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13281 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 309.5 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts; we lose them when we most need them, like the brooks in summer, Job 6:15. But there is a river which makes glad the city of God and which never …
13282 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 309.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , the comfort of her widowed estate. He was fed miraculously, and yet that did not secure him from sickness and death. Your fathers did eat manna, and are dead, but …
13283 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 309.14 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts from use he remembers our sins against us, perhaps the iniquities of our youth, though long since past, Job 13:26. Our sins are the death of our children …
13284 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 310.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of life; and, when the prophets were persecuted and driven into corners, no doubt their friends, those few good people that were in the land, were …
13285 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.10 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort to good men and good ministers to think that God will never want instruments to do his work in his time, but, when they are gone, others shall be …
13286 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.11 (Matthew Henry)
… . The comfortable information God gives him of the number of Israelites who retained their integrity, though he thought he was left alone ( 1 Kings 19:18 ): I have …
13287 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 311.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of his father’s house, but exposed himself to the malignity of Jezebel and her party. It was a discouraging time for prophets to set out in. A man …
13288 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.2 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably, by us, contrary to the law of contentment, and the letter of the tenth commandment, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house. 2. The repulse …
13289 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of comforting her afflicted husband, she feeds his pride and passion, and blows the coals of his corruptions. It became her to take notice of his grief and to …
13290 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 313.9 (Matthew Henry)
… no comforter, while on the side of the oppressors there is power, Ecclesiastes 4:1. (3.) To commit the keeping of our lives and comforts to God, for innocency itself …
13291 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 315.6 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort shall be made to hear it, whether they will or not, to their amazement.
13292 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.6 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort when it comes to be dissolved. Elisha knew it too well, and sorrow had filled his heart upon this account (as the disciples in a like case, John 16 …
13293 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.7 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortable way; the death of Christ has divided those waters, that the ransomed of the Lord may pass over. O death! where is thy sting, thy hurt, thy terror …
13294 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.11 (Matthew Henry)
… . The comforts of departing saints, and their experiences, will mightily help both to gild our comforts and to steel our resolutions. Or, perhaps, this was intended …
13295 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.22 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable to those who enquire after God that they know where to find him; it is even he that is in his holy temple ( Psalms 11:4 ) and nigh to all who call upon …
13296 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 316.27 (Matthew Henry)
… have comfort in their children, train them up well, and do their utmost betimes to drive out the foolishness that is bound up in their hearts; for, as bishop Hall …
13297 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 317.11 (Matthew Henry)
… be comfortable and glorious. (1.) They should speedily be supplied with water, 2 Kings 3:16, 3:17. To try their faith and obedience, he bids them make the valley full …
13298 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , nor comfortably, our own, but what is so when all our debts are paid. If she had not had this pot of oil, the divine power could have supplied her; but, having this …
13299 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.11 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably among their own people covet to live delicately in kings’ palaces? It would be well with many if they did but know when they were well off. Some …
13300 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.15 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comfort is taken from us, it is well if we can say, through grace, that we did not set our hearts inordinately upon it; for, if we did, we have reason to fear …