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2801 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 …
2802 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 …
2803 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 …
2804 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 211.6 (Matthew Henry)
… in age ( Joshua 23:1 ), probably it was in the last year of his life, and he lived to be 110 years old, Joshua 24:29. And he himself takes notice of it, in the first words …
2805 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 212.19 (Matthew Henry)
… years; but the Jewish chronologers generally say it was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years. He is here called the servant of the Lord, the same title …
2806 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 215.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , as the word is. Observe, 1. Who the deliverer was. It was Othniel, who married Caleb’s daughter, one of the old stock that had seen the works of the Lord, and had himself …
2807 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 217.36 (Matthew Henry)
… the best part of one age they enjoyed the peace which it opened the way to: The land had rest forty years, that is, so long it was from this victory to the raising …
2808 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 220.19 (Matthew Henry)
… that the country was in quietness forty years. Hitherto the times of Israel had been reckoned by forties. Othniel judged forty years, Ehud eighty—just two …
2809 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 222.11 (Matthew Henry)
… against the Ammonites. Hitherto most of the deliverers of Israel had an extraordinary call to the office, as Ehud, Barak, Gideon; but the next is to be called …
2810 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 237.10 (Matthew Henry)
… . The motto of the princes of Wales is Ich dien—I serve. (2.) The child is nursed by the grandmother, that is, dry-nursed, when the mother had weaned him from the breast …
2811 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.23 (Matthew Henry)
… three years old, to be educated among the children of the priests. It is said ( 1 Samuel 1:24 ), The child was young, but, being intelligent above his years, he was no …
2812 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 239.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to the Lord. Some little services perhaps he was employed in about the altar, though much under the age appointed by the law for the Levites’ ministration. He …
2813 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 239.33 (Matthew Henry)
… ), “ All the increase of thy house, from generation to generation, shall die in the flower of their age, when they are in the midst of the years of their service,” so …
2814 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 244.1 (Matthew Henry)
… , I. The eclipsing of the glory of the ark, by its privacy in Kirjath-jearim for many years, 1 Samuel 7:1, 7:2. II. The appearing of the glory of Samuel in his public services …
2815 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 245.2 (Matthew Henry)
… hastened the infirmities of age upon him. The fruits that are the first ripe keep the worst. He had spent his strength and spirits in the fatigue of public business …
2816 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 249.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and the multitude of years shall teach wisdom; and there is a particular reverence due to the aged, especially aged magistrates and aged ministers. “I am old …
2817 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 273.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, upon the death of Saul, 2 Samuel 5:4. At that age the Levites were at first appointed to begin their administration …
2818 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 282.8 (Matthew Henry)
… which the king’s tender spirit felt the force of: “He is banished, and has for three years undergone the disgrace and terror, and all the inconveniences, of banishment …
2819 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 287.22 (Matthew Henry)
… for the business of the court: “Why should I go up with the king to Jerusalem ? I can do him no service there, in the council, the camp, the treasury, or the courts of …
2820 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 289.8 (Matthew Henry)
… been the case, she would have suffered the ravens of the valley to pick it out and the young eagles to eat it, Proverbs 30:17. But they died for their father’s sin …