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281 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 182.13 (Matthew Henry)
… of the highways into the field, and spoil the little that there is of the fruits of the earth. [2.] By destroying insects. The locust should destroy the corn, so that …
282 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to the end of time, in spite of all the designs of the gates of hell against it. Saul rose up against the Lord’s priests ( 1 Samuel 22:18 ), and this filled the measure …
283 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 206.7 (Matthew Henry)
… to the number of the cities and extent of the country. Judah is fixed on the south and Joseph on the north of Shiloh, to protect the tabernacle ( Joshua 18:5 ), and …
284 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 207.10 (Matthew Henry)
… than the whole assemblage, and would hold even the estate of his family, under God, by the grant of the people. 5. It was a city that must be built before it was fit …
285 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 215.5 (Matthew Henry)
… that the bad will corrupt the good than to hope that the good will reform the bad, as there is in laying two pears together, the one rotten and the other sound …
286 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 217.14 (Matthew Henry)
… over the mighty men of Canaan, who fell before the army she commanded; so wonderfully did he advance the low estate of his handmaid. “The Lord made me, a woman, to …
287 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the law the brand there put on the Ammonites, the enemies he was to grapple with, that they should not enter into the congregation of the Lord, but in the same …
288 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 223.26 (Matthew Henry)
… as the more holy, more the Lord’s, or devoted to him, for living unmarried: it was no part of the law either of the priests or of the Nazarites. Deborah and Huldah …
289 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 225.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , souls, estates; how shall we order them, that we may answer the intent of the donor, and give a good account of them? [2.] In particular, those to whom God has given children …
290 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 231.8 (Matthew Henry)
… all the tribes of Israel, the Benjamites had most reason to be kind to poor travellers, for their ancestor, Benjamin, was born upon the road, his mother being …
291 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 233.10 (Matthew Henry)
… to the infringement of their paternal authority, they would easily forgive it when they considered to what fair estates their daughters were matched and …
292 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 234.19 (Matthew Henry)
… marry the widows, to raise up seed to those that were gone, and to redeem the mortgaged estate of the family, it might have been some encouragement to them to …
293 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 235.20 (Matthew Henry)
… . Let the loins of the poor bless those that refresh them, Job 29:13, 31:20. And he that hears the cries of the poor against their oppressors ( Exodus 22:27 ), it may be …
294 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 237.2 (Matthew Henry)
… have the land, he must take her with it, Terra transit cum onere—The estate passes with this incumbrance; either the divine law or the usage of the country would …
295 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 237.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to the year of jubilee ( Leviticus 25:15 ), when it would have returned of course to Elimelech’s family. The more public the sales of estates are the better they …
296 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 245.14 (Matthew Henry)
… your estates, which will be levied with more rigour, for the support of the royal dignity. Consider the expense with the magnificence, and whether it will quit …
297 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 246.2 (Matthew Henry)
… by the head and shoulders than any of the people, the fitter to be a match for the giants of Gath, the champions of the Philistines. When God chose a king after …
298 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.3 (Matthew Henry)
… at the great Messiah, or anointed one, the king of the church, and high priest of our profession, who was anointed with the oil of the Spirit, not by measure, but …
299 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.20 (Matthew Henry)
… him ( 1 Samuel 10:27 ) for the meanness of his tribe and family, the smallness of his estate, and the privacy of his education; and they said, How shall this man save …
300 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 248.4 (Matthew Henry)
… :2. The Gileadites were content to part with their liberty and estates for the ransom of their blood; and, had the Ammonites taken them at their word, the matter …