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8221 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 229.1 (Matthew Henry)
… nation was in the judges it is here shown how unhappy they were when there was none. I. Then idolatry began in the family of Micah, Judges 17:1-17:13. II. Then it spread …
8222 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 232.14 (Matthew Henry)
… it was in defence of virtue that they appeared and took up arms. But God having shown them that he was under no obligation to prosper their enterprise, that …
8223 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 235.20 (Matthew Henry)
… to be examined; let them do that which is good, and they shall have praise of the same. Ruth told her mother what kindness Boaz had shown her, that she might take …
8224 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 236.3 (Matthew Henry)
… it is not to be drawn into a precedent; neither our laws nor our times are the same that were then; yet I am willing to make the best of it. If Boaz was, as they presumed …
8225 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 240.7 (Matthew Henry)
… shall be repeated till it is so, that is, till we come at the call; for the purpose of God, according to which we are called, shall certainly stand. 2. Samuel was still …
8226 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 252.5 (Matthew Henry)
… be reaping the benefit of our good works when we are in our graves. God is not unrighteous to forget the kindnesses shown to his people; but they shall be remembered …
8227 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 256.13 (Matthew Henry)
… he was sick; for to those that are in this misery pity should be shown; but Saul, when he heard it, gave positive orders that he should be brought to him sick or well …
8228 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 258.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , “ Have I need of madmen ? Shall this fool come into my house ? I will show him no kindness, but then you shall do him no hurt, for, if he be a madmen, he is to be pitied.” He therefore …
8229 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 261.16 (Matthew Henry)
… than I. Bad men will commonly go no further than this in their confessions; they will own they are not so good as some others are; there are those that are better …
8230 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 262.11 (Matthew Henry)
… it is not our own, but his that entrusted us with it. Riches are ta allotria ( Luke 16:12 ); they are another’s, and we ought not to talk too much of their being our own …
8231 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 263.7 (Matthew Henry)
… Lord shall smite him, as he did Nabal, with some sudden stroke, or he shall die in battle (as it proved he did soon after), or, if not, his day shall come to die a natural …
8232 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 269.5 (Matthew Henry)
… was this to the messenger, who thought he should have favour shown him for his pains. In vain did he plead that he had Saul’s order for it, that it was a real …
8233 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 270.5 (Matthew Henry)
… affection shown to the bodies, names, and families of those that are dead, in conscience towards God, is a piece of charity which shall in no wise lose its reward …
8234 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 271.5 (Matthew Henry)
… it was, it would have been Ish-bosheth’s prudence to be silent, considering how much it was his interest not to disoblige Abner. If the thing was false, and his …
8235 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 274.13 (Matthew Henry)
… at Gibeon ( 2 Chronicles 1:13 ), and, we may suppose, being made of cloth, in so many hundred years it had gone to decay and was not fit to be removed; but this was a tent …
8236 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 277.4 (Matthew Henry)
… there is a sacred law of friendship no less obliging, that to him that is in misery pity should be shown by his friend, Job 6:14. A brother is born for adversity …
8237 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 278.2 (Matthew Henry)
… there are those who mourn with them, are sensible of their loss and share with them in it. It is a comfort to those who are honouring the memory of their deceased …
8238 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 282.2 (Matthew Henry)
… he was himself obnoxious to public justice, and therefore whatever favour he could procure to be shown to Absalom would corroborate his reprieve.
8239 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 282.13 (Matthew Henry)
… spirit was still unhumbled, his pride unmortified, and, instead of being thankful that his life is spared, he thinks himself sorely wronged that he is not restored …
8240 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 287.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ) “ there will not tarry with thee one man. If I go, they will go. Thou hast now nothing to mourn for: but, if thou persist, I will give thee something to mourn for (as Josephus …