8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
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Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Here is, I. A passover resolved upon. That annual feast was instituted as a memorial of the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt. It happened that the reviving of the temple service fell within the appointed days of that feast, the seventeenth day of the first month: this brought that forgotten solemnity to mind. “What shall we do,” says Hezekiah, “about the passover? It is a very comfo…
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