5Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: …
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The charge here given them is the same as before, to keep and do all God’s commandments. Their obedience must be, 1. Careful: Observe to do . 2. Universal: To do all the commandments , Deut. 8:1. And, 3. From a good principle, with a regard to God as the Lord, and their God, and particularly with a holy fear of him (Deut. 8:6), from a reverence of his majesty, a submission to his authority, and a…
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