. Now the malignity of this …
4188 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 817.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his choice what judgment he would be punished with for his sin in numbering the people; for any of them would serve to answer the end, which was to lessen the …
4189 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 818.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a choice and noble vine, wholly a right seed ( Jeremiah 2:21 ); and, if it had brought forth fruit suitable to its character as a holy city, it would have been the glory …
4190 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 827.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of the flock ( Ezekiel 24:5 ), with the choice pieces ( Ezekiel 24:4 ), and the marrow-bones, and let the other bones serve for fuel, that, one way or other, either …
4191 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 834.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice falls upon the cedar, that is stately and strong, and casts a great shadow, but bears no fruit. 1. The Assyrian monarch was a tall cedar, such as the cedars …
4192 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 837.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of choice upon the mountains and hills ( Ezekiel 34:6 ), where they were exposed to the beasts of prey and became meat to them, Ezekiel 34:5. Every one is ready to seize …
4193 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 839.7 (Matthew Henry)
… own choice; and we ourselves must bear the blame and shame of it. The sin of a people defiles their land, renders it abominable to God and uncomfortable to themselves …
4194 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 847.6 (Matthew Henry)
… this choice, they had not regard to merit and qualification for the work: “ You have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves, such as you had some …
4195 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 852.1 (Matthew Henry)
… . The choice made of Daniel, and some other young men, to be brought up in the Chaldean literature, that they might be fitted to serve the government, and the provision …
4196 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 852.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of these youths, Daniel 1:4. They must not choose such as were deformed in body, but comely and well-favoured, whose countenances were indexes of ingenuity …
4197 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 852.13 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of the persons they employ, to see with th fc0 eir own eyes, to exercise their own judgment, and not trust too much to the representation of others …
4198 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 854.14 (Matthew Henry)
… by choice, they in Babylon would not be brought to it by constraint, but, as if they were good by antiperistasis, were most zealous against idolatry in an idolatrous …
4199 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 855.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the choice of which he thinks he was very happy and that it was a good omen: “His name was Belteshazzar, from Bel, the name of my god .” He applauds his rare endowments …
4200 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 865.26 (Matthew Henry)
… in choice and love, and founding the nearest relation: I will betroth thee unto me; and again, and a third time, I will betroth thee. Note, All that are sincerely …