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geneva@Hosea:1:7 @ But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will (note:)For after their captivity he restored them miraculously by the means of Cyrus; (Ezr_1:1).(:note) save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

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:2:15 @ 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:2:17 @ 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: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:4:6 @ 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:4:7 @ As they were (note:)The more I was beneficial to them.(:note) increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.

geneva@Hosea:4:17 @ Ephraim is ioyned to idoles: let him alone.

geneva@Hosea:5:7 @ They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten (note:)That is, their children are degenerate, so that there is no hope in them.(:note) strange children: now shall Their destruction is not far off. a month devour them with their portions.

geneva@Hosea:6:7 @ But they (note:)That is, like small and weak persons.(:note) like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

geneva@Hosea:7:1 @ When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and (note:)Meaning that there was no one type of vice among them, but that they were subject to all wickedness, both secret and open.(:note) the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.

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:7:3 @ They make the (note:)They esteem their wicked king Jeroboam above God, and seek how to flatter and please him.(:note) king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

geneva@Hosea:7:4 @ They [are] all adulterers, as an (note:)He compares the rage of the people to a burning oven which the baker heats, until his dough is leavened and raised.(:note) oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

geneva@Hosea:7:5 @ In the (note:)They used all indulgence and excess in their feasts and solemnities, by which their king was overcome with being fed too much, and brought into diseases, and who delighted in flatteries.(:note) day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

geneva@Hosea:7:6 @ For they haue made ready their heart like an ouen whiles they lie in waite: their baker sleepeth all the night: in the morning it burneth as a flame of fire.

geneva@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, and have (note:)By their doing God has deprived them of all good rulers.(:note) devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me.

geneva@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim, he hath (note:)That is, he counterfeited the religion of the Gentiles, yet is but as a cake baked on the one side, and raw on the other, that is, neither thoroughly hot, nor thoroughly cold, but partly a Jew, and partly a Gentile.(:note) mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

geneva@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, (note:)Which are a token of his manifold afflictions.(:note) gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

geneva@Hosea:7:10 @ And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face, and they doe not returne to the Lorde their God, nor seeke him for all this.

geneva@Hosea:7:11 @ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without (note:)That is, without all judgment, as those that cannot tell whether it is better to cleave only to God, or to seek the help of man.(:note) heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

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:7:13 @ Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have (note:)That is, at different times redeemed them, and delivered them from death.(:note) redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

geneva@Hosea:7:14 @ And they have not cried unto me with their heart, (note:)When they were in affliction, and cried out in pain, they did not seek me for help.(:note) when they howled upon their beds: They only seek their own benefit and wealth, and care not for me their God. they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.

geneva@Hosea:7:15 @ Though I haue boud & strengthened their arme, yet doe they imagine mischiefe against me.

geneva@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage (note:)Because they boast of their own strength, and do not care what they speak against me and my servants; (Psa_73:9).(:note) of their tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:8:7 @ For they have (note:)Showing that their religion has but a show, and in itself is but vanity.(:note) sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

geneva@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, (note:)For even though all other people should escape, yet you will be punished.(:note) as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved You have committed idolatry in hope of reward, and to have your barns filled ((Jer_44:17)), as a harlot that had rather live by playing the whore, than to be provided for by her own husband. a reward upon every cornfloor.

geneva@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know [it]: (note:)Then they will know that they were deluded by those who claimed themselves to be their prophets and spiritual men.(:note) the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

geneva@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shall wander among the nations.

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:10:7 @ Of Samaria, the King thereof is destroyed as the some vpon the water.

geneva@Hosea:11:7 @ And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though (note:)That is, the Prophets.(:note) they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].

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:13:7 @ And I wil be vnto them as a very lyon, and as a leopard in the way of Asshur.

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:14:6 @ {\cf2 (14:7)} His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.

geneva@Hosea:14:7 @ They that dwell under his (note:)Whoever unites themselves to this people will be blessed.(:note) shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.

geneva@Joel:1:7 @ He maketh my vine waste, & pilleth off the barke of my figge tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: ye branches therof are made white.

geneva@Joel:1:17 @ The seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.

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:2:10 @ 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:2:17 @ 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:2:27 @ 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:2:31 @ 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:3:7 @ Beholde, I will rayse them out of the place where ye haue sold them, and will render your reward vpon your owne head,

geneva@Joel:3:17 @ So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass (note:)The strangers will no longer destroy his Church: and if they do, it is the fault of the people, who by their sins make the breach for the enemy.(:note) through her any more.

geneva@Joel:3:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the mountains shall (note:)He promises to his Church abundance of graces, {{See Eze_47:1}}, which would water and comfort the most barren places; (Amo_9:13).(:note) drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

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:1:7 @ Therefore will I sende a fire vpon the walles of Azzah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.

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:3:7 @ Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he (note:)God does not deal with the Israelites as he does with other people: for he always warns them before of his plagues by his Prophets.(:note) revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

geneva@Amos:4:5 @ And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving (note:)As (Lev_7:13).(:note) with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this You only delight in these outward ceremonies and care for nothing else. liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Amos:4:7 @ And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet three (note:)I stopped the rain until the fruits of the earth were destroyed with drought, and yet you would not consider to return to me by repentance.(:note) months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

geneva@Amos:5:7 @ Ye who turn (note:)Instead of judgment and fairness they execute cruelty and oppression.(:note) judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

geneva@Amos:5:17 @ And in al the vines shalbe lamentation: for I wil passe through thee, saith the Lord.

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:5:27 @ Therefore wil I cause you to goe into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the Lorde, whose Name is the God of hostes.

geneva@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the (note:)Some read «the sorrow of them that stretched themselves is at hand».(:note) banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

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:7:1 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed (note:)To devour the land: and he alludes to the invading of the enemies.(:note) grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth After the public commandment for mowing was given: or as some read, when the kings sheep were shorn. after the king's mowings.

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:7:3 @ The LORD (note:)That is, stopped this plague at my prayer.(:note) repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:7:4 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, (note:)Meaning, that God's indignation was inflamed against the stubbornness of this people.(:note) and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

geneva@Amos:7:5 @ Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseeche thee: who shal raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

geneva@Amos:7:6 @ So the Lord repented for this. This also shal not be, saith the Lord God.

geneva@Amos:7:7 @ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, (note:)Signifying that this would be the last measuring of the people, and that he would defer his judgment no longer.(:note) with a plumbline in his hand.

geneva@Amos:7:8 @ And the Lorde saide vnto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A line. Then said the Lord, Beholde, I wil set a line in the middes of my people Israel, and wil passe by them no more.

geneva@Amos:7:9 @ And the hye places of Izhak shalbe desolate, and the temples of Israel shalbe destroyed: and I wil rise against the house of Ieroboam with the sworde.

geneva@Amos:7:10 @

geneva@Amos:7:11 @ For thus Amos saith, Ieroboam shal die by the sworde, and Israel shalbe led away captiue out of their owne land.

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:7:13 @ But prophecie no more at Beth-el: for it is the Kings chappel, and it is the Kings court.

geneva@Amos:7:14 @ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I [was] no (note:)Thus he shows by his extraordinary calling, that God had given him a charge, which he must necessarily execute.(:note) prophet, neither [was] I a prophet's son; but I [was] an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

geneva@Amos:7:15 @ And the Lord tooke me as I followed the flocke, and the Lord said vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.

geneva@Amos:7:16 @ Now therefore heare thou the word of the Lord. Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, & speake nothing against the house of Izhak.

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:8:7 @ The Lorde hath sworne by the excellencie of Iaakob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.

geneva@Amos:9:7 @ [Are] ye not as children of the Ethiopians (note:)Am I more bound to you than to the Ethiopians, or other people? Yet I have bestowed upon you greater benefits.(:note) unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Read (Jer_47:4). Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

geneva@Obadiah:1:7 @ All the men of thy confederacy (note:)Those in whom you trusted to have help and friendship, will be your enemies and destroy you.(:note) have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy That is, your familiar friends and guests have by secret practices destroyed you. bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him.

geneva@Obadiah:1:17 @ But vpon mount Zion shalbe deliuerance, and it shalbe holy, and the house of Iaakob shall possesse their possessions,

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@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast (note:)Which declares that the matter was very extreme and in doubt, which was God's way of getting them to test for the cause: and this may not be done except in matters of great importance.(:note) lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

geneva@Jonah:1:17 @ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the (note:)Thus the Lord would chastise his Prophet with a most terrible spectacle of death, and by this also strengthened and encouraged him of his favour and support in this duty which was commanded him.(:note) belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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:3:7 @ And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor (note:)Not that the dumb beasts had sinned or could repent, but that by their example man might be astonished, considering that for his sin the anger of God hung over all creatures.(:note) beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

geneva@Jonah:4:7 @ But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, & it smote the gourd, that it withered.

geneva@Micah:1:7 @ And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the (note:)Which they gathered by evil practices, and thought that their idols had enriched them with these wages because of their service to them.(:note) hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return The gain that came by their idols will be consumed as a thing of nothing: for as the wages or riches of harlots are wickedly gotten, so are they vilely and quickly spent. to the hire of an harlot.

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:3:7 @ Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover (note:)When God will reveal them to the world, they will be afraid to speak: for all will know that they were but false prophets, and did give a false notion of the word of God.(:note) their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.

geneva@Micah:4:7 @ And I will make her that halted (note:)I will cause that Israel, who is now as one lame and halting, and so almost destroyed, to live again, and grow into a great people.(:note) a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

geneva@Micah:5:7 @ And the (note:)This remnant or Church which God will deliver will only depend on God's power and defence (as does the grass of the field), and not on the hope of man.(:note) remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

geneva@Micah:6:7 @ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my (note:)There is nothing so dear to man, but the hypocrites will offer it to God, if they think by this to avoid his anger. But they will never by brought to mortify their own affections, and to give themselves willingly to serve God as he commands.(:note) firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?

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:7:1 @ Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the (note:)The Prophet takes upon himself the voice of the earth, which complains that all her fruits are gone, so that none are left: that is, that there is no godly man remaining, for all are given to cruelty and deceit, so that none spares his own brother.(:note) summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

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:7:3 @ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the (note:)That is, the rich man that is able to give money, abstains from no wickedness or injury.(:note) great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so These men agree among themselves, and conspire with one another to do evil. they wrap it up.

geneva@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them [is] as (note:)They that are of most estimation and are counted most honest among them, are but thorns and briers to prick.(:note) a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of Meaning the prophets and governors. thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

geneva@Micah:7:5 @ Trust ye not in a friend, neither put ye confidence in a counseller: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.

geneva@Micah:7:6 @ For the sonne reuileth the father: ye daughter riseth vp against her mother: the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe, and a mans enemies are the men of his owne house.

geneva@Micah:7:7 @ Therefore (note:)The Prophet shows that the only remedy for the godly in desperate evils, is to flee to God for help.(:note) I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

geneva@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not against me, (note:)This is spoken in the voice of the Church, which calls the malignant church her enemy.(:note) O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.

geneva@Micah:7:9 @ I will beare the wrath of the Lord because I haue sinned against him, vntill he pleade my cause, and execute iudgement for me: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.

geneva@Micah:7:10 @ Then she that is mine enemie, shall looke vpon it, and shame shall couer her, which said vnto me, Where is the Lorde thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be troden downe as the myre of the streetes.

geneva@Micah:7:11 @ [In] (note:)That is, when God will show himself to be a deliverer of his Church, and a destroyer of his enemies.(:note) the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall Meaning the cruel empire of the Babylonians. the decree be far removed.

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:7:13 @ Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of (note:)Before this grace appears, he shows how grievously the hypocrites themselves will be punished, seeing that the earth itself, which cannot sin, will be made waste because of their wickedness.(:note) their doings.

geneva@Micah:7:14 @

geneva@Micah:7:15 @

geneva@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall (note:)They will be as dumb men, and dare brag no more.(:note) lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, They will be astonished and afraid to hear men speak, lest they should hear of their destruction. their ears shall be deaf.

geneva@Micah:7:17 @ They shall (note:)They will fall flat on the ground because of fear.(:note) lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

geneva@Micah:7:18 @ Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and (note:)As though he did not see it, ignoring it.(:note) passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.

geneva@Micah:7:19 @ He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all (note:)Meaning his elect.(:note) their sins into the depths of the sea.

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:1:7 @ The LORD [is] good, (note:)Lest the faithful should be discouraged by hearing the power of God, he shows them that his mercy appertains to them, and that he has care over them.(:note) a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

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:2:7 @ 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:3:7 @ And it shall come to passe, that al they that looke vpon thee, shall flee from thee, and say, Nineueh is destroyed, who will haue pitie vpon her? where shall I seeke comforters for thee?

geneva@Nahum:3:17 @ Thy princes are as the grashoppers, and thy captaines as the great grashoppers which remaine in the hedges in the colde day: but when the sunne ariseth, they flee away and their place is not knowen where they are.

geneva@Habakkuk:1:7 @ They [are] terrible and dreadful: (note:)They themselves will be your judges in this cause, and none will have authority over them to control them.(:note) their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.

geneva@Habakkuk:1:17 @ Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay (note:)Meaning, that they would not.(:note) the nations?

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:2:7 @ 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:2:17 @ 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:3:7 @

geneva@Habakkuk:3:17 @ For the figtree shall not flourish, neither shall fruite be in the vines: the labour of the oliue shall faile, and the fieldes shall yeelde no meate: the sheepe shalbe cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no bullocke in the stalles.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:5 @ And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship [and] that swear by the LORD, and that swear by (note:)He alludes to their idol Molech, which was forbidden; read (Lev_20:2), yet they called him their king, and made him as a god: therefore he here notes those that will both say they worship God, and yet will swear by idols and serve them: which faltering is here condemned, as in (Eze_20:39; 1Ki_18:21; 2Ki_17:33).(:note) Malcham;

geneva@Zephaniah:1:7 @ Be stil at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, and hath sanctified his ghests.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:17 @ And I will bring distresse vpon men, that they shall walke like blind men, because they haue sinned against the Lorde, and their blood shall be powred out as dust, and their flesh as the dongue.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:7 @ And the coast shall be for the (note:)He shows why God would destroy their enemies, because their country would be a resting place for his Church.(:note) remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but (note:)They were most earnest and ready to do wickedly.(:note) they rose early, [and] corrupted all their doings.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:17 @ The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in (note:)Signifying, that God delights to show his love and great affection toward his Church.(:note) his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

geneva@Haggai:1:7 @ Thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.

geneva@Haggai:1:12 @ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the (note:)This declares that God was the author of the doctrine, and that Haggai was but the minister, as in (Exo_14:31), (Jdg_7:20; Act_15:28).(:note) voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

geneva@Haggai:2:7 @ And I will shake all nations, and (note:)Meaning Christ, whom all ought to look for and desire: or by desire he may signify all precious things, such as riches, and things like them.(:note) the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:9 @ The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give (note:)Meaning all spiritual blessings and felicity purchased by Christ; (Phi_4:7).(:note) peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:17 @ {\cf2 (2:18)} I smote you with blasting, and with mildewe, and with haile, in all the labours of your hands: yet you turned not to me, saith the Lord.

geneva@Zechariah:1:7 @ Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which [is] the month (note:)Which includes part of January and part of February.(:note) Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

geneva@Zechariah:1:17 @ Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet (note:)The abundance will be so great, that the places of storage will not be able to contain these blessings that God will send, but will even break because of fullness.(:note) be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

geneva@Zechariah:2:7 @

geneva@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the (note:)Seeing that God had begun to show his grace among you by delivering you, he continues the same still toward you, and therefore sends me his angel and his Christ to defend you from your enemies, so that they will not hurt you, neither along the way nor at home.(:note) glory hath he sent me to the nations which wasted you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the You are so dear to God, that he can no more allow your enemies to hurt you, than a man can endure to be thrust in the eye; (Psa_17:8). apple of his eye.

geneva@Zechariah:3:7 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also (note:)That is, have rule and government in my Church, as your predecessors have had.(:note) judge my house, and shalt also keep my By which he means to have the whole charge and ministry of the Church. courts, and I will give thee places to walk among That is, the angels, who represented the whole number of the faithful: signifying that all the godly would willingly receive him. these that stand by.

geneva@Zechariah:4:7 @ Who [art] thou, O (note:)He compares the power of the adversaries to a great mountain, who thought the Jews were nothing with regard to them, and would have hindered Zerubbabel, who represented Christ, whom the enemies daily labour to stop in the building of his spiritual Temple, but all in vain.(:note) great mountain? before Zerubbabel [thou shalt become] a plain: and Though the enemies think to stop this building, yet Zerubbabel will lay the highest stone of it, and bring it to perfection, so that all the godly will rejoice, and pray to God that he would continue his grace and favour toward the Temple. he shall bring forth its headstone [with] shoutings, [crying], Grace, grace to it.

geneva@Zechariah:5:7 @ And, behold, there was lifted up a (note:)To cover the measure.(:note) talent of lead: and this [is] a Which represents iniquity, as in the next verse. woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

geneva@Zechariah:6:7 @ And the (note:)That is, those of different colours, which ask permission, to signify that Satan has no power to hurt or afflict, until God gives it to him; (Job_1:12).(:note) bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Go from here, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.

geneva@Zechariah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, [that] the word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in (note:)Which contained part of November and part of December.(:note) Chisleu;

geneva@Zechariah:7:2 @ When (note:)That is, the rest of the people that yet remained in Chaldea, sent to the Church at Jerusalem for the resolution of these questions, because these feasts were consented upon by the agreement of the whole Church, the one in the month that the temple was destroyed, and the other when Gedaliah was slain; (Jer_41:2).(:note) they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

geneva@Zechariah:7:3 @ [And] to speak to the priests who [were] in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I (note:)By weeping and mourning are shown what exercises they used in their fasting.(:note) weep in the fifth month, That is, prepare myself with all devotion to his fast. separating myself, as I have done these so many Which had been since the time the temple was destroyed. years?

geneva@Zechariah:7:4 @ Then came the word of the Lord of hostes vnto me, saying,

geneva@Zechariah:7:5 @ Speak to all the people of the land, and to the (note:)For there were both of the people, and of the priests, those who doubted with regard to this controversy, besides those who as yet remained in Chaldea, and argue about it, as of one of the chief points of their religion.(:note) priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, For they thought they had gained favour with God because of this fast, which they invented by themselves: and though fasting of itself is good, yet because they thought it a service toward God, and trusted in it, it is here reproved. [even] to me?

geneva@Zechariah:7:6 @ And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat (note:)Did you not eat and drink for your own benefit and necessity, and so likewise you abstained according to your own imaginings, and not after the command and direction of my Law.(:note) [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?

geneva@Zechariah:7:7 @ [Should ye] not [hear] the words which the LORD (note:)By this he condemns their hypocrisy, who thought by their fasting to please God, and by such things as they invented, and in the meantime would not serve him as he had commanded.(:note) hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities around her, when [men] inhabited the south and the plain?

geneva@Zechariah:7:8 @ And the worde of the Lord came vnto Zechariah, saying,

geneva@Zechariah:7:9 @ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, (note:)He shows that they did not fast with a sincere heart, but because of hypocrisy, and that it was not done from a pure religion, because they lacked these offices of charity which should have declared that they were godly; (Mat_23:23).(:note) Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

geneva@Zechariah:7:10 @ And oppresse not the widowe, nor the fatherles, the stranger nor the poore, & let none of you imagine euil against his brother in your heart.

geneva@Zechariah:7:11 @ But they refused to hearken, and (note:)And would not carry the Lord's burden, which was sweet and easy, but would bear their own, which was heavy and grievous to the flesh, thinking to gain merit by it: which metaphor is taken from oxen, which shrink at the yoke; (Neh_9:29).(:note) withdrew the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

geneva@Zechariah:7:12 @ Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his (note:)Which declares that they did not only rebel against the Prophets, but against the Spirit of God that spoke in them.(:note) spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:7:13 @ Therefore it is come to passe, that as he cried, and they would not heare, so they cried, and I would not heare, sayth the Lord of hostes.

geneva@Zechariah:7:14 @ But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate (note:)That is, after they were taken captive.(:note) after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land By their sins by which they provoked God's anger. desolate.

geneva@Zechariah:8:7 @ Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Beholde, I will deliuer my people from the East countrey, and from the West countrey.

geneva@Zechariah:8:17 @ And let none of you imagine euill in your hearts against his neighbour, and loue no false othe: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lorde.

geneva@Zechariah:9:7 @ And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his (note:)He promises to deliver the Jews when he will take vengeance on their enemies for their cruelty, and the wrongs they did to them.(:note) teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, [shall be] for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and As the Jebusites had been destroyed, so would Ekron and all the Philistines. Ekron as a Jebusite.

geneva@Zechariah:9:17 @ For howe great is his goodnesse! and howe great is his beautie! corne shall make the yong men cherefull, and newe wine the maides.

geneva@Zechariah:10:3 @ My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the (note:)Meaning, the cruel governors who did oppress the poor sheep; (Eze_34:16-17).(:note) goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as He will be merciful to his Church, and cherish them as a king or prince does his best horse, which will be for his own use in war. his majestic horse in the battle.

geneva@Zechariah:10:7 @ And they of Ephraim shall be as a gyant, and their heart shall reioyce as thorowe wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad: and their heart shall reioyce in the Lord.

geneva@Zechariah:11:7 @ And I will feed the flock of slaughter, [even] you, (note:)That is, the small remnant, whom he though worthy to show mercy to.(:note) O poor of the flock. And I took to me God shows his great benefits toward his people to convince them of greater ingratitude, who would neither be ruled by his most beautiful order of government, neither continue in the bands of brotherly unity, and therefore he breaks both the one and the other. Some read «Destroyers» instead of «Bands», but in (Zec_11:14) the second reading is confirmed. two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

geneva@Zechariah:11:17 @ Woe to the idle shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword [shall be] upon his (note:)By the arm he signifies strength, as he does wisdom and judgments by the eye: that is, the plague of God will take away both your strength and judgment.(:note) arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

geneva@Zechariah:12:7 @ The LORD also shall save the (note:)The people who are now as it were dispersed by the fields, and lie open to their enemies, will be preserved by my power just as if they were under their kings (which is meant by the house of David), or in their defended cities.(:note) tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not magnify [themselves] against Judah.

geneva@Zechariah:12:10 @ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of (note:)They will have the feeling of my grace by faith, and know that I have compassion on them.(:note) grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have That is, whom they have continually vexed with their obstinacy, and grieved my Spirit. In (Joh_19:37) it is referred to Christ's body, whereas here it is referred to the Spirit of God. pierced, and they shall mourn for They will turn to God by true repentance, whom before they had so grievously offended by their ingratitude. him, as one mourneth for [his] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.

geneva@Zechariah:13:7 @ Awake, O sword, against my (note:)The Prophet warns the Jews, that before this great comfort under Christ would come, there would be a horrible dissipation among the people: for their governors and pastors would be destroyed, and the people would be as scattered sheep. And the evangelist applies this to Christ, because he was the head of all pastors; (Mat_26:31).(:note) shepherd, and against the man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

geneva@Zechariah:14:7 @ But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, (note:)Signifying, that there would be great troubles in the Church, and that the time of it is in the Lord's hands, yet at length (which is here meant by the evening) God would send comfort.(:note) not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening it shall be light.

geneva@Zechariah:14:17 @ And who so will not come vp of all the families of the earth vnto Ierusalem to worship the King the Lorde of hostes, euen vpon them shall come no raine.

geneva@Malachi:1:7 @ Ye offer (note:)You receive all types of offerings for your own greediness, and do not examine whether they are according to my Law or not.(:note) polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] Not that they said this, but by their doings they declared it. contemptible.

geneva@Malachi:2:7 @ For the priest's (note:)He is as the treasure house of God's word, and ought to give to everyone according to their need, and not to reserve it for himself.(:note) lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the Showing that whoever does not declare God's will, is not his messenger, and priest. messenger of the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:2:17 @ Ye have (note:)You murmur against God, because he did not hear you as soon as you called.(:note) wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth In thinking that God favoured the wicked, and had no respect for those that serve him. evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of Thus they blasphemed God in condemning his power and justice, because he did not judge according to their imaginings. judgment?

geneva@Malachi:3:1 @ Behold, I will send my (note:)This is meant of John the Baptist, as Christ interprets it; (Luk_7:27).(:note) messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Meaning, the Messiah, as in (Psa_40:17; Dan_9:17, Dan_9:25). Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the That is, Christ, by whom the covenant was made and ratified, who is called the angel or messenger of the covenant, because he reconciles us to his Father, and is Lord or King, because he has the rule of his Church. messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:3:7 @ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. (note:)Read (Zec_1:3).(:note) Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

geneva@Malachi:3:17 @ And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day (note:)When I will restore my Church according to my promise, they will be as my own proper goods.(:note) when I make up my jewels; and I will That is, forgive their sins, and govern them with my Spirit. spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

geneva@Malachi:4:2 @ But unto you that fear my name shall the (note:)Meaning, Christ, who with his wings or beams of his grace would enlighten and comfort his Church; (Eph_5:14). And he is called the «Sun of righteousness», because in himself he has all perfection, and also the justice of the Father dwells in him: by which he regenerates us to righteousness, cleanses us from the filth of this world, and reforms us to the image of God.(:note) Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go You will be set at liberty, and increase in the joy of the Spirit; (2Co_3:17). forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.