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2501 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.14 (Matthew Henry)
… like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of ruin ( Isaiah 1:9 ), because that had made themselves like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of sin. The men of Sodom were wicked …
2502 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom and people of Gomorrah, brought, not to the altars of false gods (they are not here charged with that), but to the altar of the God of Israel, sacrifices …
2503 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 683.13 (Matthew Henry)
… as Sodom, so impetuous, so imperious, are their lusts, and so impatient of the least check, and so perfectly are all the remaining sparks of virtue extinguished …
2504 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 684.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom and perhaps thought it reached further than it did) that in a little time there would be none left ( Genesis 19:31 ),—that whereas women naturally hate …
2505 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, Deuteronomy 32:32. 1. Wild grapes are the fruits of the corrupt nature, fruit according to the crabstock, not according to the engrafted branch, from …
2506 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 693.15 (Matthew Henry)
… , like Sodom and Gomorrah; not so miraculously, nor so suddenly, but as effectually, though gradually; and the destruction should come upon them as that upon …
2507 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 695.8 (Matthew Henry)
… from Sodom’s flames and which was spared for his sake. They shall make as great a noise with their cry as a heifer of three years old does when she goes lowing …
2508 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 708.7 (Matthew Henry)
… as Sodom. Their tables are full of vomit, so that the victor, instead of being proud of his crown, ought rather to be ashamed of it. It bodes ill to any people when …
2509 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 714.1 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom ( Isaiah 34:9, 34:10 ), and the cities abandoned to wild beasts and melancholy fowls, Isaiah 34:11-34:15. V. The solemn ratification of all this, Isaiah 34:16 …
2510 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 714.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, Isaiah 34:9, 34:10. The streams thereof, that both watered the land and pleased and refreshed the inhabitants, shall now be turned into pitch, shall be …
2511 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 732.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in Sodom, but they were not to go with a diffident distrustful haste, as if they were afraid of being pursued (as when they came out of Egypt) or of having the orders …
2512 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 748.20 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, Deuteronomy 32:32. This may fitly be applied to the nature of man; it was planted by its great author a noble vine, a right seed (God made man upright); but …
2513 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 749.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , like Sodom, they had avowed their sin and had gone after strange gods as Sodom after strange flesh, he only withheld the showers from them, and that only one …
2514 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 749.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and Sodom, and Jerusalem is made the worst of the three.
2515 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 750.25 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom, over which (they say) no bird flies; see Deuteronomy 29:23. The enemies shall make such havoc of the country that they shall not so much as leave a bird …
2516 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 751.2 (Matthew Henry)
… in Sodom, if but one of a thousand, of ten thousand, in Jerusalem, it should be spared. See how ready God is to forgive, how swift to show mercy. But it might be said …
2517 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 751.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom’s lusts. Sine Cerere et Bacchio friget Venu—Luxurious living feeds the flames of lust. Fasting would help to tame the unruly evil that is so full of …
2518 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 752.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of Sodom: Before me continually are grief and wounds —the complaint of those that find themselves aggrieved, being unjustly wounded in their bodies or spirits …
2519 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 753.17 (Matthew Henry)
… upon Sodom; since they will anger me, let them see what will come of it.” They shall soon find, (1.) That there is no escaping this deluge of fire, either by flying from …
2520 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 755.6 (Matthew Henry)
… in Sodom, with the wickedness of their conversation, 2 Peter 2:7, 2:8. This does not imply any intention or resolution that he had thus to retire. God had cut him …