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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Is not the Lord your God with you?.... Blessing them with wealth and riches: and hath he not given you rest on every side? from all enemies within and without; so that they had peace and quietness, and leisure to attend the service he recommended to them: for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into my hand; meaning the rest of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And hath he not given you rest on every side? If he gives you rest, you are to take no rest, but to get to his work. He is the best workman for God who enjoys perfect rest. It is always a pity to go out to preach or teach unless you have perfect rest towards God. When your own heart is quiet, and your spirit is still, then you can work for God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God,.... His honour and glory, most sincerely and cordially, and to the utmost of their power: arise ye, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God; assist therein, and encourage the work as much as they were able, without delay: to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord; which was now in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; Do not go to build a house for God, and think that is all that is required. You want spiritual communion with God; and you will not do even the common work of sawing and planning and building aright unless you seek God, and are in fellowship with him. 1Ch_22:19. Arise therefore, and build...