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Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days (note:)Also called Azariah, who being a leper was disposed from his kingdom.(:note) of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, So that it may be gathered by the reign of these four kings that he preached about eighty years. kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The Argument - After the ten tribes had fallen away from God by the wicked and subtle counsel of Jeroboam, the son of Neba, and instead of his true service commanded by his word, worshipped him according to their own imaginings and traditions of men, giving themselves to most vile idolatry and superstition, the Lord from time to time sent them Prophets to call them to repentance. But they grew even worse and worse, and still abused God's benefits. Therefore now when their prosperity was at the highest under Jeroboam, the son of Joash, God sent Hosea and Amos to the Israelites (as he did at the same time send Isaiah and Micah to those of Judah) to condemn them for their ingratitude. And whereas they thought themselves to be greatly in the favour of God, and to be his people, the Prophet calls them bastards and children born in adultery: and therefore shows them that God would take away their kingdom, and give them to the Assyrians to be led away captives. Thus Hosea faithfully executed his office for the space of seventy years, though they remained still in their vices and wickedness and derided the Prophets, and condemned God's judgments. And because they would neither be discouraged with threatening only, nor should they flatter themselves by the sweetness of God's promises, he sets before them the two principal parts of the Law, which are the promise of salvation, and the doctrine of life. For the first part he directs the faithful to the Messiah, by whom alone they would have true deliverance: and for the second, he uses threatenings and menaces to bring them from their wicked manners and vices: and this is the chief scope of all the Prophets, either by God's promises to allure them to be godly, or else by threatenings of his judgments to scare them from vice. And even though the whole Law contains these two points, yet the Prophets moreover note distinctly both the time of God's judgments and the manner.
geneva@Hosea:1:4 @ And the LORD said unto him, Call his name (note:)Meaning that they would no longer be called Israelites, which name they boasted because Israel did prevail with God: but that they were as bastards, and therefore should be called Jezreelites, that is, scattered people, alluding to Jezreel, which was the chief city of the ten tribes under Ahab, where Jehu shed so much blood; (1Ki_18:45).(:note) Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of I will be avenged upon Jehu for the blood that he shed in Jezreel: for even though God stirred him up to execute his judgments, yet he did them for his own ambition, and not for the glory of God as the intended goal: for he built up that idolatry which he had destroyed. Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
geneva@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call her name (note:)That is, not obtaining mercy: by which he signifies that God's favour had departed from them.(:note) Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly For the Israelites never returned after they were taken captives by the Assyrians. take them away.
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:1:8 @ Nowe when she had wained Lo-ruhamah, shee conceiued, and bare a sonne.
geneva@Hosea:1:11 @ Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be (note:)That is, after the captivity of Babylon, when the Jews were restored: but chiefly this refers to the time of Christ, who would be the head both of the Jews and Gentiles.(:note) gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the The calamity and destruction of Israel will be so great, that to restore them will be a miracle. day of Jezreel.
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:4:15 @ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] (note:)God complains that Judah is infected, and wants them to learn to return in time.(:note) let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto For even though the Lord had honoured this place by his presence, yet because it was abused by their idolatry, he did not want his people to resort there. Gilgal, neither go ye up to He calls Bethel, that is, the house of God, Bethaven, that is, the house of iniquity, because of their abominations set up there, signifying that no place is holy, where God is not purely worshipped. Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
geneva@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because ye have been a (note:)The priests and princes caught the poor people in their snares, as the fowlers did the birds, in these two high mountains.(:note) snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
geneva@Hosea:5:5 @ And the (note:)Meaning their condemning of all admonitions.(:note) pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
geneva@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud [at] Bethaven, after thee, O (note:)That is, all of Israel that was included under this tribe, signifying that the Lord's plagues would pursue them from place to place until they were destroyed.(:note) Benjamin.
geneva@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Judah were like them that (note:)They have turned upside down all political order and all manner of religion.(:note) remove the bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
geneva@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iudah as a rottennesse.
geneva@Hosea:5:13 @ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to (note:)Instead of seeking for remedy from God's hand.(:note) the Assyrian, and sent to king Who was king of the Assyrians. Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
geneva@Hosea:5:14 @ For I will be vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iudah: I, euen I will spoyle, and goe away: I will take away, and none shall rescue it.
geneva@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for (note:)You seem to have a certain holiness and repentance, but it is very sudden, and as a morning cloud.(:note) your goodness [is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
geneva@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, he hath set an (note:)That is, imitates your idolatry, and has taken grafts of your trees.(:note) harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
geneva@Hosea:8:14 @ For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth Temples, & Iudah hath increased strong cities: but I will sende a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
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: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:10:9 @ O Israel, thou hast (note:)In those days you were as wicked as the Gibeonites, as God there partly declared: for your zeal could not be good in executing God's judgments, seeing your own deeds were as wicked as theirs.(:note) sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they That is, to fight, or, the Israelites remained in that stubbornness from that time. stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not The Israelites were not moved by the example of the Gibeonites to cease from their sins. overtake them.
geneva@Hosea:10:11 @ And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loveth to (note:)In which is pleasure, whereas in plowing there is labour and pain.(:note) tread out [the corn]; but I passed over upon her I will lay my yoke upon her fat neck. fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, [and] Jacob shall break his clods.
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:12:2 @ 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:12:7 @ [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:13:2 @ 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@Joel:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. (note:)The Argument - The Prophet Joel first rebukes those of Judah, that being now punished with a great plague of famine, still remain obstinate. Secondly, he threatens greater plagues, because they grow daily to a more hardness of heart and rebellion against God in spite of his punishments. Thirdly, he exhorts them to repentance, showing that it must be earnest, and proceed from the heart, because they had grievously offended God. And in doing this, Joel promises that God will be merciful, and not forget his covenant that he made with their fathers, but will send his Christ, who will gather the scattered sheep, and restore them to life and liberty, even though they seem to be dead.(:note)
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:3:1 @ For, behold, in (note:)When I will deliver my Church, which consists of both Jews and Gentiles.(:note) those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
geneva@Joel:3:6 @ The children also of Iudah and the children of Ierusalem haue you solde vnto the Grecians, that ye might send them farre from their border.
geneva@Joel:3:8 @ And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they (note:)For afterward God sold them by Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander the Great, because of the love he had for his people, and by this they were comforted, as though they themselves had sold them.(:note) shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
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@Joel:3:20 @ But Iudah shall dwell for euer, and Ierusalem from generation to generation.
geneva@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of (note:)Which was a town five miles from Jerusalem in Judea, but he prophesied in Israel.(:note) Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of In his days the kingdom of Israel flourished the most. Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the Which as Josephus writes, was when Uzziah would have usurped the priest's office, and therefore was smitten with leprosy. earthquake. The Argument - Among many other Prophets that God raised up to admonish the Israelites of his plagues for their wickedness and idolatry, he stirred up Amos, who was a herdman or shepherd of a poor town, and gave him both knowledge and constancy to reprove all estates and degrees, and to make known God's horrible judgments against them, unless they repented in time. And he showed them, that if God did not spare the other nations around them, who had lived as it were in ignorance of God compared to them, but for their sins punished them, then they could look for nothing, but a horrible destruction, unless they turned to the Lord in true repentance. And finally, he comforts the godly with hope of the coming of the Messiah, by whom they would have perfect deliverance and salvation.
geneva@Amos:1:7 @ Therefore will I sende a fire vpon the walles of Azzah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
geneva@Amos:1:12 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Teman, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah.
geneva@Amos:1:13 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they (note:)He notes the great cruelty of the Ammonites, that did not spare the women, but most tyrannously tormented them, and yet the Ammonites came from Lot, who was of the household of Abraham.(:note) have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
geneva@Amos:1:14 @ Therefore will I kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battell, and with a tempest in the day of the whirlewinde.
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: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: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:7:14 @ 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:8:5 @ Saying, When will the (note:)When the scarcity had come they were so greedy for gain, that they thought the holy day to be a hindrance to them.(:note) new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making That is, the measure small, and the price great. the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
geneva@Amos:9:11 @ In that day will I raise up the (note:)I will send the promised Messiah, and restore by him the spiritual Israel; (Act_15:16).(:note) tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
geneva@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; (note:)God has certainly revealed to his prophets, that he will raise up the heathen to destroy the Edomites, concerning which the rumour is now proclaimed; (Jer_49:14).(:note) We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and Thus the heathen encourage themselves to rise against Edom. let us rise up against her in battle. The Argument - The Idumeans, who came from Esau, were mortal enemies always to the Israelites, who came from Jacob, and therefore did not only vex them continually with various types of cruelty, but also stirred up others to fight against them. Therefore when they were now in their greatest prosperity, and did most triumph against Israel, which was in great affliction and misery, God raised up his Prophet to comfort the Israelites. For God had now determined to destroy their adversaries, who did so severely vex them, and to send them those who would deliver them, and set up the kingdom of the Messiah which he had promised.
geneva@Obadiah:1:2 @ Beholde, I haue made thee smal among the heathen: thou art vtterly despised.
geneva@Obadiah:1:3 @ The (note:)Which despises all others in respect of yourself, and yet you are but a handful in comparison with others, and you are shut up among the hills as separate from the rest of the world.(:note) pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
geneva@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though thou exalt thy selfe as the egle, and make thy nest among the starres, thence will I bring thee downe, sayth the Lord.
geneva@Obadiah:1:5 @
geneva@Obadiah:1:6 @ Howe are the things of Esau sought vp, and his treasures searched?
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:1:8 @ Shall not I in that day, saith the Lorde, euen destroy the wise men out of Edom, and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau?
geneva@Obadiah:1:9 @ And thy strong men, O Teman, shall bee afraide, because euery one of the mount of Esau shalbe cut off by slaughter.
geneva@Obadiah:1:10 @ For [thy] violence against thy (note:)He shows the reason why the Edomites were so severely punished: that is, because they were enemies to his Church, whom he now comforts by punishing their enemies.(:note) brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
geneva@Obadiah:1:11 @ In the day that thou stoodest (note:)When Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem, you joined with him, and had part of the spoil, and so rejoiced when my people (that is, your brother), were afflicted, whereas you should have pitied and helped your brother.(:note) on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them.
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:1:13 @ Thou shouldest not haue entred into the gate of my people, in the day of their destruction, neither shouldest thou haue once looked on their affliction in the day of their destruction, nor haue layde hands on their substance in the day of their destruction.
geneva@Obadiah:1:14 @ Neyther shouldest thou haue stande in the crosse wayes to cut off them, that shoulde escape, neither shouldest thou haue shut vp the remnant thereof in the day of affliction.
geneva@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day (note:)When he will summon all the heathen, and send them to destroy you.(:note) of the LORD [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
geneva@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as ye have (note:)That is, rejoiced and triumphed.(:note) drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be The Edomites will be utterly destroyed, and yet in spite of all the enemies I will reserve my Church and restore it. as though they had not been.
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@Obadiah:1:19 @ And [they of] the south shall possess the (note:)He describes how the Church will be enlarged and have great possessions: but this is mainly accomplished under Christ, when that faithful are made heirs and lords of all things by him who is their head.(:note) mount of Esau; and [they of] the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead.
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:1:4 @ But the Lorde sent out a great winde into the sea, and there was a mightie tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
geneva@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. But Jonah was gone down (note:)As one that would have cast off this care and concern by seeking rest and quietness.(:note) into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
geneva@Jonah:1:6 @ So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy (note:)As they had called on their idols, which declares that idolaters have no rest nor certainty, but in their troubles seek what they do not even know.(:note) God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
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:1:8 @ Then said they vnto him, Tell vs for whose cause this euill is vpon vs? what is thine occupation? and whence commest thou? which is thy countrey? and of what people art thou?
geneva@Jonah:1:9 @ And he answered them, I am an Ebrewe, and I feare the Lord God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the dry lande.
geneva@Jonah:1:10 @ Then were the men exceedingly afrayde, and said vnto him, Why hast thou done this? (for the men knewe, that he fled from the presence of the Lorde, because he had tolde them)
geneva@Jonah:1:11 @ Then saide they vnto him, What shall we doe vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? (for the sea wrought and was troublous)
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:1:13 @ Neuerthelesse, the men rowed to bring it to the lande, but they coulde not: for the sea wrought, and was troublous against them.
geneva@Jonah:1:14 @ Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, (note:)This declares that the very wicked in their time of need flee to God for help, and also that they are touched with a certain fear of shedding man's blood, whereas they know no manifest sign of wickedness.(:note) We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
geneva@Jonah:1:15 @ So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.
geneva@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men (note:)They were touched with a certain repentance of their past life, and began to worship the true God by whom they saw themselves as wonderfully delivered. But this was done for fear, and not from a pure heart and affection, neither according to God's word.(:note) feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
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:2:1 @ 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:3:1 @ And the word of the LORD came unto (note:)This is a great declaration of God's mercy, that he receives him again, and sends him forth as his Prophet, who had before shown such great weakness.(:note) Jonah the second time, saying,
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:3:4 @ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's (note:)He went forward one day in the city and preached, and so he continued until the city was converted.(:note) journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
geneva@Jonah:3:5 @ So the people of Nineveh (note:)For he declared that he was a Prophet sent to them from God, to make known his judgments against them.(:note) believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
geneva@Jonah:3:6 @ For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes.
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:3:8 @ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and (note:)He exhorted that the men should earnestly call to God for mercy.(:note) cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.
geneva@Jonah:3:9 @
geneva@Jonah:3:10 @ And God saw their (note:)That is, the fruits of their repentance, which proceeded from faith, which God had planted by the ministry of his Prophet.(:note) works, that they turned from their evil way; and {{See Jer_18:8}} God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.
geneva@Jonah:4:1 @ But it displeased (note:)Because by this he would be taken as a false prophet, and so the name of God, which he preached, would be blasphemed.(:note) Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
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@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life (note:)Thus he prayed from grief, fearing that God's name by this forgiveness might be blasphemed, as though he sent his Prophets forth to make known his judgments in vain.(:note) from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.
geneva@Jonah:4:4 @ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be (note:)Will you judge when I do things for my glory, and when I do not?(:note) angry?
geneva@Jonah:4:5 @ So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, (note:)For he doubted as yet whether God would show them mercy or not, and therefore after forty days he departed out of the city, to see what God would do.(:note) till he might see what would become of the city.
geneva@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God prepared a (note:)Which was a further means to cover him from the heat of the sun, as he remained in his booth.(:note) gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
geneva@Jonah:4:7 @ But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, & it smote the gourd, that it withered.
geneva@Jonah:4:8 @ And when the sunne did arise, God prepared also a feruent East winde: and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to dye, then to liue.
geneva@Jonah:4:9 @ And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be (note:)This declares the great inconveniences into which God's servants fall when they give place to their own affections, and do not in all things willingly submit themselves to God.(:note) angry, [even] unto death.
geneva@Jonah:4:10 @ Then said the Lorde, Thou hast had pitie on the gourde for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it growe, which came vp in a night, and perished in a night,
geneva@Jonah:4:11 @ And should (note:)Thus God mercifully reproves him who would pity himself and this gourd, and yet would keep God from showing his compassion to so many thousand people.(:note) not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that Meaning that they were children and infants. cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?
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:1:3 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come (note:)Meaning by this that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and strongholds.(:note) down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
geneva@Micah:1:4 @ And the mountaines shall melt vnder him (so shall the valleys cleaue) as waxe before the fire, and as the waters that are powred downewarde.
geneva@Micah:1:5 @ For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not (note:)Samaria, which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion and justice, was the dirty pool and the tank that all idolatry and corruption was kept alive in, and who prided themselves in their father Jacob, and boasted of him.(:note) Samaria? and what [are] the high That is, the idolatry and infection. places of Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem?
geneva@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore I wil make Samaria as an heape of the fielde, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble downe into the valley, and I will discouer the foundations thereof.
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:1:8 @ Therefore I will mourne and howle: I wil goe without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches.
geneva@Micah:1:9 @ For her plagues are grieuous: for it is come into Iudah: the enemie is come vnto the gate of my people, vnto Ierusalem.
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:1:11 @ Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of (note:)These were cities by which the enemy would pass as he came to Judah.(:note) Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall He will not depart before he has overcome you, and so you will pay for his staying. receive of you his standing.
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:1:13 @ O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the (note:)To flee away: for Sennacherib laid siege first to that city, and remained there when he sent his captains and army against Jerusalem.(:note) swift beast: she You first received the idolatry of Jeroboam, and so infected Jerusalem. [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
geneva@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore shalt thou give presents to (note:)You will bribe the Philistines your neighbours, but they will deceive you, as well as those of Jerusalem.(:note) Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.
geneva@Micah:1:15 @ Yet will I bring an (note:)He prophesies against his own city: and because it signified a heritage, he says that God would send an heir to possess it.(:note) heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam For so they thought themselves because of the strength of their cities. the glory of Israel.
geneva@Micah:1:16 @ Make thee balde: and shaue thee for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldenesse as the eagle, for they are gone into captiuity from thee.
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:3:1 @ And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know (note:)That thing which is just and lawful, both to govern my people properly, and also to clear your own conscience.(:note) judgment?
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:3:3 @ And they eate also the flesh of my people, & flay off their skinne from them, & they breake their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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:3:5 @ Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that (note:)They devour all their substance, and then flatter them, promising that all will go well. But if someone does not feed them, then they invent all ways to do evil.(:note) bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
geneva@Micah:3:6 @ Therefore (note:)As you have loved to walk in darkness, and to prophesy lies, so God will reward you with gross blindness and ignorance, so that when all others will see the bright beams of God's grace, you will as blind men grope as in the night.(:note) night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
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:3:8 @ But truly I am full (note:)The Prophet being assured of his vocation by the Spirit of God, sets himself alone against all the wicked, showing how God gave him gifts, ability and knowledge, to discern between good and evil, and also steadfastness and endurance to reprove the sins of the people, and not to flatter them.(:note) of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
geneva@Micah:3:9 @ Heare this, I pray you, ye heades of the house of Iaakob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and peruert all equitie.
geneva@Micah:3:10 @ They build up Zion with (note:)They will say that they are the people of God, and abuse his name, as a pretence to disguise their hypocrisy.(:note) blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
geneva@Micah:3:11 @ The heads thereof iudge for rewardes, and the Priestes thereof teache for hyre, and the prophets thereof prophecie for money: yet wil they leane vpon the Lorde, and say, Is not the Lorde among vs? no euill can come vpon vs.
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:4:4 @ But they shall sit euery man vnder his vine, and vnder his figge tree, and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lorde of hostes hath spoken it.
geneva@Micah:4:5 @ For all people will walk (note:)He shows that the people of God ought to remain constant in their religion, even if all the world should give themselves to their superstition and idolatry.(:note) every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
geneva@Micah:4:6 @ At the same day, saith the Lorde, will I gather her that halteth, and I will gather her that is cast out, and her that I haue afflicted.
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:4:8 @ And thou, O (note:)Meaning Jerusalem, where the Lord's flock was gathered.(:note) tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even The flourishing state of the kingdom, as it was under David and Solomon, which thing was accomplished for the Church by the coming of Christ. the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
geneva@Micah:4:9 @ Now why dost thou cry out aloud? [is (note:)In the meantime he shows that they would endure great troubles and temptations, when they saw themselves neither to have king nor counsel.(:note) there] no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
geneva@Micah:4:10 @ Sorow and mourne, O daughter Zion, like a woman in trauaile: for nowe shalt thou goe foorth of the citie, and dwel in the field, and shalt goe into Babel, but there shalt thou be deliuered: there the Lord shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies.
geneva@Micah:4:11 @ Nowe also many nations are gathered against thee, saying, Zion shalbe condemned and our eye shall looke vpon Zion.
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:4:13 @ Arise and thresh, (note:)God gives his Church this victory, as often as he overcomes their enemies: but the accomplishment of this will be at the last coming of Christ.(:note) O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
geneva@Micah:5:1 @ Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter (note:)He forewarns them of the dangers that will come before they enjoy these comforts, showing that inasmuch as Jerusalem was accustomed with her garrisons to trouble others, the Lord would now cause other garrisons to vex her, and that her rulers would be hit on the face most contemptuously.(:note) of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
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:5:4 @ And he shall (note:)That is, Christ's kingdom will be stable and everlasting, and his people, the Gentiles as well as the Jews, will dwell in safety.(:note) stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
geneva@Micah:5:5 @ And this [man] (note:)This Messiah will be a sufficient safeguard for us, and though the enemy invades us for a time, yet will God stir up many who will be able to deliver us.(:note) shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
geneva@Micah:5:6 @ And they shall waste the (note:)These whom God will raise up for the deliverance of his Church, will destroy all the enemies of it, who are meant here by the Assyrians and Babylonians, who were the chief enemies at that time.(:note) land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he By these governors will God deliver us when the enemy comes into our land. deliver [us] from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
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:5:8 @ And the remnant of Iaakob shalbe among the Gentiles in the middes of many people, as the lyon among the beastes of the forest, and as the lyons whelpe among the flockes of sheepe, who when he goeth thorow, treadeth downe and teareth in pieces, and none can deliuer.
geneva@Micah:5:9 @ Thine hand shall bee lift vp vpon thine aduersaries, and all thine enemies shalbe cut off.
geneva@Micah:5:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy (note:)I will destroy all things in which you put your confidence, such as your vain self-reliance and idolatry, and in doing this I will be helping you.(:note) horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
geneva@Micah:5:11 @ And I will cut off the cities of thy land, & ouerthrowe all thy strong holdes.
geneva@Micah:5:12 @ And I will cut off thine enchanters out of thine hande: and thou shalt haue no more southsayers.
geneva@Micah:5:13 @ Thine idoles also will I cut off, and thine images out of the middes of thee: and thou shalt no more worship the woorke of thine hands.
geneva@Micah:5:14 @ And I wil plucke vp thy groues out of the middes of thee: so will I destroy thine enemies.
geneva@Micah:5:15 @ And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, (note:)It will be so terrible that nothing like it has been heard of.(:note) such as they have not heard.
geneva@Micah:6:1 @ Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the (note:)He took the high mountains and hard rocks as witnesses against the obstinacy of his people.(:note) mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
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:6:3 @ O my people, what haue I done vnto thee? or wherin haue I grieued thee? testifie against me.
geneva@Micah:6:4 @ For I (note:)I have not hurt you, but bestowed infinite benefits upon you.(:note) brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
geneva@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from (note:)That is, remember my benefits from the beginning, how I delivered you from Balaam's curse, and also spared you from Shittim which was in the plain of Moab, until I brought you into the promised land.(:note) Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the That is, the truth of his promise and his manifold benefits toward you. righteousness of the LORD.
geneva@Micah:6:6 @ Wherewith (note:)Thus the people by hypocrisy ask how to please God, and are content to offer sacrifices, but will not change their lives.(:note) shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
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:6:8 @ He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, (note:)The Prophet in few words calls them to the observation of the second table of the ten commandments, to know if they will obey God correctly or not, saying that God has commanded them to do this.(:note) but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
geneva@Micah:6:9 @ The LORD'S voice crieth unto the (note:)Meaning, that when God speaks to any city or nation, the godly will acknowledge his majesty and not consider the mortal man that brings the threatening, but God that sends it.(:note) city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
geneva@Micah:6:10 @ Are yet the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable?
geneva@Micah:6:11 @ Shall I iustifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weightes?
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:6:13 @ Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
geneva@Micah:6:14 @ Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and (note:)You will be consumed with inward grief and evils.(:note) thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou Meaning that the city would go about to save her men, as they that lay hold of that which they would preserve. shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
geneva@Micah:6:15 @ Thou shalt sowe, but not reape: thou shalt treade the oliues, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oyle, and make sweete wine, but shalt not drinke wine.
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:1:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of Nineveh. The vision or revelation, which God commanded Nahum to write concerning the Ninevites. The book of the vision of Nahum the That is, born in a poor village in the tribe of Simeon. Elkoshite. The Argument - As those of Nineveh showed themselves prompt and ready to receive the word of God at Jonah's preaching, and so turned to the Lord by repentance, so after a certain time they gave themselves to worldly means to increase their dominion, rather than seeking to continue in that fear of God, and path in which they had begun. They cast off the care of religion, and so returned to their vomit and provoked God's just judgment against them, in afflicting his people. Therefore their city Nineveh was destroyed, and Meroch-baladan, king of Babel (or as some think, Nebuchadnezzar) enjoyed the empire of the Assyrians. But because God has a continual care for his Church, he stirs up his Prophet to comfort the godly, showing that the destruction of their enemies would be for their consolation: and as it seems, he prophesies around the time of Hezekiah, and not in the time of Manasseh his son, as the Jews write.
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:1:3 @ The (note:)Thus the wicked would make God's mercy an occasion to sin, but the Prophet wishes them to consider his power and justice.(:note) LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.
geneva@Nahum:1:4 @ He rebuketh the sea, and dryeth it, and he dryeth vp all the riuers: Bashan is wasted and Carmel, and the floure of Lebanon is wasted.
geneva@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountaines tremble for him, and the hilles melt, & the earth is burnt at his sight, yea, the worlde, and all that dwell therein.
geneva@Nahum:1:6 @
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:1:8 @ But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the (note:)Signifying that God will suddenly destroy Nineveh and the Assyrians in such a way, that they will lie in perpetual darkness, and never recover their strength again.(:note) place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
geneva@Nahum:1:9 @ What do ye (note:)He shows that the undertakings of the Assyrians against Judah and the Church were against God, and therefore he would so destroy them the first time, that he would not need to return the second time.(:note) imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
geneva@Nahum:1:10 @ For while [they be] folden together [as] (note:)Though the Assyrians think themselves like thorns that prick on all sides, yet the Lord will set fire on them, and as drunken men are not able to stand against any force, so they will not be able to resist him at all.(:note) thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
geneva@Nahum:1:11 @ There is [one] (note:)Which may be understood either of Sennacherib, or of the whole body of the people of Nineveh.(:note) come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
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:1:13 @ For nowe I will breake his yoke from thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
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:1:15 @ Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth (note:)Which peace the Jews would enjoy by the death of Sennacherib.(:note) peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
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:3:1 @ Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; (note:)It never ceases to spoil and rob.(:note) the prey departeth not;
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:3:3 @ The horseman lifteth vp both the bright sword, and the glittering speare, and a multitude is slaine, and the dead bodyes are many: there is none ende of their corpses: they stumble vpon their corpses,
geneva@Nahum:3:4 @ Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured (note:)He compares Nineveh to a harlot, who by her beauty and subtilty entices young men, and brings them to destruction.(:note) harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)