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6921 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.13 (Matthew Henry)

… , but shame, to thy house, by cutting off many people, Habakkuk 2:10. Note, An estate raised by iniquity is a scandal to a family. Those that cut off, or undermine, others …

6922 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.14 (Matthew Henry)

… .] The shame of the Chaldeans, who had taken so much pains, and were at such a vast expense, to fortify it ( Habakkuk 2:13 ): Isa. it not of the Lord of hosts that the people …

6923 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.19 (Matthew Henry)

… to shame? He shall himself be loaded with contempt: “ Thou art filled with shame for glory, with shame instead of glory, or art filled now with shame more than ever …

6924 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.22 (Matthew Henry)

… the shameful stupidity and sottishness of idolaters, and so he does here by the prophet, on the like occasion. (1.) Their images, when they have made them, are but …

6925 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.23 (Matthew Henry)

… thus shame themselves ( Habakkuk 2:20 ): But the Lord is in his holy temple. (1.) Our rock is not as their rock, Deuteronomy 32:31. Theirs are dumb idols; ours is Jehovah …

6926 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.11 (Matthew Henry)

… more shameful and God’s care of his poor the more illustrious. (6.) He walked to the sea with his horses (so some read it, Habakkuk 3:15 ), that is, he carried Israel’s …

6927 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.3 (Matthew Henry)

… . She shames herself; she is filthy and polluted ( Zephaniah 3:1 ), has made herself infamous (so some read it), the gluttonous city (so the margin), always cramming, and …

6928 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.6 (Matthew Henry)

… , any shame left in them, they would not go so directly contrary to their profession and to the instructions given them. But those that are past shame are past …

6929 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.15 (Matthew Henry)

… , that shame and the cause of it are removed. (2.) Their unjust glorying: “ I will take away out of the midst of thee, not only the profane, who are a shame to thy land, but …

6930 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 910.25 (Matthew Henry)

… to shame, that the same who were the witnesses of their disgrace may see cause to change their mind concerning them.” Those that said, “This is Zion whom no man …

6931 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 913.2 (Matthew Henry)

… that shame of his nation. Perhaps what Zechariah spoke in his prophesying concerning Christ of his being sold, his being wounded in the house of his friends …

6932 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 915.4 (Matthew Henry)

… the shame of his filthiness removed, but the shame of his nakedness covered: I will clothe thee with change of raiment. Joshua had no clean linen of his own, but …

6933 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 923.2 (Matthew Henry)

… and shame, and those who see their own turn coming howl for fear. But the great men especially receive the alarm with the utmost confusion. Those who were roaring …

6934 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 923.4 (Matthew Henry)

… take shame to themselves for it, and to vow restitution, than thus to mock him by making the gains of sin the gift of God, who hates robbery for burnt-offerings …

6935 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 924.19 (Matthew Henry)

… open shame. [3.] Those that truly repent of sin look upon Christ as one whom they have pierced, who was pierced for their sins and is pierced by them; and this engages …

6936 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.11 (Matthew Henry)

… , for shame, Wherein hast thou loved us ? [4.] The dignifying of Israel is the magnifying of the God of Israel, and, one way or other, God will have honour from his professing …

6937 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.13 (Matthew Henry)

… out shame on them if they do not, and their own hearts cannot but reproach them too; the order of families is thus kept up, and it is their beauty and advantage …

6938 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.19 (Matthew Henry)

… a shame it is to offer that to their God which they would scorn to offer to their governor, to be more observant of the laws of breeding and good manners than …

6939 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.6 (Matthew Henry)

… or shamed for their sin, nor affected with the tokens of God’s displeasure which they were under. What we hear does us no good unless we lay it to heart and admit …

6940 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.8 (Matthew Henry)

… with shame and confusion for their folly. 5. All will end, at last, in their utter ruin: One shall take you away with it. They shall be so overspread with the dung …