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625 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 309.3 (Matthew Henry)
… her meal and oil in the kingdom of providence. Happy are all who can thus, against hope, believe and obey in hope. One poor meal's meat this poor widow gave the …
626 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 123.10 (Matthew Henry)
… barley-meal, without oil or frankincense, agreeably to the present afflicted state of his family; for a great affliction it was either to have cause to be jealous …
627 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 166.11 (Matthew Henry)
… ordinary meals. This permission has a double restriction:—1. They must eat according to the blessing which God had given them, Deuteronomy 12:15. Note, It is not …
628 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 168.12 (Matthew Henry)
… every meal a religious feast. The end of this law we have ( Deuteronomy 14:23 ): That thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always; it was to keep them right and …
629 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 186.18 (Matthew Henry)
… every meal might be a feast if they pleased: excellent bread made of the best corn, here called the kidneys of the wheat (for a grain of wheat is not unlike a kidney …
630 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 246.16 (Matthew Henry)
… a meal’s meat, for it seems, by what he said ( 1 Samuel 9:7 ), that all their meat and money were spent. But this was not all. Samuel treats him not as a common person, but …
631 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 251.20 (Matthew Henry)
… :32. Two hungry meals, we say, make the third a glutton; it was so here. They would not stay to have their meat either duly killed (for they slew the cattle upon the …
632 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 309.10 (Matthew Henry)
… of meal and a little oil, needy at the best, and now, by the general scarcity, reduced to the last extremity. When she has eaten the little she has, for aught she yet …
633 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 309.11 (Matthew Henry)
… poor meal’s meat this poor widow gave the prophet, and, in recompence of it, she and her son did eat many days ( 1 Kings 17:15 ), above two years, in a time of general scarcity …
634 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.4 (Matthew Henry)
… little meal in the barrel and a little oil in the cruse, God’s blessing shall multiply that to a great increase.” This is God’s way of enriching the souls of his …
635 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 625.5 (Matthew Henry)
… one meal or two for his own family. This encourages us to hope in him as the nourisher of our souls with the bread of life. 5. He is the author of liberty to those …
636 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 671.4 (Matthew Henry)
… or two, but a mess, a meal; give a large dole, not a paltry one; give good measure ( Luke 6:38 ); be generous in giving, as those were when, on festival days, they sent portions …
637 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 753.18 (Matthew Henry)
… good meal’s meat or two; but expect not any other benefit by them while you live at this loose rate. Keep your sacrifices to yourselves ” (so some understand it …
638 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.6 (Matthew Henry)
… morning meal, but came out fasting, because they would not come late to the synagogue. Providence ordered it that they went through the corn, and there they …
639 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 945.106 (Matthew Henry)
… . If two hungry meals make the third a glutton, what would three hungry days do? And yet they did all eat and were filled. Note, There are mercy and grace enough with …
640 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 949.64 (Matthew Henry)
… but two mites in all the world, and had been commanded to give them to the poor, or but one handful of meal in the barrel, and a little oil in the cruse, and had been …