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geneva@Exodus:10:28 @ And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in [that] day thou seest my face thou shalt (note:)Though earlier he admitted Moses was just, yet again in his own heart he threatened to put him to death.(:note) die.

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

geneva@Deuteronomy: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@Joshua:24:25 @ So Joshua (note:)By joining God and the people together: also he repeated the promises and threatenings out of the Law.(:note) made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

geneva@Judges:16:10 @ And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now (note:)Though her deceit threatened his life, yet his affection so blinded him, that he could not beware.(:note) tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

geneva@1Samuel:22:11 @ Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, (note:)Which were the remnant of the house of Eli, whose house God threatened to punish.(:note) the priests that [were] in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

geneva@1Kings:13:33 @ After this thing Jeroboam (note:)So the wicked do not profit by God's threatenings, but go backward and become worse and worse, (2Ti_3:13).(:note) returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high places.

geneva@2Kings:1:10 @ And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I [be] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. (note:)He declares the power God's word has in the mouth of his servants, when they threaten God's judgments against the wicked.(:note) And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

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:23:1 @ And the king (note:)Because he saw the great plagues of God that were threatened, he knew no more speedy way to avoid them, than to turn to God by repentance which cannot come but from faith, and faith by hearing the word of God.(:note) sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:29 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will (note:)Thus the wicked think by their own subtilty to escape God's judgments which he threatens by his word.(:note) disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that (note:)Meaning the king.(:note) [the king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be So hard it is, for the carnal man to be admonished for his fault, that he condemns, mocks and threatens him who warns him: yea, imprisons him and puts him to death, (2Ch_16:10, 2Ch_18:26, 2Ch_24:21). smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

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: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@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:5:14 @ They meet with (note:)In things plain and evident they show themselves fools instead of wise men.(:note) darkness in the daytime, and This declares that God punishes the worldly wise as he threatened in (Deu_28:29). grope in the noonday as in the night.

geneva@Psalms:55:3 @ Because of the (note:)For the threatenings of Saul and his adherents.(:note) voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for They have defamed me as a wicked person, or they have imagined my destruction. they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

geneva@Psalms:119:161 @ SCHIN. Princes have (note:)The threatenings and persecutions of princes could not cause me to cease to confess you whom I fear more than men.(:note) persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

geneva@Proverbs:13:8 @ The ransom of a man's life [is] his riches: but the poor (note:)For his poverty, he is not able to escape the threatenings, which the cruel oppressors use against him.(:note) heareth not rebuke.

geneva@Isaiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, a revelation or prophecy, which was one of the two means by which God declared himself to his servants in old times, as in (Num_12:6) and therefore the prophets were called seers, (1Sa_9:9).(:note) vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw Isaiah was chiefly sent to Judah and Jerusalem, but not only: for in this book are prophecies concerning other nations also. concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Called also Azariah, (2Ki_15:1) of these kings read (2Ki. strkjv@14:1-21:1; 2Ch. strkjv@25:1-33:1). Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Argument - God, according to his promise in (Deu_18:15) that he would never leave his Church destitute of a prophet, has from time to time accomplished the same: whose office was not only to declare to the people the things to come, of which they had a special revelation, but also to interpret and declare the law, and to apply particularly the doctrine contained briefly in it, for the use and profit of those to whom they thought it chiefly to belong, and as the time and state of things required. Principally in the declaration of the law, they had respect to three things which were the ground of their doctrine: first, to the doctrine contained briefly in the two tables: secondly to the promises and threatenings of the law: and thirdly to the covenant of grace and reconciliation grounded on our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law. To which they neither added nor diminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and meaning of it. As God gave them understanding of things, they applied the promises particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members of it, and also denounced the menaces against the enemies of the same: not for any care or regard to the enemies, but to assure the Church of their safeguard by the destruction of their enemies. Concerning the doctrine of reconciliation, they have more clearly entreated it than Moses, and set forth more lively Jesus Christ, in whom this covenant of reconciliation was made. In all these things Isaiah surpassed all the prophets, and was diligent to set out the same, with vehement admonitions, reprehensions, and consolations: ever applying the doctrine as he saw that the disease of the people required. He declares also many notable prophecies which he had received from God, concerning the promise of the Messiah, his office and kingdom, the favour of God toward his Church, the calling of the Gentiles and their union with the Jews. Which are principal points contained in this book, and a gathering of his sermons that he preached. Which after certain days that they had stood upon the temple door (for the manner of the prophets was to post the sum of their doctrine for certain days, that the people might the better mark it as in (Isa_8:1; Hab_2:2)) the priests took it down and reserved it among their registers. By God's providence these books were preserved as a monument to the Church forever. Concerning his person and time he was of the king's stock (for Amos his father was brother to Azariah king of Judah, as the best writers agree) and prophesied more than 64 years, from the time of Uzziah to the reign of Manasseh who was his son-in-law (as the Hebrews write) and by whom he was put to death. In reading of the prophets, this one thing among others is to be observed, that they speak of things to come as though they were now past because of the certainty of it, and that they could not but come to pass, because God had ordained them in his secret counsel and so revealed them to his prophets.

geneva@Isaiah:1:25 @ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, (note:)Lest the faithful among them should be overcome with his threatening he adds this consolation.(:note) and take away all thy tin:

geneva@Isaiah:9:1 @ Nevertheless (note:)He comforts the Church again after these great threatenings promising to restore them to great glory in Messiah.(:note) the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her distress, With which Israel was punished, first by Tiglath-pilesar, which was a light scourge in respect to that which they suffered afterward by Shalmaneser, who carried the Israelites away captive. when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of While the Jews and Gentiles dwelt together by reason of those twenty cites, which Solomon gave to Hiram. the nations.

geneva@Isaiah:9:10 @ The (note:)We were but weak, when the enemy overcame us, but we will make ourselves so strong, that we will neither care for our enemies, nor fear God's threatenings.(:note) bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.

geneva@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day (note:)As the Lord threatens the wicked in his law, (Lev_26:16).(:note) of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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

geneva@Isaiah: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:30:10 @ Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy (note:)Threaten us not by the word of God, neither be so rigorous, nor talk to us in the Name of the Lord, as in (Jer_11:21).(:note) deceits:

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:32:3 @ And the eyes of (note:)He promises to give the true light which is the pure doctrine of God's word, and understanding, and zeal of the same, are contrary to the threatenings against the wicked, (Isa_6:9, Isa_29:10).(:note) them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

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:35:9 @ No lion shall be there, nor [any] (note:)As he threatens the wicked with destruction by this, (Isa_30:6).(:note) ravenous beast shall go up on it, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:

geneva@Isaiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass (note:)This history is rehearsed because it is as a seal and confirmation of the doctrine before, both for the threatenings and promises: that is, that God would permit his Church to be afflicted, but at length would send deliverance.(:note) in the When he had abolished superstition, and idolatry, and restored religion, yet God would exercise his Church to try their faith and patience. fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

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:57:3 @ But draw near here, ye (note:)He threatens the wicked hypocrites, who under the pretence of the name of God's people, derided God's word and his promises: boasting openly that they were the children of Abraham, but because they were not faithful and obedient as Abraham was, he calls them bastards and the children of sorcerers, who forsook God, and fled to wicked means for comfort.(:note) sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

geneva@Isaiah:63:1 @ Who [is] this that cometh (note:)This prophecy is against the Idumeans and enemies who persecuted the Church, on whom God will take vengeance, and is here set forth all bloody after he has destroyed them in Bozrah, the chief city of the Idumeans: for these were their greatest enemies,and under the title of circumcision and the kindred of Abraham.(:note) from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? God answers them that asked this question, «Who is this?» etc. and says «You see now performed in deed the vengeance which my prophets threatened.» I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:6 @ Then said I, (note:)Considering the great judgments of God which according to his threatening would come on the world, he was moved with a certain compassion on the one hand to pity them that would thus perish, and on the other hand by the infirmity of man's nature, knowing how hard a thing it was to enterprise such a charge, as in (Isa_6:11; Exo_3:21, Exo_4:1).(:note) Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:3 @ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no (note:)As God threatened by his law, (Deu_28:24).(:note) latter rain; and thou hadst an You would never be ashamed of your acts and repent: and this impudency is common to idolaters, who will not cease, though they are openly convicted. harlot's forehead, thou didst refuse to be ashamed.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:13 @ And the prophets shall become (note:)Their words will be of no effect, but vain.(:note) wind, and the word [is] They are not sent from the Lord, and therefore that which they threaten to us will come on them. not in them: thus shall it be done to them.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:18:8 @ If that nation, against which I have pronounced, shall turn from their evil, I will (note:)When the Scripture attributes repentance to God, it is not that he does contrary to that which he has ordained in his secret counsel: but when he threatens it is a calling to repentance, and when he gives man grace to repent, the threatening (which ever contains a condition in it) takes no place: and this the scripture calls repentance in God, because it so appears to man's judgment.(:note) repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

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:20:8 @ 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:23:3 @ And I will gather the (note:)Thus the prophets always used to mix the promises with the threatenings lest the godly should be too much beaten down and therefore he shows how God will gather his Church after this dispersion.(:note) remnant of my flock from all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

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: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:33:6 @ Behold, I (note:)In the midst of his threatenings God remembers his, and comforts them.(:note) will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:19 @ And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they (note:)Which declares that he more feared the reproach of men than the threatenings of God.(:note) mock me.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:46 @ And lest your heart should faint, and ye should fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come [one] (note:)Meaning that Babylon would not be destroyed all at once but little by little would be brought to nothing for the first year came the tidings, the next year the siege and in the third year it was taken: yet this is not that horrible destruction which the prophets threatened in many places: for that was after this when they rebelled and Darius over came them by the policy of Zopyrus, and hanged three thousand gentlemen beside the common people.(:note) year, and after that in [another] year [shall come] a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:3 @ And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the (note:)He speaks of all the places where the Israelites accustomed to commit their idolaters, threatening them with destruction.(:note) mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:22 @ Because with lies ye have made the heart of the (note:)By threatening them that were godly, and upholding the wicked.(:note) righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

geneva@Ezekiel:21:29 @ While they see (note:)Though the Jews and Ammonites would not believe that you, that is the sword, would come upon them, and said that the prophets who threatened spoke lies, yet you will as surely come as though you were already on their necks.(:note) vanity to thee, while they divine a lie to thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.

geneva@Daniel:4:29 @ At the end of twelve (note:)After Daniel had declared this vision: and this pride of his declares that it is not in man to convert to God, unless his Spirit moves him, seeing that these terrible threatenings could not move him to repent.(:note) months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

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@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@Amos:3:4 @ Will a (note:)Will God threaten by his Prophet, unless there is some great occasion?(:note) lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

geneva@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to (note:)The Prophet threatens the wealthy, who did not regard God's plagues, nor threatenings by his Prophets.(:note) them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, These two cities were famous from their first inhabitants the Canaanites: and seeing that before they did not avail those that were born here, why should you think that they should save you who were brought in to dwell in other men's possessions? [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

geneva@Micah:4:3 @ And he shall judge among many people, and (note:)By his corrections and threatenings he will bring the people into subjection who are in the utmost corners of the world.(:note) rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into They will abstain from all evil doing, and exercise themselves in godliness and in well doing to others. pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they Read (Isa_2:4) learn war any more.

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: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@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@Acts:4:17 @ But that it be noysed no farther among the people, let vs threaten and charge them, that they speake hencefoorth to no man in this Name.

geneva@Acts:9:1 @ And (note:)Saul (who is also Paul), persecuting Christ most cruelly, who did as it were flee before him, falls into Christ's hands, and is overcome: and with a singular example of the goodness of God, in place of punishment which he justly deserved for his cruelty, is not only kindly received, but is also even by the mouth of God appointed an apostle, and is confirmed by the ministry and witness of Ananias.(:note) Saul, yet This is a sign that Saul's stomach boiled and cast out great threats to murder the disciples. breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

geneva@2Corinthians:10:1 @ Now (note:)He returns to the defence of his apostleship, but in such a way that he uses his authority in his defence: for he warns them earnestly and gravely, using also terrible threatenings, to show themselves to be those who are able to be instructed. And he reviles certain proud men who made no better account of him, than of a bragging proud man, in that he used to be sharp against them when he was absent, because they saw no great majesty in him after the manner of men; and besides, he had proved his gentleness, even though in his absence he had written to them sharply. Therefore first of all he professes that he was gentle and moderate, but after the example of Christ: but if they continue still to despise his gentleness, he protests to them that he will show indeed how far they are deceived, who judge the office of an apostle in the same way that they judge worldly offices, that is, according to the outward appearance.(:note) I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and That nature which is inclined to mercy, rather than to rigor of justice. gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

geneva@Hebrews:12:17 @ For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no (note:)There was no room left for his repentance: and it appears by the effects, what his repentance really was, for when he left his father's presence, he threatened to kill his brother.(:note) place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

geneva@1Peter:2:23 @ Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but (note:)He shows them a remedy against injuries, that is, that they commend their cause to God, by the example of Christ.(:note) committed [himself] to him He seems now to turn his speech to masters, who have also themselves a master and judge in heaven, who will justly avenge the injuries that are done to servants, without any respecting of people. that judgeth righteously:

geneva@1Peter:5:6 @ Humble yourselves therefore (note:)Because those proud and lofty spirits threaten the modest and humble, the apostle warns us to set the power of God against the vanity of proud men, and to rely completely on his providence.(:note) under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

geneva@Sir:13:3 @ {\cf2 The riche dealeth vnrighteously, and threateneth withall: but the poore being oppressed must intreate: if the riche haue done wrong, heemust yet be intreated: but if the poore haue done it, he shal straight wayes be threatned.}

geneva@Sir:19:17 @ {\cf2 Reproue thy neighbour before thou threaten him, and being without anger, giue place vnto the Lawe of the most High.}