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geneva@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye (note:)You who for your vices deserved to be destroyed, as they of Sodom, save that God from his mercy reserved a little number, (Lam_3:22).(:note) rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

geneva@Isaiah:7:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall (note:)He who before had a great number of cattle will be content with one cow and two sheep.(:note) nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

geneva@Isaiah:7:22 @ And it shall come to pass, for the (note:)The number of men will be so small that a few beasts will be able to nourish all abundantly.(:note) abundance of milk [that] they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

geneva@Isaiah:9:3 @ Thou hast (note:)Their number was greater when they went into captivity then when they returned but their joy was greater at their return, (Hag_2:9).(:note) multiplied the nation, [and] increased the joy: they rejoice before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.

geneva@Isaiah:10:22 @ For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the full end (note:)This small number which seemed to be consumed and yet according to God's decree is saved, will be sufficient to fill all the world with righteousness.(:note) decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:21:17 @ And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of (note:)Which was the name of a people of Arabia: and by the horrible destruction of all these nations, he teaches the Jews that there is no place for refuge or to escape God's wrath, but only to remain in his Church, and to live in his fear.(:note) Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it].

geneva@Isaiah:22:10 @ And ye have numbered the houses (note:)Either to pull down such as might hurt, or else to know what men they were able to make.(:note) of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

geneva@Isaiah:33:4 @ And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the (note:)You who as caterpillars destroyed with your number the whole world, will have no strength to resist your enemies the Chaldeans: but will be gathered on a heap and destroyed.(:note) caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall Meaning, the Medes and Persians against the Chaldeans. he run upon them.

geneva@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth (note:)Who has set in order the infinite number of the stars.(:note) out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth.

geneva@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the (note:)He shows that Christ will not only gather this great number from the Jews but also from the Gentiles.(:note) Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon [their] shoulders.

geneva@Isaiah:51:1 @ Hearken to me, (note:)He comforts the Church, that they would not be discouraged for their small number.(:note) ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look to the That is, to Abraham, of whom you were begotten, and to Sarah of whom we were born. rock [from which] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [from which] ye were dug.

geneva@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore I will divide to him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because (note:)Because he humbled himself, therefore he will be extolled to glory, (Phi_2:7-12).(:note) he hath poured out his soul to death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin That is, of all that believe in him. of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

geneva@Isaiah:54:1 @ Sing, O (note:)After he has declared the death of Christ, he speaks to the Church, because it would feel the fruit of the same, and calls her barren, because in the captivity she was a widow without hope to have any children.(:note) barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the The Church in this her affliction and captivity will bring forth more children, than when she was free, or this may be spoken by admiration, considering the great number that would come from her. Her deliverance under Cyrus was as her childhood, and therefore this was accomplished when she came of age, which was under the gospel. desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:60:4 @ Lift up thy eyes around, and see: all (note:)An infinite number from all countries as in (Isa_49:18).(:note) they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.

geneva@Isaiah:60:8 @ Who [are] these (note:)Showing what great number will come to the Church, and with what great diligence and zeal.(:note) [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?

geneva@Isaiah:65:11 @ But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that (note:)By the multitude and number he means their innumerable idols of whom they thought they could never have enough.(:note) troop, and that furnish the drink offering to that number.

geneva@Isaiah:65:12 @ Therefore will I (note:)Seeing you cannot number your gods, I will number you with the sword.(:note) number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I By my prophets, whom you would not obey. spoke, ye did not hear; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose [that] in which I delighted not.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:28 @ But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according (note:)You thought that your gods of blocks and stones could have helped you, because they were many in number and present in every place: but now let us see whether either the multitude or their presence can deliver you from my plague, (Jer_11:13).(:note) to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:32 @ Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? yet my people haue forgotten me, daies without number.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:16 @ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the (note:)The true doctrine and manner to serve God.(:note) ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Read (Jer_4:2). LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built They will be of the number of the faithful, and have a place in my Church. in the midst of my people.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:28 @ Yet a small number that escape the sword (note:)We see therefore that God has a perpetual care over his, wherever they are scattered: for though they are but two or three, yet he will deliver them when he destroys his enemies.(:note) shall return from the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

geneva@Lamentations:3:22 @ [It is of] the LORD'S (note:)Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his own mercies sake and for his promise will ever have his Church remain, though they are never so few in number, (Isa_1:9).(:note) mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:4 @ Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the (note:)By this he represented the idolatry and sin of the ten tribes (for Samaria was on his left hand from Babylon) and how they had remained in it three hundred and ninety years.(:note) house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:9 @ Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, (note:)Meaning that the famine would be so great that they would be glad to eat whatever they could get.(:note) and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread of them, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, Which were fourteen months that the city was besieged and this was as many days as Israel sinned years. three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat of it.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:3 @ Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy (note:)Meaning, that a very few would be left, which the Lord would preserve among all these storms, but not without troubles and trial.(:note) skirts.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye (note:)Because your idols are in greater number, and your superstitions more than among the professed idolaters, read (Isa_65:11) or he condemns their ingratitude in respect to his benefits.(:note) multiplied more than the nations that [are] around you, [and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that [are] around you;

geneva@Ezekiel:9:6 @ Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the (note:)Thus in all his plagues the Lord preserves his small number, which he marks as in (Exo_12:12; Rev_7:3) but the chief mark is the spirit of adoption, with which the heart is sealed up to life everlasting.(:note) mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the Which was the chief opportunity for all these evils, as in (Eze_8:11). elders who [were] before the house.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:31 @ Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that [were] not good, and shall (note:)You will come to true repentance and think yourselves unworthy to be of the number of God's creatures, for your ingratitude against him.(:note) lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

geneva@Daniel:1:1 @ In the (note:)Read (2Ki_24:1; Jer_25:1).(:note) third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. The Argument - The great providence of God, and his singular mercy towards his Church are set forth here most vividly, who never leaves his own destitute, but now in their greatest miseries and afflictions gives them Prophets, such as Ezekiel and Daniel, whom he adorned with special graces of his Holy Spirit. And Daniel above all others had most special revelations of such things as would come to the Church, even from the time that they were in captivity, to the last end of the world, and to the general resurrection, as of the four Monarchies and empires of all the world, that is, of the Babylonians, Persians, Grecians, and Romans. Also of the certain number of the times even until Christ, when all ceremonies and sacrifices would cease, because he would be the accomplishment of them: moreover he shows Christ's office and the reason of his death, which was by his sacrifice to take away sins, and to bring everlasting life. And as from the beginning God always exercised his people under the cross, so he teaches here, that after Christ is offered, he will still leave this exercise to his Church, until the dead rise again, and Christ gathers his own into his kingdom in the heavens.

geneva@Daniel:4:9 @ O Belteshazzar, (note:)Which also was a great grief to the Prophet, to be numbered among the sorcerers and men whose practices were wicked and contrary to God's word.(:note) master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods [is] in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.

geneva@Daniel:7:10 @ A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand (note:)That is, an infinite number of angels, who were ready to execute his commandment.(:note) times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the This is meant of the first coming of Christ, when the will of God was plainly revealed by his Gospel. books were opened.

geneva@Daniel:9:2 @ In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by (note:)For even though he was an excellent Prophet, yet he daily increased in knowledge by the reading of the scriptures.(:note) books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

geneva@Daniel:11:34 @ Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a (note:)As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet he will not deliver it all at once, but help in such a way that they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, of which he here prophesies.(:note) little help: but many shall cleave to them That is, there will even be among this small number many hypocrites. with flatteries.

geneva@Daniel:12:12 @ Blessed [is] he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and (note:)In this number he adds a month and a half to the former number, signifying that it is not in man to appoint the time of Christ's coming, but that they are blessed that patiently wait for his appearing.(:note) five and thirty days.