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8222 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 394.11 (Matthew Henry)

… law runs expressly against all strangers that came nigh ( Numbers 3:10, 18:7 ), that is, all that were not priests. Korah and his accomplices, though Levites, paid …

8223 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 395.3 (Matthew Henry)

… had run well, but something hindered them. It was not so with Jotham. Two things are observed here in his character:—1. What was amiss in his father he amended in …

8224 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 399.4 (Matthew Henry)

… , to run in the old channel. Every man was made to know his work, his place, his time, and what was expected from him. Note, Good order contributes much to the carrying …

8226 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 402.5 (Matthew Henry)

… , from running into idolatry again. All his days were days of restraint upon them; but this intimated that there was in them a bent to backslide, a strong inclination …

8227 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 409.11 (Matthew Henry)

… to run up this building and that it went on rapidly, put these questions to them:—“By what authority do you do these things, and who gave you that authority? Who …

8228 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 411.5 (Matthew Henry)

… commission runs, we suppose, in the usual form: Artaxerxes, King of kings. This however is too high a title for any mortal man to assume; he was indeed king of some …

8229 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 413.18 (Matthew Henry)

… we run up a new score? Has God dealt so gently with us in correcting us, and shall we thus abuse his favour and turn his grace into wantonness?” God, in his grace and …

8230 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 418.6 (Matthew Henry)

… had run up the wall to half its height, for the people had a mind to work; their hearts were upon it, and they would have it forwarded. Note, 1. Good work goes on well …

8231 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 425.2 (Matthew Henry)

… of running themselves into trouble, keeps many out of the holy city, and makes them backward to appear for God and religion, not considering that, as Jerusalem …

8233 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 431.6 (Matthew Henry)

… must run the hazard of being put to death as a malefactor, she might well say, I pray thee have me excused, and find out some other intercessor.

8234 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 431.9 (Matthew Henry)

… might run, she must apply to the king in this great affair, Esther 4:13, 4:14. No excuse will serve, but she must appear an advocate in this cause; he suggested to her …

8235 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 432.11 (Matthew Henry)

… and run Mordecai through for affronting him thus; but he hoped shortly to see him fall with all the Jews, and therefore with much ado prevailed with himself …

8236 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 433.19 (Matthew Henry)

… be run down by Esther’s complaint against him. The wisdom of God is seen in timing the means of his church’s deliverance so as to manifest his own glory.

8237 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 434.13 (Matthew Henry)

… to run him down: so little sure can proud men be of the interest they think they have. 1. As soon as the king spoke an angry word they covered Haman’s face, as a condemned …

8238 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 436.3 (Matthew Henry)

… they run; and a strong party they had formed both in Shushan and in the provinces in order hereunto. Fight they would, though they plainly saw Providence fight …

8239 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 439.12 (Matthew Henry)

… his running sores, either because the disease was loathsome and noisome or because they apprehended it to be infectious. Thus it was in the former days, as …

8240 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.19 (Matthew Henry)

… eyes run to and fro through the earth, 2 Chronicles 16:9. See this phrase, Job 39:11. Some give this sense of it: “So mutable is even the angelical nature that God would …