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2741 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 606.2 (Matthew Henry)
… ; and the best-laid plans fail, unless he crowns them with success. 2. For the safety of a family or a city. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen, though they …
2742 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 707.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to the preaching of the gospel, by which sinners are gathered into the grace of God; the gospel proclaims the acceptable year of the Lord. Those gathered by …
2743 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 726.2 (Matthew Henry)
… hell. The true God will never fail his worshippers. The history of the life of every believer is a kind of abstract of the history of Israel. Our spiritual life …
2744 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 745.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of the church is described under a variety of images. He shall be thought to die in his youth, and for his sins, who only lives to the age of a hundred years. The event …
2745 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 855.2 (Matthew Henry)
… that the great God needs the counsel or concurrence of the angels, but it denotes the solemnity of this sentence. The demand is by the word of the holy ones, God’s …
2746 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 856.3 (Matthew Henry)
… years of age. Many consult servants of God on curious questions, or to explain difficult subjects, but without asking the way of salvation, or the path of …
2747 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 859.2 (Matthew Henry)
… Alexander the Great. Alexander, when about thirty-three years of age, and in his full strength, died, and showed the vanity of worldly pomp and power, and that …
2748 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 863.3 (Matthew Henry)
… years, beginning from the time when the power of the holy people should be scattered. The imposture of Mohammed, and the papal usurpation, began about the same …
2749 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1040.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , The will of the Lord must be done, and there is no remedy; but, Let the will of the Lord be done; for his will is his wisdom, and he doeth all according to the counsel …
2750 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1152.3 (Matthew Henry)
… few years seem an age; but Scripture, measuring all things by the existence of God, reckons thousands of years but so many days. God brought about things in Job’s …
2751 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 6.1 (Matthew Henry)
… age of the world from the creation to the flood, containing (according to the verity of the Hebrew text) 1656 years, as may easily be computed by the ages of the …
2752 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 6.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . His age and death. He lived, in all, nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died, according to the sentence passed upon him, To dust thou shalt return. Though …
2753 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 6.9 (Matthew Henry)
… first ages of the world. It is very probable that the earth was more fruitful, that the productions of it were more strengthening, that the air was more healthful …
2754 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 6.16 (Matthew Henry)
… -five years (a year of years), which, as men’s ages went then, was in the midst of his days; for there was none of the patriarchs before the flood that did not more than …
2755 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 6.18 (Matthew Henry)
… . His age: he lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, the longest we read of that ever any man lived on earth; and yet he died. The longest liver must die at last. Neither …
2756 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 12.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the years of their lives. Shem reached to 600 years, which yet fell short of the age of the patriarchs before the flood; the next three came short of 500; the next …
2757 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 13.14 (Matthew Henry)
II. His age when he removed: he was seventy-five years old, an age when he should rather have had rest and settlement; but, if God will have him to begin the world again now in his old age, he will submit. Here is an instance of an old convert.
2758 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 18.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , I. The time when God made Abram this gracious visit: When he was ninety-nine years old, full thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael. 1. So long, it should seem …
2759 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 24.2 (Matthew Henry)
… perform the ceremonies of mourning according to the custom of those time, as the mourners that go about the streets, but he did sincerely lament the great …
2760 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 25.3 (Matthew Henry)
… consult the welfare of their souls, and their furtherance in the way to heaven. Those who through grace have escaped the corruption that is in the world through …