33And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
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Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-34)Observe, 1. Abraham, having got into a good neighbourhood, knew when he was well off, and continued a great while there. There he planted a grove for a shade to his tent, or perhaps an orchard of fruit-trees; and there, though we cannot say he settled, for God would have him, while he lived, to be a stranger and a pilgrim, yet he sojourned many days, as many as would consist with his character, as…
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