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96741 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 925.4 (Matthew Henry)

… , Amos 7:14, 7:15. But this deceiver never had any such call. Note, Those who sorrow after a godly sort for their having deceived others will be forward to confess …

96742 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 925.6 (Matthew Henry)

… 13:7. These are the words of God the Father, giving order and commission to the sword of his justice to awake against his Son, when he had voluntarily made his …

96743 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 925.7 (Matthew Henry)

II. Of the dispersion of the disciples thereupon: Smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. This our Lord Jesus himself declares to have been fulfilled …

96744 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 926.7 (Matthew Henry)

(2.) Their cause shall be pleaded against their enemies ( Zechariah 14:3 ): Then, when God has made use of these nations as a scourge to his people, he shall go forth …

96745 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 926.18 (Matthew Henry)

… 4:7 ), and sin is often its own punishment. Note, Omissions are sins, and we must come into judgment for them; those contract guilt that go not up to worship at the …

96746 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.5 (Matthew Henry)

… ( Deuteronomy 7:7, 7:8 ), loved them in their childhood, Hosea 11:1. His delight was in them, Isaiah 62:4. “ I have loved you, but you have not loved me, nor made any suitable …

96747 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.7 (Matthew Henry)

III. He makes it out, beyond contradiction, that he has loved them, loved them in a distinguishing way, which was in a special manner obliging. For proof of this …

96748 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.10 (Matthew Henry)

… 137:7 ), and therefore it was just with God to put the same cup of trembling into their hands. And, though Edom’s ruins were last, yet they were lasting, and the desolation …

96749 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.15 (Matthew Henry)

… 1:7. They not only made no account of sacred things, but they made an ill use of them, and perverted them to the service of the worst and vilest purposes—their own …

96750 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.17 (Matthew Henry)

… 1:7 ), and again ( Malachi 1:12 ), “You say, The table of the Lord is polluted; it is to be no more regarded than any other table.” Either the table in the temple, on which the …

96751 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.18 (Matthew Henry)

… 1:7 ), coarse bread, servants’ bread, perhaps it was dry and mouldy, or made of the refuse of the wheat, which they thought good enough to be burnt upon the altar; for …

96752 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.19 (Matthew Henry)

… 4:7 ), If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? Now, if we be not accepted of God, in vain do we worship him; it is all lost labour; nay, we are all undone, for ever undone …

96753 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.4 (Matthew Henry)

… 2:7. They were hereby made the messengers of the Lord of hosts, messengers of that covenant of life and peace, not mediators of it, but only messengers, or ambassadors …

96754 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.7 (Matthew Henry)

IV. Here is a record of the judgments God had brought upon these priests for their profaneness, and their profanation of holy things. 1. They had lost their comfort …

96755 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.11 (Matthew Henry)

1. In contempt of the covenant God made with Israel, as a peculiar people to himself, they married strange wives, which was expressly prohibited, and provided against, in that covenant, Deuteronomy 7:3. Observe here,

96756 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.16 (Matthew Henry)

… , 1:7, 1:10. So it was with these wives here; and this was so contrary to the cheerfulness which God requires in his worshippers that it spoiled the acceptableness …

96757 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.18 (Matthew Henry)

… Corinthians 7:2 ), they might live in chaste and holy love, under the directions and restraints of the divine law, and not, as brute beasts, under the dominion of …

96758 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 928.20 (Matthew Henry)

… Isaiah 7:13. They made him weary of doing them good as he had done, and stopped the current of his favours; or they represented him as weary of governing the world …

96759 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 929.1 (Matthew Henry)

… 3:7-3:12. III. A description of the wickedness of the wicked that speak against God ( Malachi 3:13-3:15 ), and of the righteousness of the righteous that speak for him …

96760 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 929.4 (Matthew Henry)

… , Acts 7:53, 3:19. Christ, as a prophet, is the messenger and mediator of the covenant; nay, he is given for a covenant, Isaiah 49:8. That covenant which is all our salvation …