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32141 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 768.15 (Matthew Henry)
… threefold character:—1. Very haughty in a day of peace and safety ( Jeremiah 22:21 ): “ I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity, spoke by my servants the prophets, reproofs …
32142 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.1 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character is here given at large in divers instances, especially their imposing upon the people with their pretended inspirations, at which the prophet …
32143 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 769.16 (Matthew Henry)
… own characters and counsels, they cannot possibly be concealed from God’s all-seeing eye ( Jeremiah 23:24 ): “ Can any hide himself in the secret places of the earth …
32144 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 772.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the character they gave of men, and be exasperated against those whom they defamed, and would, consequently, side with them and strengthen their hands against …
32145 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 775.8 (Matthew Henry)
… to God for the peace of the places where they were, that they might oblige them to continue their kindness to them and disprove the character that had been …
32146 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 775.13 (Matthew Henry)
… true character. Now here we are told concerning one of them,
32147 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 775.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the characters of the false prophets are thrown upon the true ones; and, if this had been indeed their character, they would have deserved to be bound as madmen …
32148 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.6 (Matthew Henry)
… his character; but we have no reason to think that the people were kind, or that his being beforehand was owing to their generosity. Nay, (4.) It was most strange …
32149 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.19 (Matthew Henry)
… for God and entirely devoted to God. When the eye is single and God’s glory alone aimed at, when our hearts are fixed, trusting in God, and we are uniform and universal …
32150 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 782.14 (Matthew Henry)
… bloody characters. Note, There is no escaping God’s judgments by struggling with them. Who ever hardened his heart against God, and prospered ?
32151 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 783.1 (Matthew Henry)
… bad character of that reign, Jeremiah 37:1, 37:2. II. The message which Zedekiah, notwithstanding, sent to Jeremiah to desire his prayers, Jeremiah 37:3. III. The …
32152 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 783.5 (Matthew Henry)
… blackest characters been put upon the fairest purest minds, and, in such a malicious world as this is, innocency, nay, excellency itself, is no fence against …
32153 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 784.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of God herein, the thing he feared should not come upon him ( Jeremiah 38:20 ): They shall not deliver thee up, but treat thee as becomes thy character. He begs of him …
32154 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 785.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the character of a great soul to take notice of the services and sufferings of the meanest. It was honourably done of the king to give this charge even before …
32155 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 787.5 (Matthew Henry)
… a character of Gedaliah that they were willing enough to be acquainted with him; but Ishmael, when he had them in the midst of the town, fell upon them and slew …
32156 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 797.13 (Matthew Henry)
… . The character given of him is observable, that this Seraiah was a quiet prince, a prince of rest. He was in honour and power, but not, as most f the princes then were …
32157 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 798.2 (Matthew Henry)
… from God’s ordinances have reason to complain that they are in some degree cast out of his presence; yet none are cast out from God’s gracious presence but …
32158 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 798.4 (Matthew Henry)
… sacred character could not exempt him from this stroke; how should it, when he himself had profaned it by sin? Seraiah the prince was a quiet prince ( Jeremiah …
32159 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 798.5 (Matthew Henry)
… make God’s threatenings, any more than his promises, of no effect. The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or …
32160 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 799.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , whose character it is that they are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, and that to them the reproach of it is a burden, Zephaniah 3:18. (3.) Their religious places …