8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)The friends of Israel here interpose to save them if possible from ruining themselves, but in vain. The physicians of their state would have healed them, but they would not be healed; their watchmen gave them warning, but they would not take warning, and so their blood is upon their own heads. I. The best endeavours were used to still the tumult, and, if now at last they would have understood the…
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