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745 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 2.22 (Matthew Henry)

… the planets and the fixed stars, or accounting for their number, nature, place, magnitude, motions, or influences; for the scriptures were written, not to gratify …

746 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 59.6 (Matthew Henry)

… the planets, or the luckiness of any one hour more than another, bids Pharaoh name his time. Nellum occurrit tempus regi—No time fixed on by the king shall be …

747 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 335.7 (Matthew Henry)

… other planets, and the constellations; these he worshipped and served ( 2 Kings 21:3 ), gave their names to the images he made, and then did homage to them and prayed …

748 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 474.7 (Matthew Henry)

… the planets, which is as bad divinity as it is philosophy, for it is guided and governed by the counsel of God, which extends even to those things that seem most …

749 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.25 (Matthew Henry)

… the planets, which move in lower orbs, but the fixed stars, which are much higher. It is supposed that they have an influence upon this earth, notwithstanding …

750 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 498.4 (Matthew Henry)

… the planets and fixed stars. Man has this advantage above the beasts, in the structure of his body, that whereas they are made to look downwards, as their spirits …

751 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 554.9 (Matthew Henry)

… a planet, or such a constellation, nor from the south, nor from the exaltation of the sun or any star in the mid-heaven.” He mentions not the north, because none supposed …

752 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 756.3 (Matthew Henry)

… the planets, and all the unusual phenomena of the celestial globe, with a great deal of anxiety and trembling. Business was stopped if any thing occurred that …

753 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 884.12 (Matthew Henry)

… by planets (as common people speak), but as God sends it by his winds. [2.] We have reason to think that those cities on which it rained not were the most infamous for …

754 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 885.17 (Matthew Henry)

… seven planets. The worship of the sun, moon, and stars, was the most ancient, most general, and most plausible idolatry. They made to themselves the star of their …

755 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 932.7 (Matthew Henry)

… the planets have the names of their idol-gods; we read of a particular star they had in veneration, Amos 5:26. Thus the stars that had been misused came to be put …

756 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.38 (Matthew Henry)

… the planets, and these are called Remphan —“the high representation,” like the celestial globe: a poor thing to make an idol of, and yet better than a golden calf …

757 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1047.2 (Matthew Henry)

… a planet, and not a fixed star. Here we have him in an island to which, in all probability, he had never come if he had not been thrown upon it by a storm; and yet it seems …

758 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1168.17 (Matthew Henry)

… stars, planets that are erratic in their motions, keep not that steady regular course which the fixed ones do, but shift their stations, that one has sometimes …

760 Nave's Topical Index, Stars.10

Stars, Planets 2Kings 23:5;