18The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
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For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)We have here an account of the several stages and removals of the children of Israel, till they came into the plains of Moab, out of which they at length passed over Jordan into Canaan, as we read in the beginning of Joshua. Natural motions are quicker the nearer they are to their centre. The Israelites were now drawing near to the promised rest, and now they set forward , as the expression is, Nu…
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