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geneva@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: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:2:6 @ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up (note:)I will punish you so that you may then test whether your idols can help you, and bring you into such straightness that you will have no lust to play the harlot.(:note) thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

geneva@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore will I return, and take away (note:)Signifying that God will take away his benefits, when man by his ingratitude abuses them.(:note) my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.

geneva@Hosea:2:12 @ 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:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will (note:)By my benefits in offering her grace and mercy, even in that place where she will think herself destitute of all help and comfort.(:note) allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

geneva@Hosea:3:1 @ Then said the LORD unto me, (note:)In this the Prophet represents the person of God, who loved his Church before he called her, and did not withdraw his love when she gave herself to idols.(:note) Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and That is, gave themselves wholly to pleasure, and could not stop, as those that are given to drunkenness. love flagons of wine.

geneva@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD (note:)Because the people would not obey the admonitions of the Prophets, he accuses them before the judgment seat of God, against whom they chiefly offended; (Isa_7:13) (Zec_12:10; Mic_6:1,2).(:note) hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

geneva@Hosea:4:3 @ 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:4:5 @ Therefore shalt thou fall in the (note:)You will both perish together as one, because the former would not obey, and the other, because he would not admonish.(:note) day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy That is, the synagogue in which you boast. mother.

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

geneva@Hosea:4:13 @ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall (note:)Because they take away God's honour, and give it to idols: therefore he will give them up to their lusts, so that they will dishonour their own bodies; (Rom_1:28).(:note) commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

geneva@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not (note:)I will not correct your shame to bring you to proper living, but will let you run headlong to your own damnation.(:note) punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.

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:5:10 @ 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:6:5 @ Therefore have I (note:)I have still laboured by my prophets, and as it were prepared you to bring you to correction, but all was in vain: for my word was not food to feed them, but a sword to slay them.(:note) hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy My doctrine which I taught you, was most evident. judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth.

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:10:14 @ Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as (note:)That is, Shalmaneser in the destruction of that city spared neither type nor age.(:note) Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children.

geneva@Hosea:12:6 @ Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercy and iudgement, and hope still in thy God.

geneva@Hosea:12:14 @ But Ephraim prouoked him with hie places: therefore shal his blood be powred vpon him, and his reproche shall his Lord reward him.

geneva@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore they shall bee as the morning cloude, and as the morning dewe that passeth away, as the chaffe that is driuen with a whirlewind out of the floore, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney.

geneva@Hosea:13:6 @ As in their pastures, so were they filled: they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore haue they forgotten me.

geneva@Hosea:13:9 @ O Israel, thou (note:)Your destruction is certain, and my benefits toward you declare that it comes not from me: therefore your own malice, idolatry, and vain confidence in men must necessarily be the cause of it.(:note) hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine help.

geneva@Joel:1:16 @ Is not the meate cut off before our eyes? & ioy, and gladnesse from the house of our God?

geneva@Joel:2:3 @ A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of (note:)The enemy destroyed our plentiful country, wherever he went.(:note) Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

geneva@Joel:2:6 @ Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces (note:)They will be pale and black because of fear, as in (Nah_2:10).(:note) shall gather blackness.

geneva@Joel:2:10 @ The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the (note:)Read (Joe_2:31; Isa_13:10; Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29)(:note) sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

geneva@Joel:2:11 @ And the LORD shall (note:)The Lord will stir up the Assyrians to execute his judgments.(:note) utter his voice before his army: for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

geneva@Joel:2:12 @ Therefore also now the Lord sayth, Turne you vnto me with all your heart, & with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning,

geneva@Joel:2:17 @ Let the Priestes, the ministers of the Lord weepe betweene the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and giue not thine heritage into reproche that the heathen should rule ouer them. Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

geneva@Joel:2:31 @ The (note:)The order of nature will seem to be changed because of the horrible afflictions that will be in the world; (Isa_13:10; Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29).(:note) sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

geneva@Joel:3:21 @ For I will (note:)He had allowed his Church before this to lie in their filthiness, but now he promises to cleanse them and to make them pure unto himself.(:note) cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

geneva@Amos:1:1 @ 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:1:9 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the (note:)For Esau (from whom came the Edomites) and Jacob were brothers, therefore they ought to have admonished them by their brotherly friendship, and not to have provoked them to hatred.(:note) brotherly covenant:

geneva@Amos:1:10 @ Therefore wil I send a fire vpon ye walles of Tyrus, 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:1:14 @ 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:2:2 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Moab, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of a trumpet.

geneva@Amos:2:5 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.

geneva@Amos:2:9 @ Yet destroyed I the (note:)The destruction of their enemies and his mercy toward them, should have caused their hearts to melt because of love toward him.(:note) Amorite before them, whose height [was] like the height of the cedars, and he [was] strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

geneva@Amos:2:14 @ Therefore the flight shall perish from the (note:)None will be delivered by any means.(:note) swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

geneva@Amos:3:2 @ You (note:)I have only chosen you to be mine among all other people, and yet you have forsaken me.(:note) only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

geneva@Amos:3:4 @ Will a (note:)Will God threaten by his Prophet, unless there is some great occasion?(:note) lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

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

geneva@Amos:3:11 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An aduersary shall come euen rounde about the countrey, and shall bring downe thy strength fro thee, and thy palaces shalbe spoyled.

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:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to (note:)Turn to him by repentance.(:note) meet thy God, O Israel.

geneva@Amos:5:5 @ But seek not Bethel, nor enter into (note:)In those places they worshipped new idols, which before served for the true honour of God: therefore he says that these will not save them.(:note) Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

geneva@Amos:5:11 @ Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and (note:)You take both his money and also his food, with which he should live.(:note) ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

geneva@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore (note:)God will so plague them that they will not allow the godly to open their mouths once to admonish them of their faults.(:note) the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.

geneva@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the (note:)So that people of all types will have reason to lament because of the great plagues.(:note) husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

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

geneva@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to (note:)The Prophet threatens the wealthy, who did not regard God's plagues, nor threatenings by his Prophets.(:note) them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, These two cities were famous from their first inhabitants the Canaanites: and seeing that before they did not avail those that were born here, why should you think that they should save you who were brought in to dwell in other men's possessions? [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

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

geneva@Amos:6:10 @ And a man's uncle (note:)The destruction will be so great, that almost none will be left to bury the dead: and therefore they will burn them at home, to carry out the burnt ashes with more ease.(:note) shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that [is] by the That is, to some neighbour that dwells near by. sides of the house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, They will be so astonished at this destruction, that they will not boast any more of the name of God, and that they are his people: but they will be silent when they hear God's name, and abhor it, as those that are desperate, or reprobate. Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

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

geneva@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; (note:)In this way God used to approve the authority of his Prophets, by his plagues and judgments against those who were malicious enemies as in (Jer_28:12-17; Jer_29:21-26), as this day he does against those that persecute the ministers of his Gospel.(:note) Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

geneva@Amos:9:4 @ And though they goe into captiuitie before their enemies, thence wil I commande the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes vpon them for euill, and not for good.

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:1:11 @ 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@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:1:14 @ 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: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: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:4:5 @ 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@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:1:6 @ 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:1:8 @ 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:1:10 @ 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:1:14 @ 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: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:2:5 @ 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:2:13 @ 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:3:4 @ 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:3:6 @ 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:3:12 @ 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: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:5:3 @ 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:5:8 @ 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: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:6:4 @ 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:6:6 @ 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:6:13 @ Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.

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:7:7 @ 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:7:12 @ [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@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:1:9 @ 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@Habakkuk:1:1 @ The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. (note:)The Argument - The Prophet complains to God, considering the great felicity of the wicked, and the miserable oppression of the godly, who endure all types of affliction and cruelty, and yet can see no end. Therefore he had this revelation shown to him by God, that the Chaldeans would come and take them away as captives, so that they could look for no end of their troubles as yet, because of their stubbornness and rebellion against the Lord. And lest the godly should despair, seeing this horrible confusion, he comforts them by this, that God will punish the Chaldeans their enemies, when their pride and cruelty will be at height. And for this reason he exhorts the faithful to patience by his own example, and shows them a form of prayer, with which they should comfort themselves.(:note)

geneva@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Why doest thou shewe mee iniquitie, and cause me to beholde sorowe? for spoyling, and violence are before me: and there are that rayse vp strife and contention.

geneva@Habakkuk:1:4 @ Therefore the law is feeble, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth (note:)To suppress him, if any should show himself zealous of God's cause.(:note) surround the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth Because the judges who should remedy this excess, are as evil as the rest. perverted

geneva@Habakkuk:1:13 @ Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euill: thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherefore doest thou looke vpon the transgressors, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man, that is more righteous then he?

geneva@Habakkuk:1:16 @ Therefore they sacrifice to their (note:)Meaning that the enemies flatter themselves, and glory in their own strength, power, and intellect.(:note) net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their food plenteous.

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

geneva@Habakkuk:2:20 @ But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:5 @ Before him went the pestilence, and burning coales went forth before his feete.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:16 @ When I (note:)He returns to that which he spoke as in, (Hab_3:2) and shows how he was afraid of God's judgments.(:note) heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in He shows that the faithful can never have true rest, except that which they feel before the weight of God's judgments. the day of trouble: when he cometh up That is, the enemy, but the godly will be quiet, knowing that all things will turn to good for them. to the people, he will invade them with his troops.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. (note:)The Argument - Seeing the great rebellion of the people, and that there was now no hope of amendment, he gives notice of the great judgment of God, which was at hand, showing that their country would be utterly destroyed, and they would be carried away captives by the Babylonians. Yet for the comfort of the faithful he prophesied of God's vengeance against their enemies, such as the Philistines, Moabites, Assyrians, and others, to assure them that God had a continual care over them. And as the wicked would be punished for their sins and transgressions, so he exhorts the godly to patience, and to trust to find mercy by reason of the free promise of God made to Abraham: and therefore quietly to wait until God shows them the effect of that grace, by which in the end they should be gathered to him, and counted as his people and children.(:note)

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

geneva@Zephaniah:1:13 @ Therefore their goods shall be spoyled, and their houses waste: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:2 @ Before the decree come foorth, and ye be as chaffe that passeth in a day, and before the fierce wrath of the Lord come vpon you, and before the day of the Lords anger come vpon you.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea (note:)That is, Galilee: by these nations he means the people that dwelt near to the Jews, and instead of friendship were their enemies: therefore he calls them Canaanites, whom the Lord appointed to be slain.(:note) coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Therefore, as I liue, saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall bee as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorah, euen the breeding of nettels and salt pittes, and a perpetuall desolation: the residue of my folke shall spoyle them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:8 @ Therefore (note:)Seeing that you will not repent, you can expect my vengeance as well as other nations.(:note) wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:20 @ At that time wil I bring you againe, & then wil I gather you: for I wil giue you a name & a praise among all people of the earth, when I turne backe your captiuitie before your eyes, saith the Lorde.

geneva@Haggai:1:4 @ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your (note:)Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honour.(:note) cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?

geneva@Haggai:1:5 @ Now therefore thus saith ye Lord of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.

geneva@Haggai:1:10 @ Therefore the heauen ouer you stayed it selfe from dewe, and the earth stayed her fruite.

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

geneva@Haggai:1:14 @ And the LORD stirred up (note:)Which declares that men are unable and dull to serve the Lord, neither can they obey his word or his messengers, before God reforms their hearts, and gives them new spirits; (Joh_6:44).(:note) the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

geneva@Haggai:2:8 @ The (note:)Therefore when his time comes he can make all the treasures of the world to serve his purpose: but the glory of this second Temple does not consist of material things, neither can it be built.(:note) silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:12 @ If one bear (note:)That is, the flesh of the sacrifices, by which he means that a thing which of itself is good, cannot make another thing so: and therefore they ought not to justify themselves by their sacrifices and ceremonies: but contrary to this, he that is unclean and not pure of heart, does corrupt those things and make them detestable to God, which otherwise are good and godly.(:note) holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

geneva@Haggai:2:14 @ {\cf2 (2:15)} Then answered Haggai, and sayd, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord: and so are all the workes of their hands, and that which they offer here, is vncleane.

geneva@Haggai:2:15 @ And now, I pray you, consider from this (note:)Consider how God plagued you with famine before you began to build the temple.(:note) day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

geneva@Zechariah:1:1 @ In the eighth month, in the second year of (note:)Who was the son of Histaspis.(:note) Darius, came the word of the LORD unto This was not the Zechariah, of which mention is made in (2Ch_24:20), but he had the same name, and is called the son of Berechiah, as he was, because he came of those progenitors, as of Joiada or Berechiah, and Iddo. Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, The Argument - Two months after Haggai had begun to prophesy, Zechariah was also sent of the Lord to help him in the labour, and to confirm the same doctrine. First therefore, he puts them in remembrance for what reason God had so severely punished their fathers: and yet comforts them if they will truly repent, and not abuse this great benefit of God in their deliverance which was a figure of that true deliverance, that all the faithful should have from death and sin, by Christ. But because they remained still in their wickedness, and lack of desire to set forth God's glory, and were not yet made better by their long banishment, he rebukes them most sharply: yet for the comfort of the repentant, he ever mixes the promise of grace, that they might by this means be prepared to receive Christ, in whom all should be sanctified to the Lord.

geneva@Zechariah:1:3 @ Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; (note:)Let your fruits declare that you are God's people, and that he has wrought in you by his Spirit, and mortified you: for otherwise man has no power to return to God, but God must convert him; (Jer_31:18; Lam_5:21) {{See Isa_31:6}}(:note) Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:1:5 @ Your fathers, where (note:)Though your fathers are dead, yet God's judgments in punishing them ought still to be before your eyes: and though the prophets are dead, yet their doctrine remains for ever; (2Pe_1:15).(:note) [are] they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

geneva@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line (note:)To measure out the buildings.(:note) shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

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

geneva@Zechariah:2:13 @ Let all flesh be still before the Lord: for he is raised vp out of his holy place.

geneva@Zechariah:3:1 @ And he showed me Joshua the high priest (note:)He prayed to Christ the Mediator for the state of the Church.(:note) standing before the angel of the LORD, and Which declares that the faithful do not only war with flesh and blood, but with Satan himself, and spiritual wickedness; (Eph_6:12). Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

geneva@Zechariah:3:3 @ Now Joshua was clothed with (note:)With regard to the glorious garments and precious stones that the priests wore before the captivity: and by this contemptible state the Prophet signifies, that these small beginnings would be made excellent when Christ will make the full restitution of his Church.(:note) filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

geneva@Zechariah:3:4 @ And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, Take away the (note:){{See Zec_3:3}}(:note) filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have He shows of what apparel he speaks, which is, when our filthy sins are taken away, and we are clothed with God's mercies, which refers to the spiritual restitution. caused thy iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

geneva@Zechariah:3:8 @ Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they (note:)Because they follow my word, they are condemned in the world, and esteemed as monsters. {{See Isa_8:18}}(:note) [are] men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the That is, Christ, who did so humble himself, that he not only became the servant of God, but also the servant of men: and therefore in him they should have comfort, even though in the world they are condemned; (Isa_11:1) (Jer_23:5; Jer_33:14-15). BRANCH.

geneva@Zechariah:3:9 @ For behold the (note:)He shows that the ministers cannot build before God lay the first stone, which is Christ, who is full of eyes, both because he gives light to all others, and that all ought to seek light from him; (Zec_4:10).(:note) stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone [shall be] seven eyes: behold, I That is, I will make perfect in all points, as a thing done by the hand of God. will engrave the engraving of it, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will Though I have punished this land for a time, yet I will even now be pacified, and punish their sins no more. remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

geneva@Zechariah:4:6 @ Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This [is] the word of the LORD to (note:)Who was a figure of Christ, and therefore this doctrine was directed to all the Church who are his body and members.(:note) Zerubbabel, saying, Not by He shows that God's power alone is sufficient to preserve his Church, even though he does not use man's help to do it. might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

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

geneva@Zechariah:5:11 @ And he said to me, To build for it an house in the land of (note:)To remove the iniquity and affliction that came from Judah because of the judgment, to place it forever in Babylon.(:note) Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

geneva@Zechariah:6:1 @ And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four (note:)By chariots here, as by horses before, he means the swift messengers of God to execute and declare his will.(:note) chariots out from between By the mountains he means the external counsel and providence of God, by which he has from before all eternity declared what will come to pass, and that which neither Satan nor all the world can alter. two mountains; and the mountains [were] mountains of brass.

geneva@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel answered and said to me, These [are] the four (note:)Meaning, all the actions and motions of God's Spirit, whom according to his unchangeable counsel he causes to appear through all the world.(:note) spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

geneva@Zechariah:6:11 @ Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the (note:)Because this could not be attributed to any one according to the Law, therefore it follows that Joshua must represent the Messiah, who was both Priest and King.(:note) head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;

geneva@Zechariah:6:12 @ And speak to him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name [is] The (note:)Meaning Christ, of whom Joshua was the figure: for in Greek they were both called Jesus.(:note) BRANCH; and he shall grow That is, of himself without the help of man. up out of his place, and he shall Which declares that no one could build this temple of which Haggai speaks, but only Christ: and therefore it was spiritual, and not material; (Hag_2:9). build the temple of the LORD:

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

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

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

geneva@Zechariah: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:8:11 @ But nowe, I wil not intreate the residue of this people as aforetime, saith the Lord of hostes.

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:8:21 @ And they that dwell in one citie, shal go to another, saying, Vp, let vs go & pray before the Lord, and seeke the Lord of hostes: I wil go also.

geneva@Zechariah:8:22 @ Yea, great people and mightie nations shal come to seeke the Lorde of hostes in Ierusalem, and to pray before the Lord.

geneva@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of the (note:)The Prophet reproves the Jews, because by their own infidelity they turn away God's promised graces, and so famine came by God's just judgment. Therefore to avoid this plague, he exhorts them to turn to God, and to pray in faith to him, and so he will give them abundance.(:note) LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; [so] the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

geneva@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the (note:)He calls to remembrance God's punishments in times past, because they trusted not in him, but in their idols and sorcerers who always deceived them.(:note) idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore That is, the Jews went into captivity. they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

geneva@Zechariah:11:2 @ Wail, (note:)Showing that if the strong men were destroyed, the weaker were not able to resist.(:note) fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are laid waste: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the Seeing that Lebanon was destroyed, which was the strongest fortress, the weaker places could not hope to hold out. vintage is come down.

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

geneva@Zechariah:12:5 @ And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The (note:)Every captain, that had many under him before, will now think that the small power of Jerusalem will be sufficient to defend them against all enemies, because the Lord is among them.(:note) inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

geneva@Zechariah:12:8 @ In that day shall the Lord defende the inhabitants of Ierusalem, & he that is feeble among them, in that day shall be as Dauid: and the house of Dauid shall be as Gods house, and as the Angel of the Lord before them.

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

geneva@Zechariah:13:6 @ And [one] shall say to him, What [are] these (note:)By this he shows that though their parents and friends dealt more gently with them, and did not put them to death, yet they would so punish their children that became false prophets, that the marks and signs would remain forever.(:note) wounds in thy hands? Then he shall answer, [Those] with which I was wounded [in] the house of my friends.

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

geneva@Zechariah:14:1 @ Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be (note:)He arms the godly against the great temptations that would come, before they enjoyed this prosperous estate promised under Christ, that when these dangers came, they might know that they were warned of them before.(:note) divided in the midst of thee.

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:14:5 @ And ye shall flee [to] the (note:)He speaks of the hypocrites, who could not abide God's presence, but would flee into all places, where they might hide themselves among the mountains.(:note) valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yea, ye shall flee, as ye fled from before the Read (Amo_1:1). earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD Because they did not credit the Prophet's words, he turns to God and comforts himself in that that he knew that these things would come, and says, «You, O God, with your angels will come to perform this great thing.» my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee.

geneva@Zechariah:14:14 @ And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations around shall be gathered together, (note:)The enemies are rich, and therefore will not come to entreat, but to destroy and shed blood.(:note) gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

geneva@Zechariah:14:20 @ In that day there shall be upon the (note:)Signifying to whatever service they were put now (whether to labour, or to serve in war), they were now holy, because the Lord had sanctified them.(:note) bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO THE LORD; and the The one as precious as the other, because they will be sanctified. pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

geneva@Malachi:1:3 @ And I (note:)For besides this the signs of my hatred appeared even when he was made servant to his younger brother, being yet in his mother's belly, and also afterward in that he was put from his birthright. Yet even now before your eyes the signs of this are evident, in that his country lies waste, and he will never return to inhabit it.(:note) hated Esau, Whereas you my people, whom the enemy hated more than them, are by my grace and love towards you delivered; read (Rom_9:13). and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

geneva@Malachi:1:8 @ And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] (note:)You make it no fault: and by this he condemns them that think it sufficient to serve God partly as he has commanded, and partly after man's fantasy, and so do not come to the pureness of religion, which he requires. And therefore in reproach he shows them that a mortal man would not be content to be served in such a way.(:note) not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:2:5 @ My (note:)He shows what were the two conditions of the covenant made with the tribe of Levi on God's part, that he would give them long life and felicity, and on their part, that they should faithfully serve him according to his word.(:note) covenant was with him of life and peace; and I I commanded Levi a certain law to serve me. gave them to him [for] the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before He served me and set forth my glory with all humility and submission. my name.

geneva@Malachi:2:9 @ Therefore haue I also made you to be despised, and vile before all the people, because yee kept not my wayes, but haue beene partiall in the Lawe.

geneva@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye say, (note:)This is another fault, of which he accuses them, that is, that they broke the laws of marriage.(:note) Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy As the one half of yourself. companion, and the wife of thy She that was united to you by a solemn covenant, and by the invocation of God's name. covenant.

geneva@Malachi:2:15 @ And did not (note:)Did not God make man and woman as one flesh and not many?(:note) he make one? Yet had he the By his power and strength he could have made many women for one man. residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly Those who should be born in lawful and moderate marriage, in which is no excess of lusts. seed. Therefore take heed to your Contain yourselves within your bounds, and be sober in mind, and bridle your affections. spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

geneva@Malachi:2:16 @ For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he (note:)Not that he allows divorce, but of two faults he shows which is the less.(:note) hateth putting away: for [one] covereth He thinks it sufficient to keep his wife still, even though he takes others, and so as it were covers his fault. violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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

geneva@Malachi:3:4 @ Then shall the offerings of Iudah and Ierusalem be acceptable vnto the Lord, as in old time and in the yeeres afore.

geneva@Malachi:3:6 @ For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob (note:)They murmured against God, because they did not see his help which was ever present to defend them: and therefore he accuses them of ingratitude, and shows that in that they are not daily consumed, it is a sign that he still defends them, and so his mercy towards them never changes.(:note) are not consumed.

geneva@Malachi:3:11 @ And I will rebuke the (note:)Meaning the caterpillar, and whatever destroys corn and fruits.(:note) devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:3:14 @ Ye haue saide, It is in vaine to serue God: and what profite is it that we haue kept his commandement, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?

geneva@Malachi:4:5 @ Behold, I will send you (note:)This Christ interprets of John the Baptist, who both for his zeal, and restoring or religion, is aptly compared to Elijah; (Mat_11:13-14).(:note) Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and Which as it is true for the wicked, so does it waken the godly, and call them to repentance. dreadful day of the LORD: