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2741 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 119.4 (Matthew Henry)
… up the vacancies, and Providence takes care that, one time or other, in one place or other, the births shall balance the burials, that the race of mankind and the …
2742 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 119.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and aged, and the mixed multitude) for forty years together in the wilderness; and they were all at God’s finding every day, having their food from the dew of …
2743 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 121.6 (Matthew Henry)
… among the disciples of Christ, for such was the tribe of Levi, of such is the kingdom of heaven, that kingdom of priests. The redemption of the first-born was reckoned …
2744 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 121.11 (Matthew Henry)
… in the first year after they came out of Egypt, we must hence infer that in the last year of their servitude, even when it was in the greatest extremity, there …
2745 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 122.5 (Matthew Henry)
… fifty years old from the toilsome part of the service, particularly that of carrying the tabernacle; for that is the special service to which they are here …
2746 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 123.10 (Matthew Henry)
… to the omniscience and justice of God. (3.) The priest was to prepare the water of jealousy, the holy water out of the laver at which the priests were to wash when …
2747 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 126.10 (Matthew Henry)
… -five years old, Numbers 8:24. They were not charged with the carrying of the tabernacle and the utensils of it till they were thirty years old, Numbers 4:3. But …
2748 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 137.8 (Matthew Henry)
… as the people of Israel would need for many ages. The Jews say that this one served till the captivity, nearly 1000 years, and that there was never another heifer …
2749 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 139.15 (Matthew Henry)
… himself, the King of nations, the Lord of the whole earth, had given them a grant of it. The Amorites formed one of the devoted nations whose land God had promised …
2750 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 144.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the rising generation was mixed with the, and many of the guilty and condemned criminals long survived the sentence, even to the last year of the forty …
2751 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.18 (Matthew Henry)
… other; the darkness made the fire in the midst of it look the more dreadful. Fires in the night are the most frightful, and the fire made the darkness that surrounded …
2752 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 162.3 (Matthew Henry)
… upon the wilderness through which God had now brought them: Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness …
2753 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 164.5 (Matthew Henry)
… :9. The Kohathites carried the ark; they and the other Levites stood before the Lord, to minister to him in all the offices of the tabernacle; and the priests, who …
2754 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 180.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , and the famine in the land, which last was the occasion of their going down into Egypt. Laban the Syrian sought to destroy my father (so the Chaldee), had almost …
2755 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 185.2 (Matthew Henry)
… an age then, when seventy or eighty was the ordinary stint, as appears by the prayer of Moses ( Psalms 90:10 ), might well think that he had accomplished as a hireling …
2756 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 188.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . In the heavenly Canaan there will be no more death. 4. He dies according to the word of the Lord. At the mouth of the Lord; so the word is. The Jews say, “with a kiss from …
2757 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 188.6 (Matthew Henry)
… old age. He was 120 years old, which, though far short of the years of the patriarchs, yet much exceeded the years of most of his contemporaries, for the ordinary …
2758 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 201.2 (Matthew Henry)
… not the same strength and vigour in his old age that Moses had; all that come to old age do not find it alike good; generally, the days of old age are evil days, and …
2759 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 202.6 (Matthew Henry)
Before the lot was cast into the lap for the determining of the portions of the respective tribes, the particular portion of Caleb was assigned to him. He was …
2760 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 211.1 (Matthew Henry)
… some years’ trial, being left to their prudence, was found wanting. II. Joshua’s speech to them as the opening, or perhaps at the concluding, of the sessions, to …