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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; there shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. What a wondering verse this is! We have been so accustomed to hear...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There shall no strange god be in thee,.... Or in the midst of thee, owned and worshipped as God; or in thine heart, for whatever engrosses the affection, or a man puts his trust and confidence in, that he makes his god, and is a strange one: thus, if any friend or relation, father or mother, wife or children, are loved more than God, they are set...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. It is strange that we should ever wish to do so. Oh, that we might be wholly delivered from everything that looks like idolatry, and be enabled to cleave to the worship of the one living and true God with the serenity and certainty of faith!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am the Lord thy God,.... The true Jehovah, the Being of beings, in whom all live and move and have their beings, the covenant God of his people; and is a reason why they should hear him, and worship him, and no other: which brought thee out of the land of Egypt; this, with what goes before, is the preface to the ten commands, the first and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. Oh, how plaintive is this lament! Is it not full of sorrow? “Israel would none of me.” Her own God, her own Friend, her own Benefactor, her own Husband has to cry,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But my people would not hearken to my voice,.... Neither as exhorting them to the above duties, nor as promising the above favours; would neither hearken to the voice of the law, nor to the voice of the Gospel; but were like the deaf adder, which stops its ear to the voice of the charmer, charming never so wisely: and Israel would none of me;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own heart lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! I should soon have subdued the enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. The haters of the LORD should...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust,.... Sometimes God gave them up, when they sinned, into the hands of the Moabites, or Ammonites, or Philistines, or other neighbouring nations, for their chastisement; but to be delivered up unto their own hearts' lust is worse than that; nay, than to be delivered to Satan: salvation may be the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So I gave them up — Dreadful word! If God gives us up, even for a moment, there is no telling into what sin we may plunge; and if he were to give us up altogether, —ah, me! this were the most direful of sentences: “So I gave them up” — Psa_81:12. Unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. O God, save us from this awful...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O that my people had hearkened unto me,.... This might have been expected from them, as they were his professing people; and it would have been to their advantage if they had hearkened to him, as well as it would have been well pleasing to him; for that is what is designed by this wish, which does not express the purposing will of God; for who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways: And can we not echo that lament, and say, “Oh, that we had hearkened unto God, and that we had walked in his ways”? What a happy life would the believer enjoy if he always had an ear for God’s commandments and a foot for his ways!” Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I should soon have subdued their enemies,.... The Canaanites, and others: this he would have done in a very little time, or at once, and that easily, and without any trouble; he would quickly have humbled them, and brought them on their knees, as the word (g) signifies, to terms of peace; for when a man's ways please the Lord, he makes his enemies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him; but their time should have endured for ever. “Their time” — the time of his own people — “should have endured for ever.” They might have been always conquerors, always kings, always favored of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him,.... Or, "lied unto him" (h); feignedly submitted to him, flattered him, pretended friendship to him, and entered into a league with him; either Israel, mentioned Psalms 81:13, our God, whom and whose worship and people they hated; as every natural man is an hater of God, and all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat,.... Or the "fat of the wheat (y)"; see Deuteronomy 32:14, with the finest flour of it: the Targum is, "with the best bread of wheat;'' with the best of wheat, and the best bread that can be made of it: Aben Ezra interprets it of the manna, which was better than the fat, or finest, of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: How sweet would gospel doctrine be if gospel precepts were observed! When you do not enjoy the preaching of the Word, is it not because you are out of health, and your spiritual appetite is impaired: “He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat.” When the soul lives near to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. If the Word of God does not seem to feed us as once it did, it will surely be because we have not hearkened to our Lord, or walked in his ways. May he give us grace to render complete obedience to his holy will! “So shall thy...