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geneva@Genesis:2:5 @ And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to (note:)God only opens the heavens and shuts them, he sends drought and rain according to his good pleasure.(:note) rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

geneva@Genesis:2:7 @ And the LORD God formed man (note:)He shows what man's body was created from, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.(:note) [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

geneva@Genesis:2:8 @ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in (note:)This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.(:note) Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

geneva@Genesis:2:9 @ And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the (note:)Who was a sign of the life received from God.(:note) tree of life also in the midst of the garden, That is, of miserable experience, which came by disobeying God. and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

geneva@Genesis:2:15 @ And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to (note:)God would not have man idle, though as yet there was no need to labour.(:note) dress it and to keep it.

geneva@Genesis:2:16 @ And the LORD God (note:)So that man might know there was a sovereign Lord, to whom he owed obedience.(:note) commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

geneva@Genesis:2:19 @ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto (note:)By moving them to come and submit themselves to Adam.(:note) Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.

geneva@Genesis:2:22 @ And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a (note:)Signifying that mankind was perfect, when the woman was created, who before was like an imperfect building.(:note) woman, and brought her unto the man.

geneva@Genesis:3:1 @ Now the serpent was more (note:)As Satan can change himself into an angel of light, so did he abuse the wisdom of the serpent to deceive man.(:note) subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he God allowed Satan to make the serpent his instrument and to speak through him. said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

geneva@Genesis:3:8 @ And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife (note:)The sinful conscience flees God's presence.(:note) hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

geneva@Genesis:3:13 @ And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, (note:)Instead of confessing her sin, she increases it by accusing the serpent.(:note) The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

geneva@Genesis:3:14 @ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, (note:)He asked the reason from Adam and his wife, because he would bring them to repentance, but he does not ask the serpent, because he would show him no mercy.(:note) Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and As a vile and contemptible beast, (Isa_65:25). dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

geneva@Genesis:3:21 @ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God (note:)Or, gave them knowledge to make themselves coats.(:note) make coats of skins, and clothed them.

geneva@Genesis:3:22 @ And the LORD God said, (note:)By this derision by reproaches Adam's misery, into which he was fallen by ambition.(:note) Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and Adam deprived of life, lost also the sign of it. take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

geneva@Genesis:4:1 @ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she (note:)Man's nature, the estate of marriage, and God's blessing were not utterly abolished through sin, but the quality or condition of it was changed.(:note) conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man That is, according to the Lord's promise, as some read (Gen_3:15), «To the Lord» rejoicing for the son she had born, whom she would offer to the Lord as the first fruits of her birth. from the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:4:3 @ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an (note:)This declares that the father instructed his children in the knowledge of God, and also how God gave them sacrifices to signify their salvation, though they were destitute of the ordinance of the tree of life.(:note) offering unto the LORD.

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:4:13 @ And Cain said unto the LORD, (note:)He burdens God as a cruel judge because he punished him so severely.(:note) My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.

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:4:26 @ And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to (note:)In these days God began to move the hearts of the godly to restore religion, which had been suppressed by the wicked for a long time.(:note) call upon the name of the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:5:29 @ And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall (note:)Lamech had respect for the promise, (Gen_3:15), and desired to see the deliverer who would be sent and yet saw but a figure of it. He spoke this by the spirit of prophecy because Noah delivered the Church and preserved it by his obedience.(:note) comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

geneva@Genesis:6:3 @ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always (note:)Because man could not by won by God's leniency and patience by which he tried to win him, he would no longer withhold his vengeance.(:note) strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an Which time span God gave man to repent before he would destroy the earth, (1Pe_3:20). hundred and twenty years.

geneva@Genesis:6:6 @ And it (note:)God never repents, but he speaks in human terms, because he destroyed him, and in a way denied him as his creature.(:note) repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

geneva@Genesis:6:7 @ And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and (note:)God declares how much he detests sin, seeing the punishment of it extends to the brute beasts.(:note) beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

geneva@Genesis:6:8 @ But Noah (note:)God was merciful to him.(:note) found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:7:1 @ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen (note:)In respect to the rest of the world, and because he had a desire to serve God and live uprightly.(:note) righteous before me in this generation.

geneva@Genesis:7:16 @ And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD (note:)So that God's secret power defended him against the rage of the mighty waters.(:note) shut him in.

geneva@Genesis:8:20 @ And Noah (note:)For sacrifices which were as an exercise of their faith, by which they used to give thanks to God for his benefits.(:note) builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

geneva@Genesis:8:21 @ And the LORD smelled a (note:)That is, by it he showed himself appeased and his anger at rest.(:note) sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

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:11:5 @ And the LORD (note:)Meaning, that he declared by effect, that he knew their wicked enterprise; for God's power is everywhere, and neither ascends nor descends.(:note) came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

geneva@Genesis:11:6 @ And the LORD said, (note:)God speaks this in derision, because of their foolish persuasion and enterprise.(:note) Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

geneva@Genesis:12:1 @ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, (note:)From the flood to this time were four hundred and twenty-three years.(:note) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto In appointing him no certain place, he proves so much more his faith and obedience. a land that I will shew thee:

geneva@Genesis:12:7 @ And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he (note:)It was not enough for him to worship God in his heart, but it was expedient to declare by outward profession his faith before men, of which this altar was a sign.(:note) an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

geneva@Genesis:12:8 @ And he removed from (note:)Because of the troubles that he had among that wicked people.(:note) thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an And so served the true God, and renounced all idolatry. altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:12:17 @ And the LORD (note:)The Lord took the defence of this poor stranger against a mighty king: and as he is ever careful over his, so did he preserve Sarai.(:note) plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

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:13:13 @ But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and (note:)Lot thinking to get paradise, found hell.(:note) sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

geneva@Genesis:13:14 @ And the LORD said unto (note:)The Lord comforted him, lest he should have taken thought for the departure of his nephew.(:note) Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

geneva@Genesis:16:2 @ And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath (note:)She fails by limiting God's power to the common order of nature, as though God could not give her children in her old age.(:note) restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

geneva@Genesis:16:7 @ And the (note:)Which was Christ, as appears in (Gen_16:13, Gen_18:17).(:note) angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

geneva@Genesis:16:9 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, (note:)God rejects no estate of people in their misery, but sends them comfort.(:note) Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

geneva@Genesis:16:13 @ And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, (note:)She rebukes her own dullness and acknowledges God's graces, who was present with her everywhere.(:note) Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

geneva@Genesis:18:17 @ And the (note:)Jehovah the Hebrew word we call Lord, shows that this angel was Christ: for this word is only applied to God.(:note) LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

geneva@Genesis:18:19 @ For I know him, (note:)He shows that fathers ought both to know God's judgments, and to declare them to their children.(:note) that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

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:19:13 @ For (note:)This proves that the angels are ministers, both to execute God's wrath and to declare his favour.(:note) we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

geneva@Genesis:19:16 @ And while he (note:)The mercy of God strives to overcome man's slowness in following God's calling.(:note) lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

geneva@Genesis:20:18 @ For the LORD (note:)Had taken away from them the gift of conceiving.(:note) had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

geneva@Genesis:21:33 @ And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and (note:)That is, he worshipped God in all points of true religion.(:note) called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

geneva@Genesis:22:14 @ And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall (note:)The name is changed to show that God both sees and provides secretly for his and also evidently is seen, and felt in the right time.(:note) be seen.

geneva@Genesis:22:16 @ And said, By (note:)Signifying, that there is none greater then he.(:note) myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son]:

geneva@Genesis:24:3 @ And I will make thee (note:)This shows that an oath may be required in a lawful cause.(:note) swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

geneva@Genesis:24:12 @ And he said, O (note:)He grounds his prayer on God's promise made to his master.(:note) LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

geneva@Genesis:24:27 @ And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy (note:)He does not boast in his good fortune (as the wicked do) but acknowledges that God has dealt mercifully with this matter in keeping his promise.(:note) and his truth: I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

geneva@Genesis:24:35 @ And the LORD hath (note:)To bless signifies here to enrich, or increase with substance as the text in the same verse declares.(:note) blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

geneva@Genesis:24:50 @ Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, (note:)As soon as they perceived that it was God's ordinance they yielded.(:note) The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

geneva@Genesis:25:22 @ And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why [am] I (note:)That is, with child, seeing one shall destroy another.(:note) thus? And she went For that is the only refuge in all our miseries. to enquire of the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:26:2 @ And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, (note:)God's providence always watches to direct the ways of his children.(:note) Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

geneva@Genesis:26:24 @ And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I [am] the God (note:)God assures Isaac against all fear by rehearsing the promise made to Abraham.(:note) of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

geneva@Genesis:26:25 @ And he builded an (note:)To signify that he would serve no other God, but the God of his father Abraham.(:note) altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.

geneva@Genesis:28:13 @ And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee (note:)He felt the force of this promise only by faith: for all his life he was a stranger in this land.(:note) will I give it, and to thy seed;

geneva@Genesis:29:31 @ And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he (note:)This declares that often they who are despised by men are favoured by God.(:note) opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.

geneva@Genesis:29:32 @ And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the (note:)By this it appears that she had sought help from God in her affliction.(:note) LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will For children are a great cause of mutual love between man and wife. love me.

geneva@Genesis:30:30 @ For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came], and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall (note:)The order of nature requires that every one provide for his own family.(:note) I provide for mine own house also?

geneva@Genesis:31:49 @ And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD (note:)To punish the trespasser.(:note) watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

geneva@Genesis:39:2 @ And the (note:)The favour of God is the fountain of all prosperity.(:note) LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

geneva@Genesis:39:5 @ And it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD (note:)The wicked are blessed by the company of the godly.(:note) blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

geneva@Exodus:3:2 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a (note:)This shows that the Church is not consumed by the fires of affliction, because God is in the midst of it.(:note) bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.

geneva@Exodus:3:4 @ And when the (note:)Whom he calls the angel in (Exo_3:2).(:note) LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.

geneva@Exodus:3:7 @ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their (note:)Whose cruelty was intolerable.(:note) taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

geneva@Exodus:3:18 @ And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may (note:)Because Egypt was full of idolatry, God would appoint them a place where they could serve him purely.(:note) sacrifice to the LORD our God.

geneva@Exodus:4:1 @ And Moses answered and said, (note:)God bears with Moses doubting, because he was not completely without faith.(:note) But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

geneva@Exodus:4:14 @ And the (note:)Though we provoke God justly to anger, yet he will never reject his own.(:note) anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, [Is] not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

geneva@Exodus:4:21 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will (note:)By receiving my spirit and delivering him to Satan to increase his anger.(:note) harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

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:4:24 @ And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and (note:)God punished him with sickness for neglecting his ordinances.(:note) sought to kill him.

geneva@Exodus:4:31 @ And the (note:)So that Moses had experience of God's promise that he would have good success.(:note) people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

geneva@Exodus:5:1 @ And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told (note:)Faith overcomes fear, and makes men bold in their calling.(:note) Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may And offer sacrifice. hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

geneva@Exodus:5:21 @ And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to (note:)It is a grievous things for the servants of God to be accused of evil, especially by their brethren, when they do what their duty requires.(:note) put a sword in their hand to slay us.

geneva@Exodus:6:7 @ And I will (note:)He means, concerning the outward calling, the dignity of which they lost later by their rebellion: but as for election to life everlasting, it is unchangeable.(:note) take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

geneva@Exodus:6:12 @ And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who [am] of (note:)Or barbarous and rude in speech and by this word {(uncircumcised)} is signified the whole corruption of man's nature.(:note) uncircumcised lips?

geneva@Exodus:6:26 @ These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their (note:)For their families were so great, that they might be compared to armies.(:note) armies.

geneva@Exodus:6:30 @ And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I [am] of (note:)The disobedience both of Moses and of the people, shows that their deliverance came only from God's free mercy.(:note) uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

geneva@Exodus:7:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a (note:)I have given you power and authority to speak in my name and to execute my judgments on him.(:note) god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

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:8:8 @ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, (note:)Not love but fear causes the infidels to seek God.(:note) Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:8:13 @ And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs (note:)In things of this life God often hears the prayers of the just for the ungodly.(:note) died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.

geneva@Exodus:8:19 @ Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This [is] (note:)They acknowledged that this was done by God's power and not by sorcery; (Luk_11:20).(:note) the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

geneva@Exodus:8:26 @ And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the (note:)For the Egyptians worshipped various beasts, ox, sheep and such like which the Israelites offered in sacrifice, a thing the Egyptians abhorred to see.(:note) abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

geneva@Exodus:8:28 @ And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not (note:)So the wicked instruct God's messengers how far they may go.(:note) go very far away: intreat for me.

geneva@Exodus:8:29 @ And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal (note:)He could not judge his heart, but yet he charged him to do this honestly.(:note) deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:9:4 @ And the LORD shall (note:)He will declare his heavenly judgment against his enemies, and his favour toward his children.(:note) sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all [that is] the children's of Israel.

geneva@Exodus:9:21 @ And he that regarded not the (note:)The word of the minister is called the word of God.(:note) word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

geneva@Exodus:9:27 @ And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I (note:)The wicked confess their sins to their condemnation, but they cannot believe to obtain remission.(:note) have sinned this time: the LORD [is] righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked.

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:10:2 @ And that thou mayest tell in the (note:)The miracles would be so great, that they would be spoken of forever: where also we see the duty of parents toward their children.(:note) ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:10:3 @ And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse (note:)The purpose of affliction is that we humble ourselves with true repentance under the hand of God.(:note) to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

geneva@Exodus:10:7 @ And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a (note:)Meaning, the occasion of all these evils: so are the godly ever charged as Elijah was by Ahab.(:note) snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

geneva@Exodus:10:10 @ And he said unto them, Let (note:)That is, I hope the degree of affection that the Lord has for you is no more than the degree to which I want to let you go.(:note) the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look [to it]; for Punishment is prepared for you. Some read, «You intend some mischief». evil [is] before you.

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:10:19 @ And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the (note:)The water seemed red, because the sand or gravel is red: the Hebrews call it the Sea of bulrushes.(:note) Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

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:10:26 @ Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an (note:)The ministers of God should not yield one iota to the wicked, in regards to their mission.(:note) hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not That is, with what beasts, or how many. with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.

geneva@Exodus:11:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague [more] upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let [you] go, he shall (note:)Without any condition, but with haste and violence.(:note) surely thrust you out hence altogether.

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:12:11 @ And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: (note:)The lamb was not the Passover, but signified it, as ordinances are not the thing itself which they represent, but rather they signify it.(:note) it [is] the LORD'S passover.

geneva@Exodus:12:14 @ And this day shall be unto you for a (note:)Of the benefits received for your deliverance.(:note) memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance That is, until Christ's coming: for then ceremonies will end. for ever.

geneva@Exodus:12:23 @ For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the (note:)The angel sent by God to kill the first born.(:note) destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you].

geneva@Exodus:12:25 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the (note:)The land of Canaan.(:note) land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

geneva@Exodus:12:27 @ That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people (note:)They gave God thanks for so great a benefit.(:note) bowed the head and worshipped.

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:12:43 @ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the passover: (note:)Unless he is circumcised, and professes your religion only.(:note) There shall no stranger eat thereof:

geneva@Exodus:13:3 @ And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of (note:)Where they were in most cruel slavery.(:note) bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this [place]: there shall no leavened bread be To signify that they did not have time to leaven their bread. eaten.

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:13:8 @ And thou shalt shew thy son (note:)When you celebrate the feast of unleavened bread.(:note) in that day, saying, [This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:13:9 @ And it shall be for a sign unto thee (note:)You will constantly remember it, as you would of a thing that is in your hand, or before your eyes.(:note) upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:13:21 @ And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a (note:)To defend them from the heat of the sun.(:note) cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

geneva@Exodus:14:4 @ And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will (note:)By punishing his obstinate rebellion.(:note) be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so.

geneva@Exodus:14:8 @ And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an (note:)With great joy and boldness.(:note) high hand.

geneva@Exodus:14:10 @ And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore (note:)They who earlier had rejoiced in their deliverance, being now in danger, are afraid.(:note) afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:14:14 @ The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall (note:)Only put your trust in God without grudging or doubting.(:note) hold your peace.

geneva@Exodus:14:15 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore (note:)Thus in temptation faith fights against the flesh, and cries with inward groanings to the Lord.(:note) criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:

geneva@Exodus:14:24 @ And it came to pass, that in the morning (note:)Which was about the last three hours of the night.(:note) watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

geneva@Exodus:14:27 @ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD (note:)So, using the water, the Lord saved his own and drowned his enemies.(:note) overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

geneva@Exodus:14:31 @ And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his (note:)That is, the doctrine which he taught them in the Name of the Lord.(:note) servant Moses.

geneva@Exodus:15:1 @ Then (note:)Praising God for the overthrow of his enemies, and their deliverance.(:note) sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

geneva@Exodus:15:2 @ The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he [is] my God, and I will (note:)To worship him in it.(:note) prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

geneva@Exodus:15:3 @ The LORD [is] a (note:)In battle he always overcomes.(:note) man of war: the LORD [is] his Always constant in his promises. name.

geneva@Exodus:15:11 @ Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the (note:)The scripture often so calls the mighty men of the world.(:note) gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, Who ought to be praised with all fear and reverence. fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?

geneva@Exodus:15:17 @ Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine (note:)Which was mount Zion, where later the temple was built.(:note) inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee to dwell in, [in] the Sanctuary, O Lord, [which] thy hands have established.

geneva@Exodus:15:21 @ And Miriam (note:)By singing the same song of thanksgiving.(:note) answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

geneva@Exodus:15:25 @ And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, [which] when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there (note:)That is, God, or Moses in God's name.(:note) he proved them,

geneva@Exodus:15:26 @ And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is (note:)Which is, to do only what God commanded.(:note) right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD that healeth thee.

geneva@Exodus:16:3 @ And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh (note:)It is a hard thing for the flesh not to complain against God when the stomach is empty.(:note) pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

geneva@Exodus:16:4 @ Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every (note:)To signify that they should patiently depend on God's providence from day to day.(:note) day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

geneva@Exodus:16:7 @ And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; (note:)He did not give them Manna because they complained, but because of his promise.(:note) for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what [are] we, that ye murmur against us?

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:16:15 @ And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] (note:)Which signifies a part, portion, or gift: also meat prepared.(:note) manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

geneva@Exodus:16:16 @ This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, (note:)Which contains about half a gallon in our measure.(:note) an omer for every man, [according to] the number of your persons; take ye every man for [them] which [are] in his tents.

geneva@Exodus:16:25 @ And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not (note:)God took away the opportunity for their labour, to signify how holy he would have the Sabbath kept.(:note) find it in the field.

geneva@Exodus:16:33 @ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a (note:)Of this vessel read (Heb_9:4).(:note) pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.

geneva@Exodus:16:34 @ As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the (note:)That is, the Ark of the covenant that is, after the Ark was made.(:note) Testimony, to be kept.

geneva@Exodus:17:1 @ And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in (note:)Moses does not note every place where they camped as in Numbers 33, but only those places where some notable thing was done.(:note) Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to drink.

geneva@Exodus:17:2 @ Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye (note:)Why do you distrust God? Why do you not look for comfort from him without complaining to us?(:note) tempt the LORD?

geneva@Exodus:17:4 @ And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to (note:)How ready the people are to slay the true prophets for their own purposes and how slow they are to take up God's cause against his enemies and false prophets.(:note) stone me.

geneva@Exodus:17:7 @ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the (note:)When in adversity we think God is absent, then we neglect his promise and make him a liar.(:note) LORD among us, or not?

geneva@Exodus:17:14 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this [for] a memorial (note:)In the book of the law.(:note) in a book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

geneva@Exodus:18:10 @ And Jethro said, (note:)By this it is evident that he worshipped the true God, and therefore Moses did not refuse to marry his daughter.(:note) Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

geneva@Exodus:18:11 @ Now I know that the LORD [is] greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly (note:)For they that drowned the children of the Israelites, perished themselves by water.(:note) [he was] above them.

geneva@Exodus:19:3 @ And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of (note:)God called Jacob, Israel: therefore the house of Jacob and the people of Israel signify God's people.(:note) Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

geneva@Exodus:19:10 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and (note:)Teach them to be pure in heart, as they show themselves outwardly clean by washing.(:note) sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

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:19:24 @ And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the (note:)Neither dignity nor multitude have authority to pass the bounds that God's word prescribes.(:note) priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

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:20:7 @ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in (note:)Either by swearing falsely or rashly by his Name, or by condemning it.(:note) vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

geneva@Exodus:20:12 @ Honour thy (note:)By parents it is also meant all that have authority over us.(:note) father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

geneva@Exodus:23:19 @ The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his (note:)Meaning, that no fruit should be taken before just time: and by this all cruel and wanton appetites are controlled.(:note) mother's milk.

geneva@Exodus:23:25 @ And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy (note:)That is, all things necessary for this present life.(:note) bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of 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:24:5 @ And he sent young (note:)For as yet the priesthood was not given to Levi.(:note) men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:24:8 @ And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold the (note:)Which signifies that the covenant broken cannot be satisfied without shedding of blood.(:note) blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

geneva@Exodus:24:12 @ And the LORD (note:)The second time.(:note) said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee Signifying the hardness of our hearts, unless God writes his laws in it by his Spirit, (Jer_31:33; Eze_11:19; 2Co_3:3; Heb_8:10, Heb_10:16) tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach That is, the people. them.

geneva@Exodus:24:17 @ And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like (note:)The Lord appears like devouring fire to carnal men: but to them that he draws with his Spirit, he is like pleasant sapphire.(:note) devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

geneva@Exodus:28:12 @ And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod [for] stones of (note:)That Aaron might remind the Israelites of God.(:note) memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

geneva@Exodus:28:29 @ And Aaron shall (note:)Aaron will not enter into the holy place in his own name, but in the name of all the children of Israel.(:note) bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy [place], for a memorial before the LORD continually.

geneva@Exodus:28:30 @ And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the (note:)Urim signifies light, and thummim perfection: declaring that the stones of the breastplate were most clear, and of perfect beauty: by urim also is meant knowledge, and thummim holiness, showing what virtues are required in the priests.(:note) Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

geneva@Exodus:28:36 @ And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and grave upon it, [like] the engravings of a signet, (note:)Holiness belongs to the Lord: for he is most holy, and nothing unholy may appear before him.(:note) HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

geneva@Exodus:28:38 @ And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may (note:)Their offerings could not be so perfect, but some fault would be in them: which sin the high priest bore and pacified God.(:note) bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:29:18 @ And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: (note:)Or, savour of rest, which causes the wrath of God to cease.(:note) it [is] a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:29:26 @ And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it (note:)This sacrifice the priest did move toward the East, West, North, and South.(:note) [for] a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.

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:29:46 @ And they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: (note:)It is I the Lord, that am their God.(:note) I [am] the LORD their God.

geneva@Exodus:30:12 @ When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man (note:)By which he testified that he redeemed his life which he had forfeit, as is declared by David, (2Sa_24:1).(:note) a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when [thou] numberest them.

geneva@Exodus:30:13 @ This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the (note:)This shekel was worth two common shekels: and the gerah about 12 pence at a rate of five shillings sterling to an ounce of silver.(:note) shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the offering of the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:30:15 @ The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give an offering unto the LORD, (note:)That God should be merciful to you.(:note) to make an atonement for your souls.

geneva@Exodus:30:34 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and (note:)In Hebrew, Sheheleth: which is a sweet kind of gum and shines as the nail.(:note) onycha, and galbanum; [these] sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like [weight]:

geneva@Exodus:31:13 @ Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, (note:)Though I command that these works be done, yet I do not want you to break my Sabbath days.(:note) Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it [is] a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that [ye] may know that I [am] the LORD that doth sanctify you.

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:32:27 @ And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and (note:)This fact did so please God, that he turned the curse of Jacob against Levi to a blessing, (Deu_33:9).(:note) slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

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:32:33 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my (note:)I will make it known that he was never predestined in my eternal counsel to life everlasting.(:note) book.

geneva@Exodus:33:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, [and] (note:)The land of Canaan was surrounded by hills: so those who entered it, must go up by the hills.(:note) go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:

geneva@Exodus:33:5 @ For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye [are] a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know (note:)That I may either show mercy if you repent, or else punish your rebellion.(:note) what to do unto thee.

geneva@Exodus:33:7 @ And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the (note:)That is, the tabernacle of the congregation: so called because the people turned to it, when they needed to be instructed of the Lord's will.(:note) Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which [was] without the camp.

geneva@Exodus:33:11 @ And the LORD spake unto Moses (note:)Most clearly and familiarly of all others, (Num_12:7-8; Deu_34:10)(:note) face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

geneva@Exodus:33:12 @ And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by (note:)I care for you and will preserve you in your calling.(:note) name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

geneva@Exodus:33:19 @ And he said, I will make all my (note:)My mercy and fatherly care.(:note) goodness pass before thee, and I will See (Exo_34:6-7). proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew For finding nothing in man that deserves mercy, he will freely give his. mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

geneva@Exodus:33:21 @ And the LORD said, Behold, [there is] a place by (note:)In mount Horeb.(:note) me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

geneva@Exodus:34:6 @ And the LORD passed by before him, and (note:)This refers to the Lord, and not to Moses proclaiming: as (Exo_33:19).(:note) proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

geneva@Exodus:34:24 @ For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man (note:)God promises to defend them and theirs, who obey his commandment.(:note) desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.

geneva@Exodus:34:26 @ The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not (note:)See (Exo_23:19; Deu_14:21).(:note) seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

geneva@Exodus:34:28 @ And he was there with the LORD (note:)This miracle was to confirm the authority of the law, and should not be followed any more than other miracles.(:note) forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

geneva@Exodus:34:34 @ But when Moses went in (note:)Which was in the tabernacle of the congregation.(:note) before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded.

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:35:10 @ And every wise (note:)See (Exo_28:3).(:note) hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;

geneva@Exodus:35:29 @ The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made (note:)Using Moses as a minister of it.(:note) by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Exodus:36:1 @ Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the (note:)By the sanctuary he means all the tabernacle.(:note) sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.

geneva@Exodus:36:5 @ And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring (note:)A rare example and notable to see the people so ready to serve God with their goods.(:note) much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.

geneva@Exodus:39:1 @ And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made (note:)As coverings for the ark, the candlestick, the altars and such like.(:note) cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place], and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:39:30 @ Finally they made the plate for the holy crowne of fine golde, and wrote vpon it a superscription like to the grauing of a signet, HOLINES TO THE LORD.

geneva@Exodus:39:42 @ According to all that the LORD (note:)Signifying that in God's matters man may neither add, nor diminish.(:note) commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.

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@Exodus:40:38 @ For (note:)Thus the presence of God preserved and guided them night and day, till they came to the land promised.(:note) the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

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:1:3 @ If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the (note:)Meaning, within the court of the tabernacle.(:note) tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:1:5 @ And (note:)A priest of the Levites.(:note) he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the Of the burnt offering, (Exo_27:1). altar that [is by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:1:9 @ But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, [to be] a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour (note:)Or a savour of rest, which pacifies the anger of the Lord.(:note) unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:2:1 @ And when any will offer a (note:)Because the burnt offering could not be without the meat offering.(:note) meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be [of] fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

geneva@Leviticus:2:2 @ And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and (note:)The priest.(:note) he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the To signify that God remembers him that offers. memorial of it upon the altar, [to be] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:

geneva@Leviticus:2:3 @ And the remnant of the meat offering [shall be] Aaron's and his sons': [it is] a thing (note:)Therefore no one could eat of it but the priest.(:note) most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

geneva@Leviticus:2:12 @ As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer (note:)That is, fruits which were sweet as honey, ye may offer.(:note) them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt But reserved for the priests. on the altar for a sweet savour.

geneva@Leviticus:3:1 @ And if his oblation [be] a sacrifice of (note:)A sacrifice of thanksgiving offered for peace and prosperity, either generally or particularly.(:note) peace offering, if he offer [it] of the herd; whether [it be] a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:3:3 @ And he shall (note:)One part was burnt, another was to the priests, and the third to him that offered.(:note) offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,

geneva@Leviticus:3:6 @ And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD [be] of the flock; (note:)In the peace offering either male or female could be offered, but in the burnt offering only the male: so here no birds can be offered, but in the burnt offering they might: there all was consumed with fire, and in the peace offering divided.(:note) male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

geneva@Leviticus:3:9 @ And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering (note:)The burnt offering was completely consumed, and of the offering made by fire only the inner parts were burnt: the shoulder and breast, with the two jaws and the stomach were the priests, and the rest his that offered.(:note) an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, [and] the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,

geneva@Leviticus:4:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through (note:)That is, of negligence or ignorance, especially in the ceremonial law: for otherwise the punishment for a crime is determined according to the transgression, (Num_15:22).(:note) ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:

geneva@Leviticus:4:3 @ If (note:)Meaning, the high priest.(:note) the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.

geneva@Leviticus:4:4 @ And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and (note:)By this confessing that he deserved the same punishment which the beast suffered.(:note) kill the bullock before the LORD.

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:4:7 @ And the priest shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which [is] in the (note:)Which was in the court: meaning by the tabernacle the sanctuary: and in the end of this verse it is taken for the court.(:note) tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:4:13 @ And if the (note:)The multitude does not excuse the sin, but if all have sinned, they must all be punished.(:note) whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which should not be done, and are guilty;

geneva@Leviticus:4:15 @ And the (note:)For all the people could not lay on their hands: therefore it was sufficient that the elders of the people did it in the name of all the congregation.(:note) elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:4:24 @ And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it (note:)That is, the priest shall kill it; for it was not lawful for any out of that office to kill the beast.(:note) in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it [is] a sin offering.

geneva@Leviticus:4:35 @ And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, (note:)Or, besides the burnt offerings, which were daily offered to the Lord.(:note) according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

geneva@Leviticus:5:15 @ If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, (note:)Concerning the first fruits or tithes, due to the priests and Levites.(:note) in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, By the estimation of the priest, (Lev_27:12). with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

geneva@Leviticus:5:17 @ And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist [it] not, yet is he guilty, and shall (note:)That is, remembers after that he has sinned when his conscience accuses him.(:note) bear his iniquity.

geneva@Leviticus:6:2 @ If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in (note:)To give, and occupy for the use of him that gave it.(:note) fellowship, or in a thing taken away by By any deceit, or unlawful means. violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

geneva@Leviticus:6:20 @ This [is] the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering (note:)So oft as the high priest shall be elected and anointed.(:note) perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

geneva@Leviticus:6:22 @ And the priest of his sons that is (note:)His son that shall succeed him.(:note) anointed in his stead shall offer it: [it is] a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.

geneva@Leviticus:7:30 @ His own (note:)And should not send it by another.(:note) hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:7:35 @ This [is the portion] of the (note:)that is, his privilege, reward and portion.(:note) anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day [when] he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;

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:8:17 @ But the bullock, and his (note:)In other burnt offerings, which are not of consecration, or offering for himself, the priest has the skin, (Lev_7:8).(:note) hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:8:36 @ So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the (note:)By commission given to Moses.(:note) hand of Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:9:2 @ And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a (note:)Aaron enters into the possession of the priesthood: and offers the four principal sacrifices, the burnt offering, the sin offering, the peace offering, and the meat offering.(:note) sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer [them] before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:9:5 @ And they brought [that] which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the (note:)Before the altar where his glory appeared.(:note) LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:9:7 @ And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for (note:)Read for the understanding of this peace, (Heb_4:5, Heb_7:27).(:note) thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.

geneva@Leviticus:9:10 @ But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he (note:)That is, he laid them in order, and so they were burnt when the Lord sent down fire.(:note) burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:9:21 @ And the (note:)Of the bullock and the ram.(:note) breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.

geneva@Leviticus:9:23 @ And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and (note:)Or prayed for the people.(:note) blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.

geneva@Leviticus:10:1 @ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered (note:)Not taken from the altar, which was sent from heaven, and endured till the captivity of Babylon.(:note) strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.

geneva@Leviticus:10:3 @ Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is it] that the LORD spake, saying, I will be (note:)I will punish them that serve me in other ways than I have commanded, not sparing the chief, that the people may fear and praise my judgments.(:note) sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

geneva@Leviticus:10:6 @ And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, (note:)As though you lamented for them, preferring your carnal affection to God's just judgment; (Lev_19:18; Deu_14:1).(:note) Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath In destroying Nadab and Abihu the chief, and menacing the rest, unless they repent. kindled.

geneva@Leviticus:10:19 @ And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day (note:)That is, Nadab and Abihu.(:note) have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and [if] I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?

geneva@Leviticus:11:44 @ For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be (note:)He shows why God chose them to be his people, (1Pe_1:15).(:note) holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

geneva@Leviticus:14:24 @ And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall (note:)Or, shall offer them as the offering that is shaken to and fro.(:note) wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD:

geneva@Leviticus:16:2 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at (note:)The high priest entered into the holiest of holies just once a year in the month of September.(:note) all times into the holy [place] within the vail before the mercy seat, which [is] upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

geneva@Leviticus:16:8 @ And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the (note:)In Hebrew it is called Azazel, which some say is a mountain near Sinai, where this goat was sent. Rather it is called the scapegoat because it was not offered but sent into the desert, as in (Lev_16:11).(:note) scapegoat.

geneva@Leviticus:16:12 @ And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring [it] within the (note:)The holiest of holies.(:note) vail:

geneva@Leviticus:16:18 @ And he shall go out unto the (note:)Upon which the sweet incense and perfume was offered.(:note) altar that [is] before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about.

geneva@Leviticus:17:2 @ Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This [is] the thing which the LORD hath (note:)Lest they should practice the idolatry they had learned among the Egyptians.(:note) commanded, saying,

geneva@Leviticus:17:4 @ And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; (note:)I abhor it as much as if he had killed a man as in (Isa_66:3).(:note) blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

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:18:5 @ Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: (note:)And therefore you ought to serve me alone, as my people.(:note) I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:18:6 @ None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to (note:)That is, to lie with her, though it be under title of marriage.(:note) uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD.

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:19:2 @ Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be (note:)That is, void of all pollution, idolatry and superstition both of soul and body.(:note) holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy.

geneva@Leviticus:19:5 @ And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it (note:)Of your own accord.(:note) at your own will.

geneva@Leviticus:19:16 @ Thou shalt not (note:)As a slanderer, backbiter, or quarrel picker.(:note) go up and down [as] a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou By consenting to his death, or conspiring with the wicked. stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:19:28 @ Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any (note:)By whipping your bodies or burning marks in them.(:note) marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:19:32 @ Thou shalt (note:)In token of reverence.(:note) rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:19:36 @ Just balances, just weights, a just (note:)By these two measures he means all other. Of Ephah, read (Exo_16:36) and of Hin, (Exo_29:40).(:note) ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Leviticus:20:24 @ But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that (note:)Full of abundance of all things.(:note) floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from [other] people.

geneva@Leviticus:21:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be (note:)By touching the dead, lamenting, or being at their burial.(:note) defiled for the dead among his people:

geneva@Leviticus:21:8 @ Thou shalt (note:)You shall count them holy and reverence them.(:note) sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the The showbread. bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, [am] holy.

geneva@Leviticus:21:12 @ Neither shall he go out of the (note:)To go to the dead.(:note) sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the For by his anointing he was preferred above the other priests and therefore could not lament the dead, least he should have polluted his holy anointing. crown of the anointing oil of his God [is] upon him: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:21:15 @ Neither shall he profane his (note:)By marrying any unchaste or defamed woman.(:note) seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

geneva@Leviticus:21:21 @ No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the (note:)As the show bread, and meat offerings.(:note) bread of his God.

geneva@Leviticus:21:23 @ Only he shall not go in unto the (note:)Into the sanctuary.(:note) vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

geneva@Leviticus:22:2 @ Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they (note:)Meaning, that the priests abstain from eating, as long as they are polluted.(:note) separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name [in those things] which they hallow unto me: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:22:3 @ Say unto them, Whosoever [he be] of all your seed among your generations, that (note:)To eat of it.(:note) goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:22:16 @ Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of (note:)For if they did not offer sacrifice for their error, the people by their example might commit the same offence.(:note) trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

geneva@Leviticus:22:32 @ Neither shall ye (note:)For whoever does otherwise than God commands pollutes his Name.(:note) profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I [am] the LORD which hallow you,

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:23:11 @ And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the (note:)That is, the second sabbath of the Passover.(:note) sabbath the priest shall wave it.

geneva@Leviticus:23:13 @ And the meat offering thereof [shall be] two (note:)Which is, the fifth part of an Ephah, or two Omers: read (Exo_16:16).(:note) tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD [for] a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] Read (Exo_29:40). of an hin.

geneva@Leviticus:23:17 @ Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with (note:)Because the priest should eat them, as in (Lev_7:13), and they should not be offered to the Lord on the altar.(:note) leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:23:20 @ And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the (note:)That is, offered to the Lord, and the rest should be for the priest.(:note) priest.

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:23:36 @ 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:23:37 @ These [are] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a (note:)Or, peace offering.(:note) sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

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:23:43 @ That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in (note:)In the wilderness, in that they would not believe Joshua and Caleb, when they returned from spying the land of Canaan.(:note) booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.

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:24:11 @ And the Israelitish woman's son (note:)By swearing or despising God.(:note) blasphemed the name [of the LORD], and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)

geneva@Leviticus:24:23 @ And (note:)Because the punishment was not yet appointed by the law for the blasphemer, Moses consulted with the Lord, and told the people what God commanded.(:note) Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:26:13 @ I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the (note:)I have set you at full liberty, while before you were as beasts tied in bands.(:note) bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

geneva@Leviticus:26:45 @ But I will for their sakes remember the (note:)Made to their forefathers.(:note) covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:26:46 @ These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount (note:)Fifty days after they came out of Egypt.(:note) Sinai by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:27:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a (note:)As of his son or daughter.(:note) singular vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD by Who art the priest. thy estimation.

geneva@Leviticus:27:9 @ And if [it be] a (note:)Which is clean, (Lev_11:2).(:note) beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

geneva@Leviticus:27:16 @ And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an (note:)Homer is a measure containing ten ephahs, read of an ephah in (Exo_16:16, Exo_16:36).(:note) homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver.

geneva@Leviticus:27:21 @ But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be (note:)That is, who dedicate to the Lord with a curse to him that turns it to his private use, (Num_21:2; Deu_13:15; Jos_9:17).(:note) holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

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:27:26 @ Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether [it be] ox, or sheep: it [is] the (note:)It was the Lord's already.(:note) LORD'S.

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:1:1 @ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of (note:)In the place in the wilderness that was near mount Sinai.(:note) Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first [day] of the Which is part of April and part of May. second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, The Argument - In that as God has appointed that his Church in this world shall be under the cross, both so they could learn not to put their trust in worldly things, and also feel his comfort, when all other help fails: he did not immediately bring his people, after their departure out of Egypt, into the land which he had promised them: but led them to and fro for the space of forty years, and kept them in continual exercises before they enjoyed it, to try their faith, teach them to forget the world, and to depend on him. Which trial greatly profited, to discern the wicked and the hypocrites from the faithful and true servants of God, who served him with pure heart, while the other, preferring their earthly lusts to God's glory, and making religion to serve their purpose, complained when they lacked enough to satisfy their lusts, and despised those who God had appointed as rulers over them. By reason of which they provoked God's terrible judgments against them, and are set forth as a notable example for all ages, to beware how they abuse God's word, prefer their own lusts to his will, or despise his ministers. Nonetheless, God is always true to his promise, and governs his by his Holy Spirit, that either they fall not to such inconveniences, or else return to him quickly in true repentance: and therefore he continues his graces toward them, he gives them ordinances and instructions, as well for religion, as outward policy: he preserves them against all deceit and conspiracy, and gives them many victories against their enemies. To avoid all controversies that might arise, he takes away the occasions, by dividing among all the tribes, both the land which they had won, and that also which he had promised, as seemed best to his godly wisdom.

geneva@Numbers:2:34 @ And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their (note:)For under every one of the four principal standards, were various signs to keep every band.(:note) standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

geneva@Numbers:3:1 @ These also [are] the (note:)Or, families and kindreds.(:note) generations of Aaron and Moses in the day [that] the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

geneva@Numbers:3:4 @ And Nadab and Abihu died (note:)Or, before the altar.(:note) before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the While their father lived. sight of Aaron their father.

geneva@Numbers:3:39 @ All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two (note:)So that the first born of the children of Israel were more by 273, as in (Num_3:43).(:note) thousand.

geneva@Numbers:3:41 @ And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I [am] the LORD) (note:)So that now the Levites should satisfy the Lord for the first born of Israel, excepting the 273 which were more than the Levites for whom they paid money.(:note) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:4:37 @ These [were] they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the (note:)God appointing Moses to be the minister and executor of it.(:note) hand of Moses.

geneva@Numbers:4:41 @ These [are] they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that (note:)Which were of eligible age to serve in it, that is between 30 and 50.(:note) might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:4:49 @ According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded (note:)So that Moses neither added, nor diminished from that which the Lord commanded him.(:note) Moses.

geneva@Numbers:5:6 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin (note:)Commit any fault willingly.(:note) that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;

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:5:18 @ And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the (note:)It was so called by the effect, because it declared the woman to be accursed, and turned to her destruction.(:note) curse:

geneva@Numbers:5:21 @ Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a (note:)Both because she had committed so heinous a fault, and forswore herself in denying the same.(:note) curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

geneva@Numbers:6:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate [themselves] to vow a vow of a (note:)Who separated themselves from the world, and dedicated themselves to God: a figure which was accomplished in Christ.(:note) Nazarite, to separate [themselves] unto the LORD:

geneva@Numbers:6:6 @ All the days that he separateth [himself] unto the LORD he shall come at no (note:)As at burials, or mournings.(:note) dead body.

geneva@Numbers:6:12 @ And he shall (note:)Beginning at the eighth day, when he is purified.(:note) consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the So that he shall begin his vow anew. days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

geneva@Numbers:6:21 @ This [is] the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, [and of] his offering unto the LORD for his separation, (note:)At the least he shall do this, if he is not able to offer more.(:note) beside [that] that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

geneva@Numbers:7:3 @ And they brought their offering before the LORD, six (note:)Like horse litters, to keep the things that were carried in them from the weather.(:note) covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.

geneva@Numbers:8:4 @ And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, [was] beaten work: (note:)And not set together of various pieces.(:note) according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.

geneva@Numbers:8:10 @ And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the (note:)Meaning, certain of them in the name of the whole.(:note) children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

geneva@Numbers:8:22 @ And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation (note:)In their presence to serve them.(:note) before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

geneva@Numbers:9:7 @ And those men said unto him, We [are] defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not (note:)Or, celebrate the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month.(:note) offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

geneva@Numbers:9:10 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet (note:)And cannot come where the tabernacle is, when others keep it.(:note) he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

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:9:18 @ At the commandment of the (note:)Who taught them what to do by the cloud.(:note) LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

geneva@Numbers:9:19 @ And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the (note:)They waited when the Lord would signify either their departure, or their abode by the cloud.(:note) charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.

geneva@Numbers:9:23 @ At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the (note:)Under the charge and government of Moses.(:note) hand of Moses.

geneva@Numbers:10:10 @ Also in the day of your (note:)When you rejoice that God has removed any plague.(:note) gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I [am] the LORD your God.

geneva@Numbers:10:13 @ And they (note:)From Sinai to Paran, (Num_33:1).(:note) first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Numbers:10:29 @ And Moses said unto (note:)Some think that Reuel, Jethro, Hobab, and Keni were all one: Kimhi says that Reuel was Jethro's father: so Hobab was Moses father-in-law, see (Exo_2:18, Exo_3:1, Exo_4:18, Exo_18:1; Jdg_4:11)(:note) Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.

geneva@Numbers:10:33 @ And they departed from the (note:)Mount Sinai, or Horeb.(:note) mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.

geneva@Numbers:10:35 @ And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, (note:)Declare your might and power.(:note) Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.

geneva@Numbers:11:11 @ And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found (note:)Or, how have I displeased you?(:note) favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

geneva@Numbers:11:18 @ And say thou unto the people, (note:)Prepare yourselves that you may be clean.(:note) Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

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:12:6 @ And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto him in a (note:)These were the two ordinary means.(:note) vision, [and] will speak unto him in a dream.

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:14:3 @ And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be (note:)To our enemies the Canaanites.(:note) a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

geneva@Numbers:14:9 @ Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] (note:)We shall easily overcome them.(:note) bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.

geneva@Numbers:14:10 @ But all the congregation bade (note:)This is the condition of those who would persuade in God's cause, to be persecuted by the multitude.(:note) stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:14:20 @ And the LORD said, I have pardoned (note:)In that he did not utterly destroy them, but allowed their children and certain others to enter.(:note) according to thy word:

geneva@Numbers:14:40 @ And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have (note:)They confessed their sin in rebelling against God, but did not consider their offence in going up without God's commandment.(:note) sinned.

geneva@Numbers:14:44 @ But they (note:)They could not be stayed by any means.(:note) presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

geneva@Numbers:15:4 @ Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth [part] of an (note:)Read (Exo_29:40).(:note) hin of oil.

geneva@Numbers:15:7 @ And for a (note:)The liquor was so called, because it was poured on the thing that was offered.(:note) drink offering thou shalt offer the third [part] of an hin of wine, [for] a sweet savour unto the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:15:22 @ And if ye (note:)By oversight or ignorance, read (Lev_4:2, Lev_4:13).(:note) have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,

geneva@Numbers:15:31 @ Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his (note:)He shall sustain the punishment of his sin.(:note) iniquity [shall be] upon him.

geneva@Numbers:15:39 @ And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a (note:)By leaving God's commandments and following your own fantasies.(:note) whoring:

geneva@Numbers:16:3 @ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, (note:)Or let it suffice you: meaning, to have abused them this long.(:note) [Ye take] too much upon you, seeing all the congregation [are] holy, All are equally holy: therefore no one should be preferred above other: thus the wicked reason against God's ordinance. every one of them, and the LORD [is] among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

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:16:7 @ And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be [that] the man whom the LORD doth choose, he [shall be] holy: (note:)He lays the same to their charge justly, with which they wrongfully charged him.(:note) [ye take] too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

geneva@Numbers:16:16 @ And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company (note:)At the door of the tabernacle.(:note) before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:

geneva@Numbers:16:19 @ And Korah gathered all the (note:)All that were of their faction.(:note) congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.

geneva@Numbers:16:28 @ And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of mine own (note:)I have not invented them from my own brain.(:note) mind.

geneva@Numbers:16:30 @ But if the LORD make (note:)Or, show a strange sight.(:note) a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they go down quick into Or, deep and dark places of the earth. the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:16:38 @ The censers of these sinners (note:)Who caused their own death.(:note) against their own souls, let them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a Of God's judgments against rebels. sign unto the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:16:40 @ [To be] a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which [is] not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as (note:)Who presumed above his calling.(:note) Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Numbers:16:46 @ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the (note:)For it was not lawful to take any other fire, but of the altar of burnt offering, (Lev_10:1).(:note) altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.

geneva@Numbers:17:1 @ And the LORD spake unto (note:)While he was in the door of the tabernacle.(:note) Moses, saying,

geneva@Numbers:17:10 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their (note:)Grudging that Aaron should be high priest.(:note) murmurings from me, that they die not.

geneva@Numbers:18:1 @ And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear (note:)If you trespass in anything concerning the ceremonies of the sanctuary of your office, you will be punished.(:note) the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

geneva@Numbers:18:8 @ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave (note:)As the first fruit, first born, and the tithes.(:note) offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

geneva@Numbers:18:12 @ All the (note:)Or, fat; chiefest.(:note) best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.

geneva@Numbers:18:17 @ But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not (note:)Because they are appointed for sacrifice.(:note) redeem; they [are] holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat [for] an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:18:19 @ All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it [is] a covenant (note:)That is, sure, stable and incorruptible.(:note) of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

geneva@Numbers:18:20 @ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their (note:)Of Canaan.(:note) land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

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:19:13 @ Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be (note:)So that he should not be esteemed to be of the holy people, but as a polluted and excommunicated person.(:note) cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet upon him.

geneva@Numbers:20:12 @ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to (note:)That the children of Israel should believe and acknowledge my power and so honour me.(:note) sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

geneva@Numbers:20:13 @ This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he (note:)By showing himself almighty and maintaining his glory.(:note) was sanctified in them.

geneva@Numbers:21:6 @ And the LORD sent (note:)For they that were bitten by them were so inflamed by the poison of them, that they died.(:note) fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

geneva@Numbers:21:14 @ Wherefore it is said in the (note:)Which seems to be the book of the Judges, or as some think, a book which is lost.(:note) book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

geneva@Numbers:22:8 @ And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and (note:)Whom before he called elders: meaning the governors, and later calls them servants: that is, subjects to their king.(:note) the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

geneva@Numbers:22:13 @ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give (note:)Or else he would have been willing, covetousness had so blinded his heart.(:note) me leave to go with you.

geneva@Numbers:22:19 @ Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me (note:)Because he tempted God to require him contrary to his commandment, his petition was granted, but it turned to his own condemnation.(:note) more.

geneva@Numbers:22:22 @ And God's anger was kindled because he (note:)Moved rather with covetousness than to obey God.(:note) went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants [were] with him.

geneva@Numbers:22:28 @ And the LORD (note:)Gave her power to speak.(:note) opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

geneva@Numbers:22:31 @ Then the LORD (note:)For if the Lord does not open your eyes, you can see neither his anger or his love.(:note) opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.

geneva@Numbers:22:32 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because [thy] (note:)Both your heart is corrupt and your enterprise wicked.(:note) way is perverse before me:

geneva@Numbers:22:35 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the (note:)Because his heart was evil, his charge was renewed, that he should not pretend ignorance.(:note) word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

geneva@Numbers:23:5 @ And the LORD (note:)Taught him what to say.(:note) put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

geneva@Numbers:23:21 @ He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God [is] with him, and the (note:)They triumph as victorious kings over their enemies.(:note) shout of a king [is] among them.

geneva@Numbers:24:1 @ And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the (note:)Where the Israelites camped.(:note) wilderness.

geneva@Numbers:24:11 @ Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the (note:)Thus the wicked burden God when they cannot carry out their wicked enterprises.(:note) LORD hath kept thee back from honour.

geneva@Numbers:25:3 @ And Israel (note:)Worshipped the idol of the Moabites, which was in the hill Peor.(:note) joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

geneva@Numbers:25:4 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD (note:)Openly in the sight of all.(:note) against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

geneva@Numbers:26:1 @ And it came to pass after the (note:)Which came because of their whoredom and idolatry.(:note) plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

geneva@Numbers:26:9 @ And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This [is that] Dathan and Abiram, [which were] famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the (note:)In that rebellion of which Korah was head.(:note) company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:

geneva@Numbers:27:3 @ Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own (note:)According as all men die, for as much as they are sinners.(:note) sin, and had no sons.

geneva@Numbers:27:5 @ And Moses brought their (note:)That is, their matter to be judged, to know what he should determine, as he did all hard matters.(:note) cause before the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:27:11 @ And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of (note:)Meaning, an ordinance to judge by.(:note) judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:27:16 @ Let the LORD, the God of the (note:)Who as he has created, so he governs the hearts of all men.(:note) spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

geneva@Numbers:27:17 @ Which may (note:)That is, govern them and do his duty, as in (2Ch_1:10).(:note) go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

geneva@Numbers:27:18 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom [is] the spirit, and (note:)And so appoint him governor.(:note) lay thine hand upon him;

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:27:23 @ And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a (note:)How he should govern himself in his office.(:note) charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

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:28:26 @ 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:29:6 @ 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:29:12 @ 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:29:39 @ These [things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your (note:)Beside the sacrifices that you will vow or offer of your own minds.(:note) vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.

geneva@Numbers:30:1 @ And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes (note:)Because they might declare them to the Israelites.(:note) concerning the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded.

geneva@Numbers:30:5 @ But if her (note:)By not approving or consenting to her vow.(:note) father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

geneva@Numbers:30:8 @ But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard [it]; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her (note:)For she is in subjection to her husband, and can perform nothing without his consent.(:note) soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.

geneva@Numbers:31:3 @ And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go (note:)As he had commanded in (Num_25:17), declaring also that the injury done against his people is done against him.(:note) against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.

geneva@Numbers:31:16 @ Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD (note:)For worshipping of Peor.(:note) in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:31:28 @ And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the (note:)Of the prey that falls to the soldiers.(:note) men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:

geneva@Numbers:31:30 @ And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take (note:)The Israelites who had not been at war, of every fiftieth paid one to the Lord: and the soldiers one of every five hundred.(:note) one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:31:37 @ And the (note:)This is the portion that the soldiers gave to the Lord.(:note) LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

geneva@Numbers:31:40 @ And (note:)Meaning, of the maids, or virgins who had not slept with a man.(:note) the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] thirty and two persons.

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:31:54 @ And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a (note:)that the Lord might remember the children of Israel.(:note) memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:32:13 @ And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done (note:)Because they complained and would not believe their report, which told the truth concerning the land.(:note) evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

geneva@Numbers:32:20 @ And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go (note:)Before the Ark of the Lord.(:note) armed before the LORD to war,

geneva@Numbers:32:21 @ And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his (note:)That is, the inhabitants of the land.(:note) enemies from before him,

geneva@Numbers:32:22 @ And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession (note:)The Lord will grant you this land which you request, (Jos_1:15).(:note) before the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:32:23 @ But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin (note:)You shall assuredly be punished for your sin.(:note) will find you out.

geneva@Numbers:32:31 @ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the (note:)This is attributed to the Lord, which his messenger speaks.(:note) LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

geneva@Numbers:33:4 @ For the Egyptians buried all [their] firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their (note:)Either meaning their idols, or their men of authority.(:note) gods also the LORD executed judgments.

geneva@Numbers:33:38 @ And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first [day] of the (note:)Which the Hebrews call Ab, and contains part of July and part of August.(:note) fifth month.

geneva@Numbers:34:29 @ These [are they] whom the LORD commanded to (note:)And be judges over every piece of ground that should fall to any by lot, to the intent that all things might be done orderly and without contention.(:note) divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

geneva@Numbers:36:2 @ And they said, The LORD commanded (note:)Meaning Moses.(:note) my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

geneva@Numbers:36:5 @ And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said (note:)For the tribe could not have continued, if the inheritance which was the maintenance of it should have been alienated to others.(:note) well.

geneva@Numbers:36:13 @ These [are] the (note:)Concerning the ceremonial and judicial laws.(:note) commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:6 @ The LORD our God spake unto us in (note:)In the second year and second month, (Num_10:11).(:note) Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:10 @ The LORD your God hath (note:)Not so much by the course of nature, as miraculously.(:note) multiplied you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:20 @ And (note:)So that the fault was in themselves, that they did not sooner possess the inheritance promised.(:note) I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:25 @ And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word again, and (note:)That is, Caleb, and Joshua; Moses prefers the better part to the greater, that is, two to ten.(:note) said, [It is] a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:27 @ And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD (note:)Such was the Jews unthankfulness, that they counted God's special love, hatred.(:note) hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:30 @ The LORD your God (note:)Declaring that to renounce our own force, and constantly to follow our calling, and depend on the Lord, is true boldness, and agreeable to God.(:note) which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:41 @ Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, (note:)This declares man's nature, who will do that which God forbids, and will not do that which he commands.(:note) we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:42 @ And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I [am] (note:)Signifying that man has no strength, but when God is at hand to help him.(:note) not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:45 @ And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not (note:)Because you rather showed your hypocrisy, than true repentance; rather lamenting the loss of your brethren, than repenting for your sins.(:note) hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:1 @ Then (note:)They obeyed, after God had chastised them.(:note) we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir Eight and thirty years, as in (Deu_2:14). many days.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:7 @ For the LORD thy God hath (note:)And given you means, with which you may make recompence: also God will direct you by his providence, as he has done.(:note) blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:9 @ And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children (note:)Which were the Moabites and Ammonites.(:note) of Lot [for] a possession.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:14 @ And the (note:)He shows by this, that as God is true in his promise, so his threatenings are not in vain.(:note) space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:15 @ For indeed the (note:)His plague and punishment to destroy all that were twenty years old and above.(:note) hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:29 @ (As the (note:)Because neither intreaty nor examples or others could move him, he could not complain of his just destruction.(:note) children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:30 @ But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God (note:)God in his election and reprobation not only appoints the ends, but the means tending to the same.(:note) hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as [appeareth] this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:18 @ And I commanded (note:)That is, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half Manasseh, as in (Num_32:32).(:note) you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all [that are] meet for the war.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:21 @ And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the (note:)So that the victories did not come by your own wisdom, strength or multitude.(:note) LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:1 @ Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to (note:)For this doctrine stands not in bare knowledge, but in practice of life.(:note) do [them], that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:2 @ Ye shall (note:)Think not to be more wise than I am.(:note) not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye God will not be served by halves, but will have full obedience. diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:3 @ Your (note:)God's judgments executed on other idolaters ought to serve for our instruction, read (Num_25:3-4).(:note) eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:4 @ But ye that did (note:)And were not idolaters.(:note) cleave unto the LORD your God [are] alive every one of you this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:7 @ For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] (note:)Helping us, and delivering us out of all dangers, as in (2Sa_7:23).(:note) nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]?

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:15 @ Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no (note:)Signifying, that destruction is prepared for all who make any image to represent God.(:note) manner of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

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:4:25 @ When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall (note:)Meaning by this all superstition and corruption of the true service of God.(:note) corrupt [yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:27 @ And the LORD shall (note:)So that his curse will make his former blessings ineffectual.(:note) scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:29 @ But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy (note:)Not with outward show or ceremony, but with a true confession of your faults.(:note) heart and with all thy soul.

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:4:34 @ Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by (note:)By so manifest proofs that none could doubt of it.(:note) temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:35 @ Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest (note:)He shows the reason why God did these miracles.(:note) know that the LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:40 @ Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may (note:)God promises reward not for our merits, but to encourage us, and to assure us that our labour will not be lost.(:note) go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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:5:4 @ The LORD talked with you (note:)So plainly that you do not need to doubt it.(:note) face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:9 @ Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a (note:)That is, of his honour, not permitting it to be given to others.(:note) jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:22 @ These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he (note:)Teaching us by his example to be content with his word, and add nothing to it.(:note) added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:32 @ Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not (note:)You shall neither add nor take away, (Deu_4:2).(:note) turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:33 @ Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may (note:)In the same way that God, by way of our obedience, gives us all happiness: so from disobeying God proceed all our miseries.(:note) live, and [that it may be] well with you, and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye shall possess.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:2 @ That thou mayest (note:)A reverent face and love for God is the first beginning to keeping God's commandments.(:note) fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:3 @ Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, (note:)Which has an abundance of all things needed for man's life.(:note) in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:13 @ Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt (note:)We must fear God, serve him only and confess his Name, which is done by swearing lawfully.(:note) swear by his name.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:16 @ Ye shall not (note:)By doubting his power, refusing lawful means, and abusing his graces.(:note) tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:18 @ And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the (note:)Here he condemns all of man's good intentions.(:note) sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to thy fathers,

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:20 @ [And] when (note:)God not only requires that we serve him all our lives, but also that we see that our posterity sets forth his glory.(:note) thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:25 @ And it shall be our (note:)Because no one can fully obey the law, we must turn to Christ to be justified by faith.(:note) righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:2 @ And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them (note:)Into thy power.(:note) before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:8 @ But because the LORD (note:)Freely, finding no cause in you more than in others so to do.(:note) loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:9 @ Know therefore (note:)And so put difference between him and idols.(:note) that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:12 @ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the (note:)This covenant is grounded in his free grace: therefore in recompensing their obedience, he respects his mercy and not their merits.(:note) mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:16 @ And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; (note:)We should not be merciful when God commands severity.(:note) thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:20 @ Moreover the LORD thy God will send the (note:)There is not a creature so small, that I will not arm it to fight on your side against them.(:note) hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:22 @ And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the (note:)It is to your advantage that God does not accomplish his promise as soon as you would wish.(:note) beasts of the field increase upon thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:25 @ The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou (note:)And be enticed to idolatry.(:note) be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:1 @ All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe (note:)Showing that it is not enough to hear the word, unless we express it by the example of our lives.(:note) to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:2 @ And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to (note:)Which is declared in afflictions, either by patience, or by grudging against God's visitation.(:note) prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:3 @ And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by (note:)Man does not live by meat only, but by the power of God, who gives it strength to nourish us.(:note) bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:5 @ Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God (note:)So that his affliction are signs of his fatherly love toward us.(:note) chasteneth thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:10 @ When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt (note:)To receive God's benefits and not be thankful, is to despise God in them.(:note) bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:14 @ Then thine heart (note:)By attributing God's benefits to your own wisdom and labour, or to good fortune.(:note) be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:18 @ But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] he that (note:)If things concerning this life proceed only from God's mercy, how much more do spiritual gifts and everlasting life.(:note) giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:19 @ And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I (note:)Or take to witness the heaven and the earth, as in (Deu_4:26).(:note) testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:3 @ Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which (note:)To guide you and govern you.(:note) goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:4 @ Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my (note:)Man by himself deserves nothing but God's anger, and if God spares anyone it comes from his great mercy.(:note) righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:6 @ Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a (note:)Like stubborn oxen who will not endure their masters yoke.(:note) stiffnecked people.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:7 @ Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: (note:)He proves by the length of time, that their rebellion was great and intolerable.(:note) from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:10 @ And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the (note:)That is, miraculously, and not by the hand of men.(:note) finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:12 @ And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have (note:)As soon as man declines from the obedience of God, his ways are corrupt.(:note) corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:16 @ And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the (note:)That is, from the Law: in which he declares what the cause of our punishment is.(:note) way which the LORD had commanded you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:20 @ And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have (note:)By which he shows the danger they are in who have authority and do not resist wickedness.(:note) destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:23 @ Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye (note:)At the return of the spies.(:note) rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:25 @ Thus I fell down before the LORD (note:)By which is signified that God requires earnest continuance in prayer.(:note) forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:4 @ And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the (note:)When you were assembled to receive the Law.(:note) assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:8 @ At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to (note:)That is, to offer sacrifice, and to declare the Law to the people.(:note) minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:9 @ Wherefore Levi hath no part nor (note:)So God turned the curse of Jacob to a blessing (Gen_49:7).(:note) inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:12 @ And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God (note:)For all our sins and transgressions God requires nothing but to turn to him and obey him.(:note) require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:20 @ Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and (note:)Read (Deu_6:13).(:note) swear by his name.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:2 @ And (note:)You who have seen God's graces with your eyes should be moved, rather than your children who have only heard of them.(:note) know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:21 @ That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as (note:)As long as the heavens and earth endure, (2Pe_3:10, 2Pe_3:12).(:note) the days of heaven upon the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:28 @ And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not (note:)He reproves the malice of men who leave that which is certain to follow that which is uncertain.(:note) known.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:1 @ These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God (note:)By which they are admonished to seek no other God.(:note) of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:4 @ Ye shall (note:)You shall not serve the Lord with superstitions.(:note) not do so unto the LORD your God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:7 @ And there ye shall eat (note:)Where his Ark shall be.(:note) before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:10 @ But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you (note:)It was not enough to conquer unless God maintained them in rest under his protection.(:note) rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:14 @ But in the place which the LORD shall (note:)As was declared ever by the placing of the ark in Shiloh 243 years, or as some write more that 300 years, and in other places till the temple was built.(:note) choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:15 @ Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the (note:)As God has given you power and ability.(:note) blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, Everyone may eat equally at home the beast appointed for sacrifice and the other. as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:26 @ Only thy (note:)That which you will offer in sacrifice.(:note) holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:28 @ Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go (note:)God by promise binds himself to do good to those who obey his word.(:note) well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest [that which is] good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

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:13:3 @ Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God (note:)God ordains all these things that his may be known.(:note) proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:5 @ And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be (note:)Being convicted by testimonies, and condemned by the judge.(:note) put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:16 @ And (note:)Signifying that no idolatry is so detestable, nor more grievously to be punished, than of those who once professed God.(:note) thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:17 @ And there shall cleave nought of the (note:)Of the spoil of that idolatrous and cursed city, read (Deu_7:26; Jos_7:11).(:note) cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:2 @ For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a (note:)Therefore you should not follow the superstition of the Gentiles.(:note) peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:21 @ Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that (note:)Because their blood was not shed, but remains in them.(:note) dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the Who is not of your religion. stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:24 @ And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; [or] if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, (note:)When he shall give thee abilities.(:note) when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:26 @ And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: (note:)After the Priest has received the Lord's part.(:note) and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:2 @ And this [is] the manner of the release: Every (note:)He shall only release his debtors, who are not able to pay for that year.(:note) creditor that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he shall not exact [it] of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:14 @ Thou shalt (note:)In token that you acknowledge the benefit which God has given you by his labours.(:note) furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:18 @ It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double (note:)For the hired servant served but three years, and he six.(:note) hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:19 @ All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: (note:)For they are the Lords.(:note) thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:1 @ Observe the month of (note:)Read (Exo_13:4).(:note) Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:2 @ Thou shalt therefore (note:)You shall eat the Easter lamb.(:note) sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:5 @ Thou mayest (note:)This was chiefly accomplished, when the temple was built.(:note) not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

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:16:17 @ Every man [shall give] as he is (note:)According to the ability that God has given him.(:note) able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:20 @ That which (note:)The magistrate must constantly follow the tenor of the law, and in noting decline from justice.(:note) is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:1 @ Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is (note:)You shall not serve God for selfish means as the hypocrites do.(:note) blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:2 @ If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or (note:)Showing that the crime cannot be excused by the frailty of the person.(:note) woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

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:17:15 @ Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a (note:)Who is not from your nation, lest he change true religion into idolatry, and bring you to slavery.(:note) stranger over thee, which [is] not thy brother.

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to (note:)To avenge their injuries and to take their best horses from them; (1Ki_10:28).(:note) Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:1 @ The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his (note:)That is, the Lord's part of his inheritance.(:note) inheritance.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:6 @ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with (note:)Meaning, to serve God whole heartedly, and not to seek ease.(:note) all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:13 @ Thou shalt be (note:)Without hypocrisy or mixture or false religion.(:note) perfect with the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:15 @ The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a (note:)Meaning, a continual succession of prophets, till Christ, the end of all prophets, comes.(:note) Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:22 @ When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing (note:)Under this sure note he comprises all the other tokens.(:note) follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:3 @ Thou shalt (note:)Make an open and ready way.(:note) prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every Who killed against his will, and bore no hatred in his heart. slayer may flee thither.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:8 @ And if the LORD thy God (note:)When you go over Jordan to possess the whole land of Canaan.(:note) enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:10 @ That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and (note:)Lest you be punished for innocent blood.(:note) [so] blood be upon thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:17 @ Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the (note:)God's presence where his true ministers are assembled.(:note) LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

geneva@Deuteronomy:20:1 @ When (note:)Meaning, upon just occasion: for God does not permit his people to fight every time it seems good to them.(:note) thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Deuteronomy:20:4 @ For the LORD your God [is] he that (note:)Is present to defend you with his grace and power.(:note) goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:1 @ If [one] be found (note:)This law declares how horrible murder is, seeing that because of one man a whole country will be punished, unless remedy is found.(:note) slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath slain him:

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:8 @ Be merciful, (note:)This was the prayer, which the priests made in the audience of the people.(:note) O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:23 @ His body shall not remain (note:)For God's law is satisfied by his death, and nature abhors cruelty.(:note) all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:5 @ The (note:)For that alters the order of nature, and shows that you despise God.(:note) woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:1 @ He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, (note:)Either to bear office, or to marry a wife.(:note) shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:8 @ The children that are begotten (note:)If the fathers have renounced their idolatry, and received circumcision.(:note) of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

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:23:20 @ Unto a (note:)This was permitted for a time because of the hardness of their hearts.(:note) stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may If you show charity to your brother, God will declare his love toward you. bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

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:24:4 @ Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is (note:)Seeing that by divorcing her he judged her to be unclean and defiled.(:note) defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:13 @ In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee (note:)Though he would be unthankful, yet God will not forget it.(:note) before the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:19 @ Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou shalt blot out the (note:)This was partly accomplished by Saul, about 450 years later.(:note) remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:5 @ And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A (note:)Meaning, Jacob, who served 20 years in Syria.(:note) Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, Only by God's mercy, and not by their father's deserving. and populous:

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:7 @ And when we (note:)Alleging the promises made to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.(:note) cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:10 @ And now, behold, I have (note:)In token of a thankful heart, and mindful of this benefit.(:note) brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:11 @ And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine (note:)Signifying that God does not give us goods for ourselves only, but to be used also by those who are committed to our charge.(:note) house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:13 @ Then thou shalt (note:)Without hypocrisy.(:note) say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [mine] house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not Of malice and contempt. transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:14 @ I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done (note:)As far as my sinful nature would allow: or else as David and Paul say, there is not one just, (Psa_14:3; Rom_3:10).(:note) according to all that thou hast commanded me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:16 @ This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with (note:)With a good and simple conscience.(:note) all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:5 @ And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] (note:)The altar should not be curiously wrought, because it would continue but for a time: for God would have only one altar in Judah.(:note) iron [tool] upon them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:10 @ Thou (note:)This condition has bound you to it, that if you will be his people, you must keep his laws.(:note) shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

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

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:1 @ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will (note:)He will make you the most excellent of all people.(:note) set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:2 @ And all these blessings shall come on thee, and (note:)When you think you are forsaken.(:note) overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

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:28:8 @ The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine (note:)God will bless us, if we do our duty and are not idle.(:note) hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:10 @ And all people of the earth shall see that thou art (note:)In that he is your God, and you are his people.(:note) called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:12 @ The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the (note:)For nothing in the earth is profitable but when God sends his blessings from heaven.(:note) heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

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:28:36 @ The LORD shall bring thee, and thy (note:)As he did Manasseh, Joiakim, Zedekiah and others.(:note) king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:58 @ If thou wilt not observe to do (note:)For he that offends in one, is guilty of all, (Jam_2:10)(:note) all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:61 @ Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not (note:)Declaring, that God has infinite means to plague the wicked, besides those that are ordinary or written.(:note) written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

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:28:68 @ And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with (note:)Because they were unmindful of that miracle, when the sea made room for them to pass through.(:note) ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:1 @ These [are] the (note:)That is, the articles, or conditions.(:note) words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in At the first giving of the law, which was forty years earlier. Horeb.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:4 @ Yet the LORD hath not (note:)He shows that it is not in man's power to understand the mysteries of God if it is not given to him from above.(:note) given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:6 @ Ye have not eaten (note:)Made by man's art, but manna, which is called the bread of angels.(:note) bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:10 @ Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your (note:)Who knows your hearts, and therefore you may not think to conceal from him.(:note) God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel,

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:12 @ That thou shouldest (note:)Alluding to them, that when they made a sure covenant, divided a beast in two, and past between the parts divided, (Gen_15:10).(:note) enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:15 @ But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] (note:)Meaning, their posterity.(:note) that [is] not here with us this day:

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:18 @ Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you (note:)Such sin, as the bitter fruit of it might choke and destroy you.(:note) a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:22 @ So that the (note:)God's plagues on those who rebel against him will be so strong, that all ages will be astonished.(:note) generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:29 @ The (note:)Moses by this proves their curiosity, who seek those things that are only known to God: and their negligence who do not regard that which God has revealed to them, as the law.(:note) secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:1 @ And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt (note:)By calling to mind both his mercies and his plagues.(:note) call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:2 @ And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine (note:)In true repentance there is no hypocrisy.(:note) heart, and with all thy soul;

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:30:6 @ And the LORD thy God will (note:)God will purge all your wicked affections, a thing that is not in your own power to do.(:note) circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:9 @ And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again (note:)He does not mean that God is subject to these passions, to rejoice, or to be sad: but he uses this manner of speech to declare the love that he has for us.(:note) rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:16 @ In that I command thee this day (note:)So that to love and obey God, is only life and happiness.(:note) to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest He adds these promises to signify that it is for our profit that we love him, and not for his. live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:2 @ And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty years old this day; I (note:)I can no longer execute my office.(:note) can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:5 @ And the LORD shall give them up (note:)Into your hands.(:note) before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:7 @ And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and (note:)For he that must govern the people, must be valiant to repress evil, and constant to maintain virtue.(:note) of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:8 @ And the LORD, he [it is] that doth (note:)Signifying that man can never be of good courage, unless he is persuaded of God's favour and assistance.(:note) go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:11 @ When all Israel is come to appear (note:)Before the Ark of the covenant, which was the sign of God's presence, and the figure of Christ.(:note) before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:13 @ And [that] their children, which (note:)Who were not born when the law was given.(:note) have not known [any thing], may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:15 @ And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a (note:)In a cloud that was fashioned like a pillar.(:note) cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:26 @ Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a (note:)Of your infidelity, when you turn away from the doctrine contained in it.(:note) witness against thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:29 @ For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt [yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the (note:)By idolatry, and worshipping images, which are the work of your hands.(:note) work of your hands.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:6 @ Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not (note:)Not according to the common creation, but he has made you a new creature by his Spirit.(:note) made thee, and established thee?

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:19 @ And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his (note:)He calls them God's children, not to honour them, but to show them from what dignity they are fallen.(:note) sons, and of his daughters.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:27 @ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should (note:)Rejoicing to see the godly afflicted, and attributing to themselves that which is wrought by God's hand.(:note) behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:36 @ For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none (note:)When neither strong nor weak in a manner remain.(:note) shut up, or left.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:2 @ And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten (note:)Meaning, infinite angels.(:note) thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:7 @ And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be (note:)Signifying, that he would barely obtain Jacob's promise, (Gen_49:8).(:note) sufficient for him; and be thou an help [to him] from his enemies.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:11 @ Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite (note:)He declares that the ministers of God have many enemies, and therefore need to be prayed for.(:note) through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:12 @ [And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall (note:)Because the temple would be built in Zion, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, he shows that God would dwell with him there.(:note) dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:21 @ And he provided the first part for himself, because there, [in] a portion of the (note:)So the portion of the Gadites, and others on this side of the Jordan was God's, though it was not so known.(:note) lawgiver, [was he] seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:23 @ And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou (note:)Meaning, near the sea.(:note) the west and the south.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:29 @ Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency! and (note:)Your enemies for fear shall lie and pretend to be in subjection.(:note) thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:1 @ And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of (note:)Which was a part of mount Abarim, (Num_27:12).(:note) Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:9 @ And (note:)By this the favour of God is demonstrated, in that he does not leave his Church destitute of a governor.(:note) Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:10 @ And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew (note:)To whom the Lord revealed himself so plainly as in (Exo_33:11).(:note) face to face,

geneva@Joshua:1:1 @ Now after the (note:)The beginning of this book depends on the last chapter of Deuteronomy which was written by Joshua as a preparation to his history.(:note) death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, The Argument - In this book the Holy Spirit sets most lively before us the accomplishment of God's promise, who as he promised by the mouth of Moses, that a prophet would be raised up to the people like him, whom he wills to obey, (Deu_18:15): so he shows himself true to his promise, as at all other times, and after the death of Moses his faithful servant, he raises up Joshua to be ruler and governor over his people, that they should neither be discouraged for lack of a captain, nor have reason to distrust God's promises later. So that Joshua might be confirmed in his calling, and the people also might have no opportunity to grudge, as though he were not approved by God: he is adorned with most excellent gifts and graces from God, both to govern the people with counsel, and to defend them with strength, that he lacks nothing which either belongs to a valiant captain, or a faithful minister. So he overcomes all difficulties, and brings them into the land of Canaan: which according to God's ordinance he divides among the people and appoints their borders: he established laws and ordinances, and put them in remembrance of God's revealed benefits, assuring them of his grace and favour if they obey God, and of his plagues and vengeance if they disobey him. This history represents Jesus Christ the true Joshua, who leads us into eternal happiness, signified to us by this land of Canaan. From the beginning of Genesis to the end of this book is 2567 years. For from Adam to the flood are 1656, from the flood to the departure of Abraham out of Chaldea 423, and from then to the death of Joseph 290. So that Genesis contains 2369, Exodus 140, the other three books of Moses 40, Joshua 27. So the whole makes 2576 years.

geneva@Joshua:1:11 @ Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for (note:)Meaning, from the day that this was proclaimed, (Jos_3:2).(:note) within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

geneva@Joshua:1:13 @ Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this (note:)Which belonged to Sihon the king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan.(:note) land.

geneva@Joshua:1:15 @ Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as [he hath given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant (note:)By your request, but yet by God's secret appointment, (Deu_33:21).(:note) gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.

geneva@Joshua:1:17 @ According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, (note:)They not only promise to obey him as long as God is with him: but to help punish all who rebel against him.(:note) so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.

geneva@Joshua:2:9 @ And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your (note:)For so God promised, (Deu_28:7; Jos_5:1).(:note) terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

geneva@Joshua:2:11 @ And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for (note:)In this the great mercy of God appears, that in this common destruction he would draw a most miserable sinner to repent, and confess his Name.(:note) the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

geneva@Joshua:2:14 @ And the men answered her, (note:)We warrant you on pain of our lives.(:note) Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

geneva@Joshua:3:17 @ And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood (note:)Either tarrying till the people were past, or as some read, sure, as though they had been on dry land.(:note) firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

geneva@Joshua:4:11 @ And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, (note:)Meaning, in the presence or sight of the people.(:note) in the presence of the people.

geneva@Joshua:4:13 @ About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the (note:)That is, before the Ark.(:note) LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

geneva@Joshua:4:24 @ That all the people of the (note:)God's benefits serve as a further condemnation to the wicked, and stir up his own to reverence and obey him.(:note) earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.

geneva@Joshua:5:1 @ And it came to pass, when all the kings of the (note:)The Amorites were on both sides of Jordan, of which two kings were slain already on the side toward Moab.(:note) Amorites, which [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:5:2 @ At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, (note:)For now they had left it off, about 40 years.(:note) and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

geneva@Joshua:5:9 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the (note:)By bringing you into this promised land, contrary to the wicked opinion of the Egyptians or the foreskin by which you were like the Egyptians.(:note) reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.

geneva@Joshua:5:14 @ And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and (note:)In that Joshua worships him, he acknowledges him to be God: and in that he calls himself the Lord's captain he declares himself to be Christ.(:note) did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

geneva@Joshua:6:7 @ And he said unto the people, (note:)This is chiefly meant by the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.(:note) Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:6:11 @ So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about [it] (note:)For that day.(:note) once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

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:6:17 @ 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:6:19 @ But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are] (note:)And therefore cannot be put to any private use, but must be first molten, and then serve for the Tabernacle.(:note) consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:6:24 @ And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the (note:)Meaning, the tabernacle.(:note) house of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:6:26 @ And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: (note:)He will build it to the destruction of all his stock, which was fulfilled in Hiel of Beth-el, (1Ki_16:34).(:note) he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates of it.

geneva@Joshua:7:1 @ But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the (note:)In taking that which was commanded to be destroyed.(:note) accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:7:13 @ Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the (note:)Meaning, the man that took of the thing forbidden.(:note) accursed thing from among you.

geneva@Joshua:7:15 @ And it shall be, [that] he that is (note:)That is found guilty, either by lots, or by the judgment of Urim. (Num_27:21).(:note) taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.

geneva@Joshua:7:19 @ And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and (note:)By declaring truth: for God is glorified when the truth is confessed.(:note) make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide [it] not from me.

geneva@Joshua:7:25 @ And Joshua said, (note:)He declares that this is God's judgment because he had offended, and caused others to be slain.(:note) Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

geneva@Joshua:8:18 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua, (note:)Or, lift up the banner to signify when they should invade the city.(:note) Stretch out the spear that [is] in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that [he had] in his hand toward the city.

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:9:14 @ And the (note:)Some think that the Israelites are of their victuals, and so made a league with them.(:note) men took of their victuals, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:9:18 @ And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation (note:)Fearing lest for their sin the plague of God would have come on them all.(:note) murmured against the princes.

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:10:8 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua, (note:)Lest Joshua should have thought that God had sent this great power against him for his unlawful league with the Gibeonites, the Lord here strengthens him.(:note) Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.

geneva@Joshua:10:11 @ And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which died with (note:)So we see that all things serve to execute God's vengeance against the wicked.(:note) hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

geneva@Joshua:10:14 @ And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD (note:)By taking away the enemies hearts and destroying them with the hail stones.(:note) fought for Israel.

geneva@Joshua:10:40 @ So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the (note:)Some read, Ashedoth, which signifies the descents of the hills.(:note) vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.

geneva@Joshua:10:42 @ And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at (note:)In one battle.(:note) one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

geneva@Joshua:11:6 @ And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt (note:)That neither they should serve to the use of war, nor the Israelites should put their trust in them.(:note) hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

geneva@Joshua:11:8 @ And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto (note:)Which signifies hot waters, or according to some, brine pits.(:note) Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.

geneva@Joshua:11:20 @ For it was of the LORD to (note:)That is, to give them over to themselves: and therefore they could not but rebel against God and seek their own destruction.(:note) harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Joshua:13:1 @ Now Joshua was old [and] (note:)Being almost a hundred and ten years old.(:note) stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be After the enemies are overcome. possessed.

geneva@Joshua:13:14 @ Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] (note:)Levi will live by the sacrifices, (Num_18:21).(:note) their inheritance, as he said unto them.

geneva@Joshua:14:6 @ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and (note:)Which was that only those two should enter into the land, (Num_14:24).(:note) thee in Kadeshbarnea.

geneva@Joshua:14:8 @ Nevertheless my (note:)Which were the ten other spies.(:note) brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

geneva@Joshua:14:12 @ Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced: (note:)This he spoke out of modesty, and not from doubting.(:note) if so be the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

geneva@Joshua:17:4 @ And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our (note:)Among them of our tribe.(:note) brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

geneva@Joshua:17:14 @ And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath (note:)According to my father Jacob's prophecy, (Gen_48:19).(:note) blessed me hitherto?

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:18:7 @ But the Levites have no part among you; for the (note:)That is, the sacrifices and offerings, (Jos_13:14).(:note) priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

geneva@Joshua:18:8 @ And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to (note:)By writing the names of every country and city.(:note) describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

geneva@Joshua:18:10 @ And Joshua (note:)That everyone should be content with God's appointment.(:note) cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

geneva@Joshua:21:2 @ And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded (note:)By Moses, by whose ministry God showed his power.(:note) by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

geneva@Joshua:22:2 @ And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD (note:)Which was to go armed before their brethren, (Num_32:29).(:note) commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

geneva@Joshua:22:5 @ But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to (note:)He shows where fulfilling the Law consists.(:note) love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

geneva@Joshua:22:16 @ Thus saith (note:)Not only of the princes, but also of the common people.(:note) the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?

geneva@Joshua:22:17 @ [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not (note:)Meaning, God is not fully pacified, in that no punishment can be sufficient for such wickedness and idolatry.(:note) cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,

geneva@Joshua:22:19 @ Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession [be] (note:)In your judgment.(:note) unclean, [then] pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but To use any other service than God has appointed is to rebel against God, (1Sa_15:23). rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.

geneva@Joshua:22:23 @ That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD (note:)Let him punish us.(:note) himself require [it];

geneva@Joshua:22:25 @ For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children (note:)Or, to turn back from the true God.(:note) cease from fearing the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:22:28 @ Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should [so] say to us or to our (note:)They signify a wonderful care that they bore toward their posterity, that they might live in the true service of God.(:note) generations in time to come, that we may say [again], Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you.

geneva@Joshua:22:31 @ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is] (note:)By preserving and governing us.(:note) among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have Whom if ye had offended; he would have punished with you. delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:23:3 @ And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations (note:)Your eyes bearing witness.(:note) because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath fought for you.

geneva@Joshua:23:5 @ And the LORD your God, he shall expel (note:)Which yet remain and are not overcome, as in (Jos_13:2).(:note) them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.

geneva@Joshua:23:13 @ Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your (note:)Meaning, they will be a continual grief to you, and so the cause of your destruction.(:note) eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

geneva@Joshua:23:14 @ And, behold, this day I [am] (note:)I die according to the course of nature.(:note) going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your Most certainly. hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing hath failed thereof.

geneva@Joshua:23:16 @ When ye have (note:)He shows that no evil can come to man, except he offend God by disobedience.(:note) transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

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:24:14 @ Now therefore (note:)This is the true use of God's benefits, to learn by it to fear and serve him with an upright conscience.(:note) fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:24:15 @ And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: (note:)This teaches us that if all the world would go from God, yet every one of us particularly is bound to cleave to him.(:note) but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

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@Joshua:24:22 @ And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses (note:)If you do the contrary, your own mouths will condemn you.(:note) against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.

geneva@Joshua:24:23 @ Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange (note:)Out of your hearts and otherwise.(:note) gods which [are] among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:24:27 @ And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it (note:)So that man's deception should not go unpunished, the dumb creatures will cry for vengeance.(:note) hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

geneva@Joshua:24:31 @ And Israel (note:)Such are the people commonly as their rulers are.(:note) served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.

geneva@Judges:1:1 @ Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel (note:)By the judgment of Urim; Read (Exo_28:30; Num_27:21; 1Sa_28:6)(:note) asked the LORD, saying, Who shall be our captain? Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

geneva@Judges:2:1 @ And an (note:)That is, messenger, or prophet, as some think, Phinehas.(:note) angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

geneva@Judges:2:7 @ And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great (note:)Meaning, the wonders and miracles.(:note) works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

geneva@Judges:2:11 @ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served (note:)That is, all manner of idols.(:note) Baalim:

geneva@Judges:2:13 @ And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and (note:)These were idols, which had the form of a ewe or sheep among the Sidonians.(:note) Ashtaroth.

geneva@Judges:2:17 @ And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the (note:)Meaning, from the true religion.(:note) way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not so.

geneva@Judges:2:18 @ And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings (note:)Seeing their cruelty.(:note) by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

geneva@Judges:2:22 @ That through them I may (note:)So that both outward enemies and false prophets are but a trial to prove our faith, (Deu_13:3; Jdg_3:1).(:note) prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.

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:3:7 @ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the (note:)Or Ashteroth, trees or woods erected for idolatry.(:note) groves.

geneva@Judges:3:10 @ And the (note:)He was stirred up by the Spirit of the Lord.(:note) Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.

geneva@Judges:3:12 @ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD (note:)So that the enemies of God's people have no power over them, but by God's appointment.(:note) strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@Judges:4:2 @ And the LORD sold them into the hand of (note:)There was another Jabin, whom Joshua killed and burnt his city Hazor, (Jos_11:13).(:note) Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host [was] Sisera, which dwelt in That is in a wood, or strong place, Harosheth of the Gentiles.

geneva@Judges:4:6 @ And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel (note:)And revealed to me by the spirit of prophecy.(:note) commanded, [saying], Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

geneva@Judges:4:14 @ And Deborah said unto Barak, (note:)She still encourages him to this enterprise by assuring him of God's favour and aid.(:note) Up; for this [is] the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

geneva@Judges:5:2 @ Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the (note:)That is, the two tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali.(:note) people willingly offered themselves.

geneva@Judges:5:23 @ Curse ye (note:)It was a city near Tabor, where they fought.(:note) Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

geneva@Judges:5:31 @ So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the (note:)Shall grow daily more and more in God's favour.(:note) sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

geneva@Judges:6:6 @ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the (note:)This is the purpose of God's punishments, to call his to repentance, that they may seek help from him.(:note) children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

geneva@Judges:6:13 @ And Gideon said unto him, (note:)This came not from distrust, but from weakness of faith, which is in the most perfect: for no man in this life can have a perfect faith: yet the children of God have a true faith, by which they are justified.(:note) Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where [be] all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

geneva@Judges:6:14 @ And the (note:)That is, Christ appearing in visible form.(:note) LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy Which I have given to you. might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?

geneva@Judges:6:21 @ Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire (note:)By the power of God only, as in the sacrifice of Elijah, (1Ki_18:38).(:note) out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.

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:6:26 @ And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the (note:)Which grew about Baal's altar.(:note) grove which thou shalt cut down.

geneva@Judges:6:34 @ But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and (note:)The family of Abiezer, of which he was.(:note) Abiezer was gathered after him.

geneva@Judges:7:2 @ And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel (note:)God will not that any creature deprive him of his glory.(:note) vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

geneva@Judges:7:4 @ And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people [are] yet [too] many; bring them down unto the water, and I will (note:)I will give you a proof to know those who will go with you.(:note) try them for thee there: and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

geneva@Judges:7:5 @ So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; (note:)Let them depart as unfit for this enterprise.(:note) likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

geneva@Judges:7:7 @ And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the [other] (note:)That is, the 31,000 and 700. See (Jdg_7:3,6).(:note) people go every man unto his place.

geneva@Judges:7:9 @ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, (note:)Thus the Lord by various means strengthens him, that he faint not in so great an enterprise.(:note) get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.

geneva@Judges:7:15 @ And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he (note:)Or, gave God thanks, as it is in the Chaldea text.(:note) worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

geneva@Judges:7:18 @ When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, (note:)That is, the victory shall be the Lord's and Gideon's his servant.(:note) [The sword] of the LORD, and of Gideon.

geneva@Judges:7:20 @ And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow [withal]: and they cried, The (note:)Shall destroy the enemies.(:note) sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

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:10:10 @ And the children of Israel (note:)They prayed to the Lord, and confessed their sins.(:note) cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

geneva@Judges:10:11 @ And the LORD (note:)By stirring them up some prophets, as in (Jdg_6:8).(:note) said unto the children of Israel, [Did] not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

geneva@Judges:10:15 @ And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, (note:)That is, from this present danger.(:note) this day.

geneva@Judges:10:16 @ And they put away the strange gods from among them, and (note:)This is true repentance, to put away evil, and serve God aright.(:note) served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

geneva@Judges:11:24 @ Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the (note:)For we should believe and obey God more than you your idols.(:note) LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

geneva@Judges:11:27 @ Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge (note:)To punish the offender.(:note) be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

geneva@Judges:11:29 @ Then the (note:)That is, the spirit of strength and zeal.(:note) Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon.

geneva@Judges:11:30 @ And Jephthah (note:)As the apostle commends Jephthah for his worthy enterprise in delivering the people, (Heb_11:32) so by his rash vow and wicked performance of the same, his victory was defaced: and here we see that the sins of the godly do not utterly extinguish their faith.(:note) vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

geneva@Judges:11:35 @ And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he (note:)Being overcome with blind zeal, and not considering whether the vow was lawful or not.(:note) rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.

geneva@Judges:12:3 @ And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, (note:)That is, I ventured my life, and when man's help failed, I put my trust only in God.(:note) I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

geneva@Judges:13:8 @ Then Manoah (note:)He shows himself ready to obey God's will, and therefore desires to know more.(:note) intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

geneva@Judges:13:16 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the (note:)Showing that he did not seek his own honour but God's, whose messenger he was.(:note) LORD. For Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD.

geneva@Judges:13:19 @ So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered [it] upon a rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] did (note:)God sent fire from heaven to consume their sacrifice, to consume their faith in his promise.(:note) wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

geneva@Judges:13:23 @ But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a (note:)These graces that we have received from God, and his accepting of our obedience, are sure tokens of his love for us, so that nothing can hurt us.(:note) burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.

geneva@Judges:14:4 @ But his father and his mother knew not that it [was] of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the (note:)To fight against them for the deliverance of Israel.(:note) Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

geneva@Judges:14:6 @ And the Spirit of the LORD (note:)By which he had strength and boldness.(:note) came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had] nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

geneva@Judges:14:19 @ And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down (note:)Which was one of the five chief cities of the Philistines.(:note) to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

geneva@Judges:15:18 @ And he was sore athirst, and (note:)By which it appears that he did these things in faith, and so with a true zeal to glorify God, and deliver his country.(:note) called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

geneva@Judges:16:28 @ And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once (note:)According to my calling which is to execute God's judgments on the wicked.(:note) avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

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:17:13 @ Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me (note:)Thus the idolaters persuade themselves of God's favour, when indeed he detests them.(:note) good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest.

geneva@Judges:18:6 @ And the priest said unto them, (note:)Thus sometimes God grants the idolaters requests to the destruction of those who delight in errors.(:note) Go in peace: before the LORD [is] your way wherein ye go.

geneva@Judges:19:18 @ And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the (note:)To Shiloh of Mizpeh where the ark was.(:note) house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me to house.

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:20:18 @ And the children of Israel arose, and went up (note:)That is, to the ark, which was in Shiloh some think in Mizpeh, as in (Jdg_20:1).(:note) to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first.

geneva@Judges:20:27 @ And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God [was] (note:)That is, in Shiloh.(:note) there in those days,

geneva@Judges:20:28 @ And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, (note:)Or, served in the priest's office in those days: for the Jews write that he lived three hundred years.(:note) stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

geneva@Judges:21:8 @ And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that (note:)Condemning them as lovers of evil, who would not punish it.(:note) came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

geneva@Judges:21:19 @ Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the (note:)He describes the place where the maids used to dance yearly, and sing psalms and songs of God's works among them, as the custom was then.(:note) north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

geneva@Ruth:1:6 @ Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had (note:)By sending them plenty again.(:note) visited his people in giving them bread.

geneva@Ruth:1:9 @ The LORD grant you that ye may find (note:)By this it appears that Naomi by dwelling among idolaters, had become cold to the true zeal of God, having more respect for the comfort of the body than the comfort of the soul.(:note) rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

geneva@Ruth:2:12 @ The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose (note:)Signifying, that she would never lack anything, if she put her trust in God, and lived under his protection.(:note) wings thou art come to trust.

geneva@Ruth:2:20 @ And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed [be] he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the (note:)To my husband and children, when they were alive, and now to us.(:note) dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man [is] near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

geneva@Ruth:3:10 @ And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hast (note:)You showed yourself repeatedly to be more virtuous.(:note) shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

geneva@Ruth:3:13 @ Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if he (note:)If he will take you to as his wife because of his relation by marriage, according to God's law, (Deu_25:5).(:note) will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.

geneva@Ruth:4:11 @ And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in (note:)Ephratah and Bethlehem are both one.(:note) Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

geneva@Ruth:4:14 @ And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that (note:)He shall leave continual posterity.(:note) his name may be famous in Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:1:3 @ And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in (note:)For the ark was there at that time.(:note) Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there.

geneva@1Samuel:1:5 @ But unto Hannah he gave a worthy (note:)Some read, a portion with a hearty cheer.(:note) portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

geneva@1Samuel:1:9 @ So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the (note:)That is of the house where the ark was.(:note) temple of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:1:19 @ And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD (note:)According to her petition.(:note) remembered her.

geneva@1Samuel:1:21 @ And the man (note:)This Elkanah was a Levite, (1Ch_6:27), and as some write once a year they were accustomed to appear before the Lord with their families.(:note) Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

geneva@1Samuel:1:23 @ And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his (note:)Because her prayer took effect, therefore it was called the Lord's promise.(:note) word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

geneva@1Samuel:1:26 @ And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy (note:)That is, most certainly.(:note) soul liveth, my lord, I [am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:1:28 @ Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he (note:)Meaning, Eli gave thanks to God for her.(:note) worshipped the LORD there.

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

geneva@1Samuel:2:3 @ Talk (note:)In that you condemn my barrenness, you show your pride against God.(:note) no more so exceeding proudly; let [not] arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD [is] a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

geneva@1Samuel:2:8 @ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among (note:)He prefers to honour, and does according to his own will, though man's judgment is contrary.(:note) princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the Therefore he may dispose all things according to his will. LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

geneva@1Samuel:2:10 @ The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his (note:)She grounded her prayer on Jesus Christ who was to come.(:note) king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

geneva@1Samuel:2:11 @ And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the (note:)In all that Eli commanded him.(:note) LORD before Eli the priest.

geneva@1Samuel:2:12 @ Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they (note:)That is, they neglected his ordinance.(:note) knew not the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:2:17 @ Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men (note:)Seeing the horrible abuse of it.(:note) abhorred the offering of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:2:24 @ Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to (note:)Because they contemn their duty to God, (1Sa_2:17).(:note) transgress.

geneva@1Samuel:2:25 @ If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD (note:)So that to obey good admonition is God's mercy, and to disobey them is his just judgment for sin.(:note) would slay them.

geneva@1Samuel:2:27 @ And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy (note:)That is, Aaron.(:note) father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

geneva@1Samuel:2:30 @ Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, (note:)God's promises are only effective to those he gives faith to fear and obey him.(:note) Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

geneva@1Samuel:3:1 @ And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD (note:)The Chaldee text reads «while Eli lived».(:note) before Eli. And the word of the LORD was Because there were very few prophets to declare it. precious in those days; [there was] no open vision.

geneva@1Samuel:3:3 @ And ere the (note:)That is, the lamps which burnt in the night.(:note) lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God [was], and Samuel was laid down [to sleep];

geneva@1Samuel:3:4 @ That the LORD (note:)Josephus writes that Samuel was 12 years old when the Lord appeared to him.(:note) called Samuel: and he answered, Here [am] I.

geneva@1Samuel:3:7 @ Now Samuel did not yet know (note:)By vision.(:note) the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.

geneva@1Samuel:3:8 @ And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And Eli (note:)Such was the corruption of those times that the chief priest had become dull and negligent to understand the Lord's appearing.(:note) perceived that the LORD had called the child.

geneva@1Samuel:3:11 @ And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall (note:)God declares that sudden fear will come on men when they hear that the ark is taken, and see Eli's house destroyed.(:note) tingle.

geneva@1Samuel:3:17 @ And he said, What [is] the thing that [the LORD] hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide [it] not from me: God (note:)God punish you after this and that sort, unless you tell me the truth, (Rth_1:17).(:note) do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide [any] thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

geneva@1Samuel:3:19 @ And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words (note:)The Lord accomplished whatever he had said.(:note) fall to the ground.

geneva@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, (note:)For it seems that this war was undertaken by Samuel's commandment.(:note) Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

geneva@1Samuel:4:4 @ So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which (note:)For he used to appear to the Israelites between the cherubim over the ark of the covenant, (Exo_25:17).(:note) dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.

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:6:8 @ And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the (note:)Meaning, the golden emerods and the golden mice.(:note) jewels of gold, which ye return him [for] a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

geneva@1Samuel:6:14 @ And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and (note:)That is, the men of Bethshemesh, who were Israelites.(:note) they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:6:17 @ And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for (note:)These were the five principal cities of the Philistines, which were not all conquered to the time of David.(:note) Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

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:7:1 @ And the men of (note:)A city in the tribe of Judah, called also Kirjathbaal, in (Jos_15:60).(:note) Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:7:2 @ And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented (note:)Lamented for their sins, and followed the Lord.(:note) after the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:7:5 @ And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to (note:)For Shiloh was now desolate, because the Philistines had taken the ark from it.(:note) Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:7:6 @ And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and (note:)The Chaldee text says that they drew water out of their heart: that is, wept abundantly for their sins.(:note) drew water, and poured [it] out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

geneva@1Samuel:7:8 @ And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to (note:)Signifying that in the prayers of the godly, there should be a vehement zeal.(:note) cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

geneva@1Samuel:7:10 @ And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD (note:)According to the prophecy of Hannah Samuel's mother, (1Sa_2:10).(:note) thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:7:12 @ Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and (note:)Which was a great rock over against Mizpeh.(:note) Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

geneva@1Samuel:7:17 @ And his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an (note:)Which was not contrary to the Law: for as yet a certain place was not appointed.(:note) altar unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:8:6 @ But the thing (note:)Because they were not content with the order that God had appointed, but would be governed as the Gentiles were.(:note) displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:8:18 @ And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not (note:)Because you do not repent for your sins, but because you long for your afflictions, into which you cast yourselves willingly.(:note) hear you in that day.

geneva@1Samuel:10:1 @ Then Samuel took a vial of (note:)In the Law this anointing signified the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which were necessary for those who would rule.(:note) oil, and poured [it] upon his head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD hath anointed thee [to be] captain over his inheritance?

geneva@1Samuel:10:17 @ And Samuel (note:)Both to declare to them their fault in asking a king, and also to show God's sentence in it.(:note) called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;

geneva@1Samuel:10:22 @ Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he (note:)As though he were unworthy and unwilling.(:note) hath hid himself among the stuff.

geneva@1Samuel:10:25 @ Then Samuel told the people (note:)As it is written in (Deu_17:15).(:note) the manner of the kingdom, and wrote [it] in a book, and laid [it] up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

geneva@1Samuel:11:7 @ And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after (note:)He adds Samuel because Saul was not yet approved by all.(:note) Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

geneva@1Samuel:11:13 @ And Saul said, There shall not a man be (note:)By showing mercy he thought to overcome their malice.(:note) put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:11:15 @ And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of (note:)In sign of thanksgiving for the victory.(:note) peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

geneva@1Samuel:12:3 @ Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: (note:)God would have this confession be a pattern for all who have any charge or office.(:note) whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

geneva@1Samuel:12:5 @ And he said unto them, The LORD [is] witness against you, and his (note:)Your King, who is anointed by the commandment of the Lord.(:note) anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.

geneva@1Samuel:12:9 @ And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, (note:)Captain of Jabin's host, king of Hazor.(:note) captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

geneva@1Samuel:12:11 @ And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, (note:)That is Samson, (Jdg_13:25).(:note) and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

geneva@1Samuel:12:12 @ And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, (note:)Leaving God to seek the help of man, (1Sa_8:5).(:note) Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.

geneva@1Samuel:12:14 @ If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue (note:)You shall be preserved as they that follow the Lord's will.(:note) following the LORD your God:

geneva@1Samuel:12:15 @ But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your (note:)Meaning, the governors.(:note) fathers.

geneva@1Samuel:12:17 @ [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] (note:)In that you have forsaken him, who has all power in his hand, for a mortal man.(:note) great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.

geneva@1Samuel:12:19 @ And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto (note:)Not only at other times, but now chiefly.(:note) all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.

geneva@1Samuel:12:20 @ And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: (note:)He shows that there is no sin so great, but it shall be forgiven, if the sinner turn again to God.(:note) yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

geneva@1Samuel:12:22 @ For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you (note:)Of his free mercy, and not of your merits, and therefore he will not forsake you.(:note) his people.

geneva@1Samuel:12:24 @ Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your (note:)Unfeignedly, and without hypocrisy.(:note) heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you.

geneva@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy (note:)Who willed you to obey him, and rest on the words spoken by his prophet.(:note) God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

geneva@1Samuel:13:14 @ But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a (note:)That is, David.(:note) man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.

geneva@1Samuel:14:6 @ And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these (note:)That is, the Philistines.(:note) uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.

geneva@1Samuel:14:33 @ Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: (note:)That the blood of the beast that shall be slain, may be pressed out upon it.(:note) roll a great stone unto me this day.

geneva@1Samuel:14:41 @ Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give (note:)Cause the lot to fall on him that has broken the oath, but he does not consider his presumption in commanding the same oath.(:note) a perfect [lot]. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.

geneva@1Samuel:14:45 @ And the people said unto Saul, (note:)The people thought it their duty to rescue him, who out of ignorance had broken a rash law, and by whom they had received so great a benefit.(:note) Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: [as] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.

geneva@1Samuel:15:1 @ Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore (note:)Because he has preferred you to this honour, you are bound to obey him.(:note) hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:15:11 @ It (note:)God in his eternal counsel never changes or repents, as in (1Sa_15:29), though he seems to us to repent when anything goes contrary to his temporal election.(:note) repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

geneva@1Samuel:15:13 @ And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the (note:)This is the nature of hypocrites to be impudent against the truth, to condemn others, and justify themselves.(:note) commandment of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:15:17 @ And Samuel said, When thou [wast] (note:)Meaning, of base condition as in (1Sa_9:21).(:note) little in thine own sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

geneva@1Samuel:15:20 @ And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, (note:)He stands most impudently in his own defence both against God and his own conscience.(:note) I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

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:15:25 @ Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my (note:)This was not true repentance, but deceit out of fear for the loss of his kingdom.(:note) sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:15:28 @ And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a (note:)That is, to David.(:note) neighbour of thine, [that is] better than thou.

geneva@1Samuel:15:35 @ And Samuel came no more to (note:)Though Saul came where Samuel was, (1Sa_19:22).(:note) see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD As in (1Sa_15:11). repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:16:1 @ And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, (note:)Signifying that we should not show ourselves more pitiful than God, nor to lament those whom he casts out.(:note) seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

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:16:4 @ And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town (note:)Afraid, lest some grievous crime had been committed, because the prophet was not wont to come there.(:note) trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

geneva@1Samuel:16:6 @ And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S (note:)Thinking that Eliab had been appointed by God to be made king.(:note) anointed [is] before him.

geneva@1Samuel:16:14 @ But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an (note:)The wicked spirits are at God's commandment to execute his will against the wicked.(:note) evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

geneva@1Samuel:16:18 @ Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a (note:)Though David was now anointed king by the prophet, yet God would strengthen and test him in various ways before he had the use of his kingdom.(:note) son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD [is] with him.

geneva@1Samuel:17:37 @ David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, (note:)For by these examples he saw that the power of God was with him.(:note) Go, and the LORD be with thee.

geneva@1Samuel:17:46 @ This (note:)David being assured both of his cause and of his calling prophecies of the destruction of the Philistines.(:note) day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:18:17 @ And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and (note:)Fight against them that war against God's people.(:note) fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

geneva@1Samuel:19:6 @ And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul (note:)Whatever he pretended outwardly, yet his heart was full of malice.(:note) sware, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.

geneva@1Samuel:19:9 @ And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David (note:)He played on his harp to appease the rage of the evil spirit, (1Sa_16:23).(:note) played with [his] hand.

geneva@1Samuel:20:3 @ And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a (note:)I am in great danger of death.(:note) step between me and death.

geneva@1Samuel:20:13 @ The LORD (note:)The Lord punish me most grievously.(:note) do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father [to do] thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

geneva@1Samuel:20:14 @ And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, (note:)I know that if you were given the kingdom now, you would not destroy me, but show yourself friendly to my posterity.(:note) that I die not:

geneva@1Samuel:20:22 @ But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows [are] beyond thee; go thy way: for the (note:)The Lord is the author of your departure.(:note) LORD hath sent thee away.

geneva@1Samuel:20:42 @ And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have (note:)Which oath he calls the covenant of the Lord in (1Sa_20:8).(:note) sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

geneva@1Samuel:21:7 @ Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day, (note:)Tarrying to worship before the ark.(:note) detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.

geneva@1Samuel:22:17 @ And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also [is] with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king (note:)For they knew that they should not obey the wicked commandment of the king in slaying the innocent.(:note) would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:23:21 @ And Saul said, (note:)the Lord recompense this friendship.(:note) Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.

geneva@1Samuel:24:4 @ And the men of David said unto him, (note:)Here we see how ready we are to hasten God's promise, if the occasion serve never so little.(:note) Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.

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:25:28 @ I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a (note:)Confirm his kingdom to his posterity.(:note) sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy days.

geneva@1Samuel:25:29 @ Yet (note:)That is, Saul.(:note) a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the God will preserve you long in his service, and destroy your enemies. bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.

geneva@1Samuel:25:31 @ That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath (note:)That he did not avenge himself, which would have tormented his conscience.(:note) avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.

geneva@1Samuel:25:34 @ For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, (note:)He attributes it to the Lord's mercy, and not to himself that he was stayed.(:note) which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

geneva@1Samuel:25:39 @ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to (note:)For he had experienced her great godliness, wisdom and humility.(:note) take her to him to wife.

geneva@1Samuel:26:9 @ And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand (note:)That is, in his own private cause: for Jehu slew two kings at God's appointment, (2Ki_9:24).(:note) against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?

geneva@1Samuel:26:19 @ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him (note:)Let his anger toward us be pacified by a sacrifice.(:note) accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve As much as lay in them, they compelled him to idolatry because they forced him to flee to the idolaters. other gods.

geneva@1Samuel:26:23 @ The LORD render to every man his (note:)Thus he protests his innocency toward Saul, not defending his justice in the sight of God, in whose presence none is righteous, (Psa_14:3, Psa_130:3).(:note) righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.

geneva@1Samuel:28:6 @ And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by (note:)Meaning, the high priest, (Exo_28:30).(:note) Urim, nor by prophets.

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:28:19 @ Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: (note:)You will die, (1Sa_31:6).(:note) and to morrow [shalt] thou and thy sons [be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

geneva@1Samuel:29:6 @ Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, [as] the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy (note:)That is, was conversant with me.(:note) going out and thy coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

geneva@1Samuel:30:6 @ And David was greatly distressed; for the people (note:)Thus we see that in trouble and adversity we do not consider God's providence, but like raging beasts forget both our own duty and contemn God's appointment over us.(:note) spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

geneva@1Samuel:30:8 @ And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail (note:)Though God seem to leave us for a time, yet if we trust in him, we will be sure to find comfort.(:note) recover [all].

geneva@2Samuel:1:16 @ And David said unto him, (note:)You are justly punished for your fault.(:note) Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

geneva@2Samuel:2:1 @ And it came to pass after this, that David (note:)By means of the high priest, (1Sa_23:2; 2Sa_5:19).(:note) enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Which was also called Kirjatharba (Jos_14:15). Hebron.

geneva@2Samuel:2:6 @ And now the LORD shew kindness and (note:)According to his promise, which is to repay those who are merciful.(:note) truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.

geneva@2Samuel:3:28 @ And afterward when David heard [it], he said, I and my kingdom [are] (note:)the Lord knows that I did not consent to his death.(:note) guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

geneva@2Samuel:5:3 @ So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron (note:)That is, taking the Lord to witness: for the ark was still in Abinadab's house.(:note) before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.

geneva@2Samuel:5:19 @ And David (note:)By Abiathar the priest.(:note) enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.

geneva@2Samuel:5:25 @ And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to (note:)Which was in the tribe of Benjamin, but the Philistines possessed it.(:note) Gazer.

geneva@2Samuel:6:2 @ And David arose, and went with all the people that [were] with him from (note:)This was a city in Judah called also Kirjathjearim, (Jos_15:9).(:note) Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth [between] the cherubims.

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:6:7 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God (note:)Here we see the danger it is to follow good intentions, or to do anything in God's service without his express word.(:note) smote him there for [his] error; and there he died by the ark of God.

geneva@2Samuel:6:10 @ So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom (note:)Who was a Levite, and had dwelt in Gittaim, (1Ch_15:21).(:note) the Gittite.

geneva@2Samuel:6:12 @ And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that [pertaineth] unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and (note:)Meaning, he caused the Levites to bear it according to the law.(:note) brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.

geneva@2Samuel:6:14 @ And David danced before the LORD with all [his] might; and David [was] girded with a linen (note:)With a garment like the priest's garment.(:note) ephod.

geneva@2Samuel:6:16 @ And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she (note:)The worldlings are not able to comprehend the emotions that move the children of God to praise God in all kinds of ways.(:note) despised him in her heart.

geneva@2Samuel:6:21 @ And David said unto Michal, (note:)It was for no worldly affection, but only for that zeal that I bore to God's glory.(:note) [It was] before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.

geneva@2Samuel:7:5 @ Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Meaning, he should not: yet Nathan speaking according to man's judgment and not by the spirit of prophecy permitted him.(:note) Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

geneva@2Samuel:7:24 @ For thou hast (note:)He shows that God's free election is the only reason why the Israelites were chosen to be his people.(:note) confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.

geneva@2Samuel:7:26 @ And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God over Israel: and let the (note:)This prayer is most effective when we chiefly seek God's glory, and the accomplishment of his promise.(:note) house of thy servant David be established before thee.

geneva@2Samuel:8:6 @ Then David put garrisons in (note:)In that part of Syria, where Damascus was.(:note) Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, They paid yearly tribute. [and] brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

geneva@2Samuel:10:12 @ Be of good courage, and let us play the men for (note:)Here it is declared why war should be undertaken: for the defence of true religion and God's people.(:note) our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.

geneva@2Samuel:12:1 @ And the LORD sent (note:)Because David lay now drowned in sin, the loving mercy of God which does not allow his own to perish, wakes his conscience by this story and brings him to repentance.(:note) Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

geneva@2Samuel:12:9 @ Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the (note:)You have most cruelly given him into the hands of God's enemies.(:note) children of Ammon.

geneva@2Samuel:12:11 @ Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give [them] unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this (note:)Meaning openly, at noon.(:note) sun.

geneva@2Samuel:12:13 @ And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath (note:)For the Lord seeks the sinner to turn to him.(:note) put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

geneva@2Samuel:12:14 @ Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to (note:)In saying, that the Lord has appointed a wicked man to reign over his people.(:note) blaspheme, the child also [that is] born unto thee shall surely die.

geneva@2Samuel:12:20 @ Then David (note:)Showing that our lamentations should not be excessive, but moderate: and that we must praise God in all his doings.(:note) arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed [himself], and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.

geneva@2Samuel:12:24 @ And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and (note:)That is, the Lord, (1Ch_22:9).(:note) he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

geneva@2Samuel:12:25 @ And he sent by the hand of Nathan the (note:)To call him Solomon.(:note) prophet; and Meaning, David. he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

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:14:17 @ Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an (note:)Is of great wisdom to discern right from wrong.(:note) angel of God, so [is] my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.

geneva@2Samuel:15:7 @ And it came to pass after (note:)Counting from the time that the Israelites had asked a king of Samuel.(:note) forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

geneva@2Samuel:15:8 @ For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will (note:)By offering a peace-offering, which was lawful to do in any place.(:note) serve the LORD.

geneva@2Samuel:15:31 @ And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the (note:)The counsel of the crafty worldlings does more harm than the open force of the enemy.(:note) counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

geneva@2Samuel:16:8 @ The LORD hath returned upon thee all the (note:)Reproaching him, as though by his means Ishbosheth and Abner were slain.(:note) blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou [art taken] in thy mischief, because thou [art] a bloody man.

geneva@2Samuel:16:10 @ And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath (note:)David felt that this was the judgment of God for his sin, and therefore humbles himself to his rod.(:note) said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?

geneva@2Samuel:16:12 @ It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will (note:)Meaning, that the Lord will send comfort to his, when they are oppressed.(:note) requite me good for his cursing this day.

geneva@2Samuel:17:14 @ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the (note:)That counsel which seemed good at first to Absalom, (2Sa_17:4).(:note) good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might For by the counsel of Hushai, he went to the battle, where he was destroyed. bring evil upon Absalom.

geneva@2Samuel:20:19 @ I [am (note:)She speaks in the name of the city.(:note) one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

geneva@2Samuel:21:1 @ Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the (note:)Thinking to gratify the people, because these were not of the seed of Abraham.(:note) Gibeonites.

geneva@2Samuel:21:3 @ Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, (note:)With what may your wrath be appeased, that you may pray to God to remove this plague from his people.(:note) What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

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:22:1 @ And David spake unto the LORD the words of this (note:)In token of the wonderful benefits that he received from God.(:note) song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

geneva@2Samuel:22:2 @ And he said, The LORD [is] my (note:)By the diversity of these comfortable means, he shows how his faith was strengthened in all temptations.(:note) rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

geneva@2Samuel:22:16 @ And the (note:)He alludes to the miracle of the Red Sea.(:note) channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

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:22:21 @ The LORD rewarded me according to my (note:)Toward Saul and my enemies.(:note) righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

geneva@2Samuel:22:22 @ For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not (note:)I attempted nothing without his commandment.(:note) wickedly departed from my God.

geneva@2Samuel:22:31 @ [As for] God, his way [is] (note:)The manner that God uses to aid his own, never fails.(:note) perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he [is] a buckler to all them that trust in him.

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:22:47 @ The LORD liveth; (note:)Let him show his power that he is the governor of all the world.(:note) and blessed [be] my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

geneva@2Samuel:23:2 @ The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word [was] in my (note:)Meaning, he spoke nothing but by the motion of God's Spirit.(:note) tongue.

geneva@2Samuel:23:10 @ He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his (note:)By a cramp which came from weariness and fighting.(:note) hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.

geneva@2Samuel:23:12 @ But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a (note:)Which has no respect for many or few, when he will show his power.(:note) great victory.

geneva@2Samuel:23:16 @ And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but (note:)Bridling his affection, and also desiring God not to be offended for that rash enterprise.(:note) poured it out unto the LORD.

geneva@2Samuel:24:1 @ And (note:)Before they were plagued with famine, (2Sa_21:1).(:note) again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and The Lord permitted Satan, as in (1Ch_21:2). he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

geneva@2Samuel:24:11 @ For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's (note:)Whom God had appointed for David and his time.(:note) seer, saying,

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@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: (note:)The Lord spared this place, because he had chosen it to build his temple there.(:note) stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

geneva@2Samuel:24:17 @ And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they (note:)David did not see the just cause why God plagued the people, and therefore he offers himself for God's correction as the only cause of this evil.(:note) done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

geneva@2Samuel:24:21 @ And (note:)Called also Ornan (1Ch_21:20).(:note) Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

geneva@2Samuel:24:23 @ All these [things] did Araunah, (note:)That is, abundantly, for as some write, he was king of Jerusalem before David won the tower.(:note) [as] a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

geneva@2Samuel:24:24 @ And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy [it] of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for (note:)Some write that every tribe gave 50 which makes 600, or that afterward he bought as much as came to 550 shekels.(:note) fifty shekels of silver.

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:2:3 @ And keep the (note:)He shows how hard it is to govern and that no one can do it well except he obey God.(:note) charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

geneva@1Kings:2:4 @ That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in (note:)Without hypocrisy.(:note) truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:2:15 @ And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and [that] all Israel (note:)In sign of their favour and consent.(:note) set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:2:28 @ Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had (note:)He took Adonijah's part when he would have usurped the kingdom (1Ki_1:7).(:note) turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

geneva@1Kings:2:29 @ And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the (note:)Thinking to be saved by the holiness of the place.(:note) altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

geneva@1Kings:2:33 @ Their blood shall therefore return upon the (note:)Joab will be justly punished for the blood that he has cruelly shed.(:note) head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:2:44 @ The king said moreover to Shimei, (note:)For though you would deny it, your own conscience accuses you for reviling and doing wrong to my father, (2Sa_16:5).(:note) Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

geneva@1Kings:3:1 @ And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the (note:)Which was Bethlehem.(:note) city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

geneva@1Kings:3:2 @ Only the people sacrificed in (note:)Where altars were appointed before the temple was built, to offer to the Lord.(:note) high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

geneva@1Kings:3:3 @ And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his (note:)For his father had commanded him to obey the Lord and walk in his ways, (1Ki_2:3).(:note) father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

geneva@1Kings:3:7 @ And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to (note:)That is, to behave himself in executing this charge of ruling.(:note) go out or come in.

geneva@1Kings:3:15 @ And Solomon awoke; and, behold, [it was] (note:)He knew that God had appeared to him in a dream.(:note) a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

geneva@1Kings:5:4 @ But now the LORD my God hath given me (note:)He declares that he was bound to set forth God's glory for as much as the Lord had sent him rest and peace.(:note) rest on every side, [so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

geneva@1Kings:5:7 @ And it came to pass, when (note:)In Hiram is prefigured the calling of the Gentiles who would help build the spiritual temple.(:note) Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.

geneva@1Kings:5:12 @ And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they (note:)Concerning the furniture of wood.(:note) two made a league together.

geneva@1Kings:6:1 @ And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month (note:)Which contains part of April and part of May.(:note) Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the By which is meant the temple and the oracle. house of the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:6:19 @ And the oracle he prepared in the (note:)That is, in the most inward place of the house.(:note) house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:7:12 @ And the great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, (note:)As the Lord's house was built so was this, only the great court of Solomon's house was uncovered.(:note) both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

geneva@1Kings:7:45 @ And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which (note:)By this name also Hiram the king of Tyrus was called.(:note) Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, [were of] bright brass.

geneva@1Kings:7:48 @ And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the LORD: the (note:)This was done according to the form that the Lord prescribed to Moses in Exodus.(:note) altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread [was],

geneva@1Kings:8:1 @ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might (note:)For David brought it from Obed-edom, and placed it in the tabernacle which he made for it in (2Sa_6:17).(:note) bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.

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:8:9 @ [There was] nothing in the ark (note:)For it is likely that the enemy when they had the ark in their hands took away the rod of Aaron and the pot of manna.(:note) save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@1Kings:8:21 @ And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein [is] the (note:)The two tables in which the articles of the covenant were written.(:note) covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@1Kings:8:23 @ And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with (note:)Truthfully and without hypocrisy.(:note) all their heart:

geneva@1Kings:8:54 @ And it was [so], that when Solomon had made an (note:)Solomon is a figure of Christ, who continually is the mediator between God and his Church.(:note) end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

geneva@1Kings:8:63 @ And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the (note:)Before the oracle where the ark was.(:note) house of the LORD.

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:9:15 @ And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and (note:)Millo was as the town house or place of assembly which was open above.(:note) Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

geneva@1Kings:10:1 @ And when the queen of (note:)Josephus says that she was Queen of Ethiopia, and that Sheba was the name of the chief city of Meroe, which is an island of the Nile.(:note) Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

geneva@1Kings:10:5 @ And the (note:)That is, the whole order, and trade of his house.(:note) meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

geneva@1Kings:10:9 @ Blessed be the LORD thy God, which (note:)It is a chief sign of God's favour, when godly and wise rulers fit in the throne of justice.(:note) delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do This is the reason kings are appointed. judgment and justice.

geneva@1Kings:11:4 @ For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not (note:)He did not serve God with a pure heart.(:note) perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.

geneva@1Kings:11:11 @ Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as (note:)That you have forsaken me and worshipped idols.(:note) this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

geneva@1Kings:11:14 @ And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he [was] of the king's (note:)Of the king of Edom's stock.(:note) seed in Edom.

geneva@1Kings:12:24 @ Thus saith the (note:)Who of his just judgment will punish the trespasser, and of his mercy spare the innocent people.(:note) LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.

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:13:1 @ And, behold, there came (note:)That is, a prophet.(:note) a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Not that that was called Luz in Benjamin, but another of that name. Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

geneva@1Kings:13:3 @ And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the (note:)By this sign you will know that the Lord has sent me.(:note) sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out.

geneva@1Kings:13:6 @ And the king answered and said unto the man of God, (note:)Though the wicked humble themselves for a time when they feel God's judgment, they return to their old malice and declare that they are but vile hypocrites.(:note) Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as [it was] before.

geneva@1Kings:13:9 @ For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, (note:)Seeing he had the express word of God, he should not have declined from it, neither for the persuasion of man nor angel.(:note) Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

geneva@1Kings:13:18 @ He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an (note:)His fault is here double, first in that he did not permit the prophet to obey God's express commandment, and next that he pretended to have a revelation to the contrary.(:note) angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.

geneva@1Kings:13:21 @ And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)God would reprove his folly by him who caused him to err.(:note) Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

geneva@1Kings:14:5 @ And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself [to be] (note:)Than the wife of Jeroboam.(:note) another [woman].

geneva@1Kings:14:7 @ Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted (note:)Who was but a servant.(:note) thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

geneva@1Kings:14:11 @ Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: (note:)They will lack the honour of burial in token of God's curse.(:note) for the LORD hath spoken [it].

geneva@1Kings:14:13 @ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found (note:)In the midst of the wicked, God has some on whom he bestows his mercies.(:note) [some] good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

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:14:15 @ For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the (note:)Meaning the Euphrates.(:note) river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

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:14:24 @ And there were also sodomites in the (note:)Where idolatry reigns, all horrible vices are committed, till at length God's just judgment destroys them completely.(:note) land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:15:4 @ Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a (note:)Meaning, a son to reign over Judah.(:note) lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

geneva@1Kings:15:14 @ But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was (note:)Though he permitted them to worship God in other places than he had appointed it came from ignorance, and not from malice.(:note) perfect with the LORD all his days.

geneva@1Kings:15:29 @ And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he (note:)So God stirred up one tyrant to punish the wickedness of another.(:note) smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

geneva@1Kings:15:30 @ Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his (note:)By causing the people to commit idolatry with his calves, and so provoking God to anger.(:note) provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

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:16:12 @ Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the (note:)Both Hanani his father and he were prophets.(:note) prophet,

geneva@1Kings:16:25 @ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did (note:)For such is the nature of idolatry, that the superstition of it daily increases, and the older it is, the more abominable it is before God and his Church.(:note) worse than all that [were] before him.

geneva@1Kings:16:34 @ In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build (note:)See (Jos_6:26).(:note) Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

geneva@1Kings:17:1 @ And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I (note:)That is, whom I serve.(:note) stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but But as I will declare it by God's revelation. according to my word.

geneva@1Kings:17:8 @ And the (note:)As the troubles of the saints of God are many, so his mercy is always at hand to deliver them.(:note) word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

geneva@1Kings:17:12 @ And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and (note:)For there is no hope of any more sustenance.(:note) die.

geneva@1Kings:17:14 @ For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, (note:)God receives no benefit for the use of his own, but he promises an ample recompence for them.(:note) The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.

geneva@1Kings:17:20 @ And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also (note:)He was afraid lest God's name be blasphemed and his ministry contemned, unless he continued his mercies as he had begun them, especially while he remained there.(:note) brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

geneva@1Kings:17:24 @ And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this (note:)It is hard to depend on God, unless we are confirmed by miracles.(:note) I know that thou [art] a man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is] truth.

geneva@1Kings:18:1 @ And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the (note:)After that he departed from the river Cherith.(:note) third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

geneva@1Kings:18:3 @ And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of [his] house. (Now Obadiah (note:)God had begun to work his fear in his heart, but had not yet brought him to the knowledge which is also required of the godly: that is, to profess his Name openly.(:note) feared the LORD greatly:

geneva@1Kings:18:12 @ And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant (note:)I am not of the wicked persecutors that you should procure to me such displeasure, but serve God and favour his children.(:note) fear the LORD from my youth.

geneva@1Kings:18:15 @ And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew (note:)By my presence I will declare that you have told him the truth.(:note) myself unto him to day.

geneva@1Kings:18:18 @ And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but (note:)The true ministers of God should not only not permit falsehoods, but should boldly reprove the wicked slanderers without respect of persons.(:note) thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

geneva@1Kings:18:21 @ And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long (note:)Be consistent in religion and do not be indifferent, whether you follow God or Baal, or whether you serve God wholly or in part, (Zep_1:5).(:note) halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD [be] God, follow him: but if Baal, [then] follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

geneva@1Kings:18:24 @ And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth (note:)By sending down fire from heaven to burn the sacrifice.(:note) by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.

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:18:46 @ And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran (note:)He was so strengthened by God's spirit that he ran faster than the chariot was able to run.(:note) before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

geneva@1Kings:19:4 @ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, (note:)It is so hard to control our impatience in affliction, that the saints could not overcome the same.(:note) take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.

geneva@1Kings:19:7 @ And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because (note:)He declares that unless God had nourished him miraculously it would have been impossible for him to have gone on this journey.(:note) the journey [is] too great for thee.

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:19:11 @ And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] (note:)For the nature of man is not able to come near God, if he appeared in his strength and full majesty, and therefore he mercifully submits himself to our limitations.(:note) not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in the earthquake:

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:20:13 @ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know (note:)Before God went about with signs and miracles to pull Ahab from his impiety, and now again with wonderful victories.(:note) that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:20:28 @ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD [is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that (note:)Who has the same power in the valley as on the hills and can also destroy a multitude with few as with many.(:note) I [am] the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:20:35 @ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, (note:)By this external sign he would more likely touch the king's heart.(:note) Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.

geneva@1Kings:20:36 @ Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall (note:)Because you have transgressed the commandment of the Lord.(:note) slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

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:21:25 @ But there was none like unto Ahab, which did (note:)By the wicked counsel of his wife he became a vile idolater, and cruel murderer, as one that gave himself wholly to serve sin.(:note) sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

geneva@1Kings:22:5 @ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, (note:)He seemed that he would not go to war unless God approved it, yet when Michaiah advised the opposite he would not obey.(:note) Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.

geneva@1Kings:22:7 @ And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the (note:)Jehoshaphat did not acknowledge the false prophets to be God's ministers, but contemned them.(:note) LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?

geneva@1Kings:22:8 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but (note:)By which we see that the wicked cannot abide to hear the truth, but hate the prophets of God and molest them.(:note) I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

geneva@1Kings:22:11 @ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him (note:)The true prophets of God were accustomed to use signs for the confirmation of their doctrine, (Isa_20:2; Jer_7:2) in which the false prophets imitated them, thinking by it to make their doctrine more believable.(:note) horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.

geneva@1Kings:22:15 @ So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, (note:)He speaks this in derision, because the king attributed so much to the false prophets, meaning that by experience he should discern that they were liars.(:note) Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.

geneva@1Kings:22:17 @ And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, (note:)It is better for them to return home than to be punished and scattered because they go to war without God's counsel and approval.(:note) These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.

geneva@1Kings:22:19 @ And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the (note:)Meaning, his angels.(:note) host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

geneva@1Kings:22:21 @ And there came forth a spirit, and (note:)Here we see that though the devil is always ready to bring us to destruction, yet he has no more power than God gives him.(:note) stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.

geneva@1Kings:22:22 @ And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a (note:)I will cause all his prophets to tell lies.(:note) lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

geneva@1Kings:22:24 @ But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, (note:)Thus the wicked would that none were in the favour of God but they, and that God has given his graces to none so much as to them.(:note) Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

geneva@1Kings:22:28 @ And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, (note:)That when you see these things come to pass you may give God the glory, and know that I am his true prophet.(:note) Hearken, O people, every one of you.

geneva@1Kings:22:43 @ And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless (note:)Meaning, that he was led with an error, thinking that they might still sacrifice to the Lord in those places, as they did before the temple was built.(:note) the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

geneva@2Kings:1:3 @ But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, (note:)He shows that idolaters do not have the true God, or else they would seek none but him alone.(:note) [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

geneva@2Kings:1:6 @ And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Ignorance is the mother of error and idolatry.(:note) [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

geneva@2Kings:1:15 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be (note:)Thus the Lord gives boldness to his, that they fear not the threatenings of tyrants, who otherwise of themselves are afraid to do God's message.(:note) not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

geneva@2Kings:1:17 @ So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And (note:)Jehoshaphat going to battle against the Syrians, made his son Jehoram king in the 17th year of his reign: and in the 18th year which was the second year of his son, Jehoram the son of Ahab reigned in Israel: and in the fifth year of this Jehoram Jehoshaphat died, and the kingdom of Judah was confirmed to his son.(:note) Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

geneva@2Kings:2:1 @ And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from (note:)Which was the place where the children of Israel were circumcised after they came over Jordan and had been forty years in the wilderness, (Jos_5:9).(:note) Gilgal.

geneva@2Kings:2:3 @ And the (note:)So called, because they are begotten anew as it were by the heavenly doctrine.(:note) sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from That is, from being your head any more: for to be as the head, is to be the master, as to be at the feet, is to be a scholar. thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I For the Lord had revealed it to him. know [it]; hold ye your peace.

geneva@2Kings:2:5 @ And the sons of the prophets that [were] at (note:)Not only at Bethel, but at Jericho and other places were there prophets, who had scholars, whom they instructed and brought up in the true fear of God.(:note) Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know [it]; hold ye your peace.

geneva@2Kings:2:16 @ And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, (note:)Because the fact was extraordinary, they doubted where he had gone, but Elisha was assured that he was taken up to God.(:note) Ye shall not send.

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:2:24 @ And he turned back, and looked on them, and (note:)Perceiving their malicious heart against the Lord and his word, he asks God to avenge the injury done to him.(:note) cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

geneva@2Kings:3:11 @ But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of Shaphat, which (note:)That is, who was his servant.(:note) poured water on the hands of Elijah.

geneva@2Kings:3:12 @ And Jehoshaphat said, (note:)He is able to instruct us what God's will is in this point.(:note) The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

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

geneva@2Kings:3:14 @ And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would (note:)God suffers his word to be declared to the wicked because of the godly that are among them.(:note) not look toward thee, nor see thee.

geneva@2Kings:3:15 @ But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel (note:)He sang songs to God's glory, and so stirred up the prophets heart to prophecy.(:note) played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.

geneva@2Kings:3:18 @ And this is [but] a (note:)He will not only miraculously give you waters, but your enemies also into your hand.(:note) light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

geneva@2Kings:4:27 @ And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she (note:)In token of humility and joy that she had met with him.(:note) caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not told me.

geneva@2Kings:4:43 @ And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and (note:)It is not the quantity of bread that satisfies, but the blessing that God gives.(:note) shall leave [thereof].

geneva@2Kings:5:1 @ Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given (note:)Here it appears that among the infidels God has his, and also that the infidels esteem those who do good to their country.(:note) deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he was] a leper.

geneva@2Kings:5:11 @ But Naaman was (note:)Man's reason murmurs when it considers only the signs and outward things, and has no regard for the word of God, which is contained there.(:note) wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

geneva@2Kings:5:16 @ But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; (note:)So the Lord commands that they that receive freely, should also give freely.(:note) but he refused.

geneva@2Kings:5:18 @ In this thing the LORD (note:)He feels his conscience is wounded by being present at idols service, and therefore desires God to forgive him, lest others by his example might fall to idolatry: for as for his own part he confesses that he will never serve any but the true God.(:note) pardon thy servant, [that] when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.

geneva@2Kings:6:17 @ And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, (note:)That he may behold how you have prepared an army to rescue us.(:note) that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

geneva@2Kings:6:18 @ And when (note:)Meaning the Syrians his enemies, who came down thinking themselves sure of him.(:note) they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

geneva@2Kings:6:27 @ And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the (note:)Meaning, any kind of food as corn and wine.(:note) barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

geneva@2Kings:6:33 @ And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what (note:)So the wicked fall into a rage and desperation, if they do not find a quick remedy for their afflictions.(:note) should I wait for the LORD any longer?

geneva@2Kings:7:1 @ Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, (note:)The godly are always assured of God's help in their necessity, but the times and hours are only revealed by God's Spirit.(:note) To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:7:2 @ Then a lord on whose hand the king (note:)To whom the king gave the charge and oversight of things as in (2Ki_7:17).(:note) leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make He mocked at the prophets words saying, that if God rained down corn from heaven, yet this could not come to pass. windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not Your infidelity will be punished in this when you see this miracle, and yet not partake of it. eat thereof.

geneva@2Kings:7:16 @ And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, (note:)Which he spoke by the mouth of Elisha, (2Ki_7:1).(:note) according to the word of the LORD.

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:8:10 @ And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly (note:)Meaning that he would recover of this disease: but he knew that this messenger Hazael would slay him to obtain the kingdom.(:note) recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

geneva@2Kings:8:13 @ And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant (note:)That I should be without all humanity and pity.(:note) a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou [shalt be] king over Syria.

geneva@2Kings:8:18 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the (note:)The Holy Spirit shows by this the danger of joining with infidels.(:note) daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

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:9:26 @ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his (note:)By this it is evident that Jezebel caused both Naboth and his sons to be put to death, that Ahab might enjoy his vineyard more quietly: else his children might have claimed possession.(:note) sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:10:23 @ And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the (note:)Thus God would have his servants preserved and idolaters destroyed, as in his law he gives express command, (Deu_13:5).(:note) servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.

geneva@2Kings:10:30 @ And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing [that which is] right in mine eyes, [and] hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in mine heart, thy (note:)Thus God approves and rewards his zeal, in executing God's judgment, though his wickedness was later punished.(:note) children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel.

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:11:7 @ 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:11:10 @ And to the captains over hundreds did the (note:)That is, Jehoiada.(:note) priest give king David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:11:15 @ But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that (note:)To take her part.(:note) followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:11:17 @ And Jehoiada made a (note:)That both the king and the people should maintain the true worship of God and destroy all idolatry.(:note) covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the That he should govern and they obey in the fear of God. king also and the people.

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:12:2 @ And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein (note:)As long as rulers give ear to the true ministers of God, they prosper.(:note) Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

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:12:9 @ But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the (note:)That is, on the south side.(:note) right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:12:11 @ And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them (note:)For the king had appointed others who were fit for that purpose, (2Ki_22:5).(:note) that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

geneva@2Kings:12:13 @ Howbeit there were (note:)For these men only had charge of the repairing of the temple, the rest of the money was brought to the king who caused these to be made later, (2Ch_24:14).(:note) not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:

geneva@2Kings:12:18 @ And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and (note:)After the death of Jehoiada, Joash fell to idolatry: therefore God rejected him, and stirred up his enemy against him, whom he pacified with the treasures of the temple: for God would not be served with those gifts, seeing the king's heart was wicked.(:note) sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

geneva@2Kings:13:2 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to (note:)By worshipping the calves Jeroboam erected in Israel.(:note) sin; he departed not therefrom.

geneva@2Kings:13:3 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all (note:)While Jehoahaz lived.(:note) [their] days.

geneva@2Kings:13:5 @ (And the LORD gave Israel a (note:)That is, Joash the son of Jehoahaz.(:note) saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel Safely and without danger. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.

geneva@2Kings:13:17 @ And he said, Open the window (note:)That is, toward Syria: so that he not only prophesied with words but also confirmed him by these signs that he would have the victory.(:note) eastward. And he opened [it]. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed [them].

geneva@2Kings:13:23 @ And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as (note:)That is, until their sins were come to a full measure and there was no more hope of amendment.(:note) yet.

geneva@2Kings:14:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)In the beginning of his reign he seemed to have an outward show of godliness, but later he became an idolater and worshipped the idols of the Idumeans.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

geneva@2Kings:14:6 @ But the children of the murderers he (note:)Because they neither consented nor were partakers with their fathers in that act.(:note) slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

geneva@2Kings:14:14 @ And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and (note:)That is, which the Israelites had given to them from Judah for an assurance of peace.(:note) hostages, and returned to Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:14:24 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the (note:)Because this idolatry was so vile and almost incredible, that men should forsake the living God, to worship calves, the work of man's hands, therefore the Scripture often repeats it in the reproach of all idolaters.(:note) sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

geneva@2Kings:14:26 @ For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it was] very bitter: for [there was] not any (note:)Read (1Ki_14:10).(:note) shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

geneva@2Kings:15:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)As long as he listened to Zachariah the prophet.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

geneva@2Kings:15:5 @ And the LORD (note:)His father and grandfather were slain by their subjects and servants, and he because he would usurp the priest's office contrary to God's ordinance was smitten immediately by the hand of God with the leprosy, (2Ch_26:21).(:note) smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son [was] over the house, As viceroy or deputy to his father. judging the people of the land.

geneva@2Kings:15:34 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD: he did according (note:)He shows that his uprightness was not such, but that he had many great faults.(:note) to all that his father Uzziah had done.

geneva@2Kings:15:37 @ In (note:)After the death of Jotham.(:note) those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Who in one day slew 120,000 of Judah's fighting men (2Ch_28:6), because they had forsaken the true God. Pekah the son of Remaliah.

geneva@2Kings:16:3 @ But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to (note:)That is, offered him to Molech or made him pass between two fires, as the manner of the Gentiles was, (Lev_18:21; Deu_18:10).(:note) pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:16:8 @ And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the (note:)Thus he did not spare the temple of God from being spoiled to gain help from men and would not once lift his heart to God to desire his help or hear his prophet's counsel.(:note) house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.

geneva@2Kings:16:14 @ And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the (note:)That is, at the right hand, as men went into the temple.(:note) north side of the altar.

geneva@2Kings:16:18 @ And the (note:)Or tent, in which they lay on the sabbath, who had served their week in the temple and so departed home.(:note) covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD Either to flatter the king of Assyria, when he should thus see him change the ordinance of God or else that the temple might be a refuge for him if the king should suddenly assault his house. for the king of Assyria.

geneva@2Kings:17:2 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, (note:)Though he invented no new idolatry or impiety as others did, yet he sought help from the Egyptians, whom God had forbidden.(:note) but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

geneva@2Kings:17:7 @ For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had (note:)He sets forth at length the cause of this great plague and perpetual captivity, to admonish all people, and nations to cleave to the Lord God, and worship only him for fear of similar judgment.(:note) sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

geneva@2Kings:17:9 @ And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower (note:)Meaning, throughout all their borders.(:note) of the watchmen to the fenced city.

geneva@2Kings:17:14 @ Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their (note:)So that to allege the authority of our fathers or great antiquity, except we can prove that they were godly, is but to declare that we are the children of the wicked.(:note) fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

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:17:17 @ And they caused their sons and their daughters to (note:)Read (2Ki_16:3).(:note) pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and Read of this phrase in (1Ki_21:20, 1Ki_21:25). sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

geneva@2Kings:17:18 @ Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah (note:)No whole tribe was left but Judah, and they of Benjamin and Levi who remained were counted with Judah.(:note) only.

geneva@2Kings:17:20 @ And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his (note:)Out of the land where he showed the greatest tokens of his presence and favour.(:note) sight.

geneva@2Kings:17:25 @ And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they (note:)That is, they served him not: therefore, lest they should blaspheme him, as though there were no God, because he chastised the Israelites, he shows his mighty power among them by this strange punishment.(:note) feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew [some] of them.

geneva@2Kings:17:33 @ They (note:)That is, they had a certain knowledge of God, and feared him because of the punishment, but they continued to be idolaters as do the papists who worship both God and idols: but this is not to fear God, as appears in (2Ki_17:34).(:note) feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

geneva@2Kings:17:34 @ Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after (note:)He means by this the Israelites to whom God had given his commandments.(:note) their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

geneva@2Kings:17:41 @ So these (note:)That is, these strangers who were sent into Samaria by the Assyrians.(:note) nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

geneva@2Kings:18:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)Although they of Judah were given to idolatry and impiety, as they of Israel were, yet God for the sake of his promise was merciful to the throne of David, and yet by his judgment toward the other, provoked to repentance.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

geneva@2Kings:18:22 @ But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is] not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath (note:)Thus the idolaters think that God's religion is destroyed, when superstition and idolatry are reformed.(:note) taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

geneva@2Kings:18:25 @ Am I now come up without the (note:)The wicked always flatter themselves in their prosperity, that God favours them. Thus he speaks to scare Hezekiah into thinking that by resisting him he would be resisting God.(:note) LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

geneva@2Kings:18:32 @ Until (note:)He makes himself so sure, that he will not grant them a truce, unless they give themselves to him to be led away as captives.(:note) I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

geneva@2Kings:18:35 @ Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the (note:)This is an execrable blasphemy against the true God, to make him equal with the idols of other nations: therefore God sharply punished him.(:note) LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

geneva@2Kings:19:4 @ It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the (note:)Meaning, for Jerusalem which only remained of all the cities of Judah.(:note) remnant that are left.

geneva@2Kings:19:14 @ And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the (note:)Before the Ark of the covenant.(:note) LORD.

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:19:16 @ LORD, (note:)Show by effect that you will not allow your Name to be blasphemed.(:note) bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the By this title he discerns God from all idols and false gods. living God.

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:19:21 @ This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The (note:)Because as yet Jerusalem had not been taken by the enemy therefore he calls her virgin.(:note) virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

geneva@2Kings:19:31 @ For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the (note:)The love, that God has for his Church will overcome the counsels and enterprises of men.(:note) zeal of the LORD [of hosts] shall do this.

geneva@2Kings:20:2 @ Then he turned his face to the (note:)That his mind might not be troubled.(:note) wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

geneva@2Kings:20:3 @ I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a (note:)Meaning, without all hypocrisy.(:note) perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah Not so much for his own death, as for fear that idolatry would be restored which he had destroyed, and so God's Name be dishonoured. wept sore.

geneva@2Kings:20:5 @ Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy (note:)Because of his true repentance and prayer, God turned away his wrath.(:note) prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the To give thanks for your deliverance. house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:20:11 @ And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the (note:)Which was set at the top of the stairs that Ahaz had made.(:note) dial of Ahaz.

geneva@2Kings:20:19 @ Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast (note:)He acknowledges Isaiah to be the true prophet of God and therefore humbles himself to his word.(:note) spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if Seeing that God has shown me this favour to grant me quietness during my life: for he was afraid lest the enemies would have had opportunity to rejoice if the Church had decayed in his time, because he had restored religion. peace and truth be in my days?

geneva@2Kings:21:6 @ And he made his son (note:)Read (2Ki_16:3).(:note) pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.

geneva@2Kings:21:12 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall (note:)Meaning, that whoever hears of this great plague, will be astonished.(:note) tingle.

geneva@2Kings:21:16 @ Moreover Manasseh shed (note:)The Hebrews write that he slew Isaiah the prophet, who was his father-in-law.(:note) innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:21:22 @ And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the (note:)That is, according to his commandment.(:note) way of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:22:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and (note:)His zeal was prophesied of, and his name mentioned by Iddo the prophet, more than 300 years before, (1Ki_13:2) and being but eight years old, he sought the God of his father David, (2Ch_34:3).(:note) walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

geneva@2Kings:22:4 @ Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the (note:)Certain of the priests were appointed to this office, as in (2Ki_12:9).(:note) door have gathered of the people:

geneva@2Kings:22:5 @ And let (note:)From the time of Joash for the space of 244 years, the temple remained without repairs through the negligence of the priests. This shows that they who have a charge and do not execute it should have it taken from them.(:note) them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

geneva@2Kings:22:8 @ And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the (note:)This was the copy that Moses left them, as it appears in (2Ch_34:14), which either by the negligence of the priests had been lost, or else by the wickedness of idolatrous kings had been abolished.(:note) book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

geneva@2Kings:22:13 @ Go ye, (note:)Meaning, to some prophet to whom God reveals the knowledge of things, as in (Jer_21:8), though at other times they enquired the Lord by Urim and Thummim.(:note) enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

geneva@2Kings:22:19 @ Because thine heart was (note:)Meaning, that he repented as they that do not repent are said to harden their heart, (Psa_95:8).(:note) tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:23:3 @ And the king stood by (note:)Where the king had his place, (2Ki_11:14).(:note) a pillar, and made a As Joshua did, (Jos_24:22, Jos_24:25). covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

geneva@2Kings:23:4 @ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the (note:)Meaning, they who were next in dignity to the high priest.(:note) priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried In contempt of the altar Jeroboam had built there to sacrifice to his calves. the ashes of them unto Bethel.

geneva@2Kings:23:6 @ And he brought out the (note:)He removed the grove which idolaters for devotion had planted near the temple, contrary to the commandment of the Lord, (Deu_16:21), or as some read, the similitude of a grove which was hung in the temple.(:note) grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the Both in contempt of the idols and reproach of them who had worshipped them in their lives. graves of the children of the people.

geneva@2Kings:23:9 @ Nevertheless the priests of the high places (note:)Because they who had forsaken the Lord to serve idols, were not fit to minister in the service of the Lord for the instruction of others.(:note) came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

geneva@2Kings:23:11 @ And he took away the (note:)The idolatrous kings had dedicated horses and chariots to the sun, either to carry about the image of it as the heathen did, or else to sacrifice them as a most agreeable sacrifice.(:note) horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

geneva@2Kings:23:16 @ And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the (note:)According to the prophecy of Iddo, (1Ki_13:2).(:note) man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

geneva@2Kings:23:26 @ Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the (note:)Because of the wicked heart of the people, who would not turn to him by repentance.(:note) fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

geneva@2Kings:23:32 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his (note:)Meaning, the wicked kings before.(:note) fathers had done.

geneva@2Kings:24:3 @ Surely at the (note:)Though God used these wicked tyrants to execute his just judgments, they are not to be excused, for they proceeded from ambition and malice.(:note) commandment of the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;

geneva@2Kings:24:20 @ For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his (note:)Out of Jerusalem and Judah into Babylon.(:note) presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:3 @ The sons of (note:)Though Judah was not Jacob's eldest son, yet he first begins with him, because he would come to the genealogy of David, of whom came Christ.(:note) Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: [which] three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:15 @ And (note:)That is, he was led into captivity with his father Seraiah the high priest, (2Ki_25:18).(:note) Jehozadak went [into captivity], when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:31 @ And these [are they] whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had (note:)After it was brought to the place where the temple would be built and was no longer carried to and fro.(:note) rest.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:19 @ And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the (note:)Their charge was that no one should enter those places, which were only appointed for the priests to minister in.(:note) tabernacle: and their fathers, [being] over the host of the LORD, [were] keepers of the entry.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:14 @ And they set themselves in the midst of [that] parcel, (note:)This act refers to Shammah, (2Sa_23:11), who it seems was the chiefest of these.(:note) and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved [them] by a great deliverance.

geneva@1Chronicles:13:10 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died (note:)Before the Ark for usurping that which did not belong to his calling: for this charge was given to the priests, (Num_4:15), so that here all good intentions are condemned, unless they are commanded by the word of God.(:note) before God.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:2 @ And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his (note:)Because of God's promise made to the people of Israel.(:note) people Israel.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:3 @ And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the (note:)From the house of Obed Edom, (2Sa_6:10, 2Sa_6:12).(:note) ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:12 @ And said unto them, Ye [are] the chief of the fathers of the Levites: (note:)Prepare yourselves and be pure, abstain from all things by which you might be polluted, and so not able to come to the tabernacle.(:note) sanctify yourselves, [both] ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto [the place that] I have prepared for it.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:13 @ For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due (note:)According as he has appointed in the law.(:note) order.

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:15:29 @ And it came to pass, [as] the ark of the (note:)It was so called because it reminded the Israelites of the Lord's covenant made with them.(:note) covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:2 @ And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he (note:)He called upon the Name of God, desiring him to prosper the people, and give good success to their beginnings.(:note) blessed the people in the name of the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:4 @ And he appointed [certain] of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to (note:)That is, God's benefits to his people.(:note) record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:

geneva@1Chronicles:16:7 @ Then on that day David (note:)David gave them this Psalm to praise the Lord, signifying that in all our enterprises the Name of God should be praised and called upon.(:note) delivered first [this psalm] to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:8 @ Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his (note:)Of which this is the chiefest, that he has chosen himself a Church to call upon his name.(:note) deeds among the people.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:26 @ For all the gods of the people [are] (note:)His strong faith appears in this, though all the world would follow idols, yet he would cleave to the living God.(:note) idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:31 @ Let the (note:)He exhorts the dumb creatures to rejoice with him in considering the greatness of the grace of God.(:note) heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let [men] say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:33 @ Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to (note:)To restore all things to their estate.(:note) judge the earth.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:36 @ Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, (note:)He wills all the people both in heart and mouth to consent to those praises.(:note) Amen, and praised the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:41 @ And with (note:)With Zadok and the rest of the priests.(:note) them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever;

geneva@1Chronicles:17:1 @ Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of (note:)Well built and fair.(:note) cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under That is, in tents covered with skin. curtains.

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:17:10 @ And since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will (note:)Will give you great posterity.(:note) build thee an house.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:16 @ And David the king (note:)He went into the tent where the Ark was, showing what we should do when we receive any benefits from the Lord.(:note) came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] mine house, that thou hast brought me Meaning to this kingly estate. hitherto?

geneva@1Chronicles:17:17 @ And [yet] this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast [also] spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of (note:)You have promised a kingdom that will continue to me and my posterity and that Christ will proceed from me.(:note) high degree, O LORD God.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:19 @ O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own (note:)Freely and according to the purpose of your will, without any deserving.(:note) heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all [these] great things.

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:18:6 @ Then David put [garrisons] in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, [and] brought gifts. Thus the LORD (note:)That is in all things that he attempted.(:note) preserved David whithersoever he went.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:11 @ Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all [these] nations; from (note:)Because the Edomites and the Syrians joined their power together, it is said, (2Sa_8:12) that the Amramites were spoiled.(:note) Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:13 @ Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our (note:)He declares that where the cause is evil, the courage cannot be valiant, and that in good causes men should be courageous, and commit the success to God.(:note) people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do [that which is] good in his sight.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:3 @ And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of (note:)It was a thing indifferent and usual to number the people, but because he did it for ambitious reasons, as though his strength stood in his people, God punished him.(:note) trespass to Israel?

geneva@1Chronicles:21:15 @ And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and (note:)Read (2Sa_24:16).(:note) as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he When God draws back his plagues, he seems to repent, read (Gen_6:6). repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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:21:22 @ Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I may build an (note:)This he did by the command of God, (1Ch_21:18), or else it would have been abominable, unless he had either God's word, or revelation.(:note) altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:24 @ And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full (note:)That is, as much as it is worth: for having enough of his own, and yet to have taken of another man's goods to offer to the Lord would had been theft and not acceptable to God.(:note) price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:26 @ And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he (note:)God declared that he heard his request, in that he sent down fire from heaven for they could use no fire in sacrifice but that which was reserved still upon the altar, (Lev_6:13) and came down from heaven, (Lev_9:24) as appeared by the punishment of Nadab and Abihu, (Lev_10:1).(:note) answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:1 @ Then David said, This [is] the (note:)That is, the place in which he will be worshipped.(:note) house of the LORD God, and this [is] the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

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:22:11 @ Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and (note:)He shows that there can be no prosperity, but when the Lord is with us.(:note) prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:12 @ Only the LORD give thee (note:)These are only the means by which kings govern their subjects correctly, and by which the realms prosper and flourish.(:note) wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:14 @ Now, behold, in my (note:)For David was poor in respect to Solomon.(:note) trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:16 @ Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, [there is] no number. (note:)That is, go about it quickly.(:note) Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:18 @ [Is] not the LORD your God with you? and hath he [not] given you rest on every side? for he hath given the (note:)The nations round about.(:note) inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:19 @ Now set (note:)For else he knew that God would plague them, and not prosper their labour, unless they sought with all their hearts to set forth his glory.(:note) your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:13 @ The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should (note:)That is, to serve in the most holy place, and to consecrate the holy things.(:note) sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.

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:23:28 @ Because their office [was] to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the (note:)In washing and cleansing all the holy vessels.(:note) purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;

geneva@1Chronicles:24:19 @ These [were] the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under (note:)By the dignity that God gave to Aaron.(:note) Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:3 @ Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, (note:)Of which one is not here numbered.(:note) six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who Meaning, psalms and songs to praise God. prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

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:28:2 @ Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in mine heart to build an house of (note:)Where the ark would stay and no longer move to and fro.(:note) rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

geneva@1Chronicles:28:4 @ Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah [to be] the ruler; and of the house of (note:)According to the prophecy of Jacob, (Gen_49:8).(:note) Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make [me] king over all Israel:

geneva@1Chronicles:28:8 @ Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this (note:)That is, of Canaan.(:note) good land, and leave [it] for an inheritance for your children after you He declares that nothing can separate them from the conveniences of this land, both for themselves and their posterity except for their sins and iniquity. for ever.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:10 @ Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build (note:)Meaning, for his ark.(:note) an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and Put it in execution. do [it].

geneva@1Chronicles:28:18 @ And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of (note:)Meaning, of the mercy seat that covered the ark, which was called the chariot, because the Lord declared himself there.(:note) the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

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:29:1 @ Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, [is yet] young and tender, and the work [is] great: for the palace [is] not for man, but for the (note:)Therefore it should be excellent in all points.(:note) LORD God.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:5 @ The gold for [things] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the hands of artificers. And who [then] is (note:)He was not only liberal himself but provoked others to set forth the work of God.(:note) willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?

geneva@1Chronicles:29:8 @ And they with whom [precious] stones were (note:)Meaning, they who had any.(:note) found gave [them] to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:9 @ Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with (note:)That is, with good courage and without hypocrisy.(:note) perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:10 @ Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed [be] thou, LORD God of (note:)Who revealed yourself to our father Jacob.(:note) Israel our father, for ever and ever.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:18 @ O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the (note:)Continue then in his good mind, that they may serve you willingly.(:note) imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

geneva@1Chronicles:29:20 @ And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the (note:)That is, revered the king.(:note) king.

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@1Chronicles:29:23 @ Then Solomon sat on the (note:)This declares that the kings of Judah were figures of Christ, who was the true anointed, and to whom God gave the chief government of all things.(:note) throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:1 @ And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly. (note:)The Argument - This second book contains in brief the contents of the two books of the kings: that is, from the reign of Solomon to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity. In this story some things are told in more detail than in the books of the kings and therefore help greatly in the understanding of the prophets. Three things are chiefly to be considered here: First, that when the godly kings saw the plagues of God prepared against their country for sin, they turned to the Lord and by earnest prayer were heard, and the plagues removed. Secondly, while the good rulers always loved the prophets of God and were zealous to set forth his religion throughout their dominions, it offended God greatly that the wicked hated his ministers, deposed them and set up idolatry and attempted served God according to the fantasy of men. Thus we have the chief acts from the beginning of the world to the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the 32nd year of Darius, in total 3568 years and six months.(:note)

geneva@2Chronicles:1:3 @ So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at (note:)Read (1Ki_3:4).(:note) Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle So called, because by it God showed signs of his presence to the congregation. of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:5 @ Moreover the (note:)Which was for the burnt offerings, (Exo_27:1).(:note) brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:9 @ Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be (note:)Perform your promise made to my father concerning me.(:note) established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:12 @ Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a (note:)The very heavens confessed that it was a singular gift of God when he gave to any nation a king that was wise and of understanding, though it appears that this Hiram had the true knowledge of God.(:note) wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:1 @ Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount (note:)Which is the mountain where Abraham was thought to have sacrificed his son, (Gen_22:2).(:note) Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:16 @ The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram (note:)Whom Solomon reverenced for the gifts that God had given him, as a father; he had the same name as Huram the king of Tyrus, his mother was a Jewess, and his father a Tyrian. Some read, for his father, the author of this work.(:note) his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:2 @ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the (note:)Read (2Sa_6:12).(:note) city of David, which [is] Zion.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:10 @ [There was] nothing in the ark save (note:)For Aaron's rod and manna were taken from there before it was brought to this place.(:note) the two tables which Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

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:6:1 @ Then (note:)After he had seen the glory of the Lord in the cloud.(:note) said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:11 @ And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the (note:)Meaning the two tables, in which is contained the effect of the covenant that God made with our fathers.(:note) covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:12 @ And (note:)On a scaffold that was made for that purpose, that he praying for the whole people might be heard by all, as in (1Ki_8:22).(:note) he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

geneva@2Chronicles:6:41 @ Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy (note:)That is, into your temple.(:note) resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with Let them be preserved by your power, and made virtuous and holy. salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:42 @ O LORD God, turn not away the face of (note:)Hear my prayer, I who am your anointed king.(:note) thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:1 @ Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the (note:)By this God declared that he was pleased with Solomon's prayer.(:note) fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

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:8:1 @ And it came to pass at the end of (note:)Signifying that he was 20 years in building them.(:note) twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

geneva@2Chronicles:8:16 @ Now all the (note:)Both for the matte and also for the workmanship.(:note) work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:8 @ Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his (note:)Meaning, that the Israelites were God's peculiar people, and that kings are the lieutenants of God, who ought to grant to him the superiority and administer justice to all.(:note) throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:11 @ And the king made [of] the algum trees (note:)Or pillars: meaning the garnishing and trimming of the stairs or pillars.(:note) terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:15 @ So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the (note:)God's will overrides all so that nothing can be done but according to the same, and yet man's will works by itself, so that he cannot use the excuse that his deed was of God's ordinance.(:note) cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:16 @ And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their (note:)Who were zealous of true religion and feared God.(:note) hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:1 @ And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and (note:)For such is the inconstancy of the people, that for the most part they follow the vices of their governors.(:note) all Israel with him.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and (note:)Signifying that no calamity can come to us unless we forsake God, and that he never leaves us till we have cast him off.(:note) therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:6 @ Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] (note:)Therefore he justly punishes you for your sins.(:note) righteous.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:12 @ And when he (note:)Which declares that God does not seek the death of a sinner, but his conversion, (Eze_18:32).(:note) humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Judah things went well.

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:13:12 @ And, behold, God himself [is] (note:)Because their cause was good and approved by the Lord, they did not doubt the success and victory.(:note) with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:18 @ Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, (note:)He shows that the stay of all kingdoms and assurance of victories depends on our trust and confidence in the Lord.(:note) because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:7 @ Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet (note:)While we have the full government of it.(:note) before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:11 @ And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God; (note:)Thus the children of God neither trust in their own power or policy, nor fear the strength and subtilty of their enemies, but consider the cause and see whether their enterprises tend to God's glory, and thereupon assure themselves of the victory by him, who alone is Almighty and can turn all flesh into dust with the breath of his mouth.(:note) let not man prevail against thee.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:14 @ And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the (note:)The Lord had stricken them with fear.(:note) fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:4 @ But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he (note:)He shows that despite the wickedness of tyrants and their rage, yet God has his whom he hears in their tribulation as he delivered his from Zerah king of the Ethiopians, (2Ch_14:9, 2Ch_14:12) and out of all other dangers, when they called upon the Lord.(:note) was found of them.

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:15:13 @ That (note:)These were the words of their covenant, which commanded all idolaters be put to death, according to the law of God, (Deu_13:5, Deu_13:9, Deu_13:15).(:note) whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:15 @ And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was (note:)As long as they served him correctly, so long did he preserve and prosper them.(:note) found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:12 @ And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] (note:)God plagued his rebellion and by this declared that it is nothing to begin well, unless we continue to the end, that is, zealous of God's glory and put our whole trust in him.(:note) exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the He shows that it is useless to seek the physicians unless we first seek God to purge our sins, which are the chief cause of all our diseases, and later use the help of the physicians as a means by which God works. physicians.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:3 @ And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the (note:)That is, his virtues meaning before he had committed with Bathsheba, and against Uriah.(:note) first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Did not seek help from strange Gods. Baalim;

geneva@2Chronicles:17:6 @ And his heart was (note:)He gave himself wholly to serve the Lord.(:note) lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:10 @ And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they (note:)Thus God prospers all who with a pure heart seek his glory, and keeps their enemies in fear, so that they are not able to execute their rage against them.(:note) made no war against Jehoshaphat.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:16 @ And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, (note:)Meaning, who was a Nazarite.(:note) who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:4 @ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the (note:)Hear the advise of some prophet to know whether it is God's will.(:note) word of the LORD to day.

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:18:10 @ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him (note:)Read (1Ki_22:11).(:note) horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:16 @ Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, (note:)He prophesied of how the people would be scattered and Ahab slain.(:note) These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to his house in peace.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:18 @ Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the (note:)Meaning his angels.(:note) host of heaven standing on his right hand and [on] his left.

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:18:22 @ Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a (note:)To those who would not believe the truth, God sent a strong delusion, that they would believe lies, (2Th_2:10).(:note) lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:23 @ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the (note:)By this cruelty his ambition and hypocrisy was discovered; thus the hypocrites boast of the Spirit which they do not have, and declare their malice against them on whom the true Spirit is.(:note) cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

geneva@2Chronicles:18:31 @ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat (note:)He cried to the Lord by acknowledging his fault in going with this wicked king to war against the word of the Lord by his prophet and also by desiring mercy for the same.(:note) cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:2 @ And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, (note:)He declares that the wrath of God is over everyone who supports the wicked and does not show in their actions that they are enemies to everyone that hates the Lord.(:note) Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:4 @ And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again (note:)He visited all his country and brought his people from idolatry to the knowledge of the true God.(:note) through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:6 @ And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [is] (note:)Both to preserve you if you do justly or to punish you, if you do the contrary.(:note) with you in the judgment.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:7 @ Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no (note:)He will declare by the sharpness of the punishment that he hates all iniquity.(:note) iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:8 @ Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they (note:)The priests and Levites who should judge matters according to the word of the Lord.(:note) returned to Jerusalem.

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:19:11 @ And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the (note:)Shall be chief overseer of the public affairs of the realm.(:note) king's matters: also the Levites [shall be] officers They will have the handling of inferior causes. before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the God will assist them that do justice. good.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:3 @ And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself (note:)This declares what the fear of the godly is, which is the prick to stir them to prayer and to depend on the Lord, while it moves the wicked either to seek after worldly means and policies or else to fall into despair.(:note) to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:13 @ And all Judah stood (note:)That is, before the ark of the covenant.(:note) before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:14 @ Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came (note:)Who was moved by the Spirit of God to prophecy.(:note) the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

geneva@2Chronicles:20:15 @ And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the (note:)They fight against God and not against you, therefore he will fight for you.(:note) battle [is] not yours, but God's.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:18 @ And Jehoshaphat (note:)Declaring his faith and obedience to the word of the Lord, and giving thanks for the deliverance promised.(:note) bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:20 @ And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his (note:)Give credit to their words and doctrine.(:note) prophets, so shall ye prosper.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:21 @ And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, (note:)This was a psalm of thanksgiving which they used commonly to sing when they praised the Lord for his benefits, and was made by David, (Psa. strkjv@136:1-26).(:note) Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:22 @ And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and (note:)Meaning, the Idumeans who dwelt in mount Seir.(:note) mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:26 @ And on the fourth day they (note:)To give thanks to the Lord for the victory: and therefore the valley was called Berachah, that is, blessing or thanksgiving, which was also called the valley of Jehoshaphat, (Joe_3:2, Joe_3:12) because the Lord judged the enemies according to Jehoshaphat's prayer.(:note) assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:29 @ And the (note:)He declares by this that the works of God always bring comfort or deliverance to his, and fear or destruction to his enemies.(:note) fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:32 @ And he walked in the way of (note:)Meaning, in his virtues, and those ways in which he followed God.(:note) Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:37 @ Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast (note:)Thus God would not have his join in company with idolaters and wicked men.(:note) joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:6 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to (note:)So that we see how it cannot be that we should join with the wicked and serve God.(:note) wife: and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:10 @ So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time [also] did (note:)Read (2Ki_8:22).(:note) Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:12 @ And there came a writing to him from (note:)Some think that this was Elisha so called because he had the Spirit in abundance, as had Elijah.(:note) Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

geneva@2Chronicles:21:16 @ Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the (note:)There were other Arabians in Africa southward toward Egypt.(:note) Ethiopians:

geneva@2Chronicles:22:4 @ Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his (note:)He shows that it follows that the rulers are as their counsellors are and that there cannot be a good king who allows wicked counsellors.(:note) counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:7 @ And the destruction of Ahaziah (note:)By this we see that nothing can come to any but by God's providence and as he has appointed, and therefore he causes everything to serve his purposes.(:note) was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:9 @ And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of (note:)This was the just plague of God because he joined himself with God's enemies: yet God to declare the worthiness of Jehoshaphat his grandfather moved them to give him the honour of burial.(:note) Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:5 @ And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the (note:)Which was the chief gate of the temple toward the east.(:note) foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:14 @ Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso (note:)To join with her party and to maintain her authority.(:note) followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:16 @ And Jehoiada made a (note:)That they would only serve him and renounce all idolatry.(:note) covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:20 @ And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the (note:)Which was the principal gate that the king might be seen by all the people.(:note) high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:2 @ And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all the days of (note:)Who was a faithful counsellor and governed him by the word of God.(:note) Jehoiada the priest.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:6 @ And the king called for Jehoiada the (note:)For he was the high priest.(:note) chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

geneva@2Chronicles:24:7 @ For the sons of Athaliah, that (note:)The scriptures call her wicked because she was a cruel murderer and a blasphemous idolater.(:note) wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:12 @ And the king and (note:)Signifying that this was done by advise and counsel and not by any one man's desire.(:note) Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

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:24:19 @ Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they (note:)They took heaven and earth and all creatures to witness that unless they returned to the Lord, he would most grievously punish their infidelity and rebellion, (Neh_9:26).(:note) testified against them: but they would not give ear.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood (note:)In a place above the people, to the intent that he might be heard.(:note) above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:21 @ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the (note:)There is no rage so cruel and beastly as of them whose hearts God has hardened, and who delight more in superstition and idolatry than in the true service of God and pure simplicity of his word.(:note) commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:22 @ Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD (note:)Avenge my death and require my blood at your hands: or he speaks this by prophecy because he knew that God would do it. This Zachariah is also called the son of Barachias, (Mat_23:35) because his progenitors were Iddo, Berachiah, Jehoiada.(:note) look upon [it], and require [it].

geneva@2Chronicles:24:24 @ For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they (note:)That is, reproved and checked him, and handled him rigorously.(:note) executed judgment against Joash.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:2 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)Meaning, in respect to his predecessors, though he had his imperfections.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:4 @ But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the (note:)That is, for the fault the child is punished for unless he is guilty of the same.(:note) children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:7 @ But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not (note:)Therefore to think to have help from them, whom the Lord does not favour, is to cast off the help of the Lord.(:note) with Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:9 @ And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to (note:)He shows that if we depend only on God, we will not need to be troubled by these worldly things, for he will give at all times that which will be necessary if we obey his word.(:note) give thee much more than this.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:15 @ Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not (note:)He proves that whatever cannot save himself nor his worshipper is no god but an idol.(:note) deliver their own people out of thine hand?

geneva@2Chronicles:26:5 @ And he sought God in the days of (note:)This was not the Zechariah that was the son of Jehoiada, but some other prophet of that name.(:note) Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as For God never forsakes any who seek him, and therefore man is the cause of his own destruction. he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:16 @ But when he was strong, his heart (note:)Thus prosperity causes men to trust in themselves and by forgetting him who is the author of it, procure their own punishment.(:note) was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:18 @ And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, [It appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: (note:)Though his zeal seemed to be good and also his intention, yet because they were not governed by the word of God, he did wickedly and was therefore both justly resisted and also punished.(:note) go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither [shall it be] for thine honour from the LORD God.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:21 @ And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a (note:)According to the commandment of the Lord, (Lev_13:46).(:note) several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

geneva@2Chronicles:27:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the (note:)That is, to offer incense against the word of God, which is spoken of in the commendation of Jotham.(:note) temple of the LORD. And the people did yet They were not completely purged from idolatry. corruptly.

geneva@2Chronicles:27:3 @ He built the high (note:)Which was 60 cubits high and was for the height called Ophel: it was at the east gate and mention is made of it in (2Ch_3:4).(:note) gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

geneva@2Chronicles:27:6 @ So Jotham became mighty, (note:)He shows that all prosperity comes from God, who never fails when we put our trust in him.(:note) because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:6 @ For (note:)Who was king of Israel.(:note) Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:9 @ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, (note:)For they thought they had overcome them by their own valiantness, and did not consider that God had delivered them into their hands, because Judah had offended him.(:note) because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.

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:28:13 @ And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have (note:)God will not allow this sin which we commit against him, to go unpunished.(:note) offended against the LORD [already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath against Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:19 @ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of (note:)He means Judah, because Ahaz forsook the Lord and sought help from the infidels. {{See 2Ch_15:17}} for when Judah was called Israel.(:note) Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:3 @ He in the first year of his reign, in the (note:)This is a notable example for all princes, first to establish the pure religion of God and to procure that the Lord may be honoured and served correctly.(:note) first month, opened the Which Ahaz had shut up, (2Ch_28:24). doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:5 @ And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth (note:)Meaning, all the idols, altar groves and whatever was occupied in their service and with which the temple was polluted.(:note) the filthiness out of the holy [place].

geneva@2Chronicles:29:10 @ Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may (note:)He proves by the judgments of God on those who have contemned his word, that there is no way to avoid his plagues, but by conforming themselves to his will.(:note) turn away from us.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:16 @ And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to (note:)From the pollution and filth that Ahaz had brought in.(:note) cleanse [it], and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:17 @ Now they began on the first [day] of the (note:)Which contained part of March and part of April.(:note) first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:20 @ Then Hezekiah the king (note:)By this manner of speech the Hebrews mean a certain diligence and speed to do a thing: and when there is no delay.(:note) rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:25 @ And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the (note:)This thing was not appointed by man, but it was the commandment of God.(:note) commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:27 @ And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the (note:)The psalm which David had appointed to be sung for thanksgiving.(:note) LORD began [also] with the trumpets, and with the instruments [ordained] Which David had appointed to praise the Lord with. by David king of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:30 @ Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the (note:)With the psalm mentioned in (1Ch_16:8).(:note) words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:1 @ And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to (note:)Meaning, all Israel, whom Tiglath Pilesar had not taken away into captivity, (2Ki_15:29).(:note) Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

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:30:6 @ So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and (note:)He will have compassion on them and preserve them.(:note) he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:8 @ Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] (note:)Submit yourselves to the Lord, and rebel no more.(:note) yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:9 @ For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall (note:)God will not only preserve you, but through your repentance restore your brethren, who for their sins he gave into the hands of the enemies.(:note) come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:12 @ Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one (note:)He shows the reason why some obey and some mock God's calling, that is, because his Spirit is with the one sort and moves in their heart, and the others are left to themselves.(:note) heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:15 @ Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were (note:)Seeing their own negligence (who should have been most prompt) and the readiness of the people, (2Ch_29:36).(:note) ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

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:30:20 @ And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and (note:)That is, accepted them as purified.(:note) healed the people.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:2 @ And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the (note:)That is, in the temple where they assembled as in a tent.(:note) tents of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:4 @ Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the (note:)The tithes and firstfruits for the maintenance of the priests and Levites.(:note) portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be That their minds might not be entangled with provision of worldly things, but that they might wholly and cheerfully serve the Lord. encouraged in the law of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:6 @ And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things (note:)Which they had dedicated to the Lord by a vow.(:note) which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid [them] by For the relief of the priests, Levites, widows, pupils, fatherless, strangers, and such as were in need. heaps.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:8 @ And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they (note:)They praised the Lord and prayed for all prosperity to his people.(:note) blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:10 @ And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have (note:)He shows that this plenteous liberality is expedient for the maintenance of the ministers and that God therefore prospers his people and increases by his blessing that which is given.(:note) had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left [is] this great store.

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:32:8 @ With him [is] an (note:)That is, the power of man.(:note) arm of flesh; but with us [is] the This declares that Hezekiah always put his trust in God, and yet made himself strong and used lawful means, lest he should seem to tempt God. LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:16 @ And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD God, and against his (note:)In this we see that when the wicked speak evil of the servants of God, they care not to blaspheme God himself for if they feared God, they would love his servants.(:note) servant Hezekiah.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:21 @ And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and (note:)To the number of 185,000 as in (2Ki_19:35-36).(:note) captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his Meaning, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons. own bowels slew him there with the sword.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:23 @ And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was (note:)Thus after trouble God sends comfort to all them who patiently wait on him, and constantly put their trust in his mercies.(:note) magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:24 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him (note:)To confirm his faith in God's promise, who declared to him by his prophet that his life would be prolonged fifteen years.(:note) a sign.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:10 @ And the LORD spake (note:)Meaning by his prophets, but their hearts were not touched to believe and repent, without which the preaching of the word has no effect.(:note) to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:13 @ And prayed unto him: and he was (note:)Thus affliction gives understanding: for he that hated God in his prosperity now in his misery seeks him.(:note) intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:16 @ And he repaired the (note:)Which Solomon had caused to be made.(:note) altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:17 @ Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the (note:)Thus by ignorance they were deceived, thinking it nothing to keep the altars, so that they worshipped God: but it is idolatry to worship God any other way than he has appointed.(:note) LORD their God only.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:18 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his (note:)Which although it is not contained in the Hebrew, yet because it is here mentioned and is written in the Greek, we have placed it in the end of this book.(:note) prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written] in the book of the kings of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of (note:)He followed David in all points that he followed the Lord.(:note) David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:14 @ And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a (note:)Read (2Ki_22:8).(:note) book of the law of the LORD [given] by Moses.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:21 @ Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our (note:)Thus the godly not only lament their own sins, but also that their fathers and predecessors have offended God.(:note) fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:23 @ And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye (note:)That is, to the king.(:note) the man that sent you to me,

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:34:30 @ And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and (note:)Though neither young nor old could be exempted from the curses contained in it, if they did transgress, he knew it pertained to all and was his duty to see it read to all sorts, that everyone might learn to avoid those punishments by serving God correctly.(:note) small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of 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:35:3 @ And said unto the Levites that (note:)So that the Levites charge was not only to minister in the temple, but also to instruct the people in the word of God.(:note) taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a As it was before the temple was built: therefore your office is to teach the people and to praise God. burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

geneva@2Chronicles:35:6 @ So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and (note:)Exhort everyone to examine themselves to ensure that they are not unfit to eat the passover.(:note) prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:12 @ And they removed the (note:)They reserved for the people that which was not expedient to be offered, that every man might offer peace offerings, and so have his portion.(:note) burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses. And so [did they] with the oxen.

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:36:9 @ Jehoiachin [was] (note:)That is, he began his reign at eight years old, and reigned ten years when his father was alive, and after his father's death, which was in his eighteenth year, he reigned alone three months and ten days.(:note) eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:15 @ And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, (note:)By this phrase the scripture means often and diligently as in (Jer_11:7, Jer_25:3, Jer_26:5, Jer_32:33).(:note) rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

geneva@2Chronicles:36:16 @ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no (note:)Till God could no longer allow their sins, but must punish them.(:note) remedy.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:21 @ To fulfil the word of the LORD by the (note:)Who threatened the vengeance of God and 70 years captivity, which he called the sabbaths or rest of the land, (Jer_25:11).(:note) mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:22 @ Now in the (note:)In the first year that he reigned over the Chaldeans, (Ezr_1:1).(:note) first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,

geneva@2Chronicles:36:23 @ Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath (note:)God had so forewarned by his prophet over 100 years before Cyrus was born, (Isa_44:28) that Jerusalem and the temple would be rebuilt by Cyrus his anointed: so called because God used his service for a time to deliver his Church.(:note) charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up.

geneva@Ezra:1:1 @ Now in the (note:)After he and Darius had won Babylon.(:note) first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the Who promised deliverance to them after 70 years were past, (Jer_25:12). mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the That is, moved him and gave him heart. spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying, The Argument - As the Lord is always merciful to his Church, and does not punish them, but so that they should see their own miseries, and be exercised under the cross, that they might contemn the world, and aspire to the heavens: so after he had visited the Jews, and kept them in bondage 70 years in a strange country among infidels and idolaters, he remembered his tender mercies and their infirmities, and therefore for his own sake raised up a deliverer, and moved both the heart of the chief ruler to pity them, and also by him punished those who had kept them in slavery. Nonetheless, lest they should grow into a contempt of God's great benefits, he keeps them still in exercise, and raises domestic enemies, who try as much as they can to hinder their worthy enterprises: yet by the exhortation of the prophet they went forward little by little till their work was finished. The author of this book was Ezra, who was a priest and scribe of the Law, as in (Ezr_7:6). He returned to Jerusalem the sixth year of Darius, who succeeded Cyrus, that is, about fifty years after the first return under Zerubbabel, when the temple was built. He brought with him a great company and much treasure, with letters to the king's officers for all things needed for the temple: and at his coming he fixed that which was amiss, and set things in order.

geneva@Ezra:1:2 @ Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me (note:)For he was chief monarch and had many nations under his dominion, which this heathen king confesses to have received from the living God.(:note) all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah.

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:3:5 @ And afterward [offered] (note:)That is, after the feast of tabernacles.(:note) the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.

geneva@Ezra:3:8 @ Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the (note:)Which contains part of April and part of May, for in the mean season they had provided for things needed for the work.(:note) second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

geneva@Ezra:4:1 @ Now when (note:)Meaning, the inhabitants of Samaria, whom the king of Assyria had placed in the place of the ten tribes, (2Ki_17:24, 2Ki_19:37). They professed God but worshipped idols and therefore were the greatest enemies to the true servants of God.(:note) the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

geneva@Ezra:4:3 @ But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; (note:)For they knew their pretence, that is to erect idolatry instead of true religion.(:note) but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

geneva@Ezra:6:21 @ And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had (note:)Who were of the heathen and forsook their idolatry to worship the true God.(:note) separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,

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:7:6 @ This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he [was] a ready (note:)He shows here what a scribe is, who had charge to write the law and to expound it. Whom Mark calls a scribe, (Mar_12:28), Matthew and Luke called a lawyer or doctor of the law, (Mat_22:35; Luk_10:25).(:note) scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

geneva@Ezra:9:8 @ And now for a little space grace hath been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a (note:)In giving us a resting place it is a comparison taken from them that still remain in a place who strike nails to hang things on, (Isa_22:23).(:note) nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

geneva@Ezra:9:15 @ O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we (note:)He shows that God is just in punishing his people, and yet merciful in preserving a residue in whom he shows favour.(:note) remain yet escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

geneva@Ezra:10:11 @ Now therefore (note:)Read (Jos_7:19).(:note) make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:1 @ And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that [was] before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the (note:)Read (Ezr_7:6).(:note) scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:9 @ And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day [is] holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people (note:)In considering their offences against the Law, therefore the Levites do not reprove them for mourning, but assure them of God's mercies if they are repentant.(:note) wept, when they heard the words of the law.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:10 @ Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is (note:)That is, remember the poor.(:note) prepared: for [this] day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the Rejoice in the Lord, and he will give you strength. joy of the LORD is your strength.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:3 @ And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God [one] fourth part of the day; and [another] fourth part they (note:)They confessed their sins, and used prayers.(:note) confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.

geneva@Nehemiah:10:29 @ They (note:)They made the oath in the name of the whole multitude.(:note) clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a To which they gave themselves if they broke the law, (Deu_28:15). curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

geneva@Job:1:6 @ Now there was a day when the (note:)Meaning the angels, who are called the sons of God because they are willing to execute his will.(:note) sons of God came to present themselves Because our infirmity cannot comprehend God in his majesty, he is set forth to us as a King, that our capacity may be able to understand that which is spoken of him. before the LORD, and Satan This declares that although Satan is an adversary to God, yet he is compelled to obey him, and do him all homage, without whose permission and appointment he can do nothing. came also among them.

geneva@Job:1:7 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence (note:)This question is asked for our infirmity: for God knew where he had come from.(:note) comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, In this is described the nature of Satan, which is always seeking his prey, (1Pe_5:8). From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

geneva@Job:1:9 @ Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for (note:)He fears you not for your own sake, but for the blessing that he received from you.(:note) nought?

geneva@Job:1:12 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath [is] in (note:)God does not give Satan power over man to gratify him, but to declare that he has no power over man, but that which God gives him.(:note) thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the That is, went to execute that which God had permitted him to do for else he can never go out of God's presence. presence of the LORD.

geneva@Job:1:21 @ And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return (note:)That is, into the belly of the earth, which is the mother of all.(:note) thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; By this he confesses that God is just and good, although his hand is sore on him. blessed be the name of the LORD.

geneva@Job:2:1 @ Again there was a day when the (note:)That is, the angels, (Job_1:6).(:note) sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Read (Job_1:6). Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

geneva@Job:2:3 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, (note:)He proves Job's integrity by this that he ceased not to fear God when his plagues were grievously upon him.(:note) although thou movedst me against That is, when you had nothing against him, or when you were not able to bring your purpose to pass. him, to destroy him without cause.

geneva@Job:2:4 @ And Satan answered the LORD, and said, (note:)By this he means that a man's own skin is dearer to him than another man's.(:note) Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

geneva@Job:2:6 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine hand; but save (note:)Thus Satan can go no further in punishing than God has limited him.(:note) his life.

geneva@Job:2:7 @ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore (note:)This sore was most vehement, with which God also plagued the Egyptians, (Exo_9:9) and threatened to punish rebellious people, (Deu_28:27) so that this temptation was most grievous: for if Job had measured God's favour by the vehemency of his disease, he might have thought that God had cast him off.(:note) boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

geneva@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the (note:)That his words might have greater majesty, and that Job might know with whom he had to do.(:note) whirlwind, and said,

geneva@Job:42:7 @ And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] (note:)You took in hand an evil cause, in that you condemned him by his outward afflictions, and not comforted him with my mercies.(:note) right, as my servant Who had a good cause, but handled it evil. Job [hath].

geneva@Job:42:10 @ And the LORD turned the (note:)He delivered him out of the affliction he was in.(:note) captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

geneva@Job:42:11 @ Then came there unto him all his (note:)That is, all his kindred, read (Job_19:13).(:note) brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

geneva@Job:42:12 @ So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had (note:)God made him twice as rich in cattle as he was before, and gave him as many children as he had taken from him.(:note) fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

geneva@Psalms:1:2 @ But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his (note:)In the holy scriptures.(:note) law doth he meditate day and night.

geneva@Psalms:1:6 @ For the LORD (note:)Approves and prospers, in the same way that to not know is to reprove and reject.(:note) knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

geneva@Psalms:2:7 @ I will declare the (note:)To show that my calling to the kingdom is from God.(:note) decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this That is to say, concerning man's knowledge, because it was the first time that David appeared to be elected by God. So it is applied to Christ in his first coming and manifestation to the world. day have I begotten thee.

geneva@Psalms:3:1 @ «A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.» LORD, how are they (note:)This was a token of his stable faith, that for all his troubles he turned to God.(:note) increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me.

geneva@Psalms:4:3 @ But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is (note:)A king who walks in his vocation.(:note) godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

geneva@Psalms:4:6 @ [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] (note:)The multitude seeks worldly wealth, but David sets his happiness in God's favour.(:note) good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

geneva@Psalms:4:8 @ I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, (note:)This word in Hebrew may be referred to God, as it is here translated, or to David, signifying that he should dwell as joyfully alone, as if he had many about him, because the Lord is with him.(:note) only makest me dwell in safety.

geneva@Psalms:5:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.» Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my (note:)That is, my vehement prayer and secret complaint and sighings.(:note) meditation.

geneva@Psalms:5:3 @ My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct [my prayer] unto thee, and will (note:)Or wait, with patience and trust till I am heard.(:note) look up.

geneva@Psalms:5:8 @ Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness (note:)Because you are just, therefore lead me out of the dangers of my enemies.(:note) because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

geneva@Psalms:5:12 @ For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour (note:)So that he will be safe from all dangers.(:note) wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.

geneva@Psalms:6:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.» O LORD, (note:)Though I deserve destruction, yet let your mercy pity my frailty.(:note) rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

geneva@Psalms:6:2 @ Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my (note:)For my whole strength is abated.(:note) bones are vexed.

geneva@Psalms:7:3 @ O LORD my God, if I have done (note:)With which Cush charges me.(:note) this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

geneva@Psalms:7:6 @ Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me [to] the (note:)In promising me the kingdom.(:note) judgment [that] thou hast commanded.

geneva@Psalms:7:8 @ The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my (note:)As concerning my behaviour towards Saul and my enemies.(:note) righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me.

geneva@Psalms:7:17 @ I will praise the LORD according to his (note:)In faithfully keeping his promise to me.(:note) righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

geneva@Psalms:9:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.» I will praise [thee], O LORD, with my (note:)God is not praised unless the whole glory is given to him alone.(:note) whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

geneva@Psalms:9:9 @ The LORD also will be a refuge for the (note:)Our miseries are meant to cause us to feel God's present care over us.(:note) oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

geneva@Psalms:9:20 @ Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] (note:)Which they cannot learn without the fear of your judgment.(:note) men. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:10:1 @ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in (note:)As soon as we enter into affliction, we think God should help us, but that is not always his due time.(:note) times of trouble?

geneva@Psalms:10:3 @ For the wicked (note:)The wicked man rejoices in his own lust he boasts when he has that he would; he brags of his wit and wealth and blesses himself and thus blasphemes the Lord.(:note) boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

geneva@Psalms:10:16 @ The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the (note:)The hypocrites or such as live not after God's law, will be destroyed.(:note) heathen are perished out of his land.

geneva@Psalms:11:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David.» In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, (note:)This is the wicked counsel of his enemies to him and his companions to drive him from the hope of God's promise.(:note) Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?

geneva@Psalms:11:4 @ The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes (note:)Though all things in earth are out of order, yet God will execute judgment from heaven.(:note) behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

geneva@Psalms:12:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.» Help, LORD; for the (note:)Who dare defend the truth and show mercy to the oppressed.(:note) godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

geneva@Psalms:12:7 @ Thou shalt keep (note:)That is, yours though was only one man.(:note) them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

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

geneva@Psalms:13:6 @ I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath (note:)Both by the benefits past and by others to come.(:note) dealt bountifully with me.

geneva@Psalms:14:6 @ Ye have (note:)You mock them who put their trust in God.(:note) shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.

geneva@Psalms:14:7 @ Oh that the salvation of (note:)He prays for the whole Church whom he is assured God will deliver: for no one else but he can do it.(:note) Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.

geneva@Psalms:16:2 @ [O my soul], thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord: my (note:)Though we cannot enrich God, yet we must bestow God's gifts for the use of his children.(:note) goodness [extendeth] not to thee;

geneva@Psalms:16:8 @ I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my right hand, I (note:)The faithful are sure to persevere to the end.(:note) shall not be moved.

geneva@Psalms:17:1 @ «A Prayer of David.» Hear (note:)My righteous cause.(:note) the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, [that goeth] not out of feigned lips.

geneva@Psalms:17:13 @ Arise, O LORD, (note:)Stop his rage.(:note) disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:

geneva@Psalms:17:14 @ From men [which are] thy (note:)By your heavenly power.(:note) hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their And not feel the pain that God's children often do. portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.

geneva@Psalms:18:3 @ I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be (note:)For no one can obtain their request from God if they do not join his glory with their petition.(:note) praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

geneva@Psalms:18:13 @ The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave (note:)Thunders, lightnings and hail.(:note) his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.

geneva@Psalms:18:15 @ Then the channels of waters were seen, and the (note:)That is, the deep bottoms were seen when the Red sea was divided.(:note) foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

geneva@Psalms:18:20 @ The LORD rewarded me according to my (note:)David was sure of his righteous cause and good behaviour toward Saul and his enemies and therefore was assured of God's favour and deliverance.(:note) righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

geneva@Psalms:18:30 @ [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the (note:)No matter how great or many the dangers may be, yet God's promise must take effect.(:note) word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.

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:18:49 @ Therefore will (note:)This prophecy belongs to the kingdom of Christ and calling of the Gentiles, as in (Rom_15:9).(:note) I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

geneva@Psalms:19:7 @ The (note:)Though the creatures cannot serve, yet this should be sufficient to lead us to him.(:note) law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.

geneva@Psalms:19:9 @ The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] (note:)So that all man's inventions and intentions are lies.(:note) true [and] righteous Everyone without exception. altogether.

geneva@Psalms:19:14 @ Let the words of my mouth, and the (note:)That I may obey you in thought, word and deed.(:note) meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

geneva@Psalms:20:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» The (note:)By this kings are also admonished to call to God in their affairs.(:note) LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the The virtue, power and grace of God. name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

geneva@Psalms:20:5 @ We will rejoice in thy (note:)Granted to the king in whose wealth our happiness stands.(:note) salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up [our] banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.

geneva@Psalms:20:6 @ Now (note:)The Church feels that God had heard their petition.(:note) know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his As by the visible sanctuary God's familiarity appeared toward his people, so by the heavenly is meant his power and majesty. holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

geneva@Psalms:20:9 @ Save, LORD: (note:)Let the king be able to deliver us by your strength, when we seek him for help.(:note) let the king hear us when we call.

geneva@Psalms:21:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» The king shall (note:)When he will overcome his enemies, and so be assured of his calling.(:note) joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

geneva@Psalms:21:9 @ Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his (note:)This teaches us patiently to endure the cross till God destroys the adversary.(:note) wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

geneva@Psalms:22:23 @ Ye that fear the LORD, (note:)He promises to exhort the Church that they by his example might praise the Lord.(:note) praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:23:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» The LORD [is] my shepherd; (note:)He has care over me and ministers all things to me.(:note) I shall not want.

geneva@Psalms:23:6 @ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the (note:)He does not set his happiness in the pleasures of this world, but in the fear and service of God.(:note) house of the LORD for ever.

geneva@Psalms:25:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Unto thee, (note:)I did not put my trust in any worldly thing.(:note) O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

geneva@Psalms:25:7 @ Remember not the (note:)He confesses that his many sins were the reason that his enemies persecuted him, desiring that the cause of the evil may be taken away, so that the effect may cease.(:note) sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:25:8 @ Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he (note:)That is, call them to repentance.(:note) teach sinners in the way.

geneva@Psalms:25:11 @ For thy (note:)For no other respect.(:note) name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it [is] great.

geneva@Psalms:25:12 @ What (note:)Meaning, the number is very small.(:note) man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall He will direct such with his spirit to follow the right way. choose.

geneva@Psalms:25:14 @ The (note:)His counsel contained in his word, by which he declares that he is the protector of the faithful.(:note) secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

geneva@Psalms:26:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Judge me, (note:)He flees to God to be the judge of his just cause, seeing there is no equity among men.(:note) O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.

geneva@Psalms:26:2 @ Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my (note:)My very affections and inward motions of the heart.(:note) reins and my heart.

geneva@Psalms:26:6 @ I will (note:)I will serve you with a pure affection, and with the godly that sacrifice to you.(:note) wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

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:27:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» The LORD [is] my (note:)Because he was assured of good success in all his dangers and that his salvation was surely laid up in God, he did not fear the tyranny of his enemies.(:note) light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

geneva@Psalms:27:8 @ [When thou saidst], (note:)He grounds on God's promise and shows that he is most willing to obey his commandment.(:note) Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

geneva@Psalms:27:13 @ [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD (note:)In this present life before I die, as in (Isa_38:11).(:note) in the land of the living.

geneva@Psalms:28:5 @ Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall (note:)Let them be utterly destroyed as in (Mal_1:4).(:note) destroy them, and not build them up.

geneva@Psalms:28:8 @ The LORD [is] (note:)Meaning his soldiers who were means by which God declared his power.(:note) their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed.

geneva@Psalms:29:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» Give unto the LORD, O ye (note:)He exhorts the proud tyrants to humble themselves under God's hand, and not to be inferior to brute beasts and dumb creatures.(:note) mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

geneva@Psalms:29:3 @ The (note:)The thunder claps that are heard out of the clouds should make the wicked tremble for fear of God's anger.(:note) voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.

geneva@Psalms:29:5 @ The (note:)That is, the thunderbolt breaks the most strong trees, and will men think their power able to resist God?(:note) voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

geneva@Psalms:29:7 @ The voice of the LORD divideth the (note:)It causes the lightnings to shoot and glide.(:note) flames of fire.

geneva@Psalms:29:8 @ The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of (note:)In places most desolate, where it seems there is no presence of God.(:note) Kadesh.

geneva@Psalms:29:9 @ The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to (note:)For fear makes them deliver their calves.(:note) calve, and Makes the trees bare, or pierces the most secret places. discovereth the forests: and in his Though the wicked are not moved by these lights, yet the faithful praise God. temple doth every one speak of [his] glory.

geneva@Psalms:29:10 @ The LORD sitteth upon the (note:)To moderate the rage of the tempests and waters that they not destroy all.(:note) flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

geneva@Psalms:30:1 @ «A Psalm [and] Song [at] the dedication of the (note:)After Absalom had polluted it with most filthy fornication.(:note) house of David.» I will extol thee, O LORD; He condemns them for great ingratitude who do not praise God for his benefits. for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

geneva@Psalms:30:2 @ O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast (note:)Restored from the rebellion of Absalom.(:note) healed me.

geneva@Psalms:30:3 @ O LORD, thou hast brought up my (note:)Meaning, that he escaped death most narrowly.(:note) soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

geneva@Psalms:30:4 @ Sing unto the LORD, O ye (note:)The word signifies them who have received mercy, and show mercy liberally to others.(:note) saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

geneva@Psalms:30:7 @ LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my (note:)I thought you had established me in Zion most surely.(:note) mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I After you had withdrawn your help, I felt my misery. was troubled.

geneva@Psalms:30:12 @ To the end that [my] (note:)Because you have preserved me that my tongue should praise you, I will not be unmindful of my duty.(:note) glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

geneva@Psalms:31:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy (note:)For then God declares himself just, when he preserves his as he has promised.(:note) righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:31:5 @ Into thine (note:)He desires God not only to take care of him in this life, but that his soul may be saved after this life.(:note) hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

geneva@Psalms:31:6 @ I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I (note:)This affection should be in all God's children to hate whatever is not grounded on a sure trust in God, as deceitful and vain.(:note) trust in the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:31:9 @ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine (note:)Meaning, that his sorrow and torment had continued a great while.(:note) eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

geneva@Psalms:31:14 @ But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, (note:)I had this testimony of conscience, that you would defend my innocence.(:note) Thou [art] my God.

geneva@Psalms:31:17 @ Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be (note:)Let death destroy them to the intent that they may hurt no more.(:note) silent in the grave.

geneva@Psalms:31:21 @ Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a (note:)Meaning, there was no city strong enough to preserve him, as the defence of God's favour.(:note) strong city.

geneva@Psalms:31:24 @ Be of good courage, and he shall (note:)Be constant in your calling, and God will confirm you with heavenly strength.(:note) strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:32:5 @ I (note:)He shows that as God's mercy is the only cause of forgiveness of sins, so the means of it are repentance and confession which proceed from faith.(:note) acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:32:11 @ Be glad in the LORD, and (note:)He shows that peace and joy of conscience in the Holy Spirit is the fruit of faith.(:note) rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.

geneva@Psalms:33:1 @ Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is (note:)It is the duty of the godly to set forth the praises of God for his mercy and power showed to them.(:note) comely for the upright.

geneva@Psalms:33:2 @ Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an (note:)To sing on instruments, was a part of the ceremonial service of the temple, which does not belong to us any more than the sacrifices, censors and light.(:note) instrument of ten strings.

geneva@Psalms:33:4 @ For the (note:)That is, counsel or command in governing the world.(:note) word of the LORD [is] right; and all his That is, the effect and execution. works [are done] in truth.

geneva@Psalms:33:5 @ He (note:)However the world judges God's works, yet he does all things according to justice and mercy.(:note) loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:33:10 @ The LORD bringeth the (note:)No counsel can prevail against God, but he deserves it, and it will have evil success.(:note) counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

geneva@Psalms:33:12 @ Blessed [is] the nation whose (note:)He shows that all our happiness stands in this, that the Lord is our God.(:note) God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

geneva@Psalms:33:13 @ The LORD (note:)He proves that all things are governed by God's providence and not by fortune.(:note) looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

geneva@Psalms:33:18 @ Behold, (note:)God shows his mercy toward his, which man by no means is able to compass.(:note) the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

geneva@Psalms:34:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.» I will bless the LORD (note:)He promised never to become unmindful of God's great benefit for his deliverance.(:note) at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be] in my mouth.

geneva@Psalms:34:2 @ My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the (note:)They who are beaten down with the experience of their own evils.(:note) humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad.

geneva@Psalms:34:4 @ I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my (note:)Which I conceived for the danger I was in.(:note) fears.

geneva@Psalms:34:7 @ The (note:)Though God's power is sufficient to govern us, yet for man's infirmity he appoints his angels to watch over us.(:note) angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

geneva@Psalms:34:10 @ The young (note:)The godly by their patient obedience profit more than they who ravage and spoil.(:note) lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not If they abide the last trial. want any good [thing].

geneva@Psalms:34:11 @ Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the (note:)That is, the true religion and worship of God.(:note) fear of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:34:16 @ The (note:)The anger of God not only destroys the wicked, but also abolishes their name forever.(:note) face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

geneva@Psalms:34:18 @ The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a (note:)When they seem to be swallowed up with afflictions, then God is at hand to deliver them.(:note) broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

geneva@Psalms:34:22 @ The LORD (note:)For when they seem to be overcome with great dangers and death itself, then God shows himself as their redeemer.(:note) redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

geneva@Psalms:35:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Plead [my (note:)He desires God to undertake his cause against them who persecute him and slander him.(:note) cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

geneva@Psalms:35:5 @ Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD (note:)Smite them with the spirit of giddiness that their enterprises may be foolish, and they received just reward.(:note) chase [them].

geneva@Psalms:35:10 @ All my (note:)He attributes his deliverance only to God, praising him therefore both in soul and body.(:note) bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

geneva@Psalms:35:24 @ Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy (note:)It is the justice of God to give to the oppressors affliction and torment, and to the oppressed aid and relief, (2Th_1:6).(:note) righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

geneva@Psalms:35:27 @ Let them shout for joy, and be glad, (note:)That at least favour my right, though they are not able to help me.(:note) that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the He exhorts the Church to praise God for the deliverance of his servants, and for the destruction of his adversaries. prosperity of his servant.

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:36:5 @ Thy (note:)Though wickedness seems to overflow all the world, yet by your heavenly providence you govern heaven and earth.(:note) mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds.

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:37:7 @ Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him (note:)When God allows the wicked to prosper, it seems to the flesh that he favours their doings, (Job_21:7).(:note) who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

geneva@Psalms:37:18 @ The LORD (note:)God knows what dangers hang over his, and by what means to deliver them.(:note) knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

geneva@Psalms:37:20 @ But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the (note:)They will vanish away suddenly for they are fed for the day of slaughter.(:note) fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

geneva@Psalms:37:24 @ Though he (note:)When God exercises his faith with various temptations.(:note) fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.

geneva@Psalms:37:33 @ The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is (note:)For though it is sometimes so expedient both for God's glory and their salvation, yet he will approve their cause and avenge their wrong.(:note) judged.

geneva@Psalms:37:39 @ But the (note:)He shows that the patient hope of the godly is never in vain, but in the end has good success, though for a time God proves them by various temptations.(:note) salvation of the righteous [is] of the LORD: [he is] their strength in the time of trouble.

geneva@Psalms:38:1 @ «A Psalm of David, to bring to (note:)To put himself and others in mind of God's chastisement for sin.(:note) remembrance.» O LORD, rebuke me not in thy He desires not to be exempted from God's rod, but that he would so moderate his hand, that he might be able to bear it. wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

geneva@Psalms:40:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» I waited (note:)Though God deferred his help, yet he patiently abode till he was heard.(:note) patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

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:40:4 @ Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth (note:)To follow their example, which he must do who trusts not only in the Lord.(:note) not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

geneva@Psalms:40:5 @ Many, (note:)David goes from one king of God's favour to the contemplation of his providence over all, and confesses that his counsels toward us are far above our capacities, we cannot so much as tell them in order.(:note) O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.

geneva@Psalms:40:9 @ I have preached righteousness in the (note:)In the Church assembled in the sanctuary.(:note) great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

geneva@Psalms:40:16 @ Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, (note:)As the faithful always praise God for his benefits, so the wicked mocked God's children in their afflictions.(:note) The LORD be magnified.

geneva@Psalms:41:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» Blessed [is] he that (note:)Not condemning him as accused whom God visits, knowing that there are various reasons why God lays his hand on us, yea and afterwards he restores us.(:note) considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

geneva@Psalms:41:3 @ The LORD will strengthen him upon the (note:)When for sorrow and grief of mind he calls himself on his bed.(:note) bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his You have restored him in his sick bed and sent him comfort. bed in his sickness.

geneva@Psalms:41:13 @ Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. (note:)By this repetition he stirs up the faithful to praise God.(:note) Amen, and Amen.

geneva@Psalms:42:8 @ [Yet] the LORD (note:)He assures himself of God's help in time to come.(:note) will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.

geneva@Psalms:46:7 @ The LORD of hosts [is] (note:)They are assured that God can and will defend his Church from all dangers and enemies.(:note) with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:46:8 @ Come, behold the works of the LORD, (note:)That is, how often he has destroyed his enemies, and delivered his people.(:note) what desolations he hath made in the earth.

geneva@Psalms:47:5 @ God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the (note:)He alludes to the trumpets that were blown at solemn feasts: but he further signifies the triumph of Christ and his glorious ascension into the heavens.(:note) sound of a trumpet.

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:48:8 @ As we have (note:)That is, of our fathers: so have we proved: or God has performed his promise.(:note) heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

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:54:6 @ I will (note:)For hypocrites serve God out of fear or on conditions.(:note) freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for [it is] good.

geneva@Psalms:55:22 @ Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall (note:)Though for their bettering and trial, he permits them to slip for a time.(:note) never suffer the righteous to be moved.

geneva@Psalms:58:6 @ Break their (note:)Take away all opportunity and means by which they hurt.(:note) teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:59:3 @ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my (note:)For I am innocent toward them, and have not offended them.(:note) transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:59:5 @ Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not (note:)Seeing it belongs to God's judgments to punish the wicked, he desires God to execute his vengeance on the reprobate, who maliciously persecutes his Church.(:note) merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:64:10 @ The righteous (note:)When they will consider that he will be favourable to them as he was to his servant David.(:note) shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

geneva@Psalms:68:18 @ Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast (note:)As God overcame the enemy of his Church, took them prisoners, and made them tributaries: so Christ, which is God manifested in the flesh, subdued Satan and sin under us, and gave to his Church most liberal gifts of his Spirit, (Eph_4:8).(:note) led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell [among them].

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:69:31 @ [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] (note:)There is no sacrifice which God values more than thanksgiving for his benefits.(:note) bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

geneva@Psalms:69:33 @ For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his (note:)For as he delivered his servant David, so will he do for all that are in distress and call on him.(:note) prisoners.

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:70:5 @ But I [am] (note:)Because he had felt God's help before, he grounds on experience, and boldly seeks him for help.(:note) poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

geneva@Psalms:71:1 @ In (note:)He prays to God with full assurance of faith, that he will deliver him from his adversaries.(:note) thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

geneva@Psalms:72:18 @ Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth (note:)He confesses that unless God miraculously preserves his people neither the king nor the kingdom can continue.(:note) wondrous things.

geneva@Psalms:75:8 @ For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a (note:)God's wrath is compared to a cup of strong and delicate wine, with which the wicked are made so drunk that by drinking till they come to the very dregs they are utterly destroyed.(:note) cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them].

geneva@Psalms:76:11 @ Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be (note:)That is, the Levites who dwell about the Tabernacle, or the people among whom he dwells.(:note) round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

geneva@Psalms:79:5 @ How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy (note:)Will you completely consume us for our sins, before you take us to mercy?(:note) burn like fire?

geneva@Psalms:80:4 @ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be (note:)The faithful fear God's anger, when they perceive that their prayers are not heard immediately.(:note) angry against the prayer of thy people?

geneva@Psalms:81:10 @ I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: (note:)God accuses their incredulity, because they did not open their mouths to receive God's benefits in such abundance as he pours them out.(:note) open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

geneva@Psalms:81:15 @ The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time (note:)If the Israelites had not broken covenant with God, he would have given them victory against their enemies.(:note) should have endured for ever.

geneva@Psalms:83:16 @ Fill their faces with shame; that they may (note:)That is, be compelled by your plagues to confess your power.(:note) seek thy name, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:84:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.» How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O (note:)David complains that he cannot have access to the Church of God to make profession of his faith, and to profit in religion.(:note) LORD of hosts!

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:84:11 @ For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no (note:)But will from time to time increase his blessings toward his more and more.(:note) good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

geneva@Psalms:85:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.» LORD, thou hast been (note:)They confess that God's free mercy was the cause of their deliverance because he loved the land which he had chosen.(:note) favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

geneva@Psalms:85:7 @ Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy (note:)He confesses that our salvation comes only from God's mercy.(:note) salvation.

geneva@Psalms:85:8 @ I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak (note:)He will send all prosperity to his Church, when he has sufficiently corrected them, also by his punishments the faithful will learn to beware that they not return the same offences.(:note) peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

geneva@Psalms:86:1 @ «A Prayer of David.» Bow down (note:)David, when persecuted by Saul, prayed this way, leaving the same to the Church as a monument, how to seek relief against their miseries.(:note) thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy.

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:87:6 @ The LORD shall count, when he (note:)When he calls them by his word into the Church, whom he had elected and written in the book.(:note) writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:88:1 @ «A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath (note:)That is, to humble. It was the beginning of a song by which tune this psalm was sung.(:note) Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.» O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night Though many cry in their sorrows, yet they cry not earnestly to God for remedy as he did whom he confessed to be the author of his salvation. before thee:

geneva@Psalms:89:1 @ «Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.» I will (note:)Though the horrible confusion of things might cause them to despair of God's favour, yet the manifold examples of his mercies cause them to trust in God though to man's judgment they saw no reason to.(:note) sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

geneva@Psalms:89:5 @ And the (note:)The angels will praise your power and faithfulness in delivering your Church.(:note) heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

geneva@Psalms:89:6 @ For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among the (note:)Meaning, the angels.(:note) sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

geneva@Psalms:89:15 @ Blessed [is] the people that (note:)Feeling in their conscience that God is their father.(:note) know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy They will be preserved by your fatherly providence. countenance.

geneva@Psalms:89:18 @ For the LORD [is] our (note:)In that our King has power to defend us, it is the gift of God.(:note) defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king.

geneva@Psalms:89:46 @ How long, (note:)The prophet in joining prayer with his complaint, shows that his faith never failed.(:note) LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

geneva@Psalms:89:51 @ Wherewith (note:)So he calls them who persecute the Church.(:note) thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the They laugh at us who patiently wait for the coming of your Christ. footsteps of thine anointed.

geneva@Psalms:90:13 @ Return, O LORD, (note:)Meaning, will you be angry?(:note) how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

geneva@Psalms:90:17 @ And let the (note:)Meaning, that is was obscured when he ceases to do good to his Church.(:note) beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and For unless you guide us with your Holy Spirit, our enterprises cannot succeed. establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

geneva@Psalms:92:1 @ «A Psalm [or] Song for the (note:)Which teaches that the use of the Sabbath stands in praising God, and not only in ceasing from work.(:note) sabbath day.» [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

geneva@Psalms:92:4 @ For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy (note:)He shows the use of the Sabbath day: that is, to meditate God's works.(:note) work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

geneva@Psalms:92:8 @ But thou, LORD, [art (note:)Your judgments are most constant against the wicked and pass our reach.(:note) most] high for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:93:1 @ The LORD (note:)As God by his power and wisdom has made and governed the world, so must the same be our defence against all enemies and dangers.(:note) reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, [wherewith] he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

geneva@Psalms:93:5 @ Thy (note:)Besides God's power and wisdom in creating and governing his great mercy also appears in that he has given his people his word and covenant.(:note) testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

geneva@Psalms:94:1 @ O LORD God, to whom (note:)Whose office it is to take vengeance on the wicked.(:note) vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, Show by effect that you are judge of the world to punish the wicked. shew thyself.

geneva@Psalms:94:3 @ LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked (note:)That is, brag of their cruelty and oppression, or esteem themselves above all others.(:note) triumph?

geneva@Psalms:94:5 @ They (note:)Seeing the Church was then so sore oppressed, it ought not to seem strange to us, if we see it so now, and therefore we must call to God, to take our cause in hand.(:note) break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

geneva@Psalms:94:12 @ Blessed [is] the man whom thou (note:)God has care over his, and chastised them for their own good, that they should not perish for ever with the wicked.(:note) chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

geneva@Psalms:94:17 @ Unless the LORD [had been] my (note:)He complains of them who would not help him to resist the enemies, yet was assured that God's help would not fail.(:note) help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

geneva@Psalms:94:18 @ When I said, (note:)When I thought there was no way but death.(:note) My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

geneva@Psalms:94:23 @ And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall (note:)It is a great token of God's judgment when the purpose of the wicked is broken, but most, when they are destroyed in their own malice.(:note) cut them off in their own wickedness; [yea], the LORD our God shall cut them off.

geneva@Psalms:95:1 @ O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a (note:)He shows that God's service stands not in dead ceremonies, but chiefly in the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving.(:note) joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

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:95:6 @ O come, let us (note:)By these three words he signifies one thing: meaning that they must wholly give themselves to serve God.(:note) worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

geneva@Psalms:96:1 @ O sing (note:)The prophet shows that the time will come, that all nations will have opportunity to praise the Lord for the revealing of his gospel.(:note) unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.

geneva@Psalms:96:4 @ For the LORD [is] (note:)Seeing he will reveal himself to all nations contrary to their own expectation, they should all worship him contrary to their own imaginations, and only as he has appointed.(:note) great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to be feared above all gods.

geneva@Psalms:96:5 @ For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD (note:)Then the idols or whatever did not make the heavens, are not God.(:note) made the heavens.

geneva@Psalms:96:7 @ Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and (note:)As by experience you see that it is only due to him.(:note) strength.

geneva@Psalms:96:8 @ Give unto the LORD the glory [due unto] his name: bring (note:)By offering up yourselves wholly to God, declare that you worship him only.(:note) an offering, and come into his courts.

geneva@Psalms:96:10 @ Say among the (note:)He prophecies that the Gentiles will be partakers with the Jews of God's promise.(:note) heathen [that] the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people He will regenerate them anew with his Spirit, and restore them to the image of God. righteously.

geneva@Psalms:97:1 @ The (note:)He shows that where God reigns, there is all happiness and spiritual joy.(:note) LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the For the gospel will not only be preached in Judea, but through all isles and countries. multitude of isles be glad [thereof].

geneva@Psalms:97:8 @ Zion heard, and was glad; and the (note:)The Jews will have opportunity to rejoice that the Gentiles are made partakers with them of God's favour.(:note) daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:97:10 @ Ye that (note:)He requires two things from his children: the one that they detest vice, the other, that they put their trust in God for their deliverance.(:note) love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:97:12 @ Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the (note:)Be mindful of his benefits and only trust in his defence.(:note) remembrance of his holiness.

geneva@Psalms:98:1 @ «A Psalm.» O sing (note:)That is, some song newly made in token of their wonderful deliverance by Christ.(:note) unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy He preserves his Church miraculously. arm, hath gotten him the victory.

geneva@Psalms:98:2 @ The LORD hath made known his (note:)For the deliverance of his Church.(:note) salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.

geneva@Psalms:98:6 @ With (note:)By this repetition and earnest exhortation to give praise with instruments, and also of the dumb creatures, he signifies that the world is never able to praise God sufficiently for their deliverance.(:note) trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

geneva@Psalms:99:1 @ The LORD reigneth; let the (note:)When God delivers his Church all the enemies will have reason to tremble.(:note) people tremble: he sitteth [between] the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

geneva@Psalms:99:5 @ Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his (note:)That is, before his temple or ark, where he promised to hear when they worshipped him, as now he promises his spiritual presence, wherever his Church is assembled.(:note) footstool; [for] he [is] holy.

geneva@Psalms:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron among his priests, (note:)Under these three he comprehends the whole people of Israel, with whom God made his promise.(:note) and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.

geneva@Psalms:99:8 @ Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of (note:)The more liberally God deals with his people, the more he punishes them who abuse his benefits.(:note) their inventions.

geneva@Psalms:100:1 @ «A Psalm of praise.» Make a (note:)He prophecies that God's benefits in calling the Gentiles will be so great that they will have wonderful opportunity to praise his mercy and rejoice.(:note) joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

geneva@Psalms:100:3 @ Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath (note:)He chiefly means concerning spiritual regeneration, by which we are his sheep and people.(:note) made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

geneva@Psalms:100:5 @ For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] (note:)He declares that we should never be weary in praising him, seeing his mercies toward us last forever.(:note) everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations.

geneva@Psalms:101:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» I will (note:)David considers what manner of King he would be, when God would place him in the throne, promising openly, that he would be merciful and just.(:note) sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

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:102:12 @ But thou, O LORD, shalt (note:)Though we are frail, yet your promise is sure, and the remembrance of it will confirm us forever.(:note) endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

geneva@Psalms:102:16 @ When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear (note:)That is, when he will have drawn his church out of the darkness of death.(:note) in his glory.

geneva@Psalms:102:18 @ This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be (note:)The deliverance of the Church is an excellent benefit, and therefore he compares it to a new creation for in their banishment the body of the Church seemed to have been dead, which by deliverance was as it were created anew.(:note) created shall praise the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:102:22 @ When the people are gathered (note:)He shows that Gad's name is never more praised, than when religion flourishes and the church increases: which is chiefly accomplished under the kingdom of Christ.(:note) together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:103:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» (note:)He wakens his dulness to praise God, showing that both understanding and affections, mind and heart, are too little to set forth his praise.(:note) Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name.

geneva@Psalms:103:17 @ But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his (note:)His just and faithful keeping of his promise.(:note) righteousness unto children's children;

geneva@Psalms:103:20 @ Bless the LORD, ye (note:)In that we, who naturally are slow to praise God, exhort the angels, who willingly do it, we stir up ourselves to consider our duty and wake from our sluggishness.(:note) his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

geneva@Psalms:104:1 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art (note:)The prophet shows that we do not need to enter into the heavens to seek God, for as much as all the order of nature, with the propriety and placing of the elements, are living mirrors to see his majesty in.(:note) clothed with honour and majesty.

geneva@Psalms:104:24 @ O LORD, how (note:)He confesses that no tongue is able to express God's works nor mind to comprehend them.(:note) manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

geneva@Psalms:104:35 @ Let the sinners be (note:)Who infect the world, and so cause it to be that God cannot rejoice in his work.(:note) consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:105:1 @ O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: (note:)For as much as the Israelites were exempted from the common condemnation of the world, and were elected to be God's people, the prophet wills them to show themselves mindful by thanksgiving.(:note) make known his deeds among the people.

geneva@Psalms:105:4 @ Seek the LORD, and his (note:)By the strength and face he means the ark where God declared his power and his presence.(:note) strength: seek his face evermore.

geneva@Psalms:105:19 @ Until (note:)So long he suffered adversity as God had appointed, and till he had sufficiently tried his patience.(:note) the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

geneva@Psalms:105:45 @ That they might (note:)This is the reason why God preserves his Church, because they should worship and call on him in this world.(:note) observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:106:1 @ Praise (note:)The prophet exhorts the people to praise God for his past benefits, that by this their minds may be strengthened against all present troubles and despair.(:note) ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:106:4 @ Remember me, O LORD, with the (note:)Let the good will that you bear to your people extend to me, that by it I may be received into your number.(:note) favour [that thou bearest unto] thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

geneva@Psalms:106:47 @ Save us, O LORD our God, and (note:)Gather your Church which is dispersed, and give us constancy under the cross, that with one consent we may all praise you.(:note) gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.

geneva@Psalms:107:1 @ O give thanks unto (note:)This notable sentence was in the beginning used as the foot or tenor of the song, which was often repeated.(:note) the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:107:2 @ Let the (note:)As was true in the Jews, so there is not one of God's elect who does not feel his help in their necessity.(:note) redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

geneva@Psalms:107:13 @ Then they (note:)He shows that the reason God punishes us extremely is because we can be brought to him by no other means.(:note) cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses.

geneva@Psalms:108:3 @ I will praise thee, O LORD, among the (note:)He prophecies of the calling of the Gentiles: for unless they were called, they could not hear the goodness of God.(:note) people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

geneva@Psalms:109:20 @ [Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries (note:)For being destitute of man's help, he fully trusted in the Lord, that he would deliver him.(:note) from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

geneva@Psalms:109:26 @ Help me, O LORD my God: O (note:)The more grievously Satan assailed him, the more earnest and instant was he in prayer.(:note) save me according to thy mercy:

geneva@Psalms:109:30 @ I will greatly praise the LORD with my (note:)Not only in confessing it secretly in myself but also in declaring it before all the congregation.(:note) mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

geneva@Psalms:110:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» The (note:)Jesus Christ in (Mat_22:44) gives the interpretation of this, and shows that this cannot properly be applied to David but to himself.(:note) LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

geneva@Psalms:110:2 @ The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of (note:)And then it will stretch through all the world: and this power chiefly stands in the preaching of his word.(:note) Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

geneva@Psalms:110:4 @ The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of (note:)As Melchizedek the figure of Christ was both a King and Priest, so this effect cannot be accomplished on any king save only Christ.(:note) Melchizedek.

geneva@Psalms:111:2 @ The works of the LORD [are] (note:)He shows that God's works are a sufficient reason for us to praise him, but chiefly his benefits toward his Church.(:note) great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

geneva@Psalms:112:1 @ Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] (note:)He means that reverent fear which is in the children of God, which causes them to delight only in the word of God.(:note) feareth the LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.

geneva@Psalms:113:1 @ Praise ye the LORD. (note:)By this often repetition he stirs up our cold dullness to praise God, seeing his works are so wonderful, and that we are created for the same cause.(:note) Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:113:4 @ The LORD [is] high above all (note:)If God's glory shines through all the world, and therefore of all ought to be praised, what great condemnation were it to his people, among whom chiefly it shines, if they should not earnestly extol his Name?(:note) nations, [and] his glory above the heavens.

geneva@Psalms:115:1 @ Not (note:)Because God promised to deliver them, not for their sakes, but for his Name, (Isa_48:11), therefore they ground their prayer on this promise.(:note) unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.

geneva@Psalms:115:12 @ The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us]; he (note:)That is, he will continue his graces toward his people.(:note) will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

geneva@Psalms:115:15 @ Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which (note:)And therefore still governs and continues all things in it.(:note) made heaven and earth.

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:115:17 @ The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that (note:)Though the dead set forth God's glory, yet he means here, that they praise him not in his Church and congregation.(:note) go down into silence.

geneva@Psalms:116:1 @ I (note:)He grants that no pleasure is so great as to feel God's help in our need, neither that anything more stirs up our love toward him.(:note) love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications.

geneva@Psalms:116:5 @ Gracious [is] the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God [is] (note:)He shows forth the fruit of his love in calling on him, confessing him to be just and merciful and to help them who are destitute of aid and counsel.(:note) merciful.

geneva@Psalms:116:7 @ Return unto thy rest, O (note:)Which was disturbed before, now rest on the Lord, for he has been beneficial towards you.(:note) my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

geneva@Psalms:116:9 @ I will (note:)The Lord will preserve me and save my life.(:note) walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

geneva@Psalms:116:13 @ I will (note:)In the Law they used to make a banquet when they gave solemn thanks to God, and to take the cup and drink in sign of thanksgiving.(:note) take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:116:15 @ Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the (note:)I perceive that God has a care over his, so that he both disposes their death, and takes an account.(:note) death of his saints.

geneva@Psalms:116:18 @ I will pay my (note:)I will thank him for his benefits, for that is a just payment, to confess that we owe all to God.(:note) vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,

geneva@Psalms:117:2 @ For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the (note:)That is, the most certain and continual testimony of his fatherly graces.(:note) truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:118:1 @ O (note:)Because God by creating David king, showed his mercy toward his afflicted Church, the prophet not only thanks God himself, but exhorts all the people to do the same.(:note) give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: because his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:118:5 @ I called upon the LORD in (note:)We are here taught that the more that troubles oppress us, the more ought we to be instant in prayer.(:note) distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place.

geneva@Psalms:118:6 @ The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can (note:)Being exalted to this estate, he assured himself to have man ever to be his enemy. Yet he did not doubt that God would maintain him, because he had placed him.(:note) man do unto me?

geneva@Psalms:118:8 @ [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence (note:)He shows that he had trusted in vain if he had put his confidence in man, to have been preferred to the kingdom and therefore he put his trust in God and obtained.(:note) in man.

geneva@Psalms:118:14 @ The LORD [is] my strength and (note:)In that he was delivered, it came not from himself, not from the power of man, but only from God's favour, therefore he will praise him.(:note) song, and is become my salvation.

geneva@Psalms:118:15 @ The (note:)He promises both to render graces himself, and to cause others to do the same, because in his person the Church was restored.(:note) voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

geneva@Psalms:118:17 @ I shall not die, but live, and (note:)So that all, that are both far and near, may see his mighty power.(:note) declare the works of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:118:19 @ Open to me the (note:)He wills the doors of the tabernacle to be opened, that he may declare his thankful mind.(:note) gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD:

geneva@Psalms:118:24 @ This [is] the (note:)In which God has shown chiefly his mercy, by appointing me king and delivering his Church.(:note) day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

geneva@Psalms:118:25 @ Save now, I beseech thee, (note:)The people pray for the prosperity of David's kingdom, who was the figure of Christ.(:note) O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

geneva@Psalms:118:26 @ Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: (note:)Who are the priests, and have the charge of it, as in (Num_6:23).(:note) we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

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:119:1 @ ALEPH. Blessed [are] (note:)Here they are not called blessed who think themselves wise in their own judgment, nor who imagine to themselves a certain holiness, but they whose conversation is without hypocrisy.(:note) the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:119:33 @ HE. Teach (note:)He shows that he cannot follow on to the end, unless God teaches him often and leads him forward.(:note) me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [unto] the end.

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:119:52 @ I remembered thy (note:)That is, the examples, by which you declare yourself to be judge of the world.(:note) judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

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:119:57 @ CHETH. [Thou art] my (note:)I am persuaded that to keep your law is a heritage and great gain for me.(:note) portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

geneva@Psalms:119:64 @ The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: (note:)For the knowledge of God's word is a singular token of his favour.(:note) teach me thy statutes.

geneva@Psalms:119:65 @ TETH. Thou hast dealt (note:)Having proved by experience that God was true in his promise, he desires that he would increase in him knowledge and judgment.(:note) well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:89 @ LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in (note:)Because no one should esteem God's word according to the changes of things in this world, he shows that it abides in heaven, and therefore is immutable.(:note) heaven.

geneva@Psalms:119:108 @ Accept, I beseech thee, the (note:)That is, my prayer and thanksgiving which Hosea calls the calves of the lips, (Hos_14:2).(:note) freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

geneva@Psalms:119:126 @ [It is] (note:)The prophet shows that when the wicked have brought all things to confusion, and God's word to utter contempt, then it is God's time to help and send remedy.(:note) time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.

geneva@Psalms:119:145 @ KOPH. I (note:)He shows that all his affection and whole heart were bent toward God to have help in his dangers.(:note) cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

geneva@Psalms:119:156 @ Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy (note:)According to your promise made in the law, which because the wicked lack they have no hope of salvation.(:note) judgments.

geneva@Psalms:119:159 @ Consider how I (note:)It is a sure sign of our adoption, when we love the Law of God.(:note) love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

geneva@Psalms:119:166 @ LORD, I have (note:)He shows that we must first have faith before we can work and please God.(:note) hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

geneva@Psalms:119:169 @ TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding (note:)As you have promised to be the schoolmaster to all who depend on you.(:note) according to thy word.

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:121:2 @ My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made (note:)He accuses man's ingratitude, which cannot depend on God's power.(:note) heaven and earth.

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:122:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» I (note:)He rejoices that God had appointed a place where the ark would still remain.(:note) was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:122:4 @ Whither (note:)All the tribes according to God's covenant will come and pray there.(:note) the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:123:2 @ Behold, as the eyes of (note:)He compares the condition of the godly, to servants who are destitute of all help, assuring that when all other help fails, God is always at hand and like himself.(:note) servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

geneva@Psalms:123:3 @ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are (note:)He declares that when the faithful are so full that they cannot endure the oppression and scorning of the wicked any more, there is always help above, if with hungry desires they call for it.(:note) exceedingly filled with contempt.

geneva@Psalms:124:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» If [it had not been] the LORD who was (note:)He shows that God was ready to help at need and that there was no other way to be saved, but by this means alone.(:note) on our side, now may Israel say;

geneva@Psalms:125:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot (note:)Though the world is subject to mutations, yet the people of God will stand sure and be defended by God's providence.(:note) be removed, [but] abideth for ever.

geneva@Psalms:126:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that (note:)Their deliverance was incredible and therefore took away all excuse for ingratitude.(:note) dream.

geneva@Psalms:126:2 @ Then was our mouth (note:)He shows how the godly should rejoice when God gathers his Church or delivers it.(:note) filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the If the infidels confess God's wonderful work, the faithful can never show themselves sufficiently thankful. heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

geneva@Psalms:126:4 @ Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the (note:)It is no more impossible for God to deliver his people than to cause the rivers to run in the wilderness and barren places.(:note) streams in the south.

geneva@Psalms:127:1 @ «A Song of degrees for Solomon.» Except the LORD (note:)That is, govern and dispose all things pertaining to the family.(:note) build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the The public estate of the commonwealth. city, the watchman waketh [but] in vain.

geneva@Psalms:128:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his (note:)God approves not our life, unless it is reformed according to his word.(:note) ways.

geneva@Psalms:128:5 @ The LORD shall (note:)Because of the spiritual blessing which God has made to his Church, these temporal things will be granted.(:note) bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of For unless God blessed his Church publicly, this private blessing was nothing. Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

geneva@Psalms:129:4 @ The LORD [is] (note:)Because God is righteous, he cannot but plague his adversary, and deliver his as oxen out of the plough.(:note) righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:130:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» Out of the (note:)Being in great distress and sorrow.(:note) depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:130:3 @ If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, (note:)He declares that we cannot be just before God but by forgiveness of sins.(:note) who shall stand?

geneva@Psalms:130:7 @ Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] (note:)He shows to whom the mercy of God belongs, that is, Israel, to the Church and not the reprobate.(:note) mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.

geneva@Psalms:131:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» LORD, (note:)He sets forth his great humility as an example to all rulers and governors.(:note) my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great Which pass the measure and limits of his calling. matters, or in things too high for me.

geneva@Psalms:132:1 @ A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, [and] all his (note:)That is, with great difficulty he came to the kingdom, and with great zeal and care he went about to build your temple.(:note) afflictions:

geneva@Psalms:132:5 @ Until I find out a place for the (note:)That is, the ark, which was a sign of God's presence.(:note) LORD, an habitation for the mighty [God] of Jacob.

geneva@Psalms:132:8 @ Arise, O LORD, into thy (note:)That is Jerusalem, because later his Ark would move to no other place.(:note) rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

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:134:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» Behold, bless ye the LORD, all [ye] (note:)You who are Levites and chiefly appointed to this office.(:note) servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:134:2 @ Lift up your (note:)For their charge was not only to keep the temple, but to pray there and to give God thanks.(:note) hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:134:3 @ The LORD that (note:)And therefore has all power, bless you with his fatherly love declared in Zion. Thus the Levites used to praise the Lord, and bless the people.(:note) made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

geneva@Psalms:135:2 @ Ye that (note:)You Levites who are in his sanctuary.(:note) stand in the house of the LORD, in the Meaning, the people: for the people and Levites had their courts, which were separate places of the temple. courts of the house of our God,

geneva@Psalms:135:4 @ For the LORD hath (note:)That is, has freely loved the posterity of Abraham.(:note) chosen Jacob unto himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar treasure.

geneva@Psalms:135:6 @ Whatsoever the LORD pleased, [that] (note:)He joined God's power with his will, to the intent that we should not separate them and by this he wills God's people to depend on his power which he confirms by examples.(:note) did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

geneva@Psalms:135:14 @ For the LORD will (note:)That is, govern and defend his people.(:note) judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

geneva@Psalms:136:1 @ O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his (note:)By this repetition he shows that the least of God's benefits bind us to thanksgiving: but chiefly his mercy, which is principally declared towards his Church.(:note) mercy [endureth] for ever.

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:138:4 @ All the (note:)All the world will confess that you have wonderfully preserved me, and performed your promise.(:note) kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

geneva@Psalms:138:6 @ Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth (note:)Distance of place cannot hinder God to show mercy to his, and so judge the wicked though they think that he is far off.(:note) afar off.

geneva@Psalms:138:8 @ The LORD will (note:)Though my enemies rage, yet the Lord, who has begun his work in me, will continue his grace to the end.(:note) perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

geneva@Psalms:139:4 @ For [there is] not a word in my (note:)You know my meaning before I speak.(:note) tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

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:140:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the (note:)Who persecutes me out of malice and without cause.(:note) violent man;

geneva@Psalms:140:4 @ Keep (note:)He declares the remedy of the godly, when they are oppressed by the worldlings.(:note) me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

geneva@Psalms:140:8 @ Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: (note:)For it is in God's hand to overthrow the counsels and enterprises of the wicked.(:note) further not his wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:141:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» LORD, I (note:)He shows that there is no other refuge in our necessity but only to flee to God for comfort of soul.(:note) cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:141:3 @ Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; (note:)He desires God to keep his thoughts and ways either from thinking or executing vengeance.(:note) keep the door of my lips.

geneva@Psalms:142:1 @ «Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.» I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I (note:)David's patience and constant prayer to God condemns their wicked rage, who in their troubles either despair and murmur against God, or else seek other than God, to have relief in their miseries.(:note) make my supplication.

geneva@Psalms:142:5 @ I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my (note:)Though all means failed him, yet he knew that God would never forsake him.(:note) refuge [and] my portion in the land of the living.

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

geneva@Psalms:143:9 @ Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: (note:)I hid myself under the shadow of your wings that I might be defended by your power.(:note) I flee unto thee to hide me.

geneva@Psalms:144:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which (note:)Who out of a poor shepherd has made a valiant warrior and mighty conqueror.(:note) teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:

geneva@Psalms:144:3 @ LORD, what [is] man, that thou (note:)To give to God just praise, is to confess ourselves to be unworthy of so excellent benefits, and that he bestows them on us of his free mercy.(:note) takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

geneva@Psalms:144:15 @ Happy [is that] people, that is (note:)And if God does not give to all his children all these blessings, yet he replaces them with better things.(:note) in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.

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:145:14 @ The LORD upholdeth all that (note:)Who being in misery and affliction would faint and fall away if God did not uphold them, and therefore they should revere him who reigns in heaven and suffer themselves to be governed by him.(:note) fall, and raiseth up all [those that be] bowed down.

geneva@Psalms:145:17 @ The LORD [is] (note:)He praises God, not only because he is beneficial to all his creatures, but also in that he justly punishes the wicked, and mercifully examines his by the cross, giving them strength and delivering them.(:note) righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

geneva@Psalms:145:18 @ The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in (note:)Which only belongs to the faithful: and this virtue is contrary to infidelity, doubting, impatience and murmuring.(:note) truth.

geneva@Psalms:145:21 @ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all (note:)That is, all men will be bound to praise him.(:note) flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

geneva@Psalms:146:1 @ Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my (note:)He stirs up himself and all his affections to praise God.(:note) soul.

geneva@Psalms:146:7 @ Which executeth judgment (note:)Whose faith and patience for a while he tries but at length he punishes the adversaries, that he may be known to be the judge of the world.(:note) for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

geneva@Psalms:146:8 @ The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD (note:)Though he visits them with affliction, hunger, imprisonment and such like, yet his fatherly love and pity never fails them, yea rather to his these are signs of his love.(:note) loveth the righteous:

geneva@Psalms:146:9 @ The LORD preserveth the (note:)Meaning, all who are destitute of worldly means and help.(:note) strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

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:147:1 @ Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our God; for [it is] (note:)He shows in which we ought to exercise ourselves continually, and to take our pastime: that is, in praising God.(:note) pleasant; [and] praise is comely.

geneva@Psalms:147:2 @ The LORD doth build up (note:)Because the Lord is the founder of the Church, it cannot be destroyed, though the members of it are dispersed and seem as it were for a time to be cut off.(:note) Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:147:6 @ The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the (note:)For the more high that the wicked climb the greater is their fall in the end.(:note) ground.

geneva@Psalms:147:20 @ He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not (note:)The cause of this difference is God's free mercy, which has elected his in his Son Christ Jesus to salvation: and his just judgment, by which he has appointed the reprobate to eternal damnation.(:note) known them. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:148:7 @ Praise the LORD from the earth, ye (note:)Meaning the great and monstrous fishes, as whales and such like.(:note) dragons, and all deeps:

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@Psalms:149:1 @ Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD (note:)For his rare and manifold benefits bestowed on his Church.(:note) a new song, [and] his praise in the congregation of saints.

geneva@Psalms:149:9 @ To execute upon them the judgment (note:)By this God binds the hands and minds of all his to enterprise no farther than he appoints.(:note) written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:150:1 @ Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his (note:)That is, in the heaven.(:note) sanctuary: praise him in the For his wonderful power appears in the firmament, which in Hebrew is called a stretching out, or spreading abroad, in which the mighty work of God shines. firmament of his power.

geneva@Psalms:150:6 @ Let every thing that hath (note:)He shows that all the order of nature is bound to this duty, and much more God's children, who ought never to cease to praise him, till they are gathered into that kingdom, which he has prepared for his, where they will sing everlasting praise.(:note) breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:2:5 @ Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the (note:)This (he says) is the true wisdom to know and fear God.(:note) knowledge of God.

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:3:32 @ For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his (note:)That is, his covenant and fatherly affection which is hid and secret from the world.(:note) secret [is] with the righteous.

geneva@Proverbs:5:21 @ For the ways of man [are] before the (note:)He declares that unless a man joins to his wife both in heart and in outward conversation, he will not escape the judgments of God.(:note) eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

geneva@Proverbs:8:13 @ The fear of the LORD [is] to hate (note:)So that he who does not hate evil, does not fear God.(:note) evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

geneva@Proverbs:8:22 @ The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, (note:)He declares by this the divinity and eternity of this wisdom, which he magnifies and praises through this book: meaning by this the eternal Son of God, Jesus Christ our Saviour, whom John calls the Word that was in the beginning (Joh_1:1).(:note) before his works of old.

geneva@Proverbs:9:10 @ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One [is] (note:)He shows what true understanding is, to know the will of God in his word which is meant by holy things.(:note) understanding.

geneva@Proverbs:10:3 @ The LORD will (note:)Though he permits the just to want for a time, yet he will send him comfort in due season.(:note) not allow the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

geneva@Proverbs:10:22 @ The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth (note:)Meaning that all worldly things bring care and sorrow, where as they who feel the blessings of God have none.(:note) no sorrow with it.

geneva@Proverbs:10:27 @ The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked (note:)The time of their prosperity will be short because of their great fall, though they seem to live long.(:note) shall be shortened.

geneva@Proverbs:11:1 @ A false (note:)Under this word he condemns all false weights, measures and deceit.(:note) balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.

geneva@Proverbs:14:2 @ He that walketh in his (note:)That is, in uprightness of heart, and without hypocrisy.(:note) uprightness feareth the LORD: but [he that is] perverse in his ways despiseth him.

geneva@Proverbs:15:8 @ The (note:)That thing is abominable before God, which the wicked think to be most excellent, and by which they think most to be accepted.(:note) sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

geneva@Proverbs:15:26 @ The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] (note:)That is, wholesome and profitable to the hearers.(:note) pleasant words.

geneva@Proverbs:15:33 @ The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and before honour [is] (note:)Meaning, that God exalts no one but them that are truly humbled.(:note) humility.

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

geneva@Proverbs:16:2 @ All the ways of a man [are] (note:)He shows by it that man flatters himself in his doings, calling that virtue, which God terms vice.(:note) clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

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:16:6 @ By (note:)Their upright and repenting life will be a token that their sins are forgiven.(:note) mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD [men] depart from evil.

geneva@Proverbs:16:9 @ A (note:)He shows the folly of man who thinks that his ways are in his own hand, and yet is not able to move one foot unless God gives force.(:note) man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

geneva@Proverbs:16:11 @ A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his (note:)If they are true and just, they are God's work, and he delights in it, but otherwise if they are false, they are the work of the devil, and to their condemnation that use them.(:note) work.

geneva@Proverbs:16:33 @ The lot is cast into the lap; but its whole disposing [is] (note:)So that there is nothing that ought to be attributed to fortune: for all things are determined in the counsel of God which will come to pass.(:note) from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:18:10 @ The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth (note:)He shows the refuge of the godly against all trouble.(:note) into it, and is safe.

geneva@Proverbs:18:22 @ [Whoever] findeth a (note:)He who is joined with a virtuous woman in marriage is blessed by the Lord, as in (Pro_19:14).(:note) wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:19:21 @ [There are] many devices in a (note:)Man's device will not have success, unless God governs it, whose purpose is unchangeable.(:note) man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

geneva@Proverbs:20:10 @ Differing weights, [and] differing measures, both of (note:)Read (Pro_16:11).(:note) them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:20:27 @ The (note:)The word of God gives life to man and causes us to see and try the secret of our dark hearts, (Heb_4:12).(:note) spirit of man [is] the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

geneva@Proverbs:21:1 @ The (note:)Though kings seem to have all things at commandment, they are not able to bring their own purposes to pass unless God has appointed: much less are the inferiors able.(:note) king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it wherever he will.

geneva@Proverbs:22:2 @ The rich and poor (note:)Live together, and have need the one of the other.(:note) meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all.

geneva@Proverbs:22:12 @ The eyes of the LORD preserve (note:)Favour them that love knowledge.(:note) knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

geneva@Proverbs:22:14 @ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD (note:)So God punishes one sin by another, when he suffers the wicked to fall into the acquaintance of a harlot.(:note) shall fall in it.

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:24:18 @ Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath (note:)To be avenged on you.(:note) from him.

geneva@Proverbs:25:22 @ For thou shalt heap (note:)You will, as if by force, overcome him, in so much that his own conscience will move him to acknowledge the benefits, and his heart will be inflamed.(:note) coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

geneva@Proverbs:28:25 @ He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made (note:)Will have all things in abundance.(:note) fat.

geneva@Proverbs:29:25 @ The fear of man bringeth a (note:)He who fears man more than God falls into a snare and is destroyed.(:note) snare: but he who putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

geneva@Proverbs:29:26 @ Many seek the ruler's favour; but [every] man's (note:)He does not need to flatter the ruler, for what God has appointed will come to him.(:note) judgment [cometh] from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:30:9 @ Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, (note:)Meaning, that they who put their trust in their riches forget God and that by too much wealth men have an opportunity to the same.(:note) Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].

geneva@Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O (note:)Because men were obstinate and insensible, he calls to the dumb creatures, who were more prompt to obey God's word, as in (Deu_32:1).(:note) heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up He declares his great mercy toward the Jews as he chose them above all other nations to be his people and children as in (Deu_10:15). children, and they have rebelled against me.

geneva@Isaiah:1:4 @ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a (note:)They were not only wicked as were their fathers, but utterly corrupt and by their evil example infected others.(:note) seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the That is, him that sanctifies Israel. Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward.

geneva@Isaiah:1:9 @ Except the LORD of hosts (note:)Because he will always have a Church to call on his Name.(:note) had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been That is, all destroyed. as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah.

geneva@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye (note:)You who for your vices deserved to be destroyed, as they of Sodom, save that God from his mercy reserved a little number, (Lam_3:22).(:note) rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

geneva@Isaiah:1:11 @ To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I (note:)Although God commanded these sacrifices for a time, as aids and exercises of their faith, yet because the people did not have faith or repentance, God detests them, (Psa_50:13; Jer_6:20; Amo_5:22; Mic_6:7).(:note) delight not in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

geneva@Isaiah:1:18 @ Come now, (note:)To know if I accuse you without cause.(:note) and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be Lest sinners should pretend any rigour on God's part, he only wills them to be pure in heart, and he will forgive all their sins, no matter how many or great. white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

geneva@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the (note:)When God will show himself merciful to his Church, he calls himself the Holy one of Israel, but when he has to do with his enemies, he is called Mighty, as against whom no power is able to resist.(:note) mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will I will take vengeance of my adversaries the Jews and so satisfy my desire by punishing them. rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:

geneva@Isaiah:1:28 @ And the (note:)The wicked will not be partakers of God's promise, (Psa_92:9).(:note) destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

geneva@Isaiah:2:2 @ And it (note:)The decree and ordinance of God, concerning the restoration of the Church, which is chiefly meant by the time of Christ.(:note) shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mount of the LORD'S house In an evident place to be seen and discerned. shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall When the kingdom of Christ will be enlarged by the preaching of the doctrine. Here also is declared the zeal of the children of God when they are called. flow to it.

geneva@Isaiah:2:3 @ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to (note:)Alluding to mount Zion, where the visible Church then was.(:note) the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Meaning, the whole doctrine of salvation. law, and the word of the LORD from This was accomplished when the gospel was first preached in Jerusalem, and from there went through all the world. Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:2:5 @ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us (note:)Seeing the Gentiles will be ready, make haste, and show them the way to worship God.(:note) walk in the light of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:2:11 @ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in (note:)Meaning, as soon as God will begin to execute his judgments.(:note) that day.

geneva@Isaiah:3:1 @ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod (note:)Because they trusted in their abundance and prosperity he shows that they should be taken from them.(:note) and the staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,

geneva@Isaiah:3:14 @ The LORD will enter into judgment with the (note:)Meaning that the rulers and governors had destroyed his Church and not preserved it, according to their duty.(:note) elders of his people, and with their princes: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.

geneva@Isaiah:3:16 @ Moreover the LORD saith, (note:)He means the people because of the arrogancy and pride of their women who gave themselves to all wantonness and dissolution.(:note) Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with Which declared their pride. extended necks and As a sign that they were not chaste. wanton eyes, walking and Which showed their wantonness. mincing [as] they go, and making a They delighted then in slippers that creaked or had little plates sewn on them which tinkled as they went. tinkling with their feet:

geneva@Isaiah:4:2 @ In that day shall the (note:)He comforts the Church in this desolation which will spring up like a bud signifying that God's graces should be as plentiful toward the faithful as though they sprang out of the earth, as in (Isa_45:8). Some by the bud of the Lord mean Christ.(:note) branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] the pride and glory of them that have escaped of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:4:5 @ And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, (note:)He alludes to the pillar of the cloud, (Exo_13:21), meaning that God's favour and protection should appear in every place.(:note) a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the The faithful are called the glory of God because his image and tokens of his grace shine in them. glory [shall be] a defence.

geneva@Isaiah:5:7 @ For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for (note:)Judgment and righteousness are true fruit of the fear of God and therefore in the cruel oppression there is no religion.(:note) judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold Of them who are oppressed. a cry.

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:5:12 @ And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the (note:)They do not regard the provident care of God over them, nor for what end he has created them.(:note) work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

geneva@Isaiah:5:24 @ Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their (note:)Both they and their posterity so that nothing will be left.(:note) root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:5:25 @ Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his (note:)He shows that God had so sore punished this people, that the dumb creatures if they had been so plagued would have been more sensible, and therefore his plagues must continue, till they begin to seal them.(:note) hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.

geneva@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one cried to another, and said, (note:)This often repetition signifies that the angels cannot satisfy themselves in praising God, to teach us that in all our lives we should give ourselves to the continual praise of God.(:note) Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole His glory not only appears in the heavens but through all the world, and therefore all creatures are bound to praise him. earth [is] full of his glory.

geneva@Isaiah:6:5 @ Then said I, (note:)He speaks this for two reasons, the one because he who was a mortal creature and therefore had more need to glorify God than the angels, did not do it, and the other because the nearer that man approaches to God, the more he knows his own sin and corruption.(:note) Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:7:3 @ Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and (note:)That is to say, the rest will return which name Isaiah gave his son, to signify that the rest of the people would return out of their captivity.(:note) Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

geneva@Isaiah:7:11 @ Ask thee (note:)For the confirmation of this thing that your enemies will be destroyed and you preserved.(:note) a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

geneva@Isaiah:7:12 @ But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I (note:)Not to believe God's word without a sign, is to tempt God, but to refuse a sign when God offers it for the aid and help of our infirmity is to rebel against him.(:note) tempt the LORD.

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:7:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall hiss for the (note:)Meaning, the Egyptians: for since the country is hot and moist, it is full of flies, as Assyria is full of bees.(:note) fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.

geneva@Isaiah:8:1 @ Moreover the LORD said to me, Take thee a (note:)That you may write in great letters to the intent that it may be more easily read.(:note) great roll, and write in it Meaning, after the common fashion, because all men might read it. with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

geneva@Isaiah:8:3 @ And I went to the (note:)Meaning, to his wife and this was done in a vision.(:note) prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

geneva@Isaiah:8:11 @ For the LORD spoke thus to me (note:)To encourage me that I should not shrink for the infidelity of this people, and so neglect my office.(:note) with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

geneva@Isaiah:8:18 @ Behold, I and the (note:)Meaning, them who were willing to hear and obey the word of God whom the world hated, as though they were monsters and not worthy to live.(:note) children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel This was a consolation in their troubles, knowing that nothing could come to them, but by the will of the Lord. from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

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:9:11 @ Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of (note:)Rezin king of Syria, who was in league with Israel, was slain by the Assyrians, after whose death, Aram that is, the Syrians were against Israel, who on the other side were assailed by the Philistines.(:note) Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

geneva@Isaiah:9:19 @ Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall (note:)Though there was no foreign enemy, yet they will destroy one another.(:note) spare his brother.

geneva@Isaiah:10:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall (note:)This is the end of God's plagues toward his, to bring them to him, and to forsake all trust in others.(:note) lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

geneva@Isaiah:10:26 @ And the LORD of hosts shall raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of (note:)Read (Isa_9:4).(:note) Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the When the Israelites passed through by the lifting up of Moses' rod, and the enemies were drowned, (Exo_14:28). sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

geneva@Isaiah:10:33 @ Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the (note:)Fear and destruction will come on Judah for the princes and the people will all be led away captive.(:note) bough with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

geneva@Isaiah:11:9 @ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as (note:)It will be in as great abundance as the waters in the sea.(:note) the waters cover the sea.

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:12:1 @ And in that day thou (note:)He shows how the Church will praise God, when they are delivered from their captivity.(:note) shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away, and thou didst comfort me.

geneva@Isaiah:12:2 @ Behold, God [is] my (note:)Our salvation stands only in God, who gives us an assured confidence, constancy and opportunity to praise him for the same.(:note) salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.

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:13:6 @ Wail (note:)You Babylonians.(:note) ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

geneva@Isaiah:14:1 @ For (note:)He shows why God will haste to destroy his enemies, that is, because he will deliver his Church.(:note) the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers Meaning that the Gentiles will be joined with the Church and worship God. shall be joined with them, and they shall unite with the house of Jacob.

geneva@Isaiah:14:2 @ And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for (note:)Signifying that the Jews would be superior to the Gentiles and that they would be brought under the service of Christ by the preaching of the Apostles, by which all are brought to the subjection of Christ, (2Co_10:5).(:note) servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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

geneva@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, (note:)He appointed a certain time to punish the enemies in.(:note) Within three years, as the years of an Who will observe justly the time for which he is hired and serve no longer but will ever long for it. hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble.

geneva@Isaiah:17:3 @ The fortress also shall cease from (note:)It seems that the prophet would comfort the Church in declaring the destruction of these two kings of Syria and Israel, when as they had conspired the overthrow of Judah.(:note) Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the The ten tribes gloried in their multitude and alliance with other nations: therefore he says that they will be brought down and the Syrians also. glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes shall (note:)Because God would have his covenant stable, he promises to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance.(:note) be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:18:4 @ For so the LORD said to me, I will take my (note:)I will stay a while from punishing the wicked.(:note) rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a Which two seasons are profitable for the ripening of fruit, by which he means that he will seem to favour them and give them abundance for a time, but he will suddenly cut them off. clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

geneva@Isaiah:18:7 @ In that time shall the (note:)Meaning that God will pity his Church, and receive that little remnant as an offering to himself.(:note) present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and stripped, and from a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

geneva@Isaiah:19:1 @ The (note:)Read (Isa_13:7).(:note) burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD Because the Egyptians trusted in the defence of their country, in the multitude of their idols and in the valiantness of their men the Lord shows that he will come over all their munitions in a swift cloud, and that their idols will tremble at his coming and that men's hearts will faint. rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

geneva@Isaiah:19:14 @ The LORD hath mingled a (note:)For the spirit of wisdom he has made them drunken and giddy with the spirit of error.(:note) perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.

geneva@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah shall be a terror (note:)Considering that through their opportunity the Jews did not make God their defence but put their trust in them, and were therefore now punished, they will fear least the same light on them.(:note) to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

geneva@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt (note:)Will make one confession of faith with the people of God, by the speech of Canaan, meaning the language in which God was then served.(:note) speak the language of Canaan, and Will renounce their superstitions and protest to serve God correctly. swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of Meaning of six cities, five would serve God, and the sixth would remain in their wickedness: and so there would be but one lost. destruction.

geneva@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and (note:)There will be evident signs and tokens, that God's religion is there: which manner of speech is taken of the patriarchs and ancient time, when God has not as yet appointed the place, and full manner how he would be worshipped.(:note) a pillar at its border to the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:19:20 @ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them (note:)This declares that this prophecy would be accomplished in the time of Christ.(:note) a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

geneva@Isaiah:19:21 @ And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do (note:)By these ceremonies he comprehends the spiritual service under Christ.(:note) sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform [it].

geneva@Isaiah:20:2 @ At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the (note:)Which signifies that the prophet lamented the misery that he saw prepared before the three years that he went naked and barefooted.(:note) sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

geneva@Isaiah:21:10 @ O (note:)Meaning, Babylon.(:note) my threshing, and the grain of my floor: that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.

geneva@Isaiah:21:17 @ And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of (note:)Which was the name of a people of Arabia: and by the horrible destruction of all these nations, he teaches the Jews that there is no place for refuge or to escape God's wrath, but only to remain in his Church, and to live in his fear.(:note) Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it].

geneva@Isaiah:22:25 @ In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the (note:)He means Shebna, who in man's judgment should never have fallen.(:note) nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

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:23:18 @ And her merchandise and her hire shall be (note:)He shows that God yet by the preaching of the gospel will call Tyre to repentance and turn her heart from evil and filthy gain, to the true worshipping of God, and liberality toward his saints.(:note) holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food and for durable clothing.

geneva@Isaiah:24:1 @ Behold, the LORD maketh the (note:)This prophecy is as a conclusion of that which has been threatened to the Jews and other nations from the 13th chapter and therefore by the earth he means those lands which were named before.(:note) earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

geneva@Isaiah:24:14 @ They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from (note:)From the utmost coasts of the world, where the gospel will be preached as in (Isa_24:16).(:note) the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:24:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall (note:)There is no power so high or mighty, but God will visit him with his rods.(:note) punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:25:1 @ O LORD, thou (note:)Thus the prophet gives thanks to God because he will bring under subjection these nations by his corrections, and make them of his Church, who before were his enemies.(:note) [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.

geneva@Isaiah:25:6 @ And on this (note:)That is, in Zion, by which he means his Church, which would under Christ be assembled of the Jews and the Gentiles, and is here described under the figure of a costly banquet, as in (Mat_22:2).(:note) mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

geneva@Isaiah:25:8 @ He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will (note:)He will take away all opportunity for sorrow and fill his with perfect joy, (Rev_7:17, Rev_21:4).(:note) wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

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:26:8 @ Yea, in the way of thy (note:)We have constantly abode in the adversities with which you had afflicted us.(:note) judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

geneva@Isaiah:26:10 @ Let favour (note:)The wicked though God show them evident signs of his grace, will not be any better off.(:note) be shown to the wicked, [yet] he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:26:11 @ LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] (note:)Through envy and indignation against your people.(:note) envy at the people; yea, the fire of thy The fire and vengeance with which you destroy your enemies. enemies shall devour them.

geneva@Isaiah:26:13 @ O LORD our God, [other] (note:)The Babylonians, who have not governed according to your word.(:note) lords beside thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

geneva@Isaiah:26:15 @ Thou hast increased (note:)That is, the company of the faithful by the calling of the Gentiles.(:note) the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed [it] far [to] all the ends of the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:26:16 @ LORD, in trouble have they (note:)That is, the faithful by the rods were moved to pray to you for deliverance.(:note) visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.

geneva@Isaiah:26:17 @ As a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy (note:)That is, in extreme sorrow.(:note) sight, O LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:26:21 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her (note:)The earth will vomit and cast out the innocent blood, which it has drunk, that it may care for vengeance against the wicked.(:note) blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

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:27:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall gather from the channel of the (note:)He will destroy all from the Euphrates to the Nile: for some fled toward Egypt, thinking to have escaped.(:note) river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:27:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be (note:)In the time of Cyrus, by whom they would be delivered: but this was chiefly accomplished under Christ.(:note) blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD on the holy mount at Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:28:5 @ In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the (note:)Signifying that the faithful who do not put their trust in any worldly prosperity but made God their glory, will be preserved.(:note) remnant of his people,

geneva@Isaiah:28:13 @ But the word of the (note:)Because they will not receive the word of God, when it is offered, it comes of their own malice, if after their hearts are so hardened, that they care not for it, as before, (Isa_6:9).(:note) LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

geneva@Isaiah:28:21 @ For the LORD shall rise as [on] mount (note:)When David overcame the Philistines, (2Sa_5:20; 1Ch_14:11).(:note) Perazim, he shall be angry as [in] the valley Where Joshua discomfited five kings of the Amorites, (Jos_10:12). of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

geneva@Isaiah:29:15 @ Woe to them that (note:)This is spoken of them who in heart despised God's word, and mocked at the admonitions but outwardly bore a good face.(:note) seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

geneva@Isaiah:30:1 @ Woe to the (note:)Who contrary to their promise take not me for their protector and contrary to my commandment seek help from strangers.(:note) rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that They seek shifts to cloak their doings and not godly means. cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

geneva@Isaiah:30:9 @ That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not (note:)He shows what was the cause of their destruction and brings also all misery to man: that is, because they would not hear the word of God, but delighted to be flattered and led in error.(:note) hear the law of the LORD:

geneva@Isaiah:30:18 @ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be (note:)He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance.(:note) gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of Not only in punishing but in using moderation in the same, as in (Jer_10:24, Jer_30:11). judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.

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:30:27 @ Behold, (note:)This threatening is against the Assyrians the chief enemies of the people of God.(:note) the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [of it is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

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:30:31 @ For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [who] smote with a (note:)God's plague.(:note) rod.

geneva@Isaiah:30:32 @ And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass, (note:)It will destroy.(:note) which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with With joy and assurance of the victory. tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight Against Babel, meaning the Assyrians and Babylonians. with it.

geneva@Isaiah:30:33 @ For (note:)Here it is taken for hell, where the wicked are tormented, read (2Ki_23:10).(:note) Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the So that their estate or degree cannot exempt the wicked. king it is prepared; he hath made [it] By these figurative speeches he declares the condition of he wicked after this life. deep [and] large: the pile of it [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

geneva@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that (note:)There were two special reasons why the Israelites should not join with the Egyptians: first, because the Lord had commanded them never to return there, (Deu_17:16, Deu_28:68) lest they should forget the benefit of their redemption: and secondly, lest they should be corrupted with the superstition and idolatry of the Egyptians, and so forsake God, (Jer_2:18).(:note) go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither Meaning, that they forsake the Lord, if they put their trust in worldly things: for they cannot trust in both. seek the LORD!

geneva@Isaiah:31:3 @ Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that (note:)Meaning, both the Egyptians and the Israelites.(:note) helpeth shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

geneva@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come (note:)He shows the Jews that if they would put their trust in him, he is so able, that no one can resist his power and so care over them, as a bird over her young, which ever flies about them for their defence: which similitude the scripture uses in various places, as in (Deu_32:11; Mat_23:37).(:note) down to fight for mount Zion, and for its hill.

geneva@Isaiah:31:9 @ And he shall pass over to his (note:)This was accomplished soon after when Sennacherib's army was discomfited, and he fled to his castle in Nineveh for comfort.(:note) strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose To destroy his enemies. fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:33:6 @ And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of (note:)That is, in the days of Hezekiah.(:note) thy times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure.

geneva@Isaiah:33:10 @ Now will I (note:)To help and deliver my Church.(:note) rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

geneva@Isaiah:33:21 @ But there the glorious LORD [will be] to us a place (note:)Let us be content with this small river of Shiloah and not desire the great streams and rivers, by which the enemies may bring in ships and destroy us.(:note) of broad rivers [and] streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it.

geneva@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly (note:)God has determined in his counsel and has given sentence for their destruction.(:note) destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

geneva@Isaiah:34:6 @ The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of (note:)That is, both of young and old, poor and rich of his enemies.(:note) lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in That famous city will be consumed as a sacrifice burnt to ashes. Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

geneva@Isaiah:34:16 @ Seek ye out of the (note:)That is, in the law where such curses are threatened against the wicked.(:note) book of the LORD, and read: no one of That is, beasts and souls. these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my That is, the mouth of the Lord. mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

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:35:10 @ And the (note:)Whom the Lord will deliver from the captivity of Babylon.(:note) ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

geneva@Isaiah:36:10 @ And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said to me, (note:)Thus the wicked to deceive us, will pretend the Name of the Lord: but we must try the spirits, whether they are of God or not.(:note) Go up against this land, and destroy it.

geneva@Isaiah:37:1 @ And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he (note:)In sign of grief and repentance.(:note) tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be the LORD thy God will (note:)That is, will declare by effect that he has heard it: for when God defers to punish, it seems to the flesh, that he knows not the sin, or hears not the cause.(:note) hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore Declaring that the ministers office stands not only in comforting by the word, but also in praying for the people. lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left.

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:37:18 @ Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and (note:)Meaning, the ten tribes.(:note) their countries,

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:37:22 @ This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The (note:)Whom God had chosen to himself as a chaste virgin, and over whom he had care to preserve her from the lusts of the tyrant, as a father would have over his daughter.(:note) virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised, [and] derided thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

geneva@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those (note:)Soon after that the Assyrians were slain: so that God will have the exercise of his children continually, that they may learn only to depend on God and aspire to the heavens.(:note) days was Hezekiah sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

geneva@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezekiah (note:)For his heart was touched with fear of God's judgment, seeing he had appointed him to die so quickly after his deliverance from so great calamity, as one unworthy to remain in that estate, and also foreseeing the great change that would come in the Church, as he left no son to reign after him: for as yet Manasseh was not born, and when he reigned, we see what a tyrant he was.(:note) turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,

geneva@Isaiah:38:7 @ And (note:)For Hezekiah had asked for a sign for the confirmation of his faith, as in (Isa_38:22; 2Ki_20:8), to which he was moved by the singular motion of God's spirit.(:note) this [shall be] a sign to thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

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:38:14 @ Like a crane [or] a swallow, so I (note:)I was so oppressed with sorrow, that I was not able to utter my words, but only to groan and sigh.(:note) chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

geneva@Isaiah:38:20 @ The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of (note:)He shows what is the use of the Congregation and Church, that is, to give the Lord thanks for his benefits.(:note) our life in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:38:22 @ Hezekiah also (note:)As in (Isa_38:7).(:note) had said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

geneva@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thy house, and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be (note:)By the grievousness of the punishment is declared how greatly God detested ambition and vain glory.(:note) carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:40:2 @ Speak ye kindly to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her (note:)The time of her affliction.(:note) warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand Meaning, sufficient as in (Isa_61:7) and full correction, or double grace, while she deserved double punishment. double for all her sins.

geneva@Isaiah:40:3 @ The (note:)That is, of the prophets.(:note) voice of him that crieth in the That is, in Babylonia and other places, where they were kept in captivity and misery. wilderness, Meaning Cyrus and Darius who would deliver God's people out of captivity and make them a ready way to Jerusalem. Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

geneva@Isaiah:40:5 @ And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all (note:)This miracle will be so great, that it will be known through all the world.(:note) flesh together shall see [it]: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].

geneva@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the (note:)The spirit of God will discover the vanity in all that seems to have any excellency of themselves.(:note) breath of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

geneva@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] (note:)He shows God's infinite wisdom for the same.(:note) his counsellor hath taught him?

geneva@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, (note:)He rebukes the Jews because they did not rest on the providence of God, but thought that he had forsaken them in their troubles.(:note) My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?

geneva@Isaiah:40:28 @ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the (note:)And therefore all power is in his hand to deliver when his time comes.(:note) ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his Showing that men must patiently abide, and not curiously seek out the cause of God's delay in our affliction. understanding.

geneva@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the (note:)Who has created man and maintained his succession.(:note) generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the Though the world set up many gods, yet they diminish nothing of my glory: for I am all one, unchangeable, which have ever been and will be for ever. first, and with the last; I [am] he.

geneva@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, thou (note:)Thus he calls them because they were contemned of all the world, and that they considering their own poor estate should seek him for help.(:note) worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:41:17 @ [When] (note:)That is, they who will be afflicted in the captivity of Babylon.(:note) the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

geneva@Isaiah:41:20 @ That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel (note:)That is, has appointed and determined that it will come to pass.(:note) hath created it.

geneva@Isaiah:42:6 @ I the LORD have called thee in (note:)Meaning, to a lawful and just calling.(:note) righteousness, and will hold To assist and guide you. thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a As him, by whom the promise made to all nations in Abraham will be fulfilled. covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

geneva@Isaiah:42:8 @ I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my (note:)I will not permit my glory to be diminished: which I would do if I were not faithful.(:note) glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

geneva@Isaiah:42:13 @ The LORD shall go forth as a (note:)He shows the zeal of the Lord, and his power in the conservation of his Church.(:note) mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

geneva@Isaiah:42:19 @ Who [is] blind, but my (note:)That is, Israel, which would have most light because of my Law.(:note) servant? or deaf, as my The priest to whom my word is committed, who would not only hear it himself but cause others to hear it. messenger [that] I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] As the priests and prophets that would be lights to others? perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?

geneva@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now thus saith the LORD (note:)After these threatenings he promises deliverance to his Church, because he has regenerated them, adopted them, and called them.(:note) that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, When you see dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of your God, and it will encourage you. Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.

geneva@Isaiah:43:3 @ For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave (note:)I turned Sennacherib's power against these countries, and made them suffer the affliction which you would have done, and so were as the payment of our ransom, (Isa_37:9).(:note) Egypt [for] thy ransom, Cush and Seba for thee.

geneva@Isaiah:43:10 @ Ye (note:)The prophets and people to whom I have given my law.(:note) [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my Meaning especially Christ, and by him all the faithful. servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after me.

geneva@Isaiah:43:14 @ Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have (note:)By Darius and Cyrus.(:note) brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry [is] in They will cry when they would escape by my water, seeing that the course of the Euphrates is turned another way by the enemy. the ships.

geneva@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus saith the LORD, who maketh a way in (note:)When he delivered Israel from Pharaoh, (Exo_14:22).(:note) the sea, and a path in the mighty When the Israelites passed through Jordan, (Jos_3:17). waters;

geneva@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed (note:)He treated and chose you from the beginning of his own mercy, and before you could merit anything.(:note) thee from the womb, [who] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, Whom God accepts as righteous: or who had opportunity to it because of the law, and your holy calling. whom I have chosen.

geneva@Isaiah:44:5 @ One shall say, I [am] the LORD'S; and another (note:)By this diversity of speech he means one thing, that is, that the people will be holy, and receive the true religion from God, as in (Psa_87:5).(:note) shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall write [with] his hand to the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:44:6 @ Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; (note:)I am always like myself, that is, merciful toward my Church, and most able to maintain it, as in (Isa_41:4, Isa_48:12; Rev_1:17, Rev_22:13).(:note) I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides me [there is] no God.

geneva@Isaiah:45:1 @ Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to (note:)To assure the Jews of their deliverance against the great temptations that they would abide, he names the person and the means.(:note) Cyrus, whose Because Cyrus would execute the office of a deliverer, God called him his anointed for a time, but after another sort than he called David. right hand I have held, to To guide him in the deliverance of my people. subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

geneva@Isaiah:45:3 @ And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest (note:)Not that Cyrus knew God to worship him correctly, but he had a certain particular knowledge as profane men may have of his power, and so was compelled to deliver God's people.(:note) know that I, the LORD, who call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:45:5 @ I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God besides me: I (note:)I have given you strength, power and authority.(:note) girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

geneva@Isaiah:45:7 @ I form the (note:)I send peace and war, prosperity and adversity, as in (Amo_3:6).(:note) light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

geneva@Isaiah:45:8 @ Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down (note:)He comforts the Jews as if he would say, «Though when you look to the heavens and earth for comfort you see nothing now but signs of God's wrath, yet will cause them to bring forth certain tokens of your deliverance, and of the performance of my promise»: which is meant by righteousness.(:note) righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have I have appointed Cyrus to this use and purpose. created it.

geneva@Isaiah:45:11 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me (note:)Instead of murmuring, humble yourselves and ask what you will for the consolation of my children, and you will be sure of it as you are of these things which are at your command. Some read it with an interrogation, and make it the application of the comparison.(:note) of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

geneva@Isaiah:45:13 @ I have raised (note:)That is, Cyrus, that I may show by him the faithfulness of my promise in delivering my people.(:note) him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for Meaning, freely and without ransom, or any grievous condition. price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus saith the LORD, The labour (note:)These people were tributaries to the Persians, and so king Artahshashte gave this money toward the building of the temple, (Ezr_7:27).(:note) of Egypt, and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be While they were your enemies, they will now honour you and you will rule them: which was accomplished in the time of Christ. thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, [saying], Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] none else, [there is] no God.

geneva@Isaiah:45:18 @ For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be (note:)That is, of men, but chiefly of his Church.(:note) inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.

geneva@Isaiah:45:19 @ I have not spoken in secret, (note:)As do the false gods, who give uncertain answers.(:note) in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

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:48:1 @ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are (note:)He detects their hypocrisy who claimed to be Israelites, but were not so.(:note) called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Meaning, the fountain and stock. the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves (note:)They make a show, as though they would have no other God.(:note) upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his name.

geneva@Isaiah:48:14 @ All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them hath declared these [things]? The LORD hath loved (note:)Meaning, Cyrus, whom he had chosen to destroy Babylon.(:note) him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.

geneva@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God who teacheth thee (note:)What things will do you good.(:note) to profit, who leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go.

geneva@Isaiah:48:22 @ [There is] no (note:)Thus he speaks that the wicked hypocrites should not abuse God's promise, in whom was neither faith nor repentance, as in (Isa_57:21)(:note) peace, saith the LORD, to the wicked.

geneva@Isaiah:49:1 @ Listen, to me O isles; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called (note:)This is spoken in the person of Christ, to assure the faithful that these promises should come to pass: for they were all made in him and in him would be performed.(:note) me from This is meant of the time that Christ would be manifested to the world, as in (Psa_2:7). the womb; from the body of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

geneva@Isaiah:49:4 @ Then I said, I have (note:)Thus Christ in his members complains that his labour and preaching take no effect, yet he is contented that his doings are approved by God.(:note) laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain: [yet] surely my judgment [is] with the LORD, and my work with my God.

geneva@Isaiah:49:5 @ And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb [to be] his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, (note:)Though the Jews refuse my doctrine, yet God will approve my ministry.(:note) yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

geneva@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a (note:)Meaning, the Jews whom tyrants kept in bondage.(:note) servant of rulers, Kings shall see and The benefit of their deliverance will be so great, that great and small will acknowledge it, and revere God for it. arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

geneva@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Thus he speaks of his Church when he would show his mercy toward it, (2Co_6:2).(:note) In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give Meaning, Christ alone. thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the Signifying that before Christ renewed the earth by his word, there is nothing but confusion and disorder. earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

geneva@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing, O (note:)Read (Isa_44:23).(:note) heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

geneva@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said, The LORD hath (note:)He objects what the faithful might say in their long affliction and answers to comfort them with a most proper comparison and full of consolation.(:note) forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

geneva@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up thy eyes around, and behold: all these gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. [As] I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely (note:)He shows what are the ornaments of the Church: to have many children, who are assembled by the word of God, and governed by his Spirit.(:note) clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them [on thee], as a bride [doeth].

geneva@Isaiah:49:23 @ And kings (note:)Meaning, that kings will be converted to the gospel, and bestow their power and authority for the preservation of the Church.(:note) shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with [their] face toward the earth, and lick up the Being joined with the Church, they will humble themselves to Christ their head, and give him all honour. dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

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:49:26 @ And I will feed them that oppress thee with (note:)I will cause them to destroy one another as in (Jdg_7:22; 2Ch_20:22; Isa_19:2).(:note) their own flesh; and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

geneva@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the (note:)Meaning, that he has not forsaken her, but through her own opportunity as in (Hos_2:2).(:note) bill of your mother's divorcement, Who would declare that I have cut her off: meaning, that they could show no one. whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] Signifying, that he sold them not for any debt or poverty, but that they sold themselves to sins to buy their own lusts and pleasures. to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

geneva@Isaiah:51:1 @ Hearken to me, (note:)He comforts the Church, that they would not be discouraged for their small number.(:note) ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look to the That is, to Abraham, of whom you were begotten, and to Sarah of whom we were born. rock [from which] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [from which] ye were dug.

geneva@Isaiah:51:3 @ For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness (note:)As plentiful as paradise, (Gen_2:8,9).(:note) like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

geneva@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, (note:)He puts them in remembrance of his great benefit for their deliverance out of Egypt, that by it they might learn to trust in him constantly.(:note) in the generations of old. [Art] thou not that which hath cut Meaning, Egypt, (Psa_87:4). Rahab, [and] wounded the That is, Pharaoh, (Eze_29:3). dragon?

geneva@Isaiah:51:11 @ Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall (note:)From Babylon.(:note) return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

geneva@Isaiah:51:17 @ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drank at the hand of the LORD the (note:)You have been justly punished and sufficiently as (Isa_40:2) and this punishment in the elect is by measure, and according as God gives grace to hear it: but in the reprobate it is the just vengeance of God to drive them to an insensibleness and madness, as (Jer_25:15-16).(:note) cup of his fury; thou hast drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.

geneva@Isaiah:52:3 @ For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for (note:)The Babylonians paid nothing to me for you: therefore I will take you again without ransom.(:note) nothing; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

geneva@Isaiah:52:5 @ Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nothing? they that rule over them make them to wail, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] (note:)That is, by the wicked, who think that I have no power to deliver them.(:note) blasphemed.

geneva@Isaiah:52:10 @ The LORD hath made (note:)As ready to smite his enemies and to deliver his people.(:note) bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

geneva@Isaiah:52:12 @ For ye shall not go out (note:)As your fathers did out of Egypt.(:note) with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel [will be] your rear guard.

geneva@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who (note:)The prophet shows that very few will receive their preaching from Christ, and from their deliverance by him, (Joh_12:38; Rom_10:16).(:note) hath believed our report? and to whom is the Meaning, that no one can believe but whose hearts God touches with the virtue of his Holy Spirit. arm of the LORD revealed?

geneva@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the (note:)Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the fault itself.(:note) iniquity of us all.

geneva@Isaiah:53:10 @ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when (note:)Christ by offering up himself will give life to his Church, and so cause them to live with him forever.(:note) thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

geneva@Isaiah:54:1 @ Sing, O (note:)After he has declared the death of Christ, he speaks to the Church, because it would feel the fruit of the same, and calls her barren, because in the captivity she was a widow without hope to have any children.(:note) barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the The Church in this her affliction and captivity will bring forth more children, than when she was free, or this may be spoken by admiration, considering the great number that would come from her. Her deliverance under Cyrus was as her childhood, and therefore this was accomplished when she came of age, which was under the gospel. desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:54:5 @ For thy (note:)That regenerated you by his Holy Spirit.(:note) Maker [is] thy husband; the LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole His glory will shine through the whole world, which seemed before to be shut up in Judea. earth shall he be called.

geneva@Isaiah:54:6 @ For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a (note:)As a wife who was forsaken in your youth.(:note) wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

geneva@Isaiah:54:13 @ And all thy children [shall be] (note:)By the hearing of his word and inward moving of his spirit.(:note) taught from the LORD; and great [shall be] the peace of thy children.

geneva@Isaiah:55:5 @ Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not, (note:)That is, the Gentiles, who before you did not receive to be your people.(:note) and nations [that] knew not thee shall run to thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

geneva@Isaiah:55:6 @ Seek ye the LORD while he may be (note:)When he offers himself by the preaching of his word.(:note) found, call ye upon him while he is near:

geneva@Isaiah:55:7 @ Let the wicked (note:)By this he shows that repentance must be joined with faith, and how we cannot call on God correctly, unless the fruits of our faith appear.(:note) forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

geneva@Isaiah:55:8 @ For my (note:)Although you are not soon reconciled one to another and judge me by yourselves, yet I am easy to be reconciled, yea, I offer my mercies to you.(:note) thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:55:13 @ Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD (note:)To set forth his glory.(:note) for a name, for an everlasting Of God's deliverance, and that he will never forsake his Church. sign [that] shall not be cut off.

geneva@Isaiah:56:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, (note:)God shows what he requires of them after he has delivered them: that is, the works of charity by which true faith is declared.(:note) Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation [is] near to come, and my Which I will declare toward you, and pour into your hearts by my Spirit. righteousness to be revealed.

geneva@Isaiah:56:3 @ Neither let the son of the foreigner, that (note:)Let no one think himself unfit to receive the graces of the Lord: for the Lord will take away all impediments, and will forsake no one who will keep his true religion, and believe in him.(:note) hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I [am] a dry tree.

geneva@Isaiah:57:19 @ I create the (note:)That is, I frame the speech and words of my messengers who will bring peace.(:note) fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] As well to him that is in captivity as to him that remains at home. far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

geneva@Isaiah:58:8 @ Then shall thy (note:)That is, the prosperous estate with which God will bless you.(:note) light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy The testimony of your goodness will appear before God and man. righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear guard.

geneva@Isaiah:58:9 @ Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the (note:)By which is meant all manner of injury.(:note) finger, and speaking vanity;

geneva@Isaiah:58:13 @ If thou shalt (note:)If you refrain yourself from your wicked works.(:note) turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking [thy own] words:

geneva@Isaiah:59:13 @ In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of (note:)That is, against our neighbours.(:note) falsehood.

geneva@Isaiah:59:15 @ Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself (note:)The wicked will destroy him.(:note) a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.

geneva@Isaiah:59:19 @ So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall (note:)He shows that there will be great affliction in the Church, but God will always deliver his.(:note) come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

geneva@Isaiah:59:20 @ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to (note:)By which he declares that the true deliverance from sin and Satan belongs to none but to the children of God, whom he justifies.(:note) them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:59:21 @ As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, (note:)Because the doctrine is made profitable by the virtue of the Spirit, he joins the one with the other, and promises to give them both to his Church for ever.(:note) shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

geneva@Isaiah:60:1 @ Arise, shine; for thy (note:)The time of your prosperity and happiness: while speaking of Babylon, he commanded her to go down, (Isa_47:1).(:note) light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

geneva@Isaiah:60:2 @ For, behold, the darkness shall cover the (note:)Signifying, that all men are in darkness till God gives them the light of his Spirit, and that this light shines to no one, but to those that are in his Church.(:note) earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

geneva@Isaiah:60:6 @ The (note:)Meaning, that everyone will honour the Lord with that with which he is able: Signifying that it is no true serving of God unless we offer ourselves to serve his glory, and all that we have.(:note) multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:60:9 @ Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships (note:)The Gentiles that are now enemies, will become friends and set forth the Church.(:note) of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

geneva@Isaiah:60:14 @ The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves (note:)To worship their head Christ, by obeying his doctrine.(:note) down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:60:16 @ Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the (note:)Both high and low will be ready to help and comfort you.(:note) breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

geneva@Isaiah:60:19 @ The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the (note:)Signifying that all worldly means will cease, and that Christ will be all in all, as in (Rev_21:23, Rev_22:5).(:note) moon give light to thee: but the LORD shall be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

geneva@Isaiah:60:22 @ A little one shall become a (note:)Meaning, that the Church would be miraculously multiplied.(:note) thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.

geneva@Isaiah:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] (note:)Thus belongs to all the prophets and ministers of God, but chiefly to Christ, of whose abundant graces everyone receives according as it pleases him to distribute.(:note) upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the To them that are lively touched with the feeling of their sins. brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the Who are in the bondage of sin. captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;

geneva@Isaiah:61:2 @ To proclaim the (note:)The time when it pleased God to show his good favour to man, which Paul calls the fulness of time, (Gal_4:4).(:note) acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of For when God delivers his Church, he punishes his enemies. vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

geneva@Isaiah:61:3 @ To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for (note:)Which was the sign of mourning.(:note) ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called Trees that bring forth good fruits, as in (Mat_3:8). trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

geneva@Isaiah:61:6 @ But ye shall be named the (note:)This is accomplished in the time of Christ, by whom all the faithful are made priests and kings, (1Pe_2:9; Rev_1:6, Rev_5:10).(:note) Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the Read (Isa_60:11, Isa_60:16). riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

geneva@Isaiah:61:8 @ For I the LORD love judgment, I hate (note:)I will not receive their offerings who are extortioners, deceivers, hypocrites or that deprive me of my glory.(:note) robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

geneva@Isaiah:61:9 @ And (note:)That is, of the Church.(:note) their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed.

geneva@Isaiah:62:2 @ And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by (note:)You will have a more excellent fame than you have had till now.(:note) a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.

geneva@Isaiah:62:3 @ Thou shalt also be a (note:)He will value you as dear and precious as a king does his crown.(:note) crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

geneva@Isaiah:62:4 @ Thou shalt no more be termed (note:)You will no longer be contemned as a woman forsaken by her husband.(:note) Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be That it may be replenished with children. married.

geneva@Isaiah:62:6 @ I have set (note:)Prophets, pastors and ministers.(:note) watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: He exhorts the ministers never to cease to call on God by prayer for the deliverance of his Church and to teach others to do the same. ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

geneva@Isaiah:62:11 @ Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed to the end of the world, (note:)You prophets and ministers show the people of this their deliverance: which was chiefly meant of our salvation by Christ, (Zec_9:9; Mat_21:5).(:note) Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and He will have all power to bring his purpose to pass, as in (Isa_40:10). his work before him.

geneva@Isaiah:62:12 @ And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A (note:)That is, one over whom God has had a singular care to recover her when she was lost.(:note) city not forsaken.

geneva@Isaiah:63:7 @ I will (note:)The prophet speaks this to move the people to remember God's benefits in times past, that they may be confirmed in their troubles.(:note) mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

geneva@Isaiah:63:16 @ Doubtless thou [art] our father, though (note:)Though Abraham would refuse us to be his children, yet you will not refuse to be our father.(:note) Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.

geneva@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why hast (note:)By taking away the Holy Spirit from us, by whom we were governed, and so for our ingratitude delivered us up to our own concupiscence, and punished sin by sin according to your just judgment.(:note) thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy Meaning, for the covenant's sake made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob his servants. servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.

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:64:9 @ Be not very angry, O LORD, (note:)For so the flesh judges when God does not immediately send comfort.(:note) neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.

geneva@Isaiah:64:12 @ Wilt thou restrain thyself (note:)That is, at the contempt of your own glory? Though our sins have deserved this, yet you will not permit your glory thus to be diminished.(:note) for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and grievously afflict us?

geneva@Isaiah:65:7 @ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers (note:)Will be both punished together: and this declares how the children are punished for their fathers faults, that is, when the same faults or like are found in them.(:note) together, saith the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

geneva@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a (note:)That is, it is profitable: meaning that God will not destroy the faithful branches of his vineyard, when he destroys the rotten stocks, that is, the hypocrites.(:note) blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

geneva@Isaiah:65:11 @ But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that (note:)By the multitude and number he means their innumerable idols of whom they thought they could never have enough.(:note) troop, and that furnish the drink offering to that number.

geneva@Isaiah:65:25 @ The (note:)Read (Isa_11:6).(:note) wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox: and dust [shall be] the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:66:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, The (note:)My majesty is so great, that it fills both heaven and earth, and therefore cannot be included in a temple like an idol, condemning by this their main confidence which trusted in the temple and sacrifices.(:note) heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build to me? and where [is] the place of my rest?

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:66:5 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his (note:)He encourages the faithful by promising to destroy their enemies, who pretended to be as brethren, but were hypocrites, and hated them that feared God.(:note) word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:66:9 @ Shall I (note:)Declaring by this that as by his power and providence women travailed and delivered so he gives power to bring forth the Church at his appointed time.(:note) bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God.

geneva@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend (note:)I will give her happiness and prosperity in great abundance.(:note) peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Read (Isa_60:16). Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye be nursed, ye shall be You will be cherished as her dearly beloved children. borne upon [her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees.

geneva@Isaiah:66:14 @ And when ye see [this], your heart shall rejoice, and your (note:)You will have new strength and new beauty.(:note) bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his enemies.

geneva@Isaiah:66:15 @ For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to (note:)This vengeance God began to execute at the destruction of Babylon and has always continued it against the enemies of his Church, and will do till the last day, which will be the accomplishment of it.(:note) render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

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@Isaiah:66:20 @ And they shall bring all your (note:)That is the Gentiles, who by faith will be made the children of Abraham as you are.(:note) brethren [for] an offering to the LORD out of all nations upon By which he means that no necessary means will want, when God will call the Gentiles to the knowledge of the gospel. horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:66:21 @ And I will also take of them for (note:)That is, of the Gentiles, as he did Luke, Timothy and Titus first, and others after to preach his word.(:note) priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:66:22 @ For as the new (note:)By this he signifies the kingdom of Christ in which his Church will be renewed, and where before there were appointed seasons to sacrifice in this there will be one continual Sabbath, so that all times and seasons will be meet.(:note) heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:2 @ To whom the (note:)This is spoken to confirm his calling and office, as he did not presume of himself to preach and prophecy, but was called to it by God.(:note) word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:9 @ Then the LORD put forth his hand, and (note:)Which declares that God makes them meet and assures them, whom he calls to set forth his glory, giving them all means necessary for the same, (Exo_4:12; Isa_6:7).(:note) touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a (note:)He joins the sign with the word, for a more ample confirmation: signifying by the rod of the almond tree, which first buds, the hasty coming of the Babylonians against the Jews.(:note) rod of an almond tree.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:13 @ And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling (note:)Signifying that the Chaldeans and Assyrians would be as a pot to seethe the Jews who boiled in their pleasures and lust.(:note) pot; and its face [is] toward the north.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said to me, Out of the (note:)Syria and Assyria were northward in respect to Jerusalem, which was the Chaldeans dominion.(:note) north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:2 @ Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the (note:)According to that grace and favour which I showed you from the beginning, when I first chose you to be my people, and married you to myself, (Eze_16:8).(:note) kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, When I had delivered you out of Egypt. in a land [that was] not sown.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel [was] (note:)Chosen above all others to serve the Lord only and the first offered to the Lord of all other nations.(:note) holiness to the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all Whoever challenged this people, or else annoyed them, was punished. that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone (note:)That is, fallen to vile idolatry.(:note) far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become Altogether given to vanity, and are become blind and insensible as the idols that they serve. vain?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:6 @ Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of (note:)Where for lack of all things needed for life, you could look for nothing every hour but present death.(:note) the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not, (note:)They did not teach the people to seek after God.(:note) Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the As the scribes, who would have expounded the law to the people. law knew me not: the Meaning, the princes and ministers: signifying, that all estates were corrupt. rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by That is, spoke vain things, and brought the people from the true worship of God to serve idols: for by Baal, which was the chief idol of the Moabites, are meant all idols. Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:9 @ Wherefore I will yet (note:)Signifying that he would not as he might, straightway condemn them, but shows them by evident examples their great ingratitude that they might be ashamed and repent.(:note) plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:12 @ Be astonished, O ye (note:)He shows that the insensible creatures abhor this vile ingratitude, and as it were tremble for fear of God's great judgments against the same.(:note) heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:17 @ Hast thou not procured this to thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he (note:)Showing that God would have still led them correctly, if they would have followed him.(:note) led thee by the way?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Thy own wickedness shall (note:)Meaning, that the wicked are insensible, till the punishment for their sin waken them as in (Jer_2:26; Isa_3:9).(:note) correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:29 @ Why will (note:)As though I did you injury in punishing you, seeing that your faults are so evident.(:note) ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:31 @ O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a (note:)Have I not given them abundance of all things?(:note) wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; But will trust in our own power and policy. we will come no more to thee?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:37 @ Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thy hands upon (note:)In sign of lamentation, as in (2Sa_13:19).(:note) thy head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:1 @ They (note:)According as it is written, (Deu_24:4).(:note) say, If a man shall put away his wife, and she shall go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her again? shall not that land If he take such a one to wife again. be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many That is, with idols, and with them whom you have put your confidence in. lovers; yet And I will not cast you off, but receive you, according to my mercy. return again to me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding (note:)Meaning the ten tribes.(:note) Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:10 @ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned to me with (note:)Judah pretended for a time that she returned, as under Josiah and other good kings, but she was never truly touched, or wholly reformed, as appeared when opportunity was offered by any wicked prince.(:note) her whole heart, but deceitfully, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:11 @ And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath (note:)Israel has not declared herself as wicked as Judah, who yet has had more admonitions and examples to call her to repentance.(:note) justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go and proclaim these words toward (note:)While the Israelites were now kept in captivity by the Assyrians, to whom he promises mercy, if they will repent.(:note) the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast (note:)There was no way which you did not hunt to seek after the idols, and to go on a pilgrimage.(:note) scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:16 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The (note:)This is to be understood of the coming of Christ: for then they will not seek the Lord by ceremonies, and all figures will cease.(:note) ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:17 @ At that time they shall call Jerusalem (note:)Meaning, the Church, where the Lord will be present to the world's end, (Mat_28:20).(:note) the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:20 @ Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her (note:)The Hebrew word signifies a friend or companion, and here may be taken for a husband, as it is used also in (Hos_3:1).(:note) husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:22 @ Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. (note:)This is spoken in the person of Israel to the shame of Judah, who stayed so long to turn to God.(:note) Behold, we come to thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.

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:4:1 @ If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, (note:)That is, wholly and without hypocrisy, not dissembling to turn and serve God as they do who serve him by halves, (Hos_7:16).(:note) return to me: and if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be removed.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:2 @ And thou shalt (note:)You will detest the name of idols, (Psa_16:4) and will with reverence swear by the living God, when your oath may advance God's glory, and profit others: and here by swearing he means the true religion of God.(:note) swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up (note:)He wills them to pluck up the impiety and wicked affection and worldly respects out of their heart, that the true seed of God's word may be sown in it, (Hos_10:12) and this is the true circumcision of the heart, (Deu_10:16; Rom_2:29; Col_2:11).(:note) your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:9 @ And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the (note:)That is, the false prophets who still prophesied peace and security.(:note) prophets shall wonder.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a (note:)Who keep the fruits so straitly, that nothing can come in or out so would the Babylonians compass Judah.,(:note) field, they are against her on all sides; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:27 @ For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I (note:)But for his mercies sake, he will reserve himself a residue to be his Church, and to praise him in earth, (Jer_5:18).(:note) not make a full end.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:2 @ And though they say, The (note:)Though they pretend religion and holiness, yet all is but hypocrisy: for under this kind of swearing is contained the true religion.(:note) LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, [are] not thy eyes upon the (note:)Do you not love uprightness and faithful dealing?(:note) truth? thou hast You have often punished them, but all is in vain, (Isa_9:13). stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:5 @ I will go to the (note:)He speaks this to the reproach of them who would govern and teach others, and yet are farther out of the way than the simple people.(:note) great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have (note:)Because they gave no credit to the words of his prophets, as in (Isa_28:15).(:note) lied about the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

geneva@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in (note:)Meaning, Jeremiah.(:note) thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you (note:)That is, the Babylonians and Chaldeans.(:note) from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:18 @ Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with (note:)Here the Lord declares his unspeakable favour toward his Church, as in (Jer_4:27).(:note) you.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn (note:)He exhorts the Babylonians to be diligent to search out all and to leave none.(:note) back thy hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] (note:)They delight to hear vain things, and to shut up their ears to true doctrine.(:note) uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

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:6:16 @ Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the (note:)In which the patriarchs and prophets walked, directed by the word of God: signifying that there is no true way, but that which God prescribes.(:note) old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in it].

geneva@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the (note:)From Babylon by Dan, which was north of Jerusalem.(:note) north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Trust ye not in (note:)Believe not the false prophets, who say that for the temple's sake, and the sacrifices there the Lord will preserve you, and so nourish you in your sin, and vain confidence.(:note) lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.

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:7:13 @ And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke to you, (note:)That is, I never ceased to warn you, as in (Isa_65:2; Pro_1:23).(:note) rising early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but He shows the only remedy to redress our faults: to allow God to lead us in the way, and to obey his calling, (Isa_66:4). ye answered not;

geneva@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off thy (note:)In sign of mourning, as in (Job_1:20).(:note) hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his Against whom he had just opportunity to pour out his wrath (Mic_1:6). wrath.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:1 @ At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their (note:)The enemy for greediness will rifle your graves and lay you before those idols, who in your life you worshipped, to see if they can help you.(:note) graves:

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

geneva@Jeremiah:8:4 @ Moreover thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they (note:)Is there no hope that they will return?(:note) fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?

geneva@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the (note:)He accuses them in that they are more ignorant of God's judgments, than these birds are of their appointed seasons to discern the cold and heat.(:note) judgment of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain he hath made [it]; (note:)The law does not profit you neither need it to have been written for all that you have learned by it.(:note) the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The (note:)They who seem wise may be ashamed of their ignorance for all wisdom consists in God's word.(:note) wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

geneva@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? (note:)He speaks in the person of the people, who when the enemy comes will turn about to hide themselves and acknowledge that it is God's hand.(:note) assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of That is, has brought us into extreme affliction, and thus they will not attribute this plague to fortune, but to God's just judgment, (Jer_9:15, Jer_23:15). gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For, behold, I will (note:)God threatens to send the Babylonians among them who will utterly destroy them in such sort, as by no means they will escape.(:note) send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a distant country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why (note:)Thus the Lord speaks.(:note) have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with foreign vanities?

geneva@Jeremiah:9:3 @ And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] (note:)To belie and slander their neighbours.(:note) lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Thy habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; (note:)They would rather have forsaken God than left their wicked trade.(:note) through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will (note:)With the fire of affliction.(:note) melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

geneva@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who [is] the (note:)Meaning that they are all without sense and understanding and that God has taken his spirit from them.(:note) wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

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:9:17 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for (note:)Seeing you cannot lament your own sins, call for those foolish women, whom of a superstition you have to lament for the dead, that they by their feigned tears may provoke you to some sorrow.(:note) the skilful women, that they may come; and send for skilful [women], that they may come:

geneva@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and (note:)He derides the superstition of the women who made an art of mourning, and taught to weep with feigned tears.(:note) teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the (note:)As none can save himself by his own labour, or any worldly means, he shows that it is vain to put our trust in it, but that we trust in the Lord, and rejoice in him, who only can deliver.(:note) wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches:

geneva@Jeremiah:9:24 @ But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD who (note:)These three points are necessary to know correctly his mercy, in which consists our salvation: his judgment, which he executes continually against the wicked, and his justice, by which he defends and maintains the faithful.(:note) exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:25 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them who are] (note:)Meaning, both Jews and Gentiles, as in this next verse he shows the cause, (Jer_4:4).(:note) circumcised with the uncircumcised;

geneva@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the (note:)God forbids his people to give credit or fear the constellations and conjunctions of stars and planets which have no power of themselves but are governed by him, and their secret motions and influences are not known to man and therefore there can be no certain judgment of it, (Deu_18:9).(:note) signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:6 @ Forasmuch as [there is] none like thee, O LORD; (note:)He teaches the people to lift up their eyes to God, who has all power and therefore ought only to be feared: and in this he shows them not only the evil that they ought to hate: but the good which they ought to follow, (Rev_15:4).(:note) thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:16 @ The (note:)By these words, portion and rod, he signifies their inheritance, meaning that God would be all sufficient for them: and that their happiness consisted in him alone, and therefore they ought to renounce all other help and comfort as of idols, etc. (Deu_32:9; Psa_16:5).(:note) portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:21 @ For the shepherds (note:)The governors and ministers.(:note) have become senseless, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:23 @ O LORD, I know that (note:)He speaks this because Nebuchadnezzar purposed to have made war against the Moabites and Ammonites, but hearing of Zedekiah's rebellion he turned his power to go against Jerusalem, (Eze_21:21) therefore the prophet says that this was the Lord's direction.(:note) the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:24 @ O LORD, correct me, but with (note:)Considering that God had revealed to him the certainty of their captivity (Jer_7:16) he only prays that he would punish them with mercy which Isaiah calls in measure, (Isa_27:8) measuring his rods by their infirmity (1Co_10:13) for here by judgment is meant not only the punishment but also the merciful moderation of the same as in (Jer_30:11).(:note) judgment; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:3 @ And say thou to them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; (note:)He calls the Jews to the consideration of God's mercy, who freely chose them, made a covenant of eternal happiness with them and how he ever performed it on his behalf and how they ever showed themselves rebellious and ingrate toward him, and broke it on their part, and so are subject to the curse of the law, (Deu_27:26).(:note) Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

geneva@Jeremiah:11:5 @ That I may perform the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then answered (note:)Thus he speaks in the person of the people, who agreed to the covenant.(:note) I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:9 @ And the LORD said to me, A (note:)That is, general consent to rebel against me.(:note) conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:11 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to me, (note:)Because they will not pray with true faith and repentance, but for the pain and grief which they feel, (Pro_1:28).(:note) I will not hearken to them.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:16 @ The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the (note:)Of the Babylonians and Chaldeans.(:note) noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:18 @ And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it], and I know [it]: then thou didst show me (note:)Who went about secretly to conspire my death.(:note) their doings.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:20 @ But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy (note:)Thus he spoke not out of hatred, but being moved with the Spirit of God, he desires the advancement of God's glory, and the verifying of his word, which is by the destruction of his enemies.(:note) vengeance on them: for to thee have I revealed my cause.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:21 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the men of (note:)That is, both the priests and the rest of the people: for this town was the priests, and they dwelt in it, (Jer_1:1).(:note) Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Not that they could not abide to hear God named; (for in this they would show themselves most holy) but because they could not abide to be sharply reproved, and therefore desired to be flattered (Isa_30:10), to be maintained in their pleasures (Mic_2:11) and not to hear vice condemned (Amo_7:12). Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

geneva@Jeremiah:12:3 @ But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and (note:)The Hebrew word is «sanctify them», meaning that God would be sanctified in the destruction of the wicked to whom God for a while gives prosperity, that afterward they would the more feel his heavy judgment when they lack their riches which were a sign of his mercy.(:note) prepare them for the day of slaughter.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:14 @ Thus saith the LORD against all my evil (note:)Meaning the wicked enemies of his Church who blasphemed his Name, and whom he would punish after he had delivered his people.(:note) neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:16 @ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the (note:)The true doctrine and manner to serve God.(:note) ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Read (Jer_4:2). LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built They will be of the number of the faithful, and have a place in my Church. in the midst of my people.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:12 @ Therefore thou shalt speak to them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every (note:)Every one of you will be filled with spiritual drunkenness, and be without all knowledge to seek how to help yourselves.(:note) skin shall be filled with wine: and they shall say to thee, Do we not certainly know that every skin shall be filled with wine?

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:13:16 @ Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause (note:)That is, affliction and misery by the Babylonians, (Isa_8:22).(:note) darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for Meaning, for help and support of the Egyptians. light, he shall turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:17 @ But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall (note:)You will surely be led away captive and I, according to my affection toward you, will weep and lament for your stubbornness.(:note) weep in secret places for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the (note:)Which came for lack of rain as in (Jer_14:4).(:note) dearth.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why shouldest thou be as a man astonished, as (note:)That takes no care for us.(:note) a mighty man [that] cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:11 @ Then said the LORD to me, (note:)Read (Jer_7:16, Jer_11:14).(:note) Pray not for this people for [their] good.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:20 @ We (note:)He teaches the Church a form of prayer to humble themselves to God by true repentance, which is the only way to avoid this famine, which was the beginning of God's plagues.(:note) acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Are there [any] among the (note:)Meaning their idols, read (Jer_10:15).(:note) vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].

geneva@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then said the LORD to me, (note:)Meaning that if there were any man living moved with so great zeal toward the people as were these two, yet he would not grant this request, as he had determined the contrary, (Eze_14:14).(:note) Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:3 @ And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the (note:)The dogs, birds and beasts would devour them that were slain.(:note) dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:6 @ Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am (note:)That is, I will not call back my plagues or spare you any more.(:note) weary with repenting.

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:15:11 @ The LORD said, (note:)In this perplexity the Lord comforted me, and said that my last days would be quiet: and by the enemy he means here Nebuzaradan the captain of Nebuchadnezzar, who gave Jeremiah the choice either to remain in his country or to go where he would; or by the enemy he means the Jews, who would later know Jeremiah's faithfulness, and therefore favour him.(:note) Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

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:15:16 @ Thy words were found, and I (note:)I received them with a great joy, as he that is famished eats meat.(:note) ate them; and thy word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou shalt (note:)If you forget these carnal considerations and faithfully execute your charge.(:note) return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou shalt separate the That is, seek to win the good from the bad. precious from the vile, thou shalt be That is, as my mouth has pronounced, (Jer_1:18) and as here follows in (Jer_15:20). as my mouth: let them return Do not conform yourself to their wickedness, but let them follow your godly example. to thee; but return not thou to them.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make thee to this people a fortified brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not (note:)I will teach you with an invincible strength and constancy, so that all the powers of the world will not overcome you.(:note) prevail against thee: for I [am] with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

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:16:10 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Why hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] (note:)Because the wicked are always rebellious and conceal their own sins and murmur against God's judgments, as though he had no just cause to punish them, he shows him what to answer.(:note) our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

geneva@Jeremiah:16:15 @ But, The LORD liveth, that brought the children of Israel from the land of the north, and (note:)Signifying that the blessing of their deliverance out of Babylon would be so great that it would abolish the remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt: but he has here chiefly respect to the spiritual deliverance under Christ.(:note) from all the lands where he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:16 @ Behold, I will send for many (note:)By the fishers and hunters are meant the Babylonians and Chaldeans who would destroy them in such sort, that if they escaped the one, the other would take them.(:note) fishermen, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my (note:)He wonders at the great mercy of God in this deliverance which will not only extend to the Jews but also to the Gentiles.(:note) strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited Our fathers were most vile idolaters therefore it comes only of God's mercy that he performs his promise and has not utterly cast us off. lies, vanity, and [things] in which [there is] no profit.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus saith the LORD; (note:)The Jews were given to worldly policies and thought to make themselves strong by the friendship of the Egyptians, (Isa_31:3) and strangers and in the mean time did not depend on God, and therefore he denounces God's plagues against them, showing that they prefer corruptible man to God, who is immortal, (Isa_2:22; Jer_48:6-7).(:note) Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written (note:)Their names will not be registered in the book of life.(:note) in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:14 @ Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; (note:)He desires God to preserve him that he fall not into temptation, considering the great contempt of God's word, and the multitude that fall from God.(:note) save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, (note:)The wicked say that my prophecy will not come to pass, because you deferred the time of your vengeance.(:note) they say to me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it come now.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:19 @ Thus said the LORD to me; Go and stand in the (note:)While your doctrine may best be understood both by high and low.(:note) gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

geneva@Jeremiah:17:21 @ Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the (note:)By naming the Sabbath day, he comprehends the thing that is signified by it, for if they transgressed in the ceremony, they must be guilty of the rest, read (Exo_20:8) and by the breaking of this one commandment, he makes them transgressors of the whole law, as the first and second table are contained in it.(:note) sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;

geneva@Jeremiah:19:3 @ And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O (note:)By kings here and in other places are meant counsellors and governors of the people; who he calls the ancients, (Jer_19:1).(:note) kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever heareth, his ears shall Read of this phrase in (1Sa_3:11). tingle.

geneva@Jeremiah:19:6 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called (note:)Read (Jer_7:31; 2Ki_23:10; Isa_30:33).(:note) Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

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:20:2 @ Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the (note:)Thus we see that the thing which neither the king nor the princes nor the people dared to undertake against the prophet of God, this priest as a chief instrument of Satan first attempted, read (Jer_18:18).(:note) stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the house of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was (note:)In this appears the impatiency which often overcomes the servants of God when they do not see their labours profit, and also feel their own weakness. {{See Jer_15:18}}(:note) deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast You thrust me forth to this work against my will. prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and (note:)He shows that he did his office in that he reproved the people of their vices and threatened them with God's judgments: but because he was derided and persecuted for this, he was discouraged, and would have stopped preaching, except that God's spirit forced him to it.(:note) spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:16 @ And let that man be as the (note:)Alluding to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, (Gen_19:25).(:note) cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon;

geneva@Jeremiah:21:4 @ Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will (note:)That is, from your enemies to destroy yourselves.(:note) turn back the weapons of war that [are] in your hands, with which ye fight against the king of Babylon, and [against] the Chaldeans, who besiege you outside the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

geneva@Jeremiah:21:8 @ And to this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the (note:)By yielding yourselves to Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) way of life, and the way of By resisting him. death.

geneva@Jeremiah:21:12 @ O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment (note:)Be diligent to do justice.(:note) in the morning, and deliver [him that is] made desolate out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.

geneva@Jeremiah:21:13 @ Behold, I [am] against thee, (note:)Meaning, Jerusalem which was built part on the hill and part in the valley and was compassed about with mountains.(:note) O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; who say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

geneva@Jeremiah:21:14 @ But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire (note:)That is, in the houses of it, which stood as thick as trees in the forest.(:note) in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:3 @ Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and (note:)This was his ordinary manner of preaching before the kings from Josiah to Zedekiah which was about forty years.(:note) righteousness, and deliver him that is laid waste out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:5 @ But if ye will not hear these words, I (note:)Showing that there is no one greater than he is, (Heb_6:13) and that he will most certainly perform his oath.(:note) swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:6 @ For thus saith the LORD to the king's house of Judah; Thou [art] (note:)He compares Jerusalem to Gilead which was beyond Jordan and the beauty of Judea to Lebanon.(:note) Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:11 @ For thus saith the LORD concerning (note:)Whom some think to be Jehoiachin and that Josiah was his grandfather: but it seems this was Jehoiakim, as in (Jer_22:18).(:note) Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place; He shall not return there any more:

geneva@Jeremiah:22:18 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for (note:)For everyone will have enough to lament for himself.(:note) him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

geneva@Jeremiah:22:24 @ [As] I live, saith the LORD, though (note:)Who was called Jehoiachin or Jeconiah, whom he calls here Coniah in contempt who thought his kingdom could never depart from him, because he came of the stock of David, and therefore for the promise sake could not be taken from his house, but he abused God's promise and therefore was justly deprived of the kingdom.(:note) Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee from there;

geneva@Jeremiah:22:29 @ O (note:)He shows that all posterity will be witnesses of his just plague, as though it were registered for perpetual memory.(:note) earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:30 @ Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this (note:)Not that he had no children (for later he begat Salathiel in the captivity, (Mat_1:12)) but that none would reign after him as king.(:note) man childless, a man [that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:1 @ Woe be to (note:)Meaning the prince's governors and false prophets as in (Eze_34:2).(:note) the shepherds that destroy and scatter the For which I have special care, and have prepared good pastures for them. sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:2 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds that (note:)Whose charge is to feed the flock but they eat the fruit of it, (Eze_34:3).(:note) feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:5 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous (note:)This prophecy is of the restitution of the Church in the time of Jesus Christ, who is the true branch, read (Isa_11:1, Isa_45:8; Jer_35:15; Dan_9:24).(:note) Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice upon the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:7 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The (note:)Read (Jer_16:14).(:note) LORD liveth, who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

geneva@Jeremiah:23:9 @ My heart within me is broken because of the (note:)Meaning, the false prophets who deceive the people: in which appears his great love toward his nation, read (Jer_14:13).(:note) prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

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:23:15 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with (note:)Read (Jer_8:14).(:note) wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:16 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own (note:)Which they have invented of their own brain.(:note) heart, [and] not from the mouth of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They say still to them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye (note:)Read (Jer_6:14, Jer_8:11).(:note) shall have peace; and they say to every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For (note:)Thus they derided Jeremiah as though the word of God was not revealed to him, so also spoke Zedekiah to Micaiah, (1Ki_22:24).(:note) who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]?

geneva@Jeremiah:23:20 @ The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he shall have executed, and till he shall have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye (note:)Both that God has sent me, and that my words will be true.(:note) shall consider it perfectly.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:23 @ [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God (note:)Do I not see your falsehood, however you cloak it, and wherever you commit it?(:note) afar off?

geneva@Jeremiah:23:28 @ The prophet that hath a dream, let him (note:)Let the false prophet declare that it is his own fantasy, and not slander my word as though it were a cloak to cover his lies.(:note) tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. Meaning, that it is not enough for God's ministers to abstain from lies and to speak the word of God but that there is judgment in alleging it, and that it may appear to be applied to the same purpose that it was spoken, (Eze_3:27; 1Co_2:13, 1Co_4:2; 2Ti_2:25). What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:30 @ Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that (note:)Who set forth in my Name that which I have not commanded.(:note) steal my words every one from his neighbour.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:31 @ Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, (note:)That is, the Lord.(:note) He saith.

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:23:36 @ And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's (note:)The thing which they mock and contemn will come on them.(:note) word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

geneva@Jeremiah:24:1 @ The LORD showed me, and, behold, two (note:)The good figs signified them that were gone into captivity and so saved their life, as in (Jer_21:8), and the bad figs them that remained, who were yet subject to the sword, famine and pestilence.(:note) baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

geneva@Jeremiah:24:5 @ Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this (note:)By which he approves the yielding of Jeconiah and his company because they obeyed the prophet, who exhorted them to it.(:note) place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.

geneva@Jeremiah:24:7 @ And I will give them (note:)Which declares that man of himself can know nothing till God gives the heart and understanding.(:note) an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

geneva@Jeremiah:24:8 @ And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell (note:)Who fled there for comfort.(:note) in the land of Egypt:

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:25:5 @ They (note:)He shows that the prophets, wholly with one consent laboured to pull the people from those vices, which then reigned, that is, from idolatry and the vain confidence of men: for under these two all others were contained, (2Ki_17:13; Jer_18:11, Jer_35:15; Jon_3:8).(:note) said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given to you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

geneva@Jeremiah:25:9 @ Behold, I will send and take all the (note:)The Chaldeans and all their power.(:note) families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my So the wicked and Satan himself are God's servants, because he makes them serve him by constraint and turns that which they do out of malice to his honour and glory. servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations As the Philistines, Ammonites, Egyptians and others. around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an horror, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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:25:15 @ For thus saith the LORD God of Israel to me; (note:)Signifying the extreme affliction that God had appointed for everyone, (Psa_75:8; Isa_51:17) and this cup which the wicked drink, is more bitter than that which he gives to his children, for he measures the one by mercy, and the other by justice.(:note) Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:29 @ For, lo, (note:)That is Jerusalem, read (Jer_25:12).(:note) I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

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:26:2 @ Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the (note:)That is, in that place of the temple to which the people resort out of all Judah to sacrifice.(:note) court of the LORD'S house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak to them; diminish not a word: To the intent that they should pretend no ignorance, as in (Act_20:27).

geneva@Jeremiah:26:9 @ Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, (note:)Because of God's promises to the temple, (Psa_132:14) that he would forever remain there, hypocrites thought this temple could never perish and therefore thought it blasphemy to speak against it, (Mat_26:61; Act_6:13) not considering that this was meant of the Church where God will remain forever.(:note) This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:10 @ When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entrance of the (note:)So called, because it was repaired by Jotham, (2Ki_15:35).(:note) new gate of the LORD'S [house].

geneva@Jeremiah:26:12 @ Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD (note:)He both shows the cause of his doings plainly and also threatens them that nothing would help, though they should put him to death, but heap greater vengeance on their heads.(:note) sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:18 @ Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the (note:)That is, of the House of the Lord, that is, Zion, and these examples the godly alleged to deliver Jeremiah out of the priests hands, whose rage else would not have been satisfied but by his death.(:note) house as the high places of the forest.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:19 @ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear the LORD, and beseech the LORD, and the LORD repented of the (note:)So that the city was not destroyed, but by a miracle was delivered out of the hands of Sennacherib.(:note) evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of (note:)Concerning the disposition of these prophecies, they who gathered them into a book, did not altogether observe the order of times, but saw some before, which should be after, and contrary wise which if the reader mark well it will avoid many doubts and make the reading much easier.(:note) Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:27:2 @ Thus saith the LORD to me; Make for thee (note:)By such signs the prophets used sometimes to confirm their prophecies which they could not do of themselves but in as much as they had a revelation for the same, (Isa_20:2) and therefore the false prophets to get more credit, used also such visible signs but they had no revelation, (1Ki_22:12).(:note) bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

geneva@Jeremiah:27:16 @ Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be (note:)Which were taken when Jeconiah was led captive into Babel.(:note) brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:18 @ But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now (note:)For it was not only the prophet's office to show the word of God, but also to pray for the sins of the people, (Gen_20:7) which these could not do because they had no express word: for God had pronounced the contrary.(:note) make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

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:28:1 @ And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the (note:)When Jeremiah began to bear these bonds and yokes.(:note) reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the After the land had rested, as in (Lev_25:2). fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who [was] of This was a city in Benjamin belonging to the sons of Aaron, (Jos_21:17). Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:28:5 @ Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the (note:)He was so esteemed though he was a false prophet.(:note) prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,

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:28:14 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a (note:)That is, a hard and cruel servitude.(:note) yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the Signifying that all would be his as in (Dan_2:38). beasts of the field also.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:4 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all that are carried away captives, whom I have (note:)That is, the Lord whose work this was.(:note) caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon;

geneva@Jeremiah:29:7 @ And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives, and (note:)The prophet does not speak this for the affection that he bore to the tyrant, but that they should pray for the common rest and quietness that their troubles might not be increased, and that they might with more patience and less grief wait for the time of their deliverance, which God had appointed most certain: for not only the Israelites but all the world yea and the insensible creatures would rejoice when these tyrants would be destroyed, as in (Isa_24:4).(:note) pray to the LORD for it: for in the peace of it ye shall have peace.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:15 @ Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us (note:)As Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah.(:note) prophets in Babylon;

geneva@Jeremiah:29:17 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the (note:)By which he assures them that there will be no hope of returning before the appointed time.(:note) sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile According to the comparison, (Jer_24:1-2). figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:19 @ Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, (note:)Read (Jer_7:13, Jer_25:3, Jer_26:5).(:note) rising early and sending [them]; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:22 @ And concerning them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah who [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted (note:)Because they gave the people hope of speedy returning.(:note) in the fire;

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:29:26 @ The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of (note:)Shemaiah the false prophet flatters Zephaniah the chief priest as though God had given him the spirit and zeal of Jehoiada to punish whoever trespassed against the word of God, of that he would have made Jeremiah one, calling him a raver and a false prophet.(:note) Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:32 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man (note:)He and his seed will be destroyed so that none of them would see the blessing of this deliverance.(:note) to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:2 @ Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write for thee all the words that I have spoken to thee in a (note:)Because they would be assured and their posterity confirmed in the hope of this deliverance promised.(:note) book.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:5 @ For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a (note:)He shows that before this deliverance will come, the Chaldeans would be extremely afflicted by their enemies, and that they would be in such perplexity and sorrow as a woman in her travail as (Isa_13:8).(:note) voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:9 @ But they shall serve the LORD their God, and (note:)That is, Messiah who would come of the stock of David according to the flesh and would be the true pastor, (Eze_34:23) who is set forth and his kingdom would be everlasting in the person of David, (Hos_3:5).(:note) David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:11 @ For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not (note:)In this is commanded God's great mercy toward his, who does not destroy them for their sins, but corrects and chastises them till he has purged and pardoned them and so burns the rods by which he punished them, (Isa_33:1).(:note) leave thee altogether unpunished.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:18 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captives of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the (note:)Meaning that the city and the temple would be restored to their former estate.(:note) palace shall remain after its manner.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:21 @ And their (note:)Meaning, Zerubbabel, who was the figure of Christ in whom this was accomplished.(:note) nobles shall be from themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who [is] this that engaged his Signifying that Christ willingly submits himself to the obedience of God his father. heart to approach to me? saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:23 @ Behold, (note:)Lest the wicked hypocrites should flatter themselves with these promises the prophet shows what will be their portion.(:note) the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:24 @ The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath done [it], and until he hath performed the intents of his heart: in the (note:)When this Messiah and deliverer is sent.(:note) latter days ye shall consider it.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:1 @ At the (note:)When this noble governor will come, meaning Christ, not only Judah and Israel, but the rest of the world will be called.(:note) same time, saith the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

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:31:3 @ The LORD appeared (note:)The people thus reason as though he were not so beneficial to them now as he had been of old.(:note) of old to me, [saying], Thus the Lord answers that his love is not changeable. I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:6 @ For there shall be a day, [that] the (note:)The ministers of the word.(:note) watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to They will exhort all to the embracing of the gospel, as in (Isa_2:3). Zion to the LORD our God.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:11 @ For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand (note:)That is, from the Babylonians and other enemies.(:note) of [him that was] stronger than he.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:12 @ Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for (note:)By these temporal benefits he means the spiritual graces which are in the Church, and of which there would ever be plenty, (Isa_58:11-12).(:note) grain, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:14 @ And I will abundantly satisfy the soul of the priests with (note:)Meaning, the spirit of wisdom, knowledge and zeal.(:note) fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:15 @ Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; (note:)To declare the greatness of God's mercy in delivering the Jews, he shows them that they were like the Benjamites of the Israelites, that is, utterly destroyed and carried away, so much so that if Rachel the mother of Benjamin could have risen again to seek her children she would have found none remaining.(:note) Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] not.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:18 @ I have surely heard (note:)That is, the people who were led captive.(:note) Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a Which was wanton and could not be subject to the yoke. bull unaccustomed [to the yoke]: He shows how the faithful used to pray, that is, desire God to tame them as they cannot turn of themselves. turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:20 @ [Is] Ephraim (note:)As though he would say no for by his iniquity he did what lay in him to cast me off.(:note) my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly That is, in piety of him for my promise’s sake. remember him still: therefore my heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:22 @ How long wilt thou wander about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created (note:)Because their deliverance from Babylon was a figure of their deliverance from sin, he shows how this would be procured that is, by Jesus Christ, whom a woman would conceive and bear in her womb. Which is a strange thing in earth, because he would be born of a virgin without man or he means that Jerusalem which was like a barren woman in her captivity would be fruitful as she that is joined in marriage and whom God blesses with children.(:note) a new thing in the earth, A woman shall encompass a man.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:27 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah (note:)I will multiply and enrich them with people and cattle.(:note) with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:31 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a (note:)Though the covenant of redemption made to the fathers and this which was given later seemed varied, yet they are all one and grounded on Jesus Christ, save that this is called new, because of the manifestation of Christ and the abundant graces of the Holy Spirit given to his Church under the gospel.(:note) new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

geneva@Jeremiah:31:32 @ Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they (note:)And so were the opportunity of their own divorcement through their infidelity, (Isa_50:1).(:note) broke, although I was an husband to them, saith the LORD:

geneva@Jeremiah:31:33 @ But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After (note:)In the time of Christ, my law will instead of tables of stone be written in their hearts by my Holy Spirit, (Heb_8:10).(:note) those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:34 @ And they shall (note:)Under the kingdom of Christ there will be no one blinded with ignorance, but I will give them faith, and acknowledge God for remission of their sins and daily increase the same: so that it will not seem to come so much by the preaching of my ministers as by the instruction of my Holy Spirit, (Isa_54:13) but the full accomplishing of it is referred to the kingdom of Christ, when we will be joined with our head.(:note) teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:35 @ Thus saith the LORD, who giveth (note:)If the sun, moon and stars cannot but glue light according to my ordinance, so long as this world lasts, so shall my church never fail, neither shall anything hinder it: and as sure as I will have a people, so certain is it, that I will leave them my word forever to govern them with.(:note) the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divideth the sea when its waves roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:

geneva@Jeremiah:31:37 @ Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, (note:)The one and the other is impossible.(:note) and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:38 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the (note:)As it was performed, (Neh_3:1). By this description he shows that the city would be as ample and beautiful as it ever was: but he alludes to the spiritual Jerusalem whose beauty would be incomparable.(:note) city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the corner.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the (note:)So that Jeremiah had now prophesied from the thirteenth year of Josiah to the last year save one of Zedekiah's reign, which was almost forty years.(:note) tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:5 @ And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until (note:)Till I take Zedekiah away by death: for he will not die by the sword as in (Jer_34:4).(:note) I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:8 @ So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said to me, Buy my (note:)Of the possession of the Levites, read (Lev_25:32).(:note) field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:14 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase, both that which is sealed, and this deed which is open; and put them in an earthen (note:)And so to hide them in the ground, that they might be reserved as a token of their deliverance.(:note) vessel, that they may continue many days.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:27 @ Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all (note:)That is, of every creature: who as they are his work, so does he govern and guide them as pleases him, by which he shows that as he is the author of their captivity for their sins, so will he for his mercies be their redeemer to restore them again to liberty.(:note) flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

geneva@Jeremiah:32:30 @ For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done evil only before me from their (note:)From the time that I brought them out of Egypt and made them my people and called them my firstborn.(:note) youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:36 @ And now (note:)Read (Jer_30:16).(:note) therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, of which ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

geneva@Jeremiah:32:44 @ Men shall buy (note:)This is the declaration of that which was spoken of in (Jer_32:8).(:note) fields for money, and signed deeds, and seal [them], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captives to return, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the (note:)Which was in the king's house at Jerusalem, as in (Jer_32:1-2).(:note) court of the prison, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:33:2 @ Thus saith the LORD the (note:)That is, of Jerusalem, who as he made it, so will he preserve it, read (Isa_37:26).(:note) maker of this, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;

geneva@Jeremiah:33:4 @ For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the (note:)Read (Jer_32:24).(:note) mounts, and by the sword;

geneva@Jeremiah:33:11 @ The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, (note:)Which was a song appointed for the Levites to praise God by, (1Ch_16:8; Psa_105:1; Psa_106:1; Psa_107:1; Psa_118:1; Psa_136:1; Isa_12:4)(:note) Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captives of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:13 @ In the cities of the (note:)Meaning that all the country of Judah will be inhabited again.(:note) mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that counteth [them], saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:16 @ In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell in safety: and this [is the name] by which (note:)That is, Christ that will call his Church.(:note) she shall be called, The LORD our That is, Christ is our Lord God, our righteousness, sanctification and redemption, (1Co_1:30). righteousness.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:20 @ Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the (note:)Read (Jer_31:35).(:note) day, and my covenant of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season;

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:34:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when (note:)Who commonly by Jeremiah was called Nebuchadrezzar and by others Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all its cities, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:34:5 @ [But] thou shalt die in (note:)Not of any violent death.(:note) peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings who were before thee, so shall they burn [incense] for thee; and they will lament thee, [saying], Ah The Jews will lament for you their lord and king. lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:34:8 @ [This is] the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who [were] at Jerusalem, (note:)When the enemy was at hand and they saw themselves in danger, they would seem holy, and so began some kind of reformation: but soon after they uttered their hypocrisy.(:note) to proclaim liberty to them;

geneva@Jeremiah:34:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened to me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to (note:)That is, I give the sword liberty to destroy you.(:note) the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days (note:)For the disposition and order of these prophecies. {{See Jer_27:1}}(:note) of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:35:2 @ Go to the house of the (note:)They came from Hobab, Moses father-in-law, who was no Israelite, but later joined with them in the service of God.(:note) Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:4 @ And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man (note:)That is, a prophet.(:note) of God, who [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was] above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:

geneva@Jeremiah:35:13 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will (note:)Whom I have chosen to be my children seeing these who were the children of a heathen, obeyed the commandment of their father.(:note) ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have (note:)That is, by his prophets and ministers which shows that it is as much, as though he would speak to us himself when he sends his ministers to speak in his Name.(:note) spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:19 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall (note:)His posterity will continue and be in my favour for ever.(:note) not lack a man to stand before me for ever.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:1 @ And it came to pass in the fourth (note:){{See Jer_25:1}}(:note) year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:36:4 @ Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote (note:)As he indicted.(:note) from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken to him, upon a roll of a book.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:5 @ And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] (note:)Meaning, in prison through the malice of the priests.(:note) shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

geneva@Jeremiah:36:6 @ Therefore go thou, and read in the scroll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the (note:)Which was proclaimed for fear of the Babylonians, as their custom was when they feared war, or any great plague of God.(:note) day of fasting: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:7 @ It may be they will (note:)He shows that fasting without prayer and repentance does nothing but is mere hypocrisy.(:note) present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:9 @ And it came to pass in the fifth (note:)The fast was then proclaimed and Baruch read this rule which was a little before Jerusalem was first taken, and then Jehoiakim and Daniel and his companions were led away captive.(:note) year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:10 @ Then Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entrance of the (note:)Which is the East gate of the temple.(:note) new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:26 @ But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD (note:)Thus we see the continual care that God has over his to preserve them from the rage of the wicked.(:note) hid them.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:29 @ And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this scroll, saying, (note:)These are Jehoiakim's words.(:note) Why hast thou written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and beast?

geneva@Jeremiah:36:30 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have (note:)Though Jehoiachin his son succeeded him, yet because he reigned but three months, it was esteemed as no reign.(:note) none to sit upon the throne of David: and his {{See Jer_22:19}} dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:3 @ And Zedekiah the king (note:)Because he was afraid of the Chaldeans who came against him.(:note) sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to the LORD our God for us.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:2 @ Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for (note:)Read (Jer_21:9, Jer_45:5).(:note) a prize, and shall live.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth to the king of Babylon's (note:)And yield yourself to them.(:note) princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house:

geneva@Jeremiah:39:18 @ For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prize to thee: because thou (note:)Thus God recompensed his zeal and favour which he showed to his prophet in his troubles.(:note) hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:3 @ Now the LORD hath brought [it], and done according as he hath said: because ye have (note:)God moved this infidel to speak this to declare the great blindness and obstinacy of the Jews who could not feel that which this heathen man confessed.(:note) sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

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:42:3 @ That the LORD thy God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing that we may (note:)This declares the nature of hypocrites who would know of God's word what they should do, but will not follow it, unless it agrees with that thing which they have purposed to do.(:note) do.

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:42:11 @ Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I [am] with you to save you, and to deliver you (note:)Because all king's hearts and ways are in his hands, he can turn them and dispose them as it pleases him, and therefore they need not fear man, but only obey God, (Pro_21:1).(:note) from his hand.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:18 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an horror, and a (note:)Read (Jer_26:6) showing that this would come on them for their infidelity and stubbornness.(:note) curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:20 @ For ye were (note:)For you were fully intending to go into Egypt, whatever God spoke to the contrary.(:note) hypocrites in your hearts, when ye sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do [it].

geneva@Jeremiah:43:2 @ Then spoke (note:)Who was also called Jezaniah, (Jer_42:1).(:note) Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the This declares that pride is the cause of rebellion and contempt of God's ministers. proud men, saying to Jeremiah, When the hypocrisy of the wicked is discovered, they burst forth into open rage: for they can abide nothing but flattery, read (Isa_30:10). Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath He shows what is the nature of the hypocrites: that is, to pretend that they would obey God and embrace his word, if they were assured that his messenger spoke the truth: though indeed they are most far from all obedience. not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

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:43:10 @ And say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (note:)Read (Jer_25:9).(:note) my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

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:44:25 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your (note:)You have committed double evil in making wicked vows, and in performing the same.(:note) hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:26 @ Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name (note:)This declares a horrible plague toward idolaters, seeing that God will not vouchsafe to have his Name mentioned by such as have polluted it.(:note) shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:30 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will (note:)He shows the means by which they would be destroyed to assure them of the certainty of the plague and yet they remain still in their obstinacy till they perish: for Josephus writes that five years after the taking of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar the younger having overcome the Moabites and the Ammonites went against Egypt and slew the king and so brought these Jews and others into Babylon.(:note) give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

geneva@Jeremiah:45:3 @ Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I (note:)Baruch moved with an inconsiderate zeal for Jeremiah's imprisonment, but chiefly for the destruction of the people and the temple makes this lamentation, as in (Psa_6:6).(:note) fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

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:45:5 @ And seekest (note:)«Do you think to have honour and credit?» in which he shows his infirmity.(:note) thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give to thee for Read (Jer_21:9). a prize in all places where thou goest.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the (note:)That is, nine nations which are around the land of Egypt.(:note) Gentiles;

geneva@Jeremiah:46:18 @ [As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall (note:)That is, that the Egyptians will be destroyed.(:note) he come.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:23 @ They shall cut down (note:)That is, they will slay the great and mighty men of power.(:note) her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the That is, Nebuchadnezzar's army. grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

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:46:26 @ And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as (note:)Meaning, that after forty years Egypt would be restored, (Isa_19:23; Eze_29:13).(:note) in the days of old, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:28 @ Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct (note:){{See Jer_20:14}}(:note) thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

geneva@Jeremiah:47:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote (note:)Or Azzah, a city of the Philistines.(:note) Gaza.

geneva@Jeremiah:47:2 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise out of the (note:)He means the army of the Chaldeans, (Isa_8:7,8).(:note) north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is in it; the city, and them that dwell in it: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

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:47:7 @ How can it be (note:)Meaning, that it is not profitable that the wicked should by any means escape or hinder the Lord when he will take vengeance.(:note) quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:1 @ Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe to (note:)These were cities of the Moabites, which Nebuchadnezzar took before he went to fight against Nebo King of Egypt.(:note) Nebo! for it is laid waste: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:25 @ The (note:)That is, his power and strength.(:note) horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:26 @ Make ye him (note:)He willed the Chaldeans to lay afflictions enough on them till they are like drunken men that fall down to their shame and are derided by all.(:note) drunk: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:30 @ I know his wrath, saith the LORD; (note:)He will not execute his malice against his neighbours.(:note) but [it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it].

geneva@Jeremiah:48:40 @ For thus saith the LORD; Behold, (note:)That is, Nebuchadnezzar, as in (Jer_49:22).(:note) he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:47 @ Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the (note:)That is, they will be restored by the Messiah.(:note) latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far [is] the judgment of Moab.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:1 @ Concerning the (note:)They were separated from the Moabites by the river Arnon, and after the ten tribes were carried away into captivity, they invaded the country of Gad.(:note) Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king That is, of the Ammonites. inherit Gad, and his people dwell in Meaning, of the Israelites. his cities?

geneva@Jeremiah:49:2 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in (note:)Which was one of the chief cities of the Ammonites, as were Heshbon and Ai: there was also a city called Heshbon among the Moabites.(:note) Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir to them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:6 @ And (note:)In the time of Christ, when the Gentiles will be called.(:note) afterward I will bring again the captives of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:7 @ Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in (note:)Which was a city of Edom, called by the name of Teman Eliphaz's son, who came from Esau.(:note) Teman? hath counsel perished from the prudent? hath their wisdom vanished?

geneva@Jeremiah:49:12 @ For thus saith the LORD; (note:)I have not spared my own people and how should I pity you?(:note) Behold, they whose judgment [was] not to drink of the cup have assuredly drank; and [art] thou he [that] shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].

geneva@Jeremiah:49:13 @ For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that (note:)Which was a chief city of Edom.(:note) Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:14 @ I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent to the nations, [saying], Gather ye together, and come against (note:)That is, Bozrah.(:note) her, and rise up to the battle.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:20 @ Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least (note:)They will not be able to resist his petty captains.(:note) of the flock shall draw them out: surely To visit the enemy. he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:28 @ Concerning (note:)Meaning the Arabians, and their borders.(:note) Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and lay waste the men of the east.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:30 @ Flee, go far off, (note:)The enemies will dwell in your places.(:note) dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:34 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against (note:)That is Persia, so called for Elam the son of Shem.(:note) Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:49:35 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the (note:)Because the Persians were good archers, he shows that the thing in which they put their trust would not profit them.(:note) bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:38 @ And I will set my (note:)I will place Nebuchadnezzar there, and in these prophecies Jeremiah speaks of those countries which would be subdued under the first of those four monarchies of which Daniel makes mention.(:note) throne in Elam, and will destroy from there the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:39 @ But it shall come to pass (note:)This may be referred to the empire of the Persians and Medes after the Chaldeans or to the time of Christ, as in (Jer_48:47).(:note) in the latter days, [that] I will bring again the captives of Elam, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:4 @ In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall (note:)When Cyrus will take Babel.(:note) come, they and the children of Judah together, going and Read (Jer_31:9). weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

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:50:10 @ And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that spoil her (note:)Shall be made rich by it.(:note) shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, (note:)In sign of contempt and disdain.(:note) and hiss at all her plagues.

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:50:28 @ The voice of them that (note:)Of the Jews who would be delivered by Cyrus.(:note) flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:34 @ Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, (note:)He shows that when God executes his judgments against his enemies, that his Church will then have rest.(:note) and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:1 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise against me, a destroying (note:)The Medes and Persians who will destroy them as the wind does the chaff.(:note) wind;

geneva@Jeremiah:51:5 @ For Israel [hath] not [been] (note:)Though they were forsaken for a time, yet they were not utterly cast off as though their husbands were dead.(:note) forsaken, nor Judah by his God, by the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:51:10 @ The LORD hath brought forth our (note:)In approving our cause and punishing our enemies.(:note) righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:11 @ Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his purpose [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the (note:)For the wrong done to his people and to his temple, (Jer_50:28).(:note) vengeance of his temple.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:19 @ The (note:)That is, the true God of Israel is not like these idols: for he can help when all things are desperate.(:note) portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the one who formed of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:25 @ Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying (note:)Not that Babylon stood on a mountain but because it was strong and seemed invincible.(:note) mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the From your strongholds and fortresses. rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:33 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest (note:)When she will be cut up and threshed.(:note) shall come.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:36 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy (note:)Thus the Lord esteemed the injury done to his Church as done to himself because their cause is his.(:note) cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:39 @ In their (note:)When they are inflamed with surfeiting and drinking, I will feast with them, alluding to Belshazzar's banquet, (Dan_5:2).(:note) heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:48 @ Then the heaven and (note:)All creatures in heaven and earth will rejoice and praise God for the destruction of Babylon the great enemy of his Church.(:note) the earth, and all that [is] in them, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:50 @ Ye that (note:)Yet that are now captives in Babylon.(:note) have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:51 @ We are (note:)He shows how they would remember Jerusalem by lamenting the miserable affliction of it.(:note) confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for foreigners are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:53 @ Though Babylon should mount up to (note:)For the walls were two hundred feet high.(:note) heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come to her, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:57 @ And I will (note:)I will so astonish them by affliction that they will not know which way to turn themselves.(:note) make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:58 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The (note:)The thickness of the wall was fifty feet.(:note) broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the people in the fire, and they shall be weary.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:17 @ Also the (note:)Of these pillars read (1Ki_7:15).(:note) pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:20 @ The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without (note:)It was so much in quantity.(:note) weight.

geneva@Lamentations:1:5 @ Her adversaries (note:)That is, have rule over her, (Deu_28:41).(:note) are the head, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

geneva@Lamentations:1:12 @ [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any (note:)Thus Jerusalem laments moving others to pity her and to learn by her example.(:note) sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

geneva@Lamentations:1:17 @ Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] around him: Jerusalem is (note:)Who because of her pollution was separate from her husband, (Lev_15:19) and was abhorred for the time.(:note) as a menstruous woman among them.

geneva@Lamentations:2:7 @ The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a (note:)As the people were accustomed to praising God to the solemn feasts with a loud voice, so now the enemies blaspheme him with shouting and cry.(:note) noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

geneva@Lamentations:2:8 @ The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart (note:)This is a figurative speech as that was, when he said the ways lamented, (Lam_1:4) meaning that this sorrow was so great that the insensible things had their part of it.(:note) and the wall to lament; they languished together.

geneva@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said, My strength and my (note:)Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly often are, yet in the end the spirit gets the victory.(:note) hope hath perished from the LORD:

geneva@Lamentations:3:22 @ [It is of] the LORD'S (note:)Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his own mercies sake and for his promise will ever have his Church remain, though they are never so few in number, (Isa_1:9).(:note) mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

geneva@Lamentations:3:24 @ The LORD [is] my (note:)The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for no other inheritance, as (Psa_16:5).(:note) portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

geneva@Lamentations:4:16 @ The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no longer regard them: (note:)That is, the enemies.(:note) they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

geneva@Lamentations:4:20 @ The (note:)Our king Josiah, in whom stood our hope of God's favour and on whom depended our state and life was slain, whom he calls anointed, because he was a figure of Christ.(:note) breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

geneva@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: (note:)This prayer as is thought, was made when some of the people were carried away captive, others such as the poorest remained, and some went into Egypt and other places for comfort, though it seems that the prophet foreseeing their miseries to come, thus prayed.(:note) consider, and behold our reproach.

geneva@Lamentations:5:19 @ Thou, O LORD, remainest for (note:)And therefore your covenant and mercies can never fail.(:note) ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:3 @ The word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the (note:)That is, the spirit of prophecy, as in (Eze_3:22, Eze_37:1).(:note) hand of the LORD was there upon him.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:28 @ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness around. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell (note:)Considering the majesty of God, and the weakness of flesh.(:note) upon my face, and I heard a voice of one speaking.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:12 @ Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, [saying], (note:)By which he signifies that God's glory would not be diminished, although he departed out of his temple, for this declared that the city and temple would be destroyed.(:note) Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from his place.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:14 @ So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I (note:)This shows that there is always an infirmity of the flesh which can never be ready to render full obedience to God, and also God's grace who ever assists his, and overcomes their rebellious affections.(:note) went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:22 @ And the (note:)That is, the Spirit of prophecy.(:note) hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:23 @ Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the (note:)Meaning, the vision of the cherubims and the wheels.(:note) glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:13 @ Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be (note:)That is, I will not be pacified till I am avenged, (Isa_1:24).(:note) comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:13 @ Then shall (note:)That is, all nations when you will see my judgments.(:note) ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain [men] shall be among their idols all around their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet savour to all their idols.

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:8:12 @ Then said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel (note:)For besides their common idolatry they had particular service, which they had in secret chambers.(:note) do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:14 @ Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for (note:)The Jews write, that this was a prophet of the idols, who after his death was once a year mourned for in the night.(:note) Tammuz.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:4 @ And the LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that (note:)He shows what is the manner of God's children, whom he marks for salvation: that is, to mourn and cry out against the wickedness which they see committed against God's glory.(:note) sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:9 @ Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of (note:)That is, with all kinds of wickedness. {{See Isa_1:15}}(:note) blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:4 @ Then the glory of the LORD (note:)Meaning that the glory of God would depart from the temple.(:note) went up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:10 @ Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of (note:)That is, in Riblah, read (2Ki_25:6).(:note) Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

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:11:25 @ Then I spoke to them of the (note:)When Jeconiah was led away captive.(:note) captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:16 @ But I will leave a (note:)Who would bear his Name, and would be his Church.(:note) few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:2 @ Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou to them that prophesy out of their (note:)After their own fantasy and not as having the revelation of the Lord, (Jer_23:16).(:note) own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

geneva@Ezekiel:13:7 @ Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, though (note:)You promised peace to this people and now you see their destruction, so that it is revealed that you are false prophets.(:note) ye say, The LORD saith [it]; although I have not spoken?

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

geneva@Ezekiel:14:9 @ And if the prophet be (note:)The prophet declares that God for man's ingratitude raises up false prophets to seduce them that delight in lies rather than in the truth of God, and thus he punishes sin with sin, (1Ki_22:20, 1Ki_22:22) and destroys those prophets as well as the people.(:note) deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:15:7 @ And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from [one] (note:)Though they escape one danger, yet another will take them.(:note) fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I set my face against them.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:24 @ And all the (note:)All the world will know that I have plucked down the proud enemies, and set up my Church which was low and contemned.(:note) trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done [it].

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:20:5 @ And say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and (note:)I swore that I would be their God, which manner of oath was observed from all antiquity, where they used to lift up their hands toward the heavens, acknowledging God to be the author of truth and the defender of it, and also the judge of the heart, wishing that he would take vengeance, if they concealed anything which they knew to be truth.(:note) lifted up my hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand to them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God;

geneva@Ezekiel:20:7 @ Then said I to them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, (note:)God had forbidden them to make mention of the idols, (Exo_23:13; Psa_16:4).(:note) and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:26 @ And I polluted them in their own (note:)I condemned those things, and counted them as abominable, which they thought had been excellent and to have declared most zeal, (Luk_16:15) for that which God required as most excellent they gave to their idols.(:note) gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the fire] all the firstborn, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:38 @ And I will (note:)Signifying that he will not burn the corn with the chaff, but chose out the wicked to punish them when he will spare his.(:note) purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:47 @ And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every (note:)Both strong and weak in Jerusalem.(:note) green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:3 @ And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the (note:)That is such which seem to have an outward show of righteousness by observation of the ceremonies of the law.(:note) righteous and the wicked.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:14 @ Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands (note:)That is, able to defend yourself.(:note) be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken [it], and will do [it].

geneva@Ezekiel:22:16 @ And thou shalt take thy (note:)You will be no more the inheritance of the Lord, but forsaken.(:note) inheritance in thyself in the sight of the nations, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:28 @ And her (note:)They who would have reproved them, flattered them in their vices and covered their doings with lies. {{See Eze_13:10}}(:note) prophets have daubed them with untempered [mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:1 @ Again in the (note:)Of Jeconiah's captivity and of the reign of Zedekiah, (2Ki_25:1).(:note) ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the Called Tebeth, which contains part of December and part of January: in which month and day Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem. month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:24:14 @ I the LORD have spoken [it]: it shall come to pass, and I will do [it]; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall (note:)That is, the Babylonians.(:note) they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:5 @ And I will make (note:)Called also Philadelphin, which was the chief city of the Ammonites and full of conveniences, (2Sa_12:27).(:note) Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

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:26:6 @ And her (note:)The towns that belonged to her.(:note) daughters who [are] in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:14 @ And I will make thee like the top of a rock: (note:)I will make you so bare that you will have nothing to cover you.(:note) thou shalt be [a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:22 @ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Zidon; and I will be (note:)By executing my judgments against your wickedness.(:note) glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:23 @ For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her (note:)That is Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:1 @ In the (note:)That is, of the captivity of Jeconiah, or of the reign of Zedekiah. Of the order of these prophecies, and how the former sometimes stands after the latter. {{See Jer_27:1}}(:note) tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:29:6 @ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I [am] the LORD, because they have been a staff of (note:)Read (2Ki_18:21; Isa_36:6).(:note) reed to the house of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:9 @ And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD: because he hath said, (note:)Thus God cannot permit man to attribute anything to himself or put his trust in anything save in him alone.(:note) The river [is] mine, and I have made [it].

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:30:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of (note:)Which was a strong city of Egypt, (Eze_29:10).(:note) Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

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:30:25 @ But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, (note:)By which we see that tyrants have no power of themselves, neither can do any more harm than God appoints and when he wills they must cease.(:note) when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

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:32:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Which was the first year of the general captivity under Zedekiah.(:note) twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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:33:30 @ Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are (note:)In derision.(:note) talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:27 @ And the (note:)The fruit of God's grace will appear in great abundance in his Church.(:note) tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that subjected them to service.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:9 @ I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not (note:)That is, to their former estate.(:note) return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:10 @ Because thou hast said, (note:)Meaning, Israel and Judah.(:note) These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; though the LORD was And so by fighting against God's people they should go about to put him out of his own possession. there:

geneva@Ezekiel:36:11 @ And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you according to your old estates, and will do better [to you] than (note:)Which was accomplished under Christ, to whom all these temporal deliverances directed them.(:note) at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:36 @ Then the nations that are left around you shall (note:)He declares that it ought not to be referred to the soil or plentifulness of the earth that any country is rich and abundant, but only to God's mercies, as his plagues and curses declare, when he makes it barren.(:note) know that I the LORD build the ruined [places, and] plant that which was desolate: I the LORD have spoken [it], and I will do [it].

geneva@Ezekiel:37:1 @ The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of (note:)He shows by a great miracle that God has power and will deliver his people from their captivity, in as much as he is able to give life to the dead bones and bodies and raise them up again.(:note) bones,

geneva@Ezekiel:37:13 @ And ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, (note:)That is, when I have brought you out of those places and towns where you are captives.(:note) when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you out of your graves,

geneva@Ezekiel:39:6 @ And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell securely in the (note:)That is, among all nations where the enemies of my people dwell, no matter how separate they seem.(:note) isles: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:1 @ In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the (note:)The Jews counted the beginning of the year after two sorts: for their feasts they began to count in March and for their other affairs in September: so that this is to be understood of September.(:note) beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in the same day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me there.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:4 @ And the (note:)Which was departed before, (Eze_10:4, Eze_12:22).(:note) glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:2 @ Then said the LORD to me; This gate shall be (note:)Meaning, from the common people, but not from the priests nor the prince, read (Eze_46:8-9).(:note) shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:1 @ Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation to the LORD, an (note:)Of all the land of Israel the Lord only requires this portion for the temple and for the priests for the city and for the prince.(:note) holy portion of the land: the length [shall be] the length of five and twenty thousand [reeds], and the breadth [shall be] ten thousand. This [shall be] holy in all its borders on every side.

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:9:4 @ And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the (note:)That is, has all power in yourself to execute your terrible judgments against obstinate sinners, as you are rich in mercy to comfort those who obey your word and love you.(:note) great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

geneva@Daniel:9:10 @ Neither have we obeyed the (note:)He shows that they rebel against God, who do not serve him according to his commandment and word.(:note) voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

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:1:2 @ The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife (note:)That is, one that has been a harlot for a long time: not that the Prophet did this thing in effect, but he saw this in a vision, or else was commanded by God to set forth under this parable or figure the idolatry of the Synagogue, and of the people her children.(:note) of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD.

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:1:7 @ But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will (note:)For after their captivity he restored them miraculously by the means of Cyrus; (Ezr_1:1).(:note) save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

geneva@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will visit upon her the days of (note:)I will punish her for her idolatry.(:note) Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her By showing how harlots trim themselves to please others, he declares how superstitious idolaters set a great part of their religion in adorning themselves on their holy days. earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Hosea:2:16 @ And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, [that] thou shalt call me (note:)That is, my husband, knowing that I am united to you by a covenant which could not be violated.(:note) Ishi; and shalt call me no more That is, my master: which name was applied to their idols. Baali.

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:2:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear (note:)Then will the heaven desire rain for the earth, which will bring forth things for the use of man.(:note) the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

geneva@Hosea:3:1 @ Then said the LORD unto me, (note:)In this the Prophet represents the person of God, who loved his Church before he called her, and did not withdraw his love when she gave herself to idols.(:note) Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and That is, gave themselves wholly to pleasure, and could not stop, as those that are given to drunkenness. love flagons of wine.

geneva@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and (note:)This is meant of Christ's kingdom, which was promised to David to be eternal; (Psa_72:17).(:note) David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

geneva@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD (note:)Because the people would not obey the admonitions of the Prophets, he accuses them before the judgment seat of God, against whom they chiefly offended; (Isa_7:13) (Zec_12:10; Mic_6:1,2).(:note) hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

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:4:16 @ For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a (note:)God will so disperse them, that they will not remain in any certain place.(:note) lamb in a large place.

geneva@Hosea:5:7 @ They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten (note:)That is, their children are degenerate, so that there is no hope in them.(:note) strange children: now shall Their destruction is not far off. a month devour them with their portions.

geneva@Hosea:6:1 @ Come, and let (note:)He shows the people that they ought to turn to the Lord, so that he might stop his plagues.(:note) us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

geneva@Hosea:8:1 @ [Set] the trumpet to thy (note:)God encourages the Prophet to signify the speedy coming of the enemy against Israel, which was once the people of God.(:note) mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

geneva@Hosea:8:13 @ They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat [it; but] the (note:)Saying that they offer it to the Lord, but he accepts no service which he himself has not appointed.(:note) LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not offer (note:)All their doings both with regard to administration and religion, will be rejected as polluted things.(:note) wine [offerings] to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices [shall be] unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread The meat offering which they offered for themselves. for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do (note:)When the Lord will take away all the occasions of serving him, which will be the most grievous part of your captivity, when you will see yourselves cut off from God.(:note) in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

geneva@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a (note:)The Prophet seeing the great plagues of God toward Ephraim, prays to God to make them barren, rather than that this great slaughter should come upon their children.(:note) miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

geneva@Hosea:10:3 @ For now they shall say, We have no (note:)The day will come that God will take away their king, and then they will feel the fruit of their sins, and how they trusted in him in vain; (2Ki_17:6-7).(:note) king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

geneva@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; (note:){{See Jer_4:3}}(:note) break up your fallow ground: for [it is] time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

geneva@Hosea:12:2 @ The LORD hath also a controversy with (note:)Which in those points was similar to Ephraim, but not in idolatry.(:note) Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

geneva@Hosea:12:9 @ And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in (note:)Seeing you will not acknowledge my benefits, I will bring you again to dwell in tents, as in the feast of the Tabernacles, which you now condemn.(:note) the days of the solemn feast.

geneva@Hosea:12:13 @ And by a (note:)Meaning Moses, by which appears that whatever they have, it comes from God's free goodness.(:note) prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

geneva@Hosea:13:4 @ Yet I [am] the LORD thy God (note:)He calls them to repentance, and reproves their ingratitude.(:note) from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.

geneva@Hosea:14:1 @ O Israel, (note:)He exhorts them to repentance to avoid all these plagues, exhorting them to declare by words their obedience and repentance.(:note) return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

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:1:9 @ The meat offering and the drink offering is (note:)The signs of God's wrath appeared in his temple, in so much that God's service was discontinued.(:note) cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

geneva@Joel:1:15 @ Alas for the day! for the (note:)We see by these great plagues that utter destruction is at hand.(:note) day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

geneva@Joel:2:1 @ Blow ye (note:)He shows the great judgments of God which are at hand, unless they repent.(:note) the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;

geneva@Joel:2:11 @ And the LORD shall (note:)The Lord will stir up the Assyrians to execute his judgments.(:note) utter his voice before his army: for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

geneva@Joel:2:13 @ And (note:)Mortify your affections and serve God with pureness of heart, and not with ceremonies.(:note) rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

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:2:18 @ Then will the LORD be (note:)If they repent he shows that God will preserve and defend them with a most fervent affection.(:note) jealous for his land, and pity his people.

geneva@Joel:2:23 @ Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain (note:)That is, such as would come by just measure, and would be sent when God was reconciled with them.(:note) moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].

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

geneva@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call (note:)God's judgments are for the destruction of the unbelievers, and to exhort the godly to call upon the name of God, who will give them salvation.(:note) on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the Meaning the Gentiles by this; (Rom_10:13). remnant whom the LORD shall call.

geneva@Joel:3:8 @ And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they (note:)For afterward God sold them by Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander the Great, because of the love he had for his people, and by this they were comforted, as though they themselves had sold them.(:note) shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

geneva@Joel:3:16 @ The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD [will be] the (note:)God assures his own against all trouble, that when he destroys his enemies, his children will be delivered.(:note) hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

geneva@Joel:3:17 @ So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass (note:)The strangers will no longer destroy his Church: and if they do, it is the fault of the people, who by their sins make the breach for the enemy.(:note) through her any more.

geneva@Joel:3:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the mountains shall (note:)He promises to his Church abundance of graces, {{See Eze_47:1}}, which would water and comfort the most barren places; (Amo_9:13).(:note) drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

geneva@Joel:3:21 @ For I will (note:)He had allowed his Church before this to lie in their filthiness, but now he promises to cleanse them and to make them pure unto himself.(:note) cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

geneva@Amos:1:2 @ And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top (note:)Whatever is fruitful and pleasant in Israel, will shortly perish.(:note) of Carmel shall wither.

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:1:5 @ I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto (note:)Tiglath Pileser led the Assyrians captive, and brought them to Cyrene, which he here calls Kir.(:note) Kir, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:1:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they (note:)They united themselves with the Edomites their enemies, who carried them away captive.(:note) carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver [them] up to Edom:

geneva@Amos:1:9 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the (note:)For Esau (from whom came the Edomites) and Jacob were brothers, therefore they ought to have admonished them by their brotherly friendship, and not to have provoked them to hatred.(:note) brotherly covenant:

geneva@Amos:1:11 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath (note:)He was a continual enemy to him.(:note) for ever:

geneva@Amos:1:13 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they (note:)He notes the great cruelty of the Ammonites, that did not spare the women, but most tyrannously tormented them, and yet the Ammonites came from Lot, who was of the household of Abraham.(:note) have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

geneva@Amos:2:1 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he burned the (note:)For the Moabites were so cruel against the King of Edom, that they burnt his bones after he was dead: which declared their barbarous rage, that they would avenge themselves upon the dead.(:note) bones of the king of Edom into lime:

geneva@Amos:2:4 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, (note:)Seeing that the Gentiles who did have as much knowledge were punished in this way, Judah which was so fully instructed by the Lord's will, should not think that they would escape.(:note) I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

geneva@Amos:2:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of (note:)If he did not spare Judah unto whom his promises were made, much more he will not spare this degenerate kingdom.(:note) Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of They esteemed most vile bribes more than men's lives. shoes;

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:3:10 @ For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery (note:)The fruit of their cruelty and theft appears by their great riches, which they have in their houses.(:note) in their palaces.

geneva@Amos:3:12 @ Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh (note:)When the lion has satisfied his hunger, the shepherd finds a leg or a piece of an ear, to show that the sheep have been torn by his teeth.(:note) out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Where they thought to have had a sure stronghold, and to have been in safety. Damascus [in] a couch.

geneva@Amos:4:6 @ And I also have given you (note:)That is, lack of bread and meat.(:note) cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:4:8 @ So two [or] three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were (note:)They could not find enough water where they had heard that it had rained.(:note) not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:4:10 @ I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of (note:)As I plagued the Egyptians; (Exo_9:10).(:note) Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:4:11 @ I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a (note:)You were almost all consumed, and a few of you were wonderfully preserved; (2Ki_14:26).(:note) firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, 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:5:16 @ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the (note:)So that people of all types will have reason to lament because of the great plagues.(:note) husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

geneva@Amos:5:18 @ Woe unto you that (note:)He speaks in this way because the wicked and hypocrites said they were content to endure God's judgments, whereas the godly tremble and fear; (Jer_30:7; Joe_2:2, Joe_2:11), (Zep_1:15).(:note) desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light.

geneva@Amos:6:10 @ And a man's uncle (note:)The destruction will be so great, that almost none will be left to bury the dead: and therefore they will burn them at home, to carry out the burnt ashes with more ease.(:note) shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that [is] by the That is, to some neighbour that dwells near by. sides of the house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, They will be so astonished at this destruction, that they will not boast any more of the name of God, and that they are his people: but they will be silent when they hear God's name, and abhor it, as those that are desperate, or reprobate. Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

geneva@Amos:6:14 @ But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of (note:)From one corner of the country to another.(:note) Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

geneva@Amos:7:3 @ The LORD (note:)That is, stopped this plague at my prayer.(:note) repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; (note:)In this way God used to approve the authority of his Prophets, by his plagues and judgments against those who were malicious enemies as in (Jer_28:12-17; Jer_29:21-26), as this day he does against those that persecute the ministers of his Gospel.(:note) Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

geneva@Amos:8:2 @ And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of (note:)Which signified the ripeness of their sins, and the readiness of God's judgments.(:note) summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

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:9:6 @ [It is] he that buildeth his (note:)He declares by the wonderful power of God, by the making of the heavens and the elements, that it is not possible for man to escape his judgments when he punishes.(:note) stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he 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:9:7 @ [Are] ye not as children of the Ethiopians (note:)Am I more bound to you than to the Ethiopians, or other people? Yet I have bestowed upon you greater benefits.(:note) unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Read (Jer_47:4). Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

geneva@Amos:9:8 @ Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly (note:)Though he destroys the rebellious multitude, yet he will always reserve the remnant of his Church to call upon his name.(:note) destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:9:12 @ That they may possess the remnant of (note:)Meaning, the very enemies (as were the Edomites) and others would be united with the Jews in one society and body, of which Christ would be the head.(:note) Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

geneva@Amos:9:13 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall (note:)Signifying, that there will be great abundance of all things, so that when one type of fruit is ripe, another would follow, and every one in order; (Lev_26:5).(:note) overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall Read (Joe_3:18). drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

geneva@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; (note:)God has certainly revealed to his prophets, that he will raise up the heathen to destroy the Edomites, concerning which the rumour is now proclaimed; (Jer_49:14).(:note) We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and Thus the heathen encourage themselves to rise against Edom. let us rise up against her in battle. The Argument - The Idumeans, who came from Esau, were mortal enemies always to the Israelites, who came from Jacob, and therefore did not only vex them continually with various types of cruelty, but also stirred up others to fight against them. Therefore when they were now in their greatest prosperity, and did most triumph against Israel, which was in great affliction and misery, God raised up his Prophet to comfort the Israelites. For God had now determined to destroy their adversaries, who did so severely vex them, and to send them those who would deliver them, and set up the kingdom of the Messiah which he had promised.

geneva@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day (note:)When he will summon all the heathen, and send them to destroy you.(:note) of the LORD [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

geneva@Obadiah:1:18 @ And the house of Jacob shall be (note:)God attributes this power to consume his enemies to his Church, which power properly belongs only to himself; (Isa_10:17; Deu_4:24; Heb_12:29).(:note) a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be [any] remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken [it].

geneva@Obadiah:1:21 @ And (note:)Meaning that God will raise up in his Church those who will rule and govern for the defence of it, and for the destruction of his enemies under the Messiah, whom the Prophet here calls the Lord and head of this kingdom.(:note) saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.

geneva@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came (note:)After he had preached a long time in Israel: and so Ezekiel, after he had prophesied in Judah for a time, had visions in Babylon; (Eze_1:1).(:note) unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, The Argument - When Jonah had long prophesied in Israel and had little profited, God gave him specific charge to go and denounce his judgments against Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrians, because he had appointed that those who were of the heathen, should convert by the mighty power of his word. And this was so that within three day's preaching, Israel might see how horribly they had provoked God's wrath, who for the space of so many years, had not converted to the Lord, for so many prophets and such diligent preaching. He prophesied under Jonah, and Jeroboam; (2Ki_14:25).

geneva@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose up to (note:)By which he declares his weakness, that would not promptly follow the Lord's calling, but gave place to his own reason, which persuaded him that he would not profit these people at all, seeing he had done such little good among his own people; (Jon_4:2).(:note) flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Which was the haven, and port to take shipping there, also called Joppa. Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the From that vocation to which God had called him, and in which he would have assisted him. presence of the LORD.

geneva@Jonah:1:14 @ Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, (note:)This declares that the very wicked in their time of need flee to God for help, and also that they are touched with a certain fear of shedding man's blood, whereas they know no manifest sign of wickedness.(:note) We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

geneva@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men (note:)They were touched with a certain repentance of their past life, and began to worship the true God by whom they saw themselves as wonderfully delivered. But this was done for fear, and not from a pure heart and affection, neither according to God's word.(:note) feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

geneva@Jonah:1:17 @ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the (note:)Thus the Lord would chastise his Prophet with a most terrible spectacle of death, and by this also strengthened and encouraged him of his favour and support in this duty which was commanded him.(:note) belly of the fish three days and three nights.

geneva@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God (note:)Being now swallowed up by death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith broke out to the Lord, knowing that out of this very hell he was able to deliver him.(:note) out of the fish's belly,

geneva@Jonah:2:2 @ And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly (note:)For he was now in the fishes belly as in a grave or place of darkness.(:note) of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.

geneva@Jonah:2:6 @ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my (note:)You have delivered me from the belly of the fish and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life.(:note) life from corruption, O LORD my God.

geneva@Jonah:3:1 @ And the word of the LORD came unto (note:)This is a great declaration of God's mercy, that he receives him again, and sends him forth as his Prophet, who had before shown such great weakness.(:note) Jonah the second time, saying,

geneva@Jonah:3:3 @ So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding (note:){{See Jon_1:2}}(:note) great city of three days' journey.

geneva@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto (note:)Read (Jon_1:3).(:note) Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

geneva@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life (note:)Thus he prayed from grief, fearing that God's name by this forgiveness might be blasphemed, as though he sent his Prophets forth to make known his judgments in vain.(:note) from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

geneva@Jonah:4:4 @ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be (note:)Will you judge when I do things for my glory, and when I do not?(:note) angry?

geneva@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God prepared a (note:)Which was a further means to cover him from the heat of the sun, as he remained in his booth.(:note) gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

geneva@Micah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Micah the (note:)Born in Mareshah, a city of Judah.(:note) Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The Argument - Micah the prophet of the tribe of Judah served in the work of the Lord concerning Judah and Israel at least thirty years: during which time Isaiah prophesied. He declares the destruction first of the one kingdom, and then of the other, because of their manifold wickedness, but chiefly because of their idolatry. And to this end he notes the wickedness of the people, the cruelty of the princes and governors, and the allowing of the false prophets, and the delighting in them. Then he sets forth the coming of Christ, his kingdom, and the felicity of it. This Prophet was not that Micah who resisted Ahab and all his false prophets, (1Ki_22:8) but another with the same name.

geneva@Micah:1:3 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come (note:)Meaning by this that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and strongholds.(:note) down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

geneva@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the (note:)For Rabshakeh had shut up Jerusalem, so that they could not send to help them.(:note) gate of Jerusalem.

geneva@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in (note:)You will have no more lands to divide as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them in the Jubilee.(:note) the congregation of the LORD.

geneva@Micah:2:7 @ O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? (note:)Are these your works according to his Law?(:note) [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him Do not the godly find my words comfortable? that walketh uprightly?

geneva@Micah:2:13 @ The (note:)The enemy will break their gates and walls, and lead them into Chaldea.(:note) breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD To drive them forward, and to help their enemies. on the head of them.

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:3:8 @ But truly I am full (note:)The Prophet being assured of his vocation by the Spirit of God, sets himself alone against all the wicked, showing how God gave him gifts, ability and knowledge, to discern between good and evil, and also steadfastness and endurance to reprove the sins of the people, and not to flatter them.(:note) of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

geneva@Micah:4:1 @ But in the (note:)When Christ will come, and the temple will be destroyed.(:note) last days it shall come to pass, [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the {{See Isa_2:2}} hills; and people shall flow unto it.

geneva@Micah:4:2 @ And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will (note:)He shows that there is no true Church, except where the people are taught by God's pure word.(:note) teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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:4:12 @ But they (note:)He shows that the faithful ought not to measure God's judgments by the braggings and threatenings of the wicked, but by these are admonished to lift up their hearts to God to call for deliverance.(:note) know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

geneva@Micah:4:13 @ Arise and thresh, (note:)God gives his Church this victory, as often as he overcomes their enemies: but the accomplishment of this will be at the last coming of Christ.(:note) O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

geneva@Micah:5:4 @ And he shall (note:)That is, Christ's kingdom will be stable and everlasting, and his people, the Gentiles as well as the Jews, will dwell in safety.(:note) stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

geneva@Micah:5:7 @ And the (note:)This remnant or Church which God will deliver will only depend on God's power and defence (as does the grass of the field), and not on the hope of man.(:note) remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

geneva@Micah:5:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy (note:)I will destroy all things in which you put your confidence, such as your vain self-reliance and idolatry, and in doing this I will be helping you.(:note) horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

geneva@Micah:6:1 @ Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the (note:)He took the high mountains and hard rocks as witnesses against the obstinacy of his people.(:note) mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

geneva@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from (note:)That is, remember my benefits from the beginning, how I delivered you from Balaam's curse, and also spared you from Shittim which was in the plain of Moab, until I brought you into the promised land.(:note) Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the That is, the truth of his promise and his manifold benefits toward you. righteousness of the LORD.

geneva@Micah:6:6 @ Wherewith (note:)Thus the people by hypocrisy ask how to please God, and are content to offer sacrifices, but will not change their lives.(:note) shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

geneva@Micah:6:7 @ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my (note:)There is nothing so dear to man, but the hypocrites will offer it to God, if they think by this to avoid his anger. But they will never by brought to mortify their own affections, and to give themselves willingly to serve God as he commands.(:note) firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?

geneva@Micah:6:8 @ He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, (note:)The Prophet in few words calls them to the observation of the second table of the ten commandments, to know if they will obey God correctly or not, saying that God has commanded them to do this.(:note) but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

geneva@Micah:6:9 @ The LORD'S voice crieth unto the (note:)Meaning, that when God speaks to any city or nation, the godly will acknowledge his majesty and not consider the mortal man that brings the threatening, but God that sends it.(:note) city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

geneva@Micah:7:7 @ Therefore (note:)The Prophet shows that the only remedy for the godly in desperate evils, is to flee to God for help.(:note) I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

geneva@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not against me, (note:)This is spoken in the voice of the Church, which calls the malignant church her enemy.(:note) O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.

geneva@Micah:7:17 @ They shall (note:)They will fall flat on the ground because of fear.(:note) lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

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:1:3 @ The (note:)Thus the wicked would make God's mercy an occasion to sin, but the Prophet wishes them to consider his power and justice.(:note) LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.

geneva@Nahum:1:7 @ The LORD [is] good, (note:)Lest the faithful should be discouraged by hearing the power of God, he shows them that his mercy appertains to them, and that he has care over them.(:note) a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

geneva@Nahum:1:9 @ What do ye (note:)He shows that the undertakings of the Assyrians against Judah and the Church were against God, and therefore he would so destroy them the first time, that he would not need to return the second time.(:note) imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

geneva@Nahum:1:11 @ There is [one] (note:)Which may be understood either of Sennacherib, or of the whole body of the people of Nineveh.(:note) come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

geneva@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus saith the LORD; Though [they be] (note:)Though they think themselves in most safety, and of greatest strength, yet when God will pass by, he will destroy them: nonetheless, he comforts his Church, and promises to stop punishing them by the Assyrians.(:note) quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

geneva@Nahum:1:14 @ And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, [that] no more of thy name be (note:)Meaning, Sennacherib, who would have no more children, but be slain in the house of his gods; (2Ki_19:36-37).(:note) sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

geneva@Nahum:2:2 @ For the LORD hath (note:)Seeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them; read (Isa_10:12).(:note) turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and Signifying that the Israelites were utterly destroyed. marred their vine branches.

geneva@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the (note:)That is, as soon as my wrath begins to burn.(:note) smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy Signifying the heralds, who were accustomed to proclaim war. Some read, «of you gum teeth», with which Nineveh was accustomed to bruise the bones of the poor. messengers shall no more be heard.

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:1:12 @ [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not (note:)He assures the godly of God's protection, showing that the enemy can do no more than God has appointed, and also that their sins require such a sharp rod.(:note) die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:2 @ And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tablets, that he may run (note:)Write it in great letters, that he that runneth may read it.(:note) that readeth it.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, [is it] not from the (note:)Meaning, that God will not defer his vengeance long, but will come and destroy all their labours, as though they were consumed with fire.(:note) LORD of hosts that the people shall labour [only] for fire, and the nations shall weary themselves for nothing?

geneva@Habakkuk:2:14 @ For the earth shall (note:)In the destruction of the Babylonians his glory will appear through all the world.(:note) be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:16 @ Thou art filled with shame (note:)Whereas you thought to have the glory of these your doings, they will turn to your shame: for you will drink of the same cup with others in your turn.(:note) for glory: drink thou also, and let thy shame come upon thee: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to thee, and utter shame [shall be] on thy glory.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:8 @ Was the LORD displeased against the (note:)Meaning that God was not angry with the waters, but that by this means he would destroy his enemies, and deliver his Church.(:note) rivers? [was] thy anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride And so did use all the elements as instruments for the destruction of your enemies. upon thy horses [and] thy chariots of salvation?

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

geneva@Habakkuk:3:19 @ The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon my high places. (note:)The chief singer upon the instruments of music, will have occasion to praise God for this great deliverance of his Church.(:note) To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. (note:)The Argument - Seeing the great rebellion of the people, and that there was now no hope of amendment, he gives notice of the great judgment of God, which was at hand, showing that their country would be utterly destroyed, and they would be carried away captives by the Babylonians. Yet for the comfort of the faithful he prophesied of God's vengeance against their enemies, such as the Philistines, Moabites, Assyrians, and others, to assure them that God had a continual care over them. And as the wicked would be punished for their sins and transgressions, so he exhorts the godly to patience, and to trust to find mercy by reason of the free promise of God made to Abraham: and therefore quietly to wait until God shows them the effect of that grace, by which in the end they should be gathered to him, and counted as his people and children.(:note)

geneva@Zephaniah:1:3 @ I will consume man and beast; I will consume the (note:)Not that God was angry with these dumb creatures, but because man was so wicked for whose cause they were created, God makes them to take part of the punishments with him.(:note) fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:5 @ And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship [and] that swear by the LORD, and that swear by (note:)He alludes to their idol Molech, which was forbidden; read (Lev_20:2), yet they called him their king, and made him as a god: therefore he here notes those that will both say they worship God, and yet will swear by idols and serve them: which faltering is here condemned, as in (Eze_20:39; 1Ki_18:21; 2Ki_17:33).(:note) Malcham;

geneva@Zephaniah:1:8 @ And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with (note:)Meaning, the courtiers, who did imitate the strange apparel of other nations to win their favour by it, and to appear glorious in the eyes of all others; read (Eze_23:14-15).(:note) strange apparel.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, [that there shall be] the noise of a cry from the (note:)Signifying that all the corners of the city of Jerusalem would be full of trouble.(:note) fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:12 @ And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with (note:)So that nothing will escape me.(:note) candles, and punish the men that are settled By their prosperity they are hardened in their wickedness. on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

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:2:3 @ Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which (note:)That is, who have lived uprightly and godly according as he prescribes by his word.(:note) have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

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:3:5 @ The (note:)The wicked thus boasted that God was ever among them, but the Prophet answers that that cannot excuse their wickedness: for God will not bear with their sins. Yet he did patiently abide and sent his Prophets continually to call them to repentance, but he profited nothing.(:note) just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

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:3:9 @ For (note:)Lest any should then think that God's glory should have perished when Judah was destroyed, he shows that he will proclaim his grace through all the world.(:note) then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

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@Zephaniah:3:17 @ The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in (note:)Signifying, that God delights to show his love and great affection toward his Church.(:note) his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

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:1:2 @ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time (note:)Not that they condemned the building of it, but they preferred policy and personal profit to religion, being content with small beginnings.(:note) that the LORD'S house should be built.

geneva@Haggai:1:8 @ Go (note:)Meaning, that they should leave their own benefits, and go forward in the building of God's temple, and in the setting forth of his religion.(:note) up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and That is, I will hear your prayers according to my promise; (1Ki_8:22, 1Ki_8:29). I will take pleasure in it, and I will That is, my glory will be set forth by you. be glorified, saith the LORD.

geneva@Haggai:1:9 @ Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow (note:)And so bring it to nothing.(:note) upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

geneva@Haggai:1:12 @ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the (note:)This declares that God was the author of the doctrine, and that Haggai was but the minister, as in (Exo_14:31), (Jdg_7:20; Act_15:28).(:note) voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

geneva@Haggai:1:14 @ And the LORD stirred up (note:)Which declares that men are unable and dull to serve the Lord, neither can they obey his word or his messengers, before God reforms their hearts, and gives them new spirits; (Joh_6:44).(:note) the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

geneva@Haggai:2:4 @ Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and (note:)That is, go forward in building the temple.(:note) work: for I [am] with you, saith the LORD of hosts:

geneva@Haggai:2:6 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; (note:)He exhorts them to patience though they do not see as yet this temple so glorious as the Prophets had declared: for this should be accomplished in Christ, by whom all things should be renewed.(:note) Yet once, it [is] a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land];

geneva@Haggai:2:7 @ And I will shake all nations, and (note:)Meaning Christ, whom all ought to look for and desire: or by desire he may signify all precious things, such as riches, and things like them.(:note) the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:8 @ The (note:)Therefore when his time comes he can make all the treasures of the world to serve his purpose: but the glory of this second Temple does not consist of material things, neither can it be built.(:note) silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:9 @ The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give (note:)Meaning all spiritual blessings and felicity purchased by Christ; (Phi_4:7).(:note) peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:15 @ And now, I pray you, consider from this (note:)Consider how God plagued you with famine before you began to build the temple.(:note) day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

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@Haggai:2:23 @ In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a (note:)Signifying that his dignity would be most excellent, which thing was accomplished in Christ.(:note) signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:1:1 @ In the eighth month, in the second year of (note:)Who was the son of Histaspis.(:note) Darius, came the word of the LORD unto This was not the Zechariah, of which mention is made in (2Ch_24:20), but he had the same name, and is called the son of Berechiah, as he was, because he came of those progenitors, as of Joiada or Berechiah, and Iddo. Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, The Argument - Two months after Haggai had begun to prophesy, Zechariah was also sent of the Lord to help him in the labour, and to confirm the same doctrine. First therefore, he puts them in remembrance for what reason God had so severely punished their fathers: and yet comforts them if they will truly repent, and not abuse this great benefit of God in their deliverance which was a figure of that true deliverance, that all the faithful should have from death and sin, by Christ. But because they remained still in their wickedness, and lack of desire to set forth God's glory, and were not yet made better by their long banishment, he rebukes them most sharply: yet for the comfort of the repentant, he ever mixes the promise of grace, that they might by this means be prepared to receive Christ, in whom all should be sanctified to the Lord.

geneva@Zechariah:1:2 @ The LORD hath been (note:)He speaks this to make them afraid of God's judgments, so that they should not provoke him as their fathers had done, whom he so grievously punished.(:note) sore displeased with your fathers.

geneva@Zechariah:1:3 @ Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; (note:)Let your fruits declare that you are God's people, and that he has wrought in you by his Spirit, and mortified you: for otherwise man has no power to return to God, but God must convert him; (Jer_31:18; Lam_5:21) {{See Isa_31:6}}(:note) Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:1:6 @ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of (note:)Seeing you saw the force of my doctrine in punishing your fathers, why do you not fear the threatenings contained in the same, and declared by my Prophets?(:note) your fathers? and As men astonished with my judgments, and not that they were touched with true repentance. they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

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:1:12 @ Then the (note:)That is, Christ the mediator prayed for the salvation of his Church, which was now troubled, when all the countries about them were at rest.(:note) angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

geneva@Zechariah:1:14 @ So the angel that talked with me said to me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am (note:)Though for a time God defers his help and comfort from his Church, yet this declares that he still loves them most dearly, as a most merciful father his children, or a husband his wife, and when it is expedient for them, his help is ever ready.(:note) jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

geneva@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line (note:)To measure out the buildings.(:note) shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

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:1:20 @ And the LORD showed me four (note:)These craftsmen or smiths are God's instruments, who with their mallets and hammers break these hard and strong horns which would overthrow the Church, and declare that no enemies' horn is so strong, but God has a hammer to break it in pieces.(:note) craftsmen.

geneva@Zechariah:2:5 @ For I, saith the LORD, will be to her a wall of (note:)To defend my Church, to strike fear in the enemies, and to destroy them if they approach near.(:note) fire on every side, and will In me they will have their full felicity and glory. be the glory in the midst of her.

geneva@Zechariah:2:6 @ Ho, ho, [come (note:)He calls to those who partly for fear, and partly for their own case, remained still in captivity, and so preferred their own personal benefits to the benefits of God promised in his Church.(:note) forth], and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four As it was I that scattered you, so I have power to restore you. winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the (note:)Seeing that God had begun to show his grace among you by delivering you, he continues the same still toward you, and therefore sends me his angel and his Christ to defend you from your enemies, so that they will not hurt you, neither along the way nor at home.(:note) glory hath he sent me to the nations which wasted you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the You are so dear to God, that he can no more allow your enemies to hurt you, than a man can endure to be thrust in the eye; (Psa_17:8). apple of his eye.

geneva@Zechariah:2:9 @ For, behold, I will shake my hand (note:)Upon the heathen your enemies.(:note) upon them, and They will be your servants, as you have been theirs. they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath This must necessarily be understood of Christ, who being God equal with his Father, was sent, as he was Mediator to dwell in his Church and to govern them. sent me.

geneva@Zechariah:3:1 @ And he showed me Joshua the high priest (note:)He prayed to Christ the Mediator for the state of the Church.(:note) standing before the angel of the LORD, and Which declares that the faithful do not only war with flesh and blood, but with Satan himself, and spiritual wickedness; (Eph_6:12). Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

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:3:5 @ And I said, Let them (note:)The Prophet prays that besides the raiment, the Priest might also have attire for his head accordingly, that is, that the dignity of the priesthood might be perfect: and this was fulfilled in Christ, who was both Priest and King. And here all those are condemned, that can content themselves with any average reformation in religion, seeing the Prophet desires the perfection, and obtains it.(:note) set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.

geneva@Zechariah:3:7 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also (note:)That is, have rule and government in my Church, as your predecessors have had.(:note) judge my house, and shalt also keep my By which he means to have the whole charge and ministry of the Church. courts, and I will give thee places to walk among That is, the angels, who represented the whole number of the faithful: signifying that all the godly would willingly receive him. these that stand by.

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:3:10 @ In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the (note:)You will then live in peace and quietness, that is, in the kingdom of Christ; (Isa_2:2; Mic_4:4; Hag_2:9).(:note) vine and under the fig tree.

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:4:9 @ The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and (note:)Meaning, the Prophet, that I am Christ sent from my Father for the building and preservation of my spiritual temple.(:note) thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me to you.

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:6:12 @ And speak to him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name [is] The (note:)Meaning Christ, of whom Joshua was the figure: for in Greek they were both called Jesus.(:note) BRANCH; and he shall grow That is, of himself without the help of man. up out of his place, and he shall Which declares that no one could build this temple of which Haggai speaks, but only Christ: and therefore it was spiritual, and not material; (Hag_2:9). build the temple of the LORD:

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:6:14 @ And the crowns shall be to (note:)Who was also called Heldai.(:note) Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to He was also called Joshias. Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a That they may acknowledge their infirmity, who thought that all things would be restored immediately: and of this their infidelity these two crowns will remain as tokens; (Act_1:6). memorial in the temple of the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:6:15 @ And they [that are] (note:)That is, the Gentiles by the preaching of the Gospel, will help toward the building of the spiritual temple.(:note) far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me to you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently If you will believe and remain in the obedience of faith. obey the voice of the LORD your God.

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:7:2 @ When (note:)That is, the rest of the people that yet remained in Chaldea, sent to the Church at Jerusalem for the resolution of these questions, because these feasts were consented upon by the agreement of the whole Church, the one in the month that the temple was destroyed, and the other when Gedaliah was slain; (Jer_41:2).(:note) they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

geneva@Zechariah:7:3 @ [And] to speak to the priests who [were] in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I (note:)By weeping and mourning are shown what exercises they used in their fasting.(:note) weep in the fifth month, That is, prepare myself with all devotion to his fast. separating myself, as I have done these so many Which had been since the time the temple was destroyed. years?

geneva@Zechariah:7:7 @ [Should ye] not [hear] the words which the LORD (note:)By this he condemns their hypocrisy, who thought by their fasting to please God, and by such things as they invented, and in the meantime would not serve him as he had commanded.(:note) hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities around her, when [men] inhabited the south and the plain?

geneva@Zechariah:7:9 @ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, (note:)He shows that they did not fast with a sincere heart, but because of hypocrisy, and that it was not done from a pure religion, because they lacked these offices of charity which should have declared that they were godly; (Mat_23:23).(:note) Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

geneva@Zechariah:7:12 @ Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his (note:)Which declares that they did not only rebel against the Prophets, but against the Spirit of God that spoke in them.(:note) spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:8:2 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was (note:)I loved my city with a singular love, so that I could not endure that any should do her any injury.(:note) jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

geneva@Zechariah:8:3 @ Thus saith the LORD; I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a (note:)Because she will be faithful and loyal toward me her husband.(:note) city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

geneva@Zechariah:8:4 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old (note:)Though their enemies did greatly molest and trouble them, yet God would come and dwell among them, and so preserve them as long as nature would allow them to live, and increase their children in great abundance.(:note) men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

geneva@Zechariah:8:6 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it is (note:)He shows in what our faith consists, that is, to believe that God can perform that which he has promised, though it seem ever so impossible to man; (Gen_13:14; Rom_4:20).(:note) marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:8:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your (note:)Let neither respect of your personal benefits, neither counsel of others, nor fear of enemies, discourage you in the going forward with the building of the temple, but be steadfast and obey the Prophets, who encourage you to that.(:note) hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, who [were] in the day [when] the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

geneva@Zechariah:8:14 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish (note:)Read (Eze_18:20).(:note) you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

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:8:20 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; [It shall] yet [come to pass], that there shall come (note:)He declares the great zeal that God would give the Gentiles to come to his Church, and to unite with the Jews in his true religion, which would be in the kingdom of Christ.(:note) people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

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:9:4 @ Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her (note:)Though those of Tyre think themselves invincible by reason of the sea that surrounds them, yet they will not escape God's judgments.(:note) power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

geneva@Zechariah:9:15 @ The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, (note:)He promises that the Jews will destroy their enemies, and have abundance and excess of all things, as there is abundance on the altar when the sacrifice is offered. And these things are not to move them to excess, but to sobriety, and a thankful remembrance of God's great liberality.(:note) and subdue the sling stones; and they shall drink, [and] make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, [and] as the corners of the altar.

geneva@Zechariah:9:16 @ And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they [shall be as] the (note:)The faithful will be preserved, and reverenced by all, that their very enemies will be compelled to esteem them: for God's glory will shine in them, as Josephus declares of Alexander the great when he met Jadi the high priest.(:note) stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

geneva@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of the (note:)The Prophet reproves the Jews, because by their own infidelity they turn away God's promised graces, and so famine came by God's just judgment. Therefore to avoid this plague, he exhorts them to turn to God, and to pray in faith to him, and so he will give them abundance.(:note) LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; [so] the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

geneva@Zechariah:10:3 @ My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the (note:)Meaning, the cruel governors who did oppress the poor sheep; (Eze_34:16-17).(:note) goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as He will be merciful to his Church, and cherish them as a king or prince does his best horse, which will be for his own use in war. his majestic horse in the battle.

geneva@Zechariah:10:6 @ And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the (note:)That is, the ten tribes, which would be united under Christ to the rest of the Church.(:note) house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I [am] the LORD their God, and will hear them.

geneva@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the (note:)Which being now destined to be slain, were delivered as out of the lion's mouth.(:note) slaughter;

geneva@Zechariah:11:5 @ Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves (note:)Their governors destroy them without any remorse of conscience, or yet thinking that they do evil.(:note) not guilty: and they that sell them say, He notes the hypocrites, who always have the name of God in their mouths, though in their life and doings they deny God, attributing their gain to God's blessings, which comes from the wealth of their brethren. Blessed [be] the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

geneva@Zechariah:11:6 @ For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, (note:)I will cause one to destroy another.(:note) I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his Their governors will execute cruelty over them. king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver [them].

geneva@Zechariah:11:11 @ And it was broken in that day: and so the (note:)He shows that the least always profit by God's judgments.(:note) poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it [was] the word of the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:11:13 @ And the LORD said to me, Cast it to the (note:)Showing that it was too little to pay his wages with, which could hardly suffice to make a few tiles to cover the temple.(:note) potter: a glorious price that I was valued at by them. And I took the thirty [pieces] of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:11:15 @ And the LORD said to me, Take to thee yet (note:)Signifying that they should have a certain type of regiment and outward show of government: but in effect it would be nothing, for they would be wolves, and devouring beasts instead of shepherds.(:note) the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

geneva@Zechariah:12:1 @ The burden of the word of the LORD for (note:)That is, the ten tribes, which neglected God's benefit in delivering their brethren, and had rather remain in captivity, than to return home when God called them.(:note) Israel, saith the LORD, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

geneva@Zechariah:12:5 @ And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The (note:)Every captain, that had many under him before, will now think that the small power of Jerusalem will be sufficient to defend them against all enemies, because the Lord is among them.(:note) inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

geneva@Zechariah:12:7 @ The LORD also shall save the (note:)The people who are now as it were dispersed by the fields, and lie open to their enemies, will be preserved by my power just as if they were under their kings (which is meant by the house of David), or in their defended cities.(:note) tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not magnify [themselves] against Judah.

geneva@Zechariah:13:2 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I will cut off the (note:)He promises that God will also purge them from all superstition, and that their religion will be pure.(:note) names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the Meaning, the false prophets and teachers, who are the corrupters of all religion, whom the Prophet here calls unclean spirits. prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

geneva@Zechariah:13:3 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] when any shall yet (note:)That is, when they will prophesy lies, and make God, who is the author of truth, a cloak for them.(:note) prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him He shows what zeal the godly will have under the kingdom of Christ; (Deu_13:6, Deu_13:9). shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

geneva@Zechariah:13:7 @ Awake, O sword, against my (note:)The Prophet warns the Jews, that before this great comfort under Christ would come, there would be a horrible dissipation among the people: for their governors and pastors would be destroyed, and the people would be as scattered sheep. And the evangelist applies this to Christ, because he was the head of all pastors; (Mat_26:31).(:note) shepherd, and against the man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

geneva@Zechariah:13:8 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] in all the land, saith the LORD, (note:)The greatest part will have no portion of these blessings, and yet they that will enjoy them will be tried with great afflictions, so that is will be known that only God's power and his mercies preserve them.(:note) two parts in it shall be cut off [and] die; but the third shall be left in it.

geneva@Zechariah:14:1 @ Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be (note:)He arms the godly against the great temptations that would come, before they enjoyed this prosperous estate promised under Christ, that when these dangers came, they might know that they were warned of them before.(:note) divided in the midst of thee.

geneva@Zechariah:14:3 @ Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he (note:)As your fathers and you have had experience both at the Red Sea, and at all other times.(:note) fought in the day of battle.

geneva@Zechariah:14:5 @ And ye shall flee [to] the (note:)He speaks of the hypocrites, who could not abide God's presence, but would flee into all places, where they might hide themselves among the mountains.(:note) valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yea, ye shall flee, as ye fled from before the Read (Amo_1:1). earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD Because they did not credit the Prophet's words, he turns to God and comforts himself in that that he knew that these things would come, and says, «You, O God, with your angels will come to perform this great thing.» my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee.

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@Zechariah:14:9 @ And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one (note:)All idolatry and superstition will be abolished, and there will be one God, one faith, and one religion.(:note) LORD, and his name one.

geneva@Zechariah:14:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] (note:)God will not only raise up war outside, but sedition at home to test them.(:note) a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on To hurt and oppress him. the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

geneva@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of (note:)By the Egyptians, who were the greatest enemies to true religion, he means all the Gentiles.(:note) Egypt shall not go up, and shall not come, that [have] no [rain]; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

geneva@Zechariah:14:20 @ In that day there shall be upon the (note:)Signifying to whatever service they were put now (whether to labour, or to serve in war), they were now holy, because the Lord had sanctified them.(:note) bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO THE LORD; and the The one as precious as the other, because they will be sanctified. pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

geneva@Zechariah:14:21 @ Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them: and in that day there shall be no more the (note:)But all will be pure and clean, and there will neither by hypocrites, nor any that will corrupt the true service of God.(:note) Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:1:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. The Argument - This Prophet was one of the three who God raised up for the comfort of the Church after the captivity, and after him there was no one else until John the Baptist was sent, which was either a token of God's wrath, or an admonition that they should with more fervent desires look for the coming of the Messiah. He confirms the same doctrine, that the two former do: chiefly he reproves the priests for their covetousness, and because they served God after their own fantasies, and not according to the direction of his word. He also notes certain distinct sins, which were then among them, such as the marrying of idolatrous and many wives, murmurings against God, impatience, and things such as these. Nonetheless, for the comfort of the godly he declares that God would not forget his promise made to their fathers, but would send Christ his messenger, in whom the covenant would be accomplished, whose coming would be terrible to the wicked, and bring all consolation and joy to the godly.

geneva@Malachi:1:2 @ I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, (note:)Which declares their great ingratitude that did not acknowledge this love, which was so evident, in that he chose Abraham from out of all the world, and next chose Jacob the younger brother from whom they came, and left Esau the elder.(:note) Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

geneva@Malachi:1:6 @ A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, (note:)Besides the rest of the people he mainly condemns the priests, because they should have reproved others for their hypocrisy, and for not yielding to God, and should not have hardened them by their example to do greater evils.(:note) O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, He notes their great hypocrisy, who would not see their faults, but most impudently covered them, and so were blind guides. Wherein have we despised thy name?

geneva@Malachi:1:7 @ Ye offer (note:)You receive all types of offerings for your own greediness, and do not examine whether they are according to my Law or not.(:note) polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] Not that they said this, but by their doings they declared it. contemptible.

geneva@Malachi:1:8 @ And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] (note:)You make it no fault: and by this he condemns them that think it sufficient to serve God partly as he has commanded, and partly after man's fantasy, and so do not come to the pureness of religion, which he requires. And therefore in reproach he shows them that a mortal man would not be content to be served in such a way.(:note) not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:1:9 @ And now, I pray you, (note:)He derides the priests who deceived the people in saying that they prayed for them, and shows that they were the occasion that these evils came upon the people.(:note) beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard Will God consider your office and state, seeing you are so covetous and wicked? your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

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:1:13 @ Ye said also, Behold, what a (note:)The priests and people were both weary with serving God, and did not regard what manner of sacrifice and service they gave to God: for that which was least profitable, was thought good enough for the Lord.(:note) weariness [is it]! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought [that which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.

geneva@Malachi:1:14 @ But cursed [be] the deceiver, which hath in his flock (note:)That is, has ability to serve the Lord according to his word, and yet will serve him according to his covetous mind.(:note) a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I [am] a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name [is] dreadful among the heathen.

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:2:4 @ And ye shall know that I have (note:)The Priests objected against the Prophet that he could not remove them without speaking against the priesthood, and the office established by God by promise. But he shows that the office is nothing slandered, when these villains and dung are called by their own names.(:note) sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:2:7 @ For the priest's (note:)He is as the treasure house of God's word, and ought to give to everyone according to their need, and not to reserve it for himself.(:note) lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the Showing that whoever does not declare God's will, is not his messenger, and priest. messenger of the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:2:11 @ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the (note:)They have united themselves in marriage with those that are of another religion.(:note) daughter of a strange god.

geneva@Malachi:2:12 @ The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that (note:)That is, the priest.(:note) offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:2:13 @ And this have ye done again, (note:)Yet cause the people to lament, because God does not regard their sacrifices, so that they seem to sacrifice in vain.(:note) covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth [it] with good will at your hand.

geneva@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye say, (note:)This is another fault, of which he accuses them, that is, that they broke the laws of marriage.(:note) Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy As the one half of yourself. companion, and the wife of thy She that was united to you by a solemn covenant, and by the invocation of God's name. covenant.

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:2:17 @ Ye have (note:)You murmur against God, because he did not hear you as soon as you called.(:note) wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth In thinking that God favoured the wicked, and had no respect for those that serve him. evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of Thus they blasphemed God in condemning his power and justice, because he did not judge according to their imaginings. judgment?

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:3:3 @ And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of (note:)He begins at the priests, that they might be lights, and shine unto others.(:note) Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

geneva@Malachi:3:6 @ For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob (note:)They murmured against God, because they did not see his help which was ever present to defend them: and therefore he accuses them of ingratitude, and shows that in that they are not daily consumed, it is a sign that he still defends them, and so his mercy towards them never changes.(:note) are not consumed.

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:3:10 @ Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, (note:)Not having respect how much you need, but I will give you in all abundance, so that you will lack place to put my blessings in.(:note) that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].

geneva@Malachi:3:11 @ And I will rebuke the (note:)Meaning the caterpillar, and whatever destroys corn and fruits.(:note) devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:3:13 @ Your words have been stout (note:)The Prophet condemns them of double blasphemy against God: first, in that they said that God had no respect for those that served him, and next, that the wicked were more in his favour than the godly.(:note) against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee?

geneva@Malachi:3:17 @ And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day (note:)When I will restore my Church according to my promise, they will be as my own proper goods.(:note) when I make up my jewels; and I will That is, forgive their sins, and govern them with my Spirit. spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

geneva@Malachi:4:1 @ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall (note:)He prophesies of God's judgments against the wicked, who would not receive Christ, when God would send him for the restoration of his Church.(:note) burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

geneva@Malachi:4:5 @ Behold, I will send you (note:)This Christ interprets of John the Baptist, who both for his zeal, and restoring or religion, is aptly compared to Elijah; (Mat_11:13-14).(:note) Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and Which as it is true for the wicked, so does it waken the godly, and call them to repentance. dreadful day of the LORD:

geneva@Mark:12:36 @ For David himself said by (note:)Literally, «in the Holy Spirit»; and there is a great power in this kind of speech, by which is meant that it was not so much David who was speaking, but instead the Holy Spirit, who in a way possessed David.(:note) the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

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.


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