OT.filter - geneva judgments:

geneva@Genesis:4:17 @ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a (note:)Thinking by this to be safe, and to have less reason to fear God's judgments against him.(:note) city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

geneva@Genesis:18:19 @ For I know him, (note:)He shows that fathers ought both to know God's judgments, and to declare them to their children.(:note) that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

geneva@Genesis:18:26 @ And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom (note:)God declares that his judgments were done with great mercy, even though all were so corrupt that not only fifty but ten righteous men could not be found there, and also that the wicked are spared for the sake of the righteous.(:note) fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

geneva@Genesis:19:17 @ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; (note:)He willed him to flee God's judgments and not to be sorry to leave that rich country, full of vain pleasures.(:note) look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

geneva@Genesis:48:14 @ And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid [it] upon (note:)God's judgments are often contrary to man's and he prefers what man despises.(:note) Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the firstborn.

geneva@Exodus:1:1 @ Now (note:)Moses describes the wonderful order that God observes in performing his promise to Abraham; (Gen_15:14).(:note) these [are] the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. The Argument - After Jacob by God's commandment in (Gen_46:3) had brought his family into Egypt, where they remained for four hundred years, and from seventy people grew to an infinite number so that the king and the country endeavoured both by tyranny and cruel slavery to suppress them: the Lord according to his promise in (Gen_15:14) had compassion on his Church, and delivered them, but plagued their enemies in most strange and varied ways. The more the tyranny of the wicked raged against his Church, the more his heavy judgments increased against them, till Pharaoh and his army were drowned in the sea, which gave an entry and passage to the children of God. As the ingratitude of man is great, so they immediately forgot God's wonderful benefits and although he had given them the Passover as a sign and memorial of the same, yet they fell to distrust, and tempted God with various complaining and grudging against him and his ministers: sometimes out of ambition, sometimes lack of drink or meat to satisfy their lusts, sometimes idolatry, or such like. For this reason, God punished them with severe rods and plagues, that by his correction they might turn to him for help against his scourges, and earnestly repent for their rebellion and wickedness. Because God loves them to the end, whom he has once begun to love, he punished them not as they deserved, but dealt with them mercifully, and with new benefits laboured to overcome their malice: for he still governed them and gave them his word and Law, both concerning the way to serve him, and also the form of judgments and civil policy: with the intent that they would not serve God after as they pleased, but according to the order, that his heavenly wisdom had appointed.

geneva@Exodus:7:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a (note:)I have given you power and authority to speak in my name and to execute my judgments on him.(:note) god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

geneva@Exodus:7:4 @ But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, [and] my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great (note:)To strengthen Moses' faith, God promises again to punish most severely the oppression of his Church.(:note) judgments.

geneva@Leviticus:10:3 @ Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is it] that the LORD spake, saying, I will be (note:)I will punish them that serve me in other ways than I have commanded, not sparing the chief, that the people may fear and praise my judgments.(:note) sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

geneva@Leviticus:18:5 @ Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: (note:)And therefore you ought to serve me alone, as my people.(:note) I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:26:15 @ And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my (note:)Which I made with you in choosing you to be my people.(:note) covenant:

geneva@Leviticus:26:46 @ These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount (note:)Fifty days after they came out of Egypt.(:note) Sinai by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Numbers:1:1 @ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of (note:)In the place in the wilderness that was near mount Sinai.(:note) Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first [day] of the Which is part of April and part of May. second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, The Argument - In that as God has appointed that his Church in this world shall be under the cross, both so they could learn not to put their trust in worldly things, and also feel his comfort, when all other help fails: he did not immediately bring his people, after their departure out of Egypt, into the land which he had promised them: but led them to and fro for the space of forty years, and kept them in continual exercises before they enjoyed it, to try their faith, teach them to forget the world, and to depend on him. Which trial greatly profited, to discern the wicked and the hypocrites from the faithful and true servants of God, who served him with pure heart, while the other, preferring their earthly lusts to God's glory, and making religion to serve their purpose, complained when they lacked enough to satisfy their lusts, and despised those who God had appointed as rulers over them. By reason of which they provoked God's terrible judgments against them, and are set forth as a notable example for all ages, to beware how they abuse God's word, prefer their own lusts to his will, or despise his ministers. Nonetheless, God is always true to his promise, and governs his by his Holy Spirit, that either they fall not to such inconveniences, or else return to him quickly in true repentance: and therefore he continues his graces toward them, he gives them ordinances and instructions, as well for religion, as outward policy: he preserves them against all deceit and conspiracy, and gives them many victories against their enemies. To avoid all controversies that might arise, he takes away the occasions, by dividing among all the tribes, both the land which they had won, and that also which he had promised, as seemed best to his godly wisdom.

geneva@Numbers:16:38 @ The censers of these sinners (note:)Who caused their own death.(:note) against their own souls, let them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a Of God's judgments against rebels. sign unto the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:23:10 @ Who can count the (note:)The infinite multitude, as the dust of the earth.(:note) dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth [part] of Israel? Let me The fear of God's judgment caused him to wish to be joined to the household of Abraham: thus the wicked have their consciences wounded when they consider God's judgments. die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

geneva@Numbers:33:4 @ For the Egyptians buried all [their] firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their (note:)Either meaning their idols, or their men of authority.(:note) gods also the LORD executed judgments.

geneva@Numbers:35:24 @ Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the (note:)That is, his next kinsman.(:note) revenger of blood according to these judgments:

geneva@Numbers:36:13 @ These [are] the (note:)Concerning the ceremonial and judicial laws.(:note) commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:1 @ Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to (note:)For this doctrine stands not in bare knowledge, but in practice of life.(:note) do [them], that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:3 @ Your (note:)God's judgments executed on other idolaters ought to serve for our instruction, read (Num_25:3-4).(:note) eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:45 @ These [are] the (note:)The articles and points of the covenant.(:note) testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:20 @ [And] when (note:)God not only requires that we serve him all our lives, but also that we see that our posterity sets forth his glory.(:note) thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:12 @ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the (note:)This covenant is grounded in his free grace: therefore in recompensing their obedience, he respects his mercy and not their merits.(:note) mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

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:26:16 @ This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with (note:)With a good and simple conscience.(:note) all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:16 @ In that I command thee this day (note:)So that to love and obey God, is only life and happiness.(:note) to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest He adds these promises to signify that it is for our profit that we love him, and not for his. live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:21 @ And he provided the first part for himself, because there, [in] a portion of the (note:)So the portion of the Gadites, and others on this side of the Jordan was God's, though it was not so known.(:note) lawgiver, [was he] seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.

geneva@Judges:16:25 @ And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he (note:)Thus by God's just judgments they are made slaves to infidels if they neglect their calling to defend the faithful.(:note) made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

geneva@Judges:16:28 @ And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once (note:)According to my calling which is to execute God's judgments on the wicked.(:note) avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

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@1Kings:2:3 @ And keep the (note:)He shows how hard it is to govern and that no one can do it well except he obey God.(:note) charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

geneva@1Kings:2:39 @ And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the (note:)Thus God appoints the ways and means to bring his just judgments on the wicked.(:note) servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants [be] in Gath.

geneva@1Kings:8:58 @ That he may (note:)He concludes that man of himself is enemy to God, and that all obedience to his law proceeds from his mercy.(:note) incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

geneva@1Kings:9:4 @ And (note:)If you walk in my fear, and withdraw yourself from the common manner of men, who follow their sensualities.(:note) if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

geneva@2Kings:1:10 @ And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I [be] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. (note:)He declares the power God's word has in the mouth of his servants, when they threaten God's judgments against the wicked.(:note) And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

geneva@2Kings:6:30 @ And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within (note:)Thus hypocrites when they feel God's judgments think to please him with outward ceremonies whom in prosperity they will not know.(:note) upon his flesh.

geneva@2Kings:9:37 @ And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, (note:)Thus God's judgments appear even in this world against those who suppress his word and persecute his servants.(:note) This [is] Jezebel.

geneva@2Kings:24:3 @ Surely at the (note:)Though God used these wicked tyrants to execute his just judgments, they are not to be excused, for they proceeded from ambition and malice.(:note) commandment of the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;

geneva@1Chronicles:16:12 @ Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the (note:)In overcoming Pharaoh, which judgments were declared by God's mouth to Moses.(:note) judgments of his mouth;

geneva@1Chronicles:28:7 @ Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at (note:)If he continues to keep my law as he does now and doesn't depart from it.(:note) this day.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:29 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will (note:)Thus the wicked think by their own subtilty to escape God's judgments which he threatens by his word.(:note) disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:10 @ And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between (note:)That is, to decide whether or not the murder was done on purpose, (Num_35:11, Deu_4:41).(:note) blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and [so] Meaning, that God would punish them most sharply if they would not execute justice correctly. wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:9 @ If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the (note:)Meaning war which comes by God's just judgments for our sins.(:note) sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name That is, it is here called on and you declared your presence and favour. [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

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:29:10 @ Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may (note:)He proves by the judgments of God on those who have contemned his word, that there is no way to avoid his plagues, but by conforming themselves to his will.(:note) turn away from us.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:29 @ And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and (note:)Which is a sign taken from oxen that shrink at the yoke or burden in (Zec_7:11).(:note) withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not When you admonished them by your prophets. hear.

geneva@Nehemiah:10:29 @ They (note:)They made the oath in the name of the whole multitude.(:note) clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a To which they gave themselves if they broke the law, (Deu_28:15). curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

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:5:4 @ His (note:)Though God sometimes allows the father's to pass in this world, yet his judgments will light on their wicked children.(:note) children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the By public judgment they will be condemned and no one will pity them. gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].

geneva@Job:9:35 @ [Then] would I speak, and not fear him; (note:)Signifying that God's judgments keep him in awe.(:note) but [it is] not so with me.

geneva@Job:10:21 @ Before I go [whence] I shall not (note:)He speaks this in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God's judgments and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God, and the comfort of the resurrection.(:note) return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

geneva@Job:12:12 @ With the (note:)Though men by age and continuance of time attain wisdom, yet it is not comparable to God's wisdom, nor able to comprehend his judgments, in which he answers to that which was alleged, (Job_8:8).(:note) ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

geneva@Job:16:6 @ Though I speak, my grief is (note:)If you would say, «Why do you not then comfort yourself?» he answers that the judgments of God are more heavy than he is able to assuage either by words or silence.(:note) not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?

geneva@Job:17:4 @ For thou hast hid their heart from (note:)That these my afflictions are your just judgments, though man does not know the reason.(:note) understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

geneva@Job:23:14 @ For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and (note:)In many points man is not able to attain to God's judgments.(:note) many such [things are] with him.

geneva@Job:24:22 @ He draweth also the (note:)He declares that after the wicked have destroyed the weakest, they will do the same to the stranger, and therefore are justly punished by God's judgments.(:note) mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.

geneva@Job:24:25 @ And if [it be] not (note:)That is, contrary to your reasoning no man can give perfect reasons for God's judgments, let me be reproved.(:note) [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

geneva@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all ye yourselves (note:)That is, these secret judgments of God and yet do not understand them.(:note) have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether Why do you then maintain this error? vain?

geneva@Job:33:13 @ Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not (note:)The cause of his judgments is not always declared to man.(:note) account of any of his matters.

geneva@Job:33:14 @ For God speaketh (note:)Though God by various examples of his judgments speak to man, yet the reason for it is not known, yea and though God should speak yet is he not understood.(:note) once, yea twice, [yet man] perceiveth it not.

geneva@Job:33:15 @ In a dream, in a (note:)God, he says, speaks commonly, either by visions to teach us the cause of his judgments, of else by affliction or by his messenger.(:note) vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

geneva@Job:34:8 @ Which goeth in (note:)Meaning that Job was like the wicked, because he seemed not to glorify God and submit himself to his judgments.(:note) company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

geneva@Job:36:31 @ For by them judgeth he (note:)He shows that the rain has a double use: the one that it declares God's judgments, when it overflows any places, and the other that it makes the land fruitful.(:note) the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

geneva@Job:37:21 @ And now [men] see not the bright light (note:)The cloud stops the shining of the sun, that man cannot see it till the wind has chased away the cloud: and if man is not able to attain to the knowledge of these things, how much less God's judgments?(:note) which [is] in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

geneva@Job:38:4 @ Where wast thou when I (note:)Seeing he could not judge those things which were done so long before he was born, he was not able to comprehend all God's works: much less the secret causes of his judgments.(:note) laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

geneva@Psalms:7:11 @ God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the wicked] (note:)He continually calls the wicked to repentance by some sign of his judgments.(:note) every day.

geneva@Psalms:18:8 @ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and (note:)He shows how horrible God's judgments will be to the wicked.(:note) fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

geneva@Psalms:18:22 @ For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his (note:)For all his dangers he exercised himself in the law of God.(:note) statutes from me.

geneva@Psalms:19:9 @ The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] (note:)So that all man's inventions and intentions are lies.(:note) true [and] righteous Everyone without exception. altogether.

geneva@Psalms:36:6 @ Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great (note:)The depth of your providence governs all things, and disposes them, even though the wicked seem to overwhelm the world.(:note) deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

geneva@Psalms:48:11 @ Let (note:)Let Jerusalem and the cities of Judea rejoice, for your just judgments against your enemies.(:note) mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

geneva@Psalms:49:5 @ Wherefore should I (note:)Though wickedness reigns and enemies rage, seeing God will execute his judgments against the wicked at a suitable time.(:note) fear in the days of evil, [when] the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

geneva@Psalms:52:6 @ The (note:)For the eyes of the reprobate are shut at God's judgments.(:note) righteous also shall see, With joyful reverence, seeing that he takes their part against the wicked. and fear, and shall laugh at him:

geneva@Psalms:54:7 @ For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath (note:)We may lawfully rejoice for God's judgments against the wicked, if our affections are pure.(:note) seen [his desire] upon mine enemies.

geneva@Psalms:59:5 @ Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not (note:)Seeing it belongs to God's judgments to punish the wicked, he desires God to execute his vengeance on the reprobate, who maliciously persecutes his Church.(:note) merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:59:11 @ Slay them (note:)Altogether, but little by little, that the people seeing your judgments often, may be mindful of you.(:note) not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

geneva@Psalms:64:8 @ So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall (note:)To see God's heavy judgments against them, and how he has caught them in their own snares.(:note) flee away.

geneva@Psalms:68:35 @ O God, [thou art] (note:)In showing fearful judgments against your enemies for the salvation of your people.(:note) terrible out of thy holy He alludes to the tabernacle which was divided in three parts. places: the God of Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power unto [his] people. Blessed [be] God.

geneva@Psalms:69:22 @ Let their (note:)He desires God to execute his judgments against the reprobate, which cannot by any means be turned, (Rom_11:9).(:note) table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

geneva@Psalms:72:1 @ «[A Psalm] (note:)Composed by David concerning the reign of his son Solomon.(:note) for Solomon.» Give the king thy Imbue the king with the Spirit of wisdom and justice, that he reign not as the worldly tyrants do. judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's That is, to his posterity. son.

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:92:6 @ A (note:)That is, the wicked do not consider God's works nor his judgments against them, and therefore most justly perish.(:note) brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

geneva@Psalms:92:8 @ But thou, LORD, [art (note:)Your judgments are most constant against the wicked and pass our reach.(:note) most] high for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:97:8 @ Zion heard, and was glad; and the (note:)The Jews will have opportunity to rejoice that the Gentiles are made partakers with them of God's favour.(:note) daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:105:5 @ Remember his (note:)Which he has wrought in the deliverance of his people.(:note) marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the Because his power was declared living by this, as if he would have declared it by mouth. judgments of his mouth;

geneva@Psalms:107:42 @ The (note:)They whose faith is lightened by God's spirit, will rejoice to see God's judgments against the wicked and ungodly.(:note) righteous shall see [it], and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

geneva@Psalms:119:7 @ I will praise thee with uprightness of (note:)For true religion stands in serving God without hypocrisy.(:note) heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous That is, your precepts, which contain perfect righteousness. judgments.

geneva@Psalms:119:39 @ Turn away (note:)Let me not fall to your dishonour but let my heart still delight in your gracious word.(:note) my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good.

geneva@Psalms:119:52 @ I remembered thy (note:)That is, the examples, by which you declare yourself to be judge of the world.(:note) judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

geneva@Psalms:119:102 @ I have not departed from thy judgments: for (note:)So then of ourselves we can do nothing, but when God inwardly instructs us with his spirit, we feel his graces sweeter than honey.(:note) thou hast taught me.

geneva@Psalms:119:106 @ I have (note:)So all the faithful ought to bind themselves to God by a solemn oath and promises to stir up their zeal to embrace God's word.(:note) sworn, and I will perform [it], that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

geneva@Psalms:119:108 @ Accept, I beseech thee, the (note:)That is, my prayer and thanksgiving which Hosea calls the calves of the lips, (Hos_14:2).(:note) freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

geneva@Psalms:119:120 @ My flesh (note:)Your judgments not only teach me obedience, but cause me to fear, considering my own weakness which fear causes repentance.(:note) trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

geneva@Psalms:119:156 @ Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy (note:)According to your promise made in the law, which because the wicked lack they have no hope of salvation.(:note) judgments.

geneva@Psalms:119:160 @ Thy word [is] true [from] the (note:)Since you first promised it, even to the end all your sayings are true.(:note) beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:119:175 @ Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy (note:)That is, your provident care over me, and with which you will judge my enemies.(:note) judgments help me.

geneva@Psalms:144:10 @ [It is he] that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his (note:)Though wicked kings are called God's servants, as was Cyrus in (Isa_45:1), for he uses them to execute his judgments: yet David because of God's promise and they who rule godly are properly so called, because they do not serve their own affections, but set forth God's glory.(:note) servant from the hurtful sword.

geneva@Psalms:145:6 @ And [men] shall speak of the might of thy (note:)Of your terrible judgments against the wicked.(:note) terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

geneva@Psalms:147:19 @ He sheweth his (note:)As before he called God's secret working in all his creatures his word: so he means by this his word the doctrine of life everlasting, which he has left to his Church as a precious treasure.(:note) word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

geneva@Psalms:147:20 @ He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not (note:)The cause of this difference is God's free mercy, which has elected his in his Son Christ Jesus to salvation: and his just judgment, by which he has appointed the reprobate to eternal damnation.(:note) known them. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:5:21 @ For the ways of man [are] before the (note:)He declares that unless a man joins to his wife both in heart and in outward conversation, he will not escape the judgments of God.(:note) eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

geneva@Proverbs:14:9 @ Fools make a mock at (note:)Does not know the grievousness of it, nor God's judgments against the same.(:note) sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour.

geneva@Proverbs:25:2 @ [It is] the glory of God to (note:)God does not reveal the cause of his judgments to man.(:note) conceal a thing: but the honour of Because the king rules by the revealed word of God, the cause of his doings must appear, and therefore he must use diligence in trying causes. kings [is] to search out a matter.

geneva@Isaiah:2:11 @ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in (note:)Meaning, as soon as God will begin to execute his judgments.(:note) that day.

geneva@Isaiah:5:19 @ That say, (note:)He shows what are the words of the wicked, when they are menaced by God's judgments, (2Pe_3:4).(:note) Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know [it]!

geneva@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded my (note:)That is, prepared and appointed to execute my judgments.(:note) sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my Who willingly go about to the work to which I appoint them, but how the wicked do this, read (Isa_10:6). highness.

geneva@Isaiah:26:8 @ Yea, in the way of thy (note:)We have constantly abode in the adversities with which you had afflicted us.(:note) judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

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:28:15 @ Because ye have said, We have made a (note:)They thought they had shifts to avoid God's judgments, and that they could escape though all others perished.(:note) covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under Though the prophets condemned their idols and vain fruit of falsehood and vanity, yet the wicked thought in themselves that they would trust in these things. falsehood have we hid ourselves:

geneva@Isaiah:32:15 @ Until the (note:)That is, when the Church will be restored, thus the prophets after they have denounced God's judgments against the wicked, used to comfort the godly, lest they should faint.(:note) spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the The field which is now fruitful, will be but as a barren forest in comparison to what it will be then as in (Isa_29:17) which will be fulfilled in Christ's time, for then they who were before as the barren wilderness, being regenerate will be fruitful and they who had some beginning of godliness, will bring forth fruit in such abundance, that their former life will seem but as a wilderness where no fruit was. fruitful field shall be counted for a forest.

geneva@Isaiah:47:6 @ I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no (note:)They abused God's judgments, thinking that he punished the Israelites, because he would completely cast them off, and therefore instead of pitying their misery, you increased it.(:note) mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

geneva@Isaiah:66:24 @ And they shall go forth, and look upon the (note:)As he who declared the happiness that will be within the Church for the comfort of the godly, so does he show what horrible calamity will come to the wicked, that are out of the Church.(:note) carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their Meaning, a continual torment of conscience, which will always gnaw them, and never permit them to be at rest, (Mar_9:44). worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence This is the just recompense for the wicked, who contemning God and his word, will be by God's just judgments abhorred by all his creatures. to all flesh.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:6 @ Then said I, (note:)Considering the great judgments of God which according to his threatening would come on the world, he was moved with a certain compassion on the one hand to pity them that would thus perish, and on the other hand by the infirmity of man's nature, knowing how hard a thing it was to enterprise such a charge, as in (Isa_6:11; Exo_3:21, Exo_4:1).(:note) Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:16 @ And I will utter my (note:)I will give them charge and power to execute my vengeance against the idolaters who have forsaken me for their idols.(:note) judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:12 @ Be astonished, O ye (note:)He shows that the insensible creatures abhor this vile ingratitude, and as it were tremble for fear of God's great judgments against the same.(:note) heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:19 @ My distress, my (note:)He shows that the true ministers are lively touched with the calamities of the Church, so that all the parts of their body feel the grief of their heart, even though with zeal to God's glory they pronounce his judgments against the people.(:note) distress! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, (note:)When the people began to fear God's judgments, the false prophets comforted them by flatterings, showing that God would send peace and not war.(:note) Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:12 @ But go ye now to my place which [was] in Shiloh, (note:)Because they depended so much on the temple, which was for his promise, that he would be present and defend them where the ark was, he sends them to God's judgments against Shiloh, where the ark had remained about 300 years, and after was taken, the priests slain, and the people miserably discomfited, (1Sa_4:11; Jer_26:6).(:note) where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:3 @ And death shall be chosen (note:)Because of the afflictions that they will feel through God's judgments.(:note) rather than life by all the remnant of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the (note:)He accuses them in that they are more ignorant of God's judgments, than these birds are of their appointed seasons to discern the cold and heat.(:note) judgment of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death hath come up into our (note:)Signifying that there is no means to deliver the wicked from God's judgments: but when they think to be most sure, and most far off, then they are soonest taken.(:note) windows, [and] hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:7 @ I have forsaken (note:)God wills the prophet to denounce his judgments against Jerusalem, even though they will both by threatenings and flatteries labour to silence him.(:note) my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:10 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Why hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] (note:)Because the wicked are always rebellious and conceal their own sins and murmur against God's judgments, as though he had no just cause to punish them, he shows him what to answer.(:note) our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

geneva@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and (note:)He shows that he did his office in that he reproved the people of their vices and threatened them with God's judgments: but because he was derided and persecuted for this, he was discouraged, and would have stopped preaching, except that God's spirit forced him to it.(:note) spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:22 @ And Jehoiakim the king (note:)Here is declared the fury of tyrants who cannot stand to hear God's word declared but persecute the ministers of it, and yet in the end they prevail nothing but provoke God' judgments so much more.(:note) sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into Egypt.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:29 @ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have (note:)The wicked used this proverb when they murmured against God's judgments pronounced by the prophets, saying that their fathers had committed the fault and that the children were punished, (Eze_18:2-3).(:note) eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:24 @ Yet they were not afraid, nor tore (note:)Showing that the wicked instead of repenting when they hear God's judgments, grow into further malice against him and his word.(:note) their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

geneva@Jeremiah:39:10 @ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the (note:)For the rich and the mighty who put their trust in their shifts and means, were by God's just judgments most rigorously handled.(:note) poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:6 @ Wherefore (note:)He sets before their eyes God's judgments against Judah and Jerusalem for their idolatry that they might beware by their example, and not with the same wickedness provoke the Lord: for then they would be double punished.(:note) my fury and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:5 @ Behold, I will bring (note:)Signifying that power and riches cannot prevail when God will execute his judgments.(:note) a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that are about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:34 @ Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, (note:)He shows that when God executes his judgments against his enemies, that his Church will then have rest.(:note) and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:24 @ And when they went, I heard the noise of their (note:)Which declared the swiftness and the fearfulness of God's judgments.(:note) wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they Which signified that they had no power of themselves, but only waited to execute God's commandment. let down their wings.

geneva@Ezekiel:2:10 @ And he spread it before me; and it [was] written within and without: and [there was] written in it (note:)He shows what were the contents of this book: that is, God's judgments against the wicked.(:note) lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:15 @ Then I came to them of the captivity at (note:)Which was a place by Euphrates where the Jews were prisoners.(:note) Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there overwhelmed among them Declaring here that God's ministers must with advisement and deliberation utter his judgments. seven days.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:6 @ And she hath changed my (note:)My word and law into idolatry and superstitions.(:note) judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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:6:13 @ Then shall (note:)That is, all nations when you will see my judgments.(:note) ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain [men] shall be among their idols all around their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet savour to all their idols.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:6 @ An end is come, the end is come: it (note:)He shows that the judgments of God ever watch to destroy the sinners, who notwithstanding he delays till there is no more hope of repentance.(:note) watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:8 @ And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, (note:)This declares that the servants of God have a compassion when they see his judgments executed.(:note) Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy the whole remnant of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

geneva@Ezekiel:10:11 @ When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they (note:)Until they had executed God's judgments.(:note) turned not as they went.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:9 @ And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and deliver you into (note:)That is, of the Chaldeans.(:note) the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:11 @ That the house of (note:)Thus God's judgments against the wicked are admonitions to the godly to cleave to the Lord and not to defile themselves with the same abominations.(:note) Israel may no more go astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:56 @ For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned (note:)You would not call her punishment to mind when you were aloft, to learn by her example to fear my judgments.(:note) by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

geneva@Ezekiel:20:16 @ Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned my (note:)That is, my true religion, which I had commanded them, and gave themselves to serve me according to their own fantasies.(:note) sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:18 @ But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your (note:)By which the Holy Spirit confuses them that say that they will follow the religion and example of their fathers, and not measure their doings by God's word whether they are approved by it or not.(:note) fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

geneva@Ezekiel:20:24 @ Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after (note:)Meaning that they set their delight on them.(:note) their fathers' idols.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:25 @ Wherefore I gave (note:)Because they would not obey my laws, I gave them up to themselves that they should obey their own fantasies, as in (Eze_20:39; Rom_1:21, Rom_1:24).(:note) them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments by which they should not live;

geneva@Ezekiel:23:31 @ Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her (note:)I will execute the same judgments and vengeance against you and that with greater severity.(:note) cup into thy hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:22 @ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Zidon; and I will be (note:)By executing my judgments against your wickedness.(:note) glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:10 @ Therefore, O thou son of man, speak to the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins [are] upon us, and we pine away in them, (note:)Thus the wicked when they hear God's judgments for their sins, despair of his mercies and murmur.(:note) how should we then live?

geneva@Ezekiel:36:13 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say to you, Thou (note:)This the enemies imputed as the reproach of the land, which God did for the sins of the people according to his just judgments.(:note) [land] devourest men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

geneva@Daniel:4:19 @ Then Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, was (note:)He was troubled because of the great judgment of God, which he saw ordained against the king. And so the Prophets on the one hand used to make known God's judgments for the zeal they had for his glory, and on the other hand had compassion upon man. And they also considered that they would be subject to God's judgments, if he did not regard them with pity.(:note) astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream [be] to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.

geneva@Daniel:5:6 @ Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his (note:)So he that before condemned God, was moved by this sight to tremble for fear of God's judgments.(:note) knees smote one against another.

geneva@Daniel:9:4 @ And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the (note:)That is, has all power in yourself to execute your terrible judgments against obstinate sinners, as you are rich in mercy to comfort those who obey your word and love you.(:note) great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

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: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:10:9 @ O Israel, thou hast (note:)In those days you were as wicked as the Gibeonites, as God there partly declared: for your zeal could not be good in executing God's judgments, seeing your own deeds were as wicked as theirs.(:note) sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they That is, to fight, or, the Israelites remained in that stubbornness from that time. stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not The Israelites were not moved by the example of the Gibeonites to cease from their sins. overtake them.

geneva@Joel:1:2 @ Hear this, ye (note:)Signifying the princes, the priests, and the governors.(:note) old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath He calls the Jews to the consideration of God's judgments, who had now plagued the fruits of the ground for the space of four years, which was because of their sins, and to call them to repentance. this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

geneva@Joel:2:1 @ Blow ye (note:)He shows the great judgments of God which are at hand, unless they repent.(:note) the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand;

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:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call (note:)God's judgments are for the destruction of the unbelievers, and to exhort the godly to call upon the name of God, who will give them salvation.(:note) on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the Meaning the Gentiles by this; (Rom_10:13). remnant whom the LORD shall call.

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:1:3 @ Thus saith the LORD; For (note:)He shows first that all the people round about would be destroyed for their manifold sins: which are meant by three and four, which make seven, so that the Israelites would the more deeply consider God's judgments toward them.(:note) three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have If the Syrians will not be spared for committing this cruelty against one city, it is not possible that Israel would escape punishment, which has committed so many and such grievous sins against God and man. threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

geneva@Amos:1:4 @ But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the (note:)The antiquity of their buildings will not avoid my judgments. {{See Jer_49:27}}(:note) palaces of Benhadad.

geneva@Amos:3:9 @ Publish in the palaces at (note:)He calls the strangers, such as the Philistines and Egyptians, to be witness of God's judgments against the Israelites for their cruelty and oppression.(:note) Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

geneva@Amos:5:18 @ Woe unto you that (note:)He speaks in this way because the wicked and hypocrites said they were content to endure God's judgments, whereas the godly tremble and fear; (Jer_30:7; Joe_2:2, Joe_2:11), (Zep_1:15).(:note) desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light.

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:8:2 @ And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of (note:)Which signified the ripeness of their sins, and the readiness of God's judgments.(:note) summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

geneva@Amos:9:6 @ [It is] he that buildeth his (note:)He declares by the wonderful power of God, by the making of the heavens and the elements, that it is not possible for man to escape his judgments when he punishes.(:note) stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name.

geneva@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came (note:)After he had preached a long time in Israel: and so Ezekiel, after he had prophesied in Judah for a time, had visions in Babylon; (Eze_1:1).(:note) unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, The Argument - When Jonah had long prophesied in Israel and had little profited, God gave him specific charge to go and denounce his judgments against Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrians, because he had appointed that those who were of the heathen, should convert by the mighty power of his word. And this was so that within three day's preaching, Israel might see how horribly they had provoked God's wrath, who for the space of so many years, had not converted to the Lord, for so many prophets and such diligent preaching. He prophesied under Jonah, and Jeroboam; (2Ki_14:25).

geneva@Jonah:2:4 @ Then I said, I am (note:)This declared what his prayer was, and how he laboured between hope and despair, considering the neglect of his vocation, and God's judgments for it: but yet in the end faith gained the victory.(:note) cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

geneva@Jonah:3:5 @ So the people of Nineveh (note:)For he declared that he was a Prophet sent to them from God, to make known his judgments against them.(:note) believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

geneva@Jonah: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@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, (note:)Because of the malice and obstinacy of the people, whom he had so often exhorted to repentance, he summons them to God's judgments, taking all creatures, and God himself as witness, that the preaching of the Prophets, which they have abused, will be avenged.(:note) all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

geneva@Micah:4:12 @ But they (note:)He shows that the faithful ought not to measure God's judgments by the braggings and threatenings of the wicked, but by these are admonished to lift up their hearts to God to call for deliverance.(:note) know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

geneva@Nahum:3:15 @ There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the (note:)Signifying that God's judgments would suddenly destroy the Assyrians, as these vermin do with rain or change of weather.(:note) cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

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:3:15 @ The LORD hath taken away thy (note:)That is, the punishment for your sin.(:note) judgments, he hath cast out thine As the Assyrians, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, and other nations. enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of To defend you, as by your sins you have put him away, and left yourself naked, as in (Exo_32:25). thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

geneva@Zechariah:1:2 @ The LORD hath been (note:)He speaks this to make them afraid of God's judgments, so that they should not provoke him as their fathers had done, whom he so grievously punished.(:note) sore displeased with your fathers.

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:1:6 @ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of (note:)Seeing you saw the force of my doctrine in punishing your fathers, why do you not fear the threatenings contained in the same, and declared by my Prophets?(:note) your fathers? and As men astonished with my judgments, and not that they were touched with true repentance. they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

geneva@Zechariah:9:4 @ Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her (note:)Though those of Tyre think themselves invincible by reason of the sea that surrounds them, yet they will not escape God's judgments.(:note) power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

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

geneva@Zechariah:11:17 @ Woe to the idle shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword [shall be] upon his (note:)By the arm he signifies strength, as he does wisdom and judgments by the eye: that is, the plague of God will take away both your strength and judgment.(:note) arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

geneva@Malachi:4:1 @ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall (note:)He prophesies of God's judgments against the wicked, who would not receive Christ, when God would send him for the restoration of his Church.(:note) burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.