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361 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 196.12 (Matthew Henry)
… give the praise. 2. They plundered the city and took all the spoil to themselves, Joshua 8:27. Thus the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just; the spoil they …
362 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 204.3 (Matthew Henry)
… Jacob’s well, where Christ talked with the woman of Samaria. We read much of Mount Ephraim in the story of the Judges, and of a city called Ephraim, it is probable …
363 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 216.14 (Matthew Henry)
… head of the woman is the man ( 1 Corinthians 11:3 ), he that has the residue of the Spirit was pleased to cross hands, and to put the head upon the woman’s shoulders …
364 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 216.22 (Matthew Henry)
… well done. God’s judgments are a great deep. The instrument of this execution was a nail of the tent, that is, one of the great pins with which the tent, or the stakes …
365 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 226.3 (Matthew Henry)
… think the fear of God is not, nor the worship of God, let them hear their reasoning, and apply it to themselves: “ Isa. there never a woman among the daughters of thy …
366 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 229.6 (Matthew Henry)
… how the old woman’s covetousness prevailed, in part, above her superstition. She had wholly dedicated the silver to make the graven and molten images ( Judges …
367 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 235.20 (Matthew Henry)
… . Let the loins of the poor bless those that refresh them, Job 29:13, 31:20. And he that hears the cries of the poor against their oppressors ( Exodus 22:27 ), it may be …
368 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 236.3 (Matthew Henry)
… Ruth the most proper person to do it herself; and perhaps it was the usage in that country that in this case the woman should make the demand; so much is intimated …
369 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 236.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ; whatever the measure was, it is probable he gave her as much as she could well carry, Ruth 3:15. And the Chaldee says, Strength was given her from the Lord to carry …
370 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 237.2 (Matthew Henry)
… when the famine was in the land ( Ruth 4:3 ): “ Naomi has a parcel of land to sell, namely, the equity of the redemption of it out of the hands of the mortgagee, which she …
371 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 237.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to the dead, as well as this kindness to the living, God did him the honour to bring him into the genealogy of the Messiah, by which his family was dignified above …
372 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.16 (Matthew Henry)
… poor woman was silent and composed. His fault was the worse that he was the priest of the Lord, who should have had compassion on the ignorant, Hebrews 5:2. Note …
373 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.17 (Matthew Henry)
… admirably well. She did not retort the charge and upbraid him with the debauchery of his own sons, did not bid him look at home and restrain them, did not tell …
374 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.22 (Matthew Henry)
… well of what the other does, especially in works of piety and charity. He adds a prayer: Only the Lord establish his word, that is, “God preserve the child through …
375 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 239.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to the Lord. Some little services perhaps he was employed in about the altar, though much under the age appointed by the law for the Levites’ ministration. He …
376 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 257.12 (Matthew Henry)
… to the kingdom by the same hand that anointed him, and then not Jonathan, but himself, was the fool, to think to defeat the counsels of God. Yet nothing will serve …
377 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of the righteous are garnished. 3. Here is a seeming defector chasm in the story. Saul said, Bring me up Samuel, and the very next words are, When the woman saw Samuel …
378 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 271.5 (Matthew Henry)
… certainly the best friend he had in the world. 2. Abner resented the charge very strongly. Whether he was guilty of the fault concerning this woman or no he does …
379 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 281.7 (Matthew Henry)
… below the greatest ladies, nor ought they to think it a disparagement to them. The virtuous woman, whose husband sits among the elders, yet works willingly …
380 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 282.7 (Matthew Henry)
… did well this to undertake the protection of a murderer, whom the cities of refuge would not protect, I cannot say. But, as the matter of fact appeared to him, there …