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15001 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 899.11 (Matthew Henry)

… their comforts, then the Assyrian comes into their land and treads in their palaces. Without are fightings, within are fears. [2.] The protection and defence …

15002 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 900.1 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of gospel-grace. Christ’s forerunner was a reprover, and preached repentance, and so prepared his way. Here, I. God enters an action against his people …

15003 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 900.11 (Matthew Henry)

… walk comfortably with him. This is that which God requires, and without which the most costly services are vain oblations; this is more than all burnt-offerings …

15004 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 900.18 (Matthew Henry)

… any comfortable enjoyment of; it shall do them no good. They grasped at more than enough, but, when they have it, it shall not be enough to make them easy and happy …

15005 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.1 (Matthew Henry)

… that comfortable word the prophecy concludes.

15006 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.2 (Matthew Henry)

… no comfort, no satisfaction, in their own families and their nearest relations, Micah 7:6. The times are bad indeed when the son dishonours his father, gives …

15007 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.3 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of himself and his friends, in reference thereunto. The case is bad, but it is not desperate. Yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing …

15008 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.4 (Matthew Henry)

… a comfort to him that he has a God to look to, a God to come to, to fly to, in whom he may rejoice and have satisfaction. All may look bright above him when all looks …

15009 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.7 (Matthew Henry)

… . How comfortably the people of God by faith bear up themselves under these insults ( Micah 7:8 ): “ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy ! I am now down, but shall not be always …

15010 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.9 (Matthew Henry)

… staff comfort them, even in that darksome valley; and even there let them want nothing that is good for them. Let them be governed by thy rod, not the rod of their …

15011 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.13 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of that mercy and all the grace and truth that go along with it. God’s people here, as they look back with thankfulness upon God’s pardoning their …

15012 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 902.3 (Matthew Henry)

… and comfort to good people; for this glorious description of the Sovereign of the world, like the pillar of cloud and fire, has a bright side towards Israel …

15013 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 902.4 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of his worshippers, jealous for his land ( Joel 2:18 ), and will not have that injured. He is a revenger, and he is furious; he has fury (so the word is), not as …

15014 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 902.8 (Matthew Henry)

… and comfort of his own people ( Nahum 1:7 ): The Lord is good to those that are good, and to them he will be a stronghold in the day of trouble. Note, The same almighty …

15015 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 903.6 (Matthew Henry)

… ) of comfort in them, that take sinful courses to enrich them, and (as has been said of some) damn their souls to make their sons gentlemen. (3.) The wealth they have …

15016 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 904.5 (Matthew Henry)

… any comforting considerations; or, if it would, none shall do any such good office: When shall I seek comforters for thee ? Note, Those that showed no pity in the …

15017 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 904.7 (Matthew Henry)

… miserable comforters will those prove who speak peace to those on whom God will fasten trouble), and she shall not be able to help herself: Art thou better than …

15018 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 905.7 (Matthew Henry)

… of comfort to the afflicted people of God; it is to be hoped that they will change their minds, and grow better, and ripen for deliverance; and they did so. However …

15019 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 905.8 (Matthew Henry)

… the comfort of our communion with him. The world is bad, and always was so, and will be so; it is out of our power to mend it; but we are sure that God governs the world …

15020 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 905.9 (Matthew Henry)

… to comfort himself and his friends, under the growing threatening power of the Chaldeans; and they will furnish us with pleasing considerations for our …