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9641 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 433.12 (Matthew Henry)
… before Joseph, Bow the knee; for every good subject will honour those whom the king delights to honour. And shall not every good Christian then honour those …
9642 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 449.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of Joseph. Wealth without grace often makes men thus haughty, thus careless of their poor neighbours. (2.) What is the common fate of those that fall into adversity …
9643 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 460.14 (Matthew Henry)
… as Joseph laid up corn before the famine. Eliphaz had told him to lay up God’s words in his heart, Job 22:22. “I do,” says he, “and always did, that I might not sin against …
9644 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 463.8 (Matthew Henry)
… Mr. Joseph Mede understands it, and with it illustrates Proverbs 21:16; where hell is called the congregation of the dead; and it is the same word which is here …
9645 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.5 (Matthew Henry)
… ; as Joseph did ( Genesis 39:9 ), How can I do it, and sin against God ? Two things Job had an eye to:—[1.] God’s omniscience. It is a great truth that God’s eyes are upon all the …
9646 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 470.8 (Matthew Henry)
… :24 ), Joseph ( Matthew 1:20 ); thus he made known to Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar things that should come to pass hereafter. 2. When he stirred up conscience, that ordinary …
9647 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 473.9 (Matthew Henry)
… as Joseph was, or holden in the cords of any other affliction, confined by pain and sickness, hampered by poverty, bound in their counsels, and, notwithstanding …
9648 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 493.10 (Matthew Henry)
… ; as Joseph’s brethren cast him into a pit and then sat down to eat bread, Genesis 37:24, 37:25. See Micah 3:2, 3:3. (3.) They call not upon the Lord. Note, Those that care not …
9649 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 501.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , Noah, Joseph, David, Jonah, and others, were in due time delivered and were types of his exaltation too; therefore he knew that he also should not be confounded …
9650 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 502.5 (Matthew Henry)
… guides Joseph like a flock; and every believer is under the same guidance: He leadeth me beside the still waters. Those that feed on God’s goodness must follow …
9651 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 514.14 (Matthew Henry)
… ; like Joseph’s brethren, that could not speak peaceably to him, Genesis 37:4. 3. They were very proud and scornful ( Psalms 35:21 ): They opened their mouth wide against …
9652 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 530.10 (Matthew Henry)
… topic Joseph fetched the great argument against sin ( Genesis 39:9 ), and David here the great aggravation of it: Against thee only. Some make this to intimate …
9653 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 556.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of Joseph also, who had a most firm and lively belief of the performance of it; for, when he was dying, he made mention of the departing of the children of Israel …
9654 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 557.26 (Matthew Henry)
… of Joseph; he never sent it back to Shiloh, in the tribe of Ephraim, Psalms 78:67. The ruins of that place were standing monuments of divine justice. God, see what …
9655 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 559.3 (Matthew Henry)
… leads Joseph like a flock, to the best pastures, and out of the way of danger; if Joseph follow him not as obsequiously as the sheep do the shepherd, it is his own …
9656 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 560.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ; for Joseph spoke to his brethren by an interpreter ( Genesis 42:23 ), and the Egyptians are said to be to the house of Jacob a people of a strange language, Psalms …
9657 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 584.1 (Matthew Henry)
… up Joseph to be the shepherd and stone of Israel, Psalms 105:16-105:22. IV. The increase of Israel in Egypt and their deliverance out of Egypt, Psalms 105:23-105 …
9658 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 584.11 (Matthew Henry)
… entrusting Joseph, of whose story we have here an abstract. He was to be the shepherd and stone of Israel and to save that holy seed alive, Genesis 49:24, 50:20. In …
9659 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 586.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , as Joseph. Thus sore a calamity is imprisonment, which should make us prize liberty, and be thankful for it. 2. The cause of this affliction, Psalms 107:11. It is …
9660 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 592.10 (Matthew Henry)
… . When Joseph’s virtue was tried and manifested he was raised from the prison-dust and set with princes. Those that are wise will observe such returns of Providence …