Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Ver. 2. Chiefly, because that, &c.] This was their prime privilege, that they were God's library keepers, that this heavenly treasure was concredited unto them. Other nations are said to have been without God, because without those lively oracles, 2 Chronicles 15:3; Ephesians 2:12. Prize we this privilege, and improve it. You must never expect another edition of the faith once received, Judges 1:3, once for all.