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geneva@Genesis:1:1 @ In the (note:)First of all, and before any creature was, God made heaven and earth out of nothing.(:note) beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The Argument - Moses in effect declares three things, which are in this book chiefly to be considered: First, that the world and all things in it were created by God, and to praise his Name for the infinite graces, with which he had endued him, fell willingly from God through disobedience, who yet for his own mercies sake restored him to life, and confirmed him in the same by his promise of Christ to come, by whom he should overcome Satan, death and hell. Secondly, that the wicked, unmindful of God's most excellent benefits, remained still in their wickedness, and so falling most horribly from sin to sin, provoked God (who by his preachers called them continually to repentance) at length to destroy the whole world. Thirdly, he assures us by the examples of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the rest of the patriarchs, that his mercies never fail those whom he chooses to be his Church, and to profess his Name in earth, but in all their afflictions and persecutions he assists them, sends comfort, and delivers them, so that the beginning, increase, preservation and success of it might be attributed to God only. Moses shows by the examples of Cain, Ishmael, Esau and others, who were noble in man's judgment, that this Church depends not on the estimation and nobility of the world: and also by the fewness of those, who have at all times worshipped him purely according to his word that it stands not in the multitude, but in the poor and despised, in the small flock and little number, that man in his wisdom might be confounded, and the name of God praised forever.

geneva@Genesis:12:17 @ And the LORD (note:)The Lord took the defence of this poor stranger against a mighty king: and as he is ever careful over his, so did he preserve Sarai.(:note) plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

geneva@Genesis:32:10 @ I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my (note:)that is, poor and without all provision.(:note) staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

geneva@Genesis:41:19 @ Also loe, seuen other kine came vp after them, poore and very euilfauoured, and leanefleshed: I neuer sawe the like in all the lande of Egypt, for euilfauoured.

geneva@Exodus:22:25 @ If thou lende money to my people, that is, to the poore with thee, thou shalt not bee as an vsurer vnto him: yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie.

geneva@Exodus:23:3 @ Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.

geneva@Exodus:23:6 @ Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.

geneva@Exodus:23:11 @ But the seuenth yeere thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poore of thy people may eat, and what they leaue, the beastes of the fielde shal eate. In like maner thou shalt doe with thy vineyard, and with thine oliue trees.

geneva@Exodus:30:15 @ The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give an offering unto the LORD, (note:)That God should be merciful to you.(:note) to make an atonement for your souls.

geneva@Leviticus:14:21 @ And if he [be] poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb [for] a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one (note:)Which is an Omer, (Exo_16:16).(:note) tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;

geneva@Leviticus:14:32 @ This [is] the (note:)This order is appointed for the poor man.(:note) law [of him] in whom [is] the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get [that which pertaineth] to his cleansing.

geneva@Leviticus:19:10 @ Thou shalt not gather the grapes of thy vineyarde cleane, neyther gather euery grape of thy vineyarde, but thou shalt leaue them for the poore and for the straunger: I am the Lorde your God.

geneva@Leviticus:19:15 @ Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauour the person of the poore, nor honour the person of the mightie, but thou shalt iudge thy neighbour iustly.

geneva@Leviticus:23:22 @ And when you reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not rid cleane the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou make any aftergathering of thy haruest, but shalt leaue them vnto the poore and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.

geneva@Leviticus:25:5 @ That which groweth of its (note:)Because of the corn that fell out of the ears the previous year.(:note) own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine Or, which you have separated from yourself, and consecrated to God for the poor. undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto the land.

geneva@Leviticus:25:35 @ And if thy brother be waxen poor, and (note:)In Hebrew it is, if his hand shake: meaning if he stretch forth his hand for help as one in misery.(:note) fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

geneva@Leviticus:27:8 @ But if he be poorer (note:)If he is not able to pay according to your estimate.(:note) than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:28 @ At the end of three years thou shalt (note:)Besides the yearly tithes that were given to the Levites, these were laid up in store for the poor.(:note) bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates:

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:7 @ If one of thy brethren with thee be poore within any of thy gates in thy land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother:

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:9 @ Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, to say, The seuenth yeere, the yeere of freedome is at hand: therefore it grieueth thee to looke on thy poore brother, and thou giuest him nought, and he crie vnto the Lorde against thee, so that sinne be in thee:

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:12 @ Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:14 @ Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruant that is needie and poore, neyther of thy brethren, nor of the stranger that is in thy land within thy gates.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:15 @ Thou shalt giue him his hire for his day, neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it: for he is poore, and therewith susteineth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee.

geneva@Judges:6:15 @ And he answered him, Ah my Lord, whereby shal I saue Israel? beholde, my father is poore in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fathers house.

geneva@Ruth:3:10 @ And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hast (note:)You showed yourself repeatedly to be more virtuous.(:note) shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

geneva@1Samuel:2:7 @ The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich: bringeth lowe, and exalteth.

geneva@1Samuel:2:8 @ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among (note:)He prefers to honour, and does according to his own will, though man's judgment is contrary.(:note) princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the Therefore he may dispose all things according to his will. LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

geneva@1Samuel:18:23 @ And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, (note:)Meaning, that he was not able to endow his wife with riches.(:note) Seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a king's son in law, seeing that I [am] a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

geneva@1Samuel:30:11 @ And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him (note:)God by his providence both provides for the needs of the poor stranger, and made him a guide to David to accomplish his enterprise.(:note) bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;

geneva@2Samuel:12:1 @ And the LORD sent (note:)Because David lay now drowned in sin, the loving mercy of God which does not allow his own to perish, wakes his conscience by this story and brings him to repentance.(:note) Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

geneva@2Samuel:12:3 @ But the poore had none at all, saue one litle sheepe which he had bought, and nourished vp: and it grew vp with him, and with his children also, and did eate of his owne morsels, and dranke of his owne cup, and slept in his bosome, and was vnto him as his daughter.

geneva@2Samuel:12:4 @ Now there came a stranger vnto the rich man, who refused to take of his owne sheepe, and of his owne oxen to dresse for the stranger that was come vnto him, but tooke the poore mans sheepe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

geneva@2Samuel:22:28 @ Thus thou wilt saue the poore people: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie to humble them.

geneva@2Kings:8:5 @ And it came to pass, as he was telling (note:)God's wonderful providence appears in this, that he caused the king to desire to hear him, whom before he contemned and also hereby prepared an entrance to the poor widows suit.(:note) the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

geneva@2Kings:24:14 @ And he caryed away all Ierusalem, and all the princes, and all the strong men of warre, euen ten thousande into captiuitie, and all the workemen, and cunning men: so none remained sauing the poore people of the lande.

geneva@2Kings:25:12 @ But the chiefe steward left of the poore of the land to dresse the vines, and to till the land.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:14 @ Now, behold, in my (note:)For David was poor in respect to Solomon.(:note) trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:5 @ Yet now our flesh [is] as (note:)By nature the rich are no better than the poor.(:note) the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power We are not able to redeem them, but out of poverty are forced to sell them to others. [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:10 @ Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is (note:)That is, remember the poor.(:note) prepared: for [this] day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the Rejoice in the Lord, and he will give you strength. joy of the LORD is your strength.

geneva@Esther:9:22 @ As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of (note:)He sets before our eyes the use of this feast which was for the remembrance of God's deliverance, the maintenance of mutual friendship and relief of the poor.(:note) sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

geneva@Job:5:15 @ But he saveth the (note:)That is, he who humbles himself before God.(:note) poor from the sword, from their He compares the slander of the wicked to sharp swords. mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

geneva@Job:5:16 @ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity (note:)If the wicked are compelled by God's works to shut their mouths, how much more they who profess God.(:note) stoppeth her mouth.

geneva@Job:7:12 @ [Am] I a sea, (note:)Am I not a poor wretch? Why do you need to lay so much pain on me?(:note) or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

geneva@Job:20:10 @ His children shall (note:)While the father through ambition and tyranny oppressed the poor, the children through poverty and misery will seek favour from the poor.(:note) seek to please the poor, and his hands shall So that the thing which he has taken away by violence will be restored again by force. restore their goods.

geneva@Job:20:18 @ That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], (note:)That is these raveners and spoilers of the poor will enjoy their theft but for a time for after God will take it from them, and cause them to make restitution so that it is only an exchange.(:note) and he shall not rejoice [therein].

geneva@Job:20:19 @ For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

geneva@Job:22:6 @ For thou hast taken a (note:)You have been cruel and without charity, and would do nothing for the poor, but for your own advantage.(:note) pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

geneva@Job:24:4 @ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves (note:)And for cruelty and oppression dare not show their faces.(:note) together.

geneva@Job:24:6 @ They reap [every one] (note:)Meaning the poor man's.(:note) his corn in the field: and they gather the Signifying that one wicked man will not spoil another, but for necessity. vintage of the wicked.

geneva@Job:24:8 @ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, (note:)The poor are driven by the wicked into the rock and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain.(:note) and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

geneva@Job:24:9 @ They pluck the fatherless (note:)That is, they so pillage and plunder the poor widow that she cannot sustain herself that she may be able to nurse her baby.(:note) from the breast, and take a pledge of The poor are driven by the wicked into the rocks and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain. the poor.

geneva@Job:24:14 @ The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

geneva@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the (note:)Because his adversaries did so much charge him with wickedness, he is compelled to render account of his life.(:note) poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.

geneva@Job:29:16 @ I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

geneva@Job:30:25 @ Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

geneva@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow (note:)By long waiting for her request.(:note) to fail;

geneva@Job:31:19 @ If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

geneva@Job:34:19 @ How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, & regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.

geneva@Job:34:28 @ So that they cause the cry of the poor to (note:)By their cruelty and extortion.(:note) come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

geneva@Job:36:6 @ He (note:)Therefore he will not preserve the wicked, but to the humble and afflicted heart he will show grace.(:note) preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

geneva@Job:36:15 @ He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, & openeth their eare in trouble.

geneva@Psalms:1:1 @ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the (note:)When a man has once given place to evil counsel, or to his own sin nature, he begins to forget himself in his sin, and so falls into contempt of God, which is called the seat of the scorners.(:note) counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. The Argument - This book of psalms is given to us by the Holy Spirit, to be esteemed as a precious treasure in which all things are contained that bring to true happiness in this present life as well as in the life to come. For the riches of true knowledge and heavenly wisdom, are here set open for us, to take of it most abundantly. If we would know the great and high majesty of God, here we may see the brightness of it shine clearly. If we would seek his incomprehensible wisdom, here is the school of the same profession. If we would comprehend his inestimable bounty, and approach near to it, and fill our hands with that treasure, here we may have a most lively and comfortable taste of it. If we would know where our salvation lies and how to attain to everlasting life, here is Christ our Redeemer, and Mediator most evidently described. The rich man may learn the true use of his riches. The poor man may find full contentment. He who will rejoice will know true joy, and how to keep measure in it. They who are afflicted and oppressed will see what their comfort exists in, and how they should praise God when he sends them deliverance. The wicked and the persecutors of the children of God will see how the hand of God is always against them: and though he permits them to prosper for a while, yet he bridles them, so much so that they cannot touch a hair of ones head unless he permits them, and how in the end their destruction is most miserable. Briefly here we have most present remedies against all temptations and troubles of mind and conscience, so that being well practised in this, we may be assured against all dangers in this life, live in the true fear and love of God, and at length attain the incorruptible crown of glory, which is laid up for all who love the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

geneva@Psalms:9:18 @ For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation (note:)God does not promise to help us before we have felt the cross.(:note) of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.

geneva@Psalms:10:2 @ The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

geneva@Psalms:10:9 @ He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

geneva@Psalms:10:10 @ He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the (note:)By the hypocrisy of them who have authority the poor are devoured.(:note) poor may fall by his strong ones.

geneva@Psalms:10:14 @ Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to (note:)To judge between the right and the wrong.(:note) requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

geneva@Psalms:10:17 @ Lorde, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,

geneva@Psalms:14:6 @ Ye have (note:)You mock them who put their trust in God.(:note) shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.

geneva@Psalms:22:24 @ For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the (note:)The poor afflicted are comforted by this example of David, or Christ.(:note) afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

geneva@Psalms:22:29 @ All [they that be] fat (note:)Though the poor are first named as in (Psa_22:26) yet the wealthy are not separated from the grace of Christ's kingdom.(:note) upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: In whom there is no hope that he will recover life: so neither poor nor rich, quick nor dead will be rejected from his kingdom. and none can keep alive his own soul.

geneva@Psalms:25:16 @ Turne thy face vnto mee, and haue mercie vpon me: for I am desolate and poore.

geneva@Psalms:34:6 @ This poore man cryed, and the Lord heard him, and saued him out of all his troubles.

geneva@Psalms:35:10 @ All my (note:)He attributes his deliverance only to God, praising him therefore both in soul and body.(:note) bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

geneva@Psalms:37:14 @ The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

geneva@Psalms:40:17 @ Though I be poore and needie, the Lorde thinketh on mee: thou art mine helper and my deliuerer: my God, make no tarying.

geneva@Psalms:41:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» Blessed [is] he that (note:)Not condemning him as accused whom God visits, knowing that there are various reasons why God lays his hand on us, yea and afterwards he restores us.(:note) considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

geneva@Psalms:49:2 @ As well lowe as hie, both rich and poore.

geneva@Psalms:68:10 @ Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy (note:)God blessed the land of Canaan, because he had chosen that place for his Church.(:note) goodness for the poor.

geneva@Psalms:69:12 @ They that (note:)The more he sought to win them to God, the more they were against him both the poor and the rich.(:note) sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.

geneva@Psalms:69:29 @ When I am poore and in heauinesse, thine helpe, O God, shall exalt me.

geneva@Psalms:69:33 @ For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his (note:)For as he delivered his servant David, so will he do for all that are in distress and call on him.(:note) prisoners.

geneva@Psalms:70:5 @ But I [am] (note:)Because he had felt God's help before, he grounds on experience, and boldly seeks him for help.(:note) poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

geneva@Psalms:72:2 @ Then shal he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie.

geneva@Psalms:72:4 @ He shall (note:)He shows why the sword is committed to Kings that is, to defend the innocent, and suppress the wicked.(:note) judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

geneva@Psalms:72:12 @ For he shall deliuer the poore when he cryeth: the needie also, and him that hath no helper.

geneva@Psalms:72:13 @ He shalbe mercifull to the poore and needie, and shall preserue the soules of the poore.

geneva@Psalms:73:11 @ And they (note:)Thus the flesh moves even the godly to dispute with God concerning their poor estate, and the prosperity of the wicked.(:note) say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

geneva@Psalms:74:19 @ O deliver not the soul of thy (note:)He means the Church of God, which is exposed as a prey to the wicked.(:note) turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

geneva@Psalms:74:21 @ Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.

geneva@Psalms:82:3 @ Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

geneva@Psalms:82:4 @ Deliver the poor and (note:)Not only when they cry for help, but when their cause requires aid and support.(:note) needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:84:3 @ Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine (note:)So that the poor birds have more freedom than I.(:note) altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

geneva@Psalms:84:6 @ [Who] passing through the valley of (note:)So that the poor birds have more freedom than I.(:note) Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

geneva@Psalms:86:1 @ «A Prayer of David.» Bow down (note:)David, when persecuted by Saul, prayed this way, leaving the same to the Church as a monument, how to seek relief against their miseries.(:note) thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy.

geneva@Psalms:86:5 @ For thou, Lord, [art] good, and (note:)He confesses that God is good to all but only merciful to poor sinners.(:note) ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

geneva@Psalms:107:41 @ Yet he raiseth vp the poore out of miserie, and maketh him families like a flocke of sheepe.

geneva@Psalms:109:16 @ Because that (note:)He shows that God plagues them in a strange way who show themselves cruel toward others.(:note) he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

geneva@Psalms:109:22 @ Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.

geneva@Psalms:109:31 @ For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that (note:)By this he shows that he had nothing to do with them who were of little power, but with the judges and princes of the world.(:note) condemn his soul.

geneva@Psalms:112:9 @ He hath (note:)The godly are not stingy, but distribute liberally, as the need of the poor requires and as his power is able.(:note) dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his His power and prosperous estate. horn shall be exalted with honour.

geneva@Psalms:113:7 @ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the (note:)By preferring the poor to high honour and giving the barren children, he shows that God works not only in his Church by ordinary means, but also by miracles.(:note) needy out of the dunghill;

geneva@Psalms:132:15 @ I will surely blesse her vitailes, and will satisfie her poore with bread,

geneva@Psalms:140:12 @ I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.

geneva@Psalms:144:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which (note:)Who out of a poor shepherd has made a valiant warrior and mighty conqueror.(:note) teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:

geneva@Proverbs:10:4 @ A slouthfull hand maketh poore: but the hand of the diligent maketh riche.

geneva@Proverbs:10:15 @ The rich man's wealth [is] his (note:)And so makes him bold to do evil, while poverty bridles the poor from many evil things.(:note) strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.

geneva@Proverbs:12:9 @ [He that is] despised, (note:)The poor man that is contemned and yet lives of his own travail.(:note) and hath a servant, [is] better than he that honoureth himself, and is destitute of bread.

geneva@Proverbs:13:7 @ There is that maketh himselfe riche, and hath nothing, and that maketh himselfe poore, hauing great riches.

geneva@Proverbs:13:8 @ The ransom of a man's life [is] his riches: but the poor (note:)For his poverty, he is not able to escape the threatenings, which the cruel oppressors use against him.(:note) heareth not rebuke.

geneva@Proverbs:13:23 @ Much food [is in] the fallow ground of the (note:)God blesses the labour of the poor, and consumes their goods who are negligent, because they think they have enough.(:note) poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for lack of judgment.

geneva@Proverbs:14:20 @ The poore is hated euen of his own neighbour: but the friendes of the rich are many.

geneva@Proverbs:14:21 @ The sinner despiseth his neighbour: but he that hath mercie on the poore, is blessed.

geneva@Proverbs:14:31 @ He that oppresseth the poore, reprooueth him that made him: but hee honoureth him, that hath mercie on the poore.

geneva@Proverbs:17:5 @ Hee that mocketh the poore, reprocheth him, that made him: and he that reioyceth at destruction, shall not be vnpunished.

geneva@Proverbs:18:23 @ The poore speaketh with prayers: but the rich answereth roughly.

geneva@Proverbs:19:1 @ Better is ye poore that walketh in his vprightnes, then he that abuseth his lips, & is a foole.

geneva@Proverbs:19:4 @ Riches gather many friends: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.

geneva@Proverbs:19:7 @ All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth [them (note:)To have comfort from them.(:note) with] words, [yet] they [are] lacking [to him].

geneva@Proverbs:19:17 @ He that hath mercy vpon the poore, lendeth vnto the Lorde: and the Lorde will recompense him that which he hath giuen.

geneva@Proverbs:19:22 @ The desire of a man [is] his (note:)That is, that he be honest: for the poor man who is honest is to be esteemed above the rich who is not virtuous.(:note) kindness: and a poor man [is] better than a liar.

geneva@Proverbs:21:13 @ He that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore, he shall also cry and not be heard.

geneva@Proverbs:21:17 @ Hee that loueth pastime, shalbe a poore man: and he that loueth wine and oyle, shall not be riche.

geneva@Proverbs:22:2 @ The rich and poor (note:)Live together, and have need the one of the other.(:note) meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all.

geneva@Proverbs:22:7 @ The rich ruleth the poore, and the borower is seruant to the man that lendeth.

geneva@Proverbs:22:9 @ He that hath a bountiful (note:)He that is merciful and liberal.(:note) eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

geneva@Proverbs:22:16 @ Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.

geneva@Proverbs:22:22 @ Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.

geneva@Proverbs:23:21 @ For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.

geneva@Proverbs:28:3 @ A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.

geneva@Proverbs:28:6 @ Better is the poore that walketh in his vprightnesse, then hee that peruerteth his wayes, though he be riche.

geneva@Proverbs:28:8 @ He that by interest and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather (note:)For God will take away the wicked usurer, and give his goods to him that will bestow them well.(:note) it for him that will pity the poor.

geneva@Proverbs:28:11 @ The rich man [is] wise in his own conceit; but the poor man that hath understanding searcheth (note:)And judge that he is not wise.(:note) him out.

geneva@Proverbs:28:15 @ [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] (note:)For he can never be satisfied but always oppresses and spoils.(:note) a wicked ruler over the poor people.

geneva@Proverbs:28:27 @ He that giueth vnto the poore, shall not lacke: but he that hideth his eyes, shall haue many curses.

geneva@Proverbs:29:7 @ The righteous knoweth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not knowledge.

geneva@Proverbs:29:13 @ The poore and the vsurer meete together, and the Lord lighteneth both their eyes.

geneva@Proverbs:29:14 @ A King that iudgeth the poore in trueth, his throne shalbe established for euer.

geneva@Proverbs:30:9 @ Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, (note:)Meaning, that they who put their trust in their riches forget God and that by too much wealth men have an opportunity to the same.(:note) Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].

geneva@Proverbs:30:14 @ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.

geneva@Proverbs:31:9 @ Open thy mouth: iudge righteously, and iudge the afflicted, and the poore.

geneva@Proverbs:31:20 @ She stretcheth out her hand to the poore, and putteth foorth her hands to the needie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:1 @ So (note:)He makes here another discourse with himself concerning the tyranny of them that oppressed the poor.(:note) I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of [such as were] oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors [there was] power; but they had no comforter.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @ Better is a poore and wise childe, then an olde and foolish King, which will no more be admonished.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:14 @ For out of (note:)That is, from a poor and base estate or out of trouble and prison as Joseph did, (Gen_41:14).(:note) prison he cometh to reign; though also [he that is] Meaning, that is born a king. born in his kingdom becometh poor.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for [he that is] (note:)Meaning, that God will address these things, and therefore we must depend on him.(:note) higher than the highest regardeth; and [there are] higher than they.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:8 @ For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ And there was founde therein a poore and wise man, and he deliuered the citie by his wisedome: but none remembred this poore man.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @ Then said I, Better is wisdome then stregth: yet the wisedome of the poore is despised, and his wordes are not heard.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:1 @ Cast thy bread upon the (note:)That is, be liberal to the poor, and though it seems to be as a thing ventured on the sea, yet it will bring you profit.(:note) waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

geneva@Isaiah:3:14 @ The LORD will enter into judgment with the (note:)Meaning that the rulers and governors had destroyed his Church and not preserved it, according to their duty.(:note) elders of his people, and with their princes: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.

geneva@Isaiah:3:15 @ What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, (note:)That is, you show all cruelty against them.(:note) and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:5:8 @ Woe to them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there is] no (note:)That is, for the poor to dwell in.(:note) place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

geneva@Isaiah:5:9 @ In my (note:)I have heard the complaint and cry of the poor.(:note) ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.

geneva@Isaiah:5:17 @ Then shall (note:)God comforts the poor lambs of his Church, who had been strangers in other countries, promising that they would dwell in these places again, of which they had been deprived by the fat and cruel tyrants.(:note) the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

geneva@Isaiah:10:2 @ To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.

geneva@Isaiah:10:30 @ Lift vp thy voyce, O daughter Gallim, cause Laish to heare, O poore Anathoth.

geneva@Isaiah:11:1 @ And there shall come forth a (note:)Because the captivity of Babylon was a figure of the spiritual captivity under sin, he shows that our true deliverance must come by Christ: for as David came out of Jesse, a man without dignity, so Christ would come of a poor carpenter's house as out of a dead stock, (Isa_53:2).(:note) rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

geneva@Isaiah:11:4 @ But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall (note:)All these properties can agree to no one, but only to Christ: for it is he who touches the hearts of the faithful and mortifies their concupiscence: and to the wicked he is the favour of death and to them who will perish, so that all the world will be smitten with his rod, which is his word.(:note) smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

geneva@Isaiah:14:30 @ And the (note:)The Israelites who were brought to most extreme misery.(:note) firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and That is, my people. he shall slay thy remnant.

geneva@Isaiah:14:32 @ What shall [one] then answer the (note:)Who will come to enquire of the state of the Church.(:note) messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded They will answer that the Lord defends his Church and those that join themselves to it. Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

geneva@Isaiah:25:4 @ For thou hast been a defence to the poor, a defence to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast (note:)The rage of the wicked is furious, till God breaks the force of it.(:note) of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.

geneva@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the (note:)God will set the poor afflicted over the power of the wicked.(:note) poor, [and] the steps of the needy.

geneva@Isaiah:29:19 @ The meeke in the Lorde shall receiue ioye againe, and the poore men shall reioyce in the holy one of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:32:7 @ For the weapons of the churle are wicked: hee deuiseth wicked counsels, to vndoe the poore with lying words: and to speake against the poore in iudgement.

geneva@Isaiah:34:6 @ The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of (note:)That is, both of young and old, poor and rich of his enemies.(:note) lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in That famous city will be consumed as a sacrifice burnt to ashes. Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

geneva@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort (note:)This is a consolation for the Church, assuring them that they will never be destitute of prophets by which he exhorts the true ministers of God that then were, and those also that would come after him, to comfort the poor afflicted and to assure them of their deliverance both of body and soul.(:note) ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

geneva@Isaiah:40:20 @ He that [is] so (note:)He shows the rage of the idolaters, seeing that the poor who do not have enough to meet their own needs will defraud themselves to serve their idols.(:note) impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.

geneva@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, thou (note:)Thus he calls them because they were contemned of all the world, and that they considering their own poor estate should seek him for help.(:note) worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:41:17 @ [When] (note:)That is, they who will be afflicted in the captivity of Babylon.(:note) the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

geneva@Isaiah:42:16 @ And I will bring the (note:)That is, my poor people, who are in perplexity and care.(:note) blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do for them, and not forsake them.

geneva@Isaiah:58:7 @ [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou shouldest bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou shouldest cover him; and that thou shouldest not hide thyself from (note:)For in him you see yourself as in a mirror.(:note) thy own flesh?

geneva@Isaiah:66:2 @ For all these [things] hath my hand made, (note:)Seeing that both the temple and the things in it, with the sacrifices were made and done by his appointment, he shows that he has no need of it, and that he can be without them, {{See Psa_50:10}}.(:note) and all these [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of To him that is humble and pure in heart, who receives my doctrine with reverence and fear. a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:34 @ Also in thy (note:)The prophets and the faithful are slain in every corner of your country.(:note) skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:4 @ Therefore I saide, Surely they are poore, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing vnto the Lorde, praise ye the Lorde: for he hath deliuered the soule of the poore fro the hande of the wicked.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:16 @ When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?

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:40:7 @ Now when all the captains of the forces (note:)Which were scattered abroad for fear of the Chaldeans.(:note) who [were] in the fields, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

geneva@Jeremiah:52:15 @ Then Nebuzar-adan the chiefe steward caried away captiue certaine of the poore of the people, and the residue of the people that remayned in the citie, and those that were fled, and fallen to the king of Babel, with the rest of the multitude.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:16 @ But Nebuzar-adan the chiefe steward left certaine of the poore of the lande, to dresse the vines, and to till the land.

geneva@Lamentations:1:3 @ Judah is gone into captivity because (note:)For her cruelty toward the poor and oppression of servants, (Jer_34:11).(:note) of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her in the midst of distress.

geneva@Lamentations:3:33 @ For he doth not (note:)He takes no pleasure in it, but does it of necessity for our amendment, when he permits the wicked to oppress the poor.(:note) afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

geneva@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: (note:)This prayer as is thought, was made when some of the people were carried away captive, others such as the poorest remained, and some went into Egypt and other places for comfort, though it seems that the prophet foreseeing their miseries to come, thus prayed.(:note) consider, and behold our reproach.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:49 @ Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, (note:)He alleges these four vices, pride, excess, idleness and contempt of the poor as four principal causes of such abomination, wherefore they were so horribly punished, (Gen_19:24).(:note) pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

geneva@Ezekiel:18:12 @ Or hath oppressed the poore and needy, or hath spoyled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lift vp his eyes vnto the idoles, or hath committed abomination,

geneva@Ezekiel:22:29 @ The people of the land haue violently oppressed by spoyling and robbing, and haue vexed the poore and the needy: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger against right.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:18 @ [Seemeth it] a small thing to you to have eaten up the good (note:)By good pasture and deep waters is meant the pure word of God and the administration of justice which they did not distribute to the poor till they had corrupted it.(:note) pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? and to have drank of the deep waters, but ye must foul the rest with your feet?

geneva@Daniel:2:48 @ Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great (note:)Not that the Prophet was desirous of gifts or honour, but because by this means he might relieve his poor brethren, who were grievously oppressed in this their captivity, and he also received them, lest he should offend this cruel king, who willingly gave them.(:note) gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise [men] of Babylon.

geneva@Daniel:4:27 @ Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and (note:)Cease from provoking God to anger any longer by your sins, that he may reduce the severity of his punishment, if you show by your upright life that you have true faith and repentance.(:note) break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a Allow the errors of your former life to be made up for. lengthening of thy tranquillity.

geneva@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because ye have been a (note:)The priests and princes caught the poor people in their snares, as the fowlers did the birds, in these two high mountains.(:note) snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

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:2:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of (note:)If he did not spare Judah unto whom his promises were made, much more he will not spare this degenerate kingdom.(:note) Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of They esteemed most vile bribes more than men's lives. shoes;

geneva@Amos:2:7 @ That pant after the (note:)When they have robbed him and thrown him to the ground, they open wide their mouths for his life.(:note) dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:

geneva@Amos:4:1 @ Hear this word, ye (note:)Thus he calls the princes and governors, who being overwhelmed with the great abundance of God's benefits, forgot God, and therefore he calls them by the name of beasts and not of men.(:note) kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, They encourage those who have authority over the people to oppress them, so that they may have profit by it. Bring, and let us drink.

geneva@Amos:5:11 @ Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and (note:)You take both his money and also his food, with which he should live.(:note) ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

geneva@Amos:5:12 @ For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, & they oppresse the poore in ye gate.

geneva@Amos:8:4 @ Hear this, O ye that (note:)By stopping the sale of food and necessary things which you have gotten into your own hands, and so cause the poor to spend quickly that little that they have, and at length because of need to become your slaves.(:note) swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

geneva@Amos:8:6 @ That we may buy the poore for siluer, and the needie for shooes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate.

geneva@Micah:2:8 @ Even (note:)That is, in past times.(:note) of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the The poor can have no benefit from them, but they rob them, as though they were enemies. robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

geneva@Nahum:1:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of Nineveh. The vision or revelation, which God commanded Nahum to write concerning the Ninevites. The book of the vision of Nahum the That is, born in a poor village in the tribe of Simeon. Elkoshite. The Argument - As those of Nineveh showed themselves prompt and ready to receive the word of God at Jonah's preaching, and so turned to the Lord by repentance, so after a certain time they gave themselves to worldly means to increase their dominion, rather than seeking to continue in that fear of God, and path in which they had begun. They cast off the care of religion, and so returned to their vomit and provoked God's just judgment against them, in afflicting his people. Therefore their city Nineveh was destroyed, and Meroch-baladan, king of Babel (or as some think, Nebuchadnezzar) enjoyed the empire of the Assyrians. But because God has a continual care for his Church, he stirs up his Prophet to comfort the godly, showing that the destruction of their enemies would be for their consolation: and as it seems, he prophesies around the time of Hezekiah, and not in the time of Manasseh his son, as the Jews write.

geneva@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the (note:)That is, as soon as my wrath begins to burn.(:note) smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy Signifying the heralds, who were accustomed to proclaim war. Some read, «of you gum teeth», with which Nineveh was accustomed to bruise the bones of the poor. messengers shall no more be heard.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:14 @ Thou didst (note:)God destroyed his enemies both great and small with their own weapons, though they were ever so fierce against his Church.(:note) strike through with his staffs the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:12 @ Then will I leaue in the middes of thee an humble and poore people: and they shall trust in the Name of the Lord.

geneva@Zechariah:4:10 @ For who hath despised the day of (note:)Signifying that all were discouraged at the small and poor beginnings of the temple.(:note) small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the By which he signifies the plummet and line, that is, that Zerubbabel who represented Christ, would go forward with his building to the joy and comfort of the godly, though the world was against him, and though his own for a while were discouraged, because they do not see things pleasant to the eye. plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel [with] those seven; That is, God has seven eyes: meaning, a continual providence, so that neither Satan nor any power in the world, can go about to bring anything to pass to hinder his work; (Zec_5:9). they [are] the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

geneva@Zechariah:7:10 @ And oppresse not the widowe, nor the fatherles, the stranger nor the poore, & let none of you imagine euil against his brother in your heart.

geneva@Zechariah:9:9 @ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh to thee: (note:)That is, he has righteousness and salvation in himself for the use and benefit of his Church.(:note) he [is] just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon a Which declares that they should not look for such a king as would be glorious in the eyes of man, but should be poor, and yet in himself have all power to deliver his own: and this is meant of Christ, as in (Mat_21:5). donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.

geneva@Zechariah:10:3 @ My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the (note:)Meaning, the cruel governors who did oppress the poor sheep; (Eze_34:16-17).(:note) goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as He will be merciful to his Church, and cherish them as a king or prince does his best horse, which will be for his own use in war. his majestic horse in the battle.

geneva@Zechariah:11:7 @ And I will feed the flock of slaughter, [even] you, (note:)That is, the small remnant, whom he though worthy to show mercy to.(:note) O poor of the flock. And I took to me God shows his great benefits toward his people to convince them of greater ingratitude, who would neither be ruled by his most beautiful order of government, neither continue in the bands of brotherly unity, and therefore he breaks both the one and the other. Some read «Destroyers» instead of «Bands», but in (Zec_11:14) the second reading is confirmed. two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

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@Malachi:3:8 @ Will a (note:)There are none of the heathen so barbarous, that will defraud their gods of their honour, or deal deceitfully with them.(:note) man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In By which the service of God should have been maintained, and the priests and the poor relieved. tithes and offerings.

geneva@Matthew:2:1 @ Now when (note:)Christ a poor child, laid down in a crib, and though given no attention by his own people, receives nonetheless a noble witness of his divinity from heaven, and of his kingly estate from strangers: which his own people unknowingly let happen, although they did not acknowledge him.(:note) Jesus was born in Bethlehem of For there was another in the tribe of Zebulun. Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came Wise and learned men: It is a Persian word which they use frequently. wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

geneva@Matthew:5:3 @ Blessed [are] the (note:)Under the name of poverty are meant all the miseries, that are joined with poverty.(:note) poor in Whose minds and spirits are brought under control, and tamed, and obey God. spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

geneva@Matthew:11:5 @ The blinde receiue sight, and the halt doe walke: the lepers are clensed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receiue the Gospel.

geneva@Matthew:19:21 @ Jesus said unto him, If (note:)The young man did not answer truly in saying that he had kept all the commandments: and therefore Christ sets forth an example of true charity before him, to show the disease that lay lurking in his mind.(:note) thou wilt be perfect, go [and] sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come [and] follow me.

geneva@Matthew:26:9 @ For this oyntment might haue bene solde for much, and bene giuen to the poore.

geneva@Matthew:27:32 @ And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they (note:)They compelled Simon to bear his burdensome cross, by which it appears that Jesus was so poorly handled before that he fainted along the way, and was not able to bear his cross the whole distance: for John writes that he did bear the cross, that is, at the beginning.(:note) compelled to bear his cross.

geneva@Mark:2:4 @ And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken [it] up, they (note:)They broke up the upper part of the house which was made simply, and let down the man that was sick from paralysis into the lower part where Christ preached, for they could not come before Christ in any other way.(:note) let down the The word signifies the poorest kind of bed, upon which men used to lay down at noon, and at such other times to refresh themselves; we call it a couch. bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

geneva@Mark:10:21 @ And Iesus looked vpon him, & loued him, and sayde vnto him, One thing is lacking vnto thee. Go and sell all that thou hast, and giue to the poore, & thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, followe me, and take vp the crosse.

geneva@Mark:12:42 @ And there came a certaine poore widowe, & she threw in two mites, which make a quadrin.

geneva@Mark:12:43 @ Then he called vnto him his disciples, and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.

geneva@Mark:14:5 @ For it might have been sold for more than (note:)Which is about six English pounds.(:note) three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

geneva@Luke:1:52 @ He hath (note:)The mighty and rich men.(:note) put down the mighty from [their] seats, and exalted them of Those of no account, who are vile in men's eyes, who are indeed the poor in spirit, that is, those who claim nothing of themselves in the sight of God. low degree.

geneva@Luke:2:1 @ And (note:)Christ, the son of God, taking upon himself the form of a servant, and making himself of no reputation, is poorly born in a stable: and by the means of Augustus, the mightiest prince in the world, (thinking nothing of it) has his cradle prepared in Bethlehem, as the prophets foretold.(:note) it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the As far as the empire of the Romans stretched. world should be That is, the inhabitants of every city should have their names recorded, and their goods rated at a certain value, that the emperor might understand how rich every country, city, family, and house was. taxed.

geneva@Luke:4:18 @ The Spirit of the Lorde is vpon mee, because he hath anoynted me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poore: he hath sent mee, that I should heale the broken hearted, that I should preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, that I should set at libertie them that are bruised:

geneva@Luke:7:22 @ And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Goe your wayes and shewe Iohn, what things ye haue seene and heard: that the blinde see, the halt goe, the lepers are cleansed, the deafe heare, the dead are raised, and the poore receiue the Gospel.

geneva@Luke:11:41 @ But rather give alms (note:)That is, according to your ability: as one would say, instead of your extortion which hindered you so that you could not eat cleanly, use charity, and in accordance with your ability be good to the poor, and in this way will that which is within the platter be sanctified even though the platter is unwashed.(:note) of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

geneva@Luke:14:13 @ But when thou makest a feast, call ye poore, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,

geneva@Luke:14:21 @ So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the (note:)Wide and broad areas.(:note) streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

geneva@Luke:16:9 @ And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon (note:)This is not spoken of goods that are gotten wrongly, for God will have our bountifulness to the poor proceed and come from a good fountain: but he calls those things riches of iniquity which men use wickedly.(:note) of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting That is, the poor Christians: for they are the inheritors of these habitations; Theophylact. habitations.

geneva@Luke:18:22 @ Nowe when Iesus heard that, he saide vnto him, Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that euer thou hast, and distribute vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come followe mee.

geneva@Luke:21:1 @ And (note:)According to the judgment of God, the poor may even exceed the rich in generosity and liberality.(:note) he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

geneva@Luke:21:2 @ And he sawe also a certaine poore widowe which cast in thither two mites:

geneva@Luke:21:3 @ And he sayd, Of a trueth I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast in more then they all.

geneva@Luke:24:1 @ Now upon the (note:)Poor humble women, who were certainly not expecting it, are chosen to be the first witnesses of the resurrection, so that there might not be any suspicion of either deceit or violence.(:note) first [day] of the week, very Very early, as Mark says: or as John says, while it was yet dark, that is, when it was yet hardly the dawning of day. early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.

geneva@John:12:6 @ Nowe he said this, not that he cared for the poore, but because hee was a theefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was giuen.

geneva@John:12:8 @ For the poore alwayes yee haue with you, but me ye shall not haue alwayes.

geneva@John:13:29 @ For some of them thought because Iudas had the bag, that Iesus had sayd vnto him, Buy those things that we haue neede of against ye feast: or that he should giue some thing to the poore.

geneva@John:19:29 @ Now there was set a (note:)Galatinus witnesses out of the book called Sanhedrin that the Jews often gave those who were executed vinegar mixed with frankincense to drink, to make them somewhat delirious: so the Jews provided charitably for the poor men's conscience who were executed.(:note) vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth.

geneva@Romans:12:8 @ Or he that (note:)Who in other passages is called the «pastor».(:note) exhorteth, on exhortation: he that That is, the alms, that he distributes them faithfully, and without any favouritism. giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that The elders of the church. ruleth, with diligence; he that Those that are occupied with the care of the poor must do it with cheerfulness, lest they add sorrow upon sorrow. sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

geneva@Romans:15:26 @ For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia, to make a certaine distribution vnto the poore Saints which are at Hierusalem.

geneva@Romans:15:28 @ When therefore I have performed this, and have (note:)Performed it faithfully, and sealed it as it were with my ring.(:note) sealed to them this This money which was gathered for the use of the poor: and these alms are very fitly called fruit. fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

geneva@1Corinthians:13:3 @ And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:10 @ As sorowing, and yet always reioycing: as poore, and yet make many riche: as hauing nothing, and yet possessing all things.

geneva@2Corinthians:9:9 @ (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for (note:)Is everlasting: now David speaks of a man that fears God, and loves his neighbour, who will always be able (he says) to give to others.(:note) ever.

geneva@Galatians:2:10 @ Warning onely that we should remember the poore: which thing also I was diligent to doe.

geneva@Philippians:1:1 @ Paul (note:)The Paul's point in writing this epistle, is to strengthen and encourage the Philippians by all means possible, not to faint, but more than that, to go forward. And first of all he commends their former deeds, to exhort them to go forward: which thing he says he fully hopes they will do, and that by the testimony of their abundant charity. But in the meantime he refers all things to the grace of God.(:note) and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the By the bishops are meant both the pastors who have the dispensation of the word, and the elders that govern: and by deacons are meant those that were stewards of the treasury of the Church, and had to look after the poor. bishops and deacons:

geneva@Philippians:2:30 @ Because for the (note:)He calls here the work of Christ the visiting of Christ, being poor and in bonds in the person of Paul.(:note) work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

geneva@Philippians:3:8 @ Yea doubtless, and I count (note:)He shuts out all works, those that go before, as well as those that come after faith.(:note) all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may That in their place I might get Christ, and from a poor man become rich, so far am I from losing anything at all. win Christ,

geneva@Hebrews:6:1 @ Therefore leaving the (note:)The first principle of Christian religion, which we call the catechism.(:note) principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; Certain principles of a catechism, which comprehend the sum of the doctrine of the gospel, were given in few words and briefly to the poor and unlearned, that is, the profession of repentance and faith in God. The articles of this doctrine were required from those who were not yet members of the Church on the days appointed for their baptism. Of those articles, two are by name recited: the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. (Ed.) not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

geneva@James:2:1 @ My (note:)The first: charity which proceeds from a true faith, cannot exist with the respecting of people: which he proves plainly by using the example of those who, while having reproach or disdain for the poor, honour the rich.(:note) brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of For if we knew what Christ's glory is, and esteemed it as we should, there would not be the respecting of people that there is. glory, with respect of persons.

geneva@James:2:2 @ For if there come into your copany a man with a golde ring, and in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile raiment,

geneva@James:2:3 @ And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a (note:)In a worshipful and honourable place.(:note) good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

geneva@James:2:6 @ But ye have despised the poor. (note:)Secondly, he proves them to be fools: since the rich men are rather to be held detestable and cursed, considering that they persecute the church, and blaspheme Christ: for he speaks of wicked and profane rich men, as most of them have always been, beside whom he contrasts the poor and degraded.(:note) Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

geneva@Revelation:3:17 @ Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, (note:)The spiritual misery of men is metaphorically expressed in three points which are matched as corresponds to those remedies offered in (Rev_3:18).(:note) and poor, and blind, and naked:

geneva@Jdt:2:2 @ {\cf2 And when I sawe abundance of meat, I sayde to my sonne, Go, and bring what poore man soeuer thou shalt finde of our brethren which doeth remember God, and loe I will tarie for thee.}

geneva@Jdt:4:7 @ {\cf2 Giue almes of thy substance: & when thou giuest almes, let not thine eye be enuious, neyther turne thy face from any poore, lest that God turne his face from thee.}

geneva@Jdt:4:21 @ {\cf2 And feare not, my sonne, forasmuch as wee are made poore: for thou hast many things, if thou feare God, & flee from all sinne, and do that thing which is acceptable vnto him.}

geneva@Tob:2:10 @ {\cf2 Let vs oppresse the poore that is righteous: let vs not spare the widdow, nor reuerence ye white heares of the aged, that haue liued many yeeres.}

geneva@Sir:4:1 @ {\cf2 My sonne, defraud not the poore of his liuing, and make not the needie eyes to waite long.}

geneva@Sir:4:4 @ {\cf2 Refuse not the praier of one that is in trouble: turne not away thy face from the poore.}

geneva@Sir:4:5 @ {\cf2 Turne not thine eyes aside in anger from the poore, and giue him none occasion to speake euill of thee.}

geneva@Sir:4:7 @ {\cf2 Be courteous vnto the companie of poore, and humble thy soule vnto the Elder, and bowe downe thine head to a man of worship.}

geneva@Sir:4:8 @ {\cf2 Let it not grieue thee to bowe downe thine eare vnto the poore, but paie thy dette, and giue him a friendly answere.}

geneva@Sir:7:21 @ {\cf2 Let thy soule loue a good seruant, and defraude him not of libertie, neyther leaue him a poore man.}

geneva@Sir:7:32 @ {\cf2 Stretch thine hande vnto the poore, that thy blessing, & reconciliation may be accomplished.}

geneva@Sir:10:23 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde is the glory aswell of the rich and the noble, as of the poore.}

geneva@Sir:10:24 @ {\cf2 It is not meete to despise the poore man that hath vnderstanding, neither is it couenient to magnifie the rich that is a wicked man.}

geneva@Sir:10:31 @ {\cf2 The poore is honoured for his knowledge and his feare, but the rich is had in reputation because of his goods.}

geneva@Sir:11:21 @ {\cf2 Marueile not at the workes of sinners, but trust in the Lorde, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easie thing in the sight of the Lord, suddenly to make a poore man rich.}

geneva@Sir:13:3 @ {\cf2 The riche dealeth vnrighteously, and threateneth withall: but the poore being oppressed must intreate: if the riche haue done wrong, heemust yet be intreated: but if the poore haue done it, he shal straight wayes be threatned.}

geneva@Sir:13:19 @ {\cf2 What felowship hath hyena with a dogge? and what peace is betweene the rich & the poore?}

geneva@Sir:13:20 @ {\cf2 As the wilde Asse is the Lyons pray in ye wildernes, so are poore men the meate of the rich.}

geneva@Sir:13:21 @ {\cf2 As the proude hate humilitie, so do the riche abhorre the poore.}

geneva@Sir:13:22 @ {\cf2 If a riche man fall, his friendes set him vp againe: but when the poore falleth, his friends driue him away.}

geneva@Sir:13:23 @ {\cf2 If a rich man offende, he hath many helpers: he speaketh proude wordes, & yet men iustifie him: but if a poore ma faile, they rebuke him, & though he speake wisely, yet can it haue no place.}

geneva@Sir:13:24 @ {\cf2 When the riche man speaketh, euery man holdeth his tongue: and looke what he sayth, they prayse it vnto the cloudes: but if the poore man speake, they say, What felow is this? and if he do amisse, they wil destroy him.}

geneva@Sir:21:5 @ {\cf2 The prayer of the poore going out of the mouth, commeth vnto the eares of the Lorde, and iustice is done him incontinently.}

geneva@Sir:25:2 @ {\cf2 Three sortes of men my soule hateth, and I vtterly abhorre the life of them: a poore man that is proude: a rich man that is a lyar, and an old adulterer that doteth.}

geneva@Sir:26:4 @ {\cf2 Whether a man be rich or poore, he hath a good heart towarde the Lorde, and they shall at all times haue a cheerefull countenance.}

geneva@Sir:29:9 @ {\cf2 Helpe the poore for the comandements sake, and turne him not away, because of his pouertie.}

geneva@Sir:29:24 @ {\cf2 The poore mans life in his owne lodge is better then delicate fare in another mans.}

geneva@Sir:30:14 @ {\cf2 Better is the poore, being whole & strog, then a rich man that is afflicted in his bodie.}

geneva@Sir:31:4 @ {\cf2 The poore laboureth in liuing poorely, and when he leaueth off, he is still poore.}

geneva@Sir:34:21 @ {\cf2 Who so bringeth an offering of the goods of the poore, doth as one that sacrificeth the sonne before the fathers eyes.}

geneva@Sir:34:22 @ {\cf2 The bread of the needefull is the life of the poore: he that defraudeth him thereof, is a murtherer.}

geneva@Sir:35:13 @ {\cf2 Hee accepteth not the person of the poore, but he heareth the prayer of the oppressed.}

geneva@Bar:6:27 @ {\cf2 As for the things that are offered vnto them, their Priests sell them, and abuse them: likewise also the women lay vp of the same: but vnto the poore and sicke they giue nothing.}

geneva@2Macc:4:47 @ {\cf2 In so much that hee discharged Menelaus from the accusations (notwithstanding he was the cause of all mischiefe) and codemned those poore men to death, which if they had tolde their cause, yea, before the Scythians, they should haue beene heard as innocent.}