geneva - afflictions

geneva@Genesis:1:1 @ In the (note:)First of all, and before any creature was, God made heaven and earth out of nothing.(:note) beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The Argument - Moses in effect declares three things, which are in this book chiefly to be considered: First, that the world and all things in it were created by God, and to praise his Name for the infinite graces, with which he had endued him, fell willingly from God through disobedience, who yet for his own mercies sake restored him to life, and confirmed him in the same by his promise of Christ to come, by whom he should overcome Satan, death and hell. Secondly, that the wicked, unmindful of God's most excellent benefits, remained still in their wickedness, and so falling most horribly from sin to sin, provoked God (who by his preachers called them continually to repentance)...but in all their afflictions and...

geneva@Ruth:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the (note:)In the land of Canaan.(:note) land. And a certain man of In the tribe of Judah, which was also called Bethlehem Ephrathat, because there was another city so called in the tribe of Zebulun. Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. The Argument -...being subject to many afflictions and...

geneva@2Samuel:15:26 @ But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, (note:)...faithful in all their afflictions show...(:note) [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

geneva@Job:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of (note:)That is, of the country of Idumea, (Lam_4:21), or bordering on it: for the land was called by the name of Uz, the son of Dishan, the son of Seir (Gen_36:28).(:note) Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and Since he was a Gentile and not a Jew and yet is pronounced upright and without hypocrisy, it declares that among the heathen God revealed himself. upright, and By this it is declared what is meant by an upright and just man. one that feared God, and eschewed evil. The Argument -...his great torments and afflictions he...(Eze_14:14) and James sets out his patience for an example, (Jam_5:11).

geneva@Job:3:13 @ For now should I have (note:)The vehemency of his afflictions made him utter these words as though death was the end of all miseries, and as if there were no life after this, which he speaks not as though it were so, but the infirmities of his flesh caused him to break out in this error of the wicked.(:note) lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

geneva@Job:4:3 @ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou (note:)...comforted others in their afflictions but...(:note) hast strengthened the weak hands.

geneva@Job:5:2 @ For (note:)Murmuring against God in afflictions increases the pain, and uttered man's folly.(:note) wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

geneva@Job:17:4 @ For thou hast hid their heart from (note:)That these my afflictions are your just judgments, though man does not know the reason.(:note) understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

geneva@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up to the (note:)He compares his afflictions to a tempest or whirlwind.(:note) wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.

geneva@Psalms:13:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? (note:)He declares that his afflictions lasted a long time, and that his faith did not waver.(:note) for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

geneva@Psalms:25:19 @ Consider mine (note:)The greater that his afflictions were and the more that his enemies increased, the more near he felt God's help.(:note) enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

geneva@Psalms:44:17 @ All this is come upon us; yet have we not (note:)...now, but by hard afflictions called...(:note) forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

geneva@Psalms:46:3 @ [Though] the waters thereof (note:)Though the afflictions rage, yet the rivers of God's mercies bring sufficient comfort to his.(:note) roar [and] be troubled, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:57:1 @ «(note:)This was either the beginning of a certain song, or the words which David uttered when he stayed his affection.(:note) To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.» Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] He compares the afflictions which God lays on his children, to a storm that comes and goes. calamities be overpast.

geneva@Psalms:102:10 @ Because of thine (note:)...that not only the afflictions moved...(:note) indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

geneva@Psalms:143:2 @ And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy (note:)He know that his afflictions were God's messengers to call him to repentance for his sins, though toward his enemies he was innocent, and in God's sight all men are sinners.(:note) sight shall no man living be justified.

geneva@Isaiah:26:9 @ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn (note:)Meaning that by afflictions men will learn to fear God.(:note) righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:26:20 @ Come, my people, (note:)...be patient in their afflictions and...(:note) enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation shall be past.

geneva@Isaiah:54:4 @ Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy (note:)The afflictions which you suffered at the beginning.(:note) youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy When you were refused for your sins, (Isa_50:1). widowhood any more.

geneva@Isaiah:63:9 @ In all their affliction he was (note:)He bore their afflictions and griefs as though they had been his own.(:note) afflicted, and the angel Which was a witness of God's presence, and this may be referred to Christ, to whom belongs the office of salvation. of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:3 @ And death shall be chosen (note:)Because of the afflictions that they will feel through God's judgments.(:note) rather than life by all the remnant of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:13 @ And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all (note:)...be great, and your afflictions cause...(2Ch_36:22; Ezr_1:1; Jer_25:12; Dan_9:2).(:note) your heart.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:26 @ Make ye him (note:)...the Chaldeans to lay afflictions enough...(:note) drunk: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:7 @ Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the (note:)By whom the Lord poured out the drink of his vengeance, to whom it pleased him.(:note) LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are For the great afflictions that they have felt by the Babylonians. mad.

geneva@Lamentations:1:13 @ From above hath (note:)...author of all our afflictions to...(:note) he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.

geneva@Lamentations:3:1 @ I [am] the man [that] hath seen (note:)...of the punishments and afflictions that...(Jer_20:1-2).(:note) affliction by the rod of his wrath.

geneva@Lamentations:3:27 @ [It is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his (note:)...cross, that when the afflictions grow...(:note) youth.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:4 @ And I looked, and, behold, a (note:)...God and the great afflictions that...(:note) whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness [was] about it, and from the midst of it as the colour of amber, from the midst of the fire.

geneva@Ezekiel:2:6 @ And thou, son of man, (note:)Read (Jer_1:17)...shows that for no afflictions they...(:note) be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns [are] with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they [are] a rebellious house.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:33 @ Thou shalt be filled with (note:)Meaning that it's afflictions would be so great that they would cause them to lose their senses and reason.(:note) drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of horror and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

geneva@Daniel:1:1 @ In the (note:)Read (2Ki_24:1; Jer_25:1).(:note) third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. The Argument -...their greatest miseries and afflictions gives...

geneva@Daniel:7:2 @ Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon (note:)...be horrible troubles and afflictions in...(:note) the great sea.

geneva@Daniel:7:18 @ But the saints of the (note:)That is, of the most high things, because God has chosen them out of this world, that they should look up to the heavens, upon which all their hope depends.(:note) most High shall take the Because Abraham was appointed heir of all the world, (Rom_4:13)...in troubles, that their afflictions would... kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

geneva@Joel:2:31 @ The (note:)...because of the horrible afflictions that...(Isa_13:10; Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29).(:note) sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:18 @ Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy (note:)...see ever so great afflictions... prepared.(:note) in the God of my salvation.

geneva@Zechariah:6:2 @ In the first chariot [were] (note:)Which signifies the great cruelty and persecution that the Church had endured under different enemies.(:note) red horses; and in the second chariot ...they had endured great afflictions under... black horses;

geneva@Zechariah:9:8 @ And I will encamp about (note:)He shows that God's power alone will be sufficient to defend his Church against all adversaries, be they ever so cruel, or assert their power ever so often.(:note) my house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now ...the great injuries and afflictions with... have I seen with my eyes.

geneva@Luke:18:1 @ And (note:)God will have us to continue in prayer, not to weary us, but to exercise us; therefore we must fight against impatience so that a long delay does not cause us to quit our praying.(:note) he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to Yield to afflictions and adversities as those do who have lost heart. faint;

geneva@Luke:21:13 @ And it shall turn to you for (note:)...noble saying, that the afflictions of...(:note) a testimony.

geneva@Acts:20:23 @...saying, that bondes and afflictions abide...

geneva@Romans:5:8 @ But God (note:)...the midst of our afflictions we...(:note) commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet While sin reigned in us. sinners, Christ died for us.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:2 @ How that in a (note:)For those manifold afflictions with which the Lord tried them did not stop their joyful readiness, but also made it much more excellent and well-known.(:note) great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

geneva@Colossians:1:24 @ Who now rejoice in my sufferings for (note:)For our profit and benefit.(:note) you, and fill up ...said to be Christ's afflictions, by......is behind of the afflictions of...

geneva@1Peter:5:9 @ Whom resist stedfast in the faith, (note:)The persecutions which Satan stirs up, are neither new nor proper to any one man, but from old and ancient times common to the whole Church, and therefore we must suffer patiently, in which we have such and so many fellows of our conflicts and combats.(:note)...knowing that the same afflictions are...Amongst your brethren which are dispersed throughout the world. brethren that are in the world.

geneva@Revelation:11:3 @ And (note:)I would rather translate it «illud» than «illam» the temple than the city: for God says, I will give that temple, and commit it to my two witnesses, that is, to the ministers of the word, who are few indeed, weak and contemptible: but yet two, that is, of such a number as one of them may help another, and one confirm the testimony of another to all men, that from the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be made good among men; (2Co_13:1).(:note) I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall ...in the midst of afflictions though... prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

geneva@1Macc:2:30 @ {\cf2 Went downe into the wildernesse to dwell there, both they, and their children, &...their cattell: for the afflictions increased...}

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