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541 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 393.5 (Matthew Henry)
… many. Sin weakens a people, diminishes them, dispirits them, and lessens their number and figure. (2.) He hired auxiliary troops out of the kingdom of Israel, 2 Chronicles …
542 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 405.12 (Matthew Henry)
… have weakened them. The earth helped the woman. Besides what was willingly offered by the Jews themselves who staid behind, from a principle of love to God …
543 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 455.12 (Matthew Henry)
… and weakened by continual terrors arising from the sense of his own guilt and the dread of God’s wrath ( Job 18:11, 18:12 ): Terror shall make him afraid on every …
544 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 527.12 (Matthew Henry)
… not sinned away their defence. Set your heart to her bulwarks. This intimates that the principal bulwarks of Zion were not the objects of sense, which they …
545 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 530.26 (Matthew Henry)
… his sin, how it had weakened the hands and saddened the hearts of good people, and opened the mouths of their adversaries; he was likewise afraid lest, he being …
546 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 537.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , and weaken their hands, and are sometimes a strong temptation to them to question their foundations, Psalms 73:2, 73:13. But when they see the judgments of God …
547 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 557.23 (Matthew Henry)
… these sins. Their place in Canaan would no more secure them in a sinful way t 3c9d han their descent from Israel. You only have I known of all the families of the …
548 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 584.14 (Matthew Henry)
… to weaken them, and waste them, and prevent their growth; they made their burdens heavy and their lives bitter, and slew their male children as soon as they were …
549 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 588.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , thus weakened, thus reproached; he was also a type of the church, which is often afflicted, tossed with tempests, and not comforted .
550 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 645.23 (Matthew Henry)
… that weaken us.
551 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.24 (Matthew Henry)
… but weaken it. (2.) It will not excuse them from the guilt of drunkenness that they can drink hard and yet keep their feet. (3.) Those who boast of their drinking down …
552 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 685.27 (Matthew Henry)
… :16. Sin weakens the strength, the root, of a people, so that they are easily rooted up; it defaces the beauty, the blossoms, of a people, and takes away the hopes of …
553 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 697.2 (Matthew Henry)
… in sin should be made partakers in ruin, and justly. When the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, by which Israel will be weakened, the kingdom will cease from …
554 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 705.5 (Matthew Henry)
… God weakens the strong that are proud and secure, so he strengthens the weak that are humble and serious, and stay themselves upon him. Nay, he not only makes …
555 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 719.2 (Matthew Henry)
… much weakened by the power of his God. 4. It is a hard matter to keep the spirit low in the midst of great advancements. Hezekiah is an instance of it: he was a wise …
556 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 726.10 (Matthew Henry)
… and weaken their estates by it. How does the profuseness of idolaters shame the niggardliness of many who call themselves God’s servants but are for a religion …
557 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 730.5 (Matthew Henry)
… it weakened?” Can any limits be set to Omnipotence? Cannot he redeem who is the great Redeemer? Has he no power to deliver whose all power is? To put to silence, and …
558 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.9 (Matthew Henry)
… nor weakened. It did wonders against the Egyptians, who enslaved and oppressed God’s son, his firstborn; it cut Rahab to pieces with one direful plague after …
559 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 741.8 (Matthew Henry)
… and weakened them, shamed them, and made a show of them openly, therein taking vengeance on them for all the injury they had done both to God and man, Colossians …
560 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 743.25 (Matthew Henry)
… be weakened. Nay, his people had experienced not only his zeal and his strength, but the sounding of his bowels, or rather the yearning of them, such a degree of …