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3121 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 679.4 (Matthew Henry)
… hold of her as of the boughs of a palm-tree. He compares her stature to a palm-tree ( Song of Solomon 7:7 ), so straight, so strong, does she appear, when she is looked upon …
3122 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 686.26 (Matthew Henry)
… hope of those that wish well to God’s kingdom. (3.) That they shall be like a timber-tree in winter, which has life, though it has no leaves: As a teil-tree and as an oak …
3123 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 690.22 (Matthew Henry)
… proud of and depended most upon, that he valued as men do their timber-trees (the glory of their forest) or their fruit-trees (the glory of the Carmel), shall be put …
3124 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 736.8 (Matthew Henry)
… not of the seed of Abraham. They had joined themselves to the Lord, and bound their souls with a bond to be his for ever (this is the root and life of religion, to …
3125 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 737.13 (Matthew Henry)
… meant of the king of Assyria, whom Ahaz made his court to, or of the king of Babylon, whose ambassadors Hezekiah caressed, or of other kings of the nations whose …
3126 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.29 (Matthew Henry)
… days of the tree of life; so the LXX. Christ is to them the tree of life, and in him believers enjoy all those spiritual comforts which are typified by the abundance …
3127 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 752.4 (Matthew Henry)
… pleasures of this life the more we disfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. (2.) See what the daughter of Babylon is, by whom the assault is made. The generals …
3128 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 756.5 (Matthew Henry)
… hands of the workman, squared, and sawed, and worked into shape; see Isaiah 44:12 But, after all, it was but the stock of a tree, fitter to make a gate-post of than any …
3129 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 757.14 (Matthew Henry)
… death of him. Malice is ingenious in its devices, as well as industrious in its prosecutions. They said concerning Jeremiah, Let us destroy the tree with the …
3130 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.3 (Matthew Henry)
… want of the necessary supports of life and for fear of the further fatal consequences of this judgment. The gates, through which supplies of corn formerly …
3131 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 804.6 (Matthew Henry)
… land of Israel, but some of the brightest of divine revelations were revealed in the land of the Chaldeans, which was a happy presage of the carrying of the …
3132 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 812.3 (Matthew Henry)
… ministers of wrath, for every man has his destroying weapon in his hand, as the angel that kept the way of the tree of life with a flaming sword. Note, Those that …
3133 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 814.13 (Matthew Henry)
… to life. This is promised to those whom God would bring back to their own land; for then such a change of the condition is for the better indeed when it is accompanied …
3134 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 823.16 (Matthew Henry)
… of defacing them, they fell in love with them, and when they saw every high hill whence they had the most delightful prospects, and all the thick trees where …
3135 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 834.4 (Matthew Henry)
… olive-tree, the fig-tree, and the vine, which were all fruit-trees, had refused to be promoted over the trees because they would not leave their fruitfulness …
3136 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 840.7 (Matthew Henry)
… spirit of life is from God; he at first in the creation breathed into man the breath of life, and so he will at last in the resurrection. The dispirited despairing …
3137 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 843.6 (Matthew Henry)
… palm-trees engraven ( Ezekiel 40:16 ), to signify that the righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree in the courts of God’s house, Psalms 92:12. The more they are …
3138 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 850.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the tree of life, and by virtue of their union with him made trees of life too, rooted in him, Colossians 2:7. There is a great variety of these trees, through the …
3139 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 851.3 (Matthew Henry)
… kingdom of heaven for all believers. Whoever will may come and take of the water of life, of the tree of life, freely. 3. The name given to this city: From that day …
3140 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 863.23 (Matthew Henry)
… ordinances of God shall be a savour of life unto life, while to others they are a savour of death unto death. First, the providences of God shall do them good: Many …