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8581 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 889.4 (Matthew Henry)
… out-run them, Amos 9:2. Those of them that flee, and take to their heels, shall soon be out of breath, and shall not flee away out of the reach of danger; for, as sometimes …
8582 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 891.3 (Matthew Henry)
When Jonah was set on ship-board, and under sail for Tarshish, he thought himself safe enough; but here we find him pursued and overtaken, discovered and convicted as a deserter from God, as one that had run his colours .
8583 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 891.12 (Matthew Henry)
… here running away from his duty, and the storm was sent to fetch him back. We have reason to think that he told them this with sorrow and shame, justifying God …
8584 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 891.13 (Matthew Henry)
… once running from his work in particular instance; this made them afraid for themselves. “If a prophet of the Lord be thus severely punished for one offence …
8585 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 891.19 (Matthew Henry)
… they run upon that run away from God. Woe unto them! for they have fled from me. When sin is the Jonah that raises the storm, that must thus be cast forth into the …
8586 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 891.22 (Matthew Henry)
… was running from him and had offended him. It was of the Lord’s mercies that Jonah was not now consumed. The fish swallowed up Jonah, not to devour him, but to protect …
8587 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 892.8 (Matthew Henry)
… that run constantly upon them, as the waters of a river in a continual succession, one trouble upon the neck of another, as Job’s messengers of evil tidings …
8588 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 892.11 (Matthew Henry)
… that run away from the work of their place and day run away from the comfort of it.
8589 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 893.2 (Matthew Henry)
We have here a further evidence of the reconciliation between God and Jonah, and that it was a thorough reconciliation, though the controversy between them had run high.
8590 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 894.10 (Matthew Henry)
… that run into an extreme one way commonly run into an extreme the other way. Jonah, who was in transports of joy when the gourd flourished, is in pangs of grief …
8591 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 902.4 (Matthew Henry)
… over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof. The army of the Chaldeans shall overrun the country of the Assyrians, and lay it all waste …
8592 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 903.4 (Matthew Henry)
… shall run like the lightnings, so swiftly, so furiously. Nebuchadnezzar’s commanders are here called his worthies, his gallants (so the margin reads it), his …
8593 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 905.2 (Matthew Henry)
… it, run it down; nay, one wicked man (for it is singular) with so many various arts of mischief sets upon a righteous man, that he perfectly besets him. 2. That the kingdom …
8594 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.4 (Matthew Henry)
… who runs may read it, that those who will not allow themselves leisure to read it deliberately may not avoid a cursory view of it. Probably, the prophets were …
8595 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.19 (Matthew Henry)
… and run down with as much violence as ever any wild beasts in Lebanon were, shall be spoiled as they are, and thy fall made a sport of; for thou art as one of the beasts …
8596 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and run down, and, being kept low so long, should be lost at length. 2. He earnestly prays that for the elect’s sake these days of trouble might be shortened, or the …
8597 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.8 (Matthew Henry)
… to run in, which issued out of the rock, to supply the camp of Israel, and which followed them in all their removes. Note, The God of nature can alter and control …
8598 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.17 (Matthew Henry)
… may run the way of his commands and outrun my troubles.” (3.) We shall be successful in our spiritual enterprises: “ He will make me to walk upon my high places; that …
8599 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 911.6 (Matthew Henry)
… man runs to his own house, to finish that, and to make that convenient and fine, and no care is taken about the Lord’s house; and therefore it is that God crosses …
8600 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 912.16 (Matthew Henry)
… had run in and dried away in the keeping, or vermin had eaten it, or it was stolen. In like manner he went to the wine-press, expecting to draw fifty vessels of wine …