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13221 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 273.16 (Matthew Henry)

… is comfortable going out when God goes before us. And, (2.) Perhaps it was an alarm to the enemy, and put them into confusion. Hearing the march of an army against …

13223 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 275.12 (Matthew Henry)

… very comfortable) to his spiritual seed. True believers have their infirmities, for which they may expect to be corrected, but they shall not be cast off. Every …

13224 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 275.18 (Matthew Henry)

… and comforts of the saints are invaluable gifts; and yet, as if these were too little for God to bestow upon his children, he has spoken concerning them for a …

13225 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 276.7 (Matthew Henry)

… most comfortably. 3. The reputation he got, in a particular manner, by his victory over the Syrians and their allies the Edomites, who acted in conjunction with …

13226 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 277.9 (Matthew Henry)

… be comfortably fed, but have company and attendance suitable to his birth and quality. Though Mephibosheth was lame and unsightly, and does not appear to …

13227 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 278.2 (Matthew Henry)

… to comfort him. Note, It is a comfort to children, when their parents are dead, to find that their parents’ friends are theirs, and that they intend to keep up an …

13228 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 278.3 (Matthew Henry)

… being comforters, were sent as spies, 2 Samuel 10:3. False men are ready to think others as false as themselves; and those that bear ill-will to their neighbours …

13229 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 278.9 (Matthew Henry)

… , and comfort, and pray for, those that are tempted. When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren, Luke 22:32. The members of the natural body help one another …

13230 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 280.2 (Matthew Henry)

… his comforts and the exercises of his graces suspended, and his communion with God interrupted; during all that time, it is certain, he penned no psalms, his …

13231 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 280.3 (Matthew Henry)

… or comfort. Nathan was obedient to the heavenly vision, and went on God’s errand to David. He did not say, “David has sinned, I will not come near him.” No; count him …

13232 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 280.20 (Matthew Henry)

… may comfort us when our children are removed from us by death, they are better provided for, both in work and wealth, than they could have been in this world. We …

13233 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 280.21 (Matthew Henry)

… , he comforted her with the same comforts with which he himself was comforted of God ( 2 Samuel 12:24 ): He comforted Bath-sheba. And both he and she had reason to be …

13234 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 281.5 (Matthew Henry)

… and comfort are not always to be found in royal palaces. With much more reason may we ask dejected and disconsolate saints why they, who are the children of …

13235 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 281.9 (Matthew Henry)

… her comfort, and honour, and all that was dear to her, must be sacrificed to his brutish and outrageous lust, 2 Samuel 13:14. It is to be feared that Amnon, though …

13236 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 281.23 (Matthew Henry)

… was comforted concerning Amnon. It also wore off too much his detestation of Absalom’s sin; instead of loathing him as a murderer, he longs to go forth to him …

13237 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 282.5 (Matthew Henry)

… to comfort the mourners, especially the mourning widows, having himself mentioned it among the titles of God’s honour that he is a Judge of the widows, Psalms …

13238 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 282.6 (Matthew Henry)

… and comfort of her widowed state,—that these two (as young men are apt to do) fell out and fought, and one of them unhappily killed the other ( 2 Samuel 14:6 ),—that, for …

13239 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 282.9 (Matthew Henry)

… be comfortable, and such as angels bring (as bishop Patrick explains it), who are messengers of divine mercy. What this woman says by way of compliment the prophet …

13240 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 283.17 (Matthew Henry)

… a comfort to him in this day of grief. Masters of families, in their greatest frights, must not neglect their households. Ten women, that were concubines, he left …