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6221 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 252.14 (Matthew Henry)
… what evil the love of money is the root of; but see what is the sinfulness of sin, and that in it which above any thing else makes it evil in the sight of the Lord …
6222 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 253.15 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit from God troubled him. Those that drive the good Spirit away from the do of course become prey to the evil spirit. If God and his grace do not rule …
6223 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 253.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirit, but it made his spirit sedate, and allayed those tumults of the animal spirits by which the devil had advantage against him. The beams of the …
6224 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 254.3 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s Spirit and prophets to leave them. Saul mustered his forces, and faced them, 1 Samuel 17:2, 17:3. And here we must take notice, 1. That the evil spirit, for the …
6225 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 255.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirit from God, that had formerly haunted him, seized him again. Those that indulge themselves in envy and uncharitableness give place to the devil …
6226 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 255.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirit was actually upon him, to aim at David’s life himself, for even he could not but conceive a horror at the thought of murdering such an innocent …
6227 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 256.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirit came upon him ( 1 Samuel 19:9 ), for when we let the sun go down upon our wrath we give place to the devil ( Ephesians 4:26, 4:27 ), we make room for him and invite …
6228 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 256.17 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit, and yet among the prophets.
6229 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 257.13 (Matthew Henry)
… ? Generous spirits can much more easily bear to be abused themselves than to hear their friends abused. 2. Into the peril of death. Saul was now so outrageous …
6230 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 259.8 (Matthew Henry)
… a spirit of jealousy! If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked ( Proverbs 29:12 ), that is, they seem to be so in his eyes. (3.) That they were very unkind. He …
6231 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 259.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the evil spirit hurry men to, when he gets the dominion! He alleged, in his order that which was utterly false and unproved to him, that they knew when David fled …
6232 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 262.4 (Matthew Henry)
… another spirit. He inherited Caleb’s estate; for Maon and Carmel lay near Hebron, which was given to Caleb ( Joshua 14:14, 15:54, 15:55 ), but he was far from inheriting …
6233 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 262.33 (Matthew Henry)
… their spirits provoked. 2. Oaths cannot, bind us to that which is sinful. David had solemnly vowed the death of Nabal. He did evil to make such a vow, but he would …
6234 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 263.15 (Matthew Henry)
… that evil spirit from the Lord which troubles thee, let him accept an offering from us both—let us join in making our peace with God, reconciling ourselves …
6235 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.6 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit he suspected that he was bewitched, and, for that reason, cut off all that had familiar spirits. Many seem zealous against sin, when they themselves …
6236 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.7 (Matthew Henry)
… familiar spirit, 1 Samuel 28:7. And his servants were too officious to serve him in this evil affair; they presently recommended one to him at Endor (a city not …
6237 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.9 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit, or that God, who had denied a man the benefit of his own institutions, would suffer him to reap any real advantage by a cursed diabolical invention …
6238 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.10 (Matthew Henry)
… concerning evil, Romans 16:9. 4. The witch, upon sight of the apparition, was aware that her client was Saul, her familiar spirit, it is likely, informing her of it …
6239 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.12 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit that personated Samuel; for (as bishop Patrick observes) it is not in the power of witches to disturb the rest of good men and to bring them back …
6240 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.14 (Matthew Henry)
… an evil spirit, God might by him foretel it; as we read of an evil spirit that foresaw Ahab’s fall at Ramoth-Gilead and was instrumental in it ( 1 Kings 22:20-22:23 …