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2801 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.10 (Matthew Henry)
… on the harp, or to handle the sword or spear, or to draw the bow, or I will teach you the maxims of state policy;” but I will teach you the fear of the Lord, which is better …
2802 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 540.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in the third person, because the psalm was delivered to the chief musician for the use of the church, and he would have the people, in singing it, to be encouraged …
2803 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.1 (Matthew Henry)
… declining years; for this psalm, above any other, is fitted for the use of the old disciples of Jesus Christ. I. He begins the psalm with believing prayers, with …
2804 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 550.11 (Matthew Henry)
… age they fail; the life is continued, but the strength is gone, or that which is his labour and sorrow, Psalms 90:10. [2.] The gracious desire he had of the continuance …
2805 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 563.9 (Matthew Henry)
… in the midst of all the delights of the children of men. Better than a thousand, he does not say days, you may supply it with years, with ages, if you will, and yet David …
2806 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.24 (Matthew Henry)
… in the flower of his age. This seems to intimate that the psalm was penned in Rehoboam’s time, when the house of David was but in the days of its youth, and yet waxed …
2807 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 569.1 (Matthew Henry)
… to the frailty of human life in general, and, in singing it, we may easily apply it to the years of our passage through the wilderness of this world, and it furnishes …
2808 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 569.11 (Matthew Henry)
… : Our years are seventy, and the years of some, by reason of strength, are eighty; but the breadth of our years (for so the latter word signifies, rather than strength …
2809 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 574.13 (Matthew Henry)
… in the head. When the corrupt affections pervert the judgment, and so lead the soul out of the ways of duty and obedience, there is an error of the heart. [4.] God’s …
2810 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.91 (Matthew Henry)
… preceding ages. In short, the written word is a surer guide to heaven than all the doctors and fathers, the teachers and ancients, of the church; and the sacred …
2811 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 645.28 (Matthew Henry)
… , that the multitude of their years should teach them the best wisdom; let them therefore be found in that way. Death will come; the Judge is coming; the Lord is …
2812 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 652.13 (Matthew Henry)
… for the multitude of her years and the wisdom which they teach. Scornful and insolent young men will make a jest, it may be, of the good advice of an aged mother …
2813 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 666.7 (Matthew Henry)
… many years, or rather many days, for our life is to be reckoned rather by days than years: The days of his years are many, and so healthful is his constitution, and …
2814 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.15 (Matthew Henry)
… in the formation of the great world, as the eye is one of the first in the formation of the body, the little world. It is pleasant to see the light; the heathen were …
2815 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.4 (Matthew Henry)
… get the property of death altered, that we may die comfortably. (2.) Before old age comes, which, if death prevent not, will come, and they will be years of which we …
2816 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 672.7 (Matthew Henry)
… not the pleasure either of the converse of the day or the repose of the night, for both the sun and the moon are darkened to them. Secondly, Then the clouds return …
2817 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 681.4 (Matthew Henry)
… suppose the apostle refers, Hebrews 11:37. From the year that king Uzziah died ( Isaiah 6:1 ) to Hezekiah’s sickness and recovery was forty-seven years; how much …
2818 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 699.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the Lord in the land of Egypt; and the service of God, Josephus affirms, continued in it about 333 years, when it was shut up by Paulinus soon after the destruction …
2819 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 703.1 (Matthew Henry)
… upon the sea, and for many ages one of the most celebrated cities for trade and merchandise in those parts of the world. The lot of the tribe of Asher bordered …
2820 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 718.7 (Matthew Henry)
… that the number of his months was cut off in the midst. He was now about thirty-nine or forty years of age, and when he had a fair prospect of many years and happy …