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1461 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 317.11 (Matthew Henry)
… I to do with thee ? How canst thou expect an answer of peace from me? Get thee to the prophets of thy father and mother, whom thou hast countenanced and maintained …
1462 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 317.13 (Matthew Henry)
… of prayer (it is likely looking towards the temple, for so there were to do in their prayers when they were going out to battle and encamped at a distance, 1 Kings …
1463 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.11 (Matthew Henry)
… for to the king, but a prophet’s reward, a signal mercy given by prophets and in answer to prayer: the promise was a surprise to her, and she begged that she might …
1464 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 318.15 (Matthew Henry)
… to go to the assembly in which he presided, with other good people, to hear the word, and to join with him in prayers and praises. She did not think it enough to have …
1465 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 334.11 (Matthew Henry)
… policy to get Hezekiah into his interest, in answer to whose prayers, and for whose protection, heaven had given that fatal blow to the king of Assyria. He found …
1466 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 356.12 (Matthew Henry)
… promised to me.” Promises are intended to direct and excite prayer. Has God said, I will bless ? Let our hearts answer, Lord, bless me, 2. He was earnest for the blessing …
1467 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 369.6 (Matthew Henry)
… us to a gracious emulation, and quicken our prayers to God for wisdom and grace, that we may do the work of God in our day as faithfully and well as they did in theirs …
1468 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 374.6 (Matthew Henry)
… of our sins is that which makes way for all the other answers to our prayers, Removendo prohibens—The evil which it drives away it keeps away. 3. That God would …
1469 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 388.4 (Matthew Henry)
… , in answer to Solomon’s prayer, 2 Chronicles 7:15. My ears shall be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. 5. Jehoshaphat himself was the mouth of the …
1470 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 401.5 (Matthew Henry)
… ourselves to them, and answer God’s end in them. 4. He prayed to him for the pardon of sin and the return of his favour. Prayer is the relief of penitents, the relief …
1471 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 432.5 (Matthew Henry)
… and answer the prayers of his own elect, that cry day and night to him ? Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace. She was not called …
1472 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 436.17 (Matthew Henry)
… own prayers, and the answers given to them ( Esther 9:31 ): The matters of their f eeb astings and their cry. The more cries we have offered up in our trouble, and the …
1473 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.14 (Matthew Henry)
… before we call and not because we call, and gives gracious answers to our prayers, but not for our prayers ( Job 9:16 ): “ If I had called, and he had answered, had …
1474 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.23 (Matthew Henry)
… by prayer send letters to God: Thou shalt make thy prayer ” (the word is, Thou shalt multiply thy prayers) “unto him, and he will not think thy letters troublesome …
1475 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.26 (Matthew Henry)
… blessing to his country and an instrument of good to many ( Job 22:30 ): God shall, in answer to thy prayers, deliver the island of the innocent, and have a regard therein …
1476 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 467.16 (Matthew Henry)
… an answer, but thou hearest not, thou regardest not, for any thing I can perceive.” If our most fervent prayers bring not in speedy and sensible returns, we must …
1477 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 472.10 (Matthew Henry)
… sparing to reflect upon God himself and his providence— but none gives answer. God does not work deliverance for them, and perhaps men do not much regard them …
1478 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 479.13 (Matthew Henry)
… all our prayers and services, to be accepted of the Lord; this must be the summit of our ambition, not to have praise of men, but to please God.
1479 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 482.10 (Matthew Henry)
… to answer his prayers: He heard me out of his holy hill, from heaven, the high and holy place, from the ark on Mount Sion, whence he used to give answers to those …
1480 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 483.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of our prayers, and all the returns he is pleased to make to them, must be ascribed, not to our merit, but purely to his mercy. “Hear me for thy mercy-sake” is our best …