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8Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)The happiness of Israel in God’s government is here further made out by some particular instances of his administration, especially with reference to those that were, in their day, the prime leaders and most active useful governors of that people—Moses, Aaron, and Samuel, in the two former of whom the theocracy or divine government began (for they were employed to form Israel into a people) and in…
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