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1561 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 687.23 (Matthew Henry)
… to come to with sickles and pruning-hooks to gather in the fruits they shall now come to with arrows and bows, to hunt for wild beasts in the thickets, or to defend …
1562 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 717.2 (Matthew Henry)
… it to be so in answer to prayer: This is a day of trouble, therefore let it be a day of prayer. 3. When we are most at a plunge we should be most earnest in prayer: Now …
1563 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 717.3 (Matthew Henry)
… in our silently bearing reproaches. God answered Hezekiah, but it does not appear that he, after deliberation, sent any answer to Rabshakeh; but, God having …
1564 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 717.4 (Matthew Henry)
… answer to Hezekiah’s prayer in God’s name, sent it in writing (for it was too long to be sent by word of mouth), and sent it by way of return to his prayer, relation …
1565 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 718.2 (Matthew Henry)
… sent to bring us to our Bibles and to our knees. When Hezekiah was in health he went up to the house of the Lord to pray, for that was then the house of prayer. When …
1566 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 721.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the answering of all their prayers. 2. They are applied by the grace and Spirit of Christ to all believers, that they may have strong consolation in their way …
1567 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 723.5 (Matthew Henry)
… together to return in a body, in answer to that prayer ( Psalms 106:47 ), Gather us from among the heathen, and in performance of that promise ( Deuteronomy 30:4 ), If …
1568 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 731.10 (Matthew Henry)
… . The answer immediately given to this prayer ( Isaiah 51:12 ): I, even, I, am he that comforteth you. They prayed for the operations of his power; he answers them with …
1569 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 732.9 (Matthew Henry)
… prayer to him, till he again made Jerusalem a praise in the earth. These watchmen stand upon their watch-tower, waiting for an answer to their prayers ( Habakkuk …
1570 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 734.10 (Matthew Henry)
… their prayers and expectations are not answered, God hides his face from them, as if he regarded them not nor designed them any kindness. God owns that he had …
1571 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , nor answer the prayers they made on their fast-days; it was because they did not fast aright— to God, even to him, Zechariah 7:5. They fasted indeed, but they persisted …
1572 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 738.16 (Matthew Henry)
… you to say to me?” God is attentive to the prayers of the upright, Psalms 130:2. No sooner do they call to him than he answers, Ready, ready. Wherever they are praying …
1573 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 739.3 (Matthew Henry)
… in answer to prayer: His ear is not heavy, that it cannot hear. Though he has many prayers to hear and answer, and though he has been long hearing prayer, yet he is …
1574 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 739.22 (Matthew Henry)
… come to those that turn from the ungodliness in Jacob, to those that are in Jacob, to the praying seed of Jacob, in answer to their prayers; yet not to all that are …
1575 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 745.31 (Matthew Henry)
… prayer, I will give them the thing they pray for, or the assurances and earnests of it. These are high expressions of God’s readiness to hear prayer; and this …
1576 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.4 (Matthew Henry)
… our pleas for ourselves; and so not only accuse us, but answer against us. If we boast of our own excellencies, and trust to our own righteousness, our iniquities …
1577 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 760.15 (Matthew Henry)
… their prayers to him in the days of Ahab, could not relieve them; it was that God only who answered by fire that could answer by water too. (2.) They will not terminate …
1578 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 764.24 (Matthew Henry)
… use to teach us, [1.] That those who have forfeited the benefit of the prayers of God’s prophets for them may justly expect to have their prayers against them …
1579 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 775.11 (Matthew Henry)
… best to them. 3. This shall be in answer to their prayers and supplications to God, Jeremiah 29:12-29:15. (1.) God will stir them up to pray: Then shall you call upon me …
1580 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 782.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , Prayer to God for grace to turn us is necessary in order to our turning; and those that are convinced by the word of God of the necessity of returning to him will …