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13201 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 262.27 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfortable it would be to him in the reflection to have forgiven this affront than to have revenged it, 1 Samuel 25:30, 25:31. She reserves this argument …
13202 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 262.30 (Matthew Henry)
… , direction, comfort, caution, or seasonable reproof, we must see God sending them. 2. We ought to be very thankful for those happy providences which are means …
13203 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 262.38 (Matthew Henry)
… without comfort, nor can we expect better while we go on in our sins. Here is no lamentation made for Nabal. He departed without being lamented. Every one wished …
13204 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 263.8 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort when we are careless, and secure, and off our watch.
13205 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 263.12 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfortable to us to think of God’s title to our estates and his interest in them then of our own, and that with them we may honour him then that with them …
13206 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.7 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfort either from heaven or earth ( Isaiah 8:21, 8:22 ), he resolves to knock at the gates of hell, and to see if any there will befriend him and give him advice …
13207 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.10 (Matthew Henry)
… had comfort. Saul, being told of gods ascending, was eager to know what was the form of this deity, and in what shape he appeared, so far was he from conceiving any …
13208 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.14 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfortable answer from him: “ Wherefore dost thou ask me ? How can I be thy friend when God is thy enemy, or thy counsellor when he has left thee?” 2. He upbraids …
13209 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.15 (Matthew Henry)
… or comfort otherwise than from God, and in the way of his institutions, will be as wretchedly disappointed as Saul here was. Observe,
13210 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.16 (Matthew Henry)
… miserable comforters. When God in his word speaks terror to sinners he opens to them, at the same time, a door of hope if they repent: but those that apply to the …
13211 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 265.17 (Matthew Henry)
… a comforter! 1. She showed herself very importunate with him to take some refreshment. She pleaded ( 1 Samuel 28:21 ) that she had obeyed his voice to the endangering …
13212 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 267.2 (Matthew Henry)
… may comfortably hope that God will take care of our families in our absence, but not otherwise. 3. How wonderfully God inclined the hearts of these Amalekites …
13213 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 267.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, What time I am afraid I will trust in thee. When he was at his wits’ end he was not at his faith’s end.
13214 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 267.15 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to them but as it is made so by the blessing of God: it intimates that his prayers for them accompanied his present. He also sent it out of the spoil of …
13215 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 270.2 (Matthew Henry)
… is comfortable to see God going before us; and we may, if by faith and prayer we set him before us. 2. God, according to the promise, directed his path, bade him go up …
13216 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 271.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort, by one wife. 3. We read not that any of these sons came to be famous (three of them were infamous, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah); we have therefore reason …
13217 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 271.14 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to be able to say, when any bad thing is done, that we had no hand in it. We have not shed this blood, Deuteronomy 21:7. However we may be censured or suspected …
13218 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 271.17 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts. Were it not for the hold God has of the consciences of bad men, how soon would the weak and innocent become an easy prey to the strong and merciless …
13219 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 271.18 (Matthew Henry)
… relation comfortable.
13220 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 273.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it: but to be exalted to that and established in it, and to perceive it, is happiness enough. 4. He owned that it was for his people Israel’s sake that …