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6201 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 132.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirits of these degenerate Israelites, who, rather than die (if it come to the worst) like soldiers on the bed of honour, with their swords in their hands …
6202 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 137.14 (Matthew Henry)
… blessed Spirit, who is compared to rivers of living water; and it is by his operation that the righteousness of Christ is applied to us for our cleansing. Hence …
6203 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 144.6 (Matthew Henry)
… ambitious spirits put them upon striving against God and Moses, and when they quarrelled with the one they quarrelled with the other. And what was the issue …
6204 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 145.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit, the Spirit of grace (he is a good man, fearing God and hating covetousness, and acting from principle), the spirit of government (he is fit to do the work …
6205 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 171.7 (Matthew Henry)
… .) The evil of disobedience. Rebellion and stubbornness, from a spirit of contradiction and opposition of God, or those in authority under him, from a principle …
6206 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 174.8 (Matthew Henry)
… own spirit, he had leave to return from the war, Deuteronomy 20:8. This proclamation Gideon made to his army, and it detached above two-thirds of them, Judges 7 …
6207 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 185.15 (Matthew Henry)
… . His spirit and grace would forsake them, no longer to teach and guide them, and then they would be more and more bigoted, besotted, and hardened in their idolatries …
6208 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.6 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil which their hearts were fully set in them to do. For, 3. They were a perverse and crooked generation, that were actuated by a spirit of contradiction, and …
6209 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.22 (Matthew Henry)
… any spirits or invisible powers that possessed their idol-temples and images, they were evil spirits and malignant powers, whom yet they did not need to worship …
6210 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 188.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the spirit of wisdom as well as the spirit of revelation, the eye as well as the object. This sight which God here gave Moses of Canaan, probably, the devil designed …
6211 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 190.11 (Matthew Henry)
… another spirit, and, depending themselves upon the divine promise, they animated Joshua likewise. 1. Their return in safety was itself an encouragement to …
6212 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 211.18 (Matthew Henry)
… all evil things will come upon you according to the threatening, if you forsake him.” Moses had set before them good and evil; they had experienced the good, and …
6213 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 215.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , the spirit may be saved, Israel is weakened and Moab strengthened against them. God would not suffer the Israelites, when they were the stronger, to distress …
6214 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 221.14 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit, whom God not only keeps under his check, but sometimes serves his own purposes by. Their own lusts were evil spirits; they are devils in men’s …
6215 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 221.15 (Matthew Henry)
… ambitious spirits thus despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Gaal aimed not to recover Shechem’s liberty, only to change their tyrant: “ O that this …
6216 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 226.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times, and we have reason to think he himself perceived that Spirit to move him at this time, when he made this choice …
6217 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 228.12 (Matthew Henry)
… a spirit; yet, being a penitent, his godly sorrow makes him patient, and he accepts the indignity as the punishment of his iniquity. How unrighteous soever the …
6218 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 233.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of evil spirits carry away many souls from dancing to a fearful desolation .
6219 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 245.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and spirits in the fatigue of public business, and now, if he think to shake himself as at other times, he finds he is mistaken: old age has cut his hair. Those that …
6220 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 247.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a spirit of prophecy, which should at that time come upon him. What God works in us by his Spirit serves much more for the confirming of faith than any thing wrought …