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Hosea:1:2 @ The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife (note:)That is, one that has been a harlot for a long time: not that the Prophet did this thing in effect, but he saw this in a vision, or else was commanded by God to set forth under this parable or figure the idolatry of the Synagogue, and of the people her children.(:note) of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD.
geneva@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the (note:)Because they thought that God could not have been true in his promise unless he had preserved them, he declares that though they were destroyed, yet the true Israelites who are the sons of the promise, would be without number, who consist both of the Jews and the Gentiles; (Rom_9:26).(:note) children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
geneva@Hosea:2:1 @ Say ye unto your (note:)Seeing that I have promised you deliverance, it remains that you encourage one another to embrace this promise, considering that you are my people on whom I will have mercy.(:note) brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
geneva@Hosea:2:2 @ Plead with your (note:)God shows that the fault was not in him, that he forsook them, but in their Synagogue, and their idolatries; (Isa_50:1).(:note) mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries Meaning that their idolatry was so great, that they were not ashamed, but boasted of it; (Eze_16:25). from between her breasts;
geneva@Hosea:2:3 @ Lest I strip her naked, and (note:)For even though his people were as a harlot for their idolatries, yet he had left them with their dress and dowry and certain signs of his favour, but if they continued still, he would utterly destroy them.(:note) set her as in the day that she was When I brought her out of Egypt. {{See Eze_16:4}} born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
geneva@Hosea:2:4 @ And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the (note:)That is bastards, and begotten in adultery.(:note) children of whoredoms.
geneva@Hosea:2:5 @ For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my (note:)Meaning the idol which they served, and by whom they thought they had wealth and abundance.(:note) lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
geneva@Hosea:2:6 @ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up (note:)I will punish you so that you may then test whether your idols can help you, and bring you into such straightness that you will have no lust to play the harlot.(:note) thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
geneva@Hosea:2:7 @ And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, (note:)This he speaks of the faithful, who are truly converted, and also shows the use and profit of God's punishments.(:note) I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.
geneva@Hosea:2:8 @ For she did not know that I (note:)This declares that idolaters defraud God of his honour, when they attribute his benefits to their idols.(:note) gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal.
geneva@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore will I return, and take away (note:)Signifying that God will take away his benefits, when man by his ingratitude abuses them.(:note) my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.
geneva@Hosea:2:10 @ And now will I discover her (note:)That is, all her service, ceremonies, and inventions by which she worshipped her idols.(:note) lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
geneva@Hosea:2:11 @ I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast daies, her newe moones, and her Sabbathes, and all her solemne feasts.
geneva@Hosea:2:12 @ And I wil destroy her vines & her figtrees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen mee: and I will make them as a forest, and the wilde beasts shall eate them.
geneva@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will visit upon her the days of (note:)I will punish her for her idolatry.(:note) Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her By showing how harlots trim themselves to please others, he declares how superstitious idolaters set a great part of their religion in adorning themselves on their holy days. earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Hosea:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will (note:)By my benefits in offering her grace and mercy, even in that place where she will think herself destitute of all help and comfort.(:note) allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
geneva@Hosea:2:15 @ And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley (note:)Which was a plentiful valley, and in which they had great comfort when they came out of the wilderness, as in (Jos_7:26), and is called the door of hope, because it was a departing from death and an entry into life.(:note) of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall She will then praise God as she did when she was delivered out of Egypt. sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
geneva@Hosea:2:16 @ And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, [that] thou shalt call me (note:)That is, my husband, knowing that I am united to you by a covenant which could not be violated.(:note) Ishi; and shalt call me no more That is, my master: which name was applied to their idols. Baali.
geneva@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their (note:)No idolatry will come into their mouth at all, but they will fear me purely according to my word.(:note) name.
geneva@Hosea:2:18 @ And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the (note:)Meaning that he will so bless them that all creatures will favour them.(:note) beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
geneva@Hosea:2:19 @ And I wil marry thee vnto me for euer: yea, I will marry thee vnto me in righteousnes, and in iudgement, and in mercy and in compassion.
geneva@Hosea:2:20 @ I will even betroth thee unto me in (note:)With a covenant that will never be broken.(:note) faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
geneva@Hosea:2:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear (note:)Then will the heaven desire rain for the earth, which will bring forth things for the use of man.(:note) the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
geneva@Hosea:2:22 @ And the earth shall heare the corne, & the wine, and the oyle, and they shall heare Izreel.
geneva@Hosea:2:23 @ And I will sowe her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercie vpon her, that was not pitied, and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; they shal say, Thou art my God.
geneva@Hosea:3:2 @ So (note:)Yet I loved her and paid a small portion for her, lest she would have perceived the greatness of my love, and abused me, and not been under duty: for fifteen pieces of silver was but half the price of a slave; (Exo_21:32).(:note) I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
geneva@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and (note:)This is meant of Christ's kingdom, which was promised to David to be eternal; (Psa_72:17).(:note) David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
geneva@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD (note:)Because the people would not obey the admonitions of the Prophets, he accuses them before the judgment seat of God, against whom they chiefly offended; (Isa_7:13) (Zec_12:10; Mic_6:1,2).(:note) hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
geneva@Hosea:4:2 @ By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and (note:)In every place appears a liberality to most wicked vices, so that one follows right after another.(:note) blood toucheth blood.
geneva@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because (note:)That is, the priests will be cast off, because for lack of knowledge they are not able to execute their charge, and instruct others; (Deu_33:3; Mal_2:7).(:note) thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing Meaning the whole body of the people, who were weary with hearing the word of God. thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
geneva@Hosea:4:12 @ My (note:)Thus he speaks by derision in calling them his people, who now because of their sins they were not his people: for they sought help from stocks or wooden images and sticks or idols.(:note) people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the They are carried away with madness. spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
geneva@Hosea:4:13 @ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall (note:)Because they take away God's honour, and give it to idols: therefore he will give them up to their lusts, so that they will dishonour their own bodies; (Rom_1:28).(:note) commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
geneva@Hosea:5:2 @ And the revolters are profound to make (note:)Even though they seemed to be given altogether to holiness, and to sacrifices which here he calls slaughter in contempt.(:note) slaughter, though I [have been] a Though I had admonished them continually by my Prophets. rebuker of them all.
geneva@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iudah as a rottennesse.
geneva@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days will (note:)Though he correct us from time to time, yet his help will not be far off, if we return to him.(:note) he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
geneva@Hosea:7:2 @ And they consider not in their hearts, that I remember all their wickednes: now their owne inuentions haue beset them about: they are in my sight.
geneva@Hosea:7:12 @ When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their (note:)According to my curses made to the whole congregation of Israel.(:note) congregation hath heard.
geneva@Hosea:8:2 @ Israel shall (note:)They will cry like hypocrites, but not from the heart, as their deeds declare.(:note) cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
geneva@Hosea:8:12 @ I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a (note:)In this way the idolaters consider the word of God as strange with regard to their own invention.(:note) strange thing.
geneva@Hosea:9:2 @
geneva@Hosea:9:9 @ They (note:)This people is so rooted in their wickedness, that Gibeah, which was similar to Sodom, was never more corrupt; (Jdg_19:22).(:note) have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of Gibeah: [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
geneva@Hosea:9:12 @ Though they bring vp their children, yet I will depriue them from being men: yea, woe to them, when I depart from them.
geneva@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is (note:)That is, from God, by serving their false gods.(:note) divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
geneva@Hosea:10:3 @ For now they shall say, We have no (note:)The day will come that God will take away their king, and then they will feel the fruit of their sins, and how they trusted in him in vain; (2Ki_17:6-7).(:note) king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
geneva@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria shall (note:)When the calf will be carried away.(:note) fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the These were certain idolatrous priests, who wore black apparel during their sacrifices, and cried with a loud voice: which superstition Elijah derided, (1Ki_18:27). {{See 2Ki_23:5}} priests thereof [that] rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
geneva@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; (note:){{See Jer_4:3}}(:note) break up your fallow ground: for [it is] time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
geneva@Hosea:11:2 @ [As] they called them, so they (note:)They rebelled and went a contrary way when the Prophets called them to repentance.(:note) went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
geneva@Hosea:11:12 @ Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with (note:)Governs their state according to God's word, and does not degenerate.(:note) God, and is faithful with the saints.
geneva@Hosea:12:1 @ Ephraim feedeth (note:)That is, flatters himself with vain confidence.(:note) on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and Meaning presents to get friendship. oil is carried into Egypt.
geneva@Hosea:12:2 @ The LORD hath also a controversy with (note:)Which in those points was similar to Ephraim, but not in idolatry.(:note) Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
geneva@Hosea:12:3 @ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had (note:)Seeing that God in this way preferred Jacob their father, Judah's ingratitude was the more to be abhorred.(:note) power with God:
geneva@Hosea:12:4 @ Yea, he had (note:)Read (Gen_32:24-32).(:note) power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: God found Jacob as he lay sleeping in Bethel (Gen_28:12), and spoke with him there in such a way that the fruit of that speech appertained to the whole body of the people, of which we are. he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us;
geneva@Hosea:12:5 @ Yea, the Lorde God of hostes, the Lorde is himselfe his memoriall.
geneva@Hosea:12:6 @ Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercy and iudgement, and hope still in thy God.
geneva@Hosea:12:7 @ [He is] (note:)As for Ephraim, he is more like the wicked Canaanites than godly Abraham or Jacob.(:note) a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
geneva@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me (note:)Thus way the wicked measure God's favour by outward prosperity, and like hypocrites cannot endure that any should reprove their doings.(:note) that [were] sin.
geneva@Hosea:12:9 @ And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in (note:)Seeing you will not acknowledge my benefits, I will bring you again to dwell in tents, as in the feast of the Tabernacles, which you now condemn.(:note) the days of the solemn feast.
geneva@Hosea:12:10 @ I haue also spoken by the Prophets, and I haue multiplied visions, and vsed similitudes by the ministerie of the Prophets.
geneva@Hosea:12:11 @ [Is there] (note:)The people thought that no man dare have spoken against Gilead, that holy place, and yet the Prophet says that all their religion was but vanity.(:note) iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
geneva@Hosea:12:12 @
geneva@Hosea:12:13 @ And by a (note:)Meaning Moses, by which appears that whatever they have, it comes from God's free goodness.(:note) prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
geneva@Hosea:12:14 @ But Ephraim prouoked him with hie places: therefore shal his blood be powred vpon him, and his reproche shall his Lord reward him.
geneva@Hosea:13:2 @ And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, (note:)«Let the men that sacrifice» or «while they sacrifice men». The false prophets persuaded the idolaters to offer their children after the example of Abraham, and he shows how they would exhort one another to the same, and to kiss and worship these calves which were their idols.(:note) Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
geneva@Hosea:13:12 @ The iniquity of Ephraim [is] (note:)It is surely laid up to be punished, as in (Jer_17:1).(:note) bound up; his sin [is] hid.
geneva@Hosea:13:16 @ {\cf2 (14:1)} Samaria shalbe desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shal fall by the sworde: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, & their women with childe shalbe ript.
geneva@Hosea:14:2 @ Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, (note:)He shows them that they ought to confess their sins.(:note) Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we render the calves of our Declaring that this is the true sacrifice that the faithful can offer, even thanks and praise; (Heb_13:15). lips.
geneva@Hosea:14:5 @ {\cf2 (14:6)} I will be as the dewe vnto Israel: he shall grow as the lilie and fasten his rootes, as the trees of Lebanon.
geneva@Hosea:14:6 @ {\cf2 (14:7)} His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.
geneva@Joel:1:2 @ Hear this, ye (note:)Signifying the princes, the priests, and the governors.(:note) old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath He calls the Jews to the consideration of God's judgments, who had now plagued the fruits of the ground for the space of four years, which was because of their sins, and to call them to repentance. this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
geneva@Joel:1:12 @ The vine is dried vp, and the figge tree is decayed: the pomegranate tree & the palme tree, and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the fielde are withered: surely the ioy is withered away from the sonnes of men.
geneva@Joel:1:20 @ The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the (note:)That is, drought.(:note) fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
geneva@Joel:2:1 @ Blow ye (note:)He shows the great judgments of God which are at hand, unless they repent.(:note) the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;
geneva@Joel:2:2 @ A (note:)Of affliction and trouble.(:note) day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a Meaning, the Assyrians. great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.
geneva@Joel:2:3 @ A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of (note:)The enemy destroyed our plentiful country, wherever he went.(:note) Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
geneva@Joel:2:4 @ The beholding of him is like the sight of horses, & like the horsemen, so shal they runne.
geneva@Joel:2:5 @ Like the noyse of charrets in the toppes of the mountaines shal they leape, like the noyse of a flame of fire that deuoureth the stubble, and as a mightie people prepared to the battel.
geneva@Joel:2:6 @ Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces (note:)They will be pale and black because of fear, as in (Nah_2:10).(:note) shall gather blackness.
geneva@Joel:2:7 @ They shal runne like strong men, and goe vp to the wall like men of warre, and euery man shall goe forward in his wayes, and they shall not stay in their paths.
geneva@Joel:2:8 @ Neither shall one (note:)For none will be able to resist them.(:note) thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and [when] they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
geneva@Joel:2:9 @ They shal runne to & fro in the citie: they shal runne vpon the wall: they shal clime vp vpon the houses, & enter in at ye windowes like ye thiefe.
geneva@Joel:2:10 @ The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the (note:)Read (Joe_2:31; Isa_13:10; Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29)(:note) sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
geneva@Joel:2:11 @ And the LORD shall (note:)The Lord will stir up the Assyrians to execute his judgments.(:note) utter his voice before his army: for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
geneva@Joel:2:12 @ Therefore also now the Lord sayth, Turne you vnto me with all your heart, & with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning,
geneva@Joel:2:13 @ And (note:)Mortify your affections and serve God with pureness of heart, and not with ceremonies.(:note) rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
geneva@Joel:2:14 @ Who knoweth [if] he will (note:)He speaks this to stir up their slothfulness, and not that he doubted of God's mercies, if they did repent. For the way in which God repents, {{See Jer_18:8}}(:note) return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
geneva@Joel:2:15 @ Blowe the trumpet in Zion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assembly.
geneva@Joel:2:16 @ Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the (note:)That as all have sinned, so all may show forth signs of their repentance, so that men seeing the children who are not free from God's wrath, might be the more deeply touched with the consideration of their own sins.(:note) children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
geneva@Joel:2:17 @ Let the Priestes, the ministers of the Lord weepe betweene the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and giue not thine heritage into reproche that the heathen should rule ouer them. Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
geneva@Joel:2:18 @ Then will the LORD be (note:)If they repent he shows that God will preserve and defend them with a most fervent affection.(:note) jealous for his land, and pity his people.
geneva@Joel:2:19 @ Yea, the Lord wil answere and say vnto his people, Beholde, I will send you corne, and wine, and oyle, and you shalbe satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproche among the heathen,
geneva@Joel:2:20 @ But I will remove far off from you the (note:)That is, the Assyrians your enemies.(:note) northern [army], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the Called the Salt Sea, or Persian Sea: meaning, that even though this army was so great that it filled all from this sea to the Mediterranean Sea, yet he would scatter them. east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
geneva@Joel:2:21 @ Feare not, O land, but be glad, and reioyce: for the Lord wil do great things.
geneva@Joel:2:22 @ Be not afrayde, ye beastes of the fielde: for the pastures of the wildernesse are greene: for the tree beareth her fruite: the figge tree & the vine do giue their force.
geneva@Joel:2:23 @ Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain (note:)That is, such as would come by just measure, and would be sent when God was reconciled with them.(:note) moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].
geneva@Joel:2:24 @ And the barnes shalbe full of wheate, and the presses shal abound with wine and oyle.
geneva@Joel:2:25 @ And I will render you the yeeres that the grashopper hath eaten, the canker worme and the caterpiller and the palmer worme, my great hoste which I sent among you.
geneva@Joel:2:26 @ So you shal eate and be satisfied and praise the Name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt marueilously with you: and my people shal neuer be ashamed.
geneva@Joel:2:27 @ Ye shal also know, that I am in the middes of Israel, and that I am the Lorde your God and none other, & my people shal neuer be ashamed.
geneva@Joel:2:28 @ And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour (note:)That is, in greater abundance, and more broadly than in times past. And this was fulfilled under Christ, when God's graces and his Spirit under the Gospel were abundantly given to the Church; (Isa_44:3; Act_2:17) (Joh_7:38-39).(:note) out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream As they had visions and dreams in ancient times, so will they now have clearer revelations. dreams, your young men shall see visions:
geneva@Joel:2:29 @ And also vpon the seruants, and vpon the maydes in those dayes wil I powre my Spirit.
geneva@Joel:2:30 @ And I will shew (note:)He warns the faithful what terrible things would come, with the intent that they should not look for continual quietness in this world: and yet in all these troubles he would preserve them.(:note) wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
geneva@Joel:2:31 @ The (note:)The order of nature will seem to be changed because of the horrible afflictions that will be in the world; (Isa_13:10; Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29).(:note) sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
geneva@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call (note:)God's judgments are for the destruction of the unbelievers, and to exhort the godly to call upon the name of God, who will give them salvation.(:note) on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the Meaning the Gentiles by this; (Rom_10:13). remnant whom the LORD shall call.
geneva@Joel:3:2 @ I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the (note:)It appears that he alludes to the great victory of Jehoshaphat, whom God used without man's help to destroy the enemies, (2Ch_20:20-26); also he is referring to this word Jehoshaphat, which signifies pleading or judgment, because God would judge the enemies of his Church, as he did there.(:note) valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
geneva@Joel:3:12 @ Let the heathen be wakened, and come vp to the valley of Iehoshaphat: for there will I sit to iudge all the heathen round about.
geneva@Joel:3:20 @ But Iudah shall dwell for euer, and Ierusalem from generation to generation.
geneva@Joel:3:21 @ For I will (note:)He had allowed his Church before this to lie in their filthiness, but now he promises to cleanse them and to make them pure unto himself.(:note) cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
geneva@Amos:1:2 @ And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top (note:)Whatever is fruitful and pleasant in Israel, will shortly perish.(:note) of Carmel shall wither.
geneva@Amos:1:4 @ But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the (note:)The antiquity of their buildings will not avoid my judgments. {{See Jer_49:27}}(:note) palaces of Benhadad.
geneva@Amos:1:12 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Teman, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah.
geneva@Amos:2:1 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he burned the (note:)For the Moabites were so cruel against the King of Edom, that they burnt his bones after he was dead: which declared their barbarous rage, that they would avenge themselves upon the dead.(:note) bones of the king of Edom into lime:
geneva@Amos:2:2 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Moab, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of a trumpet.
geneva@Amos:2:3 @ And I will cut off the iudge out of the mids thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, sayth the Lord.
geneva@Amos:2:4 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, (note:)Seeing that the Gentiles who did have as much knowledge were punished in this way, Judah which was so fully instructed by the Lord's will, should not think that they would escape.(:note) I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
geneva@Amos:2:5 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.
geneva@Amos:2:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of (note:)If he did not spare Judah unto whom his promises were made, much more he will not spare this degenerate kingdom.(:note) Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of They esteemed most vile bribes more than men's lives. shoes;
geneva@Amos:2:7 @ That pant after the (note:)When they have robbed him and thrown him to the ground, they open wide their mouths for his life.(:note) dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:
geneva@Amos:2:8 @ And they lay [themselves] down upon clothes laid to pledge (note:)Thinking that by these ceremonies, that is, by sacrificing, and by being near my altar, they may excuse all of their other wickedness.(:note) by every altar, and they They rob others and offer it to God, thinking that he will exempt them, when he is made partaker of their iniquity. drink the wine of the condemned [in] the house of their god.
geneva@Amos:2:9 @ Yet destroyed I the (note:)The destruction of their enemies and his mercy toward them, should have caused their hearts to melt because of love toward him.(:note) Amorite before them, whose height [was] like the height of the cedars, and he [was] strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
geneva@Amos:2:10 @ Also I brought you vp from the land of Egypt, and led you fourtie yeres thorowe the wildernesse, to possesse the land of the Amorite.
geneva@Amos:2:11 @ And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of (note:)You condemned my benefits, and abused my graces, and craftily went about to stop the mouths of my Prophets.(:note) your young men for Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
geneva@Amos:2:12 @ But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commanded the Prophetes, saying, Prophecie not.
geneva@Amos:2:13 @ Behold, I am (note:)You have wearied me with your sins; (Isa_1:14).(:note) pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves.
geneva@Amos:2:14 @ Therefore the flight shall perish from the (note:)None will be delivered by any means.(:note) swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
geneva@Amos:2:15 @ Nor he that handleth the bowe, shal stand, and he that is swift of foote, shall not escape, neyther shall he that rideth the horse, saue his life.
geneva@Amos:2:16 @ And he that is of a mighty courage among the strong men, shall flee away naked in that day, sayth the Lord.
geneva@Amos:3:2 @ You (note:)I have only chosen you to be mine among all other people, and yet you have forsaken me.(:note) only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
geneva@Amos:3:12 @ Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh (note:)When the lion has satisfied his hunger, the shepherd finds a leg or a piece of an ear, to show that the sheep have been torn by his teeth.(:note) out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Where they thought to have had a sure stronghold, and to have been in safety. Damascus [in] a couch.
geneva@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with (note:)He alludes to fishers, who catch fish by hooks or thorns.(:note) hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
geneva@Amos:4:4 @ Come to (note:)He speaks this in contempt of those who resorted to those places, thinking that their great devotion and good intention was sufficient to have bound God to them.(:note) Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three Read (Deu_14:28). years:
geneva@Amos:4:11 @ I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a (note:)You were almost all consumed, and a few of you were wonderfully preserved; (2Ki_14:26).(:note) firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
geneva@Amos:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to (note:)Turn to him by repentance.(:note) meet thy God, O Israel.
geneva@Amos:5:2 @ The (note:)He so calls them, because they so boasted of themselves, or because they were given to lustfulness and daintiness.(:note) virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none to raise her up.
geneva@Amos:5:12 @ For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, & they oppresse the poore in ye gate.
geneva@Amos:5:18 @ Woe unto you that (note:)He speaks in this way because the wicked and hypocrites said they were content to endure God's judgments, whereas the godly tremble and fear; (Jer_30:7; Joe_2:2, Joe_2:11), (Zep_1:15).(:note) desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light.
geneva@Amos:5:20 @ Shal not the day of the Lord be darkenes, and not light? euen darkenes and no light in it?
geneva@Amos:5:21 @ I hate and abhorre your feast dayes, and I wil not smell in your solemne assemblies.
geneva@Amos:5:22 @ Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, (note:)Because you have corrupted my true service, and remain obstinate in your vices; (Isa_1:11; Jer_6:10).(:note) I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
geneva@Amos:5:23 @ Take thou away from me the multitude of thy songs (for I wil not heare the melodie of thy violes)
geneva@Amos:5:24 @ But let judgment run down as (note:)Do your duty to God, and to your neighbour, and so you will plentifully feel his grace, if you show your abundant affections according to God's word.(:note) waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
geneva@Amos:5:25 @ Haue ye offered vnto me sacrifices and offrings in the wildernesse fourtie yeeres, O house of Israel?
geneva@Amos:5:26 @ But ye have borne the tabernacle of your (note:)That idol which you esteemed as your king, and carried about as you did Chiun, in which images you thought that there was a certain divinity.(:note) Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
geneva@Amos:5:27 @ Therefore wil I cause you to goe into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the Lorde, whose Name is the God of hostes.
geneva@Amos:6:2 @ Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be (note:)If God has destroyed these excellent cities in three different kingdoms, that is Babylon, Syria, and that of the Philistines, and has narrowed their wide borders more than yours yet are, do you think that you are better, or that you will escape?(:note) they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
geneva@Amos:6:12 @ Shall horses (note:)He compares them to barren rocks, upon which it is in vain to bestow labour: showing that God's benefits can have no place among them.(:note) run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into Read (Amo_5:7). hemlock:
geneva@Amos:7:2 @ And when they had made an ende of eating the grasse of the land, then I saide, O Lorde God, spare, I beseeche thee: who shal raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.
geneva@Amos:7:12 @ Also (note:)When this instrument of Satan was not able to accomplish his purpose by the king, he tried by another practice, that was, to scare the Prophet, that he might depart, and not reprove their idolatry there openly, and so hinder his profit.(:note) Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
geneva@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; (note:)In this way God used to approve the authority of his Prophets, by his plagues and judgments against those who were malicious enemies as in (Jer_28:12-17; Jer_29:21-26), as this day he does against those that persecute the ministers of his Gospel.(:note) Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
geneva@Amos:8:2 @ And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of (note:)Which signified the ripeness of their sins, and the readiness of God's judgments.(:note) summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
geneva@Amos:8:12 @ And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the (note:)By which he shows that they will not only perish in body, but also in soul for lack of God's word, which is the food of it.(:note) word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].
geneva@Amos:9:2 @ Though they digge into the hel, thence shal mine hande take them: though they clime vp to heauen, thence will I bring them downe.
geneva@Amos:9:12 @ That they may possess the remnant of (note:)Meaning, the very enemies (as were the Edomites) and others would be united with the Jews in one society and body, of which Christ would be the head.(:note) Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
geneva@Amos:9:13 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall (note:)Signifying, that there will be great abundance of all things, so that when one type of fruit is ripe, another would follow, and every one in order; (Lev_26:5).(:note) overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall Read (Joe_3:18). drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
geneva@Obadiah:1:2 @ Beholde, I haue made thee smal among the heathen: thou art vtterly despised.
geneva@Obadiah:1:12 @ But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became (note:)When the Lord deprived them of their former dignity, and delivered them to be carried into captivity.(:note) a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
geneva@Obadiah:1:18 @ And the house of Jacob shall be (note:)God attributes this power to consume his enemies to his Church, which power properly belongs only to himself; (Isa_10:17; Deu_4:24; Heb_12:29).(:note) a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be [any] remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken [it].
geneva@Obadiah:1:20 @ And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [shall possess] that of the (note:)By the Canaanites, the Jews mean the Dutchmen, and by Zarephath, France, and by Sepharad, Spain.(:note) Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
geneva@Obadiah:1:21 @ And (note:)Meaning that God will raise up in his Church those who will rule and govern for the defence of it, and for the destruction of his enemies under the Messiah, whom the Prophet here calls the Lord and head of this kingdom.(:note) saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.
geneva@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came (note:)After he had preached a long time in Israel: and so Ezekiel, after he had prophesied in Judah for a time, had visions in Babylon; (Eze_1:1).(:note) unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, The Argument - When Jonah had long prophesied in Israel and had little profited, God gave him specific charge to go and denounce his judgments against Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrians, because he had appointed that those who were of the heathen, should convert by the mighty power of his word. And this was so that within three day's preaching, Israel might see how horribly they had provoked God's wrath, who for the space of so many years, had not converted to the Lord, for so many prophets and such diligent preaching. He prophesied under Jonah, and Jeroboam; (2Ki_14:25).
geneva@Jonah:1:2 @ Arise, go to (note:)For seeing the great obstipation of the Israelites, he sent his Prophet to the Gentiles, that they might provoke them to repentance, or at least make them inexcusable: for Nineveh was the chief city of the Assyrians.(:note) Nineveh, that For as authors write, it contained in circuit about forty-eight miles, and had 1500 towers, and at this time there were 120,000 children in it; (Jon_4:11). great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
geneva@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose up to (note:)By which he declares his weakness, that would not promptly follow the Lord's calling, but gave place to his own reason, which persuaded him that he would not profit these people at all, seeing he had done such little good among his own people; (Jon_4:2).(:note) flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Which was the haven, and port to take shipping there, also called Joppa. Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the From that vocation to which God had called him, and in which he would have assisted him. presence of the LORD.
geneva@Jonah:1:12 @ And he said vnto them, Take me, and cast me into the sea: so shall the sea be calme vnto you: for I knowe that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you.
geneva@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God (note:)Being now swallowed up by death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith broke out to the Lord, knowing that out of this very hell he was able to deliver him.(:note) out of the fish's belly,
geneva@Jonah:2:2 @ And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly (note:)For he was now in the fishes belly as in a grave or place of darkness.(:note) of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.
geneva@Jonah:2:3 @ For thou haddest cast me into the bottome in the middes of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waues passed ouer me.
geneva@Jonah:2:4 @ Then I said, I am (note:)This declared what his prayer was, and how he laboured between hope and despair, considering the neglect of his vocation, and God's judgments for it: but yet in the end faith gained the victory.(:note) cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
geneva@Jonah:2:5 @ The waters compassed me about vnto the soule: the depth closed me rounde about, and the weedes were wrapt about mine head.
geneva@Jonah:2:6 @ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my (note:)You have delivered me from the belly of the fish and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life.(:note) life from corruption, O LORD my God.
geneva@Jonah:2:7 @ When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lorde: and my prayer came vnto thee, into thine holy Temple.
geneva@Jonah:2:8 @ They that observe lying (note:)Those that depend upon anything except on God alone.(:note) vanities forsake their own They refuse their own felicity, and that goodness which they would otherwise receive from God. mercy.
geneva@Jonah:2:9 @ But I will sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thankesgiuing, and will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the Lorde.
geneva@Jonah:2:10 @ And the Lorde spake vnto the fish, and it cast out Ionah vpon the dry lande.
geneva@Jonah:3:2 @ Arise, goe vnto Nineueh that great citie, & preach vnto it the preaching, which I bid thee.
geneva@Jonah:3:3 @ So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding (note:){{See Jon_1:2}}(:note) great city of three days' journey.
geneva@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto (note:)Read (Jon_1:3).(:note) Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
geneva@Micah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Micah the (note:)Born in Mareshah, a city of Judah.(:note) Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The Argument - Micah the prophet of the tribe of Judah served in the work of the Lord concerning Judah and Israel at least thirty years: during which time Isaiah prophesied. He declares the destruction first of the one kingdom, and then of the other, because of their manifold wickedness, but chiefly because of their idolatry. And to this end he notes the wickedness of the people, the cruelty of the princes and governors, and the allowing of the false prophets, and the delighting in them. Then he sets forth the coming of Christ, his kingdom, and the felicity of it. This Prophet was not that Micah who resisted Ahab and all his false prophets, (1Ki_22:8) but another with the same name.
geneva@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, (note:)Because of the malice and obstinacy of the people, whom he had so often exhorted to repentance, he summons them to God's judgments, taking all creatures, and God himself as witness, that the preaching of the Prophets, which they have abused, will be avenged.(:note) all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
geneva@Micah:1:10 @ Declare ye [it] not at (note:)Lest the Philistines our enemies rejoice at our destruction.(:note) Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Which was a city near to Jerusalem (Jos_18:23), there called Ophrah, and signifies dust: therefore he wants them to mourn and roll themselves in the dust, for their dusty city. Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
geneva@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the (note:)For Rabshakeh had shut up Jerusalem, so that they could not send to help them.(:note) gate of Jerusalem.
geneva@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! (note:)As soon as they rise, they execute their wicked devices of the night, and according to their ability hurt others.(:note) when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
geneva@Micah:2:2 @ And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
geneva@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore thus saieth the Lorde, Beholde, against this familie haue I deuised a plague, whereout yee shall not plucke your neckes, and ye shall not go so proudly, for this time is euill.
geneva@Micah:2:4 @ In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, (note:)Thus the Jews lament and say that there is no hope of restitution, seeing their possessions are divided among the enemies.(:note) We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed [it] from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
geneva@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in (note:)You will have no more lands to divide as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them in the Jubilee.(:note) the congregation of the LORD.
geneva@Micah:2:6 @
geneva@Micah:2:7 @ O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? (note:)Are these your works according to his Law?(:note) [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him Do not the godly find my words comfortable? that walketh uprightly?
geneva@Micah:2:8 @ Even (note:)That is, in past times.(:note) of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the The poor can have no benefit from them, but they rob them, as though they were enemies. robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
geneva@Micah:2:9 @ The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away (note:)That is, their substance and living, which is God's blessing, and as it were part of his glory.(:note) my glory for ever.
geneva@Micah:2:10 @ Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] (note:)Jerusalem will not be your safeguard, but rather the cause of your destruction.(:note) rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.
geneva@Micah:2:11 @ If a man (note:)That is, show himself to be a prophet.(:note) walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], He shows what prophets they delight in, that is, in flatterers, who tell them pleasant tales, and speak of their benefits. I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
geneva@Micah:2:12 @ I will surely assemble, O Jacob, (note:)To destroy you.(:note) all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.
geneva@Micah:2:13 @ The (note:)The enemy will break their gates and walls, and lead them into Chaldea.(:note) breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD To drive them forward, and to help their enemies. on the head of them.
geneva@Micah:3:2 @ Who hate the good, and love the evil; (note:)The Prophet condemns the wicked governors not only of covetousness, theft, and murder, but compares them to wolves, lions, and most cruel beasts.(:note) who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
geneva@Micah:3:4 @ Then (note:)That is, when I will punish their wickedness: for though I hear the godly before they cry (Isa_65:24), yet I will not hear these even though they cry; (Isa_1:15) (Eze_8:18; Jam_2:13; 1Pe_3:11-12).(:note) shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
geneva@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore shall Zion for your sake be (note:)Read (Jer_26:18).(:note) plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
geneva@Micah:4:1 @ But in the (note:)When Christ will come, and the temple will be destroyed.(:note) last days it shall come to pass, [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the {{See Isa_2:2}} hills; and people shall flow unto it.
geneva@Micah:4:2 @ And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will (note:)He shows that there is no true Church, except where the people are taught by God's pure word.(:note) teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
geneva@Micah:4:3 @ 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:5:2 @ But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be (note:)For so the Jews divided their country that for every thousand there was a chief captain: and because Bethlehem was not able to make a thousand, he calls it little. But yet God will raise up his captain and governor in it: and thus it is not the least by reason of this benefit. {{See Mat_2:6}}(:note) little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose He shows that the coming of Christ and all his ways were appointed by God from all eternity. goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.
geneva@Micah:5:3 @ Therefore will he give them up, until the time [that] (note:)He compares the Jews to women with child, who for a time would have great sorrows, but at length they would have a comfortable deliverance; (Joh_16:21).(:note) she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
geneva@Micah:5:12 @ And I will cut off thine enchanters out of thine hande: and thou shalt haue no more southsayers.
geneva@Micah:6:2 @ Heare ye, O mountaynes, the Lordes quarel, and ye mightie foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a quarell against his people, and he will pleade with Israel.
geneva@Micah:6:12 @ For the rich men thereof (note:)That is, of Jerusalem.(:note) are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
geneva@Micah:6:16 @ For the (note:)You have received all the corruption and idolatry with which the ten tribes were infected under Omri and Ahab his son: and to excuse your doings, you allege the King's authority by his statutes, and also wisdom and policy in so doing, but you will not escape punishment. But as I have shown you great favour, and taken you for my people, so will your plagues be according as your sins; (Luk_12:47).(:note) statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
geneva@Micah:7:2 @ The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: (note:)He shows that the prince, the judge, and the rich man are all linked together to do evil, and to disguise the deeds of one another.(:note) they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
geneva@Micah:7:12 @ [In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from (note:)When the Church will be restored, those that were enemies before will come out of all the corners of the world to her, so that neither fortresses, rivers, seas, nor mountains will be able to stop them.(:note) Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain.
geneva@Micah:7:20 @ Thou wilt perform the (note:)The Church is assured that God will perform the truth of his merciful promise, which he had made long ago to Abraham, and to all that would apprehend the promise by faith.(:note) truth to Jacob, [and] the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
geneva@Nahum:1:2 @ God [is] (note:)Meaning, of his glory.(:note) jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and With his own he is but angry for a time, but his anger is never appeased toward the reprobate, even though he defers it for a time. [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
geneva@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus saith the LORD; Though [they be] (note:)Though they think themselves in most safety, and of greatest strength, yet when God will pass by, he will destroy them: nonetheless, he comforts his Church, and promises to stop punishing them by the Assyrians.(:note) quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
geneva@Nahum:1:14 @ And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, [that] no more of thy name be (note:)Meaning, Sennacherib, who would have no more children, but be slain in the house of his gods; (2Ki_19:36-37).(:note) sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
geneva@Nahum:2:1 @
geneva@Nahum:2:2 @ For the LORD hath (note:)Seeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them; read (Isa_10:12).(:note) turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and Signifying that the Israelites were utterly destroyed. marred their vine branches.
geneva@Nahum:2:3 @ The shield of his mighty men is made red, (note:)Both to put fear into the enemy, and also that they themselves should not so soon detect blood among one another, to discourage them.(:note) the valiant men [are] in scarlet: the chariots [shall be] with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and Meaning their spears would shake and crash together. the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
geneva@Nahum:2:4 @ The charets shall rage in the streetes: they shall runne to and fro in the hie wayes: they shall seeme like lampes: they shall shoote like the lightning.
geneva@Nahum:2:5 @
geneva@Nahum:2:6 @ The gates of the riuers shalbe opened, and the palace shall melt.
geneva@Nahum:2:7 @ And Huzzab the Queene shalbe led away captiue, and her maides shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, smiting vpon their breastes.
geneva@Nahum:2:8 @ But Nineveh [is] of (note:)The Assyrians will flatter themselves and say that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fishpool, whose waters cannot be touched by those that walk on the banks. But they will be scattered, and will not look back, even if men call them.(:note) old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.
geneva@Nahum:2:9 @
geneva@Nahum:2:10 @
geneva@Nahum:2:11 @ Where [is] the (note:)Meaning, Nineveh, whose inhabitants were cruel like the lions, and given to all oppression, and spared no violence or tyranny to provide for their wives and children.(:note) dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid?
geneva@Nahum:2:12 @ The lyon did teare in pieces ynough for his whelpes, and woryed for his lyonesse, and filled his holes with praye, and his dennes with, spoyle.
geneva@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the (note:)That is, as soon as my wrath begins to burn.(:note) smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy Signifying the heralds, who were accustomed to proclaim war. Some read, «of you gum teeth», with which Nineveh was accustomed to bruise the bones of the poor. messengers shall no more be heard.
geneva@Nahum:3:2 @ The noise of a whip, (note:)He shows how the Chaldeans will hasten, and how courageous their horses will be in beating the ground when they come against the Assyrians.(:note) and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
geneva@Nahum:3:12 @ All thy strong cities shall be like figtrees with the first ripe figs: for if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
geneva@Habakkuk:1:2 @ O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out to thee (note:)The Prophet complains to God, and bewails that among the Jews is left no fairness and brotherly love: but instead of these reigns cruelty, theft, contention, and strife.(:note) [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!
geneva@Habakkuk:1:12 @ [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not (note:)He assures the godly of God's protection, showing that the enemy can do no more than God has appointed, and also that their sins require such a sharp rod.(:note) die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:1 @ I will stand upon my (note:)I will renounce my own judgment, and only depend on God to be instructed what I will answer those that abuse my preaching, and to be armed against all temptations.(:note) watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:2 @ And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tablets, that he may run (note:)Write it in great letters, that he that runneth may read it.(:note) that readeth it.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the (note:)Which contained the destruction of the enemy, and the comfort of the Church. And even though God does not execute this according to man's hasty affections, yet the issue of both is certain at his appointed time.(:note) end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:4 @ Behold, (note:)To trust in himself, or in any worldly thing, is never to be at peace: for the only rest is to trust in God by faith; (Rom_1:17; Gal_3:11; Heb_10:38).(:note) his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:5 @ Yea also, because (note:)He compares the proud and covetous man to a drunkard that is without reason and sense, whom God will punish and make a laughing stock to all the world: and this he speaks for the comfort of the godly, and against the Chaldeans.(:note) he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and heapeth to him all people:
geneva@Habakkuk:2:6 @ Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! (note:)Signifying that all the world will wish the destruction of tyrants, and that by their oppression and covetousness, they heap but upon themselves more heavy burdens: for the more they get, the more are they troubled.(:note) how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
geneva@Habakkuk:2:7 @ Shall (note:)That is, the Medes and persians, that would destroy the Babylonians?(:note) they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall oppress thee, and thou shalt be for booty to them?
geneva@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:9 @ Ho, he that coueteth an euil couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euil.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:10 @ Thou (note:)Signifying that the covetous man is the ruin of his own house, when he thinks to enrich it be cruelty and oppression.(:note) gavest shameful counsel to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the (note:)The stones of the house will cry, and say that they are built from blood, and the wood will answer and say the same of itself.(:note) stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:12 @ Wo vnto him that buildeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, [is it] not from the (note:)Meaning, that God will not defer his vengeance long, but will come and destroy all their labours, as though they were consumed with fire.(:note) LORD of hosts that the people shall labour [only] for fire, and the nations shall weary themselves for nothing?
geneva@Habakkuk:2:14 @ For the earth shall (note:)In the destruction of the Babylonians his glory will appear through all the world.(:note) be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:15 @ Woe to him that giveth his neighbour (note:)He reproaches by this the king of Babylon, who as he was drunken with covetousness and cruelty, so he provoked others to the same, and inflamed them by his madness, and so in the end brought them to shame.(:note) drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunk also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
geneva@Habakkuk:2:16 @ Thou art filled with shame (note:)Whereas you thought to have the glory of these your doings, they will turn to your shame: for you will drink of the same cup with others in your turn.(:note) for glory: drink thou also, and let thy shame come upon thee: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to thee, and utter shame [shall be] on thy glory.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:17 @ For the (note:)Because the Babylonians were cruel not only against other nations, but also against the people of God, which is meant by Lebanon and the beast in it, he shows that the same cruelly will be executed against them.(:note) violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:18 @ What profiteth the graven (note:)He shows that the Babylonian gods could not help them at all, for they were but blocks or stones. {{See Jer_10:8}}(:note) image that its maker hath engraved it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth in it, to make dumb idols?
geneva@Habakkuk:2:19 @ Woe to him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! (note:)If you will consider what it is, and how it has neither breath nor life, but is a dead thing.(:note) Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all within it.
geneva@Habakkuk:2:20 @ But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.
geneva@Habakkuk:3:2 @
geneva@Habakkuk:3:9 @ Thy (note:)That is, your power.(:note) bow was made quite naked, [according] to the For he had not only made a covenant with Abraham, but renewed it with his posterity. oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou Read (Num_20:11). didst cleave the earth with rivers.
geneva@Habakkuk:3:11 @ The (note:)As appears in (Jos_10:12).(:note) sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: According to your command the sun was directed by the weapons of your people, that fought in your cause, as though it dare not go forward. at the light of thy arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.
geneva@Habakkuk:3:12 @ Thou trodest downe the land in anger, and didest thresh the heathen in displeasure.
geneva@Habakkuk:3:16 @ When I (note:)He returns to that which he spoke as in, (Hab_3:2) and shows how he was afraid of God's judgments.(:note) heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in ![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)