geneva - Answer

geneva@Genesis:30:33 @ So shall my (note:)God shall attest to my righteous dealing by rewarding my labours.(:note) righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that [is] not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

geneva@Genesis:41:16 @ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, (note:)As though he would say if I interpret your dream it comes from God, and not from me.(:note) [It is] not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

geneva@Deuteronomy:20:11 @ And it shall be, if it make thee answer of (note:)If it accept peace.(:note) peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that is] found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:15 @ Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten (note:)Under this he contains all the corruptions of God's service, and the transgression of the first table.(:note) image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

geneva@Judges:5:29 @ Her wise ladies answered her, yea, (note:)That is, she comforted herself.(:note) she returned answer to herself,

geneva@Judges:17:5 @ And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an (note:)He would serve both God and idols.(:note) ephod, and By Teraphim some understand certain idols, having the likeness of a man, but others understand by it all manner of things and instruments belonging to those who sought an answer at God's hands, as in (Jdg_18:5-6). teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

geneva@1Samuel:2:1 @ And Hannah (note:)After she had obtained a son by prayer she gave thanks.(:note) prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine I have recovered strength and glory by the benefit of the Lord. horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is I can answer them that criticize my barrenness. enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

geneva@1Samuel:2:16 @ And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul (note:)Not passing for their own profit, so that God might be served rightly.(:note) desireth; then he would answer him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me] now: and if not, I will take [it] by force.

geneva@1Samuel:20:10 @ Then said David to Jonathan, Who (note:)If your father favours me.(:note) shall tell me? or what [if] thy father answer thee roughly?

geneva@2Samuel:24:13 @ So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall (note:)Three years of famine were past for the Gibeonites and this was the fourth year to which should have been added another three more years, (1Ch_21:12).(:note) seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

geneva@1Kings:12:7 @ And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a (note:)They showed him that there was no way to win the people's hearts but to grant them their just petition.(:note) servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

geneva@1Kings:12:9 @ And he said unto them, (note:)There is nothing harder for them that are in authority than to control their desires and follow good counsel.(:note) What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

geneva@2Kings:3:13 @ And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, (note:)He knew that this wicked king would have but used his counsel to serve his turn, and therefore, he disdained to answer him.(:note) What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, The wicked do not esteem the servants of God unless they are driven by every necessity and fear of the present danger. Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

geneva@2Kings:4:29 @ Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: (note:)Make such speed that nothing may stop you in the way, (Luk_10:4).(:note) if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:10 @ And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My (note:)Or, little finger, meaning that he was of far greater power than his father was.(:note) little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:33 @ And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all (note:)Because he had charge over all, and must answer for everyone that perished: he thought it his duty to see that all should make profession to receive the word of God.(:note) that were present in Israel to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

geneva@Ezra:4:17 @ [Then] sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and [to] Shimshai the scribe, and [to] the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and [unto] the rest beyond the river, (note:)Or Shalom, salvation or greeting.(:note) Peace, and Or, Cheeth, also called Cheeneth as in (Ezr_4:10). at such a time.

geneva@Ezra:5:5 @ But the (note:)His favour and the spirit of strength.(:note) eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this [matter].

geneva@Job:5:1 @ Call now, if there be any that will (note:)He wills Job to consider the example of all who have lived or live godly, whether any of them are like him in raging against God as he does.(:note) answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

geneva@Job:9:3 @ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a (note:)Of a thousand things, which God could lay to his charge, man cannot answer him one.(:note) thousand.

geneva@Job:9:14 @ How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out (note:)How should I be able to answer him by eloquence? By which he notes his friends, who although they were eloquent in talk, did not believe in their hearts, that which they spoke.(:note) my words [to reason] with him?

geneva@Job:14:15 @ Thou shalt call, and I will (note:)Though I am afflicted in this life, yet in the resurrection I will feel your mercies and answer when you call me.(:note) answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

geneva@Job:21:4 @ As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it (note:)As though he would say, I do not talk with man but with God, who will not answer me, and therefore my mind must be troubled.(:note) were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

geneva@Job:23:6 @ Will he (note:)Using his absolute power and saying because I am God, I may do what I will.(:note) plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would Of his mercy he would give me power to answer him. put [strength] in me.

geneva@Job:31:14 @ What then shall I do when (note:)If I had oppressed others, how would I have escaped God's judgment.(:note) God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

geneva@Job:31:35 @ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my (note:)This is a sufficient token of my righteousness, that God is my witness and will justify my cause.(:note) desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.

geneva@Job:32:14 @ Now (note:)That is, Job.(:note) he hath not directed [his] words against me: neither will I answer He uses almost the same arguments but without taunting and reproaches. him with your speeches.

geneva@Job:33:32 @ If thou hast any (note:)If you doubt anything, or see opportunity to speak against it.(:note) thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to That is, to show you, in which mans justification consists. justify thee.

geneva@Job:34:36 @ My desire [is that] Job may be (note:)That he may speak as much as he can, that we may answer him and all the wicked that will use such arguments.(:note) tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.

geneva@Job:35:4 @ I will answer thee, and thy (note:)Such as are in the same error.(:note) companions with thee.

geneva@Job:38:3 @ Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I (note:)Because he wished to dispute with God, (Job_23:3), God reasons with him, to declare his rashness.(:note) will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

geneva@Job:40:2 @ Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty (note:)Is this the way for a man that will learn, to strive with God? which he reproves in Job.(:note) instruct [him]? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

geneva@Job:40:4 @ Behold, I am (note:)By which he shows that he repented and desired pardon for his faults.(:note) vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

geneva@Psalms:65:5 @ [By] terrible things in righteousness wilt thou (note:)You will declare yourself to be the preserver of your Church in destroying your enemies, as you did in the Red Sea.(:note) answer us, O God of our salvation; [who art] the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off [upon] the As of all barbarous nations, and far off. sea:

geneva@Psalms:108:6 @ That thy beloved may be delivered: (note:)When God by his benefits makes us partakers of his mercies, he admonishes us to be earnest in prayer, to desire him to continue and finish his graces.(:note) save [with] thy right hand, and answer me.

geneva@Psalms:119:42 @ So shall I (note:)By trusting in God's word he assures himself to be able to confute the slanders of his adversaries.(:note) have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

geneva@Psalms:143:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: (note:)That is, as you have promised to be faithful in your promise to all who trust in you.(:note) in thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy That is, according to your free goodness, by which you defend your own. righteousness.

geneva@Proverbs:15:23 @ A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] (note:)If we will that our talk be comfortable, we must wait for time and season.(:note) in due season, how good [it is]!

geneva@Proverbs:16:1 @ The (note:)He derides the presumption of man, who dares to attribute anything to himself, as to prepare his heart or such like, seeing that he is not able to speak a word unless God gives it to him.(:note) preparations of the heart belong to man, and the answer of the tongue, [are] from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:26:4 @ Answer not a fool (note:)Consent not to him in his doings.(:note) according to his folly, lest thou also be like him.

geneva@Proverbs:26:5 @ Answer a fool (note:)Reprove him as the matter requires.(:note) according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

geneva@Isaiah:14:32 @ What shall [one] then answer the (note:)Who will come to enquire of the state of the Church.(:note) messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded They will answer that the Lord defends his Church and those that join themselves to it. Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

geneva@Isaiah:36:21 @ But they (note:)Not that they did not show by evident signs that they detested his blasphemy: or they had now rent their clothes, but they knew it was in vain to use long reasoning with this infidel, whose reign they would have so much more provoked.(:note)...king's commandment was, saying, Answer him...

geneva@Isaiah:37:10 @ Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, (note:)Thus God would have him utter a most horrible blasphemy before his destruction: as to call the author of all truth a deceiver: some gather by this that Shebna had disclosed to Sennacherib the answer that Isaiah sent to the king.(:note) deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

geneva@Isaiah:41:28 @ For (note:)When I looked whether the idols could do these things, I found that they had neither wisdom nor power to do anything: therefore he concludes that all are wicked that trust in such vanities.(:note) I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

geneva@Isaiah:44:18 @ They have not known nor understood: (note:)The prophet gives here an answer to all them who wonder how it is possible that any would be so blind as to commit such abomination, saying that God has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts.(:note) for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.

geneva@Isaiah:49:25 @ But thus saith the LORD, (note:)This is the answer to their objection, that no one is stronger than the Lord, neither has a more just title to them.(:note) Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why doeth the LORD our God all these [things] to us? then shalt (note:)Meaning, the prophet Jeremiah.(:note) thou answer them, As ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:27 @ Therefore thou shalt speak all these words to them; but they (note:)By which he shows that the pastors should not leave their flocks in their obstinacy, for the Lord will use the means of his servants to make the wicked more faulty and to prove his.(:note) will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call to them; but they will not answer thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus shall ye say to them, The gods (note:)This declares that all that has been spoken of idols in this chapter, was to arm the Jews when they would be in Chaldea among the idolaters, and now with one sentence he instructs them both how to protest their own religion against the idolaters and how to answer them to their shame who would exhort them to idolatry, and therefore he writes this sentence in the Chaldean tongue for a memorial while all the rest of his writing is in Hebrew.(:note) that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:4 @ Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the (note:)To inquire of things which the Lord has appointed to come to pass.(:note) prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude As his abomination has deserved: that is, he will be led with lies according as he delighted in it, (2Th_2:10). of his idols;

geneva@Ezekiel:20:3 @ Sonne of man, speake vnto the Elders of Israel, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Are ye come to enquire of me? As I liue, sayth the Lord God, when I am asked, I wil not answer you.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:8 @ When I say to the wicked, O wicked [man], thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I (note:)The watchman must answer for the blood of all that perish through his negligence.(:note) require at thy hand.

geneva@Daniel:3:16 @ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we (note:)For they would have done injury to God, if they would have doubted in this holy cause, and therefore they say that they are resolved to die for God's cause.(:note) [are] not careful to answer thee in this matter.

geneva@Micah:3:7 @ Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover (note:)When God will reveal them to the world, they will be afraid to speak: for all will know that they were but false prophets, and did give a false notion of the word of God.(:note) their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:1 @ I will stand upon my (note:)I will renounce my own judgment, and only depend on God to be instructed what I will answer those that abuse my preaching, and to be armed against all temptations.(:note) watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the (note:)The stones of the house will cry, and say that they are built from blood, and the wood will answer and say the same of itself.(:note) stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

geneva@Matthew:19:21 @ Jesus said unto him, If (note:)The young man did not answer truly in saying that he had kept all the commandments: and therefore Christ sets forth an example of true charity before him, to show the disease that lay lurking in his mind.(:note) thou wilt be perfect, go [and] sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come [and] follow me.

geneva@Matthew:21:24 @ And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you (note:)One thing, that is to say, I will ask you one thing first before I answer your questions.(:note) one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

geneva@Acts:25:16 @ To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to (note:)The Romans did not used to deliver any man to be punished before, etc.(:note) deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

geneva@Romans:11:4 @ But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have (note:)He speaks of remnants and reserved people who were chosen from everlasting, and not of remnants that should be chosen afterwards: for they are not chosen, because they were not idolaters: but rather they were not idolaters, because they were chosen and elect.(:note) reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] «Baal» signifies as much as «master» or «patron», or one in whose power another is, which name the idolaters in this day give their idols, naming them «patrons», and «patronesses» or «ladies». Baal.

geneva@1Peter:3:15 @ But (note:)Give him all prayers and glory, and hang only on him.(:note) sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: He will have us, when we are afflicted for righteousness sake, to be careful not for redeeming of our life, either with denying or renouncing the truth, or with like violence, or any such means: but rather to give an account of our faith boldly, and yet with a meek spirit, and full of godly reverence, that the enemies may not have anything justly to object, but may rather be ashamed of themselves. and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

geneva@Revelation:19:1 @ And (note:)This chapter has in summary two parts, one transitory or of passage to the things that follow, to the tenth verse, (Rev_19:2-10), another historical of the victory of Christ over both the beasts, to the end of the chapter (Rev_19:11-21), which I said was the second history of this argument, (Rev_17:1). The transition has two places, one of praising God for the overthrow done to Babylon in (Rev_19:4): and another likewise of praise and prophecy, for the coming of Christ to his kingdom, and his most royal marriage with his Church, thence to the tenth verse (Rev_19:5-10). The former praise has three parts, distinguished after the ancient manner of those that sing: an invitation in (Rev_19:1-2), a response or answer in (Rev_19:3), and a close or joining together in harmony in (Rev_19:4), all which I thought good of purpose to distinguish in this place, lest any man should with Porphyrius, or other like dogs, object to John, or the heavenly Church, a childish and idle repetition of speech.(:note) after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Praise the Lord.The proposition of praise with exhortation in this verse, and the cause of it in (Rev_19:2). Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

geneva@Sir:5:13 @ {\cf2 If thou hast vnderstanding, answer thy neighbour: if not, laie thine hande vpon thy mouth, least thou be trapped in an vndiscrete woorde, and so be blamed.}

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