2And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
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And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: …
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. …
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. …
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)No sooner were the Midianites, the common enemy, subdued, than, through the violence of some hot spirits, the children of Israel were ready to quarrel among themselves; an unhappy spark was struck, which, if Gideon had not with a great deal of wisdom and grace extinguished immediately, might have broken out into a flame of fatal consequence. The Ephraimites, when they brought the heads of Oreb and…
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