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geneva@Genesis:1:8 @ And God called the firmament (note:)That is, the region of the air, and all that is above us.(:note) Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

geneva@Genesis:2:2 @ And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he (note:)For he had now finished his creation, but his providence still watches over his creatures and governs them.(:note) rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

geneva@Genesis:2:3 @ And God blessed the seventh day, and (note:)Appointed it to be kept holy, that man might in it consider the excellency of his works and God's goodness toward him.(:note) sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

geneva@Genesis:4:9 @ And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: (note:)This is the nature of the reprobate when they are rebuke for their hypocrisy, even to neglect God and outrage him.(:note) [Am] I my brother's keeper?

geneva@Genesis:4:15 @ And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, (note:)Not for the love he had for Cain, but to suppress murder.(:note) vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a Which was some visible sign of God's judgment, that others should fear by it. mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

geneva@Genesis:4:23 @ And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: (note:)His wives seeing that all men hated him for his cruelty, were afraid, therefore he brags that there is none strong enough to resist, even though he was already wounded.(:note) for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

geneva@Genesis:4:24 @ If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech (note:)He mocked at God's tolerance in Cain jesting as though God would allow no one to punish him and yet give him permission to murder others.(:note) seventy and sevenfold.

geneva@Genesis:7:2 @ Of every (note:)Which might be offered in sacrifice, of which six were for breeding and the seventh for sacrifice.(:note) clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.

geneva@Genesis:7:11 @ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the (note:)Both the waters in the earth overflowed and also the clouds poured down.(:note) fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

geneva@Genesis:8:4 @ And the ark rested in the (note:)Part of September and part of October.(:note) seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

geneva@Genesis:8:11 @ And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an (note:)Which was a sign that the waters were much diminished: for the olives do not grow on the high mountains.(:note) olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:3 @ Every (note:)By this permission man may with a good conscience use the creatures of God for his needs.(:note) moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

geneva@Genesis:9:17 @ And God said unto Noah, (note:)God repeats this often to confirm Noah's faith even more.(:note) This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:10:9 @ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even (note:)His tyranny came into a proverb as hated both by God and man: for he did not cease to commit cruelty even in God's presence.(:note) as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:10:21 @ Unto (note:)In his stock the Church was preserved: therefore Moses stops speaking of Japheth and Ham, and speaks of Shem extensively.(:note) Shem also, the father of all the children of Of whom came the Hebrews or Jews. Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.

geneva@Genesis:13:3 @ And he went on his journeys from the south even to (note:)He calls the place by the name which was later given to it, (Gen_23:19).(:note) Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

geneva@Genesis:13:10 @ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the (note:)Which was in Eden, (Gen_2:10).(:note) garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

geneva@Genesis:18:26 @ And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom (note:)God declares that his judgments were done with great mercy, even though all were so corrupt that not only fifty but ten righteous men could not be found there, and also that the wicked are spared for the sake of the righteous.(:note) fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

geneva@Genesis:18:32 @ And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this (note:)If God did not refuse the prayer for the wicked Sodomites, even to the sixth request, how much more will he grant the prayers of the godly for the afflicted Church?(:note) once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.

geneva@Genesis:19:1 @ And there came two (note:)In which we see God's provident care in preserving his: even though he does not reveal himself to all alike: for Lot had but two angels, and Abraham three.(:note) angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

geneva@Genesis:19:4 @ But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, (note:)Nothing is more dangerous than to live where sin reigns: for it corrupts all.(:note) all the people from every quarter:

geneva@Genesis:20:5 @ Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she, even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of my (note:)As one falling by ignorance, and not doing evil on purpose.(:note) heart and Not thinking to do any man harm. innocency of my hands have I done this.

geneva@Genesis:22:5 @ And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and (note:)He did not doubt that God would accomplish his promise, even if he should sacrifice his son.(:note) come again to you.

geneva@Genesis:23:10 @ And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, [even] of all that (note:)Meaning all the citizens and inhabitants.(:note) went in at the gate of his city, saying,

geneva@Genesis:24:63 @ And Isaac went out to (note:)This was the habit of the godly fathers to meditate on God's promises, and to pray for the accomplishment of it. The custom was that the bride was brought to her husband, her head covered, a token of humbleness and purity.(:note) meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels [were] coming.

geneva@Genesis:25:17 @ And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his (note:)Who dwelt among the Arabians, and were separate from the blessed seed.(:note) people.

geneva@Genesis:26:5 @ Because that Abraham (note:)He commends Abraham's obedience, because Isaac should be even more ready to follow the same: for as God made this promise of his free mercy, so does the confirmation of it proceed from the same fountain.(:note) obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

geneva@Genesis:27:19 @ And Jacob said unto his father, (note:)Although Jacob was assured of this blessing by faith: yet he did evil to seek it by lies, even more because he abuses God's name through it.(:note) I [am] Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

geneva@Genesis:29:4 @ And Jacob said unto them, My (note:)It seems that in those days the custom was to call even strangers, brethren.(:note) brethren, whence [be] ye? And they said, Of Haran [are] we.

geneva@Genesis:29:20 @ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him [but] a (note:)Meaning after the years were accomplished.(:note) few days, for the love he had to her.

geneva@Genesis:29:23 @ And (note:)The reason Jacob was deceived was that in ancient times the wife was covered with a veil, when she was brought to her husband as a sign of purity and humbleness.(:note) it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

geneva@Genesis:33:3 @ And he passed over before them, and (note:)By this gesture he partly revered his brother and partly prayed to God to appease Esau's wrath.(:note) bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

geneva@Genesis:34:4 @ And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, (note:)This proves that the consent of parents is required in marriage, seeing that even the infidels observed it as a necessary thing.(:note) Get me this damsel to wife.

geneva@Genesis:34:15 @ But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we [be], that every male of you be (note:)Their fault is even greater since they made religion a disguise for their deceit.(:note) circumcised;

geneva@Genesis:37:2 @ These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad [was] with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil (note:)He complained of the evil words and injuries which they spoke and did to him.(:note) report.

geneva@Genesis:37:18 @ And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they (note:)The Holy Spirit does not cover the faults of men, as vain writers do, who make virtues out of vices.(:note) conspired against him to slay him.

geneva@Genesis:38:24 @ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be (note:)We see that the Law, which was written in man's heart, taught them that adultery should be punished with death, even though no law had been given yet.(:note) burnt.

geneva@Genesis:41:5 @ And he slept and dreamed the (note:)All these means God used to deliver his servant, and to bring him into favour and authority.(:note) second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

geneva@Genesis:42:28 @ And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they were (note:)Because their conscience accused them of their sin, they thought God had brought them trouble through the money.(:note) afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?

geneva@Genesis:44:18 @ Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou [art] even (note:)Equal in authority or, next to the king.(:note) as Pharaoh.

geneva@Genesis:46:34 @ That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, [and] also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an (note:)God permits the world to hate his own, so they will forsake the filth of the world, and cling to him.(:note) abomination unto the Egyptians.

geneva@Genesis:47:2 @ And he took some of his brethren, [even] (note:)That the king might be assured that they had come, and to see what type of people they were.(:note) five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

geneva@Genesis:47:21 @ And as for the people, he (note:)By this changing they signified that they had nothing of their own, but received everything from the king's generosity.(:note) removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.

geneva@Genesis:50:6 @ And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according (note:)Even the infidels would have oaths carried out.(:note) as he made thee swear.

geneva@Genesis:50:19 @ And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of (note:)Who by the good success seems to remit it, and therefore it should not be revenged by me.(:note) God?

geneva@Genesis:50:22 @ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an (note:)Who, even though he ruled in Egypt about eighty years, yet was joined with the church of God in faith and religion.(:note) hundred and ten years.

geneva@Exodus:1:1 @ Now (note:)Moses describes the wonderful order that God observes in performing his promise to Abraham; (Gen_15:14).(:note) these [are] the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. The Argument - After Jacob by God's commandment in (Gen_46:3) had brought his family into Egypt, where they remained for four hundred years, and from seventy people grew to an infinite number so that the king and the country endeavoured both by tyranny and cruel slavery to suppress them: the Lord according to his promise in (Gen_15:14) had compassion on his Church, and delivered them, but plagued their enemies in most strange and varied ways. The more the tyranny of the wicked raged against his Church, the more his heavy judgments increased against them, till Pharaoh and his army were drowned in the sea, which gave an entry and passage to the children of God. As the ingratitude of man is great, so they immediately forgot God's wonderful benefits and although he had given them the Passover as a sign and memorial of the same, yet they fell to distrust, and tempted God with various complaining and grudging against him and his ministers: sometimes out of ambition, sometimes lack of drink or meat to satisfy their lusts, sometimes idolatry, or such like. For this reason, God punished them with severe rods and plagues, that by his correction they might turn to him for help against his scourges, and earnestly repent for their rebellion and wickedness. Because God loves them to the end, whom he has once begun to love, he punished them not as they deserved, but dealt with them mercifully, and with new benefits laboured to overcome their malice: for he still governed them and gave them his word and Law, both concerning the way to serve him, and also the form of judgments and civil policy: with the intent that they would not serve God after as they pleased, but according to the order, that his heavenly wisdom had appointed.

geneva@Exodus:3:1 @ Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the (note:)It was so called after the law was given.(:note) mountain of God, [even] to Called also Sinai. Horeb.

geneva@Exodus:4:16 @ And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, [even] he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of (note:)Meaning, as a wise counsellor and full of God's spirit.(:note) God.

geneva@Exodus:4:22 @ And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my (note:)Meaning, most dear to him.(:note) firstborn:

geneva@Exodus:4:25 @ Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and (note:)This act was extraordinary: for Moses was very sick and God even then required it.(:note) cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me.

geneva@Exodus:6:16 @ And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi [were] an hundred (note:)For he was 42 years old when he came into Egypt and lived there 94 years.(:note) thirty and seven years.

geneva@Exodus:6:20 @ And Amram took him Jochebed his (note:)This type of marriage was later forbidden in the law; (Lev_18:12).(:note) father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and thirty and seven years.

geneva@Exodus:7:22 @ And the magicians of Egypt did (note:)In outward appearance, after the seven days were ended.(:note) so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.

geneva@Exodus:9:19 @ Send therefore now, [and] (note:)Here we see though God's wrath is kindled yet there is a certain mercy shown even to his enemies.(:note) gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; [for upon] every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

geneva@Exodus:9:30 @ But as for thee and thy servants, (note:)Meaning that when they have their request, they are never better off, even though they make many fair promises, in which we see the practices of the wicked.(:note) I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.

geneva@Exodus:10:16 @ Then Pharaoh called for (note:)The wicked in their misery seek God's ministers for help, even though they hate and detest them.(:note) Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

geneva@Exodus:10:21 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be (note:)Because it was so thick.(:note) felt.

geneva@Exodus:11:5 @ And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that [is] behind (note:)From the highest to the lowest.(:note) the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

geneva@Exodus:11:9 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; (note:)God hardens the hearts of the reprobate, that his glory by this might be set forth even more, (Rom_9:17).(:note) that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:12:6 @ And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the (note:)Every one his house.(:note) whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

geneva@Exodus:12:18 @ In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at (note:)For in ancient times they counted in this way, beginning the day at sunset till the next day at the same time.(:note) even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

geneva@Exodus:12:38 @ And (note:)Which were strangers, and not born from the Israelites.(:note) a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, [even] very much cattle.

geneva@Exodus:12:41 @ And it came to pass at the end of the (note:)From Abraham's departing from Ur in Chaldea to the departing of the children of Israel from Egypt are 430 years.(:note) four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:13:6 @ Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the (note:)Both the seventh and the first day were holy, as in (Exo_12:16).(:note) seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:16:8 @ And Moses said, [This shall be], when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the (note:)He that condemns God's ministers, condemns God himself.(:note) LORD.

geneva@Exodus:16:27 @ And it came to pass, [that] there (note:)Their unfaithfulness was so great, that they did exactly the opposite of God's commandment.(:note) went out [some] of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

geneva@Exodus:18:24 @ So Moses (note:)Godly counsel should always be obeyed, even if it comes from our inferiors, for to such God often gives wisdom to humble those that are exalted, and to declare that one member has need of another.(:note) hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

geneva@Exodus:19:18 @ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount (note:)God used these fearful signs, that his law would be held in greater reverence, and his majesty even more feared.(:note) quaked greatly.

geneva@Exodus:20:5 @ Thou shalt not (note:)By this outward gesture, all forms of service and worship to idols is forbidden.(:note) bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a And will have revenge on those who condemn my honour. jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;

geneva@Exodus:21:2 @ If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for (note:)Paying no money for his freedom.(:note) nothing.

geneva@Exodus:21:4 @ If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her (note:)Till her time of servitude was expired which might be the seventh year or the fiftieth.(:note) master's, and he shall go out by himself.

geneva@Exodus:21:22 @ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no (note:)Or, «death»: of the mother or child in the event she miscarries. Also the death on the unborn infant.(:note) mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine].

geneva@Exodus:21:27 @ And if he smite (note:)So God revenges cruelty in the even the least things.(:note) out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

geneva@Exodus:23:15 @ Thou shalt keep the feast of (note:)That is, Easter, in remembrance that the angel passed over and spared the Israelites, when he slew the first born of the Egyptians.(:note) unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

geneva@Exodus:23:31 @ And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea (note:)Called the Sea of Syria.(:note) of the Philistines, and from the Of Arabia called desert. desert unto the That is, Ephraim. river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

geneva@Exodus:24:1 @ And he (note:)When he called him up to the mountain to give him the laws, beginning at the 20th chapter till now.(:note) said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

geneva@Exodus:26:7 @ And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats' [hair] to be a (note:)Lest rain and weather should mar it.(:note) covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

geneva@Exodus:28:8 @ And the (note:)Which went about his upmost coat.(:note) curious girdle of the ephod, which [is] upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; [even of] gold, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

geneva@Exodus:29:27 @ And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the (note:)So called because it was not only shaken to and fro, but also lifted up.(:note) heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, [even] of [that] which [is] for Aaron, and of [that] which is for his sons:

geneva@Exodus:29:28 @ And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it [is] an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their (note:)Which were offerings of thanksgiving to God for his benefits.(:note) peace offerings, [even] their heave offering unto the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:30:21 @ So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute (note:)So long as the priesthood shall last.(:note) for ever to them, [even] to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

geneva@Exodus:30:23 @ Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred (note:)Weighing so much.(:note) [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet It is a type of reed with a very sweet savour within, and it is used in powders and odours. calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],

geneva@Exodus:30:33 @ Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon (note:)Either a stranger or an Israelite, save only the priests.(:note) a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

geneva@Exodus:31:17 @ It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he (note:)From creating his creatures, but not from governing and preserving them.(:note) rested, and was refreshed.

geneva@Exodus:32:29 @ For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his (note:)In revenging God's glory we must have no partiality to person, but lay aside all carnal affection.(:note) son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

geneva@Exodus:32:32 @ Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, (note:)He esteemed the glory of God so much, that he preferred it even to his own salvation.(:note) out of thy book which thou hast written.

geneva@Exodus:35:2 @ Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy (note:)In which you shall rest from all bodily work.(:note) day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

geneva@Exodus:35:35 @ Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner (note:)Belonging to graving or carving, or such like.(:note) of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, [even] of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

geneva@Exodus:38:21 @ This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, [for] the service of the (note:)That the Levites might be in charge of it, and minister in the same, as did Eleazar and Ithamar, (Num_3:4).(:note) Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

geneva@Exodus:38:29 @ And the brass of the offering [was] seventy (note:)Read the weight of a talent, (Exo_25:39).(:note) talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

geneva@Exodus:39:37 @ The pure candlestick, [with] the lamps thereof, [even with] the lamps to be (note:)Or, which Aaron dressed and refreshed with oil every morning (Exo_30:7).(:note) set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,

geneva@Exodus:39:43 @ And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses (note:)Praised God for the peoples diligence and prayed for them.(:note) blessed them.

geneva@Leviticus:1:1 @ And the (note:)By this Moses declares that he taught nothing to the people but that which he received from God.(:note) LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, The Argument - As God daily by most singular benefits declared himself mindful of his Church: he did not want them to have opportunity to trust either in themselves, or to depend on others, either for lack of physical things, or anything that belonged to his divine service and religion. Therefore he ordained various kinds of duties and sacrifices, to assure them of forgiveness for their offences (if they offered them in true faith and obedience.) Also he appointed the priests and levites, their apparel, offices, conversation and portion; he showed what feasts they should observe, and when. Moreover, he declares by these sacrifices and ceremonies that the reward of sin is death, and that without the blood of Christ the innocent Lamb, there can be no forgiveness of sins. Because they should not give priority to their own inventions (which God detested, as appears by the terrible example of Nadab and Abihu) he prescribed even to the least things, what they should do, what beasts they should offer and eat, what diseases were contagious and to be avoided, how they should purge all types of filthiness and pollution, whose company they should flee, what marriages were lawful, and what customs were profitable. After declaring these things, he promised favour and blessing to those who keep his laws, and threatened his curse to those who transgressed them.

geneva@Leviticus:1:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the (note:)So they could offer of no other sort, but of those who were commanded.(:note) cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock.

geneva@Leviticus:4:6 @ And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the (note:)Which was between the holiest of holies and the sanctuary.(:note) sanctuary.

geneva@Leviticus:7:7 @ As the sin offering [is], so [is] the trespass offering: [there is] one (note:)The same ceremonies, even though this word trespass signifies less then sin.(:note) law for them: the priest that maketh atonement Meaning, the rest which is left and not burnt. therewith shall have [it].

geneva@Leviticus:8:9 @ And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, [even] upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the (note:)So called, because this superscription, «holiness to the Lord» was graven in it.(:note) holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:9:1 @ And it came to pass on the (note:)After their consecration: for the seven days before, the priests were consecrated.(:note) eighth day, [that] Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

geneva@Leviticus:11:22 @ [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the (note:)These were certain types of grasshoppers, which are not now properly known.(:note) bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

geneva@Leviticus:11:25 @ And whosoever (note:)Out of the camp.(:note) beareth [ought] of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

geneva@Leviticus:11:32 @ And upon whatsoever [any] of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it be] any vessel of wood, or raiment, or (note:)As a bottle or bag.(:note) skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel [it be], wherein [any] work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

geneva@Leviticus:12:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean (note:)So that her husband for that time could not have relations with her.(:note) seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.

geneva@Leviticus:12:4 @ And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three (note:)Besides the first seven days.(:note) and thirty days; she shall touch no As sacrifice, or such like. hallowed thing, nor come into the That is, into the court gate till after forty days. sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

geneva@Leviticus:13:6 @ And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, [if] the plague [be] somewhat (note:)As having the skin drawn together, or blackish.(:note) dark, [and] the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it [is but] a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

geneva@Leviticus:13:8 @ And [if] the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him (note:)Concerning his bodily disease: for his disease was not imputed to him for sin before God even though it were the punishment of sin.(:note) unclean: it [is] a leprosy.

geneva@Leviticus:13:30 @ Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it [be] in sight deeper than the skin; [and there be] in it a yellow thin (note:)Which was not wont to be there, or else smaller than in any other part of the body.(:note) hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a dry scall, [even] a leprosy upon the head or beard.

geneva@Leviticus:14:7 @ And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall (note:)Signifying that he that was made clean was set free, and restored to the company of others.(:note) let the living bird loose into the open field.

geneva@Leviticus:15:8 @ And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then (note:)Of whom the unclean man did spit.(:note) he shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.

geneva@Leviticus:15:13 @ And when he that hath an issue is (note:)That is, be restored to his old state, and be healed of it.(:note) cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

geneva@Leviticus:15:16 @ And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his (note:)Meaning, all his body.(:note) flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

geneva@Leviticus:15:24 @ And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers (note:)If any of her uncleanness touched him in the bed: for else the man that companied with such a woman should die, (Lev_20:18).(:note) be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.

geneva@Leviticus:15:28 @ But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall (note:)After the time that she is recovered.(:note) number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

geneva@Leviticus:16:14 @ And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle [it] with his finger upon the mercy seat (note:)That is, on the side which was toward the people: for the head of the sanctuary stood westward.(:note) eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

geneva@Leviticus:16:29 @ And [this] shall be a statute for ever unto you: [that] in the (note:)Which was Tisri, part September and part October.(:note) seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall Meaning, by abstinence and fasting, (Num_29:7). afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

geneva@Leviticus:16:32 @ And the priest, (note:)Whom the priest shall anoint by God's commandment to succeed in his father's place.(:note) whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, [even] the holy garments:

geneva@Leviticus:17:5 @ To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the (note:)In that they were moved with foolish devotion to offer it.(:note) open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them [for] peace offerings unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:17:10 @ And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set (note:)I will declare my wrath by taking vengeance on him as in (Lev_20:3).(:note) my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

geneva@Leviticus:17:13 @ And whatsoever man [there be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be (note:)Which the law permits to be eaten, because it is clean.(:note) eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

geneva@Leviticus:18:9 @ The nakedness of thy (note:)Either by father or mother, born in marriage or otherwise.(:note) sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be] born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

geneva@Leviticus:18:10 @ The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thine own (note:)They are her children whose shame you have uncovered.(:note) nakedness.

geneva@Leviticus:18:21 @ And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to (note:)Which was an idol of the Ammonites, to whom they burned and sacrificed their children, (2Ki_23:10). This seemed to be the chief and principal of all idols: and as the Jews write, was of a great stature, and hollow within, having seven places or chambers within him: one was to receive meal that was offered: another turtle doves: the third, a sheep: the fourth, a ram: the fifth a calf: the sixth an ox: the seventh a child. This idols face was like a calf: his hands were ever stretched out to receive gifts: his priests were called Chemarims, (2Ki_23:5; Hos_10:5; Zep_1:4).(:note) Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:18:29 @ For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall (note:)Either by the civil sword or by some plague that God will send upon such.(:note) be cut off from among their people.

geneva@Leviticus:20:6 @ And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a (note:)To esteem sorcerers or conjurers is spiritual whoredom, or idolatry.(:note) whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

geneva@Leviticus:23:4 @ These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their (note:)For the sabbath was kept every week, and these others were kept only once every year.(:note) seasons.

geneva@Leviticus:23:8 @ But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the (note:)The first day of the feast and the seventh were kept holy: in the rest they might work, except any feasts that were together, as were the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of sheaves which were on the fifteenth and sixteenth days.(:note) seventh day [is] an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work [therein].

geneva@Leviticus:23:15 @ And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the (note:)That is, the seventh day after the first sabbath of the Passover.(:note) sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

geneva@Leviticus:23:24 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the (note:)That is, about the end of September.(:note) seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall ye Or, a holy day to the Lord. have a sabbath, a memorial of Which blowing was to remind them of the many feasts that were in that month, and of the Jubile. blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

geneva@Leviticus:23:27 @ Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month [there shall be] a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall (note:)By fasting and prayer.(:note) afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:23:32 @ It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth [day] of the month at even, from (note:)Which contains a night and a day: yet they took it as their natural day.(:note) even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

geneva@Leviticus:23:36 @ Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a (note:)Or, a day in which the people refrain from all work.(:note) solemn assembly; [and] ye shall do no servile work [therein].

geneva@Leviticus:23:39 @ Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day [shall be] a (note:)Or, a solemn feast.(:note) sabbath, and on the eighth day [shall be] a sabbath.

geneva@Leviticus:24:3 @ Without the vail (note:)Which separated the holiest of holies, where the ark of the testimony from the sanctuary was.(:note) of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: [it shall be] a statute for ever in your generations.

geneva@Leviticus:24:7 @ And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that (note:)For it was burnt every sabbath, when the bread was taken away.(:note) it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:26:18 @ And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you (note:)That is, more extremely.(:note) seven times more for your sins.

geneva@Leviticus:26:21 @ And if ye walk (note:)Or as some read, by fortune, imputing my plagues to chance and fortune.(:note) contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

geneva@Leviticus:27:3 @ And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty (note:)Read the value of the shekel in (Exo_30:13).(:note) shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

geneva@Leviticus:27:6 @ And if [it be] from a (note:)He speaks of those vows by which the fathers dedicated their children to God who were not of such force; but they might be redeemed from them.(:note) month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of silver.

geneva@Leviticus:27:23 @ Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give (note:)The priests evaluation.(:note) thine estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:27:32 @ And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, [even] of whatsoever passeth under the (note:)All that which is numbered: that is, every tenth as he falls by tale without exception or respect.(:note) rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:3:22 @ Those that were numbered of them, (note:)Only numbering the male children.(:note) according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, [even] those that were numbered of them [were] seven thousand and five hundred.

geneva@Numbers:3:38 @ But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, [even] before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, [shall be] Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary (note:)That no one should enter into the tabernacle contrary to God's appointment.(:note) for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

geneva@Numbers:3:50 @ Of the (note:)Or the two hundred seventy and three which were more than the Levites.(:note) firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary:

geneva@Numbers:4:3 @ From (note:)The Levites were counted at three times, first at a month old when they were consecrated to the Lord, next at 25 years old when they were appointed to serve in the tabernacle, and 30 years old to bear the burdens of the tabernacle.(:note) thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@Numbers:4:16 @ And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the (note:)Which was offered at morning and evening.(:note) daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein [is], in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

geneva@Numbers:4:47 @ From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do (note:)Whoever of the Levites that had any charge in the tabernacle.(:note) the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,

geneva@Numbers:5:8 @ But if the (note:)If he is dead to whom the wrong is done and also has no relatives.(:note) man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, [even] to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

geneva@Numbers:5:26 @ And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, [even] the memorial thereof, and burn [it] upon the (note:)Where the incense was offered.(:note) altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

geneva@Numbers:6:9 @ And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the (note:)Whose long hair is a sign that he is dedicated to God.(:note) head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

geneva@Numbers:7:10 @ And the princes offered for (note:)That is, when the first sacrifice was offered on it by Aaron, in (Lev_9:1).(:note) dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.

geneva@Numbers:8:2 @ Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light (note:)To that part which is in the forefront of the candlestick, (Exo_25:37).(:note) over against the candlestick.

geneva@Numbers:9:3 @ In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to (note:)Even in all points as the Lord has instituted it.(:note) all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

geneva@Numbers:9:11 @ The fourteenth day of the (note:)So that the unclean and those who are not at home, have a month longer granted to them.(:note) second month at even they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs].

geneva@Numbers:9:13 @ But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a (note:)When the Passover is celebrated.(:note) journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

geneva@Numbers:9:15 @ And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the (note:)Like a pillar, read (Exo_13:21-22).(:note) appearance of fire, until the morning.

geneva@Numbers:11:20 @ [But] even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have (note:)Or, cast him off, because you refused manna, which he appointed as most suitable for you.(:note) despised the LORD which [is] Who leads and governs you. among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

geneva@Numbers:11:25 @ And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that [was] upon him, and gave [it] unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, [that], when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not (note:)From that day the spirit of prophecy did not settle them.(:note) cease.

geneva@Numbers:12:8 @ With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he (note:)As far as any man was able to comprehend, which he calls his back parts, (Exo_33:23).(:note) behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

geneva@Numbers:12:14 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but (note:)In his displeasure.(:note) spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again].

geneva@Numbers:13:22 @ And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of (note:)Which were a type of giant.(:note) Anak, [were]. (Now Declaring the antiquity of it: also Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob were buried there. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

geneva@Numbers:14:34 @ After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye (note:)Whether my promise is true or not.(:note) shall know my breach of promise.

geneva@Numbers:16:5 @ And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who [are] his, and [who is] holy; and will cause [him] to come near unto him: even [him] whom he hath (note:)To be the priest and to offer.(:note) chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

geneva@Numbers:17:6 @ And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, [even] twelve rods: and the rod (note:)Though Joseph's tribe was divided into two in the distribution of the land, yet here it is but one and Levi makes a tribe.(:note) of Aaron [was] among their rods.

geneva@Numbers:18:29 @ Out of all your (note:)Which you have received from the children of Israel.(:note) gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the Read (Num_18:12). best thereof, [even] the hallowed part thereof out of it.

geneva@Numbers:19:7 @ Then the (note:)Meaning, Eleazar.(:note) priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

geneva@Numbers:19:8 @ And he that (note:)The inferior priest who killed her, and burned her.(:note) burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

geneva@Numbers:19:12 @ He shall purify himself (note:)With the sprinkling of water.(:note) with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

geneva@Numbers:19:19 @ And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and (note:)Because he had been among them that were unclean: or else had touched the water as in (Num_19:21).(:note) wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

geneva@Numbers:19:22 @ And whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth (note:)That is, unclean.(:note) [it] shall be unclean until even.

geneva@Numbers:20:1 @ Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first (note:)This was forty years after their departure from Egypt.(:note) month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Moses and Aaron's sister. Miriam died there, and was buried there.

geneva@Numbers:21:24 @ And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto (note:)The river.(:note) Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon [was] For the people were tall and strong like giants; (Deu_2:20). strong.

geneva@Numbers:21:26 @ For (note:)For if it had been the Moabites, the Israelites might not have possessed it, (Deu_2:9).(:note) Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

geneva@Numbers:23:4 @ And God (note:)Appeared to him.(:note) met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.

geneva@Numbers:25:13 @ And he shall have it, and his seed after him, [even] the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an (note:)He has pacified God's wrath.(:note) atonement for the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:26:51 @ These [were] the (note:)This is the third time that they are numbered.(:note) numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.

geneva@Numbers:27:21 @ And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask [counsel] for him after the (note:)According to his office: signifying that the civil magistrate could execute nothing but that which he knew to be the will of God.(:note) judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, [both] he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.

geneva@Numbers:28:8 @ And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer [it], (note:)The meat offering and drink offering of the evening sacrifice.(:note) a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:28:10 @ [This is] the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the (note:)Which was offered every day at morning and evening.(:note) continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

geneva@Numbers:28:26 @ Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your (note:)In counting seven weeks from the Passover to Whit Sunday, as in (Lev_23:15).(:note) weeks [be out], ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:

geneva@Numbers:29:1 @ And in the (note:)Which contains part of September, and part of October.(:note) seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

geneva@Numbers:29:6 @ Beside the burnt offering of the (note:)Which must be offered in the beginning of every month.(:note) month, and his meat offering, and the daily Which is for morning and evening. burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:29:7 @ And ye shall have on the tenth [day] of this seventh month an holy (note:)Which is the feast of reconciliation.(:note) convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work [therein]:

geneva@Numbers:29:11 @ One kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual (note:)That is, offered every morning and evening.(:note) burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.

geneva@Numbers:29:12 @ And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy (note:)Meaning, the feast of the tabernacles.(:note) convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:

geneva@Numbers:31:47 @ Even of the (note:)Which had not been at war.(:note) children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, [both] of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:32:33 @ And Moses gave unto them, [even] to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the (note:)The Amorites dwelled on both sides of Jordan: but here he makes mention of them that dwelt on this side: (Jos_10:12) he speaks of them that inhabited beyond Jordan.(:note) Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, [even] the cities of the country round about.

geneva@Numbers:34:2 @ Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this [is] the (note:)Meaning, the description of the land.(:note) land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, [even] the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)

geneva@Numbers:34:6 @ And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the (note:)Which is called the Mediterranean.(:note) great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

geneva@Numbers:35:24 @ Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the (note:)That is, his next kinsman.(:note) revenger of blood according to these judgments:

geneva@Numbers:35:25 @ And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the (note:)Under this figure is declared, that our sins could not be remitted, but by the death of the high Priest Jesus Christ.(:note) high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

geneva@Numbers:35:27 @ And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the (note:)By the sentence of the judge.(:note) slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:1 @ These [be] the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on (note:)In the country of Moab.(:note) this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain So that the wilderness was between the sea and the plain of Moab. over against the Red [sea], between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is actively set forth in this book. Even through their ingratitude and many rebellions against God, for the space forty years. (Deu_9:7) they deserved to have been cut off from the number of his people, and forever to have been deprived of the use of his holy word and ordinances: yet he ever preserved his Church even for his own mercy's sake, and would still have his name called upon among them. Wherefore he brings them into the land of Canaan, destroys their enemies, gives them their country, towns and goods, and exhorts them by the example of their fathers (whose infidelity, idolatry, adulteries, complaining and rebellions, he had most severely punished) to fear and obey the Lord, to embrace and keep his law without adding to it or diminishing from it. For by his word he would be known to be their God, and they his people, by his word he would govern his Church, and by the same they would learn to obey him: by his word he would discern the false prophet from the true, light form darkness, ignorance from knowledge, and his own people from all the other nations and infidels: teaching them by it to refuse and detest, destroy and abolish whatever is not agreeable to his holy will, seem it otherwise never so good or precious in the eyes of man. For this cause God promised to raise up kings and governors, for the setting forth of his word and preservation of his Church: giving to them a special charge for the executing of it: whom therefore he wills to exercise themselves diligently in the continual study and meditation of the same: that they might learn to fear the Lord, love their subjects, abhor covetousness and vices, and whatever offends the majesty of God. As he had before instructed their fathers in all things belonging both to his spiritual service and also for the maintenance of that society which is between men: so he prescribes here anew all such laws and ordinances, which either concern his divine service, or else are necessary for a common good: appointing to every estate and degree their charge and duty: as well, how to rule and live in the fear of God, as to nourish friendship toward their neighbours, and to preserve the order which God has established among men: threatening most horrible plagues to them that transgress his commandments, and promising blessings and happiness to those who observe and obey them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:2 @ ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from (note:)In Horeb, or Sinai, forty years before the law was given: but because all that were then of age and judgment were now dead, Moses repeats the same to the youth who either then were not born, or had not judgment.(:note) Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:16 @ And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river (note:)Which separates the Ammonites from the Amorites.(:note) Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon;

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:13 @ And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to (note:)God joins this condition to his covenant.(:note) perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:19 @ And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath (note:)He has appointed them to serve man.(:note) divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:20 @ But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the (note:)He has delivered you out of most miserable slavery and freely chosen you for his.(:note) iron furnace, [even] out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as [ye are] this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:24 @ For the LORD thy God [is] a (note:)To those that come not to him with love and reverence, but rebel against him.(:note) consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:31 @ (For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he (note:)To certify to them even more the assurance of their salvation.(:note) sware unto them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:49 @ And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto (note:)That is, the salt sea.(:note) the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:3 @ The LORD (note:)Some read, God made not this covenant, that is, in such ample forth and with such signs and wonders.(:note) made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:13 @ Six days (note:)Meaning, since God permits six days for our labours, we should willingly dedicate the seventh to serve him wholly.(:note) thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:21 @ And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the (note:)Horeb, or Sinai.(:note) mount.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:24 @ Every place whereon the soles of (note:)This was accomplished in David and Solomon's time.(:note) your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost The Mediterranean. sea shall your coast be.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:30 @ Take heed to thyself that thou be not (note:)By following their superstitions and idolatries, and thinking to serve me by it.(:note) snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:31 @ Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have (note:)They held nothing too dear to offer to their idols.(:note) burnt in the fire to their gods.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:3 @ Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of (note:)Which signified the affliction which you had in Egypt.(:note) affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:6 @ But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the (note:)Which was instituted to remind them of their deliverance our of Egypt and to encourage them in the hope of Jesus Christ, of whom this lamb was a figure.(:note) passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:9 @ Seven weeks shalt thou (note:)Beginning the next morning after the Passover, (Lev_23:15; Exo_13:4).(:note) number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:13 @ Thou shalt (note:)That is, the 15th day of the seventh month, (Lev_23:34).(:note) observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to (note:)So long as he is the true minister of God, and pronounces according to his word.(:note) minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:26 @ But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so (note:)Meaning, that the innocent cannot be punished.(:note) [is] this matter:

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:18 @ Thou shalt not bring the (note:)Forbidding that any income gained from evil things should be applied to the service of God, (Mic_2:7).(:note) hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:23 @ That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt (note:)If the vow is lawful and godly.(:note) keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:7 @ The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee (note:)Meaning many ways.(:note) seven ways.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:25 @ The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be (note:)Some read, you shall be a terror and fear, when they hear how God has plagued you.(:note) removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:64 @ And the LORD shall (note:)Signifying that it is a singular gift from God to be in a place where we may worship God purely and declare our faith and religion.(:note) scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone.

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:4 @ If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of (note:)Even to the worlds end.(:note) heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he And bring you into your country. fetch thee:

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:14 @ But the (note:)Even the law and the gospel.(:note) word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest By faith in Christ. do it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:21 @ And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall (note:)That these evils are come upon them, because they have forsaken me.(:note) testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:13 @ He made him ride on the high places of the (note:)Meaning, of the land of Canaan, which was high in respect to Egypt.(:note) earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck That is, abundance of all things even in the very rocks. honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:4 @ Moses commanded us a law, [even] the (note:)To us and our successors.(:note) inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

geneva@Joshua:1:4 @ From the (note:)Of Zin, called Kadesh and Paran.(:note) wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Meaning, the whole land of Canaan. Hittites, and unto the great Called Mediterranean. sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

geneva@Joshua:1:7 @ Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest (note:)He shows where true prosperity consists, even to obey the word of God.(:note) prosper whithersoever thou goest.

geneva@Joshua:2:1 @ And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of (note:)Which was in the plain of Moab near Jordan.(:note) Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

geneva@Joshua:3:8 @ And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still (note:)Even in the channel where the stream had run, (Jos_3:17)(:note) in Jordan.

geneva@Joshua:6:4 @ And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of (note:)That the conquest might not be assigned to man's power, but to the mercy of God, which with most weak things can overcome that which seems most strong.(:note) rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

geneva@Joshua:6:13 @ And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the (note:)The tribe of Dan was so called, because it marched last and gathered up whatever was left of others.(:note) rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

geneva@Joshua:6:15 @ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner (note:)Beside every day once for the space of six days.(:note) seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

geneva@Joshua:6:17 @ And the city shall be (note:)That is appointed wholly to be destroyed.(:note) accursed, [even] it, and all that [are] therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

geneva@Joshua:6:25 @ And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she (note:)For she was married to Salmon prince of the tribe of Judah, (Mat_1:5).(:note) dwelleth in Israel [even] unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

geneva@Joshua:7:5 @ And the (note:)God would by this overthrow make them more earnest to search out and punish the sin committed.(:note) men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

geneva@Joshua:8:4 @ And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye (note:)God would not destroy Ai by a miracle, as Jericho, so that other nations would fear the power and policy of his people.(:note) shall lie in wait against the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

geneva@Joshua:8:13 @ And when they had set the people, [even] all the host that [was] on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the (note:)To the intent that they in the city more easily discover his army.(:note) midst of the valley.

geneva@Joshua:8:28 @ And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for (note:)That it could never be built again.(:note) ever, [even] a desolation unto this day.

geneva@Joshua:8:29 @ And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded (note:)According as it was commanded, (Deu_21:23).(:note) that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this day.

geneva@Joshua:9:9 @ And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of (note:)Even the idolaters for fear of death will pretend to honour the true God, and receive his religion.(:note) the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

geneva@Joshua:9:20 @ This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the (note:)This does not establish rash oaths, but shows God's mercy toward his, who would not punish them for their sin.(:note) oath which we sware unto them.

geneva@Joshua:9:27 @ And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the (note:)That is, for the service of the temple, as in (Jos_9:23).(:note) altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

geneva@Joshua:11:17 @ [Even] from the mount (note:)So called, because it was bare and without trees.(:note) Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.

geneva@Joshua:12:7 @ And these [are] the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount (note:)Read (Jos_11:17).(:note) Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel [for] a possession according to their divisions;

geneva@Joshua:13:27 @ And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the (note:)That is, in the land of Moab.(:note) other side Jordan eastward.

geneva@Joshua:13:31 @ And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the (note:)Meaning, his nephews and posterity.(:note) children of Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.

geneva@Joshua:15:5 @ And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the (note:)Meaning the mouth of the river where it runs into the Salt sea.(:note) end of Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:

geneva@Joshua:18:2 @ And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, (note:)As Eleazar, Joshua, and the heads of the tribes had done to Judah, Ephraim, and half of Manasseh.(:note) which had not yet received their inheritance.

geneva@Joshua:18:4 @ Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to (note:)That is, into seven portions, one to every tribe.(:note) the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.

geneva@Joshua:18:5 @ And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall (note:)For these had their inheritance already appointed.(:note) abide in their coasts on the north.

geneva@Joshua:18:6 @ Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the (note:)Before the ark of the Lord.(:note) LORD our God.

geneva@Joshua:19:1 @ And the second lot came forth to Simeon, [even] for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was (note:)According to Jacob's prophecy that he would be scattered among the other tribes.(:note) within the inheritance of the children of Judah.

geneva@Joshua:21:20 @ And the families of the children of Kohath, (note:)That were not priests.(:note) the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

geneva@Joshua:24:2 @ And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the (note:)Euphrates in Mesopotamia, (Gen_11:26).(:note) flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

geneva@Joshua:24:7 @ And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a (note:)Even forty years.(:note) long season.

geneva@Joshua:24:18 @ And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD; (note:)How much more are we bound to serve God in Christ, by whom we have received the redemption of our souls.(:note) for he [is] our God.

geneva@Judges:3:1 @ Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the (note:)Which were achieved by the hand of God, and not by the power of man.(:note) wars of Canaan;

geneva@Judges:5:15 @ And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even (note:)Even the whole tribe.(:note) Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great They marvelled that they did not cross the Jordan to help them. thoughts of heart.

geneva@Judges:6:4 @ And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto (note:)Even almost the whole country.(:note) Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

geneva@Judges:6:25 @ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock (note:)That is, as the Chaldea text writes, fed seven years.(:note) of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it:

geneva@Judges:7:22 @ And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his (note:)The Lord caused the Midianites to kill one another.(:note) fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, [and] to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.

geneva@Judges:8:19 @ And he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the (note:)We all came from the same womb: therefore I will be revenged.(:note) sons of my mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

geneva@Judges:8:27 @ And Gideon made an (note:)That is, such things as pertained to the use of the tabernacle. See ephod, (Exo_28:4, Exo_28:6; Jdg_17:5; 1Sa_2:18; 2Sa_6:14).(:note) ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

geneva@Judges:9:54 @ Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man (note:)Thus God by such miserable death takes vengeance on tyrants even in this life.(:note) thrust him through, and he died.

geneva@Judges:14:12 @ And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty (note:)To wear at feasts, or solemn days.(:note) change of garments:

geneva@Judges:14:15 @ And it came to pass (note:)Or as the seventh day drew near, for it was the fourth day.(:note) on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? [is it] not [so]?

geneva@Judges:14:17 @ And she wept before him the (note:)Or, to the seventh day beginning at the fourth.(:note) seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

geneva@Judges:14:18 @ And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey? and what [is] stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, (note:)If you had not used the help of my wife.(:note) If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

geneva@Judges:16:5 @ And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred (note:)Of the value of a shekel, read (Gen_23:15).(:note) [pieces] of silver.

geneva@Judges:16:13 @ And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. (note:)It is impossible if we give place to our wicked affections, for eventually we will be destroyed.(:note) And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

geneva@Judges:16:19 @ And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went (note:)Not for the loss of his hair, but for the contempt of the ordinance of God, which was the reason God departed from him.(:note) from him.

geneva@Judges:17:3 @ And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a (note:)Contrary to the commandment of God and true religion practised under Joshua, they forsook the Lord and fell into idolatry.(:note) graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

geneva@Judges:19:9 @ And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go (note:)That is, to the town or city where he lived.(:note) home.

geneva@Judges:19:12 @ And his master said unto him, (note:)Though in these days there were most horrible corruptions, even necessity could not compel them to associate with those who did not profess the true God.(:note) We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

geneva@Judges:19:16 @ And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] (note:)Or, the children of Jamini.(:note) Benjamites.

geneva@Judges:20:1 @ Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as (note:)That is, all with one consent.(:note) one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the To ask counsel. LORD in Mizpeh.

geneva@Judges:20:2 @ And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that (note:)Meaning, men able to handle their weapons.(:note) drew sword.

geneva@Judges:20:46 @ So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were (note:)Besides eleven hundred that had been slain in the previous battles.(:note) twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour.

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 - This book is called Ruth, who is the main person spoken of in this writing. In which also the state of the Church is set forth figuratively, being subject to many afflictions and yet eventually God gives good and joyful offspring, teaching us to abide with patience till God delivers us out of troubles. In this also it is described how Jesus Christ, who according to the flesh came from David, proceeded by Ruth, of whom the Lord Jesus promised to come, nonetheless she was a Moabite of base condition, and a stranger to the people of God; declaring to us by it that the Gentiles would be sanctified by him, and joined with his people, and that there would be one sheepfold, and one shepherd. It would appear that this account belongs to the time of the judges.

geneva@Ruth:4:15 @ And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than (note:)Meaning, many sons.(:note) seven sons, hath born him.

geneva@1Samuel:2:5 @ [They that were] full have hired out themselves for (note:)They sell their labours for necessary food.(:note) bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

geneva@1Samuel:5:8 @ They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, (note:)Though they had felt God's power and were afraid of it, yet they tried him even further, which God turned to their destruction and his glory.(:note) What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about [thither].

geneva@1Samuel:6:1 @ And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines (note:)They thought by continuance of time the plague would have ceased, and so would have kept the ark still.(:note) seven months.

geneva@1Samuel:6:19 @ And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they (note:)For it was not lawful for anyone either to touch or to see it, only to Aaron and his sons (Num_4:15, Num_4:20).(:note) had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter.

geneva@1Samuel:7:14 @ And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the (note:)Meaning, the Philistines.(:note) Amorites.

geneva@1Samuel:13:8 @ And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were (note:)Thinking that the absence of the prophet was a sign, that they would lose the victory.(:note) scattered from him.

geneva@1Samuel:14:21 @ Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the (note:)Though before for fear of the Philistines they declared themselves as enemies to their brethren.(:note) Israelites that [were] with Saul and Jonathan.

geneva@1Samuel:14:24 @ And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, (note:)Such was his hypocrisy and arrogancy, that he thought to attribute to his policy that which God had given by the hand of Jonathan.(:note) Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted [any] food.

geneva@1Samuel:15:23 @ For (note:)God hates nothing more than the disobedience of his commandment, even though the intent seems good to man.(:note) rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.

geneva@1Samuel:16:2 @ And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear [it], he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come (note:)That is, to make a peace offering, which may be done even though the ark was not there.(:note) to sacrifice to the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:16:23 @ And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was (note:)God would have Saul receive this benefit from David's hand, that his condemnation might be even more evident, for his cruel hate toward him.(:note) refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

geneva@1Samuel:17:40 @ And he took his (note:)So that by these weak means, It might be known that only God was the author of this victory.(:note) staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

geneva@1Samuel:17:48 @ And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David (note:)Being moved with a fervent zeal to be revenged of this blaspheme of God's name.(:note) hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

geneva@1Samuel:17:55 @ And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, (note:)That is, of what family and tribe is he? He had forgotten David, even though he had received so great a benefit by him.(:note) whose son [is] this youth? And Abner said, [As] thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

geneva@1Samuel:20:5 @ And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is] the (note:)At what time there would be a solemn sacrifice, (Num_28:11), to which they added peace offerings and feasts.(:note) new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third [day] at even.

geneva@1Samuel:25:26 @ Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own (note:)That is, that you should not be revenged by your enemy.(:note) hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

geneva@1Samuel:26:8 @ Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the (note:)Meaning, he would make him sure at one stroke.(:note) second time.

geneva@1Samuel:27:3 @ And David (note:)Thus God by his providence changes the enemies hearts, and makes them favour his in their need.(:note) dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

geneva@1Samuel:27:8 @ And David and his men went up, and invaded the (note:)These were the wicked Canaanites, whom God had appointed to be destroyed.(:note) Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

geneva@1Samuel:28:3 @ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had (note:)According to the commandment of God, (Exo_22:18; Deu_18:10-11).(:note) put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

geneva@1Samuel:28:14 @ And he said unto her, What form [is] he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he [is] covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it [was] (note:)To his imagination, even though it was Satan, who to blind his eyes took on him the form of Samuel, as he can do of an angel of light.(:note) Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face to the ground, and bowed himself.

geneva@1Samuel:28:17 @ And the LORD hath done to (note:)That is, to David.(:note) him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, [even] to David:

geneva@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, (note:)For others were in all ages held in most reverence, even among the heathen.(:note) Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.

geneva@1Samuel:30:17 @ And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening (note:)Some read, and to the morrow of the two evenings, that is, three days.(:note) of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

geneva@1Samuel:31:13 @ And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and (note:)According to the custom of mourners.(:note) fasted seven days.

geneva@2Samuel:1:2 @ It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with (note:)Seeming to lament the overthrow of the people of Israel.(:note) his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and [so] it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

geneva@2Samuel:2:9 @ And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over (note:)Over the eleven tribes.(:note) all Israel.

geneva@2Samuel:2:11 @ And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six (note:)After this he reigned over all the country 33 years, (2Sa_5:5).(:note) months.

geneva@2Samuel:3:5 @ And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in (note:)Within seven years and six months.(:note) Hebron.

geneva@2Samuel:6:5 @ And David and all the house of Israel (note:)Praised God, and sang Psalms.(:note) played before the LORD on all manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

geneva@2Samuel:7:23 @ And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people, [even] like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for (note:)O Israel.(:note) you great things and terrible, for And inheritance, which is Israel. thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, [from] the From the Egyptians and their idols. nations and their gods?

geneva@2Samuel:8:2 @ And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with (note:)He slew two parts as it pleased him, and reserved the third.(:note) two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And [so] the Moabites became David's servants, [and] brought gifts.

geneva@2Samuel:10:18 @ And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the men of] (note:)Who were the chief and most principal: for in all he destroyed 7000, as in (1Ch_19:18), or the soldiers who were in 700 chariots.(:note) seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

geneva@2Samuel:11:2 @ And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his (note:)Upon which he used to rest in the afternoon, as was read of Ishbosheth in (2Sa_4:7).(:note) bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon.

geneva@2Samuel:11:13 @ And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him (note:)He made him drink more liberally than he was wont to do, thinking by this he would have slept with his wife.(:note) drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

geneva@2Samuel:14:11 @ Then said she, I pray thee, let the king (note:)Swear that they will not revenge the blood, which are many in number.(:note) remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

geneva@2Samuel:14:32 @ And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? [it had been] good for me [to have been] there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and (note:)If I have offended by revenging my sister's dishonour: thus the wicked justify themselves in their evil.(:note) if there be [any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.

geneva@2Samuel:17:23 @ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and (note:)God's just vengeance even in this life is poured on them who are enemies, traitors, or persecutors of his Church.(:note) hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

geneva@2Samuel:19:11 @ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the (note:)That they should reprove the negligence of the elders, seeing the people were so forward.(:note) priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, [even] to his house.

geneva@2Samuel:20:2 @ So every man of Israel went up from after David, [and] followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from (note:)From Gilgal which was near Jordan.(:note) Jordan even to Jerusalem.

geneva@2Samuel:20:21 @ The (note:)Hearing his fault, he gave in to reason, and required only he that was instigator of the treason.(:note) matter [is] not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, [even] against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

geneva@2Samuel:21:6 @ Let seven men of his (note:)Of Saul's kinsmen.(:note) sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up To pacify the Lord. unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].

geneva@2Samuel:21:9 @ And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the (note:)Which was in the month Abib or Nisan which contained part of March and part of April.(:note) first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest.

geneva@2Samuel:22:19 @ They (note:)I was so beset, that all means seemed to fail.(:note) prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

geneva@2Samuel:22:42 @ They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] unto the (note:)The wicked in their time of need are forced to flee to God, but it is too late.(:note) LORD, but he answered them not.

geneva@2Samuel:23:4 @ And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender (note:)Which grows quickly, and fades soon.(:note) grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

geneva@2Samuel:23:39 @ Uriah the Hittite: (note:)These came to David, and helped restore him to his kingdom.(:note) thirty and seven in all.

geneva@2Samuel:24:2 @ For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which [was] with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the (note:)Because he did this to determine his power and to trust in it, it offended God, for otherwise it was lawful to number the people, (Exo_30:12; Num_1:2).(:note) number of the people.

geneva@2Samuel:24:9 @ And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel (note:)According to Joab's count: for in all there were eleven hundred thousand, (1Ch_21:5).(:note) eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] Including the Benjamites with them, or else they had but four hundred and seventy thousand. five hundred thousand men.

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@2Samuel:24:15 @ So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from (note:)From the one side of the country to the other.(:note) Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

geneva@1Kings:1:30 @ Even as I (note:)Moved by the Spirit of God to do so, because he foresaw that Solomon would be the figure of Christ.(:note) sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.

geneva@1Kings:2:22 @ And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the (note:)Meaning, that if he would have granted Abishag, who was so dear to his father, he would later have aspired for the kingdom.(:note) kingdom also; for he [is] mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

geneva@1Kings:4:24 @ For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the (note:)For they were all tributaries to him.(:note) kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

geneva@1Kings:4:25 @ And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from (note:)Throughout all Israel.(:note) Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

geneva@1Kings:4:29 @ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and (note:)Meaning, great understanding and able to comprehend all things.(:note) largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.

geneva@1Kings:4:33 @ And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the (note:)From the highest to the lowest.(:note) hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

geneva@1Kings:6:6 @ The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed (note:)Which were certain stones coming out of the wall, as stays for the beams to rest upon.(:note) rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

geneva@1Kings:6:38 @ And in the eleventh year, in the month (note:)Which contains part of October and part of November.(:note) Bul, which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

geneva@1Kings:7:4 @ And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] (note:)There were as many and like proportion on the one side as the other, and at every end even three in a row one above another.(:note) against light [in] three ranks.

geneva@1Kings:7:7 @ Then he made a porch (note:)For his house which was at Jerusalem.(:note) for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

geneva@1Kings:7:9 @ All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto (note:)Which were rests and stays for the beams to lie on.(:note) the coping, and [so] on the outside toward the great court.

geneva@1Kings:8:2 @ And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month (note:)Containing part of September and part of October, in which they held three solemn feasts, (Num_29:1).(:note) Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.

geneva@1Kings:8:6 @ And the (note:)That is, the Kohathites, (Num_4:5).(:note) priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy [place, even] under the wings of the cherubims.

geneva@1Kings:8:65 @ And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of (note:)That is, from North to South: meaning all the country.(:note) Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, Seven days for the dedication, and seven for the feast. seven days and seven days, [even] fourteen days.

geneva@1Kings:11:3 @ And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred (note:)To whom belonged no dowry.(:note) concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

geneva@1Kings:12:27 @ If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD (note:)He feared least his people should have by this means been enticed to rebel against him.(:note) at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, [even] unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.

geneva@1Kings:12:32 @ And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the (note:)Because he would bind the people's devotion to his idolatry even more, he made a new holy day, besides those that the Lord had appointed in the law.(:note) fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that [is] in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

geneva@1Kings:14:10 @ Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that (note:)Every male even to the dogs, (1Sa_25:22).(:note) pisseth against the wall, [and] him that As well him that is in the stronghold, as him that is abroad. is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

geneva@1Kings:14:14 @ Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: (note:)The Lord will begin to destroy it out of hand.(:note) but what? even now.

geneva@1Kings:14:21 @ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen (note:)And died about four years before Jeroboam.(:note) years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.

geneva@1Kings:15:13 @ And also Maachah his mother, even her he (note:)Neither kindred nor authority should be regarded when they blaspheme God and become idolaters, but must be punished.(:note) removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.

geneva@1Kings:16:7 @ And also (note:)That is, the prophet did his message.(:note) by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed Meaning, Nadab Jeroboam's son. him.

geneva@1Kings:16:15 @ In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encamped (note:)The siege had continued from the time of Nadab Jeroboam's son.(:note) against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines.

geneva@1Kings:18:26 @ And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed [it], and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But [there was] no voice, nor any that answered. And they (note:)As men possessed by some strange spirit.(:note) leaped upon the altar which was made.

geneva@1Kings:18:35 @ And the water ran round about the altar; and he (note:)By this he declared the excellent power of God, who contrary to nature could make the fire burn even in the water, so that they should have no opportunity to doubt that he is the only God.(:note) filled the trench also with water.

geneva@1Kings:18:37 @ Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou [art] the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back (note:)Though God permits his to run in blindness and error for a time, yet eventually he calls them home to him by some notorious sign and work.(:note) again.

geneva@1Kings:18:43 @ And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, [There is] nothing. And he said, Go again (note:)As God's spirit moved him to pray, so was he strengthened by the same that he did not faint, but continued still till he had obtained.(:note) seven times.

geneva@1Kings:19:10 @ And he said, I have (note:)He complains that the more zealous he was to maintain God's glory, the more cruelly he was persecuted.(:note) been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

geneva@1Kings:19:14 @ And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: (note:)So should not depend on the multitude in maintaining God's glory, but because our duty requires us to do it.(:note) because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

geneva@1Kings:19:18 @ Yet I have left [me] seven thousand in Israel, (note:)He declares that wicked deceivers and idolaters are not his.(:note) all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

geneva@1Kings:21:11 @ And the (note:)Thus the worldlings contrary to God's commandment, who does not consent to the shedding of innocent blood, would rather obey the wicked commandments of princes than the just laws.(:note) men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, [and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

geneva@1Kings:21:19 @ And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Do you think to have an advantage by murdering an innocent?(:note) Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, This was fulfilled in Joram his son (2Ki_9:25-26). In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

geneva@1Kings:22:35 @ And the battle increased that day: and the (note:)That is, Ahab, king of Israel.(:note) king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.

geneva@2Kings:2:21 @ And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast (note:)Thus God gave him power, even contrary to nature, to make the water profitable for man's use, which before was hurtful.(:note) the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land].

geneva@2Kings:3:9 @ So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the (note:)Meaning the viceroy, or lieutenant of the king of Judah, (1Ki_22:47).(:note) king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.

geneva@2Kings:3:24 @ And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they (note:)Meaning, they followed them into the towns.(:note) went forward smiting the Moabites, even in [their] country.

geneva@2Kings:4:2 @ And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a (note:)Thus God permits his to be brought many times to extreme necessity, before he helps them, that afterward they may praise his mercy even more.(:note) pot of oil.

geneva@2Kings:4:35 @ Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed (note:)Meaning, often.(:note) seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

geneva@2Kings:6:19 @ And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led (note:)Thus he did being led by the Spirit of God, and not because he sought his own revenge, but only to set forth the glory of God.(:note) them to Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:7:6 @ For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a (note:)Thus God needs no great preparation to destroy the wicked. Though they are many he can scatter them with a small noise, or shaking of a leaf.(:note) noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

geneva@2Kings:7:7 @ Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it [was], and (note:)The wicked need no greater enemy than their own conscience to pursue them.(:note) fled for their life.

geneva@2Kings:7:13 @ And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some] take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they [are] as all the (note:)There are no more left, but they, or the rest are consumed by the famine, as the rest of the people.(:note) multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, [I say], they [are] even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.

geneva@2Kings:8:1 @ Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou (note:)Where you can find a convenient place to dwell, where there is plenty.(:note) canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

geneva@2Kings:8:3 @ And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth (note:)That is, to complain of them who had taken her possessions while she was absent.(:note) to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

geneva@2Kings:8:6 @ And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that [was] hers, and all the (note:)The king caused that to be justly restored which was wrongfully withheld from her.(:note) fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

geneva@2Kings:8:9 @ So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every (note:)Of all the chiefest and precious things of the country.(:note) good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

geneva@2Kings:9:6 @ And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have (note:)This anointing was for kings, priests and prophets which were all figures of Messiah, in whom these three offices were accomplished.(:note) anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.

geneva@2Kings:9:20 @ And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth (note:)As one that went earnestly about his business.(:note) furiously.

geneva@2Kings:9:29 @ And in the (note:)That is, eleven whole years: for in (2Ki_8:25) when he said he began to reign in the twelfth year of Joram, he takes a partial year for a whole.(:note) eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

geneva@2Kings:9:37 @ And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, (note:)Thus God's judgments appear even in this world against those who suppress his word and persecute his servants.(:note) This [is] Jezebel.

geneva@2Kings:10:1 @ And Ahab had seventy (note:)The Scripture calls them sons who are either children or nephews.(:note) sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,

geneva@2Kings:10:3 @ Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and (note:)He wrote this, to prove them whether they would take his side or not.(:note) set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

geneva@2Kings:10:6 @ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, (note:)God as a just judge punishes the wicked children of wicked parents to the third and fourth generations.(:note) take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

geneva@2Kings:10:14 @ And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men; (note:)Thus God's vengeance is on them who have any part or familiarity with the wicked.(:note) neither left he any of them.

geneva@2Kings:11:2 @ But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, (note:)The Lord promised to maintain the family of David, and not to quench the light of it, therefore he moved the heart of Jehosheba to preserve him.(:note) took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons [which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in Where the priests slept. the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

geneva@2Kings:11:4 @ And the seventh year (note:)The chief priest, Jehosheba's husband.(:note) Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

geneva@2Kings:11:5 @ And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of (note:)Of the Levites, who had charge of the keeping of the temple, and kept watch by course.(:note) you that enter in on the sabbath shall That no one should come on them, while they were crowning the king. even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

geneva@2Kings:11:7 @ And two parts of all you that (note:)Whose charge is ended.(:note) go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.

geneva@2Kings:11:18 @ And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the (note:)Even in the place where he had blasphemed God, and thought to have been helped by his idol, there God poured his vengeance on him.(:note) altars. And the That is, Jehoiada. priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:12:4 @ And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the (note:)That is, the money of redemption (Exo_30:12), also the money which the priest valued the vows at (Lev_27:2), and their free gift.(:note) account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

geneva@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king (note:)His chief purpose is to describe the kingdom of Judah, and how God performed his promise made to the house of David: but in the process he shows how Israel was afflicted and punished for their great idolatry, who though they had now degenerated, yet God both by sending them many prophets and various punishments, called them to him again.(:note) of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.

geneva@2Kings:14:10 @ Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: (note:)Brag of the victory, so that you stay at home and do not provoke me.(:note) glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?

geneva@2Kings:16:1 @ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah (note:)This was a wicked son of a godly father, as of him again came godly Hezekiah, and of him wicked Manasseh, save that God in the end showed him mercy. Thus we see how uncertain it is to depend on the dignity of our fathers.(:note) Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

geneva@2Kings:16:12 @ And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered (note:)Either offerings for peace or prosperity, or thanksgiving as in (Lev_3:1) or else meaning the morning and evening offering, (Exo_29:38; Num_28:3) and thus he contemned the means and the altar which God had commanded by Solomon, to serve God after his own fantasy.(:note) thereon.

geneva@2Kings:16:15 @ And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the (note:)Here he establishes by commandment his own wicked proceedings, and abolishes the commandment and ordinance of God.(:note) brasen altar shall be for me to enquire [by].

geneva@2Kings:17:16 @ And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the (note:)That is, the sun, moon and stars, (Deu_4:19).(:note) host of heaven, and served Baal.

geneva@2Kings:18:4 @ He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it (note:)That is «a piece of brass»: thus he calls the serpent by contempt, which even though it was set up by the word of God, and miracles were wrought by it, when it was used for idolatry this good king destroyed it, not thinking it worthy to be called a serpent, but a piece of brass.(:note) Nehushtan.

geneva@2Kings:18:8 @ He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, (note:)Read (2Ki_17:9).(:note) from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

geneva@2Kings:18:21 @ Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, [even] upon (note:)Egypt will not only be unable to help you, but will be a detriment to you.(:note) Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

geneva@2Kings:19:15 @ And Hezekiah (note:)He shows what the true refuge and help is in all dangers, that is, to flee to the Lord by earnest prayer.(:note) prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou art the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

geneva@2Kings:19:19 @ Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the (note:)He shows the reason the faithful desire God to deliver them: that is, that he may be glorified by their deliverance.(:note) kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD God, [even] thou only.

geneva@2Kings:19:22 @ Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] (note:)God counts that as an injury done to him, and will avenge what is done to any of his saints.(:note) against the Holy [One] of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:25:8 @ And in the fifth month, on the (note:)Jeremiah writes in (Jer_52:12) the tenth day, because the fire continued from the seventh day to the tenth.(:note) seventh [day] of the month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

geneva@2Kings:25:19 @ And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and (note:)Jeremiah makes mention of seven but here he speaks of those who were the chiefest.(:note) five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land [that were] found in the city:

geneva@2Kings:25:27 @ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of (note:)This long were he, his wife and his children in Babylon, whom Nebuchadnezzar's son after his father's death preferred to honour: thus by God's providence the seed of David was preserved even to Christ.(:note) Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

geneva@1Chronicles:2:23 @ And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, (note:)That is, the Geshurites and Syrians took the towns from Jair's children.(:note) from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, [even] threescore cities. All these [belonged to] the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:15 @ And the sons of Caleb the son of (note:)Called also Esrom.(:note) Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:39 @ And they (note:)For the tribe of Simeon was so great in number, that in the time of Hezekiah they sought new dwellings to Gedor, which is in the tribe of Daniel.(:note) went to the entrance of Gedor, [even] unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:8 @ And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in (note:)These places were beyond Jordan toward the east in the land given to the Reubenites.(:note) Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:

geneva@1Chronicles:5:26 @ And the God of Israel (note:)Thus God stirred up the wicked and used them as instruments to execute his just judgment against sinners, although they were led by malice and ambition.(:note) stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:39 @ And his brother (note:)Meaning, the son of Heman, (1Ch_6:33).(:note) Asaph, who stood on his right hand, [even] Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,

geneva@1Chronicles:7:6 @ [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and (note:)Also called Ashbel, (Gen_46:21; Num_26:38).(:note) Jediael, Who were the chief: or else there were seven in all as it appears in (Gen_46:21). three.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:13 @ And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the (note:)To serve in the temple, every one according to his office.(:note) work of the service of the house of God.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:25 @ And their brethren, [which were] in their villages, [were] to come after (note:)They served weekly, as in (Exo_29:30).(:note) seven days from time to time with them.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:1 @ Then all Israel (note:)This was after the death of Ishbosheth Saul's son, when David had reigned over Judah seven years and six months in Hebron, (2Sa_5:5).(:note) gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:2 @ [They were] armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and [shooting] arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul's (note:)That is, of the tribe of Benjamin, of which Saul was, and in which were excellent throwers with slings, (Jdg_20:16).(:note) brethren of Benjamin.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:27 @ And Jehoiada [was] the leader of the (note:)Of the Levites who came by the descent of Aaron.(:note) Aaronites, and with him [were] three thousand and seven hundred;

geneva@1Chronicles:13:5 @ So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from (note:)That is, from Gibea, where the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim had placed it in the house of Abinadab, (2Sa_6:3).(:note) Kirjathjearim.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:5 @ And Ibhar, and Elishua, and (note:)Elpalet and Nogah are not mentioned in (2Sa_5:14), so there are only eleven and here thirteen.(:note) Elpalet,

geneva@1Chronicles:15:26 @ And it came to pass, when God (note:)That is, gave them strength to execute their office.(:note) helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered Besides the bullock and the fat beast which David offered at every sixth pace, (2Sa_6:13). seven bullocks and seven rams.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:19 @ When ye were but (note:)Meaning, from the time that Abraham entered, to the time that Jacob went into Egypt for famine.(:note) few, even a few, and strangers in it.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:7 @ Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, (note:)Of a shepherd of sheep I made you a shepherd of men: so that you did not come to this dignity through your own merits, but by my pure grace.(:note) [even] from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:

geneva@1Chronicles:17:24 @ Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God of (note:)That is, he shows himself indeed to be their God, by delivering them from dangers, and preserving them.(:note) Israel, [even] a God to Israel: and [let] the house of David thy servant [be] established before thee.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:18 @ But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians (note:)For this place, read (2Sa_10:18).(:note) seven thousand [men which fought in] chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

geneva@1Chronicles:20:2 @ And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a (note:)Which mounts about the value of seven thousand and seventy crowns, which is about 60 pound weight.(:note) talent of gold, and [there were] precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:2 @ And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from (note:)That is, from south to north.(:note) Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it].

geneva@1Chronicles:21:17 @ And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on (note:)Thus he both shows a true repentance and a fatherly care toward his people, who desire God to spare them, and to punish him and his.(:note) thy people, that they should be plagued.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:8 @ But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (note:)This declares how greatly God detests the shedding of blood, seeing David for this cause is prevented from building the temple of the Lord, though he enterprised no war, but by God's command and against his enemies.(:note) Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:17 @ And the sons of Eliezer [were], Rehabiah the (note:)The scripture calls him chief or first born even though he is alone and there is no one born after him, (Mat_1:25).(:note) chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:24 @ These [were] the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; [even] the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of (note:)David chose the Levites twice, first at the age of thirty as in (1Ch_23:3) and again afterward at twenty as the office required: at the beginning they had no charge in the temple before they were twenty-five years old, and had none after fifty, (Num_4:3).(:note) twenty years and upward.

geneva@1Chronicles:24:10 @ The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to (note:)Zachariah the father of John the Baptist was of this course or lot of Abia, (Luk_1:5).(:note) Abijah,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:31 @ These likewise cast (note:)That is, every one had that honour which fell to him by lot.(:note) lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:5 @ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God (note:)In giving him many children.(:note) blessed him.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:12 @ Among these [were] the divisions of the porters, [even] among the chief men, [having] wards one (note:)According to their turns as well the one as the other.(:note) against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:30 @ [And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, [were] officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of (note:)That is, for the king's house.(:note) the king.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:32 @ And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to (note:)Both in spiritual and temporal things.(:note) God, and affairs of the king.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:15 @ Even the weight for the (note:)That is, the ten candlesticks, (1Ki_7:49).(:note) candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, [both] for the candlestick, and [also] for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:19 @ All [this, said David], the LORD made me understand in writing (note:)For all this was left in writing in the book of the Law, (Exo_25:40), which the king was bound to put in execution, (Deu_17:19).(:note) by [his] hand upon me, [even] all the works of this pattern.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:21 @ And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, [even they shall be with thee] for all the service of the house of God: and [there shall be] with thee for all manner of workmanship (note:)That is, everyone will be ready to help you with those gifts that God has given him.(:note) every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people [will be] wholly at thy commandment.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:4 @ [Even] (note:)He shows what he had of his own store for the Lord's house.(:note) three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses [withal]:

geneva@1Chronicles:29:21 @ And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with their (note:)Meaning, all kinds of liquor which they mingled with their sacrifices, as wine, oil, etc.(:note) drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

geneva@2Chronicles:4:7 @ And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to (note:)Even as they should be made.(:note) their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:3 @ Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the (note:)When the things were dedicated and brought into the temple.(:note) feast which [was] in the seventh Called in Hebrew Ethanim, containing part of September and part of October, (1Ki_8:2), which moves the Jews called the first month, because they say that the world was created in that month, and after they came from Egypt, they began at March: but because this opinion is uncertain, we always make March the first as the best writers do. month.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:13 @ It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] (note:)They all played the same tune.(:note) as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, [saying], This was the effect of their songs, (Psa_118:1, Psa_136:1). For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD;

geneva@2Chronicles:7:8 @ Also at the same time Solomon kept (note:)The feast of the tabernacles which was kept in the seventh month.(:note) the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:9 @ And in the eighth day they (note:)They assembled to hear the word of God, after they had remained seven days in the booths or tabernacles.(:note) made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:10 @ And on the (note:)They had permission to depart on the 22nd day, (1Ki_8:66) but they did not leave till the next day.(:note) three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:10 @ And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers, [even] (note:)For in all there were 3300 but here he means of them who had the principal charge, (1Ki_9:23).(:note) two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:13 @ Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, (note:)Read (Leviticus. strkjv@23:1-44).(:note) three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:13 @ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned (note:)That is, twelve years after he had been overcome by Shishak, (2Ch_12:2).(:note) seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:5 @ Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to (note:)Therefore whoever usurps it or takes it from that stock transgresses the ordinance of the Lord. Thus like a hypocrite he alleges the word of God for his advantage.(:note) David for ever, [even] to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

geneva@2Chronicles:13:9 @ Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a (note:)He shows the nature of idolaters who take no trial of the calling, life and doctrine of their ministers, but think the most vile and greatest beasts sufficient to serve their turn.(:note) young bullock and seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:11 @ And they burn unto the LORD every (note:)As it was appointed in the law, (Exo_29:39).(:note) morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also [set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:11 @ And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the (note:)Which they had taken of the Ethiopians.(:note) spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:7 @ Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to (note:)He knew it was in vain to profess religion, unless such were appointed who could instruct the people in the same, and had authority to put away all idolatry.(:note) teach in the cities of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:7 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I (note:)Yet the true ministers of God should not cease to do their duty, even though the wicked magistrates cannot abide them speaking the truth.(:note) hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say Meaning, that he should not refuse to hear any that was from God. so.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:21 @ And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And (note:)That is, the Lord.(:note) [the LORD] said, Thou shalt entice [him], and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do [even] so.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:34 @ And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel (note:)He disguised his wound that his soldiers might fight more courageously.(:note) stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:10 @ And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between (note:)That is, to decide whether or not the murder was done on purpose, (Num_35:11, Deu_4:41).(:note) blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and [so] Meaning, that God would punish them most sharply if they would not execute justice correctly. wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:1 @ And (note:)Of the reign of Athaliah or after the death of Ahaziah.(:note) in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:14 @ And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made (note:)For the wicked kings, his predecessors and Athaliah had destroyed the vessels of the temple, or turned them to the use of their idols.(:note) vessels for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to minister, and to offer [withal], and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:13 @ But the soldiers of the (note:)That is, the 100,000 of Israel.(:note) army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:8 @ And the Ammonites gave (note:)That is, they paid tribute in a sign of subjection.(:note) gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad [even] to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened [himself] exceedingly.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:10 @ And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you, even with you, (note:)May not God also punish you for your sins as he has done these men for theirs, seeing that yours are greater?(:note) sins against the LORD your God?

geneva@2Chronicles:28:27 @ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the (note:)They did not bury him in the city of David, where the sepulchres of the kings were.(:note) sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:5 @ So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from (note:)From one end of the land to the other, north and south.(:note) Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] In such sort and perfection as God had appointed. as it was written.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:10 @ So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they (note:)Though the wicked mock the servants of God, by whom he calls them to repentance, as in (Gen_19:14), yet the word does not cease to ripen in the hearts of God's elect.(:note) laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:18 @ For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The (note:)He knew that faith and sincerity of heart were more agreeable to God than the observation of the ceremonies and therefore he prayed to God to pardon this fault to the people who did not offend out of malice, but out of ignorance.(:note) good LORD pardon every one

geneva@2Chronicles:30:24 @ For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a (note:)This great liberality declares how kings, princes and all they to whom God has given, should be ready to bestow it in the setting forth of God's glory.(:note) thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:27 @ Then the priests the Levites arose and (note:)According to that which is written in (Num_6:23) when they should dismiss the people.(:note) blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:16 @ Beside their genealogy of males, (note:)Who had also a portion and allowance in this distribution.(:note) from three years old and upward, [even] unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;

geneva@2Chronicles:32:15 @ Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of (note:)When man has prosperity, he swells in pride, and thinks himself able to resist and overcome even God himself.(:note) mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

geneva@2Chronicles:33:14 @ Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of (note:)Read (2Ch_32:30).(:note) Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Read (2Ch_27:3). Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:11 @ Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the (note:)For there were many portions and pieces annexed to the temple.(:note) houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:27 @ Because thine heart was (note:)This declares the end of God's threatenings, to call his to repentance, and to assure the unrepentant of their destruction.(:note) tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.

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@2Chronicles:35:1 @ Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the (note:)The scripture in various places calls the lamb the «passover» even though it is only the sign of the passover for in all sacraments the signs have the names of the things signified.(:note) passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:5 @ Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] (note:)Because he and the people did not turn to God by his first plague, he brought a new one on him, and at length rooted them out.(:note) evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:17 @ Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword (note:)Where they fled, thinking to have been saved for the holiness of it.(:note) in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he Which is not because God approves him, who yet is the minister of his justice, but because God would by his just judgment punish this people: for this king was led with ambition and vain glory, to which were joined fury and cruelty: therefore his work was condemnable, even though it was just and holy on God's part, who used this wicked instrument to declare his justice. gave [them] all into his hand.

geneva@Ezra:1:8 @ Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto (note:)So the Chaldeans called Zerubbabel who was the chief governor, so that the preeminence still remained in the house of David.(:note) Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

geneva@Ezra:2:36 @ The (note:)Before he has declared the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and now comes to the tribe of Levi and begins at the priests.(:note) priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

geneva@Ezra:3:1 @ And when the (note:)Called Tishri which had part of September and part of October.(:note) seventh month was come, and the children of Israel [were] in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

geneva@Ezra:3:3 @ And they set the altar upon (note:)In the place where Solomon had placed it.(:note) his bases; for fear [was] upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, [even] burnt offerings morning and evening.

geneva@Ezra:4:5 @ And (note:)They bribed the governors under the king to hinder their work, thus they that hinder cannot understand that God would be purely served.(:note) hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

geneva@Ezra:4:13 @ Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up [again, then] will they not pay toll, tribute, and (note:)Meaning, the gifts that are wont to be given to kings when they pass by any country.(:note) custom, and [so] thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.

geneva@Ezra:6:8 @ Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, [even] of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be (note:)For lack of money.(:note) not hindered.

geneva@Ezra:6:22 @ And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of (note:)Meaning Darius who was king of the Medes, Persians and Assyrians.(:note) Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

geneva@Ezra:7:8 @ And he came to Jerusalem in the (note:)That contained part of July and part of August.(:note) fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year Of king Darius. of the king.

geneva@Ezra:7:14 @ Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to (note:)To examine who lived according to the law.(:note) enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which [is] in Of which you are an expert. thine hand;

geneva@Ezra:7:21 @ And I, [even] I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which [are] beyond (note:)Which was the Euphrates river and they were beyond it in respect to Babylon.(:note) the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

geneva@Ezra:8:26 @ I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty (note:)Read (1Ki_9:14).(:note) talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, [and] of gold an hundred talents;

geneva@Ezra:9:1 @ Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not (note:)From the time they came home under Zerubbabel until the coming of Ezra, they had degenerated contrary to the law of God, and married where it was not lawful, (Deu_7:3).(:note) separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

geneva@Nehemiah:1:1 @ The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month (note:)Which contains part of November and part of December, and was their ninth month.(:note) Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, The Argument - God, in all ages and at all times, sets up worthy persons for the convenience and profit of his Church, as now within the compass of seventy years he raised up various excellent men for the preservation of his people after their return from Babylon. Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, of which the first was their captain to bring them home, and provided that the temple was built: the second reformed their manners and planted religion: and the third built up the walls, delivered the people from oppression and provided that the law of God was carried out among them. He was a godly man, and in great authority with the king, so that the king favoured him greatly and gave him letters to accomplish all the things he desired. This book is also called the second of Ezra by the Latins because he was the author of it.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:1 @ Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they (note:)In Hebrew they sanctified it, that is, they finished it, and so dedicated it to the Lord by prayer, in desiring him to maintain it.(:note) sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:8 @ And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be (note:)Seeing God has once delivered them from the bondage of the heathen, shall we make them our slaves?(:note) sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing [to answer].

geneva@Nehemiah:5:11 @ Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth [part] of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, (note:)Which you take from them for the loan.(:note) that ye exact of them.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:14 @ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the (note:)I did not receive the portion and diet which the governors who were before me exacted, in which he declares that he rather sought the wealth of the people than his own convenience.(:note) bread of the governor.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:73 @ So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the (note:)Which contained part of September and part of October.(:note) seventh month came, the children of Israel [were] in their cities.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:2 @ And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all (note:)Who had age and discretion to understand.(:note) that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:1 @ Now in the twenty and fourth day of this (note:)Meaning, the seventh.(:note) month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

geneva@Nehemiah:10:31 @ And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, (note:)Which nonetheless they broke soon after, (Neh_13:15).(:note) [that] we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:19 @ Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the (note:)Meaning of the temple.(:note) gates, [were] an hundred seventy and two.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:37 @ And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the (note:)Which was going up to the mount Zion, which is called the city of David.(:note) stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

geneva@Esther:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the days of (note:)Also called Darius, who was now the favourite monarch and had the government of the Medes, Persians and Chaldeans. Some think he was Darius Hystaspis also called Artaxerxes.(:note) Ahasuerus, (this [is] Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, [over] an (Dan_6:1) makes mention of only 120 leaving out the number that are imperfect as the scripture uses in various places. hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) The Argument - Because of the variety of names, by which they used to call their kings, and the number of years in which the Hebrews and the Greeks vary, various authors write concerning that Ahasuerus but is seems in (Dan_6:1, Dan_9:1) that he was Darius king of the Medes and son of Astyages also called Ahasuerus which was a name of honour and signified great and chief as chief head. In this is declared the great mercies of God toward his church: who never fails them in their greatest dangers, but when all hope of worldly help fades, he stirs up some, by whom he sends comfort and deliverance. In this also is described the ambition, pride and cruelty of the wicked when they come to honour and their sudden fall when they are at their highest and how God preserves and prefers them who are zealous of his glory and have a care and love for their brethren.

geneva@Esther:1:10 @ On the (note:)Which was the last day of the feast that the king made for the people as in (Est_1:5).(:note) seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

geneva@Esther:1:14 @ And the next unto him [was] Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the (note:)Who were his chief counsellors that always had access to him.(:note) king's face, [and] which sat the first in the kingdom;)

geneva@Esther:1:20 @ And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is (note:)For he had under him a hundred and twenty-seven countries.(:note) great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

geneva@Esther:2:1 @ After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he (note:)That is, he brought the matter again into discussion.(:note) remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed By the seven wise men of his counsel. against her.

geneva@Esther:2:16 @ So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which [is] the (note:)Which contained part of December and part of January.(:note) month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

geneva@Esther:2:18 @ Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, [even] Esther's (note:)That is, made for her sake.(:note) feast; and he made a release He released their tribute. to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the That is, great and magnificent. state of the king.

geneva@Esther:4:2 @ And came even before the king's (note:)Because he would inform Esther of this cruel proclamation.(:note) gate: for none [might] enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

geneva@Esther:5:3 @ Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request? it shall be even (note:)Meaning by this that whatever she asked would be granted as in (Mar_6:23).(:note) given thee to the half of the kingdom.

geneva@Esther:5:6 @ And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of (note:)Because they used to drink excessively in their banquets they called the banquet by that which was most in use or esteemed.(:note) wine, What [is] thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

geneva@Esther:8:9 @ Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that [is], the month (note:)Which contains part of May and part of June.(:note) Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which [are] from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the That is, in such letters and languages as was usual in every province. writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

geneva@Esther:9:16 @ But the other Jews that [were] in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for (note:)Read (Est_8:11).(:note) their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their Meaning, that they laid hands on no one that was not the enemy of God. foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

geneva@Esther:9:19 @ Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, (note:)As the Jews do even to this day, calling it in the Persian language Purim, that is, the day of lots.(:note) made the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

geneva@Esther:9:30 @ And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] (note:)Which were letters declaring to them quietness and assurance and putting them out of doubt and fear.(:note) words of peace and truth,

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 - In this history the example of patience is set before our eyes. This holy man Job was not only extremely afflicted in outward things and in his body, but also in his mind and conscience, by the sharp temptation of his wife and friends: who by their vehement words and subtle disputations brought him almost to despair. They set forth God as a sincere judge, and mortal enemy to him who had cast him off, therefore in vain he should seek him for help. These friends came to him under pretence of consolation, and yet they tormented him more than all his afflictions did. Even so, he constantly resisted them, and eventually succeeded. In this story we must note that Job maintains a good cause, but handles it badly. His adversaries have an evil matter, but they defend it craftily. Job held that God did not always punish men according to their sins, but that he had secret judgments, of which man knew not the cause, and therefore man could not reason against God in it, but he should be convicted. Moreover, he was assured that God had not rejected him, yet through his great torments and afflictions he speaks many inconveniences and shows himself as a desperate man in many things, and as one that would resist God, and this is his good cause which he handles well. Again the adversaries maintain with many good arguments that God punishes continually according to the trespass, grounding on God's providence, his justice and man's sins, yet their intention is evil; for they labour to bring Job into despair, and so they maintain an evil cause. Ezekiel commends Job as a just man, (Eze_14:14) and James sets out his patience for an example, (Jam_5:11).

geneva@Job:1:3 @ His (note:)His children and riches are declared, to commend his virtue in his prosperity and his patience and constancy when God took them from him.(:note) substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of Meaning, the Arabians, Chaldeans, Idumeans etc. the east.

geneva@Job:1:16 @ While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The (note:)Which was also done by the craft of Satan, to tempt Job even more grievously, so he might see that not only men were his enemies, but that God made war against him.(:note) fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

geneva@Job:2:13 @ So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very (note:)And therefore thought that he would not have listened to their counsel.(:note) great.

geneva@Job:3:1 @ After this opened (note:)The seven days ended, (Job_2:13).(:note) Job his mouth, and Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the flesh, (Rom_7:18) and after a manner yields yet in the end he gets victory though he was in the mean time greatly wounded. cursed his day.

geneva@Job:4:8 @ Even as I have seen, they that (note:)They who do evil cannot but receive evil.(:note) plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

geneva@Job:4:20 @ They are destroyed from (note:)They see death continually before their eyes and daily approaching them.(:note) morning to evening: they perish for ever No man for all this considers it. without any regarding [it].

geneva@Job:4:21 @ Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without (note:)That is, before any of them were so wise, as to think of death.(:note) wisdom.

geneva@Job:5:5 @ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the (note:)Though there are only two or three ears left in the hedges, yet these will be taken from him.(:note) thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

geneva@Job:5:19 @ He shall deliver thee in (note:)He will send trouble after trouble that his children may not for one time, but continually trust in him: but they sill have a comfortable issue, even in the greatest and the last, which is here called the seventh.(:note) six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

geneva@Job:9:31 @ Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own (note:)Whatever I would use to cover my filthiness with, it would disclose me even more.(:note) clothes shall abhor me.

geneva@Job:10:21 @ Before I go [whence] I shall not (note:)He speaks this in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God's judgments and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God, and the comfort of the resurrection.(:note) return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

geneva@Job:15:23 @ He wandereth (note:)God not only impoverishes the wicked often, but even in their prosperity he punishes them with a greediness to gain even more: which is as a beggary.(:note) abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

geneva@Job:18:13 @ It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the (note:)That is, some strong and violent death will consume his strength: or as the Hebrew word signifies his members or parts.(:note) firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

geneva@Job:22:30 @ He shall deliver the (note:)God will deliver a whole country from peril, even for the just man's sake.(:note) island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

geneva@Job:23:2 @ Even to day [is] my complaint (note:)He shows the just cause of his complaining and concerning that Eliphaz had exhorted him to return to God, (Job_22:21) he declares that he desires nothing more, but it seems that God would not be found of him.(:note) bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

geneva@Job:23:13 @ But he [is] in one [mind], and who can (note:)Job confesses that at the present he did not feel God's favour and yet was assured that God had appointed him to a good end.(:note) turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.

geneva@Job:25:5 @ Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, (note:)If God shows his power, the moon and stars cannot have the light which is given to them, much less can man have any excellency but from God.(:note) the stars are not pure in his sight.

geneva@Job:27:13 @ This [is] the (note:)Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even to his posterity.(:note) portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

geneva@Job:28:4 @ The flood breaketh out from the (note:)Meaning, him that dwells by it.(:note) inhabitant; [even the waters] Which a man cannot wade through. forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

geneva@Job:31:6 @ Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine (note:)He shows what his uprightness stands in, in as much as he was blameless before men and did not sin against the second table.(:note) integrity.

geneva@Job:34:17 @ Shall even he that hateth right (note:)If God were not just, how could be govern the world?(:note) govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

geneva@Job:36:16 @ Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and (note:)If you had been obedient to God, he would have brought you to freedom and wealth.(:note) that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.

geneva@Job:38:39 @ Wilt (note:)After he had declared God's works in the heavens, he shows his marvellous providence in earth, even toward the brute beasts.(:note) thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

geneva@Job:41:9 @ Behold, (note:)That is, that trusts to take him.(:note) the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?

geneva@Job:41:11 @ Who hath prevented me, that I should (note:)Who has taught me to accomplish my work?(:note) repay [him? whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.

geneva@Job:42:8 @ Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall (note:)When you have reconciled yourselves to him for the faults that you have committed against him, he will pray for you, and I will hear him.(:note) pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job.

geneva@Psalms:11:6 @ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, (note:)As in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.(:note) fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the Which they will drink even to the dregs, (Eze_23:34). portion of their cup.

geneva@Psalms:18:41 @ They (note:)They who reject the cry of the afflicted, God will also reject them when they cry for help, for either pain or fear causes those hypocrites to cry.(:note) cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

geneva@Psalms:21:3 @ For thou (note:)You declared your liberal favour toward him before he prayed.(:note) preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

geneva@Psalms:22:3 @ But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the (note:)He means the place of praising, even the tabernacle or else it is so called, because he gave the people continuous opportunity to praise him.(:note) praises of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:22:9 @ But thou [art] he that took me out of the (note:)Even from my birth you have given me opportunity to trust in you.(:note) womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

geneva@Psalms:23:5 @ Thou preparest a (note:)Even though his enemies sought to destroy him, yet God delivers him, and deals most liberally with him in spite of them.(:note) table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou As was the manner of great feasts. anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

geneva@Psalms:26:12 @ My foot standeth in (note:)I am preserved from my enemies by the power of God, and therefore will praise him openly.(:note) an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:31:11 @ I was a (note:)My enemies had drawn all men to their part against me, even my chief friends.(:note) reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

geneva@Psalms:31:19 @ [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou (note:)The treasures of God's mercy are always laid up in store for his children, even at all times they do not enjoy them.(:note) hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

geneva@Psalms:35:7 @ For (note:)Showing that we may not call God to be a revenger but only for his glory, and when our cause is just.(:note) without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

geneva@Psalms:36:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD.» The transgression of the wicked saith (note:)I see evidently by his deeds, that sin pushes forward the reprobate from wickedness to wickedness, even though he goes about to cover his impiety.(:note) within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes.

geneva@Psalms:36:6 @ Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great (note:)The depth of your providence governs all things, and disposes them, even though the wicked seem to overwhelm the world.(:note) deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

geneva@Psalms:39:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [even] to (note:)This was one of the chief singers, (1Ch_16:41).(:note) Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.» I said, Although he had appointed with himself patiently to have wait for God's timing, yet the vehemency of his pain caused him to break his purpose. I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

geneva@Psalms:39:2 @ I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; (note:)Though when the wicked ruled he thought to have kept silence, yet his zeal caused him to change his mind.(:note) and my sorrow was stirred.

geneva@Psalms:40:3 @ And he hath put (note:)That is, a special opportunity to praise him, for God's benefits are so many opportunities for us to praise his Name.(:note) a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:45:12 @ And the (note:)He signifies that many of those who are rich will be benefactors to the Church, although they do not give perfect obedience to the Gospel.(:note) daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; [even] the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

geneva@Psalms:45:13 @ The king's daughter [is] all glorious (note:)There is nothing feigned or hypocritical but she is glorious both within and without: and even though the Church has not always had this outward glory, the fault is to be imputed only to their own ingratitude.(:note) within: her clothing [is] of wrought gold.

geneva@Psalms:47:9 @ The princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth [belong] unto God: he (note:)He praises God's highness, for that he joins the great princes of the world (whom he calls shields) to the fellowship of his Church.(:note) is greatly exalted.

geneva@Psalms:48:1 @ «(note:)Some put this difference between a song and psalm, saying that it is called a song when there is no instrument but the voice, and the song of the psalm is when the instruments begin and the voice follows.(:note) A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah.» Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the Even though God shows his wonders through all the world, yet he will be chiefly praised in his Church. city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.

geneva@Psalms:50:1 @ «A Psalm of (note:)Who was either the author, or a chief singer, to whom it was committed.(:note) Asaph.» The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the To plead against his deceitful people before heaven and earth. earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

geneva@Psalms:52:5 @ God shall likewise (note:)Though God forbear for a time, yet at length he will recompense your falsehood.(:note) destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place, and Even though you seem to be never so sure settled. root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:54:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?» Save me, O God, (note:)He declares that when all means fail, God will deliver even by miracle, they who call to him with an upright conscience.(:note) by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

geneva@Psalms:55:17 @ Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, (note:)Which signifies a servants mind and sure trust to obtain his portion, which made him earnest at all times in prayer.(:note) and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

geneva@Psalms:55:18 @ He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was] against me: for there were (note:)Even the angels of God fought on my side against my enemies, (2Ki_6:16).(:note) many with me.

geneva@Psalms:55:19 @ God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they (note:)But their prosperous estate still continues.(:note) have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

geneva@Psalms:57:4 @ My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] (note:)He means their slanderous and false reports.(:note) spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

geneva@Psalms:58:3 @ The wicked (note:)That is, enemies to the people of God even from their birth.(:note) are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

geneva@Psalms:59:1 @ «To the chief Musician, Altaschith, (note:)Or, a certain tune.(:note) Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.» Though his enemies were even at hand to destroy him, yet he assures himself that God had ways to deliver him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

geneva@Psalms:59:6 @ They return at evening: they make a noise like a (note:)He compares their cruelty to hungry dogs showing that they are never weary in doing evil.(:note) dog, and go round about the city.

geneva@Psalms:59:10 @ The God of my mercy shall (note:)He will not fail to help me when need requires.(:note) prevent me: God shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.

geneva@Psalms:59:12 @ [For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be (note:)That in their misery and shame they may be as glasses and examples of God's vengeance.(:note) taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

geneva@Psalms:59:14 @ And at evening let them (note:)He mocks their vain enterprises, being assured that they will not bring their purpose to pass.(:note) return; [and] let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

geneva@Psalms:64:3 @ Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] (note:)False reports and slanders.(:note) bitter words:

geneva@Psalms:67:6 @ [Then] shall (note:)He shows that where God favours there will be abundance of all other things.(:note) the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our own God, shall bless us.

geneva@Psalms:68:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David.» Let God (note:)The prophet shows that even though God permits the wicked tyrants to oppress his Church for a time, yet eventually he will take revenge on them.(:note) arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

geneva@Psalms:68:20 @ [He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord [belong] the (note:)Even in most extreme dangers, God has infinite ways to deliver his.(:note) issues from death.

geneva@Psalms:68:24 @ They have seen (note:)That is, how you who are chief King goes out with your people to war, and gives them the victory.(:note) thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

geneva@Psalms:68:26 @ Bless ye God in the congregations, [even] the Lord, from the fountain (note:)Who come of the patriarch Jacob.(:note) of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:69:13 @ But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an (note:)Knowing that even though I endure trouble now, yet you have a time in which you have appointed my deliverance.(:note) acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

geneva@Psalms:70:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, to bring (note:)Which might put him in remembrance of his deliverance.(:note) to remembrance.» [Make He teaches us to be earnest in prayer even though God seems to delay: for at his time he will hear us. haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:71:9 @ Cast me not off in the time of (note:)You who helped me in my youth when I had more strength, help me now even more in my old age and weakness.(:note) old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

geneva@Psalms:71:16 @ I will (note:)I will remain steadfast, being upheld by the power of God.(:note) go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.

geneva@Psalms:71:22 @ I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [even] thy (note:)He confesses that his long delay was well recompensed, when God performed his promise.(:note) truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:72:3 @ The (note:)When justice reigns, even the places most barren will be enriched with your blessings.(:note) mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:73:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» Truly (note:)As it were between hope and despair he bursts forth into this affection, being assured that God would continue his favour toward such as were godly indeed, and not hypocrites.(:note) God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.

geneva@Psalms:73:11 @ And they (note:)Thus the flesh moves even the godly to dispute with God concerning their poor estate, and the prosperity of the wicked.(:note) say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

geneva@Psalms:74:11 @ Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? (note:)They join their deliverance with God's glory and power, knowing that the punishment of the enemy would be their deliverance.(:note) pluck [it] out of thy bosom.

geneva@Psalms:76:7 @ Thou, [even] thou, [art] to be feared: and who may stand in thy (note:)God with a look is able to destroy all the power and activity of the enemies, no matter how many or mighty.(:note) sight when once thou art angry?

geneva@Psalms:77:1 @ «To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.» I cried unto God with my (note:)The prophet teaches us by his example to flee to God for help in our necessities.(:note) voice, [even] unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

geneva@Psalms:78:6 @ That the (note:)He shows how the children would be like their father's: that is, in maintaining God's pure religion.(:note) generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:

geneva@Psalms:78:53 @ And he led them on safely, so that they (note:)That is, they had no opportunity to fear, even as God destroyed their enemies and delivered them falsely.(:note) feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

geneva@Psalms:78:54 @ And he brought them to the border of his (note:)Meaning, Canaan, which God had consecrated to himself and appointed to his people.(:note) sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.

geneva@Psalms:79:8 @ O remember not against us (note:)Which we and our fathers have committed.(:note) former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

geneva@Psalms:80:14 @ Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down (note:)They gave no place to temptation, knowing that even though there was no help in earth, yet God was able to help them from heaven.(:note) from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

geneva@Psalms:84:2 @ My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the (note:)For only the priests could enter the sanctuary and the rest of the people into the courts.(:note) courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

geneva@Psalms:84:3 @ Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine (note:)So that the poor birds have more freedom than I.(:note) altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

geneva@Psalms:86:2 @ Preserve my soul; for I [am] (note:)I am not an enemy to them, but I pity them even though they are cruel to me.(:note) holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

geneva@Psalms:86:6 @ Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and (note:)By crying and calling continually he shows how we must not be weary, even though God does not immediately grant our request but that we must earnestly and often call on him.(:note) attend to the voice of my supplications.

geneva@Psalms:89:47 @ Remember (note:)Seeing man's life is short, and you have created man to bestow your benefits on him, unless you hasten to help, death will prevent you.(:note) how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

geneva@Psalms:90:2 @ Before the (note:)You have chosen us to be your people before the foundations of the world were laid.(:note) mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.

geneva@Psalms:91:8 @ Only with thine (note:)The godly will have some experience of God's judgements against the wicked even in this life, but they will see it fully at that day when all things will be revealed.(:note) eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:95:3 @ For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all (note:)Even the angels (who in respect to men are thought as gods) are nothing in his sight, much less the idols, which man's brain invents.(:note) gods.

geneva@Psalms:102:1 @ «A Prayer (note:)By which is signified, that even though we are in great misery, yet there is always room for prayer.(:note) of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my He declares that in our prayer we must lively feel that which we desire, and steadfastly believe to obtain. cry come unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:102:13 @ Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the (note:)That is, the seventy years which by the prophet Jeremiah you appointed, (Jer_29:12).(:note) set time, is come.

geneva@Psalms:103:5 @ Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things; so that] thy (note:)As the eagle, when her beak overgrows, sucks blood and so is renewed in strength, even so God miraculously gives strength to his Church above all man's expectations.(:note) youth is renewed like the eagle's.

geneva@Psalms:104:21 @ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat (note:)That is, they only find meat according to God's providence, who cares even for the brute beasts.(:note) from God.

geneva@Psalms:106:8 @ Nevertheless he (note:)The inestimable goodness of God appears in this, that he would rather change the order of nature than have his people not be delivered, even though they were wicked.(:note) saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

geneva@Psalms:106:13 @ They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his (note:)The would prevent his wisdom and providence.(:note) counsel:

geneva@Psalms:106:30 @ Then stood up (note:)When all others neglected God's glory, he in his zeal killed the adulterers and prevented God's wrath.(:note) Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed.

geneva@Psalms:108:1 @ «A Song [or] Psalm of David.» O God, my heart is (note:)This earnest affection declares that he is free from hypocrisy and that sluggishness does not stop him.(:note) fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

geneva@Psalms:109:7 @ When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his (note:)As to the elect all things turn to their profit, so to the reprobate, even those things that are good, turn to their damnation.(:note) prayer become sin.

geneva@Psalms:109:16 @ Because that (note:)He shows that God plagues them in a strange way who show themselves cruel toward others.(:note) he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

geneva@Psalms:111:5 @ He hath given (note:)God has given to his people all that was necessary for them and will do so even for his covenant's sake, and in this sense the Hebrew word is taken in (Pro_30:8, Pro_31:15).(:note) meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

geneva@Psalms:115:3 @ But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath (note:)No impediments can slow his work, but he uses even the impediments to serve his will.(:note) pleased.

geneva@Psalms:115:16 @ The (note:)And they declare enough his sufficiency so that the world serves him nothing, but to show his fatherly care toward men.(:note) heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

geneva@Psalms:118:27 @ God [is] the LORD, which hath shewed us (note:)Because he has restored us from darkness to light, we will offer sacrifices and praises to him.(:note) light: bind the sacrifice with cords, [even] unto the horns of the altar.

geneva@Psalms:119:40 @ Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: (note:)Give me strength to continue in your word even to the end.(:note) quicken me in thy righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:119:41 @ VAU. Let thy (note:)He shows that God's mercy and love is the first reason for our salvation.(:note) mercies come also unto me, O LORD, [even] thy salvation, according to thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:55 @ I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the (note:)Even when others sleep.(:note) night, and have kept thy law.

geneva@Psalms:119:148 @ Mine eyes (note:)He was more earnest in the study of God's word, than they who kept the watch were in their charge.(:note) prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:160 @ Thy word [is] true [from] the (note:)Since you first promised it, even to the end all your sayings are true.(:note) beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:120:1 @ «A Song of (note:)That is, of lifting up the tune and rising in singing.(:note) degrees.» In my Even though the children of God should rejoice when they suffer for righteousness sake, yet it is a great grief to the flesh to hear evil for well doing. distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

geneva@Psalms:121:6 @ The sun shall not (note:)Neither heat nor cold, nor any inconvenience will be able to destroy God's Church, even though for a time they may molest it.(:note) smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

geneva@Psalms:121:8 @ The LORD shall preserve thy (note:)Whatever you attempt will have good success.(:note) going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:131:2 @ Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a (note:)He was void of ambition and wicked desires.(:note) weaned child.

geneva@Psalms:133:2 @ [It is] like the precious (note:)The ointment was a figure of the graces which come from Christ the head of his Church.(:note) ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, [even] Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

geneva@Psalms:133:3 @ As the dew of (note:)By Hermon and Zion he means the plentiful country about Jerusalem.(:note) Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for Where there is such concord. there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:136:25 @ Who giveth food to all (note:)Seeing that God provides even for the beasts much more has he care over his.(:note) flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:137:1 @ By the rivers of Babylon, there we (note:)That is, we abode a long time, and even though the country was pleasant, yet it could not stay our tears, nor turn us from the true service of our God.(:note) sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

geneva@Psalms:137:7 @ Remember, O LORD, the children of (note:)As was prophesied in (Eze_25:13, Jer_49:7, Oba_1:10), showing that the Edomites who came from Esau, conspired with the Babylonians against their brethren and kinsfolk.(:note) Edom in the When you visited Jerusalem. day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.

geneva@Psalms:138:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the (note:)Even in the presence of angels and of them who have authority among men.(:note) gods will I sing praise unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:139:10 @ Even there shall thy hand (note:)Your power holds me so fast that there is no way I can escape from you.(:note) lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

geneva@Psalms:139:11 @ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be (note:)Though darkness is a hinderance to man's sight, yet is serves your eyes as well as the light.(:note) light about me.

geneva@Psalms:139:21 @ Do not I (note:)He teaches us boldly to contemn all the hatred of the wicked and friendship of the world, when they would prevent us from serving God sincerely.(:note) hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

geneva@Psalms:141:2 @ Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the (note:)He means his earnest zeal and gesture, which he used in prayer: alluding to the sacrifices which were by God's commandment offered in the old law.(:note) lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.

geneva@Psalms:144:14 @ [That] our (note:)He attributes not only the great conveniences, but even the least also to God's favour.(:note) oxen [may be] strong to labour; [that there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.

geneva@Psalms:145:1 @ «David's [Psalm] of praise.» (note:)He shows which sacrifices are pleasant and acceptable to God, even praise and thanksgiving and seeing that God still continues his benefits toward us, we ought never to be weary in praising him for the same.(:note) I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

geneva@Psalms:145:4 @ One generation shall praise thy works to (note:)Even as the reason for man's creation and his preservation in this life is to praise God, therefore he requires that not only we ourselves do this, but cause all others to do the same.(:note) another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

geneva@Psalms:145:8 @ The LORD [is] gracious, and full of (note:)He describes after what sort God shows himself to all his creatures though our sins have provoked his vengeance against all: that is, merciful not only in pardoning the sins of his elect, but in doing good even to the reprobate, although they cannot feel the sweet comfort of the same.(:note) compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

geneva@Psalms:146:10 @ The LORD shall (note:)He assures the Church that God reigns forever for the preservation of the same.(:note) reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:148:14 @ He also exalteth the (note:)That is, the dignity, power and glory of his Church.(:note) horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; [even] of the By reason of his covenant made with Abraham. children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:2:16 @ To deliver thee from the strange (note:)Meaning, the wisdom which is the word of God, will preserve us from all vices: naming this vice of whoredom to which man is most prone.(:note) woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

geneva@Proverbs:3:19 @ The LORD by wisdom hath (note:)By this he shows that this wisdom of which he speaks is everlasting, because it was before all creatures and that all things even the whole world were made by it.(:note) founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

geneva@Proverbs:7:9 @ In the twilight, in the evening, in the (note:)He shows that there was almost no one so impudent that they were not afraid to be seen, their consciences accusing them and causing them to seek the night to cover their filthiness.(:note) black and dark night:

geneva@Proverbs:9:1 @ Wisdom hath built her (note:)Christ has prepared him a Church.(:note) house, she hath hewn out her That is, many chief supports and principal parts of his Church, as were the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, pastors and teachers. seven pillars:

geneva@Proverbs:12:10 @ A righteous [man] (note:)Is merciful, even to the very beast who does him service.(:note) regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.

geneva@Proverbs:14:13 @ Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; (note:)He shows the allurement to sin, that it seems sweet, but the end of it is destruction.(:note) and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.

geneva@Proverbs:15:6 @ In the house of the righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is (note:)For though they have much yet it is full of trouble and care.(:note) trouble.

geneva@Proverbs:16:4 @ The LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of (note:)So that the justice of God will appear to his glory, even in the destruction of the wicked.(:note) evil.

geneva@Proverbs:17:17 @ A friend loveth at all times, and a (note:)So that he is more than a friend, even a brother that helps in time of adversity.(:note) brother is born for adversity.

geneva@Proverbs:22:19 @ That thy trust may be in (note:)He shows what the end of wisdom is: that is, to direct us to the Lord.(:note) the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

geneva@Proverbs:24:16 @ For a just [man] (note:)He is subject to many perils, but God delivers him.(:note) falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

geneva@Proverbs:24:29 @ Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I (note:)He shows what is the nature of the wicked, to revenge wrong for wrong.(:note) will render to the man according to his work.

geneva@Proverbs:25:3 @ The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of (note:)He shows that it is too hard for man to attain the reason of all the secret doings of the king, even when he is upright and does his duty.(:note) kings [is] unsearchable.

geneva@Proverbs:26:25 @ When he speaketh kindly, believe him not: for [there are] (note:)Meaning many: he uses a certain number for the uncertain.(:note) seven abominations in his heart.

geneva@Proverbs:28:9 @ He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer [shall be] (note:)Because it is not of faith which is grounded on God's word or law which the wicked contemn.(:note) abomination.

geneva@Proverbs:30:1 @ The words of (note:)Who was an excellent man in virtue and knowledge in the time of Solomon.(:note) Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the man spoke to Ithiel, even to Who were Agur's scholars or friends. Ithiel and Ucal,

geneva@Proverbs:30:15 @ The horseleach hath two (note:)The leach has two forks in her tongue, which here he calls her two daughters, by which she sucks the blood, and is never satisfied: even so, the covetous extortioners are insatiable.(:note) daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for (note:)One man dies after another, and the earth remains longest, even to the last day, which yet is subject to corruption.(:note) ever.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with (note:)Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.(:note) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ And I turned myself to behold (note:)I thought to myself whether it was better to follow wisdom, or my own affections and pleasures, which he calls madness.(:note) wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man's (note:)Meaning, in this world.(:note) eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one For both die and are forgotten as in (Ecc_2:16) or they both alike have prosperity or adversity. event happeneth to them all.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ I know that, whatever God doeth, it shall be for (note:)That is, man will never be able to prevent God's work, but as he has determined so it will come to pass.(:note) ever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing (note:)Man is not able by his reason and judgment to put differences between man and beast, as concerning those things to which both are subject: for the eye cannot judge any otherwise of a man being dead than of a beast, which is dead: yet by the word of God and faith we easily know the diversity as in (Ecc_3:21).(:note) befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ [There is] no (note:)They never cease by all means to creep into favour, but when they do not obtain their greedy desires they think themselves abused, as others have been in times past, and so care no more for him.(:note) end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or (note:)Meaning, what things he ought to chose or refuse: or man knows not by these outward things that is, by prosperity or adversity, whom God favours or hates, for he sends them as well to the wicked as to the godly.(:note) hatred [by] all [that is] before them.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one (note:)In outward things, as riches and poverty, sickness and health, there is no difference between the godly and the wicked but the difference is that the godly are assured by faith of God's favour and assistance.(:note) event to all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:6 @ In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening (note:)Be not weary of well doing.(:note) withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not which shall prosper, either this or That is, which of your works are most agreeable to God. that, or whether they both [shall be] alike good.

geneva@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the (note:)Every part of the body, the least as well as the chiefest was plagued.(:note) sole of the foot even to the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, Their plagues were so grievous that they were incurable, and yet they would not repent. neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

geneva@Isaiah:4:1 @ And in that day (note:)When God will executes this vengeance there will not be one man found to be the head to many women, and they contrary to womanly shamefacedness will seek men, and offer themselves under any condition.(:note) seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only He our husband and let us be called your wives. let us be called by thy name, to take away our For so they thought it to be without a head and husband. reproach.

geneva@Isaiah:4:3 @ And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, [even] every one that is (note:)He alludes to the book of life, of which read (Exo_32:32) meaning God's secret counsel, in which his elect are predestinated to life everlasting.(:note) written among the living in Jerusalem:

geneva@Isaiah:5:9 @ In my (note:)I have heard the complaint and cry of the poor.(:note) ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.

geneva@Isaiah:7:6 @ Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us conquer it for ourselves and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of (note:)Who was an Israelite, and as it seems, enemy to the house of David.(:note) Tabeal:

geneva@Isaiah:7:17 @ The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that (note:)Since the time that the twelve tribes rebelled under Rehoboam.(:note) Ephraim departed from Judah; [even] the king of In whom you have put your trust. Assyria.

geneva@Isaiah:8:2 @ And I took to me (note:)Because the thing was of great importance, he took these two witnesses, who were of credit with the people, when he set this up upon the door of the temple, even though Uriah was a flattering hypocrite, (2Ki_16:11).(:note) faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

geneva@Isaiah:8:7 @ Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of (note:)That is, the Assyrians who dwell beyond Euphrates.(:note) the river, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks:

geneva@Isaiah:8:8 @ And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach [even] to the (note:)It will be ready to drown them.(:note) neck; and the spread of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O He speaks this to Messiah, or Christ, in whom the faithful were comforted and who would not suffer his Church to be destroyed utterly. Immanuel.

geneva@Isaiah:9:7 @ Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. (note:)His singular love and care for his elect.(:note) The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

geneva@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send (note:)That is, the Assyrians against the Jews who are hypocrites. In the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act: for God's intention is to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves. Thus in respect to God's justice, it is God's work, but in respect to their own malice, it is the work of the devil.(:note) him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I command him, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

geneva@Isaiah:10:23 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a full end, even (note:)God will destroy this land as he has determined and later save a small portion.(:note) determined, in the midst of all the land.

geneva@Isaiah:11:15 @ And the LORD shall utterly destroy the (note:)Meaning a corner of the sea that enters into the land and has the form of a tongue.(:note) tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand That is, Nile, the great river of Egypt which enters into the sea with seven streams. over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.

geneva@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded my (note:)That is, prepared and appointed to execute my judgments.(:note) sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my Who willingly go about to the work to which I appoint them, but how the wicked do this, read (Isa_10:6). highness.

geneva@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the (note:)The army of the Medes and the Persians against Babylon.(:note) weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

geneva@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make a (note:)He notes the great slaughter that will be, seeing the enemy will neither for gold or silver spare a man's life as in (Isa_13:17).(:note) man more rare than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

geneva@Isaiah:14:9 @ Hell from beneath is moved for thee to (note:)As though they feared, lest you should trouble the dead, as you did the living and here he derides the proud tyranny of the wicked, who know not that all creatures wish their destruction, that they may rejoice.(:note) meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

geneva@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his (note:)Their vain confidence and proud bragging will deceive them, (Jer_48:2).(:note) lies [shall] not [be] so.

geneva@Isaiah:16:7 @ Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they are] (note:)For all your mourning, yet the city will be destroyed even to the foundation.(:note) stricken.

geneva@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: (note:)That is, the Assyrians and other enemies.(:note) the lords of the nations have broken down her principal plants, they have come [even] to Meaning that the country of Moab was now destroyed, and all the precious things of it were carried into the borders yea into other countries and over the sea. Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:17:14 @ And behold at the time of evening (note:)He compares the Assyrians to a tempest which rises overnight and in the morning is gone.(:note) trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that plunder us, and the lot of them that rob us.

geneva@Isaiah:18:2 @ That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of (note:)Which is those countries were great, so much so that they made ships from them for swiftness.(:note) bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], This may be taken that they sent others to comfort the Jews and to promise them help against their enemies, and so the Lord threatened to take away their strength, that the Jews should not trust in it: or that they solicited the Egyptians and promised them aid to go against Judah. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a That is, the Jews who because of God's plague made all other nations afraid of the same, as God threatened in (Deu_28:37). people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the Meaning the Assyrians, (Isa_8:7). rivers have laid waste!

geneva@Isaiah:19:6 @ And they shall turn the (note:)For the Nile ran into the sea by seven streams, as though they were many rivers.(:note) rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

geneva@Isaiah:19:13 @ The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of (note:)Or Memphis, Alexandria, and now called the great Cairo.(:note) Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the The principal upholders of it are the main cause of their destruction. support of its tribes.

geneva@Isaiah:22:15 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, repair to this (note:)Because the Hebrew word also signifies one who nourishes and cherishes, there are those of the scholars who think that this wicked man nourished a secret friendship with the Assyrians and Egyptians to betray the Church and to provide for himself against all dangers: in the mean season he packed craftily, and got of the best offices into his hand under Hezekiah, ever aspiring to the highest.(:note) treasurer, [even] to Shebna, who [is] over the house, [and say],

geneva@Isaiah:22:24 @ And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, (note:)Meaning that both small and great who will come from Eliakim, will have praise and glory by his faithful officer.(:note) all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

geneva@Isaiah:23:3 @ And by great waters the (note:)Meaning, the corn of Egypt which was fed by the overflowing of the Nile.(:note) seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, [is] her revenue; and she is a merchandise of nations.

geneva@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the (note:)That is, Tyrus, which was the chief part of the sea.(:note) sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I I have no people left in me, and am as a barren woman, that never had children. travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish young men, [nor] bring up virgins.

geneva@Isaiah:23:15 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of (note:)Tyrus will lie destroyed seventy years which he calls the reign of one king, or a man's age.(:note) seventy years shall Tyre Will use all craft and subtilty to entice men again to her. sing as an harlot.

geneva@Isaiah:23:17 @ And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her (note:)Though she has been chastised by the Lord, yet she will return to her old wicked practises and for gain will give herself to all men's lusts like a harlot.(:note) hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the (note:)Meaning to God, who will publish his gospel through all the world.(:note) righteous. But I said, I am consumed with care, considering the affliction of the Church, both by foreign enemies and domestic. Some read, My secret, my secret: that is, it was revealed to the prophet, that the good would be preserved and the wicked destroyed. My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

geneva@Isaiah:25:5 @ Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the (note:)Meaning, that as the heat is abated by the rain, so shall God bring down the rage of the wicked.(:note) heat in a dry place; As a cloud shades from the heat of the sun, so God will assuage the rejoicing of the wicked against the godly. [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

geneva@Isaiah:25:10 @ For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and (note:)By Moab are meant all the enemies of his Church.(:note) Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the There were two cities by this name: one in Judah, (1Ch_6:81) and another in the land of Moab, (Jer_48:2) which seems to have been a plentiful place of corn, (Isa_36:17). dunghill.

geneva@Isaiah:26:5 @ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; (note:)There is no power so high that it can hinder God, when he will deliver his.(:note) the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground; he bringeth it [even] to the dust.

geneva@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the (note:)God will set the poor afflicted over the power of the wicked.(:note) poor, [and] the steps of the needy.

geneva@Isaiah:26:14 @ [They are] (note:)Meaning that the reprobate even in this life will have the beginning of everlasting death.(:note) dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

geneva@Isaiah:27:1 @ In that (note:)At the time appointed.(:note) day the LORD with his severe and great and strong That is, by his mighty power, and by his word. He prophecies here of the destruction of Satan and his kingdom under the name of Liviashan, Assur, and Egypt. sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:28:25 @ When he hath made (note:)As the plowman has his appointed time, and various instruments for his labour, so has the Lord for his vengeance: for he punishes some at one time, and some at another, some after one sort, and some after another, so that his chosen seed is beaten and tried, but not broken as are the wicked.(:note) even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the wheat in rows and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?

geneva@Isaiah:29:7 @ And the (note:)The enemies that I will bring to destroy you, and that which you place your vain trust in will come at unawares even as a dream in the night. Some read as if this was a comfort to the Church for the destruction of their enemies.(:note) multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her strong hold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

geneva@Isaiah:29:8 @ It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and, behold, (note:)That is, he thinks that he eats.(:note) he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

geneva@Isaiah:29:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] an wonderful work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall (note:)Meaning, where God is not worshipped according to his word, both magistrates and ministers are fools and without understanding.(:note) perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.

geneva@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the (note:)When the Church is restored, the glory of it will pass seven times the brightness of the sun: for by the sun and moon which are two excellent creations, he shows what will be the glory of the children of God in the kingdom of Christ.(:note) sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

geneva@Isaiah:30:29 @ Ye shall have a song, as in the (note:)You will rejoice at the destruction of your enemies, as they who sang for joy at the solemn feast, which began in the evening.(:note) night [when] a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come upon the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:35:2 @ It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of (note:)The Church which was before compared to a barren wilderness will by Christ be made most plenteous and beautiful.(:note) Carmel and Sharon, they shall He shows that the presence of God is the reason that the Church brings forth fruit and flourishes. see the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellence of our God.

geneva@Isaiah:35:4 @ Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] (note:)To destroy your enemies.(:note) vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.

geneva@Isaiah:37:16 @ O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that (note:)He grounds his prayer on God's promise, who promised to hear them from between the Cherubims.(:note) dwellest [between] the cherubim, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

geneva@Isaiah:37:20 @ Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that (note:)He declares for what cause he prayed, that they might be glorified by it through all the world.(:note) all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD, [even] thou only.

geneva@Isaiah:37:23 @ Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? [even] against the (note:)Declaring by this that they who are enemies to God's Church fight against him whose quarrel his Church only maintains.(:note) Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:37:26 @ Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, (note:)Signifying that God did not make his Church to destroy it, but to preserve it: and therefore he says that he formed it of old, even in his eternal counsel which cannot be changed.(:note) that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.

geneva@Isaiah:38:6 @ And I will deliver thee and this city (note:)He not only promises to prolong his life, but to give him rest and quietness from the Assyrians, who might have renewed their army to revenge their former defeat.(:note) from the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

geneva@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, (note:)I will no more praise the Lord here in this temple among the faithful thus God permits his dearest children to want his consolation for a time that his grace afterward may appear when they feel their own weakness.(:note) I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

geneva@Isaiah:38:12 @ My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I (note:)By my sin I have provoked God to take my life from me.(:note) have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] That is, in one day, or shortly. to night wilt thou make an end of me.

geneva@Isaiah:38:13 @ I reckoned (note:)Overnight I thought that I would live till morning, but my pangs in the night persuaded me the contrary: he shows the horror that the faithful have when they apprehend God's judgment against their sin.(:note) till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

geneva@Isaiah:40:4 @ Every valley shall be exalted, and every (note:)Whatever may prevent or hinder this deliverance will be removed.(:note) mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

geneva@Isaiah:41:12 @ Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not (note:)Because they will be destroyed.(:note) find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.

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:43:7 @ [Even] every one that is called by my (note:)Meaning that he could not be unmindful of them, unless he would neglect his own Name and glory.(:note) name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; verily, I have made him.

geneva@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the (note:)Meaning, that their deliverance out of Babylon would be more famous than that from Egypt was, (Jer_23:7; Hag_2:10; 2Co_5:17; Rev_21:5, Rev_21:7).(:note) wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.

geneva@Isaiah:43:20 @ The (note:)They will have such abundance of all things as they return home, even in the dry and barren places, that the very beasts will feel my blessings and will acknowledge them: much more men ought to be thankful for the same.(:note) beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

geneva@Isaiah:44:8 @ Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? (note:)Read (Isa_43:10).(:note) ye [are] even my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? verily, [there is] no God; I know not [any].

geneva@Isaiah:44:28 @ That saith of (note:)To assure them of their deliverance he names the person by whom it would be, more than a hundred years before he was born.(:note) Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

geneva@Isaiah:45:4 @ For Jacob my servant's (note:)Not for anything that is in you, or for your worthiness.(:note) sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

geneva@Isaiah:45:12 @ I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their (note:)That is, the stars.(:note) host have I commanded.

geneva@Isaiah:45:24 @ Surely, (note:)Meaning the faithful will feel and confess this.(:note) shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are All the contemners of God. incensed against him shall be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:46:4 @ And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to gray hairs will I carry [you]: (note:)Seeing I have begotten you, I will nourish and preserve you forever.(:note) have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].

geneva@Isaiah:46:12 @ Hearken to me, ye stubborn in heart, that [are] far from (note:)Who by your incredulity would prevent the performance of my promise.(:note) righteousness:

geneva@Isaiah:47:2 @ Take the millstones, and (note:)You will be brought to most vile servitude: for to turn the mill was the office of slaves.(:note) grind meal: uncover thy locks, The things in which she sets her greatest pride, will be made vile, even from the head to the foot. make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

geneva@Isaiah:47:15 @ Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his (note:)They will flee everyone to that place, which he thought by his speculations to be most sure: but that will deceive them.(:note) quarter; none shall save thee.

geneva@Isaiah:48:5 @ I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee; before it came to pass I showed (note:)How you should be delivered out of Babylon.(:note) [it] thee: lest thou shouldest say, My idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

geneva@Isaiah:48:6 @ Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye (note:)Will you not acknowledge my blessing, and declare it to others?(:note) declare [it]? I have showed ye new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

geneva@Isaiah:48:7 @ They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I (note:)Showing that man's arrogancy is the reason God does not declare all things at once, lest they should attribute this knowledge to their own wisdom.(:note) knew them.

geneva@Isaiah:48:11 @ For my own sake, [even] for my own sake, will I do [it]: for how should [my name] (note:)God joins the salvation of his with his own honour: so that they cannot perish, but his glory would be diminished, as in (Deu_32:27).(:note) be profaned? Read (Isa_42:8). and I will not give my glory to another.

geneva@Isaiah:49:10 @ They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy (note:)Meaning, that there would be nothing in their way from Babylon that would hinder or hurt them: but this is accomplished spiritually.(:note) on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

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@Isaiah:51:14 @ The captive exile (note:)He comforts them by the short time of their banishment: for in seventy years they were restored and the greatest empire of the world destroyed.(:note) hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

geneva@Isaiah:55:3 @ Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the (note:)The same covenant which through my mercy I ratified and confirmed to David, that it would be eternal, (2Sa_7:13; Act_13:34).(:note) sure mercies of David.

geneva@Isaiah:56:5 @ Even to them will I give in my (note:)Meaning, in his Church.(:note) house and within my walls a place and a They will be called after my people, and be of the same religion: yea, under Christ the dignity of the faithful will be greater than the Jews were at that time. name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

geneva@Isaiah:56:7 @ Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt (note:)By this he means the spiritual service of God, to whom the faithful offer continual thanksgiving, yea themselves and all that they have, as a lively and acceptable sacrifice.(:note) offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called an house of prayer for Not only for the Jews, but for all others, (Mat_21:13). all people.

geneva@Isaiah:57:6 @ Among the smooth [stones] (note:)Meaning every place was polluted with their idolatry: or every fair stone they found they made into an idol.(:note) of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in In the sacrifices which you offering before these idols thought you served God. these?

geneva@Isaiah:57:7 @ Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy (note:)That is, your altars in an open place, like an impudent harlot, that cares not for the sight of her husband.(:note) bed: even there thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.

geneva@Isaiah:57:9 @ And thou wentest (note:)You sought the favour of the Assyrians by gifts and presents to help you against the Egyptians and when they failed you sought the Babylonians, and more and more tormented yourself.(:note) to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] to hell.

geneva@Isaiah:57:11 @ And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast (note:)Broken promises with me.(:note) lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of Meaning, that the wicked abuse God's leniency, and grow to further wickedness. old, and thou fearest me not?

geneva@Isaiah:63:18 @ The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little (note:)That is, in respect to the promise, which is perpetual: even though they had now possessed the land of Canaan for 1400 years: and thus they lament, to move God rather to remember his covenant, than to punish their sins.(:note) while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

geneva@Isaiah:64:8 @ But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the (note:)Even though O Lord by your just judgment you may utterly destroy us as the potter may his pot, yet we appeal to your mercies, by which it has pleased you to adopt us to be your children.(:note) clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.

geneva@Isaiah:65:6 @ Behold, [it is] (note:)So that the remembrance of it cannot be forgotten.(:note) written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

geneva@Isaiah:65:15 @ And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my (note:)Meaning, that he would call the Gentiles, who would abhor even the very name of the Jews for their infidelities sake.(:note) chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by Than by the name of the Jews. another name:

geneva@Isaiah:66:2 @ For all these [things] hath my hand made, (note:)Seeing that both the temple and the things in it, with the sacrifices were made and done by his appointment, he shows that he has no need of it, and that he can be without them, {{See Psa_50:10}}.(:note) and all these [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of To him that is humble and pure in heart, who receives my doctrine with reverence and fear. a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

geneva@Isaiah:66:17 @ They that sanctify (note:)Meaning, the hypocrites.(:note) themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating By which are meant them that maliciously transgressed the law, by eating beasts forbidden, even to the mouse which nature abhors. swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, the sermons and prophecies.(:note) words of Jeremiah the son of Who is thought to be he that found the book of the law under king Josiah, (2Ki_22:8). Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in This was a city about three miles from Jerusalem and belonged to the priests, the sons of Aaron, (Jos_21:18). Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: The Argument - The prophet Jeremiah born in the city of Anathoth in the country of Benjamin, was the son of Hilkiah, whom some think to be he that found the book of the law and gave it to Josiah. This prophet had excellent gifts from God, and most evident revelations of prophecy, so that by the commandment of the Lord he began very young to prophecy, that is, in the thirteenth year of Josiah, and continued eighteen years under the king, three months under Jehoahaz and under Jehoiakim eleven years, three months under Jehoiachin, and under Zedekiah eleven years to the time that they were carried away into Babylon. So that this time amounts to above forty years, besides the time that he prophesied after the captivity. In this book he declares with tears and lamentations, the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the people, for their idolatry, covetousness, deceit, cruelty, excess, rebellion and contempt of God's word, and for the consolation of the Church reveals the just time of their deliverance. Here chiefly are to be considered three things. First the rebellion of the wicked, who wax more stubborn and obstinate, when the prophets admonish them most plainly of their destruction. Next how the prophets and ministers of God should not be discouraged in their vocation, though they are persecuted and rigorously handled by the wicked, for God's cause. Thirdly though God shows his just judgment against the wicked, yet will he ever show himself a preserver of his Church, and when all means seem to men's judgment to be abolished, then will he declare himself victorious in preserving his.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:3 @ It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the (note:)Meaning the nephew of Josiah: for Jehoahaz was his father, who reigned but three months, and therefore is not mentioned, nor is Jehoiakim that reigned no longer.(:note) son of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth Of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, who was also called Mattaniah, and at this time the Jews were carried away into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. month.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:36 @ Why dost thou go about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, (note:)For the Assyrians had taken away the ten tribes out of Israel and destroyed Judah even to Jerusalem: and the Egyptians slew Josiah, and vexed the Jews in various ways.(:note) as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:25 @ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: (note:)They justify not themselves, or say that they would follow their fathers, but condemn their wicked doings and desire forgiveness for the same, as in (Ezr_9:7; Psa_106:6; Isa_64:6).(:note) for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:19 @ My distress, my (note:)He shows that the true ministers are lively touched with the calamities of the Church, so that all the parts of their body feel the grief of their heart, even though with zeal to God's glory they pronounce his judgments against the people.(:note) distress! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Wherefore a (note:)Meaning, Nebuchadnezzar and his army.(:note) lion from the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: (note:)As the Lord had given him his word to be as a fire of his indignation to burn the wicked, (Jer_5:14) so he kindles it now when he sees that all remedies are past.(:note) I will pour it out upon the No one will be spared. children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Is this house, which is called by my name, become (note:)As thieves hidden in holes and dens think themselves safe, so when you are in my temple, you think to be covered with the holiness of it, and that I cannot see your wickedness, (Mat_21:13).(:note) a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast (note:)I will send you into captivity as I have done Ephraim, that is, the ten tribes.(:note) you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:25 @ Since the day that your fathers came forth from the land of Egypt to (note:)Which was about fourteen hundred years.(:note) this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily Read (Jer_7:13). rising early and sending [them]:

geneva@Jeremiah:9:15 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall (note:)Read (Jer_8:14).(:note) to drink.

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@Jeremiah:11:7 @ For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day [that] I brought them out of the land of Egypt, [even] to this day, (note:)Read (Jer_7:13).(:note) rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:7 @ I have forsaken (note:)God wills the prophet to denounce his judgments against Jerusalem, even though they will both by threatenings and flatteries labour to silence him.(:note) my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:14 @ And I will (note:)It will be as easy for me to destroy the greatest and the strongest as it is for a man to break earthen bottles.(:note) dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:18 @ Say to the (note:)For Jehoiachin and his mother rendered themselves by Jeremiah's counsel to the king of Babylon, (2Ki_24:12).(:note) king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She that hath borne (note:)She who had many lost all her children.(:note) seven languisheth: she hath breathed her last; her sun is She was destroyed in the midst of her prosperity. gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the remnant of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:15 @ O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my (note:)He does not speak this out of a desire for revenge, but wishing that God would deliver his Church from them who he knew to be hardened and incorrigible.(:note) persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:5 @ For thus saith the LORD, (note:)Signifying that the affliction would be so great that one would not have leisure to comfort another.(:note) Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:4 @ And thou, even (note:)Because you would not give the land rest, at such times, days and years as I appointed, you will after this be carried away and it will rest for lack of labourers.(:note) thyself, shall discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thy enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in my anger, [which] shall burn for ever.

geneva@Jeremiah:19:11 @ And shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a (note:)This visible sign was to confirm them concerning the assurance of this plague, which the Lord threatened by his prophet.(:note) potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. (note:)Thus the enemies conferred together to know what they had heard him say, that they might accuse him of it, read (Isa_29:21).(:note) Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my friends watched for my fall, [saying], Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:11 @ For both prophet and priest are profane; even, in my (note:)My temple is full of their idolatry and superstitions.(:note) house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:33 @ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the (note:)The prophets called their threatenings God's burden, which the sinners were not able to sustain, therefore the wicked in deriding the word, would ask of the prophets, what was the burden as though they would say, «You seek nothing else, but to lay burdens on our shoulders» and thus they rejected the word of God as a grievous burden.(:note) burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:34 @ And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The (note:)Because this word was brought to contempt and derision, he will teach them another manner of speech, and will cause this word burden to cease and teach them to ask with reverence, «What says the Lord?»(:note) burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:3 @ From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to (note:)Which was the fifth year and the ninth month of Jehoiakim's reign.(:note) this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, That is, I have spared no diligence or labour, (Jer_7:13). rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when (note:)This revelation was for the confirmation of his prophecy because he told them of the time that they would enter and remain in captivity, (2Ch_36:22; Ezr_1:1; Jer_29:10; Dan_9:2).(:note) seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish For seeing the judgment began at his own house, the enemies must be punished most grievously, (Eze_9:6; 1Pe_4:17). the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:33 @ And (note:)They who are slain at the Lord's appointment.(:note) the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be refuse upon the ground.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:22 @ They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit (note:)That is, for the space of seventy years till I have caused the Medes and Persians to overcome the Chaldeans.(:note) them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:6 @ Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the (note:)That is, I would wish the same for God's honour and wealth of my people but he has appointed the contrary.(:note) LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:8 @ The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old (note:)Meaning, that the prophets that denounced war or peace were tried either true or false by the success of their prophecies, even though God makes to come to pass sometimes that which the false prophet speaks to try the faith of his, (Deu_13:3).(:note) prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:17 @ So Hananiah the prophet (note:)Seeing this thing was evident in the eyes of the people and yet they returned not to the Lord, it is manifest that miracles cannot move us, neither the word itself, unless God touch the heart.(:note) died the same year in the seventh month.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:13 @ And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all (note:)When your oppression will be great, and your afflictions cause you to repent your disobedience and also when the seventy years of your captivity will be expired, (2Ch_36:22; Ezr_1:1; Jer_25:12; Dan_9:2).(:note) your heart.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:23 @ Because they have committed (note:)Which was adultery and falsifying the word of God.(:note) villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbour's wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:7 @ Alas! for that (note:)Meaning that the time of their captivity would be grievous.(:note) day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:2 @ Thus saith the LORD, The people [who were] (note:)Who were delivered from the cruelty of Pharaoh.(:note) left by the sword found grace in the wilderness; That is, God. [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:19 @ Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon [my] (note:)In sign of repentance and detestation of my sin.(:note) thigh: I was ashamed, and even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:21 @ Set thee up (note:)Mark by what way you went into captivity and you will turn again by the same.(:note) waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thy heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:9 @ And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that [was] in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen (note:)Which amounts to about ten shillings six pence in our money if this shekel were the common shekel, {{See Gen_23:15}}, for the shekel of the temple was of double value, and ten pieces of silver were half a shekel, for twenty made the shekel.(:note) shekels of silver.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:24 @ Considerest thou not what (note:)Meaning, the Chaldeans and other infidels who thought God had utterly cast off Judah and Israel or Benjamin, because he corrected them for a time for their amendment.(:note) this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:2 @ Take thee a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to thee, (note:)Which were twenty and three years, as in (Jer_25:3) counting from the thirteenth year of Josiah's reign.(:note) from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:26 @ Then thou shalt say to them, I (note:)In this appears the infirmity of the prophet, who dissembled to save his life even though it was not to the denial of his doctrine or to the hurt of any.(:note) presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

geneva@Jeremiah:39:2 @ [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken (note:)The gates and walls were broken down.(:note) up.

geneva@Jeremiah:39:12 @ Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him (note:)Thus God preserved his prophet by his means, whom he made the scourge to punish the king, and them that were his enemies.(:note) even as he shall say to thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:39:14 @ Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him to (note:)Whom the king of Babel had now appointed governor over the rest of the Jews that he left behind.(:note) Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:7 @ Now when all the captains of the forces (note:)Which were scattered abroad for fear of the Chaldeans.(:note) who [were] in the fields, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

geneva@Jeremiah:40:8 @ Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even (note:)Who was of the king's blood and later slew him, (Jer_41:2).(:note) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:1 @ Now it came to pass in the (note:)The city was destroyed in the fourth month and in the seventh month, which contained part of September and part of October, the governor Gedaliah was slain.(:note) seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the Meaning, Zedekiah. king, even ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they They ate together as familiar friends. ate bread together in Mizpah.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:5 @ That there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even] eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with (note:)For they thought that the temple had not been destroyed and therefore came up to the feast of tabernacles but hearing of the burning of it in the way, they showed these signs of sorrow.(:note) offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:5 @ Then they said to Jeremiah, (note:)There are as ready to abuse the Name of God and take it in vain as the hypocrites who colour their falsehood, use it without all reverence and make it a means for them to deceive the simple and the godly.(:note) The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

geneva@Jeremiah:43:6 @ [Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the (note:)When these wicked lead away by force.(:note) prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

geneva@Jeremiah:43:7 @ So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus they came [even] to (note:)A city in Egypt near to Nilus.(:note) Tahpanhes.

geneva@Jeremiah:43:9 @ Take great stones in thy hand, and (note:)Which signified that Nebuchadnezzar would come even to the gates of Pharaoh, where his brick kilns for his buildings were.(:note) hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which [is] at the entrance of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

geneva@Jeremiah:44:12 @ And I will take the remnant of Judah, that (note:)Which have fully set their minds and are gone there on purpose. By which he excepts the innocents as Jeremiah and Baruch that were forces: therefore the Lord shows that he will set his face against them: that is, purposely destroy them.(:note) have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt; they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine: they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an horror, and a Read (Jer_26:6, Jer_41:18). curse, and a reproach.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:16 @ [As for] the word that thou hast spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will (note:)This declares how dangerous a thing it is to decline once from God and to follow our own fantasies: for Satan ever solicits such and does not leave them till he has brought them to extreme impudency and madness, even to justify their wickedness against God and his prophets.(:note) not hearken to thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:45:4 @ Thus shalt thou say to him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, [that] which I have built I will (note:)Meaning that God could destroy this people, because he had planted them.(:note) break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:25 @ The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the (note:)Some take the Hebrew word Amon for the kings name of No, that is, of Alexandria.(:note) multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him:

geneva@Jeremiah:47:4 @ Because of the day that cometh to lay waste all the Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyre and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will lay waste the Philistines, the remnant of the country of (note:)For the Caphtorims had destroyed in old time the Philistines, and dwelt in their land even to Gaza, (Deu_2:23).(:note) Caphtor.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:32 @ O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants have gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea (note:)Which city was in the utmost border of Moab: and by this he signifies that the whole land would be destroyed and the people carried away.(:note) of Jazer: the spoiler hath fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:34 @ From the cry of Heshbon [even] to Elealeh, [and even] to Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [even] to Horonaim, [as] an (note:){{See Isa_15:5}}(:note) heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:7 @ All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, (note:)For the Lord dwelt among them in his temple and would have maintained them by his justice against their enemies.(:note) the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:21 @ Go up against the land of (note:)That is, Babylon: thus the Lord raised up Cyrus.(:note) Merathaim, [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:9 @ We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let (note:)Thus the people of God exhort one another to go to Zion and praise God.(:note) us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth to heaven, and is lifted [even] to the skies.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:44 @ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which (note:)That is, his gifts and presents which he had received as part of the spoil of other nations, and which the idolaters brought to him from all countries.(:note) he hath swallowed: and the nations shall not flow together any more to him: even the wall of Babylon shall fall.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:59 @ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the (note:)This was not in the time of his captivity but seven years before, when he went either to congratulate Nebuchadnezzar or to intreat of some matters.(:note) fourth year of his reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:12 @ Now in the fifth month, in the (note:)In (2Ki_25:8) is it called the seventh day, because the fire began then and so continued to the tenth.(:note) tenth [day] of the month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, [who] That is, who was his servant, as in (2Ki_25:8). served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

geneva@Jeremiah:52:25 @ He took also out of the city an eunuch, who had the charge of the men of war; and (note:)In (2Ki_25:19) is read but of five: those were the most excellent and the other two, which were not so noble are not there mentioned with them.(:note) seven men of them that were near the king's person, who were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:28 @ This [is] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the (note:)Which was the latter end of the seventh year of his reign and the beginning of the eighth.(:note) seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

geneva@Jeremiah:52:31 @ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign (note:)That is, restored him to liberty and honour.(:note) lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,

geneva@Lamentations:4:3 @ Even the sea monsters (note:)Though the dragons are cruel, yet they pity their young, and nourish them, which Jerusalem does not do.(:note) draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the The women forsake their children as the ostrich does her eggs, (Job_39:17). ostriches in the wilderness.

geneva@Lamentations:4:22 @ The punishment of thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he (note:)He comforts the Church because after seventy years their sorrows will have an end while the wicked would be tormented for ever.(:note) will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will disclose thy sins.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:27 @ And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire (note:)By which was signified a terrible judgment toward the earth.(:note) around within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness on all sides.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:15 @ Then I came to them of the captivity at (note:)Which was a place by Euphrates where the Jews were prisoners.(:note) Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there overwhelmed among them Declaring here that God's ministers must with advisement and deliberation utter his judgments. seven days.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither hath (note:)Much less such vile corruption.(:note) abominable flesh come into my mouth.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:3 @ And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the (note:)He speaks of all the places where the Israelites accustomed to commit their idolaters, threatening them with destruction.(:note) mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:14 @ So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, even, more desolate (note:)Which was in Syria and bordered on Israel, or from the wilderness which was south, to Diblath which was north: meaning the while country.(:note) than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:2 @ Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of (note:)As in (Eze_1:27).(:note) fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:6 @ He said furthermore to me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should withdraw from (note:)For God will not be where the idols are.(:note) my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:11 @ And there stood before them seventy (note:)Thus they who would have kept all the rest in the fear and true service of God were the ringleaders of all abomination, and by their example pulled others from God.(:note) men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and It was in such abundance. a thick cloud of incense went up.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:1 @ He cried also in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over (note:)The time to take vengeance.(:note) the city to draw near, even every man [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:2 @ And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, [even] under the cherub, and fill thy hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter [them] over (note:)This signified that the city would be burnt.(:note) the city. And he entered in my sight.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:5 @ And the (note:)Read (Eze_1:24).(:note) sound of the cherubim's wings was heard [even] to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:15 @ Son of man, thy (note:)They that remained at Jerusalem thus reproached them that were gone into captivity as though they were cast off and forsaken by God.(:note) brethren, [even] thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, [are] they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Retire far from the LORD: to us is this land given in possession.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:10 @ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, (note:){{See Jer_6:14}}(:note) Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up a While the true prophets prophesied the destruction of the city to bring the people to repentance, the false prophets spoke the contrary, and flattered them in their vanities, so that what one false prophet said (which is here called the building of the wall) another false prophet would affirm, though he had neither opportunity nor good ground to hear him. wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered [mortar]:

geneva@Ezekiel:13:20 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against your [magic] charms, with which ye there hunt the (note:)That is, to cause them to perish, and that they should depart from the body.(:note) souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to make [them] fly.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:22 @ Yet, behold, in it shall be left a (note:){{See Eze_5:3}}(:note) remnant that shall be brought forth, [both] sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, [even] concerning all that I have brought upon it.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:37 @ Behold, therefore I will gather all (note:)Egyptians, Assyrians and Chaldeans whom you took to be your lovers will come and destroy you, (Eze_23:9).(:note) thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:59 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the (note:)When you broke the covenant which was made between you and me, as in (Eze_16:8).(:note) oath in breaking the covenant.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:9 @ Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall (note:)Shall not Nebuchadnezzar destroy it?(:note) he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Of the captivity of Jeconiah.(:note) seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:31 @ For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, (note:)He shows that the ingratitude of the people deserves that God should cut them off, and that they should not have the comfort of his word.(:note) I will not be enquired of by you.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:13 @ Because [it is] a trial, (note:)Ezekiel moved with compassion thus complains fearing the destruction of the kingdom which God had confirmed to David and his posterity by promise, which promise God performed although here it seemed to man's eye that it would utterly perish.(:note) and what if [the sword] despise even the rod? it shall be no [more], saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:18 @ Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become (note:)Which before was most precious.(:note) dross: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:4 @ Gather its (note:)That is the citizens and the chief men of it.(:note) pieces into it, [even] every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill [it] with the choice bones.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:18 @ So I spoke to the people in the morning: and at evening my wife died; and I did (note:)Meaning the morning following.(:note) in the morning as I was commanded.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Either of the captivity of Jeconiah or of the reign of Zedekiah.(:note) eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:27:36 @ The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] (note:)By which is meant a long time: for it was prophesied to be destroyed but seventy years, (Isa_23:15).(:note) any more.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:17 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Counting from the captivity of Jeconiah.(:note) seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:30:20 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Of the captivity of Jeconiah, or of Zedekiah's reign.(:note) eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:31:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Of Zedekiah's reign, or of Jeconiah's captivity.(:note) eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:32:6 @ I will also water with thy blood the land in which thou (note:)As the Nile overflows in Egypt, so will I make the blood of your host overflow it.(:note) swimmest, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:18 @ Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and (note:)That is, prophecy that they will be cast down: thus the Lord gives his prophets power both to plant and to destroy by his word, read (Jer_1:10).(:note) cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:31 @ Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be (note:)As the wicked rejoice when they see others partakers of their miseries.(:note) comforted over all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:32 @ For I have caused my (note:)I will make the Egyptians afraid of me, as they caused others to fear them.(:note) terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:22 @ Now the (note:)I was endued with the Spirit of prophecy, (Eze_3:22).(:note) hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, before he that had escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my By which is signified that the ministers of God cannot give them courage and open their mouths, (Eze_24:27, Eze_29:21; Eph_6:19). mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:23 @ And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant (note:)Meaning Christ, of whom David was a figure, {{See Jer_30:9}}(:note) David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:6 @ Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not (note:)Except you repent your former cruelty.(:note) hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:11 @ Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thy (note:)As you have done cruelly, so will you be cruelly handled.(:note) anger, and according to thy envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among Showing that when God punishes the enemies, the godly ought to consider that he has a care over them and so praise his name: and also that the wicked rage as though there were no God, till they feel his hand to their destruction. them, when I have judged thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:2 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the (note:)That is, the Idumean.(:note) enemy had said against you, Aha, even the ancient That is Jerusalem, which for God's promises was the chief of all the world. high places are ours in possession:

geneva@Ezekiel:36:8 @ But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall (note:)God declares his mercies and goodness toward his Church, who still preserves his, even when he destroys his enemies.(:note) shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are soon to come.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:12 @ Yea, I will cause men to walk (note:)That is, on the mountains of Jerusalem.(:note) upon you, [even] my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them [of men].

geneva@Ezekiel:37:19 @ Say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick (note:)That is, the house of Israel.(:note) of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:25 @ And they shall dwell in the (note:)Meaning that the elect by Christ will dwell in heaven by Jerusalem, which is meant by the land of Canaan.(:note) land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell in it, [even] they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David [shall be] their prince for ever.

geneva@Ezekiel:38:4 @ And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them (note:)He shows that the enemy would bend themselves against the Church but it would be to their own destruction.(:note) handling swords:

geneva@Ezekiel:39:9 @ And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall (note:)After this destruction the Church will have great peace and tranquillity and burn all their weapons because they will no more fear the enemies. This chiefly refers to the accomplishment of Christ's kingdom when by their head Christ all enemies will be overcome.(:note) go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the javelins, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

geneva@Ezekiel:39:14 @ And they shall set apart men for [the] continual task of passing through the (note:)Partly that the holy land should not be polluted and partly for the compassion that the children of God have even on their enemies.(:note) land to bury with the travellers those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:17 @ And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; (note:)By which he signifies the horrible destruction that would come on the enemies of his Church.(:note) gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:3 @ And [it was] according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, [even] according to the vision that I saw (note:)When I prophesied the destruction of the city of the Chaldeans.(:note) when I came to destroy the city: and the visions [were] like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:7 @ In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] (note:)For they had brought idolaters who were from other countries, to teach them their idolatry, (Eze_23:40).(:note) strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:10 @ And the (note:)The Levites who had committed idolatry were put from their dignity and could not be received into the priests office although they had been of the house of Aaron, but must serve in the inferior offices as to watch and to keep the doors, read (2Ki_23:9).(:note) Levites that have gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:10 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] the (note:)Signifying that when God bestows his mercies in such abundance the ministers will by their preaching win many.(:note) fishermen shall stand upon it from Engedi even to Which were cities at the corners of the salt or dead sea. Eneglaim; they shall be a [place] to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of They will be here of all sorts and in as great abundance as in the great ocean where they are bred. the great sea, very many.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:28 @ And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the (note:)Which is here taken for Idumea.(:note) border shall be even from Which was Jericho the city of palm trees. Tamar [to] the waters of strife [in] Kadesh, [and] to the Meaning, the Nile that runs into the sea called the Mediterranean. river toward the great sea.

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 - The great providence of God, and his singular mercy towards his Church are set forth here most vividly, who never leaves his own destitute, but now in their greatest miseries and afflictions gives them Prophets, such as Ezekiel and Daniel, whom he adorned with special graces of his Holy Spirit. And Daniel above all others had most special revelations of such things as would come to the Church, even from the time that they were in captivity, to the last end of the world, and to the general resurrection, as of the four Monarchies and empires of all the world, that is, of the Babylonians, Persians, Grecians, and Romans. Also of the certain number of the times even until Christ, when all ceremonies and sacrifices would cease, because he would be the accomplishment of them: moreover he shows Christ's office and the reason of his death, which was by his sacrifice to take away sins, and to bring everlasting life. And as from the beginning God always exercised his people under the cross, so he teaches here, that after Christ is offered, he will still leave this exercise to his Church, until the dead rise again, and Christ gathers his own into his kingdom in the heavens.

geneva@Daniel:1:21 @ And Daniel continued [even] unto (note:)That is, he was esteemed in Babylon as a Prophet as long as that commonwealth stood.(:note) the first year of king Cyrus.

geneva@Daniel:2:13 @ And the decree went forth that the wise [men] should be slain; and they (note:)Which declares that God would not have his servant united in the company of these sorcerers and astrologers, whose arts were wicked, and therefore justly ought to die, even though the king did it upon a rage and not from zeal.(:note) sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

geneva@Daniel:2:43 @ And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with (note:)They will be marriages and affinities think to make themselves strong: yet they will never by united in heart.(:note) the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

geneva@Daniel:3:4 @ Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, (note:)These are the two dangerous weapons, which Satan used to fight against the children of God, the consent of the multitude, and the cruelty of the punishment. For even though some feared God, yet the multitude who consented to the wickedness persuaded them: and here the King required not an inward consent, but an outward gesture, that the Jews might by little and little learn to forget their true religion.(:note) nations, and languages,

geneva@Daniel:3:19 @ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven (note:)This declares that the more that tyrants rage, and the more crafty they show themselves in inventing strange and cruel punishments, the more is God glorified by his servants, to whom he gives patience and constancy to abide the cruelty of their punishment. For either he delvers them from death, or else for this life gives them better.(:note) times more than it was wont to be heated.

geneva@Daniel:4:23 @ And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts of the field, (note:)By which he means a long space, as seven years. Some interpret seven months, and others seven weeks, but it seems he means seven years.(:note) till seven times pass over him;

geneva@Daniel:4:25 @ That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as (note:)Not that his shape or form was changed into a beast, but that he was either stricken mad, and so avoided man's company, or was cast out because of his tyranny, and so wandered among the beasts, and ate herbs and grass.(:note) oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that Daniel shows the reason why God punished him in this way. the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

geneva@Daniel:4:34 @ And at the end of the (note:)When the term of these seven years was accomplished.(:note) days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from generation to generation:

geneva@Daniel:5:14 @ I have even heard of thee, that (note:)For the idolaters thought that the angels had power as God, and therefore held them in the same estimation that they held God, thinking that the spirit of prophecy and understanding came from them.(:note) the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.

geneva@Daniel:5:31 @ And Darius (note:)Cyrus his son-in-law gave him this title of honour, even though Cyrus in effect had the dominion.(:note) the Median took the kingdom, [being] about threescore and two years old.

geneva@Daniel:6:26 @ I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear (note:)This does not prove that Darius worshipped God properly, or was converted: for then he would have destroyed all superstition and idolatry, and not only given God the chief place, but also have set him up, and caused him to be honoured according to his word. But this was a specific confession of God's power, unto which he was compelled by this wonderful miracle.(:note) before the God of Daniel: for he [is] the Who not only has life in himself, but is the only fountain of life, and quickens all things, so that without him there is no life. living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion [shall be even] unto the end.

geneva@Daniel:7:1 @ In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: (note:)Whereas the people of Israel looked for a continual peace, after the seventy years which Jeremiah had declared, he shows that this rest will not be a deliverance from all troubles, but a beginning. And therefore he encourages them to look for a continual affliction until the Messiah is uttered and revealed, by whom they would have a spiritual deliverance, and all the promises would be fulfilled. And they would have a certain experience of this in the destruction of the Babylonian kingdom.(:note) then he wrote the dream, [and] told the sum of the matters.

geneva@Daniel:7:7 @ After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a (note:)That is, the Roman empire which was a monster, and could not be compared to any beast, because there was no beast that was even comparable.(:note) fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great Signifying the tyranny and greediness of the Romans. iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped That which the Romans could not quietly enjoy in other countries, they would give it to other kings and rulers, so that whenever they wanted to, they might take it again: which liberality is here called the stamping of the rest under the feet. the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had That is, various and different provinces which were governed by the deputies and proconsuls: and each one of these might be compared to a king. ten horns.

geneva@Daniel:7:11 @ I beheld then (note:)Meaning that he was astonished when he saw these emperors in such dignity and pride, so suddenly destroyed at the coming of Christ, when this fourth monarchy was subject to men of other nations.(:note) because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld [even] till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

geneva@Daniel:7:12 @ As (note:)As the three former monarchies had an end at the time that God appointed, even though they flourished for a time, so will this fourth have an end, and they that patiently wait for God's appointment, will enjoy the promises.(:note) concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

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), and in him all the faithful, therefore the kingdom of him is theirs by right, which these four beasts or tyrants would invade, and usurp until the world were restored by Christ. And this was to strengthen and encourage those that were in troubles, that their afflictions would eventually have an end. kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

geneva@Daniel:7:20 @ And of the ten horns that [were] in his head, and [of] the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even [of] that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose (note:)This is meant of the fourth beast, which was more terrible than the others.(:note) look [was] more stout than his fellows.

geneva@Daniel:7:28 @ Hitherto [is] the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my (note:)Even though he had many motions in his heart which moved him to and fro to seek out this matter curiously, yet he was content with that which God revealed, and kept it in memory, and wrote it for the use of the Church.(:note) cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

geneva@Daniel:8:1 @ In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, [even unto] me Daniel, (note:)After the general vision, he comes to certain particular visions with regard to the destruction of the monarchy of the Persians, and Macedonians: for the ruin of the Babylonians was at hand, and also he had sufficiently spoken of it.(:note) after that which appeared unto me at the first.

geneva@Daniel:8:5 @ And as I was considering, behold, (note:)Meaning Alexander that came from Greece with great speed and warlike undertaking.(:note) an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat [had] a notable Even though he came in the name of all Greece, yet he bore the title and dignity of the general captain, so that the strength was attributed to him, which is meant by this horn. horn between his eyes.

geneva@Daniel:8:10 @ And it waxed great, [even] to the (note:)Antiochus raged against the elect of God, and tread his precious stars underfoot, who are so called because they are separated from the world.(:note) host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.

geneva@Daniel:8:11 @ Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the (note:)That is, God, who governs and maintains his Church.(:note) prince of the host, and by him the He laboured to abolish all religion, and therefore cast God's service out of his temple, which God had chosen as a little corner from all the rest of the world to have his name there truly called upon. daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

geneva@Daniel:8:15 @ And it came to pass, when I, [even] I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me (note:)Who was Christ who in this manner declared himself to the old fathers, how he would be God manifest in flesh.(:note) as the appearance of a man.

geneva@Daniel:8:26 @ And the vision of the (note:)Read (Dan_8:14).(:note) evening and the morning which was told [is] true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it [shall be] for many days.

geneva@Daniel:9:1 @ In the first year of Darius the son of (note:)Who was also called Astyages.(:note) Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the For Cyrus led with ambition, and went about wars in other countries, and therefore Darius had the title of the kingdom, even though Cyrus was king in effect. realm of the Chaldeans;

geneva@Daniel:9:2 @ In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by (note:)For even though he was an excellent Prophet, yet he daily increased in knowledge by the reading of the scriptures.(:note) books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

geneva@Daniel:9:11 @ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the (note:)As in (Deu_27:15), or the curse confirmed by an oath.(:note) curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

geneva@Daniel:9:24 @ Seventy (note:)He alludes to Jeremiah's prophecy, who prophesied that their captivity would be seventy years: but now God's mercy would exceed his judgment seven times as much, which would be 490 years, even until the coming of Christ, and so then it would continue forever.(:note) weeks are determined upon Meaning Daniel's nation, over whom he was careful. thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the To show mercy and to put sin out of remembrance. transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

geneva@Daniel:9:25 @ Know therefore and understand, [that] from (note:)That is, from the time that Cyrus gave them permission to depart.(:note) the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven These weeks make forty-nine years, of which forty-six are referred to the time of the building of the temple, and three to the laying of the foundation. weeks, and Counting from the sixth year of Darius, who gave the second commandment for the building of the temple are sixty-two weeks, which make 434 years, which comprehend the time from the building of the temple until the baptism of Christ. threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

geneva@Daniel:9:26 @ And after threescore and two (note:)In this week of the seventy, will Christ come and preach and suffer death.(:note) weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but He will seem to have no beauty, nor to be of any estimation; (Isa_53:2). not for himself: and the people of the Meaning Titus, Vespasians's son, who would come and destroy both the temple, and the people, without any hope of recovery. prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

geneva@Daniel:9:27 @ And he (note:)By the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.(:note) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection. cease, Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them. and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

geneva@Daniel:10:13 @ But the (note:)Meaning Cambyses, who reigned in his father's absence, and did not only for this time hinder the building of the temple, but would have further raged, if God had not sent me to resist him: and therefore I have stayed for the profit of the Church.(:note) prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Even though God could by one angel destroy all the world, yet to assure his children of his love he sends forth double power, even Michael, that is, Christ Jesus the head of angels. Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

geneva@Daniel:10:14 @ Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the (note:)For even though the Prophet Daniel would end and cease, yet his doctrine would continue until the coming of Christ, for the comfort of his Church.(:note) vision [is] for [many] days.

geneva@Daniel:11:1 @ Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, [even] I, (note:)The angel assures Daniel that God has given him power to perform these things, seeing that he appointed him to assist Darius when he overcame the Chaldeans.(:note) stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

geneva@Daniel:11:2 @ And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet (note:)Of which Cambyses that now reigned was the first, the second Smerdes, the third Darius the son of Hystaspis, and the fourth Xerxes, who all were enemies to the people of God, and stood against them.(:note) three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than [they] all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up For he raised up all the east countries to fight against the Grecians, and even though he had in his army 900,000 men, yet in four battles he was defeated, and fled away with shame. all against the realm of Grecia.

geneva@Daniel:11:4 @ And when he shall stand up, (note:)For when his estate was most flourishing, he overcame himself with drink, and so fell into a disease: or as some write, was poisoned by Cassander.(:note) his kingdom shall be broken, For his twelve chief princes first divided his kingdom among themselves. and shall be divided toward the After this his monarchy was divided into four: for Seleucus had Syria, Antigonus had Asia minor, Cassander had the kingdom of Macedonia, and Ptolemeus had Egypt. four winds of heaven; and not to his Thus God avenged Alexander's ambition and cruelty, in causing his posterity to be murdered, partly by their father's chief friends, and partly by one another. posterity, nor according to None of these four will be able to be compared to the power of Alexander. his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside That is, his posterity having no part of it. those.

geneva@Daniel:11:7 @ But out of a branch of her (note:)Meaning that Ptolemais Evergetes after the death of his father Philadelphus would succeed in the kingdom, being of the same stock that Bernice was.(:note) roots shall [one] stand up in his estate, To revenge the sister's death against Antiochus Calinicus King of Syria. which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:

geneva@Daniel:11:10 @ But his (note:)Meaning Seleucus and Antiochus the great, the sons of Calinicus, will make war against Ptolemais Philopater, the son of Philadelphus.(:note) sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and [one] For his older brother Seleucus died, or was slain while the armies were preparing for war. shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he That is, Philopater, when he will see Antiochus take great dominions from him in Syria, and also ready to invade Egypt. return, and be stirred up, [even] to his fortress.

geneva@Daniel:11:11 @ And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, [even] with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great (note:)For Antioch had 6,000 horsemen, and 60,000 footmen.(:note) multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.

geneva@Daniel:11:24 @ He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do [that] which his fathers (note:)Meaning, in Egypt.(:note) have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: [yea], and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a He will content himself with the small strongholds for a time, but will always labour by craft to attain to the chiefest. time.

geneva@Daniel:11:30 @ For the ships (note:)That is, the Roman power will come against him: for P. Popilius the ambassador appointed him to depart in the Romans' name, which he obeyed, although with grief, and to avenge his rage he came against the people of God the second time.(:note) of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, With the Jews who will forsake the covenant of the Lord: for first he was called against the Jews by Jason the high priest, and this second time by Menelaus. and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

geneva@Daniel:11:31 @ And arms (note:)A great faction of the wicked Jews will join with Antiochus.(:note) shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary So called because the power of God was not at all diminished, even though this tyrant set up in the temple the image of Jupiter Olympius, and so began to corrupt the pure service of God. of strength, and shall take away the daily [sacrifice], and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

geneva@Daniel:11:33 @ And they that understand among the (note:)Those that remain constant among the people will teach others by their example, and edify many in the true religion.(:note) people shall instruct many: By which he exhorts the godly to constancy, even though they should perish a thousand times, and even though their miseries endure ever so long. yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, [many] days.

geneva@Daniel:11:34 @ Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a (note:)As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet he will not deliver it all at once, but help in such a way that they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, of which he here prophesies.(:note) little help: but many shall cleave to them That is, there will even be among this small number many hypocrites. with flatteries.

geneva@Daniel:11:35 @ And [some] of them (note:)That is, of those that fear God and will lose their life for the defence of true religion. Signifying also that the Church must continually be tried and purged, and ought to look for one persecution after another: for God has appointed the time, and therefore we must obey.(:note) of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make [them] white, [even] to the time of the end: because [it is] yet for a time appointed.

geneva@Daniel:11:39 @ Thus shall he do in (note:)Even though in their hearts they had no religion, yet they did acknowledge the gods, and worshipped them in their temples, lest they should have been despised as atheists. But this was to increase their fame and riches, and when they gained any country, they made others the rulers of it in such a way that the profit always came to the Romans.(:note) the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge [and] increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

geneva@Daniel:11:41 @ He shall enter also into the (note:)The angel forewarns the Jews that when they should see the Romans invade them, and that the wicked would escape their hands, that then they should think that all this was done by God's providence, seeing that he warned them of it so long before, and therefore he would still preserve them.(:note) glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, [even] Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

geneva@Daniel:12:1 @ And at that (note:)The angel here notes two things: first that the Church will be in great affliction and trouble at Christ's coming, and next that God will send his angel to deliver it, whom he here calls Michael, meaning Christ, who is proclaimed by the preaching of the Gospel.(:note) time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

geneva@Daniel:12:4 @ But thou, O Daniel, (note:)Even though the most part despise this prophecy, yet make sure you keep it and esteem it as a treasure.(:note) shut up the words, and seal the book, Until the time that God has appointed for the full revelation of these things: and then many will run to and fro to search for the knowledge of these mysteries, which things they obtain now by the light of the Gospel. [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

geneva@Daniel:12:11 @ And from the time [that] the (note:)From the time that Christ by his sacrifice will take away the sacrifices and ceremonies of the Law.(:note) daily [sacrifice] shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, [there Signifying that the time will be long until Christ's second coming, and yet the children of God ought not to be discouraged, even though it is deferred. shall be] a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

geneva@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days (note:)Also called Azariah, who being a leper was disposed from his kingdom.(:note) of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, So that it may be gathered by the reign of these four kings that he preached about eighty years. kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The Argument - After the ten tribes had fallen away from God by the wicked and subtle counsel of Jeroboam, the son of Neba, and instead of his true service commanded by his word, worshipped him according to their own imaginings and traditions of men, giving themselves to most vile idolatry and superstition, the Lord from time to time sent them Prophets to call them to repentance. But they grew even worse and worse, and still abused God's benefits. Therefore now when their prosperity was at the highest under Jeroboam, the son of Joash, God sent Hosea and Amos to the Israelites (as he did at the same time send Isaiah and Micah to those of Judah) to condemn them for their ingratitude. And whereas they thought themselves to be greatly in the favour of God, and to be his people, the Prophet calls them bastards and children born in adultery: and therefore shows them that God would take away their kingdom, and give them to the Assyrians to be led away captives. Thus Hosea faithfully executed his office for the space of seventy years, though they remained still in their vices and wickedness and derided the Prophets, and condemned God's judgments. And because they would neither be discouraged with threatening only, nor should they flatter themselves by the sweetness of God's promises, he sets before them the two principal parts of the Law, which are the promise of salvation, and the doctrine of life. For the first part he directs the faithful to the Messiah, by whom alone they would have true deliverance: and for the second, he uses threatenings and menaces to bring them from their wicked manners and vices: and this is the chief scope of all the Prophets, either by God's promises to allure them to be godly, or else by threatenings of his judgments to scare them from vice. And even though the whole Law contains these two points, yet the Prophets moreover note distinctly both the time of God's judgments and the manner.

geneva@Hosea:1:4 @ And the LORD said unto him, Call his name (note:)Meaning that they would no longer be called Israelites, which name they boasted because Israel did prevail with God: but that they were as bastards, and therefore should be called Jezreelites, that is, scattered people, alluding to Jezreel, which was the chief city of the ten tribes under Ahab, where Jehu shed so much blood; (1Ki_18:45).(:note) Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of I will be avenged upon Jehu for the blood that he shed in Jezreel: for even though God stirred him up to execute his judgments, yet he did them for his own ambition, and not for the glory of God as the intended goal: for he built up that idolatry which he had destroyed. Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

geneva@Hosea:2:3 @ Lest I strip her naked, and (note:)For even though his people were as a harlot for their idolatries, yet he had left them with their dress and dowry and certain signs of his favour, but if they continued still, he would utterly destroy them.(:note) set her as in the day that she was When I brought her out of Egypt. {{See Eze_16:4}} born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

geneva@Hosea:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will (note:)By my benefits in offering her grace and mercy, even in that place where she will think herself destitute of all help and comfort.(:note) allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

geneva@Hosea:2:20 @ I will even betroth thee unto me in (note:)With a covenant that will never be broken.(:note) faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

geneva@Hosea:4:10 @ For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall (note:)Showing that their wickedness will be punished in all ways: for even though they think by the multitude of wives to have many children, yet they will be deceived of their hope.(:note) commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

geneva@Hosea:4:15 @ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] (note:)God complains that Judah is infected, and wants them to learn to return in time.(:note) let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto For even though the Lord had honoured this place by his presence, yet because it was abused by their idolatry, he did not want his people to resort there. Gilgal, neither go ye up to He calls Bethel, that is, the house of God, Bethaven, that is, the house of iniquity, because of their abominations set up there, signifying that no place is holy, where God is not purely worshipped. Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

geneva@Hosea:5:2 @ And the revolters are profound to make (note:)Even though they seemed to be given altogether to holiness, and to sacrifices which here he calls slaughter in contempt.(:note) slaughter, though I [have been] a Though I had admonished them continually by my Prophets. rebuker of them all.

geneva@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, (note:)For even though all other people should escape, yet you will be punished.(:note) as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved You have committed idolatry in hope of reward, and to have your barns filled ((Jer_44:17)), as a harlot that had rather live by playing the whore, than to be provided for by her own husband. a reward upon every cornfloor.

geneva@Hosea:9:6 @ For, lo, they are gone because of (note:)Even though they think to escape by fleeing the destruction that is at hand, yet they will be destroyed in the place where they flee for help.(:note) destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles.

geneva@Hosea:13:14 @ I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O (note:)Meaning that no power will resist God when he will deliver his own, but even in death he will give them life.(:note) death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Because they will not turn to me, I will change my purpose. repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

geneva@Hosea:14:2 @ Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, (note:)He shows them that they ought to confess their sins.(:note) Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we render the calves of our Declaring that this is the true sacrifice that the faithful can offer, even thanks and praise; (Heb_13:15). lips.

geneva@Hosea:14:9 @ Who [is] (note:)Signifying that the true wisdom and knowledge consists in this, even to rest upon God.(:note) wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

geneva@Joel:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. (note:)The Argument - The Prophet Joel first rebukes those of Judah, that being now punished with a great plague of famine, still remain obstinate. Secondly, he threatens greater plagues, because they grow daily to a more hardness of heart and rebellion against God in spite of his punishments. Thirdly, he exhorts them to repentance, showing that it must be earnest, and proceed from the heart, because they had grievously offended God. And in doing this, Joel promises that God will be merciful, and not forget his covenant that he made with their fathers, but will send his Christ, who will gather the scattered sheep, and restore them to life and liberty, even though they seem to be dead.(:note)

geneva@Joel:1:2 @ Hear this, ye (note:)Signifying the princes, the priests, and the governors.(:note) old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath He calls the Jews to the consideration of God's judgments, who had now plagued the fruits of the ground for the space of four years, which was because of their sins, and to call them to repentance. this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

geneva@Joel:2:2 @ A (note:)Of affliction and trouble.(:note) day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a Meaning, the Assyrians. great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.

geneva@Joel:2:14 @ Who knoweth [if] he will (note:)He speaks this to stir up their slothfulness, and not that he doubted of God's mercies, if they did repent. For the way in which God repents, {{See Jer_18:8}}(:note) return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

geneva@Joel:2:20 @ But I will remove far off from you the (note:)That is, the Assyrians your enemies.(:note) northern [army], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the Called the Salt Sea, or Persian Sea: meaning, that even though this army was so great that it filled all from this sea to the Mediterranean Sea, yet he would scatter them. east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

geneva@Amos:1:3 @ Thus saith the LORD; For (note:)He shows first that all the people round about would be destroyed for their manifold sins: which are meant by three and four, which make seven, so that the Israelites would the more deeply consider God's judgments toward them.(:note) three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have If the Syrians will not be spared for committing this cruelty against one city, it is not possible that Israel would escape punishment, which has committed so many and such grievous sins against God and man. threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

geneva@Amos:2:11 @ And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of (note:)You condemned my benefits, and abused my graces, and craftily went about to stop the mouths of my Prophets.(:note) your young men for Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:5:8 @ [Seek him] that (note:)He describes the power of God; (Job_9:9).(:note) maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name:

geneva@Amos:8:4 @ Hear this, O ye that (note:)By stopping the sale of food and necessary things which you have gotten into your own hands, and so cause the poor to spend quickly that little that they have, and at length because of need to become your slaves.(:note) swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

geneva@Amos:8:12 @ And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the (note:)By which he shows that they will not only perish in body, but also in soul for lack of God's word, which is the food of it.(:note) word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].

geneva@Amos:8:14 @ They that swear by the sin (note:)For the idolaters used to swear by their idols, which here he calls their sin: and the papists yet swear by theirs.(:note) of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, That is, the common manner of worshipping, and the service or religion used there. The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

geneva@Obadiah:1:7 @ All the men of thy confederacy (note:)Those in whom you trusted to have help and friendship, will be your enemies and destroy you.(:note) have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy That is, your familiar friends and guests have by secret practices destroyed you. bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him.

geneva@Obadiah:1:11 @ In the day that thou stoodest (note:)When Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem, you joined with him, and had part of the spoil, and so rejoiced when my people (that is, your brother), were afflicted, whereas you should have pitied and helped your brother.(:note) on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them.

geneva@Obadiah:1:20 @ And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [shall possess] that of the (note:)By the Canaanites, the Jews mean the Dutchmen, and by Zarephath, France, and by Sepharad, Spain.(:note) Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

geneva@Jonah:1:6 @ So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy (note:)As they had called on their idols, which declares that idolaters have no rest nor certainty, but in their troubles seek what they do not even know.(:note) God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

geneva@Jonah:3:5 @ So the people of Nineveh (note:)For he declared that he was a Prophet sent to them from God, to make known his judgments against them.(:note) believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

geneva@Jonah:4:9 @ And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be (note:)This declares the great inconveniences into which God's servants fall when they give place to their own affections, and do not in all things willingly submit themselves to God.(:note) angry, [even] unto death.

geneva@Micah:2:8 @ Even (note:)That is, in past times.(:note) of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the The poor can have no benefit from them, but they rob them, as though they were enemies. robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

geneva@Micah:2:10 @ Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] (note:)Jerusalem will not be your safeguard, but rather the cause of your destruction.(:note) rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.

geneva@Micah:2:11 @ If a man (note:)That is, show himself to be a prophet.(:note) walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], He shows what prophets they delight in, that is, in flatterers, who tell them pleasant tales, and speak of their benefits. I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

geneva@Micah:3:4 @ Then (note:)That is, when I will punish their wickedness: for though I hear the godly before they cry (Isa_65:24), yet I will not hear these even though they cry; (Isa_1:15) (Eze_8:18; Jam_2:13; 1Pe_3:11-12).(:note) shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

geneva@Micah:3:5 @ Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that (note:)They devour all their substance, and then flatter them, promising that all will go well. But if someone does not feed them, then they invent all ways to do evil.(:note) bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

geneva@Micah:4:5 @ For all people will walk (note:)He shows that the people of God ought to remain constant in their religion, even if all the world should give themselves to their superstition and idolatry.(:note) every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

geneva@Micah:4:7 @ And I will make her that halted (note:)I will cause that Israel, who is now as one lame and halting, and so almost destroyed, to live again, and grow into a great people.(:note) a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

geneva@Micah:4:8 @ And thou, O (note:)Meaning Jerusalem, where the Lord's flock was gathered.(:note) tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even The flourishing state of the kingdom, as it was under David and Solomon, which thing was accomplished for the Church by the coming of Christ. the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

geneva@Micah:5:5 @ And this [man] (note:)This Messiah will be a sufficient safeguard for us, and though the enemy invades us for a time, yet will God stir up many who will be able to deliver us.(:note) shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

geneva@Micah:7:12 @ [In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from (note:)When the Church will be restored, those that were enemies before will come out of all the corners of the world to her, so that neither fortresses, rivers, seas, nor mountains will be able to stop them.(:note) Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain.

geneva@Nahum:1:2 @ God [is] (note:)Meaning, of his glory.(:note) jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and With his own he is but angry for a time, but his anger is never appeased toward the reprobate, even though he defers it for a time. [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.

geneva@Nahum:2:8 @ But Nineveh [is] of (note:)The Assyrians will flatter themselves and say that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fishpool, whose waters cannot be touched by those that walk on the banks. But they will be scattered, and will not look back, even if men call them.(:note) old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.

geneva@Nahum:2:11 @ Where [is] the (note:)Meaning, Nineveh, whose inhabitants were cruel like the lions, and given to all oppression, and spared no violence or tyranny to provide for their wives and children.(:note) dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid?

geneva@Habakkuk:1:2 @ O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out to thee (note:)The Prophet complains to God, and bewails that among the Jews is left no fairness and brotherly love: but instead of these reigns cruelty, theft, contention, and strife.(:note) [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!

geneva@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the (note:)Which contained the destruction of the enemy, and the comfort of the Church. And even though God does not execute this according to man's hasty affections, yet the issue of both is certain at his appointed time.(:note) end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:9 @ Thy (note:)That is, your power.(:note) bow was made quite naked, [according] to the For he had not only made a covenant with Abraham, but renewed it with his posterity. oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou Read (Num_20:11). didst cleave the earth with rivers.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:13 @ Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, [even] for salvation with thy (note:)Signifying that there is no salvation, except by Christ.(:note) anointed; thou didst wound the head out of the house of the wicked, by laying bare the foundation to the From the top to the bottom you have destroyed the enemies. neck. Selah.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:14 @ The great day of the LORD [is] near, [it is] near, and hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of the LORD: (note:)They that trusted in their own strength and condemned the Prophets of God.(:note) the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea (note:)That is, Galilee: by these nations he means the people that dwelt near to the Jews, and instead of friendship were their enemies: therefore he calls them Canaanites, whom the Lord appointed to be slain.(:note) coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:7 @ And the coast shall be for the (note:)He shows why God would destroy their enemies, because their country would be a resting place for his Church.(:note) remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:11 @ The LORD [will be] terrible unto them: (note:)When he will deliver his people and destroy their enemies and idols, his glory will shine throughout all the world.(:note) for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and [men] shall worship him, every one from his place, [even] all the isles of the heathen.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:3 @ Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they (note:)They are so greedy, that they eat up bones and all.(:note) gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:8 @ Therefore (note:)Seeing that you will not repent, you can expect my vengeance as well as other nations.(:note) wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:10 @ From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, [even] the (note:)That is, the Jews will come as well as the Gentiles: which is to be understood as referring to the time of the Gospel.(:note) daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:15 @ The LORD hath taken away thy (note:)That is, the punishment for your sin.(:note) judgments, he hath cast out thine As the Assyrians, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, and other nations. enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of To defend you, as by your sins you have put him away, and left yourself naked, as in (Exo_32:25). thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

geneva@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of (note:)Who was the son of Histaspis and the third king of the Persians, as some think.(:note) Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Because the building of the temple began to cease, by reason that the people were discouraged by their enemies: and if these two notable men had need to be stirred up and admonished of their duties, what will we think of other governors, whose doings are either against God, or very cold in his cause? Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, The Argument - When the time of the seventy years captivity prophesied by Jeremiah was expired, God raised up Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, to comfort the Jews, and to exhort them to the building of the temple, which was a figure of the spiritual Temple and Church of God, whose perfection and excellency depended on Christ. And because all were given to their own pleasures and benefits, he declares that that plague of famine, which God then sent among them, was a just reward for their ingratitude, in that they condemned God's honour, who had delivered them. Yet he comforts them, if they will return to the Lord, with the promise of great felicity, since the Lord will finish the work that he has begun, and send Christ whom he had promised, and by whom they would attain to perfect joy and glory.

geneva@Haggai:2:18 @ Consider now from (note:)From the time they began to build the temple, he promises that God would bless them: and even though the fruit has not yet come forth, yet in the gathering they would have plenty.(:note) this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider [it].

geneva@Zechariah:1:7 @ Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which [is] the month (note:)Which includes part of January and part of February.(:note) Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

geneva@Zechariah:1:17 @ Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet (note:)The abundance will be so great, that the places of storage will not be able to contain these blessings that God will send, but will even break because of fullness.(:note) be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

geneva@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the (note:)That is, Christ speaks to God as the mediator of his Church, that he would rebuke Satan: and here he shows himself to be the continual preserver of his Church.(:note) LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: [is] not this a Meaning that Joshua was wonderfully preserved in the captivity, and now Satan sought to afflict and trouble him when he was doing his office. brand plucked out of the fire?

geneva@Zechariah:3:8 @ Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they (note:)Because they follow my word, they are condemned in the world, and esteemed as monsters. {{See Isa_8:18}}(:note) [are] men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the That is, Christ, who did so humble himself, that he not only became the servant of God, but also the servant of men: and therefore in him they should have comfort, even though in the world they are condemned; (Isa_11:1) (Jer_23:5; Jer_33:14-15). BRANCH.

geneva@Zechariah:3:9 @ For behold the (note:)He shows that the ministers cannot build before God lay the first stone, which is Christ, who is full of eyes, both because he gives light to all others, and that all ought to seek light from him; (Zec_4:10).(:note) stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone [shall be] seven eyes: behold, I That is, I will make perfect in all points, as a thing done by the hand of God. will engrave the engraving of it, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will Though I have punished this land for a time, yet I will even now be pacified, and punish their sins no more. remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

geneva@Zechariah:4:2 @ And said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a (note:)Which was ever in the midst of the temple, signifying that the graces of God's Spirit would shine, here in most abundance, and in all perfection.(:note) lamp stand all [of] gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps, and seven Which conveyed the oil that dropped from the trees into the lamps, so that the light never went out: and this vision was to strengthen and encourage the faithful that God had sufficient power in himself to continue his graces, and to bring his promise to pass even though he had no help from man. pipes to the seven lamps, which [were] upon the top of it:

geneva@Zechariah:4:6 @ Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This [is] the word of the LORD to (note:)Who was a figure of Christ, and therefore this doctrine was directed to all the Church who are his body and members.(:note) Zerubbabel, saying, Not by He shows that God's power alone is sufficient to preserve his Church, even though he does not use man's help to do it. might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:4:10 @ For who hath despised the day of (note:)Signifying that all were discouraged at the small and poor beginnings of the temple.(:note) small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the By which he signifies the plummet and line, that is, that Zerubbabel who represented Christ, would go forward with his building to the joy and comfort of the godly, though the world was against him, and though his own for a while were discouraged, because they do not see things pleasant to the eye. plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel [with] those seven; That is, God has seven eyes: meaning, a continual providence, so that neither Satan nor any power in the world, can go about to bring anything to pass to hinder his work; (Zec_5:9). they [are] the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

geneva@Zechariah:6:10 @ Take of [them of] the captivity, [even] of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, who are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of (note:)To receive from him and the other three, money to make the two crowns: who were men of great authority among the Jews, and doubted of the restitution of the kingdom, and of the priesthood, and hurt others by their example.(:note) Josiah the son of Zephaniah;

geneva@Zechariah:6:13 @ Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the (note:)Of which Joshua had but a shadow.(:note) glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between The two offices of the kingdom and priesthood, will be joined together in such a way, that they will no longer be separated. them both.

geneva@Zechariah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, [that] the word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in (note:)Which contained part of November and part of December.(:note) Chisleu;

geneva@Zechariah:7:5 @ Speak to all the people of the land, and to the (note:)For there were both of the people, and of the priests, those who doubted with regard to this controversy, besides those who as yet remained in Chaldea, and argue about it, as of one of the chief points of their religion.(:note) priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, For they thought they had gained favour with God because of this fast, which they invented by themselves: and though fasting of itself is good, yet because they thought it a service toward God, and trusted in it, it is here reproved. [even] to me?

geneva@Zechariah:8:19 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the (note:)Which fast was appointed when the city was besieged, and was the first fast of these four. And here the prophet shows that if the Jews will repent, and turn wholly to God, they will have no more occasion to fast, or to show signs of heaviness, for God will send them joy and gladness.(:note) tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

geneva@Zechariah:9:1 @ The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of (note:)By which he means Syria.(:note) Hadrach, and Damascus [shall be] the God's anger will remain upon their chief city, and not spare even as much as that. rest of it: when the When the Jews will convert and repent, then God will destroy their enemies. eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, [shall be] toward the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:9:7 @ And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his (note:)He promises to deliver the Jews when he will take vengeance on their enemies for their cruelty, and the wrongs they did to them.(:note) teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, [shall be] for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and As the Jebusites had been destroyed, so would Ekron and all the Philistines. Ekron as a Jebusite.

geneva@Zechariah:9:12 @ Turn ye to the (note:)That is, into the holy land where the city and the temple are, where God will defend you.(:note) strong hold, ye Meaning the faithful, who seemed to be in danger of their enemies on every side, and yet lived in hope that God would restore them to liberty. prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare [that] I will render That is, double benefits and prosperity, in respect of that which your fathers enjoyed from David's time to the captivity. double to thee;

geneva@Zechariah:11:7 @ And I will feed the flock of slaughter, [even] you, (note:)That is, the small remnant, whom he though worthy to show mercy to.(:note) O poor of the flock. And I took to me God shows his great benefits toward his people to convince them of greater ingratitude, who would neither be ruled by his most beautiful order of government, neither continue in the bands of brotherly unity, and therefore he breaks both the one and the other. Some read «Destroyers» instead of «Bands», but in (Zec_11:14) the second reading is confirmed. two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

geneva@Zechariah:14:7 @ But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, (note:)Signifying, that there would be great troubles in the Church, and that the time of it is in the Lord's hands, yet at length (which is here meant by the evening) God would send comfort.(:note) not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening it shall be light.

geneva@Malachi:1:3 @ And I (note:)For besides this the signs of my hatred appeared even when he was made servant to his younger brother, being yet in his mother's belly, and also afterward in that he was put from his birthright. Yet even now before your eyes the signs of this are evident, in that his country lies waste, and he will never return to inhabit it.(:note) hated Esau, Whereas you my people, whom the enemy hated more than them, are by my grace and love towards you delivered; read (Rom_9:13). and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

geneva@Malachi:1:10 @ Who [is there] even among you (note:)Because the Levites who kept the doors did not test whether the sacrifices that came in were according to the Law, God wishes that they would rather shut the doors, than to receive such as were not perfect.(:note) that would shut the doors [for nought]? neither do ye kindle [fire] on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

geneva@Malachi:1:11 @ For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name [shall be] (note:)God shows that their ingratitude and neglect of his true service will be the cause of the calling of the Gentiles: and here the Prophet that was under the Law, used words that the people would understand, and by the altar and sacrifice he means the spiritual service of God, which should be under the Gospel, when an end would be made to all these legal ceremonies by Christ's sacrifice alone.(:note) great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:1:12 @ But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, (note:)Both the priests and the people were infected with this error, that they did not regard what was offered: for they thought that God was as well content with the lean, as with the fat. But in the meantime they did not show the obedience to God which he required, and so committed impiety, and also showed their contempt of God, and covetousness.(:note) The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.

geneva@Malachi:2:2 @ If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory (note:)To serve me according to my word.(:note) unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your That is, the abundance of God's benefits. blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.

geneva@Malachi:2:3 @ Behold, I will corrupt (note:)The seed you sow will come to no profit.(:note) your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the You boast of your holiness, sacrifices, and feasts, but they will turn to your shame and be as vile as dung. dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it.

geneva@Malachi:2:16 @ For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he (note:)Not that he allows divorce, but of two faults he shows which is the less.(:note) hateth putting away: for [one] covereth He thinks it sufficient to keep his wife still, even though he takes others, and so as it were covers his fault. violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

geneva@Malachi:3:1 @ Behold, I will send my (note:)This is meant of John the Baptist, as Christ interprets it; (Luk_7:27).(:note) messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Meaning, the Messiah, as in (Psa_40:17; Dan_9:17, Dan_9:25). Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the That is, Christ, by whom the covenant was made and ratified, who is called the angel or messenger of the covenant, because he reconciles us to his Father, and is Lord or King, because he has the rule of his Church. messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:3:7 @ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. (note:)Read (Zec_1:3).(:note) Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

geneva@Malachi:3:15 @ And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even (note:)They are not only preferred to honour, but also delivered from dangers.(:note) delivered.

geneva@Matthew:2:12 @ And being (note:)God warned and told them of it, even though they did not ask him.(:note) warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

geneva@Matthew:5:8 @ Blessed [are] the (note:)Fitly is this word «pure» joined with the heart, for as a bright and shining resemblance or image may be seen plainly in a clear and pure looking glass, even so does the face (as it were) of the everlasting God, shine forth, and clearly appear in a pure heart.(:note) pure in heart: for they shall see God.

geneva@Matthew:5:47 @ And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do not even the (note:)They that were the toll masters, and had the oversight of tributes and customs: this was a type of man that the Jews hated to death, both because they served the Romans in those offices (whose heavy bondage they could not overthrow) and also because these toll masters were for the most part given to covetousness.(:note) publicans so?

geneva@Matthew:8:16 @ When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with [his] word, and healed (note:)Of all sorts.(:note) all that were sick:

geneva@Matthew:8:30 @ And there was (note:)On a hill, as Mark and Luke witness: Now Gederah, as Josephus records, book seventeen chapter thirteen, lived after the order of the Greeks and therefore we must not be surprised if there were swine there.(:note) a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.

geneva@Matthew:10:29 @ Are not two sparrows sold for a (note:)The fourth part of an ounce or seven grams.(:note) farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

geneva@Matthew:15:37 @ And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken [meat] that was left seven (note:)A kind of container made with twigs.(:note) baskets full.

geneva@Matthew:17:25 @ He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own (note:)By children we must not understand subjects who pay tribute, but natural children.(:note) children, or of strangers?

geneva@Matthew:20:6 @ And about the (note:)The last hour: for the day was twelve hours long, and the first hour began at sunrise.(:note) eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

geneva@Matthew:22:19 @ Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a (note:)Before (Mat_17:24) there is mention made of a didrachma, and here of a penny, whereas a didrachma is more by the seventh part then a penny: so that there seems to be an inconsistency in these two places: but they may easily be reconciled in this way: The penny was paid to the Romans for tribute, according to the proportion they were rated at, and the drachma was payed by everyone to the Temple, which also the Romans took to themselves when they had subdued India.(:note) penny.

geneva@Matthew:22:24 @ Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no (note:)Daughters are also included by this word «children», but even though they were part of his family and bore his name, the man who had only daughters was in the same position as the man who had no children at all; this is because daughters were not at this time able to carry on the family name. Therefore, by «children» here, we should understand it to be referring to «sons».(:note) children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

geneva@Matthew:23:10 @ Neither be ye called (note:)It seems that the scribes hunted very greatly after such titles, these scribes being the ones whom he called blind guides in (Mat_23:16).(:note) masters: for one is your Master, [even] Christ.

geneva@Matthew:25:27 @ Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the (note:)Bankers who have their shops or tables set up abroad, where they lend money at interest. Usury or loaning money at interest is strictly forbidden by the Bible, (Exo_22:25-27; Deu_23:19-20). Even a rate as low as one per cent interest was disallowed, (Neh_5:11). This servant had already told two lies. First he said the master was an austere or harsh man. This is a lie for the Lord is merciful and gracious. Next he called his master a thief because he reaped where he did not sow. Finally the master said to him sarcastically why did you not add insult to injury and loan the money out at interest so you could call your master a «usurer» too! If the servant had done this, his master would have been responsible for his servant's actions and guilty of usury.(:note) exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

geneva@Matthew:26:20 @ Now when the even was come, he (note:)Because the Law appointed them to be wearing footwear, and to have their staffs in their hands, as though they were is haste, therefore it is to be gathered that they did not sit down when they ate the Passover, but stood, for normally when they went to eat they took off their shoes: therefore he speaks here in this place, not of the Passover, but of the supper which was celebrated after the Passover was solemnly done.(:note) sat down with the twelve.

geneva@Matthew:26:37 @ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and (note:)The word which he uses signifies great sorrow, and tremendous and deadly grief: this thing, as it indicates man's true nature, which shuns death as a thing that entered in against nature, shows that though Christ was void of sin, yet he sustained this horrible punishment, because he felt the wrath of God kindled against us for sins, which he revenged and punished in his person.(:note) very heavy.

geneva@Matthew:27:7 @ And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury (note:)Strangers and guests, whom the Jews could not endure to be joined with even after they were dead.(:note) strangers in.

geneva@Matthew:27:46 @ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou (note:)That is, in this misery: And this crying out is a natural part of his humanity, which, even though it was void of sin, still felt the wrath of God, the wrath which is due to our sins.(:note) forsaken me?

geneva@Matthew:28:1 @ In (note:)Christ, having routed death in the tomb, rises by his own power, as the angel immediately witnesses.(:note) the At the going out of the sabbath, that is, about daybreak after the Roman manner of telling time, which considers the natural day to be from the rising of the sun to the next sunrise: and not as the Hebrews, which count from evening to evening. end of the sabbath, as it When the morning of the first day after the sabbath began to dawn: and that first day is the same as that which we now call Sunday, or the Lord's day. began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

geneva@Matthew:28:20 @ Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you (note:)Forever: and this refers to the manner of the presence of his Spirit, by means of which he makes us partakers both of himself and of all his benefits, even though he is absent from us in body.(:note) alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.

geneva@Mark:1:27 @ And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned (note:)As men who were amazed.(:note) among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine [is] this? for with authority By his own authority, or as a lord. commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.

geneva@Mark:5:1 @ And (note:)Many hold the virtue of Christ in admiration, and yet they will not lose even the least thing they have in order to redeem it.(:note) they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the {{See Mat_8:30}} Gadarenes.

geneva@Mark:6:2 @ And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing [him] were astonished, saying, From whence hath this [man] these things? and what wisdom [is] this which is given unto him, that even such (note:)The word signifies powers or virtues, by which are meant those wonderful works that Christ did which showed and set forth the virtue and power of his Godhead to all the world; (Mat_7:22).(:note) mighty works are wrought by his hands?

geneva@Mark:10:30 @ But he shall receive an (note:)A hundred times as much, if we use the commodities of this life in a proper way, so that we use them in accordance with the will of God, and not just to gain the wealth itself, and to fulfil our greedy desire.(:note) hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, Even in the midst of persecutions. with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

geneva@Mark:15:1 @ And (note:)Christ being bound before the judgment seat of an earthly Judge, is condemned before the open assembly as guilty unto the death of the cross, not for his own sins (as is shown by the judge's own words) but for all of ours, that we who are indeed guilty creatures, in being delivered from the guiltiness of our sins, might be acquitted before the judgment seat of God, even in the open assembly of the angels.(:note) straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried [him] away, and It was not lawful for them to put any man to death, for all authority to punish by death was taken away from them, first by Herod the great, and afterward by the Romans, about forty years before the destruction of the temple, and therefore they deliver Jesus to Pilate.delivered [him] to Pilate.

geneva@Mark:15:21 @ And they (note:)The rage of the wicked has no measure; meanwhile, even the weakness of Christ, who was in pain under the heavy burden of the cross, manifestly shows that a lamb is led to be sacrificed.(:note) compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

geneva@Luke:1:15 @ For he shall be great in the (note:)So the Hebrews say when a rare kind of excellency is signified: so it is said of Nimrod in (Gen_10:9), «He was a mighty hunter before the LORD».(:note) sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor Any drink that might make someone drunk. strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

geneva@Luke:1:51 @ He hath shewed strength with his (note:)Here many more words than necessary are used, which the Hebrews use very much: and «arm» here is taken for strength.(:note) arm; he hath Even as the wind does to the chaff. scattered the proud in the He has scattered them, and the imagination of their hearts; or, by and through the imagination of their own hearts; so that their wicked counsel turned to their own destruction. imagination of their hearts.

geneva@Luke:1:69 @ And hath raised up an (note:)This word «horn», in the Hebrew language, signifies strength, and it is a metaphor taken from beasts that fight with their horns: And by raising up the might of Israel is meant that the kingdom of Israel was defended, and the enemies of it laid on the ground, even then when the strength of Israel seemed to be utterly gone.(:note) horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

geneva@Luke:9:23 @ And he said to [them] all, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross (note:)Even as one day follows another, so does one cross follow another, and the cross is by the figure of speech metonymy taken for the miseries of this life: for to be hanged on the cross was the most grievous and cruel punishment that there was amongst the Jews.(:note) daily, and follow me.

geneva@Luke:9:60 @ Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury (note:)Who, even though they live in this frail life of man, yet are strangers from the true life, which is everlasting and heavenly.(:note) their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

geneva@Luke:10:1 @ After (note:)The seventy are sent as the second forewarners of the coming of Christ.(:note) these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

geneva@Luke:11:3 @ Give us (note:)That is, as much as is needed for us this day, by which we are not prevented from having an honest care for the maintenance of our lives; but that complaining care, which kills a number of men, is cut off and restrained.(:note) day by day our daily bread.

geneva@Luke:11:41 @ But rather give alms (note:)That is, according to your ability: as one would say, instead of your extortion which hindered you so that you could not eat cleanly, use charity, and in accordance with your ability be good to the poor, and in this way will that which is within the platter be sanctified even though the platter is unwashed.(:note) of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

geneva@Luke:11:48 @ Truly (note:)When you persecute God's servants like mad men, even as your fathers did, though you try and cover it with a pretence of godliness, yet nonetheless, by beautifying the sepulchres of the prophets, what else are you doing but glorying in your father's cruelty, and setting up monuments (as it were) in glory and triumph of it?(:note) ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

geneva@Luke:16:8 @ And the lord commended (note:)This parable does not approve the steward's evil dealing, for it was definitely theft: but parables are set forth to show a thing in a secret way, and as it were, to present the truth by means of an allegory, even though it may not be exact: so that by this parable Christ means to teach us that worldly men are more clever in the affairs of this world than the children of God are diligent for everlasting life.(:note) the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the Men that are given to this present life, contrary to whom are the children of light: Paul calls the former carnal and the latter spiritual. children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

geneva@Luke:18:5 @ Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she (note:)Literally, «beat me down with her blows», and it is a metaphor taken of wrestlers who beat their adversaries with their fists or clubs: in the same way those that are persistent beat the judge's ears with their crying out, even as it were with blows.(:note) weary me.

geneva@Luke:19:23 @ Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the (note:)To the bankers and money changers. Usury or loaning money at interest is strictly forbidden by the Bible, (Exo_22:25-27; Deu_23:19-20). Even a rate as low as one per cent interest was disallowed, (Neh_5:11). This servant had already told two lies. First he said the master was an austere or harsh man. This is a lie for the Lord is merciful and gracious. Next he called his master a thief because he reaped where he did not sow. Finally the master said to him that why did you not add insult to injury and loan the money out at interest so you could call your master a «usurer» too! If the servant had done this, his master would have been responsible for his servant's actions and guilty of usury. (Ed.)(:note) bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

geneva@Luke:19:28 @ And when he had thus spoken, (note:)The disciples were staggered and stopped by what Christ said, but Christ goes on boldly even though death was before his eyes.(:note) he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.

geneva@Luke:19:44 @ And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not (note:)That is, this very instant in which God visited you.(:note) the time of thy visitation.

geneva@Luke:21:1 @ And (note:)According to the judgment of God, the poor may even exceed the rich in generosity and liberality.(:note) he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

geneva@Luke:23:7 @ And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto (note:)This was Herod Antipas the Tetrarch, in the time of whose period of rule (which was almost twenty-two years long) John the Baptist preached and was put to death, and Jesus Christ also died and rose again, and the apostles began to preach, and various things were done at Jerusalem almost seven years after Christ's death. This Herod was sent into banishment to Lyons, about the second year of Gaius Caesar.(:note) Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.

geneva@John:1:1 @ In (note:)The Son of God is of one and the selfsame eternity or everlastingness, and of one and the selfsame essence or nature with the Father.(:note) the From the beginning, as the evangelist says in (1Jo_1:1); it is as though he said that the Word did not begin to have his being when God began to make all that was made: for the Word was even then when all things that were made began to be made, and therefore he was before the beginning of all things. beginning Had his being. was This word «the» points out to us a peculiar and choice thing above all others, and puts a difference between this «Word», which is the Son of God, and the laws of God, which are also called the word of God. the Word, and the Word was This word «with» points out that there is a distinction of persons here. with God, and the This word «Word» is the first in order in the sentence, and is the subject of the sentence, and this word «God» is the latter in order, and is the predicate of the sentence. Word was God.

geneva@John:1:26 @ John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one (note:)Whom all the world sees, and sees even amongst you.(:note) among you, whom ye know not;

geneva@John:3:11 @ Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our (note:)You handle doubtful things even though you have no solid basis for believing them, and yet men believe you: but I teach those things that are of a truth and well known, and you do not believe me.(:note) witness.

geneva@John:3:13 @ And no (note:)Only Christ can teach us heavenly things, for no man ascends, etc.(:note) man That is, has any spiritual light and understanding, or ever had any, but only the Son of God who came down to us. hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] Whereas he is said to have come down from heaven, this must be understood as referring to his Godhead, and of the manner of his conception: for Christ's birth upon the earth was heavenly and not earthly, for he was conceived by the Holy Spirit. the Son of man which That which is proper to the divinity of Christ, is here spoken of the whole Christ, to show us that he is but one person in which two natures are united. is in heaven.

geneva@John:4:6 @ Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat (note:)Even as he was weary, or because he was weary.(:note) thus on the well: [and] it was about the It was almost noon. sixth hour.

geneva@John:4:10 @ Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest (note:)By this word «the» we are shown that Christ speaks of some excellent gift, that is to say, even about himself, whom his Father offered to this woman.(:note) the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee This everlasting water, that is to say, the exceeding love of God, is called «living» or «of life», to make a difference between it and the water that should be drawn out of a well: and these metaphors are frequently used by the Jews. living water.

geneva@John:6:57 @ As (note:)In that Christ is man, he receives that power which quickens and gives life to those that are his, from his Father: and he adds this word «the» to make a distinction between his Father and all other fathers.(:note) the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Christ means that although he is man, yet his flesh can give life, not by its own nature, but because his flesh lives by the Father, that is to say, sucks and draws out of the Father that power which it has to give life. Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

geneva@John:7:2 @ Now the Jews' (note:)This feast was so called because of the booths and tents which they made out of different types of boughs, and sat under them seven days altogether; and during this entire time the feast went on.(:note) feast of tabernacles was at hand.

geneva@John:8:43 @ Why do ye not understand my (note:)Or, language: as though he said, «You do not understand what I say any more than if I spoke in a strange and unknown language to you.»(:note) speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.

geneva@John:8:44 @ Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the (note:)From the beginning of the world: for as soon as man was made, the devil cast him headlong into death.(:note) beginning, and That is, did not continue constantly, or did not remain. abode not in the That is, in faithfulness and uprightness, that is, he did not remain in the manner in which he was created. truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his Even from his own head, and from his own mind or disposition. own: for he is a liar, and the The author of it. father of it.

geneva@John:9:1 @ And (note:)Sin is even the beginning of all bodily diseases, and yet it does not follow that in punishing, even very severely, that God is punishing because of sin.(:note) as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth.

geneva@John:9:34 @ They answered and said unto him, (note:)You are wicked even from your cradle, and as we used to say, there is nothing in you but sin.(:note) Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

geneva@John:10:15 @ As the Father (note:)Loves me, allows me.(:note) knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

geneva@John:14:17 @ [Even] the (note:)The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of truth by reason of that which he does, because he inspires the truth into us, because he has the truth in himself.(:note) Spirit of truth; whom the Worldly men. world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

geneva@John:16:1 @ These (note:)The ministers of the gospel must expect all types of reproaches, not only by those who are open enemies, but even by those also who seem to be of the same household, and the very pillars of the Church.(:note) things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

geneva@John:21:7 @ Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt [his] fisher's (note:)It was a linen garment which prevented him from swimming freely.(:note) coat [unto him], (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.

geneva@Acts:2:1 @ And (note:)The Apostles being gathered together on a most solemn feast day in one place, that it might evidently appear to all the world that they all had one office, one Spirit, and one faith, are by a double sign from heaven authorised, and anointed with all the most excellent gifts of the Holy Spirit, and especially with an extraordinary and necessary gift of tongues.(:note) when the day of Pentecost was Literally, «was fulfilled»: that is, was begun, as in (Luk_2:21). For the Hebrews say that a day or a year is fulfilled or ended when the former days or years are ended, and the other has begun; (Jer_25:12): «And it will come to pass that when seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit, etc.» For the Lord did not bring his people home after the seventieth year was ended, but in the seventieth year: Now the day of Pentecost was the fiftieth day after the feast of the Passover. fully come, they were The twelve apostles, who were to be the patriarchs as it were of the Church. all with one accord in one place.

geneva@Acts:2:14 @ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, (note:)The holiness of Peter is to be marked, in which the grace of the Holy Spirit is to be seen, even from the very beginning.(:note) lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

geneva@Acts:2:15 @ For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is [but] the (note:)After the sunrise, which may be about seven or eight o'clock to us.(:note) third hour of the day.

geneva@Acts:2:39 @ For the (note:)The word that is used here shows us that it was a free gift.(:note) promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.

geneva@Acts:4:28 @ For to (note:)The wicked execute God's counsel, even though they think nothing of it, but they are not therefore without fault.(:note) do whatsoever You had determined by your absolute authority and power. thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

geneva@Acts:6:15 @ And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, (note:)By this it appears that Steven had an excellent and wholesome countenance, having a quiet and settled mind, a good conscience, and certain conviction that his cause was just: for seeing as he was to speak before the people, God beautified his countenance, so that by the very beholding of him the Jews' minds might be penetrated and amazed.(:note) saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

geneva@Acts:7:1 @ Then (note:)Steven is allowed to plead his cause, but for this reason and purpose, that under a disguise and pretence of the Law he might be condemned.(:note) said the high priest, Are these things so?

geneva@Acts:7:5 @ And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not [so much as] to (note:)Not enough ground to even set his foot upon.(:note) set his foot on: yet he The promise of the possession was certain, and belonged to Abraham, though it was his posterity that enjoyed it a great while after his death: and this is the figure of speech synecdoche. promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child.

geneva@Acts:9:1 @ And (note:)Saul (who is also Paul), persecuting Christ most cruelly, who did as it were flee before him, falls into Christ's hands, and is overcome: and with a singular example of the goodness of God, in place of punishment which he justly deserved for his cruelty, is not only kindly received, but is also even by the mouth of God appointed an apostle, and is confirmed by the ministry and witness of Ananias.(:note) Saul, yet This is a sign that Saul's stomach boiled and cast out great threats to murder the disciples. breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

geneva@Acts:9:17 @ And Ananias went his way, and entered into (note:)Into Judas' house.(:note) the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, [even] Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

geneva@Acts:10:41 @ Not to all the people, but unto witnesses (note:)This choosing of the apostles is properly given to God: for though God is president in the lawful election of ministers, yet there is in this place a secret opposition and setting of God's choosing and men's voices against one another, for the apostles are appointed directly by God, and the Church ministers indirectly.(:note) chosen before of God, [even] to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.

geneva@Acts:13:20 @ And after that he gave [unto them] judges about the space of (note:)There were from the birth of Isaac until the destruction of the Canaanites under the governance of Joshua four hundred and forty-seven years, and therefore he adds in this place the word «about», for three years are missing; the apostle, however, uses the whole greater number.(:note) four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

geneva@Acts:15:7 @ And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, (note:)God himself, in the calling of the Gentiles who are uncircumcised, taught that our salvation consists in faith, without the worship appointed by the Law.(:note) Men [and] brethren, ye know how that a Literally, «of old time», that is, even from the first time that we were commanded to preach the Gospel, and immediately after that the Holy Spirit came down upon us. good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

geneva@Acts:21:1 @ And (note:)Not only ordinary men, but even our friends, and such as are endued with the Spirit of God, sometimes go about to hinder the course of our calling: but it is our part to go forward without any stopping or staggering, after we are sure of our calling from God.(:note) it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the [day] following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:

geneva@Acts:21:4 @ And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the (note:)They foretold through the Spirit what dangers were about to befall Paul, and this they did as prophets: but they misdirected him away from Jerusalem because of a fleshly affection.(:note) Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

geneva@Acts:21:8 @ And the next [day] we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was [one] of the (note:)He speaks of the seven deacons which he mentioned before in (Act_6:1-7).(:note) seven; and abode with him.

geneva@Acts:22:20 @ And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that (note:)This is properly spoken, for Steven was murdered by a bunch of cutthroats, not by order of justice, but by open force: for at that time the Jews could not put any man to death by law.(:note) slew him.

geneva@Acts:26:11 @ And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and (note:)By extreme punishment.(:note) compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities.

geneva@Romans:1:20 @ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being (note:)You do not see God, and yet you acknowledge him as God by his works; Cicero.(:note) understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

geneva@Romans:4:17 @ (As it is written, I have made thee a (note:)This fatherhood is spiritual, depending only upon the power of God, who made the promise.(:note) father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] Before God, that is by membership in his spiritual family, which has a place before God, and makes us acceptable to God. God, who Who restores to life. quickeneth the dead, and With whom those things are already, which as yet are not indeed, as he can with a word make what he wishes out of nothing. calleth those things which be not as though they were.

geneva@Romans:6:4 @ Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead (note:)So that Christ himself, being released of his infirmity and weakness, might live in glory with God forever.(:note) by the glory of the Father, even so And we who are his members rise for this purpose, that being made partakers of the very same power, we should begin to lead a new life, as though we were already in heaven. we also should walk in newness of life.

geneva@Romans:7:17 @ Now then it is no more I that do it, but (note:)That natural corruption, which adheres strongly even to those that are regenerated, and is not completely gone.(:note) sin that dwelleth in me.

geneva@Romans:8:1 @ [There is] (note:)A conclusion of all the former discussion, from (Rom_1:16) to this verse: seeing that we, being justified by faith in Christ, obtain remission of sins and imputation of righteousness, and are also sanctified, it follows from this that those who are grafted into Christ by faith, need have no fear of condemnation.(:note) therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who The fruits of the Spirit, or effects of sanctification, which are begun in us, do not ingraft us into Christ, but declare that we are grafted into him. walk not after the Do not follow the flesh as their guide: for he is not said to live after the flesh that has the Holy Spirit for his guide, even though he sometimes takes a step off of the path. flesh, but after the Spirit.

geneva@Romans:9:29 @ And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of (note:)Armies, by which word the greatest power that exists is attributed to God.(:note) Sabaoth had left us a Even as very few. seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

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@Romans:11:5 @ Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the (note:)The election of grace is not that by which men chose grace, but by which God chose us of his grace and goodness.(:note) election of grace.

geneva@Romans:13:1 @ Let (note:)Now he distinctly shows what subjects owe to their magistrates, that is, obedience: from which he shows that no man is free: and the obedience we owe is such that it is not only due to the highest magistrate himself, but also even to the lowest, who has any office under him.(:note) every Indeed, though an apostle, though an evangelist, though a prophet; Chrysostom. Therefore the tyranny of the pope over all kingdoms must be thrown down to the ground. soul be subject unto the higher A reason taken from the nature of the thing itself: for to what purpose are they placed in higher degree, but in order that the inferiors should be subject to them? powers. Another argument of great force: because God is author of this order: so that those who are rebels ought to know that they make war with God himself: and because of this they purchase for themselves great misery and calamity. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are Be distributed: for some are greater, some smaller. ordained of God.

geneva@Romans:13:4 @ For he is the minister of God to thee for good. (note:)God has armed the magistrate even with an avenging sword.(:note) But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a By whom God avenges the wicked. revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.

geneva@Romans:15:18 @ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which (note:)Christ was so with me in all things, and by all means, that even if I had wanted to, yet I cannot say what he has done by me to bring the Gentiles to obey the gospel.(:note) Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

geneva@1Corinthians:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)The inscription of the epistle, in which he mainly tries to procure the good will of the Corinthians towards him, yet nonetheless in such a way that he always lets them know that he is the servant of God and not of men.(:note) called [to be] an If he is an apostle, then he must be heard, even though he sometimes sharply reprehends them, seeing he has not his own cause in hand, but is a messenger that brings the commandments of Christ. apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and He has Sosthenes with himself, that this doctrine might be confirmed by two witnesses. Sosthenes [our] brother,

geneva@1Corinthians:3:1 @ And (note:)Having declared the worthiness of heavenly wisdom, and of the Gospel, and having generally condemned the blindness of man's mind, now at length he applies it particularly to the Corinthians, calling them carnal, that is, those in whom the flesh still prevails against the Spirit. And he brings a twofold testimony of it: first, because he had proved them to be such, in so much that he dealt with them as he would with ignorant men, and those who are almost babes in the doctrine of godliness, and second, because they showed indeed by these dissensions, which sprang up by reason of the ignorance of the power of the Spirit, and heavenly wisdom, that they had profited very little or nothing.(:note) I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto He calls them carnal, who are as yet ignorant, and therefore to express it better, he calls them «babes». carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:22 @ Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the (note:)He passes from the persons to the things themselves, that his argument may be more forcible. Indeed, he ascends from Christ to the Father, to show that we rest ourselves not in Christ himself, in that he is man, but because he carries us up even to the Father, as Christ witnesses of himself everywhere that he was sent by his Father, that by this band we may be all united with God himself.(:note) world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

geneva@1Corinthians:6:1 @ Dare (note:)The third question is of civil judgments. Whether it is lawful for one of the faithful to draw another of the faithful before the judgment seat of an infidel? He answers that is not lawful because it is an offence for the faithful to do this, for it is not evil in itself that a matter be brought before the judgment seat, even of an infidel.(:note)As if he said, «Have you become so impudent, that you are not ashamed to make the Gospel a laughing stock to profane men?» any of you, having a matter against another, go to law Before the unjust. before the unjust, He adds that he does not forbid that one neighbour may go to law with another, if need so require, but yet under holy judges. and not before the saints?

geneva@1Corinthians:7:7 @ For I (note:)I wish.(:note) would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

geneva@1Corinthians:8:1 @ Now (note:)He begins to entreat of another type of indifferent things, that is, things offered to idols, or the use of flesh so offered and sacrificed. And first of all he removes all those things which the Corinthians pretended in using things offered to idols without any respect. First of all they affirmed that this difference of foods was for the unskilful men, but as for them, they knew well enough the benefit of Christ, which causes all these things to be clean to those that are clean. Be it so, Paul says: even if we are all sufficiently instructed in the knowledge of Christ, I say nonetheless that we must not simply rest in this knowledge. The reason is, that unless our knowledge is tempered with charity, it does not only not avail, but also does much hurt, because it is the mistress of pride. Nay, it does not so much as deserve the name of godly knowledge, if it is separate from the love of God, and therefore from the love of our neighbour.(:note) as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we This general word is to be abridged as (1Co_8:7) appears, for there is a type of taunt in it, as we may perceive by (1Co_8:2). all have knowledge. Knowledge Gives occasion of vanity and pride, because it is void of charity. puffeth up, but charity Instructs our neighbour. edifieth.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:14 @ Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live (note:)Because they preach the Gospel. It follows by this place, that Paul received no living, neither would have any other man receive, by a commodity of masses, or any other such superstitious nonsense.(:note) of the gospel.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:22 @ For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be (note:)Will rise by the power of Christ.(:note) made alive.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:1 @ Now concerning (note:)Collections in ancient times were made by the appointment of the apostle appointment to be the first day of the week, on which day the manner was then to assemble themselves.(:note) the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:22 @ If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema (note:)By these words are meant the severest type of curse and excommunication that was among the Jews: and the words are as much as to say, «As our Lord comes». So that his meaning may be this, «Let him be accursed even to the coming of the Lord», that is to say, to the day of his death, even for ever.(:note) Maranatha.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:13 @ For we write (note:)He says that he writes plainly and simply: for he that writes in an elaborate way, is rightly said to write otherwise than we read. And this, he says, the Corinthians will truly know and like very well.(:note) none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the Perfectly. end;

geneva@2Corinthians:1:14 @ As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your (note:)Paul's rejoicing in the Lord was that he had won the Corinthians: and they themselves rejoiced that such an apostle was their instructor, and taught them so purely and sincerely.(:note) rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the When he will sit as judge. day of the Lord Jesus.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:16 @ To the one [we are] the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. (note:)Again, he dismisses all suspicion of arrogance, attributing all things that he did to the power of God, whom he serves sincerely, and with honest affection. And he makes them witnesses of this, even to the sixth verse of the next chapter (2Co_2:17; 2Co_3:6).(:note) And who [is] sufficient for these things?

geneva@2Corinthians:10:1 @ Now (note:)He returns to the defence of his apostleship, but in such a way that he uses his authority in his defence: for he warns them earnestly and gravely, using also terrible threatenings, to show themselves to be those who are able to be instructed. And he reviles certain proud men who made no better account of him, than of a bragging proud man, in that he used to be sharp against them when he was absent, because they saw no great majesty in him after the manner of men; and besides, he had proved his gentleness, even though in his absence he had written to them sharply. Therefore first of all he professes that he was gentle and moderate, but after the example of Christ: but if they continue still to despise his gentleness, he protests to them that he will show indeed how far they are deceived, who judge the office of an apostle in the same way that they judge worldly offices, that is, according to the outward appearance.(:note) I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and That nature which is inclined to mercy, rather than to rigor of justice. gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

geneva@2Corinthians:10:13 @ But we will not boast of things without [our] (note:)Of those things which God has not measured to me.(:note) measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:12 @ But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they (note:)Paul's adversaries sought all occasions they could to be equal to him. And therefore seeing they had rather live off the Corinthians then preach to them for nothing, they sought another occasion, that is, to make Paul take something. And if he had done this, then they hoped by this means to be equal to him. For they made such a show of zeal and knowledge, and set it forth with such a flattering type of eloquence, that some of them even despised Paul. But he shows that all this is nothing but frivolities and pretensions.(:note) glory, they may be found even as we.

geneva@2Corinthians:13:9 @ For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your (note:)That all things may be in good order among you, and the members of the church restored into their place, which have been shaken and are out of place.(:note) perfection.

geneva@Galatians:1:12 @ For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the (note:)This passage is about an extraordinary revelation, for otherwise the Son revealed his Gospel only by his Spirit, even though by the ministry of men, which Paul excludes here.(:note) revelation of Jesus Christ.

geneva@Galatians:2:16 @ Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith (note:)In Jesus Christ.(:note) of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall No man, and in this word «flesh» there is a great force, by which is meant that the nature of man is utterly corrupt. no flesh be justified.

geneva@Galatians:3:16 @ Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, (note:)He puts forth the sum of the seventh argument, that is, that both the Jews and the Gentiles grow together in one body of the seed of Abraham, in Christ alone, so that all are one in Christ, as it is afterward declared in (Gal_3:28).(:note) which is Paul does not speak of Christ's person, but of two peoples, who grew together in one, in Christ. Christ.

geneva@Galatians:4:3 @ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the (note:)The Law is called elements, because by the Law God instructed his Church as it were by elements, and afterward poured out his Holy Spirit most plentifully in the time of the Gospel.(:note) elements of the world:

geneva@Galatians:4:14 @ And my (note:)Those daily troubles with which the Lord tried me among you.(:note) temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as For the sake of my ministry. Christ Jesus.

geneva@Galatians:4:25 @ For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and (note:)Look how the case stands between Hagar and her children; even so stands it between Jerusalem and hers.(:note) answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and That is, Sinai. is in bondage with her children.

geneva@Galatians:4:29 @ But as then he that was born after the (note:)By the common course of nature.(:note) flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the By the virtue of God's promise and after a spiritual manner. Spirit, even so [it is] now.

geneva@Galatians:5:17 @ For the (note:)For the flesh dwells even in the regenerated man, but the Spirit reigns, even though not without great strife, as is largely set forth in (Romans. strkjv@7:1-25).(:note) flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

geneva@Ephesians:1:21 @ Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every (note:)Everything, whatever it may be, or above all things, even if they are of ever so much power or excellency.(:note) name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

geneva@Ephesians:1:23 @ Which is his body, the (note:)For the love of Christ is so great towards the Church, that even though he fully satisfies all with all things, yet he considers himself but a maimed and unperfect head, unless he has the Church joined to him as his body.(:note) fulness of him that filleth all in all.

geneva@Ephesians:4:32 @ And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, (note:)An argument taken from the example of Christ, most grave and strong, both for the pardoning of those injuries which have been done to us by our greatest enemies, and much more for having consideration of the miserable, and using moderation and gentle behaviour towards all men.(:note) even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

geneva@Ephesians:5:29 @ For no man ever yet hated his (note:)His own body.(:note) own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

geneva@Philippians:1:7 @ Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my (note:)A true proof of a true knitting together with Christ.(:note) bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my He calls his bonds «grace», as though he had received some singular benefit. grace.

geneva@Philippians:2:16 @ Holding forth the (note:)The Gospel is called the word of life, because of the effects which it produces.(:note) word of life; Again he urges them forward, setting before them his true apostolic care that he had for them: in addition comforting them to the end that they should not be sorry for the greatness of his afflictions, no, not even if he should die to make perfect their sacrifice with his blood, as it were with a drink offering. that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

geneva@Colossians:1:26 @ [Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his (note:)Whom he chose to sanctify to himself in Christ. Moreover, he says that the mystery of our redemption was hidden since the world began, except that it was revealed to a few, who also were taught it extraordinarily.(:note) saints:

geneva@1Thessalonians:1:10 @ And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from (note:)This word «the» is not put here without reason: and by «wrath» is meant that revenge and punishment with which the Lord will in time judge the world in his terrible wrath.(:note) the wrath to come.

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:7 @ But we were (note:)We were rough, and yet easy and gentle as a nurse that is neither seeking glory, nor covetous, but who takes all pains as patiently as if she were a mother.(:note) gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:16 @ Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to (note:)Until that wickedness of theirs which they have by inheritance as it were of their fathers, has grown so great, that the measure of their iniquity being filled, God may come forth to wrath.(:note) fill up their sins alway: for the The judgment of God who was angry, which indeed appeared shortly after in the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, where many fled even out of various provinces, when it was besieged. wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:1 @ Finally, (note:)He adds now consequently according to his manner, various admonitions: the first of them is, that they pray for the increase and passage of the Gospel, and for the safety of the faithful ministers of it.(:note) brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have [free] course, and be glorified, even as [it is] with you:

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:10 @ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, (note:)What will we do then with those fat lazy monks, and sacrificing priests? A monk (says Socrates, book eight, of his Tripartite History) who does not work with hands, is like a thief.(:note) neither should he eat.

geneva@1Timothy:2:6 @ Who gave himself a ransom for all, (note:)A confirmation, because even to the Gentiles is the secret of salvation now revealed and made manifest, the apostle himself being appointed for this office, which he faithfully and sincerely executes.(:note) to be testified in due time.

geneva@1Timothy:6:21 @ Which some (note:)Not only in word, but also in appearance and gesture: to be short, while their behaviour was such that even when they held their peace they would make men believe, their heads were occupied about nothing but high and lofty matters, and therefore they erred concerning the faith.(:note) professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen. «[The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.]»

geneva@2Timothy:3:1 @ This (note:)The seventh admonition: we may not hope for a Church in this world without corruption: but there will be rather great abundance of most wicked men even in the very bosom of the Church, who will nonetheless make a show and countenance of great holiness, and charity.(:note) know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

geneva@Hebrews:1:9 @ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated (note:)This type of speech in which the Jews use contrasting phrases, has great force in it.(:note) iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath In that, that the word became flesh, by sending the Holy Spirit on him without measure. anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy For he is the head and we are his members. fellows.

geneva@Hebrews:5:2 @ Who (note:)Fit and meet.(:note) can have compassion on the ignorant, and On them that are sinful: for in the Hebrew tongue, under ignorance and error is every sin meant, even that sin that is voluntary. on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is He carries with him a nature subject to the same inconveniences and vices. compassed with infirmity.

geneva@Hebrews:5:14 @ But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their (note:)All their power by which they understand and judge.(:note) senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

geneva@Hebrews:6:17 @ Wherein God, willing more (note:)More than was needed, were it not for the wickedness of men who do not believe God, even though he swears.(:note) abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:

geneva@Hebrews:8:1 @ Now (note:)He briefly repeats that to which all these things are to be referred, that is, that we have another High Priest than those Levitical high priests, even such a one as sits at the right hand of the Most High God in heaven.(:note) of the things which we have spoken [this is] the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

geneva@Hebrews:10:1 @ For (note:)He prevents a private objection. Why then were those sacrifices offered? The apostle answers, first concerning the yearly sacrifice which was the solemnest of all, in which (he says) there was made every year a remembrance again of all former sins. Therefore that sacrifice had no power to sanctify: for to what purpose should those sins which are purged be repeated again, and why should new sins come to be repeated every year, if those sacrifices abolished sin?(:note) the law having a shadow of good things to Of things which are everlasting, which were promised to the fathers, and exhibited in Christ. come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

geneva@Hebrews:11:12 @ Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as (note:)As unlikely to bear children, as if he had been dead.(:note) dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

geneva@Hebrews:11:13 @ These all died in (note:)In faith, which they had while they lived, and followed, them even to their grave.(:note) faith, not having received the This is the figure metonymy, for the things promised. promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and For the patriarchs were given to profess their religion by building an altar and calling on the name of the Lord when they received the promises. embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

geneva@Hebrews:11:19 @ Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from (note:)From which death.(:note) whence also he received him in For there was not the true and very death of Isaac, but as it were the death, by means of which he seemed also to have risen again. a figure.

geneva@James:3:2 @ For in many things we offend all. (note:)The seventh place, concerning the bridling of the tongue, joined with the former, so that it is revealed that there is no man in who can not justly be found fault as well, seeing as it is a rare virtue to bridle the tongue.(:note) If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.

geneva@James:3:5 @ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. (note:)On the contrary part he shows how great inconveniences arise by the excesses of the tongue, throughout the whole world, to the end that men may so much the more diligently give themselves to control it.(:note) Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

geneva@James:4:1 @ From (note:)He advances the same argument, condemning certain other causes of wars and contentions, that is, unbridled pleasures and uncontrolled lusts, by their effects, for so much as the Lord does worthily make them come to no effect, so that they bring nothing to them in whom they reside, but incurable torments.(:note) whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

geneva@1Peter:3:4 @ But [let it be] the (note:)Who has his abiding place fastened in the heart: so that the hidden man is set against the outward adorning of the body.(:note) hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is Precious indeed and so taken of God. in the sight of God of great price.

geneva@1Peter:3:6 @ Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are (note:)Because women are by nature fearful, he gives them to understand that he requires of them that subjection, which is not wrung out from them either by force or fear.(:note) not afraid with any amazement.

geneva@2Peter:2:1 @ But (note:)As in times past there were two kinds of prophets, the one true and the other false, so Peter tells them that there will be true and false teachers in the Church, so much so that Christ himself will be denied by some, who nonetheless will call him redeemer.(:note) there were false prophets also among the Under the law, while the state and policy of the Jews was yet standing. people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

geneva@2Peter:3:15 @ And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation; (note:)Paul's epistles are allowed by the express testimony of Peter.(:note) even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

geneva@1John:2:27 @ But the (note:)The Spirit who you have received from Christ, and who has led you into all truth.(:note) anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye You are not ignorant of those things, and therefore I teach them not as things that were never heard of, but call them to your mind as things which you do know. need not that any man teach you: but as the same He commends both the doctrine which they had embraced, and also highly praises their faith, and the diligence of those who taught them, yet so, that he takes nothing from the honour due to the Holy Spirit. anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

geneva@1John:5:20 @ And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true (note:)The divinity of Christ is most clearly proved by this passage.(:note) God, and eternal life.

geneva@Jude:1:7 @ Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, (note:)Following the steps of Sodom and Gomorrah.(:note) giving themselves over to fornication, and going after Thus he sets forth their horrible and wicked perversions. strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

geneva@Jude:1:14 @ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord (note:)The present time, for the time to come.(:note) cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

geneva@Jude:1:23 @ And others save with (note:)By fearing them and holding them back with godly severity.(:note) fear, pulling [them] out of the fire; hating even the An amplification, taken from the forbidden things of the law which did defile. garment spotted by the flesh.

geneva@Revelation:1:1 @ The (note:)This chapter has two principal parts, the title or inscription, which stands in place of an introduction: and a narration going before the whole prophecy of this book. The inscription is double, general and particular. In (Rev_1:1) the general inscription contains the kind of prophecy, the author, end, matter, instruments, and manner of communication the same, in (Rev_1:2) the most religious faithfulness of the apostle as public witness and the use of communicating the same, taken from the promise of God, and from the circumstance of the time, (Rev_1:3)(:note)An opening of secret and hidden things. Revelation of Which the Son opened to us out of his Father's bosom by angels. Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John:[1 AD] The dragon watches the Church of the Jews, which was ready to travail: She brings forth, flees and hides herself, while Christ was yet on the earth. [34 AD] The dragon persecutes Christ ascending to heaven, he fights and is thrown down: and after persecutes the Church of the Jews. [67 AD] The Church of the Jews is received into the wilderness for three years and a half. [70 AD] When the Church of the Jews was overthrown, the dragon invaded the catholic church: all this is in the twelfth chapter. The dragon is bound for a thousand years in chapter twenty. The dragon raises up the beast with seven heads, and the beast with two heads, which make havock of the catholic church and her prophets for 1260 years after the passion of Christ in (Rev_13:11). [97 AD] The seven churches are admonished of things present, somewhat before the end of Domitian his reign, and are forewarned of the persecution to come under Trajan for ten years, chapter 2,3. God by word and signs provokes the world, and seals the godly in chapter 6 and 7. He shows examples of his wrath on all creatures, mankind excepted in chapter 8. [1073 AD] The dragon is let loose after a thousand years, and Gregory the seventh, being Pope, rages against Henry the third, then Emperor in chapter 20. [1217 AD] The dragon vexes the world for 150 years to Gregory the ninth, who wrote the Decretals, and most cruelly persecuted the Emperor Fredrick the second. [1295 AD] The dragon kills the prophets after 1260 years, when Boniface the eighth was Pope, who was the author of the sixth book of the Decretals: he excommunicated Philip the French King. [1300 AD] Boniface celebrates the Jubile. [1301 AD] About this time was a great earthquake, which overthrew many houses in Rome. [1305 AD] Prophecy ceases for three years and a half, until Benedict the second succeeded after Boniface the eighth. Prophecy is revived in chapter 11. The dragon and the two beasts question prophecy in chapter 13. Christ defends his Church in word and deed, chapter 14, and with threats and arms, chapter 16. Christ gives his Church victory over the harlot, chapter 17 and 18. Over the two beasts, chapter 19. Over the dragon and death, chapter 20. The Church is fully glorified in heaven with eternal glory, in Christ Jesus, chapter 21 and 22.

geneva@Revelation:1:7 @ Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every (note:)All men.(:note) eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

geneva@Revelation:2:1 @ Unto (note:)The former part of this book is comprised in a narration of those things which then were, as John taught us, in (Rev_1:19) it belongs wholly to instruction, and in these two next chapters, contains seven places, according to the number and condition of those churches which were named before in (Rev_1:11) shown in (Rev_1:12) and distributed most aptly into their pastors and flocks, (Rev_1:10) which verse of that chapter is a passage to the first part. Every one of these seven passages has three principal parts, an introduction taken from the person of the reprehension of that which is evil: an instruction, containing either an exhortation alone, or a dissuasion opposite to it, and a conclusion stirring to attention, by divine promises. This first passage is to the pastors of the church of Ephesus.(:note) the angel of the church of Ephesus write; The introduction in which are contained the special prayers of Christ Jesus the author of this prophecy out of (Rev_1:6, Rev_1:13). These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

geneva@Revelation:2:19 @ I know (note:)The note of praise is in this verse, and in (Rev_2:20) reprehension, for they tolerated with them the doctrine of unrighteousness and ungodliness. In (Rev_2:21), though they were called back to God, they did not repent. To this he adds even stronger threats and in (Rev_3:2-5) he gives a conditional promise and an exhortation to hold fast the truth(:note) thy works, and charity, and So he calls those offices of charity which are done to the saints. service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last [to be] more than the first.

geneva@Revelation:3:1 @ And unto the angel of the church in (note:)Sardis is the name of a most flourishing and famous city, where the kings of Lydia kept their courts.(:note) Sardis The fifth passage is to the pastors of Sardis. The introduction is taken from (Rev_1:4, Rev_1:16). write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a You are said to live, but are dead indeed. name that thou livest, and art dead.

geneva@Revelation:3:4 @ Thou hast a few names even in Sardis (note:)That is, who have with all religion guarded themselves from sin and moral corruption, even from the very show of evil; (Jud_1:23).(:note) which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in Pure from all spot, and shining with glory. So it is to be understood always hereafter, as in (Rev_3:5). white: for they are They are suitable and proper, that is, because they are justified in Christ, as they have truly showed it: for he who acts righteously is righteous in the same way that a tree bears good fruit; (Rom_8:18). worthy.

geneva@Revelation:4:2 @ And (note:)The manner of revelation:(:note) immediately I was See (Rev_1:10). in the spirit: A description of God the Father, and of his glory in the heavens, explained to men by his office, nature, attending company, effect, instruments and events that follow afterwards. In this verse he is presented in office as a judge as Abraham said; (Gen_18:25) which is declared by his throne as sign of judgment, and his sitting on it. and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and [one] sat on the throne.

geneva@Revelation:4:8 @ And the (note:)Every beast had six wings.(:note) four beasts had each of them six wings about [him]; and [they were] full of eyes within: and they rest not By events, in that for all the causes before mentioned, God is glorified both by angels, as holy, Judge, omnipotent, eternal and immutable and also after their example he is glorified by holy men (Rev_4:9) in sign and speech (Rev_4:10). day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

geneva@Revelation:5:1 @ And (note:)A passing to the second principal cause, which is the Son of God, God and man, the mediator of all, as the eternal word of God the Father, manifest in the flesh. This chapter has two parts: one that prepares the way to the revelation, by rehearsal of the occasions that occurred in the first four verses (Rev_5:2-5). Another, the history of the revelation of Christ, from there to the end of the chapter (Rev_5:6-14).(:note) I saw in the That is, in the very right hand of God. right hand of him that sat on the throne Here are shown the occasions for which the principal cause, and this revelation was also necessary: the same are three, the first a present vision of the book of the counsels of God, concerning the government of this whole world, which book is said to be laid up with the Father as it were in his hand: but shut up and unknown to all creature, in this verse. The second is a religious desire of the angels of God to understand the mysteries of this book (1Pe_1:12) (Rev_5:2). The third is a lamentation of John and all the godly, moved by the same desire (Rev_5:4) when they saw that it was an impossible thing for any creature to do: which is declared in (Rev_5:3). a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

geneva@Revelation:5:6 @ And I beheld, and, lo, (note:)The sum of this revelation: Christ the mediator takes and opens the book (Rev_5:6,7). Therefore this revelation describes the person of Christ. The person is described this way: Christ the mediator between God, angels and men, as the eternal word of God, and our redeemer: as the Lamb of God, standing as slain and making intercession for us by the power and merit of his everlasting sacrifice, is armed with the Spirit of God, that is, with the power and wisdom of God effectually to the government of this whole world.(:note) in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

geneva@Revelation:7:1 @ And (note:)The second part of this section is a preventing of danger, as we distinguished before in (Rev_6:1) that is, of the caution of God ahead of time to provide for his, after the example of the Israelites; (Exo_8:23) the faithful are exempted from the plagues of this wicked world. This section is a dialogue and bringing in for this whole chapter by occasion of the prediction and argument of the sixth seal. For first harm is withheld from the elect, (Rev_7:1-9). Then thanks are given by the elect for that cause (Rev_7:10-12). Lastly, the accomplishment of it is set forth to the end of the chapter. The first verse is a transition, speaking of the angels who keep the lesser parts from harm, until God commands. For, as in (Eze_10:19), their faces and their wings reach up, continually waiting on and watching the countenance of God for their direction and every one of them goes into that part that is right before his face: wherever the Spirit goes, they go, they do not step out of the way, not so much as a foot breadth from the path commanded to them by God.(:note) after these things I saw four angels standing on the On the four corners or coasts of the earth. four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, That is, neither into the air, into which the trees grow. nor on any tree.

geneva@Revelation:8:1 @ And (note:)He returns to the history of the seals of the book, which the Lamb opens. The seventh seal is the next sign, a precise commandment for the execution of the most severe judgment of God on this wicked world, and being understood by the seal, all things in heaven are silent, and in horror through admiration, until the command to act is given by God to the ministers of his wrath. So he moves to the third part which I spoke of before in (Rev_6:1) which is the enacting of those evils with which God most justly determined to afflict the world.(:note) when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

geneva@Revelation:10:7 @ But in the days of the (note:)See (Rev_11:15; Rev_16:17).(:note) voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

geneva@Revelation:11:1 @ And there (note:)The authority of the intended revelation being declared, together with the necessity of that calling which was particularly imposed on John after which follows the history of the estate of Christ his Church, both conflicting or warring, and overcoming in Christ. For the true Church of Christ is said to fight against that which is falsely so called, over which Antichrist rules, Christ Jesus overthrowing Antichrist by the spirit of his mouth: and Christ is said to overcome most gloriously until he shall slay Antichrist by the appearance of his coming, as the apostle teaches in (2Th_2:8). So this history has two parts: One of the state of the Church conflicting with temptations until Chapter 16. The other of the state of the same church obtaining victory, thence to Chapter 20. The first part has two sections most conveniently distributed into their times, of which the first contains a history of the Christian Church for 1260 years, what time the gospel of Christ was as it were taken up from among men into heaven: the second contains a history of the same Church to the victory perfected. These two sections are briefly, though distinctly propounded in this chapter, but both of them are discoursed after in due order. For we understand the state of the Church conflicting, out of Chapters 12 and 13, and of the same growing out of afflictions, out of Chapters 14 to 16. Neither did John unknowingly join together the history of these two times in this chapter, because here is spoken of prophecy, which all confess to be but one just and immutable in the Church, and which Christ commanded to be continual. The history of the former time reaches to (Rev_11:2-14), the latter is set down in the rest of this chapter (Rev_11:15-19). In the former are shown these things: the calling of the servants of God in (Rev_11:4) the conflicts which the faithful must undergo in their calling, for Christ and his Church, thence to (Rev_11:5-10) and their resurrection, and receiving up into heaven to (Rev_11:11-14). In the calling of the servants of God, two things are mentioned: the begetting and settling of the Church in two verses, and the education of it in two verses. The begetting of the Church is here commended to John by sign and by speech: the sign is a measuring rod, and the speech a commandment to measure the Temple of God, that is, to reduce the same to a new form: because the Gentiles are already entered into the Temple of Jerusalem, and shall shortly defile and overthrow it completely.(:note) was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and Either that of Jerusalem's, which was a figure of the Church of Christ, or that heavenly model in (Rev_11:19) but I like the first better, and the things following all agree to it. The sense therefore is, you see all things in God's house, almost from the passion of Christ, to be disordered: and not only the city of Jerusalem, but also the court of the Temple is trampled under foot by the nations, and by profane men whether Jews or strangers: and that only this Temple, that is, the body of the Temple, with the altar, and a small company of good men who truly worship God, do now remain, whom God sanctifies and confirms by his presence. Measure therefore this, even this true Church, or rather the true type of the true Church, omitting the rest, and so describe all things from me, that the true Church of Christ may be as it were a very little centre, and the Church of Antichrist as the circle of the centre, every way in length and breadth compassing about the same, that by way of prophecy you may so declare openly, that the state of the Temple of God, and the faithful who worship him, that is, of the Church, is much more upright than the Church of Antichrist. measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

geneva@Revelation:11:8 @ And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the (note:)That is, openly at Rome: where at that time was a most great crowd of people, the year of Jubile being then first ordained by Boniface to the same end, in the year 1300, an example of which is read in chapter 1 «Extra, de poenitentys strkjv@066:011:008 And their corpses shall lie in the streetes of the great citie, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord also was crucified. amp; remissionibus.» So by one act he committed two wrongs against Christ, both abolishing his truth by restoring the type of the Jubile, and triumphing over his members by wicked superstition. O religious heart! Now that we should understand the things of Rome, John himself is the author, both after in the seventeenth chapter almost throughout, and also in the restriction now next following, when he says, it is that great city (as he calls it) (Rev_17:18) and is spiritually termed Sodom and Egypt: and that spiritually (for that must here again be repeated from before) Christ was there crucified. For the two first names signify spiritual wickednesses: the latter signifies the show and pretence of good, that is, of Christian and sound religion. Sodom signifies most licentious impiety and in the most confident glorying of that city, as it were in true religion, being yet full of falsehood and ungodliness. Now who is ignorant that these things do rather, and better fit Rome, than any other city? The commendations of the city of Rome for many years past, are publicly notorious, which are not for me to gather together. This only I will say, that he long since did very well see what Rome is, who upon leaving, used these verses: «Roma vale, vidi, Satis est vidisse: revertar, Quumleno, meretrix, scurra, cinadus ero.» «Now farewell Rome, I have seen thee, it was enough to see: I will return when as I mean, bawd, harlot knave to be»(:note) street of the great city, which After a more secret type of meaning and understanding. spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, Namely in his parts, as also he said to Saul in (Act_9:5) where also our Lord was crucified.

geneva@Revelation:12:3 @ And there appeared another wonder in heaven; (note:)That is the devil or Satan, see (Rev_12:9), mighty, angry and full of wrath.(:note) and behold a great red dragon, having By this to withstand those seven churches spoken of, that is, the catholic church, and that with kingly objects and tyrannical magnificence: signified by the crowns set on his heads, as if they belonged to him by the proper right, without controversy: as also he boasted to Christ; See (Mat_4:9; Rev_13:1). seven heads and ten More than the horns of the Lamb, or than the churches are: so well equipped does the tyrant brag himself to be, to do all manner of wickedness. horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

geneva@Revelation:14:20 @ And the winepress was trodden without the city, (note:)That is, overflowed very deep, and very far and wide: the speech is exaggeration to signify the greatness of the slaughter. These are those pleasant fruits truly, of the contempt of Christ, and desiring of Antichrist rather than him, which the miserable, mad and blind world reaps at this time.(:note) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand [and] six hundred furlongs.

geneva@Revelation:15:1 @ And (note:)This is that other passage of the acts of Christ, as I noted before(:note) I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven Of which (Rev_8:9) in sending forth the plagues of the world: for even these plagues do for the most part agree with those. angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. {{See Rev_14:14}}. Now therefore is shown a singular work of the judgment of God belonging to the overthrow of Antichrist and his forces, of which divine work the preparation is described in this chapter: and the execution in the next. The preparation is first set down generally and in type in this verse: and is after particularly set forth in the rest of the chapter.

geneva@Revelation:15:6 @ And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the (note:)That is, commandments to inflict those seven plagues, by way of metonymy.(:note) seven plagues, clothed in Which was in old time a sign of the kingly or princely dignity. pure and white linen, and having their breasts This girding was a sign of diligence, and the girdle of gold was a sign of sincerity and trustworthiness in taking in charge the commandments of God. girded with golden girdles.

geneva@Revelation:15:7 @ And one of the (note:)Of these before (Rev_4:7).(:note) four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

geneva@Revelation:15:8 @ And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; (note:)None of those seven angels could return, till he had performed fully the charge committed to him, according to the decree of God.(:note) and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

geneva@Revelation:16:1 @ And (note:)In the former chapter was set down the preparation to the work of God: here is delivered the execution of it. In this discourse of the execution, is a general commandment, in this verse, then a particular recital in order of the execution done by every of the seven angels, in the rest of the chapter. This special execution against Antichrist and his crew does in manner agree to that which was generally done on the whole world, chapters eight and nine and belongs (if my conjecture fail me not) to the same time. Yet in here they differ from one another, that this was particularly effected on the princes and ringleaders of the wickedness of the world, the other generally against the whole world being wicked. Therefore these judgments are more grievous than those.(:note) I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

geneva@Revelation:17:1 @ And (note:)The state of the Church militant being declared, now follows the state of the church overcoming and getting victory, as I showed before in the beginning of the tenth chapter. This state is set forth in four chapters. As in the place before I noted, that in that history the order of time was not always exactly observed so the same is to be understood in this history, that it is distinguished according to the people of which it speaks, and that the stories of the people are observed in the time of it. For first is delivered the story of Babylon destroyed in this and the next chapter (for this Babylon out of all doubt, shall perish before the two beasts and the dragon). Secondly, is delivered the destruction of both the two beasts, chapter nineteen and lastly of the dragon, chapter eighteen. In the story of the spiritual Babylon, are distinctly set forth the state of it in this chapter, and the overthrow done from the first argument, consisting of the particular calling of the prophet (as often before) and a general proposition.(:note) there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto That is, that damnable harlot, by a figure of speech called «hyppalage». For John as yet had not seen her. Although another interpretation may be thought of, yet I like this better. thee the The sentence that is pronounce against this harlot. judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

geneva@Revelation:17:14 @ These shall make war with the (note:)With Christ and his Church, as the reason following declares, and here are mentioned the facts and events which followed for Christ's sake, and for the grace of God the Father towards those that are elected, called, and are his faithful ones in Christ.(:note) Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him [are] called, and chosen, and faithful.

geneva@Revelation:17:16 @ And the ten (note:)The ten kings, as (Rev_17:12). The accomplishment of this fact and event is daily increased in this our age by the singular providence and most mighty government of God. Therefore the facts are propounded in this verse, and the cause of them in the verses following.(:note) horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

geneva@Revelation:18:5 @ For her sins have (note:)He uses a word which signifies the following of sins one after another, and rising one of another in such sort, that they grow at length to such a heap, that they come up even to heaven.(:note) reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

geneva@Revelation:19:20 @ And the beast (note:)Namely, that beast with seven heads; (Rev_13:1; Rev_17:3).(:note) was taken, and with him That is, that beast with two heads; (Rev_13:11; Rev_16:14). the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

geneva@Revelation:20:2 @ And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him (note:)The first of which (continuing this history with the end of the second chapter) in the 36 years from the passion of Christ, when the Church of the Jews being overthrown, Satan attempted to invade the Christian church gathered from the Gentiles, and to destroy part of her seed, (Rev_12:17). The thousandth year falls precisely on the times of that wicked Hildebrand, who was called Gregory the seventh, a most damnable necromancer and sorcerer, whom Satan used as an instrument when he was loosed out of bonds, from then on to annoy the saints of God with most cruel persecutions, and the whole world with dissentions, and most bloody wars: as Benno the Cardinal reports at large. This is the first victory gained over the dragon in the earth.(:note) a thousand years,


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