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21 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1129.2 (Matthew Henry)
… persecution from without, still more on account of corruptions within. Men love to gratify their own lusts, more than to please God and do their duty. When every …
22 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 65.7 (Matthew Henry)
… ); when without are fightings, it cannot be otherwise but that within are fears: what therefore was the fruit of this fear? According as that was, the fear was good …
23 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 196.3 (Matthew Henry)
… helpers, more than oppositions from without; treacherous Israelites are to be dreaded more than malicious Canaanites. But God bids Joshua not be dismayed …
24 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 241.13 (Matthew Henry)
… word more. His heart was broken first, and then his neck. So fell the high priest and judge of Israel, so fell his heavy head when he had lived within two of 100 years …
25 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 243.8 (Matthew Henry)
… wood, than be without it. The intrinsic grandeur of instituted ordinances ought not to be diminished in our eyes by the meanness and poverty of the place where …
26 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.2 (Matthew Henry)
… distant from Jezreel, and within the dominion of so good a king as Jehoshaphat, that he could not but be safe there; yet, as if his fears haunted him even when he …
27 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 320.15 (Matthew Henry)
… without are fightings and within are fears: “Fear not with that fear which has torment and amazement, for those that are with us, to protect us, are more than those …
28 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 331.15 (Matthew Henry)
… chose to dwell at Bethel for old acquaintance’ sake, and, though he might teach them to do better than they did, he was not likely to teach them to do well, unless …
29 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 461.4 (Matthew Henry)
… forced to hide themselves from them, having no other way to secure themselves from them. They love in their hearts to banter people, and to make fools of them …
30 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.16 (Matthew Henry)
… . 2. Within were fears; but God was better to him than his fears, Psalms 31:22. He here keeps an account, (1.) Of his own folly, in distrusting God, which he acknowledges …
31 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 512.11 (Matthew Henry)
… opposition to him, but that no force can act but in dependence on him and by a power derived from him. (1.) The strength of a king is nothing without God. No king is …
32 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 515.13 (Matthew Henry)
… desiring more of God, never desires more than God. The gifts of Providence so far satisfy them that they are content with such things as they have. I have all …
33 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 534.5 (Matthew Henry)
… than the strong man in his strength. Now David’s heart is sorely pained within him; the terrors of death have fallen upon him, Psalms 55:4. Fearfulness of mind …
34 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 538.11 (Matthew Henry)
… my fears, prevent my prayers, and be better to me than my own expectations.” It is very comfortable to us, in prayer, to eye God, not only as the God of mercy, but as the …
35 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 652.1 (Matthew Henry)
… think thy throat cut than indulge thyself in voluptuousness.” We must never feed ourselves without fear ( Jude 1:12 ), but we must in a special manner fear when …
36 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 712.22 (Matthew Henry)
… protection to dwell safely, and to be quiet from the fear of evil without. Jerusalem shall be a peaceable habitation; compare Isaiah 33:20. Even when it shall …
37 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 755.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , neither within doors nor without. Not within doors, for let the doors be shut ever so fast, let them be ever so firmly locked and bolted, death comes up into our …
38 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 778.19 (Matthew Henry)
… them to dwell safely. Being reformed, and having returned to God, neither their own consciences within nor their enemies without shall be a terror to them …
39 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 799.14 (Matthew Henry)
… sword without and terror within, Deuteronomy 32:25. And as the enemies, that were the instruments of the calamity, were very barbarous, so were those that were …
40 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 801.2 (Matthew Henry)
… peace from me, but hast removed my soul far off from peace ( Lamentations 3:17 ), so that it is not only not within reach, but no within view. I forget prosperity; it …