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2821 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 293.2 (Matthew Henry)
… under the infirmities of old age, and brought by them to the gates of the grave. He that cometh up out of the pit shall fall into the snare; and, one way or other, we …
2822 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 294.4 (Matthew Henry)
… in the law of Moses. (2.) A good spirit to act with: Be strong and show thyself a man, though in years but a child. Those that would keep the charge of the Lord their God …
2823 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 304.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the crown at forty years old, when men will be wise if ever they will, yet he was then foolish. Wisdom does not go by age, nor is it the multitude of years nor the advantage …
2824 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 307.13 (Matthew Henry)
… -four years, and all his days had war, more or less, with Asa, 1 Kings 15:16. This was the effect of the division of the kingdoms, that they were continually vexing …
2825 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.12 (Matthew Henry)
… of the way of our heavenly calling, any more than it did Elisha, who was taken from following the plough the feed Israel and to sow the seed of the word, as the apostles …
2826 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.2 (Matthew Henry)
… his age, nor in what year of Ahab’s reign he first appeared, nor in what year of Joram’s he disappeared, and therefore cannot conjecture how long he flourished …
2827 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 329.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of the age of any of the kings of Israel that I remember, only of the years of their reigns. This honour God would put upon the kings of the house of David above …
2828 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 330.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in the midst of his days, at thirty-six years of age ( 2 Kings 16:19 ) and leaving his kingdom to a better man, Hezekiah his son ( 2 Kings 16:20 ), who proved as much a friend …
2829 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 331.7 (Matthew Henry)
… ages after, in Augustulus. Providence so ordered the eclipsing of the honour of the ten tribes that the honour of Judah (the royal tribe) and Levi (the holy …
2830 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 332.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of the reign of Hezekiah. It appears, by comparing his age with his father’s, that he was born when his father was about eleven or twelve years old, divine Providence …
2831 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 334.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , in the same year in which the king of Assyria besieged Jerusalem; for he reigning reigned ? in all twenty-nine years, and surviving this fifteen years, this must …
2832 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 341.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , for the clearing of the genealogy of Christ. 1. Here we find Bezaleel, who was head-workman in building the tabernacle, Exodus 31:2. 2. Hezron, who was the son of Pharez …
2833 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 362.6 (Matthew Henry)
… for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of twenty years and upwards, 1 Chronicles 23:24. This order he confirmed by his last words, 1 Chronicles 23 …
2834 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 379.2 (Matthew Henry)
… for the recovery of his right. Judah was his own tribe, that owned him some years before the rest did; Benjamin was the tribe in which Jerusalem, or the greatest …
2835 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 390.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the age of his mother Athaliah, for in the original it is, he was the son of forty-two years, that is, the son of a mother that was of that age; and justly is her age put …
2836 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 395.5 (Matthew Henry)
… in the book of the kings of Israel, as well as of the kings of Judah, 2 Chronicles 27:7. The last words of the chapter are the most melancholy, as they inform us that …
2837 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 397.2 (Matthew Henry)
… . Hezekiah’s age when he came to the crown. He was twenty-five years old. Joash, who came to the crown after two bad reigns, was but seven years old; Josiah, who came …
2838 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 399.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the house of the Lord, all the males from three years old and upwards; for the male children even at that tender age, it seems, were allowed to come into the temple …
2839 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 404.8 (Matthew Henry)
… profaned the sabbath-day, did not observe the sabbatical year.” They many a time ploughed and sowed their land in the seventh year, when it should have rested …
2840 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 449.20 (Matthew Henry)
… , by the infirmities of age, which make them twice children: He taketh away the understanding of the aged, Job 12:20. The aged, who were most depended on for advice …