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12861 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 33.14 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable retinue of children and servants:” though it was his distress that had now obliged him to divide his family into two bands, yet he makes use …
12862 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 33.22 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts in this world have their alloys. 3. The angel, by an admirable condescension, mildly requests Jacob to let him go ( Genesis 32:26 ), as God said to Moses …
12863 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 34.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , Creature-comforts are comforts indeed to us when they are granted as answers to prayer, and are tokens of our acceptance with God. Again, It is matter of great …
12864 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 34.13 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort, at last, to the same journey’s end, though we do not journey together, either in the same path or with the same pace. There may be those with whom we …
12865 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 35.1 (Matthew Henry)
… shall comfort us.” 2. The common griefs of good people. Jacob’s children were circumcised, were well taught, and prayed for, and had very good examples set them …
12866 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 36.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , The comfort which the saints have in holy ordinances is not so much from Bethel, the house of God, as from El-beth-el, the God of the house. The ordinances are but …
12867 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 36.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him under his affliction, Genesis 35:8. Note, God will appear to those in a way of grace that attend on him in a way of duty. Here, 1. He confirmed the change …
12868 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 36.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , to comfort ourselves and our friends with the hopes of a temporal deliverance, in which we may be disappointed; we had better found our comforts on that which …
12869 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 38.2 (Matthew Henry)
… speaks comfortably wicked men will not speak peaceably. It is said here of Joseph, the lad was with the sons of Bilhah; some read it, and he was servant to them …
12870 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 38.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts with which he furnishes them. His dreams were, 1. That his brethren’s sheaves all bowed to his, intimating upon what occasion they should be brought …
12871 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 38.10 (Matthew Henry)
… comfort him. His sons basely pretended to do it ( Genesis 37:35 ); but miserable hypocritical comforters were they all. Had they really desired to comfort him …
12872 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 40.1 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable by the tokens of God’s special presence with him, Genesis 39:21-39:23. And herein Joseph was a type of Christ, “who took upon him the form of a servant …
12873 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 40.4 (Matthew Henry)
… this comforted him. (3.) It is God’s presence with us that makes all we do prosperous. Those that would prosper must therefore make God their friend; and those …
12874 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 40.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him, or to minister to him, or to mediate for him; but the Lord was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, Genesis 39:21. Note, (1.) God despises not his prisoners …
12875 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 41.5 (Matthew Henry)
… for comfort sufficient to balance it, whatever it is? Why art thou cast down, O my soul ?”
12876 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 41.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of God’s saints are for a great while to come, and relate to things that are very far off, while the foresights of others, like this recorded there …
12877 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 42.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of this life are subject to. After great plenty may come great scarcity; how strong soever we may think our mountain stands, if God speak the word …
12878 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 42.8 (Matthew Henry)
… after-comforts as that we may even forget them when they are past. But could he be so unnatural as to forget all his father’s house ? He means the unkindness he …
12879 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 43.8 (Matthew Henry)
… special comfort and honour; he first humbles them, and terrifies them, and brings them under a spirit of bondage, and then binds up their wounds by the Spirit …
12880 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 43.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , with comfort, that he had been an advocate for his brother, and had done what he could to prevent the mischief they did him ( Genesis 42:22 ): Spoke I not unto you, saying …