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681 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 239.19 (Matthew Henry)
… people tamely yielded to their unwarrantable demands from them, yet they were very solicitous that God should not be robbed: Let them not fail to burn the …
682 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 242.1 (Matthew Henry)
… thus tamely part with the glory of Israel. God would therefore take the work into his own hands and plead his own cause, since men would not appear for him. We …
683 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 243.7 (Matthew Henry)
… all tame creatures have a natural inclination, and from their own calves, to which they had a natural affection,—that, without any director, they should go the …
684 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 244.23 (Matthew Henry)
… heaven, tamely yielded to the demand, and restored (some think) even Ekron and Gath, two of the capital cities, though afterwards they retook them; others think …
685 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 248.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , nor tamely yielded to serve an Ammonite, without one bold struggle for themselves. Had they not broken their covenant with God, and forsaken his service, they …
686 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 251.10 (Matthew Henry)
… so tamely (though some think that this had become terrible to them, since he smote one of their garrisons, 1 Samuel 13:3 ), but it was God’s right hand and his arm …
687 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 270.8 (Matthew Henry)
… down tamely under Ishbosheth, for so many years, especially considering what characters many of the tribes displayed at this time (as we find, 1 Chronicles …
688 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 271.2 (Matthew Henry)
… fall tamely. It is not strange between them, but one would wonder it should be a long war, when David’s house had right on its side, and therefore God on its side …
689 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 282.8 (Matthew Henry)
… cannot tamely see the diminution and decay of by the fall of so many of its branches in the flower of their age. Therefore the king speaks as one that is faulty …
690 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 283.16 (Matthew Henry)
… it tamely to the rebels. Note, Good men, when they suffer themselves, care not how few are involved with them in suffering.
691 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 285.3 (Matthew Henry)
… so tamely quitted the city, they might think he would easily be persuaded to do. It was not long since that Absalom himself fled for a crime, and David contented …
692 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 294.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his tame submission to Solomon. This was her weakness and folly: it was well that she was not regent. Note, Those that have the ear of princes and great men, as it …
693 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 304.12 (Matthew Henry)
… kingdom tamely, for then he would have been unworthy the title of a prince; and yet he would not contend for it in opposition to God, for then he would have been …
694 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 306.25 (Matthew Henry)
… perhaps tamely surrendered them, as Ahab, 1 Kings 20:4. He also took away the golden shields that were made but in his father’s time, 1 Kings 14:26. These the king …
695 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 308.11 (Matthew Henry)
… people tamely submitted, as if it were all one to them what kind they had, so that they had one. The first thing Zimri did was to slay all the house of Baasha; thus …
696 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 308.13 (Matthew Henry)
… not tamely submit to his murderer, nor let the treason go unpunished. They did not attempt to avenge the death of Nadab upon Baasha, perhaps because the house …
697 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 312.23 (Matthew Henry)
… -hadad’s tame and mean submission. Even in his inner chamber he feared, and would, if he could, flee further, though none pursued. His servants, seeing him and themselves …
698 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.2 (Matthew Henry)
… had tamely quitted the great advantages God had given him of enlarging his dominion for the honour of his kingdom, by his victory over the Syrians, and now …
699 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 317.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , but tamely let go his interest in them, rather than entertain the cares, undergo the fatigues, and run the hazards, of a war with them. His folly and pusillanimity …
700 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 328.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , which tamely opened to him, and yet he broke down their wall (and, as Josephus says, drove his chariot in triumph through the breach), in reproach to them, and that …