5Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
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The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: …
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, …
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Interpreters are not agreed what is here meant by entering into the congregation of the Lord , which is here forbidden to eunuchs and to bastards, Ammonites and Moabites, for ever, but to Edomites and Egyptians only till the third generation. 1. Some think they are hereby excluded from communicating with the people of God in their religious services. Though eunuchs and bastards were owned as membe…
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