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681 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 …
682 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 …
683 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 …
684 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.
685 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 …
686 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 …
687 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 …
688 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 …
689 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 …
690 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 …
691 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 …
692 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 …
693 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 …
694 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 …
695 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 333.9 (Matthew Henry)
… him tamely to surrender it. Having found him an easy man once ( 2 Kings 18:14 ), when he said, That which thou puttest on me I will bear, he hoped again to frighten him …
696 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 439.14 (Matthew Henry)
… ? so tame and sheepish as thus to truckle to a God who is so far from rewarding thy services with marks of his favour that he seems to take a pleasure in making …
697 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 444.14 (Matthew Henry)
… to tame me and keep me within compass?” We are very apt, when we are in affliction, to complain of God and his providence, as if he laid more restraints upon us that …
698 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 474.4 (Matthew Henry)
… the tame beasts, which are serviceable to man, are housed and protected by his care, as Exodus 9:20. The ass has no den but his master’s crib, and thither he goes …
699 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.1 (Matthew Henry)
… controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the judge upon the bench must have the last word …
700 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 476.4 (Matthew Henry)
… . The tame ass is bound to labour; the wild ass has no bonds on him. Note, Freedom from service, and liberty to range at pleasure, are but the privileges of a wild ass …