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2721 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 30.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of the two churches, the Jews under the law and the Gentiles under the gospel: the younger the more beautiful, and more in the thoughts of Christ when he came …
2722 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 35.2 (Matthew Henry)
… either the best or the happiest that are most indulged. She is reckoned now but fifteen or sixteen years of age when she here occasioned so much mischief. Observe …
2723 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 36.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of the air carries the voice. 3. A complete list of the sons of Jacob, now that Benjamin the youngest was born. This is the first time we have the names of these heads …
2724 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 39.2 (Matthew Henry)
… in the sight of the Lord, that is, in defiance of God and his law; or, if perhaps he was not wicked in the sight of the world, he was so in the sight of God, to whom all men’s …
2725 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 43.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , during the twenty years that he had now been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint …
2726 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 47.12 (Matthew Henry)
… seventeen years longer, which, as our lives go now, is a considerable part of a man’s age. Note, Death will not always come just when we call for it, whether in a passion …
2727 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 48.10 (Matthew Henry)
… 130 years, they seemed to him but a few days, in comparison with the days of eternity, the eternal God, and the eternal state, in which a thousand years (longer than …
2728 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 48.18 (Matthew Henry)
… seventeen years after he came into Egypt, far beyond his own expectation. Seventeen years he had nourished Joseph (for so old he was when he was sold from him …
2729 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 49.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . Thus the aged dying patriarch teaches these young persons, now that they were of age (being about twenty-one years old), not to look upon Egypt as their home, nor …
2730 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 52.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to the account given, Genesis 10:1-10:32 For when the Most High separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children …
2731 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 54.2 (Matthew Henry)
The years of the life of Moses are remarkably divided into three forties: the first forty he spent as a prince in Pharaoh’s court, the second a shepherd in Midian …
2732 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 57.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of age and priority of birth, but the divine sovereignty often prefers the younger before the elder, so crossing hands. 2. That the ages of Levi, Kohath, and Amram …
2733 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 58.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , whose age was venerable, and whose years might teach wisdom, Exodus 7:7. Joseph, who was to be only a servant to Pharaoh, was preferred at thirty years old; but Moses …
2734 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 63.19 (Matthew Henry)
… towards the accomplishment of it. The first day of the march of Abraham’s seed towards Canaan was just 430 years (it should seem to a day) from the promise made …
2735 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 64.4 (Matthew Henry)
… bondage. The scripture tells us not expressly what day of the year Christ rose (as Moses told the Israelites what day of the year they were brought out of Egypt …
2736 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 85.20 (Matthew Henry)
… all the males from every part of the country had gone up to worship in the place that God should choose, the country would be left exposed to the insults of their …
2737 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 107.7 (Matthew Henry)
… . The later Jews had a custom to tie one shred of scarlet cloth to the horns of the goat and another to the gate of the temple, or to the top of the rock where the goat …
2738 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 116.1 (Matthew Henry)
… in the eighth year of Joshua; the seventh year after that was the first sabbatical year, and so the fiftieth year was the jubilee.” This year there was to be a general …
2739 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 116.9 (Matthew Henry)
… one year did but serve to bring in another, the productions of the sixth year should serve to bring in the ninth. Note, The blessing of God upon our provision …
2740 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 118.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the Hebrews observe that the rate of an aged woman is two parts of three to that of an aged man, so that in that age the female came nearest to the value of the male …