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521 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.15 (Matthew Henry)

… by the putting forth of the finger (as Proverbs 6:13 by teaching with the finger ), or it is putting forth the finger with the ring on it, which was the badge of authority …

522 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 739.22 (Matthew Henry)

the person and the estate of the poor debtor. Observe, [1.] The place where this Redeemer shall appear: He shall come to Zion, for there, on that holy hill, the Lord …

523 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 741.15 (Matthew Henry)

IV. The wealth and honour of the Gentile converts shall redound to the benefit and credit of the church, Isaiah 61:6. The Gentiles shall be brought into the church …

524 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 742.11 (Matthew Henry)

… in the courts of his holiness, where the altar, the priest, and the poor must all have their share. The greatest comfort that a good man has in his meat and drink …

525 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 749.30 (Matthew Henry)

… see the folly of it, and to call those vices their shame which have wasted their estates and devoured the labour of their fathers. Of the labour of their fathers …

526 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 751.24 (Matthew Henry)

… not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and the right of the needy. The fatherless are often needy, always need assistance and advice, and advantage is taken …

527 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 752.5 (Matthew Henry)

… their estates or reputation. Note, He that is the common Parent of mankind regards and resents, and sooner or later will revenge, the mischiefs and wrongs that …

528 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 754.9 (Matthew Henry)

… and the law of the Lord is with us ,” were the priests and the false prophets; with them the prophet here deals plainly. 1. He threatens the judgments of God against …

529 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 756.17 (Matthew Henry)

… their estates and possessions were made to know, by sad experience, when they were thrown out by the Chaldeans, that the way of man is not in himself; he designs …

530 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 761.14 (Matthew Henry)

… viator—The traveller that has no property about him will congratulate himself when accosted by a robber. But the people that had great estates in money and …

531 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 764.24 (Matthew Henry)

… up the children to the famine, to the famine in the country for want of rain, and that in the city through the straitness of the siege. Thus let this iniquity of …

532 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 768.12 (Matthew Henry)

… after the eyes: it is therefore called the lust of the eye, 1 John 2:16, 31:7. It is setting the eyes upon that which is not, Proverbs 23:5. The eyes and the heart are then …

533 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 777.4 (Matthew Henry)

… in the way of our deliverance, it is good to remember that it has been so with the church formerly, and yet that it has been raised up from its low estate and has …

534 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 781.5 (Matthew Henry)

… , raise estates, and fare sumptuously, the natives would grudge them their abundance, and have a jealous eye upon them, as the Philistines had upon Isaac ( Genesis …

535 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 781.8 (Matthew Henry)

… that the people of God should have obeyed him than that the sons of Jonadab should have obeyed him; and the aggravation is very high, for, 1. The Rechabites were …

536 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 781.10 (Matthew Henry)

… have the smallest estates have the most numerous progeny; but he that sends mouths will be sure to send meat. 2. That religion shall continue in the family: “ He …

537 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 795.2 (Matthew Henry)

… to the forfeited estates, or Milcom, their idol, as if he had the right to dispose of it to his worshippers, inherit Gad, and his people dwell in the cities which …

538 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 810.8 (Matthew Henry)

estate and has become a purchaser; nor let the seller mourn that he is lessening his estate and has become a bankrupt,” Ezekiel 7:12. See the vanity of the things …

539 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 814.7 (Matthew Henry)

… are the men of thy kindred (the men of thy redemption, so the word is), thy next of kin, to whom the right of redeeming the alienated possession belongs, but who are …

540 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 814.9 (Matthew Henry)

… regards the low estate of his people, and suits his favours to their circumstances. Observe the condescensions of divine grace. The great God will be to his …