That the word “_know,_” in Scripture, frequently means not merely to “apprehend intellectually,” but to “regard with favor,” to “make an object of care,” is evident from _Gen. 18:19_—“_I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice_”; _Ex. 2:25_—“_And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge of them_”; _cf._ _verse 24_—“_God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob_”; _Ps. 1:6_—“_For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous; But the way of the wicked shall perish_”; _101:4,_ marg.—“_I will know no evil person_”; _Hosea 13:5_—“_I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. According to their pasture, so were they filled_”; _Nahum 1:7_—“_he knoweth them that take refuge in him_”; _Amos 3:2_—“_You only have I known of all the families of the earth_”; _Mat. 7:23_—“_then will I profess unto them, I never knew you_”; _Rom. 7:15_—“_For that which I do I know not_”; _1 Cor. 8:3_—“_if any man loveth God, the same is known by him_”; _Gal. 4:9_—“_now that ye have come to know God, or rather, to be known by God_”; _1 Thess. 5:12, 13_—“_we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work’s sake._” So the word “foreknow”: _Rom. 11:2_—“_God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew_”; _1 Pet. 1:20_—Christ, “_who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world._” Broadus on _Mat. 7:23_—“_I never knew you_”—says; “Not in all the passages quoted above, nor elsewhere, is there occasion for the oft‐repeated arbitrary notion, derived from the Fathers, that ‘know’ conveys the additional idea of approve or regard. It denotes acquaintance, with all its pleasures and advantages; ‘_knew,_’ _i. e._, as mine, as my people.”