10And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
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And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. …
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)Let us observe here, I. How desirous and solicitous good people should be to serve the interests of God’s kingdom in the world, to the utmost of their capacity. David could not be easy in a house of cedar while the ark was lodged within curtains, 1 Chron. 17:1. The concerns of the public should always be near our hearts. What pleasure can we take in our own prosperity if we see not the good of Jer…
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