OT.filter - geneva degrees:

geneva@2Kings:20:9 @ And Isaiah answered, This signe shalt thou haue of the Lorde, that the Lorde will doe that he hath spoken, Wilt thou that the shadowe goe forwarde ten degrees, or go backe ten degrees?

geneva@2Kings:20:10 @ And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow (note:)Let the sun go so many degrees back, that the hours may be fewer in the king's dial.(:note) return backward ten degrees.

geneva@2Kings:20:11 @ And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the (note:)Which was set at the top of the stairs that Ahaz had made.(:note) dial of Ahaz.

geneva@Psalms:40:10 @ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy (note:)David here numbers three degrees of our salvation: God's mercy, by which he pities us, his righteousness which signifies his continual protection and his truth, by which appears his constant favour, so that from this our salvation proceeds.(:note) faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

geneva@Psalms:120:1 @ «A Song of (note:)That is, of lifting up the tune and rising in singing.(:note) degrees.» In my Even though the children of God should rejoice when they suffer for righteousness sake, yet it is a great grief to the flesh to hear evil for well doing. distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

geneva@Psalms:121:1 @ A song of degrees. I will lift mine eyes vnto the mouuntaines, from whence mine helpe shall come.

geneva@Psalms:122:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» I (note:)He rejoices that God had appointed a place where the ark would still remain.(:note) was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:123:1 @ A song of degrees. I lift vp mine eyes to thee, that dwellest in the heauens.

geneva@Psalms:124:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» If [it had not been] the LORD who was (note:)He shows that God was ready to help at need and that there was no other way to be saved, but by this means alone.(:note) on our side, now may Israel say;

geneva@Psalms:125:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot (note:)Though the world is subject to mutations, yet the people of God will stand sure and be defended by God's providence.(:note) be removed, [but] abideth for ever.

geneva@Psalms:126:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that (note:)Their deliverance was incredible and therefore took away all excuse for ingratitude.(:note) dream.

geneva@Psalms:127:1 @ «A Song of degrees for Solomon.» Except the LORD (note:)That is, govern and dispose all things pertaining to the family.(:note) build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the The public estate of the commonwealth. city, the watchman waketh [but] in vain.

geneva@Psalms:128:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his (note:)God approves not our life, unless it is reformed according to his word.(:note) ways.

geneva@Psalms:129:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may (note:)The Church now afflicted should remember how her condition has always been such from the beginning to be molested most grievously by the wicked, yet in time it has always been delivered.(:note) Israel now say:

geneva@Psalms:130:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» Out of the (note:)Being in great distress and sorrow.(:note) depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:131:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» LORD, (note:)He sets forth his great humility as an example to all rulers and governors.(:note) my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great Which pass the measure and limits of his calling. matters, or in things too high for me.

geneva@Psalms:132:1 @ A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, [and] all his (note:)That is, with great difficulty he came to the kingdom, and with great zeal and care he went about to build your temple.(:note) afflictions:

geneva@Psalms:133:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell (note:)Because the greatest part was against David, though some favoured him, yet when he was established king at length, they joined all together like brothers: and therefore he shows by these similarities the convenience of brotherly love.(:note) together in unity!

geneva@Psalms:134:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» Behold, bless ye the LORD, all [ye] (note:)You who are Levites and chiefly appointed to this office.(:note) servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:38:8 @ Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which hath gone down on the (note:)Read (2Ki_20:8).(:note) sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.

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.