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Genesis:3:7 @ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they (note:)They began to feel their misery, but they did not seek God for a remedy.(:note) knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
geneva@Genesis:19:8 @ Behold now, I have two (note:)He deserves praise for defending his guests, but he is to be blamed for seeking unlawful means.(:note) daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; That I should preserve them from all injury. for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
geneva@Genesis:19:11 @ Then they smote the men that were at the doore of the house with blindnes both small and great, so that they were wearie in seeking the doore.
geneva@Genesis:27:19 @ And Jacob said unto his father, (note:)Although Jacob was assured of this blessing by faith: yet he did evil to seek it by lies, even more because he abuses God's name through it.(:note) I [am] Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
geneva@Genesis:31:44 @ Now therefore (note:)His conscience reproved him for his misbehaviour toward Jacob, and therefore moved him to seek peace.(:note) come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
geneva@Genesis:37:10 @ And he told [it] to his father, and to his brethren: and his father (note:)Not despising the vision, but seeking to appease his brethren.(:note) rebuked him, and said unto him, What [is] this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
geneva@Genesis:37:15 @ Then a man found him: for lo, hee was wandring in the fielde, and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
geneva@Genesis:37:16 @ And he answered, I seeke my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they keepe sheepe.
geneva@Genesis:41:14 @ Then Pharaoh sent and called (note:)The wicked seek the prophets of God in their time of need, while in their prosperity they abhor them.(:note) Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved [himself], and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
geneva@Genesis:43:18 @ And the men were (note:)So the judgment of God weighed on their consciences.(:note) afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
geneva@Exodus:8:8 @ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, (note:)Not love but fear causes the infidels to seek God.(:note) Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
geneva@Exodus:10:16 @ Then Pharaoh called for (note:)The wicked in their misery seek God's ministers for help, even though they hate and detest them.(:note) Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
geneva@Leviticus:13:36 @ Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not (note:)He shall not care whether the yellow hair is there or not.(:note) seek for yellow hair; he [is] unclean.
geneva@Leviticus:19:31 @ Ye shall not regarde them that worke with spirites, neither soothsayers: ye shall not seeke to them to be defiled by them: I am the Lorde your God.
geneva@Numbers:15:39 @ And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a (note:)By leaving God's commandments and following your own fantasies.(:note) whoring:
geneva@Numbers:16:10 @ And he hath brought thee near [to (note:)To serve in the congregation, as in the verse before.(:note) him], and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
geneva@Numbers:22:16 @ And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, (note:)The wicked seek by all means to further their naughty enterprises, though they know that God is against them.(:note) Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
geneva@Numbers:24:1 @ And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the (note:)Where the Israelites camped.(:note) wilderness.
geneva@Deuteronomy:4:29 @ But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy (note:)Not with outward show or ceremony, but with a true confession of your faults.(:note) heart and with all thy soul.
geneva@Deuteronomy:12:1 @ These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God (note:)By which they are admonished to seek no other God.(:note) of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
geneva@Deuteronomy:12:5 @ But ye shal seeke the place which the Lord your God shall chose out of all your tribes, to put his Name there, and there to dwell, and thither thou shalt come,
geneva@Deuteronomy:18:6 @ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with (note:)Meaning, to serve God whole heartedly, and not to seek ease.(:note) all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
geneva@Deuteronomy:22:2 @ And if thy brother [be] not (note:)Showing that brotherly affection must be shown, not only to those who dwell near to us, but also to those who are far off.(:note) nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
geneva@Deuteronomy:23:6 @ Thou (note:)You shall have nothing to do with them.(:note) shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
geneva@Deuteronomy:29:19 @ And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add (note:)For as he that is thirsty desires to drink much so he that follows his appetites seeks by all means and yet cannot be satisfied.(:note) drunkenness to thirst:
geneva@Deuteronomy:29:29 @ The (note:)Moses by this proves their curiosity, who seek those things that are only known to God: and their negligence who do not regard that which God has revealed to them, as the law.(:note) secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.
geneva@Joshua:2:3 @ And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, (note:)Though the wicked see the hand of God on them, they do not repent, but seek how they may by their power and policy resist his working.(:note) Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.
geneva@Joshua:11:20 @ For it was of the LORD to (note:)That is, to give them over to themselves: and therefore they could not but rebel against God and seek their own destruction.(:note) harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
geneva@Judges:4:22 @ And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold, Sisera lay (note:)So he saw that a woman had the honour, as Deborah prophesied.(:note) dead, and the nail [was] in his temples.
geneva@Judges:6:6 @ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the (note:)This is the purpose of God's punishments, to call his to repentance, that they may seek help from him.(:note) children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
geneva@Judges:13:16 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the (note:)Showing that he did not seek his own honour but God's, whose messenger he was.(:note) LORD. For Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD.
geneva@Ruth:3:1 @ Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek (note:)Meaning that she would provide her with a husband, with whom she might live peacefully.(:note) rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
geneva@1Samuel:9:3 @ And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go (note:)All these circumstances were means to serve God's providence, by which Saul (though not approved by God) was made king.(:note) seek the asses.
geneva@1Samuel:10:2 @ When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The (note:)Samuel confirms him by these signs, that God has appointed him king.(:note) asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
geneva@1Samuel:10:14 @ And Sauls vncle saide vnto him, and to his seruant, Whither went ye? And he saide, To seeke the asses: and when we sawe that they were no where, we came to Samuel.
geneva@1Samuel:12:12 @ And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, (note:)Leaving God to seek the help of man, (1Sa_8:5).(:note) Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.
geneva@1Samuel:16:16 @ Let our Lord therefore command thy seruants, that are before thee, to seeke a man that is a cunning plaier vpon the harpe: that when the euil spirit of God commeth vpon thee, hee may play with his hand, and thou maiest be eased.
geneva@1Samuel:20:1 @ And David (note:)For Saul was detained, and prophesied a day and a night by God's providence, that David might have time to escape.(:note) fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what [is] my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
geneva@1Samuel:20:21 @ And after I wil sende a boy, saying, Goe, seeke the arrowes. If I say vnto the boy, See, the arrowes are on this side thee, bring them, & come thou: for it is well with thee and no hurt, as the Lord liueth.
geneva@1Samuel:20:36 @ And he saide vnto his boy, Runne now, seeke the arrowes which I shoote, and as the boy ran, he shot an arrowe beyond him.
geneva@1Samuel:22:23 @ Abide thou with me, & feare not: for he that seeketh my life, shall seeke thy life also: for with me thou shalt be in safegard.
geneva@1Samuel:23:15 @ And Dauid sawe that Saul was come out for to seeke his life: and Dauid was in the wildernes of Ziph in the wood.
geneva@1Samuel:23:25 @ Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of (note:)Which was also in the tribe of Judah, (Jos_15:55).(:note) Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
geneva@1Samuel:24:2 @ {\cf2 (24:3)} Then Saul tooke three thousande chosen men out of all Israel, & went to seeke Dauid and his men vpon the rocks among the wilde goates.
geneva@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, (note:)Contrary to the report of those who said David was Saul's enemy, he proves himself to be his friend.(:note) Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
geneva@1Samuel:25:26 @ Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own (note:)That is, that you should not be revenged by your enemy.(:note) hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
geneva@1Samuel:25:29 @ Yet (note:)That is, Saul.(:note) a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the God will preserve you long in his service, and destroy your enemies. bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.
geneva@1Samuel:26:2 @ Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand (note:)That is, of the most skilful and valiant soldiers.(:note) chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
geneva@1Samuel:26:20 @ Nowe therefore let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lorde: for the King of Israel is come out to seeke a flea, as one would hunt a partridge in the mountaines.
geneva@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart, I shall now (note:)David distrusts God's protection and therefore flees to the idolaters, who were enemies to God's people.(:note) perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
geneva@1Samuel:28:7 @ Then saide Saul vnto his seruants, Seeke me a woman that hath a familiar spirite, that I may goe to her, and aske of her; his seruants said to him, Beholde, there is a woman at En-dor that hath a familiar spirit.
geneva@1Samuel:28:8 @ And Saul (note:)He does not seek God in his misery, but is led by Satan to unlawful means, which in his conscience he condemns.(:note) disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me [him] up, whom I shall name unto thee.
geneva@1Samuel:28:9 @ And the woman saide vnto him, Beholde, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath destroyed the sorcerers, and the southsayers out of the land: wherefore then seekest thou to take me in a snare to cause me to die?
geneva@1Samuel:28:20 @ Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore (note:)The wicked when they hear God's judgments, tremble and despair, but cannot seek for mercy by repentance.(:note) afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
geneva@2Samuel:5:17 @ But when the Philistims hearde that they had anoynted Dauid King ouer Israel, all the Philistims came vp to seeke Dauid: and when Dauid heard, he went downe to a fort.
geneva@2Samuel:7:26 @ And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God over Israel: and let the (note:)This prayer is most effective when we chiefly seek God's glory, and the accomplishment of his promise.(:note) house of thy servant David be established before thee.
geneva@2Samuel:12:13 @ And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath (note:)For the Lord seeks the sinner to turn to him.(:note) put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
geneva@2Samuel:15:4 @ Absalom said moreover, (note:)Thus by slander, flattery and fair promises, the wicked seek preference.(:note) Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
geneva@2Samuel:16:11 @ And Dauid sayd to Abishai, and to all his seruants, Beholde, my sonne which came out of mine owne bowels, seeketh my life: then howe much more now may this sonne of Iemini? Suffer him to curse: for the Lord hath bidden him.
geneva@2Samuel:17:3 @ And I will bring back all the people unto thee: (note:)Meaning David.(:note) the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.
geneva@2Samuel:19:19 @ And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did (note:)For in his adversity he was his most cruel enemy, and now in his prosperity, seeks by flattery to creep into favour.(:note) perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
geneva@2Samuel:20:19 @ I [am (note:)She speaks in the name of the city.(:note) one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
geneva@1Kings:2:40 @ And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and (note:)His covetous mind moved him to risk his life, rather than to lose the worldly profit he had by his servants.(:note) Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
geneva@1Kings:18:10 @ As the Lorde thy God liueth, there is no nation or kingdome, whither my lorde hath not sent to seeke thee: and when they sayd, He is not here, he tooke an othe of the kingdome and nation, if they had not found thee.
geneva@1Kings:19:10 @ And he said, I have (note:)He complains that the more zealous he was to maintain God's glory, the more cruelly he was persecuted.(:note) been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
geneva@1Kings:19:14 @ And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: (note:)So should not depend on the multitude in maintaining God's glory, but because our duty requires us to do it.(:note) because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
geneva@1Kings:20:7 @ Then the King of Israel sent for all the Elders of the land, & sayd, Take heede, I pray you, and see how he seeketh mischiefe: for he sent vnto me for my wiues, and for my children, and for my siluer, and for my golde, and I denyed him not.
geneva@2Kings:1:3 @ But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, (note:)He shows that idolaters do not have the true God, or else they would seek none but him alone.(:note) [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
geneva@2Kings:2:16 @ And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, (note:)Because the fact was extraordinary, they doubted where he had gone, but Elisha was assured that he was taken up to God.(:note) Ye shall not send.
geneva@2Kings:5:7 @ And when the King of Israel had read the letter, he rent his clothes, and sayde, Am I God, to kil and to giue life, that hee doth send to mee, that I should heale a man from his leprosie? wherfore consider, I pray you, and see howe he seeketh a quarel against me.
geneva@2Kings:6:19 @ And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led (note:)Thus he did being led by the Spirit of God, and not because he sought his own revenge, but only to set forth the glory of God.(:note) them to Samaria.
geneva@2Kings:15:19 @ [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the (note:)That is, of Israel.(:note) land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand Instead of seeking help from God, he went about by money to purchase the favour of this king being an infidel and therefore God forsook him, and Pul soon afterward broke his promises, destroyed his country and led his people away captive. talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
geneva@1Chronicles:4:39 @ And they (note:)For the tribe of Simeon was so great in number, that in the time of Hezekiah they sought new dwellings to Gedor, which is in the tribe of Daniel.(:note) went to the entrance of Gedor, [even] unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
geneva@1Chronicles:14:8 @ But when the Philistims heard that Dauid was anointed King ouer Israel, all the Philistims came vp to seeke Dauid; when Dauid heard, he went out against them.
geneva@1Chronicles:16:10 @ Reioyce in his holy Name: let the hearts of them that seeke the Lord reioyce.
geneva@1Chronicles:16:11 @ Seeke the Lord and his strength: seeke his face continually.
geneva@1Chronicles:22:19 @ Now set (note:)For else he knew that God would plague them, and not prosper their labour, unless they sought with all their hearts to set forth his glory.(:note) your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
geneva@1Chronicles:28:8 @ Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this (note:)That is, of Canaan.(:note) good land, and leave [it] for an inheritance for your children after you He declares that nothing can separate them from the conveniences of this land, both for themselves and their posterity except for their sins and iniquity. for ever.
geneva@1Chronicles:28:9 @ And thou, Salomon my sonne, know thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a perfit heart, and with a willing minde: For the Lorde searcheth all hearts, and vnderstandeth all the imaginations of thoughts: if thou seeke him, he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for euer.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:14 @ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will (note:)I will cause the pestilence to cease and destroy the beasts that hurt the fruit of the earth, and send rain in due season.(:note) heal their land.
geneva@2Chronicles:11:16 @ And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their (note:)Who were zealous of true religion and feared God.(:note) hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.
geneva@2Chronicles:12:12 @ And when he (note:)Which declares that God does not seek the death of a sinner, but his conversion, (Eze_18:32).(:note) humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
geneva@2Chronicles:12:14 @ And he did euill: for hee prepared not his heart to seeke the Lorde.
geneva@2Chronicles:14:4 @ And commanded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and to doe according to the Lawe and the comandement.
geneva@2Chronicles:15:2 @ And he went out to meete Asa, and said vnto him, O Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, heare ye me. The Lorde is with you, while ye be with him: and if ye seeke him, he wil be founde of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
geneva@2Chronicles:15:12 @ And they made a couenant to seeke the Lorde God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soule.
geneva@2Chronicles:15:13 @ That (note:)These were the words of their covenant, which commanded all idolaters be put to death, according to the law of God, (Deu_13:5, Deu_13:9, Deu_13:15).(:note) whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
geneva@2Chronicles:16:3 @ [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, (note:)He thought to repulse his adversary by an unlawful means, that is, by seeking help from infidels, as they who seek the help of Turks, thinking by it to make themselves stronger.(:note) break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
geneva@2Chronicles:16:12 @ And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] (note:)God plagued his rebellion and by this declared that it is nothing to begin well, unless we continue to the end, that is, zealous of God's glory and put our whole trust in him.(:note) exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the He shows that it is useless to seek the physicians unless we first seek God to purge our sins, which are the chief cause of all our diseases, and later use the help of the physicians as a means by which God works. physicians.
geneva@2Chronicles:17:3 @ And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the (note:)That is, his virtues meaning before he had committed with Bathsheba, and against Uriah.(:note) first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Did not seek help from strange Gods. Baalim;
geneva@2Chronicles:17:10 @ And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they (note:)Thus God prospers all who with a pure heart seek his glory, and keeps their enemies in fear, so that they are not able to execute their rage against them.(:note) made no war against Jehoshaphat.
geneva@2Chronicles:19:3 @ Neuertheles good things are found in thee, because thou hast taken away ye groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God.
geneva@2Chronicles:20:3 @ And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself (note:)This declares what the fear of the godly is, which is the prick to stir them to prayer and to depend on the Lord, while it moves the wicked either to seek after worldly means and policies or else to fall into despair.(:note) to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
geneva@2Chronicles:25:20 @ But Amaziah would not hear; for (note:)Thus God often plagues by those means on which men must rely, to teach them to seek help only from him, and to show his judgments, he moves their hearts to follow that which will lead to their destruction.(:note) it [came] of God, that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they sought after the gods of Edom.
geneva@2Chronicles:26:5 @ And he sought God in the days of (note:)This was not the Zechariah that was the son of Jehoiada, but some other prophet of that name.(:note) Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as For God never forsakes any who seek him, and therefore man is the cause of his own destruction. he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
geneva@2Chronicles:30:19 @ That prepareth his whole heart to seeke the Lord God, the God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed, according to the purification of the Sanctuarie.
geneva@2Chronicles:31:21 @ And in all the workes that he began for the seruice of the house of God, both in the Law and in the commandements, to seeke his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:13 @ And prayed unto him: and he was (note:)Thus affliction gives understanding: for he that hated God in his prosperity now in his misery seeks him.(:note) intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.
geneva@2Chronicles:34:3 @ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet (note:)When he was but sixteen years old he showed himself zealous of God's glory, and at twenty years old he abolished idolatry and restored the true religion.(:note) young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
geneva@Ezra:4:2 @ And they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefe fathers, and sayd vnto them, We wil builde with you: for we seeke the Lord your God as ye do, and we haue sacrificed vnto him since the time of Esar Haddon king of Asshur, which brought vs vp hither.
geneva@Ezra:6:21 @ And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had (note:)Who were of the heathen and forsook their idolatry to worship the true God.(:note) separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
geneva@Ezra:7:10 @ For Ezra had prepared his heart to seeke the Lawe of the Lord, and to doe it, and to teach the precepts and iudgements in Israel.
geneva@Ezra:8:21 @ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict (note:)He shows that the purpose of fasting is to humble the body to the spirit, which must proceed from the heart that is touched, or else it is hypocrisy.(:note) ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
geneva@Ezra:8:22 @ For I was (note:)He thought it better to commit himself to the protection of God, than by seeking these ordinary means to give others a reason to think that he doubted God's power.(:note) ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them that forsake him.
geneva@Ezra:9:12 @ Now therfore shal ye not giue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take their daughters vnto your sonnes, nor seeke their peace nor wealth for euer, that yee may be strong and eate the goodnes of the lande, and leaue it for an inheritance to your sonnes for euer.
geneva@Nehemiah:2:10 @ When (note:)These were great enemies to the Jews, and laboured always both by force and subtilty to overcome them and Tobiah, because his wife was a Jewess, knew of their affairs and so brought them great trouble.(:note) Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
geneva@Nehemiah:5:7 @ Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye (note:)You press them with usury, and seek to bring all thing into your hands.(:note) exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great Both because they should be moved with pity seeing how many were oppressed by them, and also hear the judgment of others, who should be witnesses of their dealings with their brethren. assembly against them.
geneva@Esther:2:2 @ And the Kings seruants that ministred vnto him, sayd, Let them seeke for the King beautifull yong virgins,
geneva@Esther:2:15 @ Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, (note:)In which her modesty appeared because she did not seek to dress to command her beauty but sought the eunuch's appointment.(:note) appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
geneva@Esther:10:3 @ For Mordecai the Jew [was] next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and (note:)These three points are here set forth as commendable and necessary for him that is in authority to have the favour of the people, to procure their wealth, and to be gentle and loving to them.(:note) accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
geneva@Job:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of (note:)That is, of the country of Idumea, (Lam_4:21), or bordering on it: for the land was called by the name of Uz, the son of Dishan, the son of Seir (Gen_36:28).(:note) Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and Since he was a Gentile and not a Jew and yet is pronounced upright and without hypocrisy, it declares that among the heathen God revealed himself. upright, and By this it is declared what is meant by an upright and just man. one that feared God, and eschewed evil. The Argument - In this history the example of patience is set before our eyes. This holy man Job was not only extremely afflicted in outward things and in his body, but also in his mind and conscience, by the sharp temptation of his wife and friends: who by their vehement words and subtle disputations brought him almost to despair. They set forth God as a sincere judge, and mortal enemy to him who had cast him off, therefore in vain he should seek him for help. These friends came to him under pretence of consolation, and yet they tormented him more than all his afflictions did. Even so, he constantly resisted them, and eventually succeeded. In this story we must note that Job maintains a good cause, but handles it badly. His adversaries have an evil matter, but they defend it craftily. Job held that God did not always punish men according to their sins, but that he had secret judgments, of which man knew not the cause, and therefore man could not reason against God in it, but he should be convicted. Moreover, he was assured that God had not rejected him, yet through his great torments and afflictions he speaks many inconveniences and shows himself as a desperate man in many things, and as one that would resist God, and this is his good cause which he handles well. Again the adversaries maintain with many good arguments that God punishes continually according to the trespass, grounding on God's providence, his justice and man's sins, yet their intention is evil; for they labour to bring Job into despair, and so they maintain an evil cause. Ezekiel commends Job as a just man, (Eze_14:14) and James sets out his patience for an example, (Jam_5:11).
geneva@Job:1:7 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence (note:)This question is asked for our infirmity: for God knew where he had come from.(:note) comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, In this is described the nature of Satan, which is always seeking his prey, (1Pe_5:8). From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
geneva@Job:5:8 @ I would seek unto (note:)If I suffered as you do, I would seek God.(:note) God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
geneva@Job:7:21 @ And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] (note:)That is, I will be dead.(:note) not [be].
geneva@Job:8:5 @ If thou (note:)That is, if you turn while God calls you to repentance.(:note) wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
geneva@Job:13:9 @ Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
geneva@Job:17:2 @ [Are there] not (note:)Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him.(:note) mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in I see still that they seek but to vex me. their provocation?
geneva@Job:20:10 @ His children shall (note:)While the father through ambition and tyranny oppressed the poor, the children through poverty and misery will seek favour from the poor.(:note) seek to please the poor, and his hands shall So that the thing which he has taken away by violence will be restored again by force. restore their goods.
geneva@Job:20:22 @ In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand (note:)The wicked will never be in rest: for one wicked man will seek to destroy another.(:note) of the wicked shall come upon him.
geneva@Job:34:24 @ He shall break in pieces mighty men without (note:)For all his creatures are at hand to serve him, so that he needs not to seek for any other army.(:note) number, and set others in their stead.
geneva@Job:36:13 @ But the hypocrites (note:)Which are maliciously bent against God, and flatter themselves in their vices.(:note) in heart heap up wrath: they When they are in affliction they do not seek God for help, as Asa in (2Ch_16:12). cry not when he bindeth them.
geneva@Job:38:2 @ Who [is] this that (note:)Which by seeking out the secret counsel of God by man's reason, makes it more obscure, and shows his own folly.(:note) darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
geneva@Job:38:16 @ Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the (note:)If you are not able to seek out the depth of the sea, how much less are you able to comprehend the counsel of God?(:note) depth?
geneva@Job:39:8 @ {\cf2 (39:11)} He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
geneva@Psalms:1:1 @ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the (note:)When a man has once given place to evil counsel, or to his own sin nature, he begins to forget himself in his sin, and so falls into contempt of God, which is called the seat of the scorners.(:note) counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. The Argument - This book of psalms is given to us by the Holy Spirit, to be esteemed as a precious treasure in which all things are contained that bring to true happiness in this present life as well as in the life to come. For the riches of true knowledge and heavenly wisdom, are here set open for us, to take of it most abundantly. If we would know the great and high majesty of God, here we may see the brightness of it shine clearly. If we would seek his incomprehensible wisdom, here is the school of the same profession. If we would comprehend his inestimable bounty, and approach near to it, and fill our hands with that treasure, here we may have a most lively and comfortable taste of it. If we would know where our salvation lies and how to attain to everlasting life, here is Christ our Redeemer, and Mediator most evidently described. The rich man may learn the true use of his riches. The poor man may find full contentment. He who will rejoice will know true joy, and how to keep measure in it. They who are afflicted and oppressed will see what their comfort exists in, and how they should praise God when he sends them deliverance. The wicked and the persecutors of the children of God will see how the hand of God is always against them: and though he permits them to prosper for a while, yet he bridles them, so much so that they cannot touch a hair of ones head unless he permits them, and how in the end their destruction is most miserable. Briefly here we have most present remedies against all temptations and troubles of mind and conscience, so that being well practised in this, we may be assured against all dangers in this life, live in the true fear and love of God, and at length attain the incorruptible crown of glory, which is laid up for all who love the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
geneva@Psalms:4:2 @ O ye (note:)You who think yourselves noble in this world.(:note) sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye Though your enterprises please you, yet God will bring them to nothing. love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.
geneva@Psalms:4:6 @ [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] (note:)The multitude seeks worldly wealth, but David sets his happiness in God's favour.(:note) good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
geneva@Psalms:9:10 @ And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lorde, hast not failed them that seeke thee.
geneva@Psalms:10:4 @ The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.
geneva@Psalms:10:15 @ Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou find (note:)For you have utterly destroyed him.(:note) none.
geneva@Psalms:14:2 @ The Lord looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that would vnderstand, and seeke God.
geneva@Psalms:18:45 @ The strangers shall (note:)Fear will cause them to be afraid and come forth from their secret holes and holds to seek pardon.(:note) fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
geneva@Psalms:20:9 @ Save, LORD: (note:)Let the king be able to deliver us by your strength, when we seek him for help.(:note) let the king hear us when we call.
geneva@Psalms:24:6 @ This [is] the (note:)Though circumcision separates the carnal seed of Jacob, from the Gentiles, yet he who seeks God, is the true Jacob and an Israelite.(:note) generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:27:8 @ [When thou saidst], (note:)He grounds on God's promise and shows that he is most willing to obey his commandment.(:note) Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
geneva@Psalms:32:6 @ For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a (note:)When necessity causes him to seek you for help, (Isa_55:6).(:note) time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters That is, the waters and great dangers. they shall not come nigh unto him.
geneva@Psalms:34:10 @ The young (note:)The godly by their patient obedience profit more than they who ravage and spoil.(:note) lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not If they abide the last trial. want any good [thing].
geneva@Psalms:34:14 @ Eschewe euill and doe good: seeke peace and followe after it.
geneva@Psalms:35:4 @ Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.
geneva@Psalms:37:32 @ The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
geneva@Psalms:38:12 @ They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.
geneva@Psalms:40:14 @ Let them be (note:)He desires that God's mercy may contend for him against the rage of his enemies.(:note) ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
geneva@Psalms:40:16 @ Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, (note:)As the faithful always praise God for his benefits, so the wicked mocked God's children in their afflictions.(:note) The LORD be magnified.
geneva@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou hast given us (note:)Knowing God to be author of this calamity, they murmur not, but seek remedy at his hands who wounded them.(:note) like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
geneva@Psalms:51:17 @ The sacrifices of God [are] a (note:)Which is a wounding of the heart, proceeding from faith, which seeks God for mercy.(:note) broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
geneva@Psalms:53:2 @ God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were [any] that did understand, that did (note:)By which he condemns all knowledge and understanding that tends not to seek God.(:note) seek God.
geneva@Psalms:54:3 @ For (note:)That is, the Ziphims.(:note) strangers are risen up against me, and Saul and his army who were like cruel beasts, could not be satisfied except by his death. oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:56:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, (note:)Being chased by the fury of his enemies into a strange country, he was a dumb dove not seeking vengeance.(:note) when the Philistines took him in Gath.» Be merciful unto me, O God: for He shows that if God will help him, it must be now or never for all the world is against him and ready to devour him. man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
geneva@Psalms:63:1 @ «A Psalm of David, when he was in the (note:)That is, of Ziph (1Sa_23:14).(:note) wilderness of Judah.» O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul Though he was both hungry and in great distress, yet he made God above all meat and drink. thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
geneva@Psalms:63:9 @ Therefore they that seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into the lowest partes of the earth.
geneva@Psalms:69:6 @ Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for (note:)Do not let my evil entreaty of the enemy be an opportunity for the faithful to fall from you.(:note) my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
geneva@Psalms:69:32 @ The humble shall see this, and they that seeke God, shalbe glad, and your heart shall liue.
geneva@Psalms:70:2 @ Let them be ashamed and (note:)He was assured that the more they raged, the nearer they were to destruction, and he the nearer to his deliverance.(:note) confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
geneva@Psalms:70:4 @ But let all those that seeke thee, be ioyfull and glad in thee, and let all that loue thy saluation, say alwaies, God be praised.
geneva@Psalms:70:5 @ But I [am] (note:)Because he had felt God's help before, he grounds on experience, and boldly seeks him for help.(:note) poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
geneva@Psalms:71:13 @ Let them be confounded & consumed that are against my soule: let them be couered with reproofe and confusion, that seeke mine hurt.
geneva@Psalms:71:24 @ My tongue also shal talke of thy righteousnesse daily: for they are confounded and brought vnto shame, that seeke mine hurt.
geneva@Psalms:73:22 @ So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a (note:)For the more that man goes about by his own reason to seek out God's judgments, the more he declares himself a beast.(:note) beast before thee.
geneva@Psalms:73:27 @ For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that (note:)That is, forsake you to seek others.(:note) go a whoring from thee.
geneva@Psalms:83:16 @ Fill their faces with shame; that they may (note:)That is, be compelled by your plagues to confess your power.(:note) seek thy name, O LORD.
geneva@Psalms:86:1 @ «A Prayer of David.» Bow down (note:)David, when persecuted by Saul, prayed this way, leaving the same to the Church as a monument, how to seek relief against their miseries.(:note) thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy.
geneva@Psalms:104:1 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art (note:)The prophet shows that we do not need to enter into the heavens to seek God, for as much as all the order of nature, with the propriety and placing of the elements, are living mirrors to see his majesty in.(:note) clothed with honour and majesty.
geneva@Psalms:104:21 @ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat (note:)That is, they only find meat according to God's providence, who cares even for the brute beasts.(:note) from God.
geneva@Psalms:105:3 @ Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them that seeke the Lord, reioyce.
geneva@Psalms:105:4 @ Seek the LORD, and his (note:)By the strength and face he means the ark where God declared his power and his presence.(:note) strength: seek his face evermore.
geneva@Psalms:109:10 @ Let his children be vagabounds & beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.
geneva@Psalms:116:2 @ Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon [him] (note:)That is in convenient time to seek help, which was when he was in distress.(:note) as long as I live.
geneva@Psalms:119:2 @ Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies, and seeke him with their whole heart.
geneva@Psalms:119:45 @ And I will (note:)They who simply walk after God's word have no nets to entangle them, while they who do contrary are ever in nets and snares.(:note) walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
geneva@Psalms:119:94 @ I [am] (note:)He proves by effect that he is God's child, because he seeks to understand his word.(:note) thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
geneva@Psalms:119:155 @ Saluation is farre from the wicked, because they seeke not thy statutes.
geneva@Psalms:119:176 @ I have (note:)Being chased to and fro by my enemies, and having no place to rest in.(:note) gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
geneva@Psalms:142:1 @ «Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.» I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I (note:)David's patience and constant prayer to God condemns their wicked rage, who in their troubles either despair and murmur against God, or else seek other than God, to have relief in their miseries.(:note) make my supplication.
geneva@Proverbs:1:28 @ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not (note:)Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief.(:note) find me:
geneva@Proverbs:2:3 @ Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] (note:)Meaning that we must seek the knowledge of God with care and diligence.(:note) liftest up thy voice for understanding;
geneva@Proverbs:2:4 @ If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid (note:)Showing that no labour must be spared.(:note) treasures;
geneva@Proverbs:3:16 @ Length of days [is] in her right hand; (note:)Meaning, that he seeks wisdom, that is, suffers himself to be governed by the Word of God, will have all prosperity both corporal and spiritual.(:note) [and] in her left hand riches and honour.
geneva@Proverbs:6:10 @ [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, (note:)He expresses the nature of the sluggards, who though they sleep long, yet never have enough, but always seek opportunity for more.(:note) a little folding of the hands to sleep:
geneva@Proverbs:6:34 @ For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not (note:)He shows that man by nature seeks the death of he that has abused his wife, and so concludes that neither God's law nor the law of nature admits any ransom for the adultery.(:note) spare in the day of vengeance.
geneva@Proverbs:7:9 @ In the twilight, in the evening, in the (note:)He shows that there was almost no one so impudent that they were not afraid to be seen, their consciences accusing them and causing them to seek the night to cover their filthiness.(:note) black and dark night:
geneva@Proverbs:7:15 @ Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
geneva@Proverbs:8:17 @ I love them that love me; and those that seek me (note:)That is, study the word of God diligently, and with a desire to profit.(:note) early shall find me.
geneva@Proverbs:11:19 @ As righteousnes leadeth to life: so hee that followeth euill, seeketh his owne death.
geneva@Proverbs:11:27 @ He that seeketh good things, getteth fauour: but he that seeketh euill, it shall come to him.
geneva@Proverbs:12:18 @ There is that speaketh like the piercings of (note:)Which seek nothing more then to provoke others to anger.(:note) a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
geneva@Proverbs:14:6 @ A scorner seeketh wisdome, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easie to him that will vnderstande.
geneva@Proverbs:15:14 @ The heart of him that hath vnderstanding, seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of the foole is fedde with foolishnes.
geneva@Proverbs:17:9 @ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth [very] (note:)He that admonishes the prince of his fault makes him his enemy.(:note) friends.
geneva@Proverbs:17:11 @ An evil [man] seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel (note:)By the messenger is meant such means as God uses to punish the rebels.(:note) messenger shall be sent against him.
geneva@Proverbs:17:19 @ He loveth transgression that loveth strife: [and] he that exalteth his (note:)Lifts up himself above his degree.(:note) gate seeketh destruction.
geneva@Proverbs:17:24 @ Wisdom [is] before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in the (note:)That is, wander to and fro, and seek not after wisdom.(:note) ends of the earth.
geneva@Proverbs:18:1 @ Through desire a man, having (note:)He who loves wisdom will separate himself from all impediments, and give himself wholly to seek it.(:note) separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom.
geneva@Proverbs:18:15 @ A wise heart getteth knowledge, and the eare of the wise seeketh learning.
geneva@Proverbs:21:6 @ The gathering of treasures by a deceitfull tongue is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.
geneva@Proverbs:23:30 @ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go (note:)Who by art make wine stronger and more pleasant.(:note) to seek mixed wine.
geneva@Proverbs:23:35 @ They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will (note:)Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then beasts, yet they can not refrain.(:note) seek it yet again.
geneva@Proverbs:28:5 @ Wicked men vnderstand not iudgemnt: but they that seeke the Lord vnderstand all things.
geneva@Proverbs:29:26 @ Many seek the ruler's favour; but [every] man's (note:)He does not need to flatter the ruler, for what God has appointed will come to him.(:note) judgment [cometh] from the LORD.
geneva@Proverbs:31:13 @ She seeketh wooll and flaxe, and laboureth cheerefully with her handes.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @ And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this grievous labour hath God given to the sons of man (note:)Man by nature has a desire to know, and yet is not able to come to the perfection of knowledge, which is the punishment of sin, to humble man, and to teach him to depend only on God.(:note) to be exercised with it.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ Therefore I went about to cause my heart (note:)That I might seek the true happiness which is in God.(:note) to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:6 @ A time to seeke, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @ He hath made every [thing] beautiful in its time: also he hath set the (note:)God has given man a desire and affection to seek out the things of this world, and to labour in it.(:note) world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:28 @ {\cf2 (7:30)} And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.
geneva@Songs:3:1 @ By (note:)The Church by night, that is, in troubles, seeks Christ, but is not incontinently heard.(:note) night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
geneva@Songs:3:2 @ I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will (note:)Showing that although we are not heard at first, yet we must still continue in prayer, till we feel comfort.(:note) seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
geneva@Songs:3:3 @ The (note:)Which declares that we must seek to all of whom we hope to have any help.(:note) watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
geneva@Songs:6:1 @ Where is thy beloved gone, (note:)Hearing of the excellency of Christ, the faithful desire to know how to find him.(:note) O thou fairest among women? where is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
geneva@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why should ye be (note:)What good is it to seek to mend you by punishment, seeing that the more I correct you, the more you rebel?(:note) stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole By naming the chief parts of the body, he signifies that there was no part of the whole body of the Jews free from his rods. head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
geneva@Isaiah:1:17 @ Learn to (note:)This kind of reasoning by the second table, the scriptures use in many places against the hypocrites who pretend holiness and religion in word, but when charity and love for their brethren should appear they declare that they have neither faith nor religion.(:note) do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
geneva@Isaiah:4:1 @ And in that day (note:)When God will executes this vengeance there will not be one man found to be the head to many women, and they contrary to womanly shamefacedness will seek men, and offer themselves under any condition.(:note) seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only He our husband and let us be called your wives. let us be called by thy name, to take away our For so they thought it to be without a head and husband. reproach.
geneva@Isaiah:7:24 @ With arrows and with (note:)As they who go to seek wild beasts among the bushes.(:note) bows shall [men] come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
geneva@Isaiah:8:12 @ Say ye not, A (note:)Consent not you who are godly to the league and friendship that this people seek with strangers and idolaters.(:note) confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye Meaning, that they should not fear the thing that they who have no hope in God feared. their fear, nor be afraid.
geneva@Isaiah:8:19 @ And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that are mediums, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: (note:)Answer the wicked thus, should not God's people seek comfort only from him?(:note) should not a people seek to their God? for the That is, will they refuse to be taught by the prophet, who is the mouth of God, and seek help from the dead, which is the illusion of Satan? living to the dead?
geneva@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the (note:)Seek remedy in the word of God, where his will is declared.(:note) law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no They have no knowledge but are blind leaders of the blind. light in them.
geneva@Isaiah:9:13 @ For the people turneth not vnto him that smiteth them, neither doe they seeke the Lord of hostes.
geneva@Isaiah:11:10 @ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the (note:)He prophecies of the calling of the Gentiles.(:note) people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his That is, the Church which he also calls his rest, (Psa_132:14). rest shall be glorious.
geneva@Isaiah:16:5 @ And in mercy shall the throne be established: (note:)Meaning, Christ.(:note) and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and swiftly executing righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:16:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his (note:)They will use all means to seek help for their idols, and all in vain: for Chemosh their great god will not be able to help them.(:note) sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
geneva@Isaiah:19:3 @ And the (note:)Meaning, their policy and wisdom.(:note) spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her; and I will destroy her counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to the mediums, and to the wizards.
geneva@Isaiah:23:16 @ Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; (note:)She will labour by all means to recover her first credit, as a harlot when she is long forgotten, seeks by all means to entertain her lovers.(:note) make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
geneva@Isaiah:26:9 @ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn (note:)Meaning that by afflictions men will learn to fear God.(:note) righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a (note:)That is, Christ, by whom all the building must be tried and upheld, (Psa_118:22; Mat_21:42; Act_4:11; Rom_9:33; 1Pe_2:6).(:note) tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth He will be quiet, and seek no other remedies, but be content with Christ. shall not make haste.
geneva@Isaiah:29:15 @ Woe to them that (note:)This is spoken of them who in heart despised God's word, and mocked at the admonitions but outwardly bore a good face.(:note) seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
geneva@Isaiah:30:1 @ Woe to the (note:)Who contrary to their promise take not me for their protector and contrary to my commandment seek help from strangers.(:note) rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that They seek shifts to cloak their doings and not godly means. cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
geneva@Isaiah:30:4 @ For his (note:)The chief of Israel went into Egypt as an ambassador to seek help and abode at these cities.(:note) princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
geneva@Isaiah:30:7 @ For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried (note:)That is, to Jerusalem.(:note) concerning this, Their strength And not to come to and fro to seek help. [is] to sit still.
geneva@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that (note:)There were two special reasons why the Israelites should not join with the Egyptians: first, because the Lord had commanded them never to return there, (Deu_17:16, Deu_28:68) lest they should forget the benefit of their redemption: and secondly, lest they should be corrupted with the superstition and idolatry of the Egyptians, and so forsake God, (Jer_2:18).(:note) go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither Meaning, that they forsake the Lord, if they put their trust in worldly things: for they cannot trust in both. seek the LORD!
geneva@Isaiah:34:16 @ Seek ye out of the (note:)That is, in the law where such curses are threatened against the wicked.(:note) book of the LORD, and read: no one of That is, beasts and souls. these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my That is, the mouth of the Lord. mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
geneva@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to (note:)To have comfort from him by the word of God, that his faith might be confirmed and so his prayer be more earnest: teaching by it that in all dangers these two are the only remedies to seek to God and his ministers.(:note) Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
geneva@Isaiah:40:20 @ He that [is] so (note:)He shows the rage of the idolaters, seeing that the poor who do not have enough to meet their own needs will defraud themselves to serve their idols.(:note) impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.
geneva@Isaiah:40:28 @ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the (note:)And therefore all power is in his hand to deliver when his time comes.(:note) ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his Showing that men must patiently abide, and not curiously seek out the cause of God's delay in our affliction. understanding.
geneva@Isaiah:41:12 @ Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not (note:)Because they will be destroyed.(:note) find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.
geneva@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, thou (note:)Thus he calls them because they were contemned of all the world, and that they considering their own poor estate should seek him for help.(:note) worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Isaiah:41:17 @ [When] (note:)That is, they who will be afflicted in the captivity of Babylon.(:note) the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
geneva@Isaiah:45:19 @ I have not spoken in secret, (note:)As do the false gods, who give uncertain answers.(:note) in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
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:55:6 @ Seek ye the LORD while he may be (note:)When he offers himself by the preaching of his word.(:note) found, call ye upon him while he is near:
geneva@Isaiah:58:2 @ Yet they (note:)They will seem to worship me and have outward holiness.(:note) seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
geneva@Isaiah:59:16 @ And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: (note:)Meaning, to do justice, and to remedy the things that were so far out of order.(:note) therefore his arm brought That is, his Church or his arm helped itself and did not seek aid from any other. salvation to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
geneva@Isaiah:60:17 @ For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers (note:)Your governors will love you, and seek your wealth and prosperity.(:note) peace, and thy exactors righteousness.
geneva@Isaiah:65:1 @ I am sought by [them that] (note:)Meaning, the Gentiles who know not God, would seek him, when he had moved their heart with his Holy Spirit, (Rom_10:20).(:note) asked not [for me]; I am found by [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation [that] was not called by my name.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not, (note:)They did not teach the people to seek after God.(:note) Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the As the scribes, who would have expounded the law to the people. law knew me not: the Meaning, the princes and ministers: signifying, that all estates were corrupt. rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by That is, spoke vain things, and brought the people from the true worship of God to serve idols: for by Baal, which was the chief idol of the Moabites, are meant all idols. Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now what hast thou to do in the way of (note:)To seek help from man, as though God was not able enough to defend you, which is to drink from the puddles and to leave the fountain, (Isa_31:1).(:note) Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the That is, Euphrates. river?
geneva@Jeremiah:2:24 @ A wild (note:)He compares the idolaters to a wild ass: for she can never be tamed nor yet wearied: for as she runs she can take her wind at every opportunity.(:note) donkey used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her That is, when she is with foal, and therefore the hunters wait their time: so though you cannot be turned back now from your idolatry, yet when your iniquity will be at the fall, God will meet with you. month they shall find her.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:25 @ Withhold thy foot from (note:)By this he warns them that they should not go into strange countries to seek help: for they should but spend their labour, and hurt themselves, which is here meant by the bare foot and thirst, (Isa_57:10).(:note) being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
geneva@Jeremiah:2:33 @ Why trimmest thou thy way to (note:)With strangers.(:note) seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast (note:)There was no way which you did not hunt to seek after the idols, and to go on a pilgrimage.(:note) scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
geneva@Jeremiah:3:16 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The (note:)This is to be understood of the coming of Christ: for then they will not seek the Lord by ceremonies, and all figures will cease.(:note) ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.
geneva@Jeremiah:4:30 @ And [when] thou [art] laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou (note:)Neither your ceremonies nor rich gifts will deliver you.(:note) clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlarge thy eyes with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
geneva@Jeremiah:5:1 @ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if ye can find a man, if there is [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon (note:)That is, the city.(:note) it.
geneva@Jeremiah:11:21 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the men of (note:)That is, both the priests and the rest of the people: for this town was the priests, and they dwelt in it, (Jer_1:1).(:note) Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Not that they could not abide to hear God named; (for in this they would show themselves most holy) but because they could not abide to be sharply reproved, and therefore desired to be flattered (Isa_30:10), to be maintained in their pleasures (Mic_2:11) and not to hear vice condemned (Amo_7:12). Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
geneva@Jeremiah:13:12 @ Therefore thou shalt speak to them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every (note:)Every one of you will be filled with spiritual drunkenness, and be without all knowledge to seek how to help yourselves.(:note) skin shall be filled with wine: and they shall say to thee, Do we not certainly know that every skin shall be filled with wine?