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Genesis:1:3 @ And God said, Let there be light: and there was (note:)The light was made before either Sun or Moon was created: therefore we must not attribute that to the creatures that are God's instruments, which only belong to God.(:note) light.
geneva@Genesis:1:6 @ Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the middes of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.
geneva@Genesis:1:9 @ God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare; it was so.
geneva@Genesis:1:14 @ And God said, Let there be (note:)By the lights be means the sun, the moon, and the stars.(:note) lights in the firmament of the heaven to Which is the artificial day, from the sun rising, to the going down. divide the day from the night; and let them be for Of things belonging to natural and political orders and seasons. signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
geneva@Genesis:1:16 @ And God made two great (note:)That is, the sun and the moon, and here he speaks as man judges by his eye: for else the moon is less than the planet Saturn.(:note) lights; the greater light to To give it sufficient light, as instruments appointed for the same, to serve man's purposes. rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
geneva@Genesis:1:26 @ And God said, (note:)God commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures: but of man he says, «Let us make...» signifying that God takes counsel with his wisdom and virtue purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.(:note) Let us make man in our This image and likeness of God in man is expounded in (Eph_4:24) where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocency, power, etc. image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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:2:8 @ 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:2:11 @ The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land (note:)Havilah is a country adjoining Persia to the east, and inclining towards the west.(:note) of Havilah, where [there is] gold;
geneva@Genesis:2:12 @ And the golde of that land is good: there is Bdelium, and the Onix stone.
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:2:17 @ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely (note:)By death he means the separation of man from God, who is our life and chief happiness: and also that our disobedience is the cause of it.(:note) die.
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:2:20 @ The man therefore gaue names vnto all cattell, and to the foule of the heauen, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam founde he not an helpe meete for him.
geneva@Genesis:2:21 @ Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.
geneva@Genesis:2:24 @ Therefore shall a man leave (note:)So marriage requires a greater duty of us toward our wives, than otherwise we are bound to show to our parents.(:note) his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
geneva@Genesis:3:5 @ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, (note:)As though he said, God forbids you to eat of the fruit, only because he knows that if you eat of it, you will be like him.(:note) knowing good and evil.
geneva@Genesis:3:6 @ And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he (note:)Not so much to please his wife, as moved by ambition at her persuasion.(:note) did eat.
geneva@Genesis:3:9 @ But the Lord God called to the man, and said vnto him, Where art thou?
geneva@Genesis:3:11 @ And he saide, Who tolde thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eate?
geneva@Genesis:3:23 @ Therefore the Lord God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden, to till ye earth, whence he was taken.
geneva@Genesis:4:5 @ But vnto Kain and to his offering he had no regarde: wherefore Kain was exceeding wroth, and his countenance fell downe.
geneva@Genesis:4:9 @ And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: (note:)This is the nature of the reprobate when they are rebuke for their hypocrisy, even to neglect God and outrage him.(:note) [Am] I my brother's keeper?
geneva@Genesis:4:15 @ And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, (note:)Not for the love he had for Cain, but to suppress murder.(:note) vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a Which was some visible sign of God's judgment, that others should fear by it. mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
geneva@Genesis:4:23 @ And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: (note:)His wives seeing that all men hated him for his cruelty, were afraid, therefore he brags that there is none strong enough to resist, even though he was already wounded.(:note) for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
geneva@Genesis:4:26 @ 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:5:24 @ And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for (note:)To show that there was a better life prepared and to be a testimony of the immortality of souls and bodies. To inquire where he went is mere curiosity.(:note) God took him.
geneva@Genesis:6:1 @ So when men beganne to be multiplied vpon the earth, and there were daughters borne vnto them,
geneva@Genesis:6:4 @ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of (note:)Who usurped authority over others, and degenerated from that simplicity, in which their father's lived.(:note) renown.
geneva@Genesis:6:16 @ A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] (note:)That is, of three heights.(:note) lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it.
geneva@Genesis:6:17 @ And I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.
geneva@Genesis:7:5 @ Noah therefore did according vnto all that the Lord commanded him.
geneva@Genesis:7:9 @ There (note:)God compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as they did before to Adam, when he gave them names, (Gen_2:19).(:note) went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
geneva@Genesis:7:15 @ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two (note:)Every living thing that God would have be preserved on earth, came into the ark to Noah.(:note) of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.
geneva@Genesis:9:6 @ Whoso sheddeth man's blood, (note:)Not only by the magistrate, but often God raises up one murderer to kill another.(:note) by man shall his blood be shed: for in the Therefore to kill man is to deface God's image, and so injury is not only done to man, but also to God. image of God made he man.
geneva@Genesis:9:7 @ But bring ye forth fruite & multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.
geneva@Genesis:9:11 @ And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.
geneva@Genesis:9:16 @ Therefore the bowe shalbe in the cloude, that I may see it, and remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God, and euery liuing thing in all flesh that is vpon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:10:9 @ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even (note:)His tyranny came into a proverb as hated both by God and man: for he did not cease to commit cruelty even in God's presence.(:note) as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
geneva@Genesis:10:10 @ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of (note:)For there was another city in Egypt, called Babel.(:note) Shinar.
geneva@Genesis:10:21 @ Unto (note:)In his stock the Church was preserved: therefore Moses stops speaking of Japheth and Ham, and speaks of Shem extensively.(:note) Shem also, the father of all the children of Of whom came the Hebrews or Jews. Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.
geneva@Genesis:11:2 @ And it came to pass, (note:)One hundred and thirty years after the flood.(:note) as That is, Nimrod and his company. they journeyed from the That is, from Armenia where the ark stayed. east, that they found a plain in the land of Which was afterward called Chaldea. Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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:11:7 @ Go to, (note:)He speaks as though he took counsel with his own wisdom and power: that is, with the Son and holy Spirit: signifying the greatness and certainty of the punishment.(:note) let us go down, and By this great plague of the confusion of tongues appears God's horrible judgment against man's pride and vain glory. there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
geneva@Genesis:11:9 @ Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lorde did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.
geneva@Genesis:11:31 @ And (note:)Though the oracle of God came to Abram, yet the honour is given to Terah, because he was the father.(:note) Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Which was a city of Mesopotamia. Haran, and dwelt there.
geneva@Genesis:12:5 @ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the (note:)Meaning servants as well as cattle.(:note) souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
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:12:10 @ And there was a (note:)This was a new trial of Abram's faith: by which we see that the end of one affliction is the beginning of another.(:note) famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.
geneva@Genesis:12:12 @ Therefore it will come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keepe thee aliue.
geneva@Genesis:12:18 @ Then Pharaoh called Abram, and saide, Why hast thou done this vnto me? Wherefore diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?
geneva@Genesis:12:19 @ Why saidest thou, She is my sister, that I should take her to be my wife? Nowe therefore beholde thy wife, take her and goe thy way.
geneva@Genesis:13:3 @ And he went on his journeys from the south even to (note:)He calls the place by the name which was later given to it, (Gen_23:19).(:note) Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
geneva@Genesis:13:4 @ Vnto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the Lord.
geneva@Genesis:13:7 @ And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the (note:)Who seeing their contention, might blaspheme God and destroy them.(:note) Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
geneva@Genesis:13:8 @ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no (note:)He cuts off the opportunity for contention: therefore the evil ceases.(:note) strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [be] brethren.
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:13:14 @ 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:13:17 @ Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.
geneva@Genesis:13:18 @ Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelled in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar vnto ye Lorde.
geneva@Genesis:14:1 @ And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of (note:)That is, of Babylon: by kings here, meaning, them that were governors of cities.(:note) Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Of a people gathered from various countries. nations;
geneva@Genesis:14:10 @ And the (note:)And afterward was overwhelmed with water, and so was called the salt sea.(:note) vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
geneva@Genesis:14:12 @ And they (note:)The godly are plagued many times with the wicked: therefore their company is dangerous.(:note) took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
geneva@Genesis:14:13 @ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were] (note:)God removed them to join Abram, and preserves him from their idolatry and superstitions.(:note) confederate with Abram.
geneva@Genesis:15:3 @ Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.
geneva@Genesis:15:8 @ And he said, Lord GOD, (note:)This is a particular motion of God's Spirit, which is not lawful for all to follow, in asking signs: but was permitted for some by a peculiar motion, as to Gideon and Ezekiel.(:note) whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
geneva@Genesis:15:12 @ And when the sunne went downe, there fell an heauie sleepe vpon Abram: and loe, a very fearefull darkenes fell vpon him.
geneva@Genesis:15:17 @ Also when the sunne went downe, there was a darkenes: & behold, a smoking fornace, and a firebrand, which went betweene those pieces.
geneva@Genesis:16:6 @ Then Abram saide to Sarai, Beholde, thy maide is in thine hand: doe with her as it pleaseth thee. Then Sarai dealt roughly with her: wherefore she fled from her.
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:16:14 @ Wherefore the well was called, Beerlahai-roi. lo, it is betweene Kadesh and Bered.
geneva@Genesis:17:8 @ And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.
geneva@Genesis:17:14 @ And the uncircumcised (note:)Though women were not circumcised, they still partook of God's promise: for under mankind all was consecrated. Here it is declared, that whoever condemns the sign, also despises the promise.(:note) man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
geneva@Genesis:18:5 @ And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye (note:)As sent by God that I should do my duty to you.(:note) come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
geneva@Genesis:18:9 @ Then they saide to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he answered, Beholde, she is in the tent.
geneva@Genesis:18:12 @ Therefore Sarah (note:)For she believed the order of nature, rather than believing the promise of God.(:note) laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
geneva@Genesis:18:13 @ And ye Lord saide vnto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah thus laugh, saying, Shall I certainely beare a childe, which am olde?
geneva@Genesis:18:24 @ If there be fiftie righteous within the citie, wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fiftie righteous that are therein?
geneva@Genesis:18:26 @ And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom (note:)God declares that his judgments were done with great mercy, even though all were so corrupt that not only fifty but ten righteous men could not be found there, and also that the wicked are spared for the sake of the righteous.(:note) fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
geneva@Genesis:18:28 @ If there shall lacke fiue of fiftie righteous, wilt thou destroy all the citie for fiue? And he saide, If I finde there fiue and fourtie, I will not destroy it.
geneva@Genesis:18:29 @ And he yet spake to him againe, and saide, What if there shalbe found fourtie there? Then he answered, I will not doe it for fourties sake.
geneva@Genesis:18:30 @ Againe he said, Let not my Lord nowe be angry, that I speake, What if thirtie be founde there? Then he saide, I will not doe it, if I finde thirtie there.
geneva@Genesis:18:31 @ Moreouer he said, Behold, now I haue begonne to speake vnto my Lord, What if twentie be founde there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for twenties sake.
geneva@Genesis:18:32 @ And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this (note:)If God did not refuse the prayer for the wicked Sodomites, even to the sixth request, how much more will he grant the prayers of the godly for the afflicted Church?(:note) once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.
geneva@Genesis:19:1 @ And there came two (note:)In which we see God's provident care in preserving his: even though he does not reveal himself to all alike: for Lot had but two angels, and Abraham three.(:note) angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
geneva@Genesis:19:4 @ But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, (note:)Nothing is more dangerous than to live where sin reigns: for it corrupts all.(:note) all the people from every quarter:
geneva@Genesis:19:5 @ Who crying vnto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? Bring them out vnto vs that we may knowe them.
geneva@Genesis:19:8 @ Behold now, I have two (note:)He deserves praise for defending his guests, but he is to be blamed for seeking unlawful means.(:note) daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; That I should preserve them from all injury. for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
geneva@Genesis:19:12 @ Then the men said vnto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either sonne in lawe, or thy sonnes, or thy daughters, or whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring it out of this place.
geneva@Genesis:19:15 @ And when the morning arose, the Angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the citie.
geneva@Genesis:19:22 @ Haste thee, escape thither; for I (note:)Because God's commandment was to destroy the city and to save Lot.(:note) cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Which before was called Belah, in (Gen_14:2). Zoar.
geneva@Genesis:19:27 @ And Abraham rising vp earely in ye morning went to the place, where he had stand before the Lord,
geneva@Genesis:19:29 @ But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plaine, God thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middes of the destruction, when he ouerthrewe the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.
geneva@Genesis:19:31 @ And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the (note:)Meaning in the country which the Lord had now destroyed.(:note) earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
geneva@Genesis:20:4 @ But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also (note:)The infidels confessed that God would not punish but for just occasion: therefore, when he punishes, the occasion is just.(:note) a righteous nation?
geneva@Genesis:20:6 @ And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also (note:)God by his holy Spirit restrains those who offend in ignorance, that they not fall into greater offence..(:note) withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
geneva@Genesis:20:7 @ Now therefore restore the man [his] wife; for he [is] a (note:)That is, one to whom God reveals himself familiarly.(:note) prophet, and he For the prayer of the godly is of force towards God. shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine.
geneva@Genesis:20:11 @ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the (note:)He shows that no honesty can be hoped for, where there is no fear of God.(:note) fear of God [is] not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
geneva@Genesis:20:13 @ Nowe when God caused me to wander out of my fathers house, I said then to her, This is thy kindnes that thou shalt shewe vnto me in all places where we come, Say thou of me, He is my brother.
geneva@Genesis:20:15 @ And Abimelech saide, Beholde, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
geneva@Genesis:21:2 @ For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his (note:)Therefore the miracle was greater.(:note) old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
geneva@Genesis:21:10 @ Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.
geneva@Genesis:21:17 @ And God (note:)For his promise sake made to Abraham; and not because the child had discretion and judgment to pray.(:note) heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he [is].
geneva@Genesis:21:23 @ Nowe therefore sweare vnto me here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my children, nor my childrens children: thou shalt deale with me, and with the countrey, where thou hast bene a stranger, according vnto the kindnesse that I haue shewed thee.
geneva@Genesis:21:31 @ Wherefore the place is called Beer-sheba, because there they both sware.
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:22:1 @ And after these things God did proue Abraham, and said vnto him, Abraham. Who answered, Here am I.
geneva@Genesis:22:2 @ And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of (note:)Signifying the fear of God, in which place he was also honoured, Solomon later building the temple there.(:note) Moriah; and This was the main point of his temptation, seeing that he was commanded to offer up him in whom God had promised to bless all the nations of the world. offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
geneva@Genesis:22:5 @ And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and (note:)He did not doubt that God would accomplish his promise, even if he should sacrifice his son.(:note) come again to you.
geneva@Genesis:22:7 @ Then spake Izhak vnto Abraham his father, and said, My father; he answered, Here am I, my sonne; he said, Behold the fire & the wood, but where is the lambe for ye burnt offring?
geneva@Genesis:22:9 @ And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and (note:)For it is likely that his father had told him God's commandment, to which he showed himself obedient.(:note) bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
geneva@Genesis:22:11 @ But the Angel of the Lord called vnto him from heauen, saying, Abraham, Abraham; he answered, Here am I.
geneva@Genesis:22:13 @ And Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and behold, there was a ramme behind him caught by the hornes in a bush. then Abraham went and tooke the ramme, and offered him vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne.
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:22:17 @ Therefore will I surely blesse thee, and will greatly multiplie thy seede, as the starres of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon the sea shore, and thy seede shall possesse the gate of his enemies.
geneva@Genesis:23:11 @ No, my Lorde, heare me: the fielde giue I thee, and the caue, that therein is, I giue it thee: euen in the presence of the sonnes of my people giue I it thee, to bury thy dead.
geneva@Genesis:23:13 @ And spake vnto Ephron in the audience of the people of the countrey, saying, Seeing thou wilt giue it, I pray thee, heare me, I will giue the price of the fielde: receiue it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
geneva@Genesis:23:15 @ My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four hundred (note:)The common shekel is about 20 pence, so then 400 shekels is equal to 33 pounds, 6 shillings and 8 pence at 5 shilling sterling to the ounce.(:note) shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
geneva@Genesis:23:17 @ So the fielde of Ephron which was in Machpelah, and ouer against Mamre, euen the field and the caue that was therein, and all the trees that were in the fielde, which were in all the borders round about, was made sure
geneva@Genesis:23:20 @ And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace (note:)That is, all the people confirmed the sale.(:note) by the sons of Heth.
geneva@Genesis:24:7 @ The Lord God of heauen, who tooke me from my fathers house, and from the land where I was borne, and that spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, Vnto thy seede wil I giue this land, he shall send his Angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife vnto my sonne fro thence.
geneva@Genesis:24:16 @ And the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she (note:)Here is declared that God hears the prayers of his own, and grants their requests.(:note) went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
geneva@Genesis:24:22 @ And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden (note:)God permitted many things both in apparel and other things which are now forbidden especially when they do not suit our humble estate.(:note) earring of The golden shekel is meant here, not silver. half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold;
geneva@Genesis:24:23 @ And he said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me, I pray thee, Is there roume in thy fathers house for vs to lodge in?
geneva@Genesis:24:31 @ And he saide, Come in thou blessed of the Lord: wherefore standest thou without, seeing I haue prepared the house, & roume for ye camels?
geneva@Genesis:24:33 @ And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he said, I (note:)The faithfulness that servants owe to their masters, causes them to prefer their masters business before their own needs.(:note) will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
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:24:37 @ And my master made me swear, saying, (note:)The Canaanites were cursed, and therefore the godly could not join with them in marriage.(:note) Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
geneva@Genesis:24:49 @ And now if ye will deal (note:)If you will freely and faithfully give your daughter to my master's son.(:note) kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the That is, that I may look elsewhere. right hand, or to the left.
geneva@Genesis:25:8 @ Then Abraham yeelded the spirit, and died in a good age, an olde man, and of great yeeres, & was gathered to his people.
geneva@Genesis:25:10 @ Which fielde Abraham bought of the Hittites, where Abraham was buryed with Sarah his wife.
geneva@Genesis:25:17 @ And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his (note:)Who dwelt among the Arabians, and were separate from the blessed seed.(:note) people.
geneva@Genesis:25:24 @ Therefore when her time of deliuerance was fulfilled, behold, twinnes were in her wombe.
geneva@Genesis:25:26 @ And afterward came his brother out, and his hande helde Esau by the heele: therefore his name was called Iaakob. Nowe Izhak was threescore yeere olde when Rebekah bare them.
geneva@Genesis:25:30 @ Then Esau sayd to Iaakob, Let me eate, I pray thee, of that pottage so red, for I am wearie. Therefore was his name called Edom.
geneva@Genesis:25:32 @ And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what (note:)The reprobate do not value God's benefits unless they feel them presently, and therefore they prefer present pleasures.(:note) profit shall this birthright do to me?
geneva@Genesis:26:1 @ And there was a famine in the (note:)In the land of Canaan.(:note) land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
geneva@Genesis:26:8 @ And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac [was] (note:)Or showing some familiar sign of love, by which it might be known that she was his wife.(:note) sporting with Rebekah his wife.
geneva@Genesis:26:17 @ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the (note:)The Hebrew word signifies a flood, or valley, where water at any time runs.(:note) valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
geneva@Genesis:26:19 @ Izhaks seruantes then digged in the valley, and found there a well of liuing water.
geneva@Genesis:26:20 @ But the herdmen of Gerar did striue with Izhaks herdmen, saying, The water is ours: therefore called he the name of the wel Esek, because they were at strife with him.
geneva@Genesis:26:22 @ Then he remoued thence, and digged an other well, for the which they stroue not: therefore called hee the name of it Rehoboth, and sayde, Because the Lorde hath nowe made vs roome, we shall increase vpon the earth.
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:26:27 @ To whom Izhak sayd, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate mee and haue put mee away from you?
geneva@Genesis:26:28 @ Who answered, Wee sawe certainely that the Lorde was with thee, and wee thought thus, Let there be nowe an othe betweene vs, euen betweene vs and thee, and let vs make a couenant with thee.
geneva@Genesis:26:33 @ So hee called it Shibah: therefore the name of the citie is called Beer-sheba vnto this day.
geneva@Genesis:27:1 @ And when Izhak was olde, and his eyes were dimme (so that he coulde not see) he called Esau his eldest sonne, and sayde vnto him, My sonne; he answered him, I am here.
geneva@Genesis:27:3 @ Wherefore nowe, I pray thee take thine instrumentes, thy quiuer and thy bowe, and get thee to the fielde, that thou mayest take mee some venison.
geneva@Genesis:27:8 @ Nowe therefore, my sonne, heare my voyce in that which I command thee.
geneva@Genesis:27:18 @ And when he came to his father, he sayd, My father. Who answered, I am here: who art thou, my sonne?
geneva@Genesis:27:23 @ (For he knewe him not, because his hands were rough as his brother Esaus hands: wherefore he blessed him)
geneva@Genesis:27:28 @ God giue thee therefore of the dewe of heauen, and the fatnesse of the earth, and plentie of wheate and wine.
geneva@Genesis:27:33 @ And Isaac (note:)In perceiving his error, by appointing his heir against God's sentence pronounced before.(:note) trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where [is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be blessed.
geneva@Genesis:27:36 @ And he said, Is not he rightly named (note:)In (Gen_25:26) he was so called because he held his brother by the heel, as though he would overthrow him: and therefore he is here called an overthrower, or deceiver.(:note) Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
geneva@Genesis:27:41 @ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; (note:)Hypocrites only abstain from doing evil for fear of men.(:note) then will I slay my brother Jacob.
geneva@Genesis:27:43 @ Now therefore my sonne, heare my voyce, arise, & flee thou to Haran to my brother Laban,
geneva@Genesis:28:4 @ And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a (note:)The godly fathers were continually reminded that they were but strangers in this world: so that they would lift up their eyes to the heavens where they have a certain dwelling.(:note) stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
geneva@Genesis:28:11 @ And he came vnto a certaine place, and taried there al night, because the sunne was downe, and tooke of the stones of the place, and layde vnder his head and slept in the same place.
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:29:2 @ And he looked, and behold a well in the field, (note:)Thus he was directed by the providence of God, who brought him to Laban's house.(:note) and, lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well's mouth.
geneva@Genesis:29:3 @ And thither were all the flockes gathered, & they rolled the stone from the welles mouth, and watered the sheepe, and put the stone againe vpon the welles mouth in his place.
geneva@Genesis:29:7 @ Then he sayd, Lo, it is yet hie day, neither is it time that the cattell shoulde be gathered together: water ye the sheepe and go feede them.
geneva@Genesis:29:22 @ Wherefore Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
geneva@Genesis:29:25 @ But when the morning was come, behold, it was Leah. Then sayde he to Laban, Wherefore hast thou done thus to mee? did not I serue thee for Rahel? wherfore then hast thou beguiled me?
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:29:33 @ And she conceiued againe & bare a sonne, and sayde, Because the Lord heard that I was hated, he hath therefore giuen me this sonne also, & she called his name Simeon.
geneva@Genesis:29:34 @ And she conceiued againe & bare a sonne, and said, Now at this time wil my husband keepe mee company, because I haue borne him three sonnes: therefore was his name called Leui.
geneva@Genesis:29:35 @ Moreouer shee conceiued againe and bare a sonne, saying, Nowe will I prayse the Lorde: therefore shee called his name Iudah, and left bearing.
geneva@Genesis:30:2 @ And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in (note:)It is only God who makes one barren or fruitful, and therefore I am not at fault.(:note) God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
geneva@Genesis:30:6 @ Then said Rahel, God hath giuen sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voyce, and hath giuen mee a sonne: therefore called shee his name, Daniel.
geneva@Genesis:30:15 @ But shee answered her, Is it a small matter for thee to take mine husband, except thou take my sonnes mandrakes also? Then sayde Rahel, Therefore he shall sleepe with thee this night for thy sonnes mandrakes.
geneva@Genesis:30:35 @ Therefore he tooke out the same day the hee goates that were partie coloured and with great spots, and all the shee goates with litle and great spots, and all that had white in them, and all the blacke among the sheepe, and put them in the keeping of his sonnes.
geneva@Genesis:31:4 @ Therefore Iaakob sent and called Rahel and Leah to the fielde vnto his flocke.
geneva@Genesis:31:11 @ And the Angel of God sayde to mee in a dreame, Iaakob; I answered, Lo, I am here.
geneva@Genesis:31:16 @ Therefore all the riches, which God hath taken from our father, is ours and our childrens: nowe then whatsoeuer God hath saide vnto thee, doe it.
geneva@Genesis:31:19 @ And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the (note:)For so the word here signifies, because Laban calls them gods, (Gen_31:30).(:note) images that [were] her father's.
geneva@Genesis:31:29 @ It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the (note:)He was an idolater and therefore would not acknowledge the God of Jacob for his God.(:note) God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
geneva@Genesis:31:30 @ Nowe though thou wentest thy way, because thou greatly longedst after thy fathers house, yet wherefore hast thou stollen my gods?
geneva@Genesis:31:37 @ Seeing thou hast searched all my stuffe, what hast thou foud of all thine houshold stuffe? put it here before my brethren & thy brethren, that they may iudge betweene vs both.
geneva@Genesis:31:44 @ Now therefore (note:)His conscience reproved him for his misbehaviour toward Jacob, and therefore moved him to seek peace.(:note) come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
geneva@Genesis:31:46 @ And Iaakob sayde vnto his brethren, Gather stones: who brought stones, and made an heape, and they did eate there vpon the heape.
geneva@Genesis:31:48 @ For Laban sayd, This heape is witnesse betweene me and thee this day: therefore he called the name of it Galeed.
geneva@Genesis:31:55 @ And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and (note:)We see that there is always some seed of the knowledge of God in the hearts of the wicked.(:note) blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
geneva@Genesis:32:4 @ And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my (note:)He reverenced his brother in worldly things, because he mainly looked to be preferred to the spiritual promise.(:note) lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
geneva@Genesis:32:13 @ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a (note:)Not distrusting God's assistance, but using such means as God had given him.(:note) present for Esau his brother;
geneva@Genesis:32:24 @ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a (note:)That is, God in the form of a man.(:note) man with him until the breaking of the day.
geneva@Genesis:32:29 @ Then Iaakob demaded, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name; he said, Wherefore now doest thou aske my name? & he blessed him there
geneva@Genesis:32:32 @ Therefore the children of Israel eate not of the sinewe that shranke in the hollowe of the thigh, vnto this day: because he touched the sinew that shranke in the holow of Iaakobs thigh.
geneva@Genesis:33:10 @ And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore (note:)In that his brother embraced him so lovingly, contrary to his expectation, he accepted it as a clear sign of God's presence.(:note) I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
geneva@Genesis:33:11 @ I pray thee take my blessing, that is brought thee: for God hath had mercie on me, and therefore I haue all things: so he compelled him, and he tooke it.
geneva@Genesis:33:17 @ And Iaakob went forwarde towarde Succoth, and built him an house, & made boothes for his cattell: therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.
geneva@Genesis:33:19 @ And there he bought a parcell of ground, where hee pitched his tent, at the hande of the sonnes of Hamor Shechems father, for an hundreth pieces of money.
geneva@Genesis:33:20 @ And he erected there an altar, and called (note:)He calls the sign, the thing which it signifies, in token that God had mightily delivered him.(:note) it Elelohe-Israel.
geneva@Genesis:34:5 @ (Nowe Iaakob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sonnes were with his cattell in the fielde: therefore Iaakob helde his peace, vntill they were come.)
geneva@Genesis:34:10 @ And ye shall dwell with vs, and the lande shalbe before you: dwell, and doe your businesse in it, and haue your possessions therein.
geneva@Genesis:34:20 @ And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the (note:)For the people used to assemble there, and justice was administered.(:note) gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
geneva@Genesis:34:21 @ These men [are] (note:)Thus many pretend to speak for a public profit, when in reality they are only speaking for their own private gain and convenience.(:note) peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, [it is] large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
geneva@Genesis:34:22 @ Onely herein will the men consent vnto vs for to dwell with vs, and to be one people, if all the men children among vs be circumcised as they are circumcised.
geneva@Genesis:35:1 @ And (note:)God is ever at hand to comfort his people in their troubles.(:note) God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
geneva@Genesis:35:3 @ For we will rise and goe vp to Beth-el, and I will make an altar there vnto God, which heard me in the day of my tribulation, and was with me in the way which I went.
geneva@Genesis:35:7 @ And he built there an altar, and had called the place, The God of Beth-el, because that God appeared vnto him there, when he fled from his brother.
geneva@Genesis:35:13 @ And God (note:)As God is said to descend, when he shows some sign of his presence: so he is said to ascend when a vision is ended.(:note) went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
geneva@Genesis:35:14 @ And Iaakob set vp a pillar in the place where he talked with him, a pillar of stone, and powred drinke offring thereon: also hee powred oyle thereon.
geneva@Genesis:35:15 @ And Iaakob called the name of the place, where God spake with him, Beth-el.
geneva@Genesis:35:16 @ And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a (note:)The Hebrew word signifies as much ground as one can cover from resting point to resting point, which is taken for half a days journey.(:note) little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
geneva@Genesis:35:27 @ Then Iaakob came vnto Izhak his father to Mamre a citie of Arbah: this is Hebron, where Abraham and Izhak were strangers.
geneva@Genesis:35:29 @ And Izhak gaue vp the ghost and died, and was gathered vnto his people, being olde & full of daies: & his sonnes Esau & Iaakob buried him.
geneva@Genesis:36:7 @ For their riches were so great, that they could not dwell together, and the lande, wherein they were strangers, coulde not receiue them because of their flockes.
geneva@Genesis:36:8 @ Therefore dwelt Esau in mount Seir: this Esau is Edom.
geneva@Genesis:36:20 @ These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite, who (note:)Esau lived there before that.(:note) inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
geneva@Genesis:36:31 @ And these [are] the (note:)The wicked rise up suddenly to honour and perish as quickly: but the inheritance of the children of God continues forever, (Psa_102:28).(:note) kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
geneva@Genesis:37:1 @ And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a (note:)That is, the story of such things as came to him and his family as in (Gen_5:1)(:note) stranger, in the land of Canaan.
geneva@Genesis:37:14 @ And he answered him, I am here. Then he saide vnto him, Goe now, see whether it bee well with thy brethren, and how the flocks prosper, and bring me word againe. So hee sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
geneva@Genesis:37:16 @ And he answered, I seeke my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they keepe sheepe.
geneva@Genesis:37:20 @ Come now therefore, and let vs slay him, and cast him into some pitte, and wee will say, A wicked beast hath deuoured him: then wee shall see, what will come of his dreames.
geneva@Genesis:37:24 @ And they took him, and cast (note:)Their hypocrisy appears in this that they feared man more than God: and thought it was not murder, if they did not shed his blood or had excuses to cover their fault.(:note) him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it.
geneva@Genesis:37:25 @ Then they sate them downe to eate bread: and they lift vp their eyes and looked, and behold, there came a companie of Ishmeelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicerie, and balme, and myrrhe, and were going to cary it downe into Egypt.
geneva@Genesis:37:28 @ Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the (note:)Moses writes according to the opinion of those who took the Midianites and Ishmaelites to be one, and here mixes their names: as also appears in (Gen_37:36, Gen_39:1) or else he was first offered to the Midianites, but sold to the Ishmaelites.(:note) Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
geneva@Genesis:38:2 @ And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name [was] Shuah; (note:)A relationship which nonetheless was condemned by God.(:note) and he took her, and went in unto her.
geneva@Genesis:38:7 @ Now Er the first borne of Iudah was wicked in the sight of the Lord: therefore the Lord slewe him.
geneva@Genesis:38:9 @ And Onan knewe that the seede should not be his: therefore when he went in vnto his brothers wife, he spilled it on the grounde, least he should giue seede vnto his brother.
geneva@Genesis:38:10 @ And it was wicked in the eyes of the Lord, which he did: wherefore he slewe him also.
geneva@Genesis:38:12 @ And in processe of time also the daughter of Shuah Iudahs wife dyed. Then Iudah, when he had left mourning, went vp to his sheepe sherers to Timnah, he, and his neighbour Hirah the Adullamite.
geneva@Genesis:38:13 @ And it was tolde Tamar, saying, beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Timnah, to shere his sheepe.
geneva@Genesis:38:21 @ Then asked he the men of that place, saying, Where is ye whore, that sate in Enaim by the way side? And they answered, There was no whore here.
geneva@Genesis:38:22 @ He came therefore to Iudah againe, and said, I can not finde her, and also the men of the place said, There was no whore there.
geneva@Genesis:38:27 @ Now, when the time was come that she should be deliuered, beholde, there were twinnes in her wombe.
geneva@Genesis:38:29 @ And it came to pass, as he (note:)Their heinous sin was signified by this monstrous birth.(:note) drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How Or the separation between you and your brother. hast thou broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
geneva@Genesis:39:6 @ And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; (note:)For he was sure that everything would prosper: therefore he ate and drank and did not worry.(:note) and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was [a] goodly [person], and well favoured.
geneva@Genesis:39:9 @ [There is] none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against (note:)The fear of God preserved him against her continual temptations.(:note) God?
geneva@Genesis:39:11 @ Then on a certaine day Ioseph entred into the house, to doe his businesse: and there was no man of the houshold in the house:
geneva@Genesis:39:12 @ Therefore she caught him by his garmet, saying, Sleepe with me: but he left his garment in her hand and fled, and got him out.
geneva@Genesis:39:20 @ And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the (note:)His bad treatment in the prison may be gathered from (Psa_105:18).(:note) prison, a place where the king's prisoners [were] bound: and he was there in the prison.
geneva@Genesis:39:22 @ And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and (note:)That is, nothing was done without his commandment.(:note) whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it].
geneva@Genesis:40:3 @ And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where (note:)God works in many wonderful ways to deliver his own.(:note) Joseph [was] bound.
geneva@Genesis:40:7 @ And he asked Pharaohs officers, that were with him in his masters warde, saying, Wherefore looke ye so sadly to day?
geneva@Genesis:40:8 @ And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, (note:)Cannot God raise up such as shall interpret such things.(:note) [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [them], I pray you.
geneva@Genesis:40:15 @ For I was stollen away by theft out of the land of the Ebrewes, and here also haue I done nothing, wherefore they should put mee in the dungeon.
geneva@Genesis:40:17 @ And in the vppermost basket there was of all maner baken meates for Pharaoh: and the birdes did eate them out of the basket vpon mine head.
geneva@Genesis:40:18 @ And Joseph answered and said, (note:)He shows that the ministers of God should not conceal that, which God reveals to them.(:note) This [is] the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:
geneva@Genesis:41:2 @ And loe, there came out of the riuer seuen goodly kine and fatfleshed, and they fedde in a medowe:
geneva@Genesis:41:8 @ And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was (note:)This fear was enough to teach him that this vision was sent by God.(:note) troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
geneva@Genesis:41:12 @ And there was with vs a yong man, an Ebrew, seruant vnto the chiefe steward, whome when we told, he declared our dreames to vs, to euery one he declared according to his dreame.
geneva@Genesis:41:18 @ And lo, there came vp out of the riuer seuen fat fleshed, and welfauoured kine, and they fedde in the medowe.
geneva@Genesis:41:23 @ And lo, seuen eares, withered, thinne, and blasted with the East winde, sprang vp after them.
geneva@Genesis:41:29 @ Beholde, there come seuen yeeres of great plentie in all the land of Egypt.
geneva@Genesis:41:30 @ Againe, there shall arise after them seuen yeeres of famine, so that all the plentie shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land:
geneva@Genesis:41:32 @ And therefore the dreame was doubled vnto Pharaoh the second time, because the thing is established by God, & God hasteth to performe it.
geneva@Genesis:41:33 @ Now therefore let Pharaoh (note:)The office of a true prophet is not only to show the evils to come, but also the remedies for the same.(:note) look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
geneva@Genesis:41:39 @ The Pharaoh said to Ioseph, For as much as God hath shewed thee all this, there is no man of vnderstanding, or of wisedome like vnto thee.
geneva@Genesis:41:48 @ And hee gathered vp all the foode of the seuen plenteous yeeres, which were in the lande of Egypt, and layde vp foode in the cities: the foode of the fielde, that was round about euery citie, layde he vp in the same.![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)