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geneva@Leviticus:14:49 @ And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and (note:)It seems that this was a lace or string to bind the hyssop to the wood, and so was made a sprinkle: the apostle to the Hebrews calls it scarlet wool, (Heb_9:19).(:note) scarlet, and hyssop:

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@Deuteronomy:6:7 @ And thou shalt (note:)Some read, «You shall whet them upon your children»: that is, that they may imprint them more deeply in their memory.(:note) teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {(teach: Hebrews. whet, or, sharpen)}

geneva@Joshua:3:1 @ And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to (note:)Which according to the Hebrews was in March, about 40 days after Moses' death.(:note) Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

geneva@Ruth:4:1 @ Then went Boaz up to the (note:)Which was the place of judgment.(:note) gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, The Hebrews here use two words which have no proper meaning, but serve to denote a certain person, as we would say, «Ho, so-and-so». Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

geneva@1Samuel:2:22 @ Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that (note:)Which was (as the Hebrews write) after their travail, when they came to be purified, read (Exo_38:8; Lev_12:6).(:note) assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@1Samuel:13:3 @ And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that [was] in (note:)Of Kirjath-jearim, where the ark was, (1Sa_10:5).(:note) Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the That everyone should prepare themselves to fight. trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

geneva@1Samuel:13:7 @ And [some of] the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of (note:)Where the two tribes and the half remained.(:note) Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he [was] yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

geneva@1Samuel:14:11 @ And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the (note:)Thus they spoke contemptuously and by derision.(:note) holes where they had hid themselves.

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

geneva@1Samuel:29:3 @ Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, [Is] not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, (note:)Meaning, a long time, that is, four months and certain days, (1Sa_27:7).(:note) or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this day?

geneva@2Kings:6:25 @ And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's (note:)The Hebrews write, that they burned it in the seige for lack of wood.(:note) dung for five [pieces] of silver.

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:25:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)That is, of Zedekiah.(:note) ninth year of his reign, in the Which the Hebrews call Teber, and it contains part of December and part of January. tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:18 @ And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat (note:)Of him came the Hebrews who were later called Israelites of Israel, who was Jacob and Jews of Judah because of the excellency of that tribe.(:note) Eber.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:15 @ These [are] they that went over Jordan in the (note:)Which the Hebrews called Nisan, or Abib, containing half March and half April, when Jordan was wont to overflow its banks, read (Jos_3:15).(:note) first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all [them] of the valleys, [both] toward the east, and toward the west.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:22 @ For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of (note:)Meaning, mighty or strong, for the Hebrews say a thing is of God when it is excellent.(:note) God.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:5 @ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were (note:)Joab partly for grief and partly through negligence gathered not the whole sum as it is here declared.(:note) a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] In Samuel 30,000 more are mentioned, which was either by joining to them some of the Benjamites who were mixed with Judah, or as the Hebrews write, here the chief and princes are left out. four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:24 @ Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, (note:)The commandment of the king was abominable to Joab, (1Ch_21:6).(:note) because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the The Hebrews make both these books of Chronicles but one, and at this verse make the middle of the book concerning the number of verses. chronicles of king David.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:1 @ It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the (note:)That is, who copied the Ammonites in language and apparel. The Hebrews thought that they were the Amalekites, but as it appeared by (2Ch_20:10) they were the Idumeans of mount Seir.(:note) Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

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@Ezra:7:1 @ Now after these things, in the reign of (note:)The Hebrews write that many of the kings of Persia were called by this name, as Pharaoh was a common name to the kings of Egypt and Caesar to the Romans emperors.(:note) Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

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