29They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
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And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, …
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-31)When Israel was first brought into covenant with God it was done by sacrifice and the sprinkling of blood, Exod. 24:1-8 But here it was done by the more natural and common way of sealing and subscribing the written articles of the covenant, which bound them to no more than was already their duty. Now here we have, I. The names of those public persons who, as the representatives and heads of the co…
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