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geneva@Genesis:1:12 @ And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God (note:)This sentence is often repeated, to signify that God made all his creatures to serve for his glory and for the profit of man: but because of sin they were cursed, yet the elect, by Christ are restored, and serve to their wealth.(:note) saw that [it was] good.
geneva@Genesis:9:6 @ Whoso sheddeth man's blood, (note:)...by the magistrate, but often God ...(:note) by man shall his blood be shed: for in the Therefore to kill man is to deface God's image, and so injury is not only done to man, but also to God. image of God made he man.
geneva@Genesis:9:17 @ And God said unto Noah, (note:)God repeats this often to confirm Noah's faith even more.(:note) This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
geneva@Genesis:22:24 @ And his (note:)Concubine is often used to refer to those women who were inferior to the wives.(:note) concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
geneva@Genesis:29:31 @ And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he (note:)This declares that often they who are despised by men are favoured by God.(:note) opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.
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@Genesis:49:26 @ The blessings of thy father have (note:)...it had been more often... confirmed.(:note) prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was Either in dignity, or when he was sold from his brethren. separate from his brethren.
geneva@Exodus:8:13 @ And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs (note:)...of this life God often hears ...(:note) died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
geneva@Exodus:15:11 @ Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the (note:)The scripture often so calls the mighty men of the world.(:note) gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, Who ought to be praised with all fear and reverence. fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?
geneva@Exodus:18:24 @ So Moses (note:)...for to such God often gives ...(:note) hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
geneva@Numbers:23:2 @ And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and (note:)...the Gentiles the kings often used ...(:note) Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
geneva@Judges:11:6 @ And they said unto Jephthah, (note:)Men are often forced to ask for help from them, whom before they refused.(:note) Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.
geneva@2Samuel:14:14 @ For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise (note:)God has often provided ways (as sanctuaries) to save them, whom man judges worthy of death.(:note) means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
geneva@1Kings:14:6 @ And it was [so], when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou (note:)For God often discloses to his own the craft and subtilty of the wicked.(:note) wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with] heavy [tidings].
geneva@1Kings:15:10 @ And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his (note:)...grandmother, as David is often called ...(:note) mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
geneva@1Kings:18:7 @ And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah (note:)God often pities the wicked for the sake of the godly, and causes Elijah to meet with Obadiah, that the blessing might be known to be granted for the sake of God's children.(:note) met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah?
geneva@2Kings:14:24 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the (note:)...hands, therefore the Scripture often repeats ...(:note) sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
geneva@2Kings:17:24 @ And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from (note:)...which mention is so often made ...(Joh_4:9).(:note) Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
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:28:23 @ For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which (note:)As he falsely supposed.(:note) smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may ...not considering that God often punishes ... help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:36:15 @ And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, (note:)...phrase the scripture means often and ...(Jer_11:7, Jer_25:3, Jer_26:5, Jer_32:33).(:note) rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
geneva@Esther:2:11 @ And Mordecai walked (note:)...for her, and therefore often sought ...(:note) every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
geneva@Job:21:7 @ Wherefore do the wicked (note:)...the wicked immediately, but often gives ...(:note) live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
geneva@Job:33:29 @ Lo, all these [things] worketh God (note:)Meaning, as often as a sinner repents.(:note) oftentimes with man,
geneva@Job:34:9 @ For he hath said, (note:)...that God's children are often punished ...(:note) It profiteth a man nothing that he should That is, live godly, (Gen_5:22). delight himself with God.
geneva@Psalms:17:14 @ From men [which are] thy (note:)By your heavenly power.(:note) hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their ...pain that God's children often... do. portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.
geneva@Psalms:46:8 @ Come, behold the works of the LORD, (note:)That is, how often he has destroyed his enemies, and delivered his people.(:note) what desolations he hath made in the earth.
geneva@Psalms:62:7 @ In God [is] my salvation and my (note:)These vehement and often repetitions were necessary to strengthen his faith against the horrible assault of Satan.(:note) glory: the rock of my strength, [and] my refuge, [is] in God.
geneva@Psalms:68:22 @ The Lord said, I will bring again from (note:)...he still do as often as ...(:note) Bashan, I will bring [my people] again from the depths of the sea:
geneva@Psalms:73:10 @ Therefore his (note:)...the people of God often fall ...(:note) people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them.
geneva@Psalms:78:41 @ Yea, they (note:)That is, they often tempted him.(:note) turned back and tempted God, and As they all do who measure the power of God by their capacity. limited the Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Psalms:86:6 @ Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and (note:)...we must earnestly and often call ...(:note) attend to the voice of my supplications.
geneva@Psalms:107:1 @ O give thanks unto (note:)...the song, which was often... repeated.(:note) the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
geneva@Psalms:113:1 @ Praise ye the LORD. (note:)By this often repetition he stirs up our cold dullness to praise God, seeing his works are so wonderful, and that we are created for the same cause.(:note) Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
geneva@Psalms:119:33 @ HE. Teach (note:)...unless God teaches him often and ...(:note) me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [unto] the end.
geneva@Proverbs:18:24 @ A man [that hath] friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer (note:)That is, often such are found who are more ready to do pleasure, than he that is more bound by duty.(:note) than a brother.
geneva@Proverbs:23:3 @ Be not desirous of his dainties: (note:)For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables, it is not for the love they bear them, but for their own secret purposes.(:note) for they [are] deceitful food.
geneva@Proverbs:28:2 @ For the transgression of a land (note:)...of the commonwealth is often... changed.(:note) many [are] its princes: but by a man of understanding [and] knowledge [its] state shall be prolonged.
geneva@Proverbs:31:2 @ What, my son? and what, the son of (note:)By this often repetition of one thing, she declares her motherly affection.(:note) my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should (note:)By the often repetition of this sentence as in (Ecc_2:24, Ecc_3:12, Ecc_3:22, Ecc_5:17, Ecc_8:15) he declares that man by reason can comprehend nothing better in this life than to use the gifts of God soberly and comfortably: for to know further, is a special gift of God revealed by his Spirit.(:note) rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Be not (note:)Either in vowing or in praying, meaning, that we should use all reverence toward God.(:note) rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be ...your many words or often repetitions, ... few.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @ If a man begetteth an hundred [children], and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not (note:)If he can never have enough.(:note) filled with good, and also [that] he hath no As we see often that the covetous man either falls into crimes that deserve death, or is murdered or drowned or hangs himself or such like and so lacks the honour of burial, which is the last office of humanity. burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:22 @ {\cf2 (7:24)} For often times also thine heart knoweth that thou likewise hast cursed others.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own (note:)As comes often to tyrants and wicked rulers.(:note) hurt.
geneva@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one cried to another, and said, (note:)This often repetition signifies that the angels cannot satisfy themselves in praising God, to teach us that in all our lives we should give ourselves to the continual praise of God.(:note) Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole His glory not only appears in the heavens but through all the world, and therefore all creatures are bound to praise him. earth [is] full of his glory.
geneva@Isaiah:28:10 @ For (note:)...must have one thing often... repeated.(:note) precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
geneva@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, [are] not thy eyes upon the (note:)Do you not love uprightness and faithful dealing?(:note) truth? thou hast You have often punished them, but all is in vain, (Isa_9:13). stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
geneva@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether to me (note:)...which through impatience is often assailed ...(Jer_20:7).(:note) as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
geneva@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was (note:)...appears the impatiency which often overcomes ...{{See Jer_15:18}}(:note) deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast You thrust me forth to this work against my will. prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
geneva@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said, My strength and my (note:)...despair, as the godly often are, ...(:note) hope hath perished from the LORD:
geneva@Ezekiel:16:8 @ Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered (note:)...nakedness and filthiness are often repeated ...(:note) thy nakedness: yea, I swore to thee, and entered into a covenant with That you should be a chaste wife to me, and that I should maintain you and endue you with all graces. thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
geneva@Ezekiel:25:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the (note:)...Philistines by which they often molested ...(2Sa_8:18).(:note) Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
geneva@Ezekiel:34:10 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from (note:)...have a sign so often as ...(:note) their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
geneva@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians [is], That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be (note:)...and authority, which is often either ...(:note) changed.
geneva@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, (note:)...whom he had so often exhorted ...(: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:4:13 @ Arise and thresh, (note:)...Church this victory, as often as ...(:note) O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
geneva@Zechariah:2:1 @ I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a (note:)...his office he is often called ...(:note) man with a measuring line in his hand.
geneva@Matthew:14:2 @ And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty (note:)...the works which are often seen ...(:note) works do shew forth themselves in him.
geneva@Luke:12:58 @ When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, [as thou art] in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the (note:)...they owe, yea and often if ...(:note) officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
geneva@Luke:13:34 @...sent unto thee; how often would ...[doth gather] her (note:)Literally, «the nest»: now the brood of chickens is the nest.(:note) brood under [her] wings, and ye would not!
geneva@Luke:16:1 @ And he said also unto his disciples, (note:)...means riches, which are often occasions ...(:note) There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
geneva@Luke:22:8 @ And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the (note:)...speech metonymy, which is often used ...(:note) passover, that we may eat.
geneva@Luke:24:38 @ And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do (note:)...doubtful thoughts which fall often into ...(:note) thoughts arise in your hearts?
geneva@John:1:20 @ And he (note:)He did acknowledge him, and spoke of him plainly and openly.(:note) confessed, and ...in different words, is often used ... denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
geneva@John:19:29 @ Now there was set a (note:)...Sanhedrin that the Jews often gave ...(:note) vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth.
geneva@Acts:5:9 @ Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to (note:)Look how often men do things with an evil conscience; and so they pronounce sentence against themselves, and as much as in them lies, they provoke God to anger, as they do this on purpose, in order to test whether he is just and almighty or not.(:note) tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband [are] at the Are at hand. door, and shall carry thee out.
geneva@Acts:10:4 @ And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, (note:)What do you want with me Lord? For he prepares himself to hear.(:note) What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are This is a borrowed kind of speech which the Hebrews used very much, taken from sacrifices and applied to prayers: for it is said of whole burnt sacrifices that the smoke and smell of them goes up into God's nostrils, and so do our prayers, as a sweet smelling sacrifice which the Lord takes great pleasure in. come up for ...for so the Scripture often talks ... a memorial before God.
geneva@Romans:2:27 @ And shall not (note:)He who is uncircumcised by nature and race.(:note) uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the Paul often contrasts the letter against the Spirit: but in this place, the circumcision which is according to the letter is the cutting off of the foreskin, but the circumcision of the Spirit is the circumcision of the heart, that is to say, the spiritual result of the ceremony is true holiness and righteousness, by which the people of God are known from profane and heathen men. letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
geneva@Philippians:3:1 @ Finally, (note:)A conclusion of those things which have been said before, that is, that they go forward cheerfully in the Lord.(:note) my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. A preface to the next admonition that follows, to take good heed and beware of false apostles, who join circumcision with Christ, (that is to say, justification by works, with free justification by faith), and beat into men's head the ceremonies which are abolished, instead of true exercises of godliness and charity. And he calls them dogs, as profane barkers, and evil workmen, because they neglected true works and did not teach the true use of them. To be short, he calls them concision, because in urging circumcision, they cut off themselves and others from the Church. To write the Which you have often times heard from me. same things to you, to me indeed [is] not grievous, but for you [it is] safe.
geneva@1Timothy:3:3 @ Not (note:)...and one that will often partake ...(:note) given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
geneva@James:5:15 @ And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed (note:)...sins, for diseases are often sent ...(:note) sins, they shall be forgiven him.
geneva@Revelation:17:1 @ And (note:)The state of the Church militant being declared, now follows the state of the church overcoming and getting victory, as I showed before in the beginning of the tenth chapter. This state is set forth in four chapters. As in the place before I noted, that in that history the order of time was not always exactly observed so the same is to be understood in this history, that it is distinguished according to the people of which it speaks, and that the stories of the people are observed in the time of it. For first is delivered the story of Babylon destroyed in this and the next chapter (for this Babylon out of all doubt, shall perish before the two beasts and the dragon). Secondly, is delivered the destruction of both the two beasts, chapter nineteen and lastly of the dragon, chapter eighteen. In the story of the spiritual Babylon, are distinctly set forth the state of it in this chapter, and the overthrow done from the first argument, consisting of the particular calling of the prophet (as often before) and a general proposition.(:note) there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto That is, that damnable harlot, by a figure of speech called «hyppalage». For John as yet had not seen her. Although another interpretation may be thought of, yet I like this better. thee the The sentence that is pronounce against this harlot. judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
geneva@Revelation:18:1 @ And (note:)The second passage (as I said before)(:note) after these things I saw another Either Christ the eternal word of God the Father (as often elsewhere) or a created angel, and one deputed to this service, but thoroughly provided with greatness of power, and with light of glory, as the ensign of power. angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. {{See Rev_17:1}} of the history of Babylon, is of the woeful fall and ruin of that whore of Babylon. This historical prediction concerning her, is threefold. The first a plain and simple foretelling of her ruin, in three verses (Rev_18:2-3). The second a figurative prediction by the circumstances, from there to (Rev. 18:4-20). The third, a confirmation of the same by sign or wonder, to the end of the chapter (Rev_18:21-24).
geneva@Jdt:1:6 @ {\cf2 But I (as it was ordeined to all Israel by an euerlasting decree) went alone often to Ierusalem, at the feastes bringing the first fruites, and the tenth of beastes with that which was first shorne, and offred them at the altar to the Priests the children of Aaron.}