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2021 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 15.8 (Matthew Henry)
… served God himself, but instructed all about him in the service of God. Note, Those that have great families have not only many bodies, but many souls besides …
2022 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 17.20 (Matthew Henry)
… it: Call him Ishmael, God will hear; and the reason is, because the Lord has heard; he has, and therefore he will. Note, The experience we have had of God’s seasonable …
2023 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 31.1 (Matthew Henry)
… ’ further service he did to Laban God wonderfully blessed him, so that his stock of cattle became very considerable, Genesis 30:35-30:43. Herein was fulfilled …
2024 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 31.16 (Matthew Henry)
… Jacob’s service for nothing, or next to nothing. According to this bargain, those few that were party-coloured were separated, and put into the hands of Laban’s …
2025 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 32.10 (Matthew Henry)
… Jacob to leave his service suddenly, without giving a quarter’s warning. It was not only justified by the particular instructions God gave him, but warranted …
2026 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 36.8 (Matthew Henry)
… to be respected. Honour was done to this nurse, at her death, by Jacob’s family, though she was not related to them, and though she was aged. Former services, in such …
2027 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 37.1 (Matthew Henry)
… been serviceable in politics) would have been of little use in divinity. It is in the church that the memorable instances are found of special grace, and special …
2028 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 42.5 (Matthew Henry)
… to be the father of his country, and to make prudent provision for them. Magistrates are called shepherds, whose care it must be, not only to rule, but to feed …
2029 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 49.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s covenant with them, must tread in the steps of their piety. (2.) It should recommend religion and the service of God to us that God was the God of our fathers …
2030 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 52.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , The services done for God’s Israel are often repaid in kind. The midwives kept up the Israelites’ houses, and, in recompence for it, God made them houses. Observe …
2031 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 53.10 (Matthew Henry)
… say) to make his fortune, and to have been serviceable to Israel too, with his interest at court. He was obliged, in gratitude as well as interest, to Pharaoh’s …
2032 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 53.20 (Matthew Henry)
… his serviceableness. When the young women acquainted their father with the kindnesses they had received from this stranger, he sent to invite him to his …
2033 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 54.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the calling to which we are called we should abide, and not be given to change. 2. Even those that are qualified for great employments and services must not think …
2034 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 54.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the service he was called to ( Exodus 3:11 ): Who am I ? He thinks himself unworthy of the honour, and not par negotio—equal to the task. He thinks he wants courage, and …
2035 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 55.2 (Matthew Henry)
… was called to when God commissioned him to bring Israel out of Egypt; yet he is with difficulty persuaded to accept the commission, and does it at last with …
2036 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 55.16 (Matthew Henry)
… which God called him. This rod must be his staff of authority, and must be to him in stead both of sword and sceptre.
2037 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 55.17 (Matthew Henry)
… callings in this world. Moses said nothing to his father-in-law (for aught that appears) of the glorious manifestation of God to him; such favours we are to be …
2038 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 55.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the services God calls us to, yet grace will get the upper hand, and will be obedient to the heavenly vision.
2039 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 55.25 (Matthew Henry)
… be to be vile, if this be to be bloody, we must be yet more so. (3.) When we have any special service to do for God we should remove as far from us as we can that which is …
2040 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 56.3 (Matthew Henry)
… directed to call God the God of their fathers; but, in treating with Pharaoh, they call him the God of Israel, and it is the first time we find him called so in scripture …