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12761 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 6.2 (Matthew Henry)
… mutual comfort as well as for the preservation and increase of their kind. Adam and Eve were both made immediately by the hand of God, both made in God’s likeness …
12762 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 6.20 (Matthew Henry)
… . His comfortable hopes of some relief by the birth of this son: This same shall comfort us, which denotes not only the desire and expectation which parents …
12763 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 7.11 (Matthew Henry)
… convenient, comfortable, habitation for him; and it grieved him at his heart. These are expressions after the manner of men, and must be understood so as not …
12764 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 7.13 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort enough. God made more account of Noah than of all the world besides, and this made him greater and more truly honourable than all the giants that …
12765 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 7.22 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and benefit of. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself. Nor was he himself only saved in the ark, but his wife, and his sons, and his sons’ wives …
12766 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 8.3 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable to follow the calls of Providence, and to see God going before us in every step we take. (2.) God does not bid him go into the ark, but come into it …
12767 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 8.5 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort and benefit. We do not find that Noah was solicitous of himself about this matter; but God consults our happiness more than we do ourselves. Though …
12768 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 8.7 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort (though it should seem that, after this, he had no children by her), his sons, and his sons’ wives, that by them not only his family, but the world of mankind …
12769 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 8.14 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort and benefit to us becomes, when God pleases, a scourge and a plague to us. Nothing is more needful nor useful than water, both the springs of the earth …
12770 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 8.29 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforts himself with this, that he is in the way of duty and in the way of deliverance. And we are taught ( Jeremiah 45:4, 45:5 ) that when desolating judgments …
12771 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 9.2 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted. The demands of divine justice had been answered by the ruin of those sinners; he had eased him of his adversaries ( Isaiah 1:24 ), and now his spirit …
12772 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 9.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable settlement without their own contrivance and quite beyond their own foresight. The ark of the church, though sometimes tossed with tempests …
12773 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 9.10 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfortable prospect he had. For behold, behold and wonder, the face of the ground was dry. Note, (1.) It is a great mercy to see ground about us. Noah was more sensible …
12774 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 10.8 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably, in his service; not for necessity only, but for delight. (2.) That every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, 1 Timothy 4:4. Afterwards …
12775 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 10.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort, not to terrify. 8. As God looks upon the bow, that he may remember the covenant, so should we, that we also may be ever mindful of the covenant, with faith …
12776 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 13.16 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable when husband and wife agree to go together in the way to heaven. Lot also, his kinsman, was influenced by Abram’s good example, who was perhaps …
12777 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 13.18 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort at last.
12778 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 13.20 (Matthew Henry)
… little comfort he had in the land he came to; for, 1. He had it not to himself: The Canaanite was then in the land. He found the country peopled and possessed by Canaanites …
12779 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 13.21 (Matthew Henry)
… much comfort he had in the God he followed; when he could have little satisfaction in converse with the Canaanites whom he found there, he had abundance of …
12780 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 13.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable words: Unto thy seed will I give this land. Note, (1.) No place nor condition of life can shut us out from the comfort of God’s gracious visits. Abram …