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14The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
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(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)In these verses, I. We are earnestly exhorted, all of us, to repose our confidence in God, and not suffer our confidence in him to be shaken by the heathens’ insulting over us upon the account of our present distresses. It is folly to trust in dead images, but it is wisdom to trust in the living God, for he is a help and a shield to those that do trust in them , a help to furnish them with and for…
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