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46 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 11.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the charge of rearing cities than not have the honour of ruling them. The spirit of building is the common effect of a spirit of pride. 4. It is daring, and will …
47 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 14.7 (Matthew Henry)
… a spirit of contention, by making people proud and covetous. Meum and tuum—Mine and thine, are the great make-bates of the world. Poverty and travail, wants and …
48 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 42.7 (Matthew Henry)
… is the wisdom of princes to prefer those, and the happiness of people to have those preferred, to places of power and trust, in whom the Spirit of God is. It is probable …
49 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 52.6 (Matthew Henry)
… their spirits, and rob them of every thing in them that was ingenuous and generous. (2.) To ruin their health and shorten their days, and so diminish their numbers …
50 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 116.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the land of Canaan, and the transferring of them. 1. No land should be sold for ever from the family to whose lot it fell in the division of the land. And the reason …
51 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 182.13 (Matthew Henry)
… hard and unfruitful. Instead of rain, the dust shall be blown out of the highways into the field, and spoil the little that there is of the fruits of the earth …
52 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 215.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , and employment, are very mean and obscure. He that has the residue of the Spirit could, when he pleased, make ploughmen judges and generals, and fishermen …
53 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 218.3 (Matthew Henry)
… into the land of Canaan. This fruitful land was a great temptation to them; and the sloth and luxury into which the Israelites had sunk by forty years’ rest made …
54 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.4 (Matthew Henry)
… God and served him, and some good prophets that instructed them in the knowledge of him and assisted them in their devotions. The priests and the Levites had …
55 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 325.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in the period now put to Athaliah’s tyranny, and the prospect they had of the restoration and establishment of religion by a king under the tuition of so good …
56 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 423.8 (Matthew Henry)
… thy Spirit in thy prophets. The testimony of the prophets was the testimony of the Spirit in the prophets, and it was the Spirit of Christ in them, 1 Peter 1:10 …
57 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 500.2 (Matthew Henry)
… ” (so the margin reads it), “thou hast made him to be a universal blessing to the world, in whom the families of the earth are, and shall be blessed; and so thou hast made …
58 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 622.6 (Matthew Henry)
… read it) I discourse of, the operation of thy hands, how great, how good, it is! The more we consider the power of God the less we shall fear the face or force of man …
59 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 667.19 (Matthew Henry)
… safety, and is a shelter to us from the storms of trouble and its scorching heat; it is a shadow (so the word is), as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Wisdom …
60 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 687.20 (Matthew Henry)
… by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts. Read the story, 2 Chronicles 28:8-28:15. The prophetical naming of this child having thus had its accomplishment, no doubt this …