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4221 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 701.13 (Matthew Henry)

… our choice what we will do: “ If you will enquire, enquire; if not, it is at your peril; you cannot say but you have a fair offer made you.” We are also urged to be at a point …

4222 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 702.7 (Matthew Henry)

… the choice valleys about Jerusalem, that used to be clothed with flocks and covered over with corn, shall be full of chariots of war, and at the gate of the city …

4223 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 702.18 (Matthew Henry)

… the choice of those they trust. These were times of reformation, yet Shebna, a bad man, complied so far as to keep his places at court; and it is probable that many …

4224 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 703.10 (Matthew Henry)

… best choice of goods, under-sell their neighbours, and be obliging to all customers; as a harlot that has been forgotten, when she comes to be spoken of again …

4225 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 722.3 (Matthew Henry)

… the choice and then avowed it. 3. As one he put a confidence in: He is my servant on whom I lean; so some read it. The Father put a confidence in him that he would go through …

4226 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 724.4 (Matthew Henry)

… his choice; he knows those that are his, and those whom he has chosen he takes under special protection. (3.) They are his creatures. He made them, and brought them …

4227 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 …

4229 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 …

4230 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 …

4231 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 …

4232 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 …

4233 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 …

4234 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 …

4235 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 …

4236 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 …

4237 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 …

4238 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 …

4239 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 …

4240 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 …