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31781 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 27.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to God’s people) some ground upon the different characters of these three patriarchs. Abraham was a man of very high attainments, and intimate communion …
31782 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 32.22 (Matthew Henry)
… . The character of a hard master. Laban had been such a one to Jacob. Those are bad masters, 1. Who exact from their servants that which is unjust, by obliging them …
31783 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 34.9 (Matthew Henry)
… his character: They are the children which God hath graciously given thy servant. It had been a sufficient answer to the question, and fit enough to be given …
31784 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 39.1 (Matthew Henry)
… a character of him by this story, we should not say, “Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise,” Genesis 49:8. But God will show that his choice is of grace …
31785 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 40.15 (Matthew Henry)
… true characters. This was not the first time that Joseph’s coat was made use of as a false witness concerning him; his father had been deceived by it before …
31786 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 47.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of a plain man, who did not affect any thing stately or magnificent; his son rode in a chariot ( Genesis 41:43 ), but a waggon would serve him. 2. The removal …
31787 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 48.10 (Matthew Henry)
… .] The character he gives of them is, First, That they were few. Though he had now lived 130 years, they seemed to him but a few days, in comparison with the days of eternity …
31788 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . The character of Simeon and Levi: they were brethren in disposition; but, unlike their father, they were passionate and revengeful, fierce and uncontrollable …
31789 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of a living saint that he waits for the salvation of the Lord. Christ, as our way to heaven, is to be waited on; and heaven, as our rest in Christ, is to …
31790 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 50.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of that tribe, that it should be a warlike tribe, and so we find ( 1 Chronicles 12:8 ); the Gadites were men of war fit for the battle. He foresees that …
31791 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 54.8 (Matthew Henry)
… this character; therefore tread not on that ground with soiled shoes.” Keep thy foot, Ecclesiastes 5:1. Note, We ought to approach to God with a solemn pause and …
31792 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 56.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the character they bore, Pharaoh makes his estimate of their God, and concludes that he made no better a figure among the gods than his people did among the …
31793 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 69.15 (Matthew Henry)
… best character, [1.] For judgment and resolution— able men, men of good sense, that understood business, and bold men, that would not be daunted by frowns or clamours …
31794 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 73.17 (Matthew Henry)
… upon God himself, and will have a great deal to answer for another day. We find those under a black character, and a heavy doom, that despise dominion, and speak …
31795 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 82.6 (Matthew Henry)
… sanctify God’s day, it is a sign between him and us that he has sanctified our hearts: hence it is the character of the blessed man that he keepeth the sabbath …
31796 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 83.13 (Matthew Henry)
… true character: “ It is a stiff-necked people, unapt to come under the yoke of the divine law, and governed as it were by a spirit of contradiction, averse to all …
31797 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 84.2 (Matthew Henry)
… with God. This he must let them know for their further mortification. 1. He applies to them a mortifying name, by giving them their just character— a stiff-necked …
31798 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 84.12 (Matthew Henry)
… God with them. “Better lie down and die here in the wilderness than go forward to Canaan without God’s presence.” Note, Those who know how to value God’s favours …
31799 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 86.11 (Matthew Henry)
… that God accepts. Notice is here taken of the good women’s work for God, as well as of Bezaleel’s and Aholiab’s. The meanest hand for the honour of God, shall have …
31800 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 86.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ; for God is the God of order and not of confusion. Observe, 1. Those whom God called by name to this service he filled with the Spirit of God, to qualify them for it …