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geneva@Exodus:18:14 @ And when Moses father in law saw all that he did to the people, he sayde, What is this that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thy selfe alone, and all the people stande about thee from morning vnto euen?

geneva@Exodus:18:17 @ But Moses father in law said vnto him, The thing which thou doest, is not well.

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:10:20 @ And when Moses heard [that], he was (note:)Moses bore with his infirmity, considering his great sorrow, but does not leave an example to forgive them that maliciously transgress the commandment of God.(:note) content.

geneva@Leviticus:13:13 @ Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, [if] the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce [him] (note:)For it is not that contagious leprosy that infects, but a form of scales which does not leave the skin raw as leprosy does.(:note) clean [that hath] the plague: it is all turned white: he [is] clean.

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:27:17 @ If he dedicate his field immediately from the yeere of Iubile, it shall bee worth as thou doest esteeme it.

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@Deuteronomy:4:22 @ But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but (note:)Moses good affection appears in that while he himself is deprived of such an excellent treasure, he does not envy those who must enjoy it.(:note) ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

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: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: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:14:29 @ Then ye Leuite shall come, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widowe, which are within thy gates, and shall eate, and be filled, that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the worke of thine hand which thou doest.

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: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:24:1 @ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: (note:)By this God does not approve light divorcement, but permits it to avoid further inconvenience; (Mat_19:7).(:note) then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:2 @ And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, (note:)When the crime does not deserve death.(:note) and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her (note:)Because the Hebrew word does not signify the natural brother, and the word that signifies a brother, is taken also for a kinsman: it seems that it does not mean that the natural brother should marry his brothers wife, but some other kindred that was in the degree that might marry.(:note) husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

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:27:18 @ Cursed [be] he that maketh the (note:)Meaning, that does not help and counsel his neighbour.(:note) blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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

geneva@Judges:5:21 @ The river of Kishon (note:)As a broom does to the filth of the house.(:note) swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

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:16:30 @ And Samson said, (note:)He does not speak out of despair, but humbling himself for neglecting his office and the offence thereby given.(:note) Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he slew in his life.

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:9:20 @ And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And (note:)Whom does Israel desire to be their king, but thee?(:note) on whom [is] all the desire of Israel? [Is it] not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

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:17:26 @ And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the (note:)This dishonour that he does to Israel.(:note) reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

geneva@1Samuel:24:14 @ {\cf2 (24:15)} After whom is the King of Israel come out? after whome doest thou pursue? after a dead dog, and after a flea?

geneva@1Samuel:28:8 @ And Saul (note:)He does not seek God in his misery, but is led by Satan to unlawful means, which in his conscience he condemns.(:note) disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me [him] up, whom I shall name unto thee.

geneva@1Samuel:28:16 @ Then said Samuel, Wherefore then doest thou aske of me, seeing the Lord is gone from thee, and is thine enemie?

geneva@2Samuel:3:25 @ Thou knowest Abner the sonne of Ner: for he came to deceiue thee, and to knowe thy outgoing and ingoing, and to knowe all that thou doest.

geneva@2Samuel:7:19 @ And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And [is] this the manner of (note:)Does this not come rather from your free mercy, than from any worthiness that can be in man?(:note) man, O Lord GOD?

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: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@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:8:47 @ [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee (note:)Though the temple was the chief place of prayer, yet he does not exclude them who being forced by necessity to call upon him in other places.(:note) in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

geneva@1Kings:19:9 @ And there he entred into a caue, & lodged there: and beholde, the Lorde spake to him, and said vnto him, What doest thou here, Eliiah?

geneva@1Kings:19:13 @ And when Eliiah heard it, he couered his face with his mantel, and went out, and stoode in the entring in of ye caue: and behold, there came a voyce vnto him, and sayd, What doest thou here, Eliiah?

geneva@1Kings:20:22 @ (For there had come a Prophet to the King of Israel, and had sayd vnto him, Goe, be of good courage, and consider, and take heede what thou doest: for when the yeere is gone about, the King of Aram wil come vp against thee)

geneva@1Kings:20:23 @ And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their (note:)Thus the wicked blaspheme God in their fury, who nonetheless he does not permit to go unpunished.(:note) gods [are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

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

geneva@2Kings:6:22 @ And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: doest thou not smite them that thou hast taken with thy sworde, and with thy bowe? but set bread and water before them, that they may eate and drinke and goe to their master.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:7 @ Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at (note:)If he continues to keep my law as he does now and doesn't depart from it.(:note) this day.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:26 @ When heauen shall be shut vp, and there shalbe no rayne, because they haue sinned against thee, and shall pray in this place, and confesse thy Name, and turne from their sinne, when thou doest afflict them,

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: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:21:11 @ Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit (note:)Meaning, idolatry because the idolater breaks promise with God as the adulteress does to her husband.(:note) fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].

geneva@2Chronicles:24:5 @ And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all (note:)He does not mean the ten tribes but only the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin.(:note) Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened [it] not.

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:25:19 @ Thou thinkest: lo, thou hast smitten Edom, and thine heart lifteth thee vp to bragge: abide now at home: why doest thou prouoke to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, and Iudah with thee?

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

geneva@2Chronicles:32:31 @ Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God left him, to (note:)Here we see the reason why the faithful are tempted, which is to determine whether they have faith or not, and that they may feel the presence of God who does not allow them to be overcome by temptations, but in their weakness administers strength.(:note) try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart.

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@Nehemiah:13:14 @ Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my (note:)He protests that he did his duty with a good conscience yet he does not justify himself in it, but desires God to favour him and to be merciful to him for his own goodness' sake, as in (Neh_13:22, Neh_13:31).(:note) good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.