10Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
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Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: …
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, …
Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-19)We have here Daniel’s prayer to God as his God, and the confession which he joined with that prayer: I prayed, and made my confession . Note, In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of (which we commonly call confession ), but of our faith in God and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, must be…
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