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321 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.2 (Matthew Henry)

… makes the spirit sad, the body sick, and all the enjoyments sour; it is the heaviness of the heart and the rottenness of the bones. (2.) It is a sin that is its own parent …

322 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.7 (Matthew Henry)

… be the forfeiture of his life, but not of his estate, and therefore he is also charged with treason, in blaspheming the king, for which his estate was to be confiscated …

323 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.10 (Matthew Henry)

… as the elders of Jezreel were to Jezebel’s orders which she sent from Samaria for the murder of Naboth, so obsequious were the elders of Samaria afterwards …

324 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.3 (Matthew Henry)

… their estates know not what trouble they entail. In this distress the poor widow goes to Elisha, in dependence upon the promise that the seed of the righteous …

325 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.10 (Matthew Henry)

… recompense the kindness done to him; perhaps she had heard how well paid the widow of Sarepta was for entertaining Elijah. 2. That the kindness she intended …

326 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.11 (Matthew Henry)

… ? As the liberal devise liberal things, so the grateful devise grateful things. “ Wouldst thou be spoken for to the king, or the captain of the host, for an office …

327 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 322.5 (Matthew Henry)

… of the possession of her own estate, it being either confiscated to the exchequer, seized by the lord, or usurped in her absence by some of the neighbours; or …

328 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 322.21 (Matthew Henry)

… Athaliah the daughter of Jezebel. The degeneracy of the old world took rise from the unequal yoking of professors with profane. Those that are ill-matched …

329 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 323.20 (Matthew Henry)

… , under the sentence of the law, which Jehu, the executioner, pursues in the disposal of the dead body. Naboth’s vineyard was ha 3980 rd by, which put him in mind …

330 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 326.2 (Matthew Henry)

… . That the high places were not taken away, 2 Kings 12:3. Up and down the country they had altars both for sacrifice and incense, to the honour of the God of Israel …

331 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 331.7 (Matthew Henry)

the eclipsing of the honour of the ten tribes that the honour of Judah (the royal tribe) and Levi (the holy tribe), which yet remained, might shine the brighter …

332 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 332.14 (Matthew Henry)

… ); though the property of their estates would be vested in the conquerors, yet they should have the free use of them. But he does not explain it now to them as he …

333 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 333.20 (Matthew Henry)

… for the sake of his merit, but the promise made to him and the covenant made with him, those sure mercies of David.” Thus all the deliverances of the church are …

334 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 334.4 (Matthew Henry)

… is the best and wisest course), set the house in order, make thy will, settle thy estate, put thy affairs in the best posture thou canst, for the ease of those that …

336 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 343.4 (Matthew Henry)

… greater estate, or was preferred to the magistracy, or signalized himself in war; we have most reason to think it was upon the account of his learning and piety …

337 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 361.14 (Matthew Henry)

… promote the building of his sanctuary.” Let but the heart be sincerely engaged for God, and the head and hand, the estate and interest, and all will be cheerfully …

338 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 365.7 (Matthew Henry)

… of the divine protection. Abraham gave Melchisedec the tenth of the spoils Hebrews 7:4. In Moses’s time the officers of the army, when they returned victorious …

339 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 366.6 (Matthew Henry)

… . Of the officers of the court. 1. The rulers of the king’s substance (as they are called, 1 Chronicles 27:31 ), such as had the oversight and charge of the king’s tillage …

340 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 373.2 (Matthew Henry)

the house, than they had been in the tabernacle. But the ark, with the mercy-seat and the cherubim, was the same; for the presence and the grace of God are the same …