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31821 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 173.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the characters of the persons, and all the circumstances of the case, which must be compared, that the truth might be found out, which, where it is thus faithfully …
31822 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.1 (Matthew Henry)
… high character of God, and, in opposition to that, a bad character of the people of Israel, Deuteronomy 32:3-32:6. 3. A rehearsal of the great things God had done for …
31823 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of God, whose character was in all respects the reverse of that of the God of Israel, Deuteronomy 32:5. 1. They have corrupted themselves. Or, It has corrupted itself …
31824 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.14 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character of that people when God began first to appear for them. (1.) Their condition was forlorn. Egypt was to them a desert land, and a waste howling wilderness …
31825 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 187.26 (Matthew Henry)
… that character of the men of Issachar in David’s time, That they had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, 1 Chronicles 12:32. And the character …
31826 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 189.9 (Matthew Henry)
… thy God is with thee as a God of power, and that power engaged for thee whithersoever thou goest.” Note, Those that go where God sends them shall have him with them …
31827 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 190.5 (Matthew Henry)
… good characters of the virtuous woman, however in others of them she might be deficient, that she sought wool and flax, and wrought willingly with her hands …
31828 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 191.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of all their way through the wilderness, it was an untrodden path, but this especially through Jordan. While we are here we must expect and prepare …
31829 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 196.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the character God is pleased to give of them, that they are children that will not lie. Now in the account here given of this matter,
31830 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 210.6 (Matthew Henry)
… honourable character. Though their service was a due debt, and the performance of a promise, and they had done no more than was their duty to do, yet he highly …
31831 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 214.7 (Matthew Henry)
… good character during the government of Joshua, and of his death and burial ( Joshua 24:29, 24:30 ), which comes in here again only to make way for the following account …
31832 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 220.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of an avenger of blood, as next of kin to the persons slain: They were my brethren, Judges 7:19. Their other crimes might have been forgiven, at least …
31833 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 229.11 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character as to be a plague and scandal to his family, but thinks, though he should be ever so great a rake, he might serve for a priest to a graven image, like …
31834 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 230.2 (Matthew Henry)
… of God’s urim; for they had passed by Shiloh, and, for aught that appears, had not enquired there of God’s high priest, but Micah’s shabby Levite shall be an oracle …
31835 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 230.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of priests, and had respect paid them as such by that city, and it is very probable that Jeroboam had an eye to them when he set up one of his calves …
31836 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 231.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of the wisdom from above that it is gentle and easy to be entreated. He spoke friendly to her, or comfortably (for so the Hebrew phrase of speaking …
31837 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 231.13 (Matthew Henry)
… his character, but that the good man of the house, who understood their meaning too well, by his answer lets us know that they designed the gratification of …
31838 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 234.24 (Matthew Henry)
… : “Thy God shall be my God, and farewell to all the gods of Moab, which are vanity and a lie. I will adore the God of Israel, the only living and true God, trust in him alone …
31839 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 235.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . Note, God has chosen the poor of this world; and poor they are likely to be, for, though God has chosen them, commonly men overlook them. 2. Her character, in this condition …
31840 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 235.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the character and reports they give to their masters, and take heed they do not misrepresent any person, nor without cause discourage their master’s charity …