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* Verse 1-5 - Quiet and peaceable reigns , though the best to live in , yield least variety of matter to be spoken of . Such were the days of Tola and Jair . They were humble , active , and useful men , rulers appointed of God . * Verse 6-9 - Now the threatening was fulfilled , that the Israelites should have no power to stand before their enemies , Leviticus strkjv @26:17 ,37 . By their evil ways and their evil doings they procured this to themselves . * Verse 10-18 - God is able to multiply men 's punishments according to the numbers of their sins and idols . But there is hope when sinners cry to the Lord for help , and lament their ungodliness as well as their more open transgressions . It is necessary , in true repentance , that there be a full conviction that those things cannot help us which we have set in competition with God . They acknowledged what they deserved , yet prayed to God not to deal with them according to their deserts . We must submit to God 's justice , with a hope in his mercy . True repentance is not only for sin , but from sin . As the disobedience and misery of a child are a grief to a tender father , so the provocations of God 's people are a grief to him . From him mercy never can be sought in vain . Let then the trembling sinner , and the almost despairing backslider , cease from debating about God 's secret purposes , or from expecting to find hope from former experiences . Let them cast themselves on the mercy of God our Saviour , humble themselves under his hand , seek deliverance from the powers of darkness , separate themselves from sin , and from occasions of it , use the means of grace diligently , and wait the Lord 's time , and so they shall certainly rejoice in his mercy . **** Matthew Henry 's Commentary ****

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