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22The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. …
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)We are here taught to praise and magnify God, I. For the constant revolutions and succession of day and night, and the dominion of sun and moon over them. The heathen were so affected with the light and influence of the sun and moon, and their serviceableness to the earth, that they worshipped them as deities; and therefore the scripture takes all occasions to show that the gods they worshipped ar…
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