1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: …
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, …
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Solomon’s design, in driving us off from the world, by showing us its vanity, is to drive us to God and to our duty, that we may not walk in the way of the world, but by religious rules, nor depend upon the wealth of the world, but on religious advantages; and therefore, I. He here sends us to the house of God , to the place of public worship, to the temple, which he himself had built at a vast ex…
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