9For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. …
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Here is, I. The inculcating of those precepts of the law which were of the greatest consequence, and by which were of the greatest consequence, and by which especially their obedience would be tried, Lev. 26:1 , 2 . They are the abstract of the second and fourth commandments, which, as they are by much the largest in the decalogue, so they are most frequently insisted on in other parts of the law.…
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