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13301 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the mother, that its death was but a sleep, and that he expected that it would shortly be awaked. In the raising of dead souls to spiritual life …
13302 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.22 (Matthew Henry)
… little comforted, Acts 20:12. See the power of God, who kills and makes alive again. See the power of prayer; as it has the key of the clouds, so it has the key of death …
13303 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.24 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts of life we must keep up an expectation of death and a fear of sin. 4. Elisha immediately cured the bad taste and prevented the bad consequences …
13304 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 319.23 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort or the continuance of it. What was Gehazi profited, though he gained his two talents, when thereby he lost his health, his honour, his peace, his service …
13305 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 321.4 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort. Note, Unbelief is a sin by which men greatly dishonour and displease God, and deprive themselves of the favours he designed for them. The murmuring …
13306 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 321.6 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable or very dreadful, according as men are at peace with God or at war with him. 2. Hearing this noise, they concluded the king of Israel had certainly …
13307 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 321.7 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfortable advantage is that which our brethren share with us in. According to this resolution, they returned to the gate, and acquainted the sentinel …
13308 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 322.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable settlement in the land of the Philistines, who, though subdued by David, yet were not wholly rooted out. It seems the famine was peculiar to the …
13309 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 323.19 (Matthew Henry)
… , what comfort, can they expect in life, in death, or after death, who go on still in their trespasses? No peace so long as sin is persisted in; but, as soon as it is repented …
13310 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 326.2 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort. 3. That the high places were not taken away, 2 Kings 12:3. Up and down the country they had altars both for sacrifice and incense, to the honour of the …
13311 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 326.5 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and benefit of religious assemblies will make the reproach of them their burden ( Zephaniah 3:18 ), the support of them their care, and the prosperity …
13312 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 327.9 (Matthew Henry)
… living comforts they have from it in a dying hour. (2.) Though Elisha was very old, had been a great while useful, and, in the course of nature, could not continue long …
13313 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 328.14 (Matthew Henry)
… take comfort from the divine pity; we read of God’s bowels of mercy ( Isaiah 63:15, 31:20 ) and that he is full of compassion, Psalms 86:15. (2.) Because the decree had not …
13314 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 329.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to him and a blessing to his kingdom that he had such a son to fill up his room.
13315 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 332.1 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforted himself with this, that Judah yet “ruled with God, and was faithful with the Most Holy,” Hosea 11:12. It was a very melancholy view which the last chapter …
13316 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 333.1 (Matthew Henry)
… very comfortable message, assuring him of deliverance, 2 Kings 19:20-19:34. V. The army of the Assyrians was all cut off by an angel and Sennacherib himself slain …
13317 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 333.18 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort to all the church’s friends that God has a hook in the nose and a bridle in the jaws of all her enemies, can make even their wrath to serve and praise …
13318 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 334.3 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts in this world. Hezekiah, in the midst of his triumphs in the favour of God, and over the forces of his enemies, is seized with sickness, and under the …
13319 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 334.7 (Matthew Henry)
… .) The comfort he now had in reflecting upon it; it made his sick-bed easy. Note, The testimony of conscience for us that we have walked with God in our integrity …
13320 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 334.13 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforter, is now his reprover. The blessed Spirit is both, John 16:7, 16:8. Ministers must be both, as there is occasion. Isaiah spoke in God’s name, and therefore …