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13381 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 418.4 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort that he does so and a good reason why they should be as though they were deaf, Psalms 38:13, 38:15. “Thou art our God to whom we appeal; our cause needs …
13382 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 419.19 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of their liberality, as he had. 2. He mentions it to God in prayer, not as if he thought he had hereby merited any favour from God, as a debt, but to show …
13383 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 421.6 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort depends upon our neighbours and friends; the more the stronger, the more the merrier. It is the wisdom of the governors of a nation to keep the balance …
13384 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 422.10 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted with the words of peace that were spoken to them. It was well that they were so much affected with the word of God, and received the impressions …
13385 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 422.12 (Matthew Henry)
… more comfort we shall find in it; for the darkness of trouble arises from the darkness of ignorance and mistake. When the words were first declared to them …
13386 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 424.9 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably, upon the altar. First-fruits and tenths were then the principal branches of the ministers’ revenues; and they here resolved, (1.) To bring in …
13387 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 426.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort, must be designed for God’s honour and glory. 3. They hereby put the city and its walls under the divine protection, owning that unless the Lord kept …
13388 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 426.5 (Matthew Henry)
… creature comforts and enjoyments, are sanctified, 1 Timothy 4:4, 4:5. This purification was performed, it is probable, by sprinkling the water of purifying (or …
13389 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 426.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort in their ministers, and were glad of them. When they observed how diligently they waited, and what pains they took in their work, they rejoiced in …
13390 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 427.14 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort and much satisfaction upon what he had done for the house of God and the offices thereof; it pleased him to think that he had been any way instrumental …
13391 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 428.9 (Matthew Henry)
… own comfort and credit more if he had stifled his resentment, had passed by the affront his wife gave him, and turned it off with a jest.
13392 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 429.5 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort. Dr. Lightfoot thinks that this Mordecai is the same with that mentioned in Ezra 2:2; who went up to Jerusalem with the first, and helped forward …
13393 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 431.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of their tables (for they fasted and mingled tears with their meat and drink), and the comfort of their beds at night, for they lay in sackcloth and …
13394 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 432.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comforted her with loving words. Here we are only told,
13395 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 432.11 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfort in his estate, preferment, and family, as long as Mordecai lived and had a place in the king’s gate, Esther 5:10-5:13. He took notice of his own riches and …
13396 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 433.18 (Matthew Henry)
… . Miserable comforters were they all; they did not advise him to repent, and ask Mordecai’s pardon for his bad design against him, but foretold his destiny as …
13397 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 434.15 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted .
13398 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 435.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ? Little comfort can I have of my own life if I cannot prevail for theirs: as good share in the evil myself as see it come upon them; for how can I endure to see the …
13399 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.7 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort in his children is taken notice of as an instance of his prosperity; for our temporal comforts are borrowed, depend upon others, and are as those …
13400 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , had comfort in them and good hope concerning them; and yet he said, “ It may be, my sons have sinned in the days of their feasting more than at other times, have been …