33And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people;(for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-34)We have here the good issue of this controversy, which, if there had not been on both sides a disposition to peace, as there was on both sides a zeal for God, might have been of ill consequence; for quarrels about religion, for want of wisdom and love, often prove the most fierce and most difficult to be accommodated. But these contending parties, when the matter was fairly stated and argued, were…
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