33And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-34)Solomon’s wisdom was more his glory than his wealth, and here we have a general account of it. I. The fountain of his wisdom: God gave it him , 1 Kgs. 4:29. He owns it himself. Prov. 2:6; The Lord giveth wisdom . He gives the powers of reason (Job 38:36), preserves and improves them. The ordinary advances of them are owing to his providence, the sanctification of them to his grace, and this extrao…
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