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7God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: …
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. …
The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)We may here learn how to pray as well as praise. 1. We must be public-spirited in prayer, and bear upon our hearts, at the throne of grace, the concerns of the church of God, Ps. 108:6. It is God’s beloved , and therefore must be ours; and therefore we must pray for its deliverance, and reckon that we are answered if God grant what we ask for his church, though he delay to give us what we ask for…
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