#matthew_henry

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...[T]hose that advise men to sin certainly advise them to their hurt; and that government which is founded in sin is founded in the sand.

Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Samuel 16:15–23

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Those are commonly most ambitious of preferment that are least fit for it; the best qualified are the most modest....

Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Samuel 15:1-6

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All the wealth and pleasure in the world will not make one meal’s meat for a soul.

Matthew Henry’s commentary Isaiah 55:1–5

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Nothing is more proper, nor more powerful, to engage us to every duty, especially to all acts of mercy and kindness, than to remember the Lord our God.

Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Samuel 14:1-20

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If we do not our utmost to prevent mischief, we make ourselves accessory to it.

Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Samuel 13:30-39

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"Those servants are ill taught who obey their masters in contradiction to God, and those are wicked masters who have taught them to do so."

Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Samuel 13:21–29

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The case of those is very miserable whose friends, instead of admonishing and reproving them, flatter them and forward them in their sinful ways....

Mathew Henry, Commentary on 2 Samuel 13:1-20

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"Let him that readeth understand what the best of men are when God leaves them to themselves."

Matthew Henry's Comment on David's adultery (2 Samuel 11)