1And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
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Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. …
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It was the privilege of Israel that they had not only a law in general sent them from heaven, once for all, to direct them into and keep them in the way of happiness, but that they had particular messages sent them from heaven, as there was occasion, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, when at any time they turned aside out of that way. Besides the written word which…
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