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241 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 33.6 (Matthew Henry)
… are the troubles of the righteous in this world, and sometimes the end of one is but the beginning of another. The clouds return after the rain. Jacob, though …
242 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 34.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , the eldest of them not fourteen years old, followed Jacob closely: Who are these ? says Esau. Jacob had sent him an account of the increase of his estate ( Genesis …
243 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 36.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of the occasion of it: When thou fleddest from the face of Esau. Note, The remembrance of former afflictions should bring to mind the workings of our souls under …
244 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 36.9 (Matthew Henry)
… an estate, which is often the case of the poor, nor an estate without children, which is often the grief of the rich; but both. These two promises had a spiritual …
245 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 37.2 (Matthew Henry)
… sent the sons of the concubines from Isaac his son into the east country, Genesis 26:6 ), that Jacob might have the clearer way made for him to the possession of …
246 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 40.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , save the bread which he did eat, Genesis 39:6. The servant had all the care and trouble of the estate; the master had only the enjoyment of it: an example not to be …
247 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 43.18 (Matthew Henry)
… for the worst. 2. The deep impression this made upon the good man. The very bundles of money which Joseph returned, in kindness to his father, frightened him ( Genesis …
248 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 48.16 (Matthew Henry)
… than the rest of their poor brethren. Those in public trusts, if they raise great estates, must take heed that it be not at the expense of a good conscience, which …
249 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 63.18 (Matthew Henry)
… receive the estates granted to them by their prince. God is the sovereign proprietor of the earth, and the fulness thereof; and, if he take from one and give to …
250 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 73.16 (Matthew Henry)
… provision the law made for the preservation of estates to their families by the year of jubilee that a people who had little concern in trade could not be …
251 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 74.3 (Matthew Henry)
… at the mercy of every company as his estate or life does at the mercy of a judge or jury; so that he who raises, or knowingly spreads, a false report against his …
252 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 115.14 (Matthew Henry)
The law of this chapter concerns the lands and estates of the Israelites in Canaan, the occupying and transferring of which were to be under the divine direction …
253 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 116.6 (Matthew Henry)
… to the cultivating of what they had than the enlarging of their possessions. The wisdom of the Roman commonwealth sometimes provided that no man should …
254 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 116.10 (Matthew Henry)
… concerning the real estates of the Israelites in the land of Canaan, and the transferring of them. 1. No land should be sold for ever from the family to whose …
255 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 123.8 (Matthew Henry)
… by the sinners to conceal, which there is no witness of. The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Job 24:15. And the adulteress takes her opportunity when …
256 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 126.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , the death of the first-born themselves, which was the last and greatest of the plagues of Egypt. To prevent this, and to preserve the atonement, the Levites …
257 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 132.25 (Matthew Henry)
… wandering, (1.) To answer the number of the days in which the spies were searching the land. They were content to wait forty days for the testimony of men, because …
258 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 134.10 (Matthew Henry)
… him; the nearer any are to God the greater is their honour. Secondly, To do the service of the tabernacle. It is honour enough to bear the vessels of the sanctuary …
259 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 134.15 (Matthew Henry)
… all the good offices he had done them; he never took the pay of a general, or the salary of a judge, much less the tribute of a prince. He got more in his estate when …
260 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 134.27 (Matthew Henry)
… when the earth opened in the camp to swallow up Dathan and Abiram a fire went out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men that offered incense, while Aaron that …