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geneva@Hosea:2:2 @ Plead with your (note:)God shows that the fault was not in him, that he forsook them, but in their Synagogue, and their idolatries; (Isa_50:1).(:note) mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries Meaning that their idolatry was so great, that they were not ashamed, but boasted of it; (Eze_16:25). from between her breasts;

geneva@Hosea:2:11 @ I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast daies, her newe moones, and her Sabbathes, and all her solemne feasts.

geneva@Hosea:2:12 @ And I wil destroy her vines & her figtrees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen mee: and I will make them as a forest, and the wilde beasts shall eate them.

geneva@Hosea:2:18 @ And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the (note:)Meaning that he will so bless them that all creatures will favour them.(:note) beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

geneva@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein, shall be cut off, with the beasts of the fielde, and with the foules of the heauen, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.

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:9:5 @ What will ye do (note:)When the Lord will take away all the occasions of serving him, which will be the most grievous part of your captivity, when you will see yourselves cut off from God.(:note) in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

geneva@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a (note:)The Prophet seeing the great plagues of God toward Ephraim, prays to God to make them barren, rather than that this great slaughter should come upon their children.(:note) miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

geneva@Hosea:11:4 @ I drew them with cords (note:)That is, friendly, and not as beasts or slaves.(:note) of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

geneva@Hosea:12:1 @ Ephraim feedeth (note:)That is, flatters himself with vain confidence.(:note) on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and Meaning presents to get friendship. oil is carried into Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:12:9 @ And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in (note:)Seeing you will not acknowledge my benefits, I will bring you again to dwell in tents, as in the feast of the Tabernacles, which you now condemn.(:note) the days of the solemn feast.

geneva@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meete them, as a beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I will breake the kall of their heart, and there will I deuoure them like a lion: the wilde beast shall teare them.

geneva@Hosea:13:15 @ Though he grewe vp among his brethren, an East winde shall come, euen the winde of the Lord shal come vp from the wildernesse, and drie vp his veine, and his fountaine shalbe dryed vp: he shal spoyle the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

geneva@Joel:1:18 @ How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, & the flockes of sheepe are destroyed.

geneva@Joel:1:20 @ The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the (note:)That is, drought.(:note) fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

geneva@Joel:2:16 @ Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the (note:)That as all have sinned, so all may show forth signs of their repentance, so that men seeing the children who are not free from God's wrath, might be the more deeply touched with the consideration of their own sins.(:note) children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

geneva@Joel:2:20 @ But I will remove far off from you the (note:)That is, the Assyrians your enemies.(:note) northern [army], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the Called the Salt Sea, or Persian Sea: meaning, that even though this army was so great that it filled all from this sea to the Mediterranean Sea, yet he would scatter them. east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

geneva@Joel:2:22 @ Be not afrayde, ye beastes of the fielde: for the pastures of the wildernesse are greene: for the tree beareth her fruite: the figge tree & the vine do giue their force.

geneva@Amos:4:1 @ Hear this word, ye (note:)Thus he calls the princes and governors, who being overwhelmed with the great abundance of God's benefits, forgot God, and therefore he calls them by the name of beasts and not of men.(:note) kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, They encourage those who have authority over the people to oppress them, so that they may have profit by it. Bring, and let us drink.

geneva@Amos:5:6 @ Seeke the Lorde, and yee shal liue, least he breake out like fire in the house of Ioseph & deuoure it, & there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

geneva@Amos:5:21 @ I hate and abhorre your feast dayes, and I wil not smell in your solemne assemblies.

geneva@Amos:5:22 @ Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, (note:)Because you have corrupted my true service, and remain obstinate in your vices; (Isa_1:11; Jer_6:10).(:note) I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

geneva@Amos:8:10 @ And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as a bitter day.

geneva@Amos:8:12 @ And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the (note:)By which he shows that they will not only perish in body, but also in soul for lack of God's word, which is the food of it.(:note) word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].

geneva@Amos:9:9 @ For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the (note:)Meaning that none of his own would perish in his wrath.(:note) least grain fall upon the earth.

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: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:3:7 @ 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: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:4:8 @ 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@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:1:13 @ 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: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: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:5:8 @ 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@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:2:7 @ 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@Habakkuk:1:9 @ They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the (note:)For the Jews most feared this wind, because it destroyed their fruits.(:note) east wind, and they shall gather the captives They will be so many in number. as the sand.

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@Zephaniah:1:3 @ I will consume man and beast; I will consume the (note:)Not that God was angry with these dumb creatures, but because man was so wicked for whose cause they were created, God makes them to take part of the punishments with him.(:note) fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:14 @ And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the (note:)Read (Isa_34:11)(:note) cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This [is] the (note:)Meaning, Nineveh, which rejoicing so much of her strength and prosperity, should be thus made waste, and God's people delivered.(:note) rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, [and] wag his hand.

geneva@Zechariah:1:18 @ Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold (note:)Which signifies all the enemies of the Church: east, west, north, and south.(:note) four horns.

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: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:8:10 @ For before these days there was no hire for (note:)For God cursed your work, so that neither man nor beast had profit from their labours.(:note) man, nor any hire for beast; neither [was there any] peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

geneva@Zechariah:8:19 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the (note:)Which fast was appointed when the city was besieged, and was the first fast of these four. And here the prophet shows that if the Jews will repent, and turn wholly to God, they will have no more occasion to fast, or to show signs of heaviness, for God will send them joy and gladness.(:note) tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

geneva@Zechariah:11:11 @ And it was broken in that day: and so the (note:)He shows that the least always profit by God's judgments.(:note) poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it [was] the word of the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:11:15 @ And the LORD said to me, Take to thee yet (note:)Signifying that they should have a certain type of regiment and outward show of government: but in effect it would be nothing, for they would be wolves, and devouring beasts instead of shepherds.(:note) the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

geneva@Zechariah:14:4 @ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the (note:)By this manner of speech the Prophet shows God's power and care over his Church, and how he will as it were by a miracle save it.(:note) mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst of it toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great So that out of all the parts of the world, they will see Jerusalem, which was before his with this mountain: and this he means of the spiritual Jerusalem the Church. valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

geneva@Zechariah:14:15 @ And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this (note:)As the men would be destroyed, (Zec_14:12).(:note) plague.

geneva@Zechariah:14:16 @ But it shall come to passe that euery one that is left of all the nations, which came against Ierusalem, shall goe vp from yere to yere to worship the King the Lord of hostes, and to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.

geneva@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of (note:)By the Egyptians, who were the greatest enemies to true religion, he means all the Gentiles.(:note) Egypt shall not go up, and shall not come, that [have] no [rain]; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

geneva@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that come not vp to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.

geneva@Malachi:1:13 @ Ye said also, Behold, what a (note:)The priests and people were both weary with serving God, and did not regard what manner of sacrifice and service they gave to God: for that which was least profitable, was thought good enough for the Lord.(:note) weariness [is it]! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought [that which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.

geneva@Malachi:2:3 @ Behold, I will corrupt (note:)The seed you sow will come to no profit.(:note) your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the You boast of your holiness, sacrifices, and feasts, but they will turn to your shame and be as vile as dung. dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it.