46Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions: …
And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; …
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. …
And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-50)Two things we have in these verses:— I. Stephen upbraids them with the idolatry of their fathers, which God gave them up to, as a punishment for their early forsaking him in worshipping the golden calf; and this was the saddest punishment of all for that sin, as it was of the idolatry of the Gentile world that God gave them up to a reprobate mind . When Israel was joined to idols , joined to the g…
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