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13321 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 336.14 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable prospect of happiness on the other side death, else being gathered to their fathers would not have been so often made the matter of a promise …
13322 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 339.6 (Matthew Henry)
… common comfort of human life which is given even to those that are in misery, and to the bitter in soul, the light of the sun, by which he was also disabled for any …
13323 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 339.10 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable earnest to them of their own release in due time, in the set time. Unto the upright there thus ariseth light in the darkness, to encourage them …
13324 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 343.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to her who brought him into the world with so much sorrow. It is piety in children thus to requite their parents, 1 Timothy 5:4 .
13325 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 345.7 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfortable maintenance for those that ministered in holy things. Besides their tithes and offerings, they had glebe-lands and cities of their own to dwell …
13326 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 346.8 (Matthew Henry)
… shall comfort us. It was a brotherly friendly office which his brethren did, when they came to comfort him under this great affliction, to express their sympathy …
13327 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 352.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and benefit of that sacred oracle. “Let us bring it to us, not only that we may be a credit to it, but that it may be a blessing to us.” Those that honour God …
13328 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 355.4 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts are received. 2. That the people shall have the joy of it. They shall fare the better for this day’s solemnity; for he gives them all what is worth …
13329 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 357.4 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfortably our own which we have consecrated unto the Lord, and which we use for his glory. Let our merchandise and our hire be holiness to the Lord, Isaiah …
13330 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 366.5 (Matthew Henry)
… take comfort in that, which is obtained by sin.
13331 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 368.6 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort would certainly look up with praise. David was now old and looked upon himself as near his end; and it well becomes aged saints, and dying saints …
13332 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 368.10 (Matthew Henry)
… David’s comfort that God knew with what pleasure he both offered his own and saw the people’s offering. He was neither proud of his own good work nor envious …
13333 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 368.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it. 5. They made Solomon king the second time. He having been before anointed in haste, upon occasion of Adonijah’s rebellion, it was thought fit …
13334 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 369.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the promises of that covenant which their parents, in their baptism, laid claim to, and took hold of, for them. Thirdly, The best way to obtain the …
13335 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 369.7 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfort in them. Those that make this world their end come short of the other and are disappointed in this too; but those that make the other world their …
13336 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 373.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of we must, by the sacrifice of praise, give God the glory of, and not be straitened therein; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. If God favour …
13337 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 374.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts in all his troubles. We may plead, as Solomon does here, with an eye to Christ:—“We deserve that God should turn away our face, that he should reject …
13338 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 377.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it; whereas, by envying the prosperity of others, we lose the comfort even of our own. The happiness of both king and kingdom she traces up to the …
13339 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 378.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and praise of all in authority, in the church, in the state, and in families. 4. Moderate counsels are generally wisest and best. Gentleness will do …
13340 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 379.6 (Matthew Henry)
… were comfortable provided for and had opportunity of doing much good. But now they were driven out of all their cities except those in Judah and Benjamin …