8But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
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And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; …
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? …
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)It is hard to say which is more astonishing, God’s permitting or men’s perpetrating such villanies as here we find committed. Such base, barbarous, bloody work is here done by men who by their birth should have been men of honour, by their religion just men, and this done upon those of their own nature, their own nation, their own religion, and now their brethren in affliction, when they were all…
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