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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:1:2 @ And the earth was (note:)As an unformed lump and without any creature in it: for the waters covered everything.(:note) without form, and void; and Darkness covered the deep waters, for the waters covered everything. darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God He maintained this disordered mass by his secret power. moved upon the face of the waters.

geneva@Genesis:1:3 @ And God said, Let there be light: and there was (note:)The light was made before either Sun or Moon was created: therefore we must not attribute that to the creatures that are God's instruments, which only belong to God.(:note) light.

geneva@Genesis:1:4 @ And God sawe the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes.

geneva@Genesis:1:7 @ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] (note:)As the sea and rivers, from those waters that are in the clouds, which are upheld by God's power, least they should overwhelm the world.(:note) under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.

geneva@Genesis:1:9 @ God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare; it was so.

geneva@Genesis:1:10 @ And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God sawe that it was good.

geneva@Genesis:1:11 @ And God said, (note:)So that we see it is the only the power of God's word that makes the earth fruitful, which naturally is barren.(:note) Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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:1:14 @ And God said, Let there be (note:)By the lights be means the sun, the moon, and the stars.(:note) lights in the firmament of the heaven to Which is the artificial day, from the sun rising, to the going down. divide the day from the night; and let them be for Of things belonging to natural and political orders and seasons. signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

geneva@Genesis:1:15 @ And let them be for lightes in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth; it was so.

geneva@Genesis:1:16 @ And God made two great (note:)That is, the sun and the moon, and here he speaks as man judges by his eye: for else the moon is less than the planet Saturn.(:note) lights; the greater light to To give it sufficient light, as instruments appointed for the same, to serve man's purposes. rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

geneva@Genesis:1:18 @ And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkenes: and God sawe that it was good.

geneva@Genesis:1:20 @ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the (note:)As fish and worms which slide, swim or creep.(:note) moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

geneva@Genesis:1:21 @ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the (note:)The fish and fowls had both one beginning, in which we see that nature gives place to God's will, in that the one sort is made to fly about in the air, and the other to swim beneath in the water.(:note) waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

geneva@Genesis:1:22 @ And God (note:)That is, by the virtue of his word he gave power to his creatures to reproduce.(:note) blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

geneva@Genesis:1:24 @ Moreouer God said, Let the earth bring foorth the liuing thing according to his kinde, cattell, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth, according to his kinde; it was so.

geneva@Genesis:1:25 @ And God made the beast of the earth according to his kinde, and the cattell according to his kinde, & euery creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: & God saw that it was good.

geneva@Genesis:1:26 @ And God said, (note:)God commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures: but of man he says, «Let us make...» signifying that God takes counsel with his wisdom and virtue purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation.(:note) Let us make man in our This image and likeness of God in man is expounded in (Eph_4:24) where it is written that man was created after God in righteousness and true holiness meaning by these two words, all perfection, as wisdom, truth, innocency, power, etc. image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:1:30 @ Likewise to euery beast of the earth, and to euery foule of the heauen, and to euery thing that moueth vpon the earth, which hath life in it selfe, euery greene herbe shall be for meate; it was so.

geneva@Genesis:1:31 @ And God sawe all that he had made, and loe, it was very good. So the euening and the morning were the sixt day.

geneva@Genesis:2:5 @ And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to (note:)God only opens the heavens and shuts them, he sends drought and rain according to his good pleasure.(:note) rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

geneva@Genesis:2:7 @ And the LORD God formed man (note:)He shows what man's body was created from, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.(:note) [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

geneva@Genesis:2:8 @ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in (note:)This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.(:note) Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

geneva@Genesis:2:9 @ And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the (note:)Who was a sign of the life received from God.(:note) tree of life also in the midst of the garden, That is, of miserable experience, which came by disobeying God. and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

geneva@Genesis:2:10 @ And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heads.

geneva@Genesis:2:11 @ The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land (note:)Havilah is a country adjoining Persia to the east, and inclining towards the west.(:note) of Havilah, where [there is] gold;

geneva@Genesis:2:13 @ And the name of the seconde riuer is Gihon: the same compasseth the whole lande of Cush.

geneva@Genesis:2:14 @ The name also of the third riuer is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the Eastside of Asshur: and the fourth riuer is Perath)

geneva@Genesis:2:15 @ And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to (note:)God would not have man idle, though as yet there was no need to labour.(:note) dress it and to keep it.

geneva@Genesis:2:16 @ And the LORD God (note:)So that man might know there was a sovereign Lord, to whom he owed obedience.(:note) commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

geneva@Genesis:2:19 @ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto (note:)By moving them to come and submit themselves to Adam.(:note) Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.

geneva@Genesis:2:20 @ The man therefore gaue names vnto all cattell, and to the foule of the heauen, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam founde he not an helpe meete for him.

geneva@Genesis:2:22 @ And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a (note:)Signifying that mankind was perfect, when the woman was created, who before was like an imperfect building.(:note) woman, and brought her unto the man.

geneva@Genesis:2:23 @ Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

geneva@Genesis:2:25 @ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not (note:)For before sin entered, all things were honest and comely.(:note) ashamed.

geneva@Genesis:3:1 @ Now the serpent was more (note:)As Satan can change himself into an angel of light, so did he abuse the wisdom of the serpent to deceive man.(:note) subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he God allowed Satan to make the serpent his instrument and to speak through him. said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

geneva@Genesis:3:5 @ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, (note:)As though he said, God forbids you to eat of the fruit, only because he knows that if you eat of it, you will be like him.(:note) knowing good and evil.

geneva@Genesis:3:6 @ And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he (note:)Not so much to please his wife, as moved by ambition at her persuasion.(:note) did eat.

geneva@Genesis:3:10 @ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] (note:)His hypocrisy appears in that he hid the cause of his nakedness, which was the transgression of God's commandment.(:note) naked; and I hid myself.

geneva@Genesis:3:11 @ And he saide, Who tolde thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eate?

geneva@Genesis:3:13 @ And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, (note:)Instead of confessing her sin, she increases it by accusing the serpent.(:note) The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

geneva@Genesis:3:14 @ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, (note:)He asked the reason from Adam and his wife, because he would bring them to repentance, but he does not ask the serpent, because he would show him no mercy.(:note) Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and As a vile and contemptible beast, (Isa_65:25). dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

geneva@Genesis:3:17 @ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: (note:)The transgression of God's commandment was the reason that both mankind and all other creatures were subject to the curse.(:note) cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

geneva@Genesis:3:19 @ In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.

geneva@Genesis:3:20 @ (And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)

geneva@Genesis:3:22 @ And the LORD God said, (note:)By this derision by reproaches Adam's misery, into which he was fallen by ambition.(:note) Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and Adam deprived of life, lost also the sign of it. take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

geneva@Genesis:3:23 @ Therefore the Lord God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden, to till ye earth, whence he was taken.

geneva@Genesis:3:24 @ Thus he cast out man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sworde shaken, to keepe the way of the tree of life.

geneva@Genesis:4:1 @ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she (note:)Man's nature, the estate of marriage, and God's blessing were not utterly abolished through sin, but the quality or condition of it was changed.(:note) conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man That is, according to the Lord's promise, as some read (Gen_3:15), «To the Lord» rejoicing for the son she had born, whom she would offer to the Lord as the first fruits of her birth. from the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:4:2 @ And againe she brought foorth his brother Habel, & Habel was a keeper of sheepe, and Kain was a tiller of the ground.

geneva@Genesis:4:3 @ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an (note:)This declares that the father instructed his children in the knowledge of God, and also how God gave them sacrifices to signify their salvation, though they were destitute of the ordinance of the tree of life.(:note) offering unto the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:4:5 @ But vnto Kain and to his offering he had no regarde: wherefore Kain was exceeding wroth, and his countenance fell downe.

geneva@Genesis:4:6 @ Then ye Lord said vnto Kain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance cast downe?

geneva@Genesis:4:10 @ And he said, What hast thou done? the (note:)God avenges the wrongs against his saints, though no one complains: for the iniquity itself cries for vengeance.(:note) voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

geneva@Genesis:4:13 @ And Cain said unto the LORD, (note:)He burdens God as a cruel judge because he punished him so severely.(:note) My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.

geneva@Genesis:4:14 @ Behold, thou hast cast me out this day fro the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and shalbe a vagabond, and a runnagate in the earth, and whosoeuer findeth me, shall slay me.

geneva@Genesis:4:15 @ And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, (note:)Not for the love he had for Cain, but to suppress murder.(:note) vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a Which was some visible sign of God's judgment, that others should fear by it. mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

geneva@Genesis:4:16 @ Then Kain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod towarde the Eastside of Eden.

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

geneva@Genesis:4:18 @ And to Henoch was borne Irad, and Irad begate Mehuiael, and Mehuiael begate Methushael, and Methushael begate Lamech.

geneva@Genesis:4:19 @ And Lamech took unto him (note:)The lawful institution of marriage, which is, that two should be one flesh, was first corrupted in the house of Cain by Lamech.(:note) two wives: the name of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

geneva@Genesis:4:20 @ And Adah bare Iabal, who was the father of such as dwell in the tents, and of such as haue cattell.

geneva@Genesis:4:21 @ And his brothers name was Iubal, who was the father of all that play on the harpe and organes.

geneva@Genesis:4:22 @ And Zillah also bare Tubal-kain, who wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and of yron: and the sister of Tubal-kain was Naamah.

geneva@Genesis:4:23 @ And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: (note:)His wives seeing that all men hated him for his cruelty, were afraid, therefore he brags that there is none strong enough to resist, even though he was already wounded.(:note) for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

geneva@Genesis:4:24 @ If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech (note:)He mocked at God's tolerance in Cain jesting as though God would allow no one to punish him and yet give him permission to murder others.(:note) seventy and sevenfold.

geneva@Genesis:4:26 @ And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to (note:)In these days God began to move the hearts of the godly to restore religion, which had been suppressed by the wicked for a long time.(:note) call upon the name of the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:5:3 @ And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own (note:)As well, concerning his creation, as his corruption.(:note) likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

geneva@Genesis:5:8 @ And all the days of Seth were (note:)The main reason for long life in the first age, was the multiplication of mankind, that according to God's commandment at the beginning the world might be filled with people, who would universally praise him.(:note) nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

geneva@Genesis:5:24 @ And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for (note:)To show that there was a better life prepared and to be a testimony of the immortality of souls and bodies. To inquire where he went is mere curiosity.(:note) God took him.

geneva@Genesis:5:32 @ And Noah was fiue hundreth yeere olde; Noah begate Shem, Ham and Iapheth.

geneva@Genesis:6:2 @ That the (note:)The children of the godly who began to degenerate.(:note) sons of God saw the daughters Those that had wicked parents, as if from Cain. of men that they [were] Having more respect for their beauty and worldly considerations than for their manners and godliness. fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

geneva@Genesis:6:5 @ When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,

geneva@Genesis:6:6 @ And it (note:)God never repents, but he speaks in human terms, because he destroyed him, and in a way denied him as his creature.(:note) repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

geneva@Genesis:6:7 @ And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and (note:)God declares how much he detests sin, seeing the punishment of it extends to the brute beasts.(:note) beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

geneva@Genesis:6:8 @ But Noah (note:)God was merciful to him.(:note) found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:6:9 @ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with God.

geneva@Genesis:6:11 @ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with (note:)Meaning, that all were given to the contempt of God, and oppression of their neighbours.(:note) violence.

geneva@Genesis:6:12 @ Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:7:2 @ Of every (note:)Which might be offered in sacrifice, of which six were for breeding and the seventh for sacrifice.(:note) clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.

geneva@Genesis:7:6 @ And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:7:8 @ Of the cleane beastes, and of the vncleane beastes, and of the foules, and of all that creepeth vpon the earth,

geneva@Genesis:7:9 @ There (note:)God compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as they did before to Adam, when he gave them names, (Gen_2:19).(:note) went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

geneva@Genesis:7:12 @ And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

geneva@Genesis:7:14 @ They and euery beast after his kinde, and all cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euen euery bird of euery fether.

geneva@Genesis:7:16 @ And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD (note:)So that God's secret power defended him against the rage of the mighty waters.(:note) shut him in.

geneva@Genesis:7:17 @ Then ye flood was fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the Arke, which was lift vp aboue the earth.

geneva@Genesis:7:18 @ The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly vpon the earth, and the Arke went vpon the waters.

geneva@Genesis:7:21 @ Then all flesh perished that moued vpon the earth, both foule and cattell and beast, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, and euery man.

geneva@Genesis:7:23 @ And every living substance was destroyed (note:)That is, by God.(:note) which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only Learn what it is to obey God only, and to forsake the multitude, (1Pe_3:20). remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.

geneva@Genesis:8:1 @ And God (note:)Not that God forgets his at any time, but when he sends comfort then he shows that he remembers them.(:note) remembered Noah, and If God remembered every brute beast, that ought also to assure his children. every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

geneva@Genesis:8:2 @ The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,

geneva@Genesis:8:5 @ And the waters decreased continually until the (note:)Which was the month of December.(:note) tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

geneva@Genesis:8:9 @ But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he (note:)The raven flew to and fro, resting on the ark, but did not come into it, unlike the dove that was taken in.(:note) put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

geneva@Genesis:8:11 @ And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an (note:)Which was a sign that the waters were much diminished: for the olives do not grow on the high mountains.(:note) olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

geneva@Genesis:8:13 @ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the (note:)Called in Hebrew Abib, part of March and part of April.(:note) first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

geneva@Genesis:8:14 @ And in the second moneth, in the seuen & twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.

geneva@Genesis:8:17 @ Bring forth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all flesh, both foule and cattell, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, that they may breede abundantly in ye earth, and bring forth fruite & increase vpon ye earth.

geneva@Genesis:8:19 @ Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery foule, all that moueth vpon the earth after their kindes went out of the Arke.

geneva@Genesis:8:20 @ And Noah (note:)For sacrifices which were as an exercise of their faith, by which they used to give thanks to God for his benefits.(:note) builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

geneva@Genesis:8:21 @ And the LORD smelled a (note:)That is, by it he showed himself appeased and his anger at rest.(:note) sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

geneva@Genesis:8:22 @ While the earth remaineth, (note:)The order of nature destroyed by the flood, is restored by God's promise.(:note) seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

geneva@Genesis:9:1 @ And God (note:)God increased them with fruit, and declared to them his counsel as concerning the replenishing of the earth.(:note) blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:2 @ And the (note:)By the virtue of this commandment, beasts do not rage as much against man as they would, yea and many serve his purposes by it.(:note) fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

geneva@Genesis:9:3 @ Every (note:)By this permission man may with a good conscience use the creatures of God for his needs.(:note) moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

geneva@Genesis:9:7 @ But bring ye forth fruite & multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.

geneva@Genesis:9:9 @ And I, behold, I establish my (note:)To assure you that the world will never again be destroyed by a flood.(:note) covenant with you, and with your The children which are not yet born, are comprehended in God's covenant with their fathers. seed after you;

geneva@Genesis:9:10 @ And with euery liuing creature that is with you, with the foule, with the cattell, and with euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, vnto euery beast of the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:16 @ Therefore the bowe shalbe in the cloude, that I may see it, and remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God, and euery liuing thing in all flesh that is vpon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:9:19 @ These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth (note:)This declares what the virtue of God's blessing was, when he said, increase and bring forth in (Gen_1:28).(:note) overspread.

geneva@Genesis:9:21 @ And he drank of the wine, and was (note:)This is set before us to show what a horrible thing drunkenness is.(:note) drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

geneva@Genesis:9:25 @ And he said, (note:)He pronounces as a prophet the curse of God against all those who do not honour their parents: for Ham and his posterity were cursed.(:note) Cursed [be] Canaan; a That is, a most vile slave. servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

geneva@Genesis:9:27 @ God shall (note:)He declares that the Gentiles, who came from Japheth, and were separated from the Church, should be joined to the same by the persuasion of God's Spirit, and preaching of the gospel.(:note) enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

geneva@Genesis:10:2 @ The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and (note:)Of Madai and Javan came the Medes and Greeks.(:note) Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

geneva@Genesis:10:3 @ And the sonnes of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

geneva@Genesis:10:5 @ By these were the (note:)So do the Jews call all countries which are separated from them by sea, as Greece, Italy etc, which were given to the children of Japheth, of whom came the Gentiles.(:note) isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

geneva@Genesis:10:9 @ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even (note:)His tyranny came into a proverb as hated both by God and man: for he did not cease to commit cruelty even in God's presence.(:note) as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:10:10 @ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of (note:)For there was another city in Egypt, called Babel.(:note) Shinar.

geneva@Genesis:10:11 @ Out of that land came Asshur, and builded Niniueh, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah:

geneva@Genesis:10:14 @ Pathrusim also, & Casluhim (out of whom came the Philistims) and Caphtorims.

geneva@Genesis:10:16 @ And Iebusi, and Emori, and Girgashi,

geneva@Genesis:10:19 @ Then the border of the Canaanites was from Zidon, as thou commest to Gerar vntil Azzah, and as thou goest vnto Sodom, & Gomorah, and Admah, and Zeboijm, euen vnto Lasha.

geneva@Genesis:10:21 @ Unto (note:)In his stock the Church was preserved: therefore Moses stops speaking of Japheth and Ham, and speaks of Shem extensively.(:note) Shem also, the father of all the children of Of whom came the Hebrews or Jews. Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.

geneva@Genesis:10:22 @ The sonnes of Shem were Elam and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

geneva@Genesis:10:23 @ And the sonnes of Aram, Vz and Hul, and Gether and Mash.

geneva@Genesis:10:25 @ And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth (note:)This division came by the diversity of language, as appears in (Gen_11:9).(:note) divided; and his brother's name [was] Joktan.

geneva@Genesis:10:30 @ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest vnto Sephar a mount of the East.

geneva@Genesis:11:1 @ Then the whole earth was of one language and one speache.

geneva@Genesis:11:2 @ And it came to pass, (note:)One hundred and thirty years after the flood.(:note) as That is, Nimrod and his company. they journeyed from the That is, from Armenia where the ark stayed. east, that they found a plain in the land of Which was afterward called Chaldea. Shinar; and they dwelt there.

geneva@Genesis:11:5 @ And the LORD (note:)Meaning, that he declared by effect, that he knew their wicked enterprise; for God's power is everywhere, and neither ascends nor descends.(:note) came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

geneva@Genesis:11:6 @ And the LORD said, (note:)God speaks this in derision, because of their foolish persuasion and enterprise.(:note) Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

geneva@Genesis:11:7 @ Go to, (note:)He speaks as though he took counsel with his own wisdom and power: that is, with the Son and holy Spirit: signifying the greatness and certainty of the punishment.(:note) let us go down, and By this great plague of the confusion of tongues appears God's horrible judgment against man's pride and vain glory. there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

geneva@Genesis:11:9 @ Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lorde did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.

geneva@Genesis:11:10 @ These [are] the generations (note:)He returns to the genealogy of Shem, to come to the history of Abram, in which the Church of God is described, which is Moses' principle purpose.(:note) of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

geneva@Genesis:11:27 @ Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat (note:)He makes mention first of Abram, not because he was the first born, but for the history which properly belongs to him. Also Abram at the confusion of tongues was 43 years old, for in the destruction of Sodom he was 99 and it was destroyed 52 years after the confusion of tongues.(:note) Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

geneva@Genesis:11:29 @ And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of (note:)Some think that this Iscah was Sarai.(:note) Iscah.

geneva@Genesis:11:30 @ But Sarai was barren, and had no childe.

geneva@Genesis:11:31 @ And (note:)Though the oracle of God came to Abram, yet the honour is given to Terah, because he was the father.(:note) Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Which was a city of Mesopotamia. Haran, and dwelt there.

geneva@Genesis:12:4 @ So Abram departed, euen as ye Lorde spake vnto him, and Lot went with him. (And Abram was seuentie and fiue yeere olde, when he departed out of Haran)

geneva@Genesis:12:5 @ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the (note:)Meaning servants as well as cattle.(:note) souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

geneva@Genesis:12:6 @ And Abram (note:)He wandered to and fro in the land before he could find a settling place: thus God exercises the faith of his children.(:note) passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Which was a cruel and rebellious nation, by whom God kept his in continual exercise. Canaanite [was] then in the land.

geneva@Genesis:12:7 @ And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he (note:)It was not enough for him to worship God in his heart, but it was expedient to declare by outward profession his faith before men, of which this altar was a sign.(:note) an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

geneva@Genesis:12:8 @ And he removed from (note:)Because of the troubles that he had among that wicked people.(:note) thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an And so served the true God, and renounced all idolatry. altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

geneva@Genesis:12:10 @ And there was a (note:)This was a new trial of Abram's faith: by which we see that the end of one affliction is the beginning of another.(:note) famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.

geneva@Genesis:12:12 @ Therefore it will come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keepe thee aliue.

geneva@Genesis:12:13 @ Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my (note:)By this we learn not to use unlawful means nor to put others in danger to save ourselves, (Gen_12:20). Though it may appear that Abram did not fear death, so much as dying without children, he acts as though God's promise had not taken place; in which appeared a weak faith.(:note) sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

geneva@Genesis:12:14 @ Nowe when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman: for she was very faire.

geneva@Genesis:12:15 @ The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was (note:)To be his wife.(:note) taken into Pharaoh's house.

geneva@Genesis:12:16 @ Who intreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheepe, and beeues, and hee asses, and men seruants and maide seruants, and shee asses, and camelles.

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:12:18 @ Then Pharaoh called Abram, and saide, Why hast thou done this vnto me? Wherefore diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?

geneva@Genesis:13:2 @ And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer and in golde.

geneva@Genesis:13:3 @ And he went on his journeys from the south even to (note:)He calls the place by the name which was later given to it, (Gen_23:19).(:note) Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

geneva@Genesis:13:6 @ And the land was not able to (note:)This inconvenience came by their riches, which break friendships and the bounds of nature.(:note) bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

geneva@Genesis:13:7 @ And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the (note:)Who seeing their contention, might blaspheme God and destroy them.(:note) Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

geneva@Genesis:13:8 @ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no (note:)He cuts off the opportunity for contention: therefore the evil ceases.(:note) strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [be] brethren.

geneva@Genesis:13:10 @ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the (note:)Which was in Eden, (Gen_2:10).(:note) garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

geneva@Genesis:13:11 @ Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the (note:)This was done by God's providence, that only Abram and his seed might dwell in the land of Canaan.(:note) one from the other.

geneva@Genesis:13:14 @ And the LORD said unto (note:)The Lord comforted him, lest he should have taken thought for the departure of his nephew.(:note) Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

geneva@Genesis:13:15 @ For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for (note:)Meaning a long time, and till the coming of Christ as in (Exo_12:14, Exo_21:6; Deu_15:17) and spiritually this refers to the true children of Abram born according to the promise, and not according to the flesh, which are heirs of the true land of Canaan.(:note) ever.

geneva@Genesis:13:16 @ And I will make thy seede, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede be numbred.

geneva@Genesis:14:1 @ And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of (note:)That is, of Babylon: by kings here, meaning, them that were governors of cities.(:note) Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Of a people gathered from various countries. nations;

geneva@Genesis:14:3 @ All these were (note:)Ambition is the chief cause of wars among princes.(:note) joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the Called also the dead sea, or the lake Asphaltite, near Sodom and Gomorrah. salt sea.

geneva@Genesis:14:5 @ And in the fourteenth yeere came Chedor-laomer, and the Kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaueh Kiriathaim,

geneva@Genesis:14:9 @ To wit, with Chedor-laomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar: foure Kings against fiue.

geneva@Genesis:14:10 @ And the (note:)And afterward was overwhelmed with water, and so was called the salt sea.(:note) vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

geneva@Genesis:14:14 @ When Abram heard that his brother was taken, he brought forth of them that were borne and brought vp in his house, three hundreth and eighteene, and pursued them vnto Daniel.

geneva@Genesis:14:15 @ Then he, and his seruants deuided them selues against them by night, & smote them and pursued them vnto Hobah, which is on the left side of Damascus,

geneva@Genesis:14:18 @ And Melchizedek king of Salem (note:)For Abram and his soldiers refreshment, not to offer sacrifice.(:note) brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God.

geneva@Genesis:14:19 @ And he (note:)Melchizedek fed Abram, declared himself to represent a king, and he blessed him as the high priest.(:note) blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

geneva@Genesis:14:23 @ That I will not take of all that is thine, so much as a threde or shoolatchet, lest thou shouldest say, I haue made Abram riche,

geneva@Genesis:15:2 @ And Abram said, (note:)His fear was not only lest he should not have children, but lest the promise of the blessed seed should not be accomplished in him.(:note) Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of Damascus?

geneva@Genesis:15:3 @ Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.

geneva@Genesis:15:8 @ And he said, Lord GOD, (note:)This is a particular motion of God's Spirit, which is not lawful for all to follow, in asking signs: but was permitted for some by a peculiar motion, as to Gideon and Ezekiel.(:note) whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

geneva@Genesis:15:10 @ And he took unto him all these, and (note:)This was the old custom in making covenants, (Jer_39:18), to which God added these conditions, that Abram's posterity would be as torn in pieces, but after they would be rejoined: also that it would be assaulted, but yet delivered.(:note) divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

geneva@Genesis:15:11 @ Then foules fell on the carkases, and Abram droue them away.

geneva@Genesis:15:16 @ But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the (note:)Though God tolerates the wicked for a time, yet his vengeance falls on them when the measure of their wickedness is full.(:note) iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.

geneva@Genesis:15:17 @ Also when the sunne went downe, there was a darkenes: & behold, a smoking fornace, and a firebrand, which went betweene those pieces.

geneva@Genesis:15:21 @ The Amorites also, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Iebusites.

geneva@Genesis:16:1 @ Now (note:)It seems that she had respect for God's promise, which could not be accomplished without issue.(:note) Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.

geneva@Genesis:16:2 @ And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath (note:)She fails by limiting God's power to the common order of nature, as though God could not give her children in her old age.(:note) restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

geneva@Genesis:16:4 @ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was (note:)This punishment declares what they gain if they attempt any thing against the word of God.(:note) despised in her eyes.

geneva@Genesis:16:6 @ Then Abram saide to Sarai, Beholde, thy maide is in thine hand: doe with her as it pleaseth thee. Then Sarai dealt roughly with her: wherefore she fled from her.

geneva@Genesis:16:7 @ And the (note:)Which was Christ, as appears in (Gen_16:13, Gen_18:17).(:note) angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

geneva@Genesis:16:10 @ Againe the Angel of the Lorde saide vnto her, I will so greatly increase thy seede, that it shal not be numbred for multitude.

geneva@Genesis:16:13 @ And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, (note:)She rebukes her own dullness and acknowledges God's graces, who was present with her everywhere.(:note) Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

geneva@Genesis:16:14 @ Wherefore the well was called, Beerlahai-roi. lo, it is betweene Kadesh and Bered.

geneva@Genesis:16:16 @ And Abram was foure score and sixe yeere olde, when Hagar bare him Ishmael.

geneva@Genesis:17:1 @ When Abram was ninetie yeere olde and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said vnto him, I am God all sufficient. walke before me, and be thou vpright,

geneva@Genesis:17:4 @ As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a (note:)Not only physical descendants, but of a far greater multitude by faith, (Rom_4:17).(:note) father of many nations.

geneva@Genesis:17:7 @ Moreouer I wil establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee and to thy seede after thee.

geneva@Genesis:17:8 @ And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.

geneva@Genesis:17:12 @ And euery man childe of eight dayes olde among you, shalbe circumcised in your generations, aswell he that is borne in thine house, as he that is bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seede.

geneva@Genesis:17:13 @ He that is borne in thine house, & he that is bought with thy money, must needes be circumcised: so my couenant shall be in your flesh for an euerlasting couenant.

geneva@Genesis:17:14 @ And the uncircumcised (note:)Though women were not circumcised, they still partook of God's promise: for under mankind all was consecrated. Here it is declared, that whoever condemns the sign, also despises the promise.(:note) man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

geneva@Genesis:17:19 @ And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an (note:)The everlasting covenant is made with the children of the Spirit. A temporary promise is made with the children of the flesh, as was promised to Ishmael.(:note) everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him.

geneva@Genesis:17:20 @ And as concerning Ishmael, I haue heard thee: loe, I haue blessed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiplie him exceedingly: twelue princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.

geneva@Genesis:17:21 @ But my couenant will I establish with Izhak, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, the next yeere at this season.

geneva@Genesis:17:23 @ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and (note:)They were well taught if they obeyed and were circumcised without resistance. This teaches that masters in their houses ought to be as preachers to their families, that from the highest to the lowest they may obey the will of God.(:note) circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

geneva@Genesis:17:24 @ Abraham also himselfe was ninetie yeere olde and nine, when the foreskinne of his flesh was circumcised.

geneva@Genesis:17:25 @ And Ishmael his sonne was thirteene yeere olde, when the foreskinne of his flesh was circumcised.

geneva@Genesis:17:26 @ The selfe same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his sonne:

geneva@Genesis:18:1 @ Againe the Lord appeared vnto him in the plaine of Mamre, as he sate in his tent doore about the heate of the day.

geneva@Genesis:18:3 @ And said, My (note:)Speaking to the one who appeared to be most majestic, for he thought they were men.(:note) Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

geneva@Genesis:18:4 @ Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and (note:)For men used to go bare footed in those parts because of the heat.(:note) wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

geneva@Genesis:18:5 @ And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye (note:)As sent by God that I should do my duty to you.(:note) come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

geneva@Genesis:18:6 @ Then Abraham made haste into the tent vnto Sarah, and saide, Make ready at once three measures of fine meale: kneade it, and make cakes vpon the hearth.

geneva@Genesis:18:7 @ And Abraham ranne to the beastes, and tooke a tender and good calfe, and gaue it to the seruant, who hasted to make it ready.

geneva@Genesis:18:8 @ And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and (note:)For as God gave them bodies for a time, so he gave them the abilities of them, to walk, to eat and drink, and such like.(:note) they did eat.

geneva@Genesis:18:10 @ And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of (note:)That is, about this time when she shall be alive, or when the child shall come into this life.(:note) life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him.

geneva@Genesis:18:11 @ (Nowe Abraham and Sarah were old and striken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the maner of women)

geneva@Genesis:18:12 @ Therefore Sarah (note:)For she believed the order of nature, rather than believing the promise of God.(:note) laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

geneva@Genesis:18:15 @ But Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraide; he said, It is not so: for thou laughedst.

geneva@Genesis:18:17 @ And the (note:)Jehovah the Hebrew word we call Lord, shows that this angel was Christ: for this word is only applied to God.(:note) LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

geneva@Genesis:18:21 @ I will (note:)God speaks after the fashion of men: that is, I will enter into judgment with good advise.(:note) go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the For our sins cry for vengeance, though no one accuses us. cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

geneva@Genesis:18:25 @ Be it farre fro thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be euen as the wicked, be it farre from thee. shall not the Iudge of all the worlde doe right?

geneva@Genesis:18:27 @ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am (note:)By this we learn, that the nearer we approach to God, the more our miserable estate appears, and the more we are humbled.(:note) but] dust and ashes:

geneva@Genesis:19:2 @ And he saide, See my Lords, I pray you turne in nowe into your seruants house, and tarie all night, and wash your feete, & ye shall rise vp early and goe your wayes. Who saide, Nay, but we will abide in the streete all night.

geneva@Genesis:19:3 @ And (note:)That is, he begged them so insistently.(:note) he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they Not because they had need, but because the time was not yet come for them to reveal themselves. did eat.

geneva@Genesis:19:4 @ But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, (note:)Nothing is more dangerous than to live where sin reigns: for it corrupts all.(:note) all the people from every quarter:

geneva@Genesis:19:8 @ Behold now, I have two (note:)He deserves praise for defending his guests, but he is to be blamed for seeking unlawful means.(:note) daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; That I should preserve them from all injury. for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

geneva@Genesis:19:9 @ Then they said, Away hence, and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he iudge and rule? We will nowe deale worse with thee then with them. So they preassed sore vpon Lot himselfe, and came to breake the doore.

geneva@Genesis:19:12 @ Then the men said vnto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either sonne in lawe, or thy sonnes, or thy daughters, or whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring it out of this place.

geneva@Genesis:19:14 @ Then Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe, which maried his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the citie: but he seemed to his sonnes in lawe as though he had mocked.

geneva@Genesis:19:15 @ And when the morning arose, the Angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the citie.

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

geneva@Genesis:19:19 @ Behold now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauing my life: and I cannot escape in the mountaine, least some euill take me, and I die.

geneva@Genesis:19:21 @ Then he said vnto him, Beholde, I haue receiued thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not ouerthrow this citie, for the which thou hast spoken.

geneva@Genesis:19:22 @ Haste thee, escape thither; for I (note:)Because God's commandment was to destroy the city and to save Lot.(:note) cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Which before was called Belah, in (Gen_14:2). Zoar.

geneva@Genesis:19:26 @ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a (note:)Concerning the body only: this was a notable monument of God's vengeance to all who passed that way.(:note) pillar of salt.

geneva@Genesis:19:28 @ And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.

geneva@Genesis:19:37 @ And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the (note:)Who as they were born in most horrible incest, so were they and their posterity vile and wicked.(:note) Moabites unto this day.

geneva@Genesis:20:1 @ And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and (note:)Which was toward Egypt.(:note) Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

geneva@Genesis:20:3 @ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, (note:)So greatly God detests the breach of marriage.(:note) thou [art but] a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she [is] a man's wife.

geneva@Genesis:20:4 @ But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also (note:)The infidels confessed that God would not punish but for just occasion: therefore, when he punishes, the occasion is just.(:note) a righteous nation?

geneva@Genesis:20:5 @ Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she, even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of my (note:)As one falling by ignorance, and not doing evil on purpose.(:note) heart and Not thinking to do any man harm. innocency of my hands have I done this.

geneva@Genesis:20:9 @ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my (note:)The wickedness of the king brings God's wrath on the whole realm.(:note) kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

geneva@Genesis:20:10 @ So Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What sawest thou that thou hast done this thing?

geneva@Genesis:20:15 @ And Abimelech saide, Beholde, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

geneva@Genesis:20:16 @ And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to thee a (note:)Such a head as with whom you may be preserved from all dangers.(:note) covering of the eyes, unto all that [are] with thee, and with all [other]: God caused this heathen king to reprove her because she concealed her identity, seeing that God had given her a husband as her veil and defence. thus she was reproved.

geneva@Genesis:20:18 @ For the LORD (note:)Had taken away from them the gift of conceiving.(:note) had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

geneva@Genesis:21:1 @ Nowe the Lord visited Sarah, as he had saide, and did vnto her according as he had promised.

geneva@Genesis:21:2 @ For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his (note:)Therefore the miracle was greater.(:note) old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

geneva@Genesis:21:3 @ And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, which Sarah bare him, Izhak.

geneva@Genesis:21:4 @ Then Abraha circumcised Izhak his sonne, when he was eight dayes olde, as God had commanded him.

geneva@Genesis:21:5 @ So Abraham was an hundreth yeere olde, when his sonne Izhak was borne vnto him.

geneva@Genesis:21:8 @ Then the childe grewe and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Izhak was weaned.

geneva@Genesis:21:10 @ Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.

geneva@Genesis:21:11 @ And this thing was very grieuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.

geneva@Genesis:21:15 @ And when the water of the bottell was spent, she cast the childe vnder a certaine tree.

geneva@Genesis:21:20 @ And God was (note:)Concerning outward things God caused him to prosper.(:note) with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

geneva@Genesis:21:23 @ Nowe therefore sweare vnto me here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my children, nor my childrens children: thou shalt deale with me, and with the countrey, where thou hast bene a stranger, according vnto the kindnesse that I haue shewed thee.

geneva@Genesis:21:24 @ And Abraham said, I will (note:)So that it is a lawful thing to take an oath in matters of importance, to justify the truth, and to assure others of our sincerity.(:note) swear.

geneva@Genesis:21:26 @ And Abimelech said, (note:)Wicked servants do many evils unknown to their masters.(:note) I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it], but to day.

geneva@Genesis:21:29 @ Then Abimelech said vnto Abraham, What meane these seuen lambes, which thou hast set by themselues?

geneva@Genesis:21:33 @ And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and (note:)That is, he worshipped God in all points of true religion.(:note) called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

geneva@Genesis:21:34 @ And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistims land a long season.

geneva@Genesis:22:2 @ And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of (note:)Signifying the fear of God, in which place he was also honoured, Solomon later building the temple there.(:note) Moriah; and This was the main point of his temptation, seeing that he was commanded to offer up him in whom God had promised to bless all the nations of the world. offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

geneva@Genesis:22:3 @ Then Abraham rose vp early in the morning, and sadled his asse, and tooke two of his seruants with him, and Izhak his sonne, and cloue wood for the burnt offering, and rose vp & went to the place, which God had tolde him.

geneva@Genesis:22:5 @ And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and (note:)He did not doubt that God would accomplish his promise, even if he should sacrifice his son.(:note) come again to you.

geneva@Genesis:22:12 @ And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I (note:)That is, by your true obedience you have declared your living faith.(:note) know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from me.

geneva@Genesis:22:13 @ And Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and behold, there was a ramme behind him caught by the hornes in a bush. then Abraham went and tooke the ramme, and offered him vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne.

geneva@Genesis:22:14 @ And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall (note:)The name is changed to show that God both sees and provides secretly for his and also evidently is seen, and felt in the right time.(:note) be seen.

geneva@Genesis:22:16 @ And said, By (note:)Signifying, that there is none greater then he.(:note) myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son]:

geneva@Genesis:22:17 @ Therefore will I surely blesse thee, and will greatly multiplie thy seede, as the starres of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon the sea shore, and thy seede shall possesse the gate of his enemies.

geneva@Genesis:22:18 @ And in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voyce.

geneva@Genesis:22:22 @ And Chesed and Hazo, and Pildash, and Iidlaph, and Bethuel.

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:23:1 @ When Sarah was an hundreth twentie and seuen yeere olde ( so long liued she).

geneva@Genesis:23:3 @ And Abraham (note:)That is, when he had mourned: so the godly may mourn if they do not pass measure, and the natural affection is commendable.(:note) stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

geneva@Genesis:23:9 @ That he would giue me ye caue of Machpelah, which he hath in the ende of his field: that he would giue it me for as much money as it is worth, for a possession to bury in among you.

geneva@Genesis:23:17 @ So the fielde of Ephron which was in Machpelah, and ouer against Mamre, euen the field and the caue that was therein, and all the trees that were in the fielde, which were in all the borders round about, was made sure

geneva@Genesis:24:1 @ Nowe Abraham was olde, and striken in yeeres, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

geneva@Genesis:24:2 @ And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, (note:)Which ceremony declared, the servants obedience towards his master, and the master's power over the servant.(:note) Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

geneva@Genesis:24:7 @ The Lord God of heauen, who tooke me from my fathers house, and from the land where I was borne, and that spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, Vnto thy seede wil I giue this land, he shall send his Angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife vnto my sonne fro thence.

geneva@Genesis:24:9 @ Then the seruant put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him for this matter.

geneva@Genesis:24:10 @ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master [were] in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the (note:)That is, to Charran.(:note) city of Nahor.

geneva@Genesis:24:12 @ And he said, O (note:)He grounds his prayer on God's promise made to his master.(:note) LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

geneva@Genesis:24:15 @ And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, (note:)God gives success to all things that are done for the glory of his name and according to his word.(:note) Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

geneva@Genesis:24:16 @ And the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she (note:)Here is declared that God hears the prayers of his own, and grants their requests.(:note) went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

geneva@Genesis:24:18 @ And she said, Drinke sir: and she hasted, and let downe her pitcher vpon her hand and gaue him drinke.

geneva@Genesis:24:22 @ And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden (note:)God permitted many things both in apparel and other things which are now forbidden especially when they do not suit our humble estate.(:note) earring of The golden shekel is meant here, not silver. half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold;

geneva@Genesis:24:27 @ And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy (note:)He does not boast in his good fortune (as the wicked do) but acknowledges that God has dealt mercifully with this matter in keeping his promise.(:note) and his truth: I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

geneva@Genesis:24:30 @ And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, (note:)For he waited on God's hand, who heard his prayer.(:note) he stood by the camels at the well.

geneva@Genesis:24:32 @ And the man came into the house: and (note:)That is, Laban.(:note) he ungirded his The gentle entertainment of strangers practised by the godly fathers. camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that [were] with him.

geneva@Genesis:24:33 @ And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he said, I (note:)The faithfulness that servants owe to their masters, causes them to prefer their masters business before their own needs.(:note) will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

geneva@Genesis:24:35 @ And the LORD hath (note:)To bless signifies here to enrich, or increase with substance as the text in the same verse declares.(:note) blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

geneva@Genesis:24:36 @ And Sarah my masters wife hath borne a sonne to my master, when she was olde, and vnto him hath he giuen all that he hath.

geneva@Genesis:24:37 @ And my master made me swear, saying, (note:)The Canaanites were cursed, and therefore the godly could not join with them in marriage.(:note) Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

geneva@Genesis:24:38 @ But thou shalt go unto my (note:)Meaning among his relatives, as in (Gen_24:40).(:note) father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

geneva@Genesis:24:39 @ Then I saide vnto my master, What if the woman will not followe me?

geneva@Genesis:24:42 @ So I came this day to the well, and said, O Lorde, the God of my master Abraham, if thou nowe prosper my iourney which I goe,

geneva@Genesis:24:44 @ And she say to me, Drinke thou, and I will also drawe for thy camels, let her be ye wife, which the Lord hath prepared for my masters sonne.

geneva@Genesis:24:45 @ And before I had done speaking in mine (note:)Signifying that this prayer was not spoken by the mouth, but only in his heart.(:note) heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew [water]: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.

geneva@Genesis:24:46 @ And she made haste, and tooke downe her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also. So I dranke, and she gaue the camels drinke also.

geneva@Genesis:24:47 @ Then I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she answered, The daughter of Bethuel Nahors sonne, whom Milcah bare vnto him. Then I put the abillement vpon her face, and the bracelets vpon her hands:

geneva@Genesis:24:49 @ And now if ye will deal (note:)If you will freely and faithfully give your daughter to my master's son.(:note) kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the That is, that I may look elsewhere. right hand, or to the left.

geneva@Genesis:24:50 @ Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, (note:)As soon as they perceived that it was God's ordinance they yielded.(:note) The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

geneva@Genesis:24:51 @ Beholde, Rebehak is before thee, take her and goe, that she may be thy masters sonnes wife, euen as the Lord hath said.

geneva@Genesis:24:54 @ Afterward they did eate & drinke, both he, and the men that were with him, and taried all night; when they rose vp in the morning, he said, Let me depart vnto my master.

geneva@Genesis:24:55 @ Then her brother and her mother answered, Let the maide abide with vs, at the least ten dayes: then shall she goe.

geneva@Genesis:24:56 @ But he said vnto them, Hinder you me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my iourney: send me away, that I may goe to my master.

geneva@Genesis:24:63 @ And Isaac went out to (note:)This was the habit of the godly fathers to meditate on God's promises, and to pray for the accomplishment of it. The custom was that the bride was brought to her husband, her head covered, a token of humbleness and purity.(:note) meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels [were] coming.

geneva@Genesis:24:65 @ (For shee had sayde to the seruant, Who is yonder man, that commeth in the fielde to meete vs? and the seruant had said, It is my master) So she tooke a vaile, and couered her.

geneva@Genesis:24:67 @ Afterward Izhak brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and he tooke Rebekah, and she was his wife, and he loued her: So Izhak was comforted after his mothers death.

geneva@Genesis:25:1 @ Then again Abraham (note:)While Sarah was yet alive.(:note) took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.

geneva@Genesis:25:3 @ And Iokshan begate Sheba, and Dedan: And the sonnes of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

geneva@Genesis:25:6 @ But unto the (note:)For by virtue of God's word he not only had Isaac, but begat many more.(:note) sons of the See (Gen_22:24). concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham To avoid the disputing that otherwise might have come because of the heritage. gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

geneva@Genesis:25:8 @ Then Abraham yeelded the spirit, and died in a good age, an olde man, and of great yeeres, & was gathered to his people.

geneva@Genesis:25:10 @ Which fielde Abraham bought of the Hittites, where Abraham was buryed with Sarah his wife.

geneva@Genesis:25:13 @ And these are the names of the sonnes of Ishmael, name by name, according to their kinreds; the eldest sonne of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

geneva@Genesis:25:14 @ And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

geneva@Genesis:25:16 @ These are the sonnes of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their townes and by their castles: to wit, twelue princes of their nations.

geneva@Genesis:25:17 @ And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his (note:)Who dwelt among the Arabians, and were separate from the blessed seed.(:note) people.

geneva@Genesis:25:18 @ And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is] before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he died (note:)He means that his lot fell to dwell among his brethren as the angel promised.(:note) in the presence of all his brethren.

geneva@Genesis:25:20 @ And Izhak was fourtie yeere olde, when he tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite of Padan Aram, and sister to Laban the Aramite.

geneva@Genesis:25:21 @ And Izhak prayed vuto the Lorde for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiued,

geneva@Genesis:25:24 @ Therefore when her time of deliuerance was fulfilled, behold, twinnes were in her wombe.

geneva@Genesis:25:25 @ So he that came out first was red, and he was all ouer as a rough garment, and they called his name Esau.

geneva@Genesis:25:26 @ And afterward came his brother out, and his hande helde Esau by the heele: therefore his name was called Iaakob. Nowe Izhak was threescore yeere olde when Rebekah bare them.

geneva@Genesis:25:27 @ And the boyes grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, and liued in the fields: but Iaakob was a plaine man, and dwelt in tentes.

geneva@Genesis:25:28 @ And Izhak loued Esau, for venison was his meate, but Rebekah loued Iaakob.

geneva@Genesis:25:29 @ Nowe Iaakob sod pottage, and Esau came from the fielde and was wearie.

geneva@Genesis:25:30 @ Then Esau sayd to Iaakob, Let me eate, I pray thee, of that pottage so red, for I am wearie. Therefore was his name called Edom.

geneva@Genesis:25:32 @ And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what (note:)The reprobate do not value God's benefits unless they feel them presently, and therefore they prefer present pleasures.(:note) profit shall this birthright do to me?

geneva@Genesis:26:1 @ And there was a famine in the (note:)In the land of Canaan.(:note) land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

geneva@Genesis:26:4 @ Also I wil cause thy seede to multiply as the starres of heauen, and will giue vnto thy seede all these countreys: and in thy seede shall all the nanations of the earth be blessed,

geneva@Genesis:26:5 @ Because that Abraham (note:)He commends Abraham's obedience, because Isaac should be even more ready to follow the same: for as God made this promise of his free mercy, so does the confirmation of it proceed from the same fountain.(:note) obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

geneva@Genesis:26:7 @ And the men of the place asked [him] of his wife; and he said, She [is] my sister: (note:)By which we see that fear and distrust is found in the most faithful.(:note) for he feared to say, [She is] my wife; lest, [said he], the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she [was] fair to look upon.

geneva@Genesis:26:8 @ And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac [was] (note:)Or showing some familiar sign of love, by which it might be known that she was his wife.(:note) sporting with Rebekah his wife.

geneva@Genesis:26:10 @ And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought (note:)In all ages men were persuaded that God's vengeance would come on adulterers.(:note) guiltiness upon us.

geneva@Genesis:26:13 @ And the man waxed mightie, and stil increased, till he was exceeding great,

geneva@Genesis:26:22 @ Then he remoued thence, and digged an other well, for the which they stroue not: therefore called hee the name of it Rehoboth, and sayde, Because the Lorde hath nowe made vs roome, we shall increase vpon the earth.

geneva@Genesis:26:24 @ And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I [am] the God (note:)God assures Isaac against all fear by rehearsing the promise made to Abraham.(:note) of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

geneva@Genesis:26:28 @ Who answered, Wee sawe certainely that the Lorde was with thee, and wee thought thus, Let there be nowe an othe betweene vs, euen betweene vs and thee, and let vs make a couenant with thee.

geneva@Genesis:26:30 @ Then hee made them a feast, and they dyd eate and drinke.

geneva@Genesis:26:34 @ Nowe when Esau was fourtie yeere olde, he tooke to wife Iudith, the daughter of Beeri an Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon an Hittite also.

geneva@Genesis:27:1 @ And when Izhak was olde, and his eyes were dimme (so that he coulde not see) he called Esau his eldest sonne, and sayde vnto him, My sonne; he answered him, I am here.

geneva@Genesis:27:4 @ And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my (note:)The carnal affection he had for his son made him forget what God spoke to his wife. (Gen_25:23).(:note) soul may bless thee before I die.

geneva@Genesis:27:13 @ And his mother said unto him, (note:)The assurance of God's decree made her bold.(:note) Upon me [be] thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them].

geneva@Genesis:27:14 @ So he went and set them, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made pleasant meat, such as his father loued.

geneva@Genesis:27:17 @ Afterward she put the pleasant meate and bread, which she had prepared, in the hand of her sonne Iaakob.

geneva@Genesis:27:19 @ And Jacob said unto his father, (note:)Although Jacob was assured of this blessing by faith: yet he did evil to seek it by lies, even more because he abuses God's name through it.(:note) I [am] Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

geneva@Genesis:27:20 @ Then Izhak said vnto his sonne, Howe hast thou founde it so quickly my sonne? Who sayde, Because the Lorde thy God brought it to mine hande.

geneva@Genesis:27:23 @ (For he knewe him not, because his hands were rough as his brother Esaus hands: wherefore he blessed him)

geneva@Genesis:27:27 @ And hee came neere and kissed him. Then he smelled the sauour of his garmentes, and blessed him, and sayde, Behold, the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a fielde, which the Lorde hath blessed.

geneva@Genesis:27:30 @ And when Izhak had made an ende of blessing Iaakob, and Iaakob was scarce gone out from the presence of Izhak his father, then came Esau his brother from his hunting,

geneva@Genesis:27:34 @ When Esau heard the wordes of his father, he cryed out with a great crye and bitter, out of measure, and sayde vnto his father, Blesse me, euen me also, my father.

geneva@Genesis:27:36 @ And he said, Is not he rightly named (note:)In (Gen_25:26) he was so called because he held his brother by the heel, as though he would overthrow him: and therefore he is here called an overthrower, or deceiver.(:note) Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

geneva@Genesis:27:37 @ And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him (note:)For Isaac did this as he was the minister and prophet of God.(:note) thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

geneva@Genesis:27:38 @ Then Esau sayde vnto his father, Hast thou but one blessing my father? blesse mee, euen me also, my father: and Esau lifted vp his voyce, and wept.

geneva@Genesis:27:40 @ And (note:)Because your enemies will be all around you.(:note) by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt Which was fulfilled in his posterity the Idumeans: who were tributaries for a time to Israel, and later came to freedom. serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

geneva@Genesis:27:42 @ And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, (note:)He hopes to recover his birthright by killing you.(:note) as touching thee, doth comfort himself, [purposing] to kill thee.

geneva@Genesis:27:45 @ Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be (note:)For the wicked son will kill the godly: and the plague of God will later come on the wicked son.(:note) deprived also of you both in one day?

geneva@Genesis:27:46 @ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the (note:)Who were Esau's wives.(:note) daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, By this she persuaded Isaac to agree to Jacob's leaving. what good shall my life do me?

geneva@Genesis:28:1 @ And Isaac called Jacob, and (note:)This second blessing was to confirm Jacob's faith, lest he should think that his father had given it without God's leading.(:note) blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

geneva@Genesis:28:3 @ And God all sufficient blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, and multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people,

geneva@Genesis:28:7 @ And that Iaakob had obeyed his father & his mother, and was gone to Padan Aram:

geneva@Genesis:28:8 @ Also Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan displeased Izhak his father,

geneva@Genesis:28:11 @ And he came vnto a certaine place, and taried there al night, because the sunne was downe, and tooke of the stones of the place, and layde vnder his head and slept in the same place.

geneva@Genesis:28:12 @ And he dreamed, and behold a (note:)Christ is the ladder by which God and man are joined together, and by whom the angels minister to us: all graces are given to us by him, and we ascend to heaven by him.(:note) ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

geneva@Genesis:28:13 @ And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee (note:)He felt the force of this promise only by faith: for all his life he was a stranger in this land.(:note) will I give it, and to thy seed;

geneva@Genesis:28:14 @ And thy seede shall be as the dust of the earth, & thou shalt spread abroad to the West, and to the East, & to the North, & to the South, and in thee and in thy seede shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

geneva@Genesis:28:16 @ Then Iaakob awoke out of his sleepe, & sayde, Surely the Lorde is in this place, and I was not aware.

geneva@Genesis:28:17 @ And he was (note:)He was touched with a godly fear and reverence.(:note) afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this [is] none other but the house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven.

geneva@Genesis:28:19 @ And he called ye name of that place Bethel: notwithstanding the name of the citie was at the first called Luz.

geneva@Genesis:28:22 @ And this stone, which I haue set vp as a pillar, shall be Gods house: and of all that thou shalt giue me, wil I giue the tenth vnto thee.

geneva@Genesis:29:1 @ Then Jacob (note:)Or, «lifted up his feet».(:note) went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

geneva@Genesis:29:2 @ And he looked, and behold a well in the field, (note:)Thus he was directed by the providence of God, who brought him to Laban's house.(:note) and, lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well's mouth.

geneva@Genesis:29:4 @ And Jacob said unto them, My (note:)It seems that in those days the custom was to call even strangers, brethren.(:note) brethren, whence [be] ye? And they said, Of Haran [are] we.

geneva@Genesis:29:10 @ And assoone as Iaakob saw Rahel ye daughter of Laban his mothers brother, and the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother, then came Iaakob neere, & rolled the stone fro the welles mouth, & watered ye flocke of Laban his mothers brother.

geneva@Genesis:29:12 @ (For Iaakob tolde Rahel, that he was her fathers brother, & that he was Rebekahs sonne) then she ranne and tolde her father.

geneva@Genesis:29:13 @ And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban (note:)That is, the reason why he departed from his father's house, and what he saw during his journey.(:note) all these things.

geneva@Genesis:29:17 @ And Leah was tender eyed, but Rahel was beautifull and faire.

geneva@Genesis:29:22 @ Wherefore Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

geneva@Genesis:29:23 @ And (note:)The reason Jacob was deceived was that in ancient times the wife was covered with a veil, when she was brought to her husband as a sign of purity and humbleness.(:note) it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

geneva@Genesis:29:25 @ But when the morning was come, behold, it was Leah. Then sayde he to Laban, Wherefore hast thou done thus to mee? did not I serue thee for Rahel? wherfore then hast thou beguiled me?

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:29:33 @ And she conceiued againe & bare a sonne, and sayde, Because the Lord heard that I was hated, he hath therefore giuen me this sonne also, & she called his name Simeon.

geneva@Genesis:29:34 @ And she conceiued againe & bare a sonne, and said, Now at this time wil my husband keepe mee company, because I haue borne him three sonnes: therefore was his name called Leui.

geneva@Genesis:30:2 @ And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in (note:)It is only God who makes one barren or fruitful, and therefore I am not at fault.(:note) God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

geneva@Genesis:30:3 @ And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my (note:)I will receive her children on my lap, as though they were my own.(:note) knees, that I may also have children by her.

geneva@Genesis:30:8 @ And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, (note:)The arrogancy of man's nature appears in that she condemns her sister, after she has received this benefit from God to bear children.(:note) and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

geneva@Genesis:30:11 @ And Leah said, (note:)That is, God increases me with a multitude of children for so Jacob explains this name Gad (Gen_49:19).(:note) A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

geneva@Genesis:30:13 @ Then sayde Leah, Ah, blessed am I, for the daughters will blesse me; she called his name, Asher.

geneva@Genesis:30:14 @ And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found (note:)Which is a kind of herb whose root has a likeness to the figure of a man.(:note) mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

geneva@Genesis:30:18 @ And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my (note:)Instead of acknowledging her fault she boasts as if God had rewarded her for it.(:note) maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

geneva@Genesis:30:23 @ And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my (note:)Because fruitfulness came as God's blessing, who said «Increase and multiply», barrenness was counted as a curse.(:note) reproach:

geneva@Genesis:30:25 @ And assoone as Rahel had borne Ioseph, Iaakob said to Laban, Sende me away that I may go vnto my place and to my countrey.

geneva@Genesis:30:30 @ For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came], and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall (note:)The order of nature requires that every one provide for his own family.(:note) I provide for mine own house also?

geneva@Genesis:30:32 @ I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: (note:)That which is spotted, from now on.(:note) and [of such] shall be my hire.

geneva@Genesis:30:37 @ And Jacob (note:)Jacob used no deceit in this for it was God's commandment as he declares in (Gen_31:9, Gen_31:11).(:note) took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which [was] in the rods.

geneva@Genesis:30:41 @ And it came to pass, whensoever the (note:)As they which took the ram about September and brought forth about March: so the feebler in March and lamb in September.(:note) stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

geneva@Genesis:30:43 @ So the man encreased exceedingly, and had many flockes, and maide seruantes, and men seruants, and camels and asses.

geneva@Genesis:31:1 @ And he heard the (note:)The children put in words what the father disguised in his heart for the covetous think that whatever they cannot take, is taken from them.(:note) words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that] which [was] our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

geneva@Genesis:31:2 @ Also Iaakob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not towards him as in times past:

geneva@Genesis:31:5 @ And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the (note:)The God whom my fathers worshipped.(:note) God of my father hath been with me.

geneva@Genesis:31:9 @ Thus (note:)This declares that the thing Jacob did before, was by God's commandment, and not through deceit.(:note) God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.

geneva@Genesis:31:15 @ Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath (note:)For they were given to Jacob as payment for his service, which was a kind of sale.(:note) sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

geneva@Genesis:31:21 @ So fled he with all that he had, and he rose vp, and passed the riuer, and set his face towarde mount Gilead.

geneva@Genesis:31:22 @ And the third day after was it told Laban, that Iaakob fled.

geneva@Genesis:31:26 @ Then Laban sayde to Iaakob, What hast thou done? thou hast euen stolen away mine heart and caried away my daughters as though they had bene taken captiues with the sworde.

geneva@Genesis:31:28 @ But thou hast not suffered me to kisse my sonnes and my daughters: nowe thou hast done foolishly in doing so.

geneva@Genesis:31:29 @ It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the (note:)He was an idolater and therefore would not acknowledge the God of Jacob for his God.(:note) God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

geneva@Genesis:31:30 @ Nowe though thou wentest thy way, because thou greatly longedst after thy fathers house, yet wherefore hast thou stollen my gods?

geneva@Genesis:31:31 @ Then Iaakob answered, and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, & thought that thou wouldest haue taken thy daughters from me.

geneva@Genesis:31:36 @ The Iaakob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Iaakob also answered and sayd to Laban, What haue I trespassed? what haue I offended, that thou hast pursued after me?

geneva@Genesis:31:37 @ Seeing thou hast searched all my stuffe, what hast thou foud of all thine houshold stuffe? put it here before my brethren & thy brethren, that they may iudge betweene vs both.

geneva@Genesis:31:38 @ This twenty yere I haue bin with thee: thine ewes & thy goates haue not cast their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

geneva@Genesis:31:39 @ Whatsoeuer was torne of beasts, I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my selfe: of mine hand diddest thou require it, were it stollen by day or stollen by night.

geneva@Genesis:31:40 @ I was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes.

geneva@Genesis:31:41 @ Thus haue I bene twentie yeere in thine house, and serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yeeres for thy sheepe, and thou hast changed my wages tenne times.

geneva@Genesis:31:45 @ Then tooke Iaakob a stone, and set it vp as a pillar:

geneva@Genesis:31:49 @ And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD (note:)To punish the trespasser.(:note) watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

geneva@Genesis:31:52 @ This heape shall be witnesse, and the pillar shall be witnesse, that I will not come ouer this heape to thee, and that thou shalt not passe ouer this heape and this pillar vnto me for euill.

geneva@Genesis:32:5 @ I haue beeues also and Asses, sheepe, & men seruantes, and women seruantes, and haue sent to shew my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

geneva@Genesis:32:7 @ Then Jacob was (note:)Though he was comforted by the angels, yet the infirmity of the flesh appears.(:note) greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that [was] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

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:32:12 @ For thou saydest; I will surely doe thee good, and make thy seede as the sande of the sea, which can not be nombred for multitude.

geneva@Genesis:32:13 @ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a (note:)Not distrusting God's assistance, but using such means as God had given him.(:note) present for Esau his brother;

geneva@Genesis:32:15 @ Thirtie mylche camels with their coltes, fourtie kine, and ten bullockes, twentie she asses and ten foles.

geneva@Genesis:32:16 @ So he deliuered them into the hande of his seruants, euery droue by themselues, and saide vnto his seruants, Passe before me, & put a space betweene droue and droue.

geneva@Genesis:32:17 @ And he commanded the formost, saying, If Esau my brother meete thee, and aske thee, saying, Whose seruant art thou? And whither goest thou? And whose are these before thee?

geneva@Genesis:32:20 @ And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I (note:)He thought it no less to depart with these goods with the intent that he might follow the vocation to which God called him.(:note) will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

geneva@Genesis:32:24 @ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a (note:)That is, God in the form of a man.(:note) man with him until the breaking of the day.

geneva@Genesis:32:25 @ And when he saw that he (note:)For God assails his with the one hand, and upholds them with the other.(:note) prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

geneva@Genesis:32:28 @ And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou (note:)God gave Jacob both power to overcome, and also the praise of the victory.(:note) power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

geneva@Genesis:32:29 @ Then Iaakob demaded, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name; he said, Wherefore now doest thou aske my name? & he blessed him there

geneva@Genesis:32:31 @ And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he (note:)The faithful to overcome their temptations, so that they feel the pain of it, so they would not boast, except in their humility.(:note) halted upon his thigh.

geneva@Genesis:33:1 @ And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he (note:)That if the one part were assailed, the other might escape.(:note) divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

geneva@Genesis:33:3 @ And he passed over before them, and (note:)By this gesture he partly revered his brother and partly prayed to God to appease Esau's wrath.(:note) bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

geneva@Genesis:33:9 @ And Esau said, I haue ynough, my brother: keepe that thou hast to thy selfe.

geneva@Genesis:33:10 @ And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore (note:)In that his brother embraced him so lovingly, contrary to his expectation, he accepted it as a clear sign of God's presence.(:note) I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

geneva@Genesis:33:14 @ Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until (note:)He promised that which (as it would seem) he did not plan to do.(:note) I come unto my lord unto Seir.

geneva@Genesis:34:4 @ And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, (note:)This proves that the consent of parents is required in marriage, seeing that even the infidels observed it as a necessary thing.(:note) Get me this damsel to wife.

geneva@Genesis:34:12 @ Aske of me abundantly both dowrie and giftes, and I will giue as ye appoint me, so that ye giue me the maide to wife.

geneva@Genesis:34:14 @ And they said unto them, (note:)They used the holy ordinance of God a means to accomplish their wicked purpose.(:note) We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a As it is abomination for those who are baptized to be joined to infidels. reproach unto us:

geneva@Genesis:34:15 @ But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we [be], that every male of you be (note:)Their fault is even greater since they made religion a disguise for their deceit.(:note) circumcised;

geneva@Genesis:34:18 @ Nowe their wordes pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamors sonne.

geneva@Genesis:34:19 @ And the yong man deferd not to doe the thing because he loued Iaakobs daughter: he was also the most set by of all his fathers house.

geneva@Genesis:34:20 @ And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the (note:)For the people used to assemble there, and justice was administered.(:note) gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

geneva@Genesis:34:22 @ Onely herein will the men consent vnto vs for to dwell with vs, and to be one people, if all the men children among vs be circumcised as they are circumcised.

geneva@Genesis:34:23 @ [Shall] not (note:)Thus they do not lack any form of perversion, who prefer their own convenience before the common good.(:note) their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

geneva@Genesis:34:25 @ And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, (note:)For they were the leaders of the company.(:note) Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew The people are punished because of their wicked princes. all the males.

geneva@Genesis:34:28 @ They tooke their sheepe & their beeues, and their asses, and whatsoeuer was in the citie, and in the fieldes.

geneva@Genesis:34:29 @ Also they caryed away captiue & spoyled all their goods, and all their children and their wiues, and all that was in the houses.

geneva@Genesis:34:30 @ Then Iaakob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue troubled me, and made me stinke among the inhabitats of the land, aswell the Canaanites, as the Perizzites, and and I being few in nomber, they shall gather theselues together against me, & slay me, and so shall I, and my house be destroied.

geneva@Genesis:34:31 @ And they answered, Shoulde hee abuse our sister as a whore?

geneva@Genesis:35:3 @ For we will rise and goe vp to Beth-el, and I will make an altar there vnto God, which heard me in the day of my tribulation, and was with me in the way which I went.

geneva@Genesis:35:4 @ And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] (note:)For in this was some sign of superstition, as in tablets and Agnus deis (a cake of wax, stamped with a lamb bearing a cross or flag, that has been blessed by the Pope).(:note) earrings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem.

geneva@Genesis:35:5 @ And they journeyed: and the (note:)Thus, despite the inconvenience that came before, God delivered Jacob.(:note) terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

geneva@Genesis:35:6 @ So came Iaakob to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan: (the same is Beth-el) hee and all the people that was with him.

geneva@Genesis:35:8 @ Then Deborah Rebekahs nourse dyed, and was buried beneath Beth-el vnder an oke: and he called the name of it Allon Bachuth.

geneva@Genesis:35:13 @ And God (note:)As God is said to descend, when he shows some sign of his presence: so he is said to ascend when a vision is ended.(:note) went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

geneva@Genesis:35:16 @ And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a (note:)The Hebrew word signifies as much ground as one can cover from resting point to resting point, which is taken for half a days journey.(:note) little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

geneva@Genesis:35:17 @ And whe she was in paines of her labour, the midwife saide vnto her, Feare not: for thou shalt haue this sonne also.

geneva@Genesis:35:18 @ Then as she was about to yeelde vp the Ghost (for she died) she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Beniamin.

geneva@Genesis:35:19 @ Thus died Rahel, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

geneva@Genesis:35:20 @ And Jacob set a (note:)The ancient fathers used this ceremony to testify their hope of the resurrection to come, which was not generally revealed.(:note) pillar upon her grave: that [is] the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

geneva@Genesis:35:22 @ And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and (note:)This teaches that the fathers were not chosen for their merits, but only by God's mercies, whose election was not changed by their faults.(:note) lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard [it]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

geneva@Genesis:35:26 @ And the sonnes of Zilpah Leahs maide: Gad and Asher. These are the sonnes of Iaakob, which were borne him in Padan Aram.

geneva@Genesis:35:29 @ And Izhak gaue vp the ghost and died, and was gathered vnto his people, being olde & full of daies: & his sonnes Esau & Iaakob buried him.

geneva@Genesis:36:1 @ Now these [are] (note:)This genealogy declares that Esau was blessed physically and that his father's blessing took place in worldly things.(:note) the generations of Esau, who [is] Edom.

geneva@Genesis:36:3 @ And tooke Basemath Ishmaels daughter, sister of Nebaioth.

geneva@Genesis:36:4 @ And Adah bare vnto Esau, Eliphaz: and Basemath bare Reuel.

geneva@Genesis:36:6 @ And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and (note:)In this, God's providence appears, which causes the wicked to give place to the godly, that Jacob might enjoy Canaan according to God's promise.(:note) went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

geneva@Genesis:36:10 @ These are the names of Esaus sonnes: Eliphaz, the sonne of Adah, the wife of Esau, & Reuel the sonne of Bashemath, the wife of Esau.

geneva@Genesis:36:12 @ And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esaus sonne, and bare vnto Eliphaz, Amalek: these be the sonnes of Adah Esaus wife.

geneva@Genesis:36:13 @ And these are the sonnes of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sonnes of Bashemath Esaus wife.

geneva@Genesis:36:17 @ And these are the sonnes of Reuel Esaus sonne: Duke Nahath, Duke Zerah, Duke Shammah, Duke Mizzah: these are the Dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom: these are the sonnes of Bashemath Esaus wife.

geneva@Genesis:36:22 @ And the sonnes of Lotan were, Hori and Hemam, and Lotans sister was Timna.

geneva@Genesis:36:24 @ And these [are] the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this [was that] Anah that found the (note:)Who not contented with those kinds of beasts, which God had created, discovered the monstrous generation of mules between the ass and the mare.(:note) mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

geneva@Genesis:36:31 @ And these [are] the (note:)The wicked rise up suddenly to honour and perish as quickly: but the inheritance of the children of God continues forever, (Psa_102:28).(:note) kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

geneva@Genesis:36:32 @ Then Bela the sonne of Beor reigned in Edom, & the name of his citie was Dinhabah.

geneva@Genesis:36:34 @ When Iobab also was dead, Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his steade.

geneva@Genesis:36:35 @ And after the death of Husham, Hadad the sonne of Bedad, which slewe Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his steade, and the name of his citie was Auith.

geneva@Genesis:36:36 @ When Hadad was dead, then Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his steade.

geneva@Genesis:36:39 @ And after the death of Baal-hanan the sonne of Achbor, Hadad reigned in his stead, and the name of his citie was Pau: and his wiues name Mehetabel the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

geneva@Genesis:37:1 @ And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a (note:)That is, the story of such things as came to him and his family as in (Gen_5:1)(:note) stranger, in the land of Canaan.

geneva@Genesis:37:2 @ These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad [was] with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil (note:)He complained of the evil words and injuries which they spoke and did to him.(:note) report.

geneva@Genesis:37:5 @ And Joseph (note:)God revealed to him by a dream what should come to pass.(:note) dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

geneva@Genesis:37:7 @ Beholde nowe, wee were binding sheues in the middes of the field: and loe, my shefe arose and also stoode vpright, and behold, your sheues compassed rounde about, and did reuerence to my shefe.

geneva@Genesis:37:10 @ And he told [it] to his father, and to his brethren: and his father (note:)Not despising the vision, but seeking to appease his brethren.(:note) rebuked him, and said unto him, What [is] this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

geneva@Genesis:37:11 @ And his brethren envied him; but his father (note:)He knew that God was the author of the dream, but he did not understand the meaning.(:note) observed the saying.

geneva@Genesis:37:15 @ Then a man found him: for lo, hee was wandring in the fielde, and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

geneva@Genesis:37:18 @ And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they (note:)The Holy Spirit does not cover the faults of men, as vain writers do, who make virtues out of vices.(:note) conspired against him to slay him.

geneva@Genesis:37:20 @ Come now therefore, and let vs slay him, and cast him into some pitte, and wee will say, A wicked beast hath deuoured him: then wee shall see, what will come of his dreames.

geneva@Genesis:37:22 @ Also Reuben saide vnto them, Shed not blood, but cast him into this pitte that is in the wildernesse, and lay no hande vpon him. Thus he said, that he might deliuer him out of their hand, and restore him to his father againe.

geneva@Genesis:37:23 @ Now when Ioseph was come vnto his brethren, they stript Ioseph out of his coate, his particoloured coate that was vpon him.

geneva@Genesis:37:24 @ And they took him, and cast (note:)Their hypocrisy appears in this that they feared man more than God: and thought it was not murder, if they did not shed his blood or had excuses to cover their fault.(:note) him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it.

geneva@Genesis:37:28 @ Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the (note:)Moses writes according to the opinion of those who took the Midianites and Ishmaelites to be one, and here mixes their names: as also appears in (Gen_37:36, Gen_39:1) or else he was first offered to the Midianites, but sold to the Ishmaelites.(:note) Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

geneva@Genesis:37:29 @ Afterwarde Reuben returned to the pit, and beholde, Ioseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes,

geneva@Genesis:37:33 @ Then he knewe it and said, It is my sonnes coate: a wicked beast hath deuoured him: Ioseph is surely torne in pieces.

geneva@Genesis:37:34 @ And Iaakob rent his clothes, & put sackecloth about his loynes, and sorowed for his sonne a long season.

geneva@Genesis:38:1 @ And it came to pass at that time, that (note:)Moses describes the genealogy of Judah, because the Messiah should come from him.(:note) Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.

geneva@Genesis:38:2 @ And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name [was] Shuah; (note:)A relationship which nonetheless was condemned by God.(:note) and he took her, and went in unto her.

geneva@Genesis:38:5 @ Moreouer she bare yet a sonne, whome she called Shelah: and Iudah was at Chezib when she bare him.

geneva@Genesis:38:6 @ Then Iudah tooke a wife to Er his first borne sonne whose name was Tamar.

geneva@Genesis:38:7 @ Now Er the first borne of Iudah was wicked in the sight of the Lord: therefore the Lord slewe him.

geneva@Genesis:38:8 @ And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise (note:)This order was for the preservation of the stock, since the child begotten by the second brother would have the name and inheritance of the first: a practice which is abolished in the New Testament.(:note) up seed to thy brother.

geneva@Genesis:38:9 @ And Onan knewe that the seede should not be his: therefore when he went in vnto his brothers wife, he spilled it on the grounde, least he should giue seede vnto his brother.

geneva@Genesis:38:10 @ And it was wicked in the eyes of the Lord, which he did: wherefore he slewe him also.

geneva@Genesis:38:11 @ Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, (note:)For she could not marry in any other family so long as Judah would retain her in his.(:note) Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

geneva@Genesis:38:13 @ And it was tolde Tamar, saying, beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Timnah, to shere his sheepe.

geneva@Genesis:38:14 @ Then she put her widowes garments off from her, and couered her with a vaile, and wrapped her selfe, and sate downe in Pethah-enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, because she sawe that Shelah was growen, and she was not giuen vnto him to wife.

geneva@Genesis:38:16 @ And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he (note:)God miraculously blinded him so that he could not know her by her voice.(:note) knew not that she [was] his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

geneva@Genesis:38:18 @ Then he saide, What is the pledge that I shall giue thee? And she answered, Thy signet, and thy cloke, and thy staffe that is in thine hande. So he gaue it her, and lay by her, and she was with childe by him.

geneva@Genesis:38:21 @ Then asked he the men of that place, saying, Where is ye whore, that sate in Enaim by the way side? And they answered, There was no whore here.

geneva@Genesis:38:22 @ He came therefore to Iudah againe, and said, I can not finde her, and also the men of the place said, There was no whore there.

geneva@Genesis:38:23 @ And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be (note:)He fears man more than God.(:note) shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

geneva@Genesis:38:24 @ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be (note:)We see that the Law, which was written in man's heart, taught them that adultery should be punished with death, even though no law had been given yet.(:note) burnt.

geneva@Genesis:38:25 @ When she was brought foorth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, vnto whom these things pertaine, am I with childe: and saide also, Looke, I pray thee, whose these are, the seale, and the cloke, and the staffe.

geneva@Genesis:38:27 @ Now, when the time was come that she should be deliuered, beholde, there were twinnes in her wombe.

geneva@Genesis:38:28 @ And when she was in trauell, the one put out his hand: and the midwife tooke and bound a red threde about his hand, saying, This is come out first.

geneva@Genesis:38:29 @ And it came to pass, as he (note:)Their heinous sin was signified by this monstrous birth.(:note) drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How Or the separation between you and your brother. hast thou broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

geneva@Genesis:38:30 @ And afterward came out his brother that had the red threde about his hande, and his name was called Zarah.

geneva@Genesis:39:1 @ And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an (note:)See (Gen_37:36).(:note) officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

geneva@Genesis:39:2 @ And the (note:)The favour of God is the fountain of all prosperity.(:note) LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

geneva@Genesis:39:3 @ And his master sawe that the Lorde was with him, and that the Lorde made all that hee did to prosper in his hande.

geneva@Genesis:39:5 @ And it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD (note:)The wicked are blessed by the company of the godly.(:note) blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

geneva@Genesis:39:6 @ And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; (note:)For he was sure that everything would prosper: therefore he ate and drank and did not worry.(:note) and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was [a] goodly [person], and well favoured.

geneva@Genesis:39:7 @ And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, (note:)In this word he declares the purpose she was working towards.(:note) Lie with me.

geneva@Genesis:39:8 @ But he refused and said to his masters wife, Beholde, my master knoweth not what he hath in the house with me, but hath committed all that he hath to mine hande.

geneva@Genesis:39:11 @ Then on a certaine day Ioseph entred into the house, to doe his businesse: and there was no man of the houshold in the house:

geneva@Genesis:39:13 @ Nowe when she sawe that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled out,

geneva@Genesis:39:17 @ Then she tolde him according to these words, saying, The Ebrew seruat, which thou hast brought vnto vs, came in to me, to mocke me.

geneva@Genesis:39:18 @ But assoone as I lift vp my voyce & cried, he left his garment with me, and fled out.

geneva@Genesis:39:19 @ Then when his master heard the wordes of his wife, which she tolde him, saying, After this maner did thy seruant to me, his anger was kindled.

geneva@Genesis:39:20 @ And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the (note:)His bad treatment in the prison may be gathered from (Psa_105:18).(:note) prison, a place where the king's prisoners [were] bound: and he was there in the prison.

geneva@Genesis:39:21 @ But the Lorde was with Ioseph, and shewed him mercie, and got him fauour in the sight of the master of the prison.

geneva@Genesis:39:22 @ And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and (note:)That is, nothing was done without his commandment.(:note) whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it].

geneva@Genesis:39:23 @ And the keeper of the prison looked vnto nothing that was vnder his hande, seeing that the Lord was with him: for whatsoeuer he did, the Lorde made it to prosper.

geneva@Genesis:40:2 @ And Pharaoh was angrie against his two officers, against the chiefe butler, and against the chiefe baker.

geneva@Genesis:40:3 @ And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where (note:)God works in many wonderful ways to deliver his own.(:note) Joseph [was] bound.

geneva@Genesis:40:4 @ And the chiefe steward gaue Ioseph charge ouer them, and he serued them: and they continued a season in warde.

geneva@Genesis:40:5 @ And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, (note:)That is, every dream had his interpretation, as the thing afterward declared.(:note) each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which [were] bound in the prison.

geneva@Genesis:40:7 @ And he asked Pharaohs officers, that were with him in his masters warde, saying, Wherefore looke ye so sadly to day?

geneva@Genesis:40:8 @ And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, (note:)Cannot God raise up such as shall interpret such things.(:note) [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [them], I pray you.

geneva@Genesis:40:9 @ So the chiefe butler tolde his dreame to Ioseph, and said vnto him, In my dreame, behold, a vine was before me,

geneva@Genesis:40:10 @ And in the vine were three branches, and as it budded, her flowre came foorth: and the clusters of grapes waxed ripe.

geneva@Genesis:40:12 @ And Joseph said unto him, This (note:)He was reassured by the spirit of God, that his interpretation was true.(:note) [is] the interpretation of it: The three branches [are] three days:

geneva@Genesis:40:13 @ Within three dayes shall Pharaoh lift vp thine head, & restore thee vnto thine office, and thou shalt giue Pharaohs cup into his hand after the olde maner, when thou wast his butler.

geneva@Genesis:40:15 @ For I was stollen away by theft out of the land of the Ebrewes, and here also haue I done nothing, wherefore they should put mee in the dungeon.

geneva@Genesis:40:16 @ When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three (note:)That is made of white twigs, or as some read, baskets full of holes.(:note) white baskets on my head:

geneva@Genesis:40:17 @ And in the vppermost basket there was of all maner baken meates for Pharaoh: and the birdes did eate them out of the basket vpon mine head.

geneva@Genesis:40:18 @ And Joseph answered and said, (note:)He shows that the ministers of God should not conceal that, which God reveals to them.(:note) This [is] the interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:

geneva@Genesis:40:20 @ And it came to pass the third day, [which was] Pharaoh's (note:)Which was an occasion to appoint his officers, and to examine those who were in prison.(:note) birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

geneva@Genesis:40:22 @ But he hanged the chiefe baker, as Ioseph had interpreted vnto them.

geneva@Genesis:41:1 @ And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh (note:)This dream was not so much for Pharaoh, as is was a means to deliver Joseph and to provide for God's Church.(:note) dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

geneva@Genesis:41:6 @ And loe, seuen thinne eares, and blasted with the east winde, sprang vp after them:

geneva@Genesis:41:7 @ And the thinne eares deuoured the seuen ranke and full eares. then Pharaoh awaked, and loe, it was a dreame.

geneva@Genesis:41:8 @ And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was (note:)This fear was enough to teach him that this vision was sent by God.(:note) troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

geneva@Genesis:41:12 @ And there was with vs a yong man, an Ebrew, seruant vnto the chiefe steward, whome when we told, he declared our dreames to vs, to euery one he declared according to his dreame.

geneva@Genesis:41:13 @ And as he declared vnto vs, so it came to passe: for he restored me to mine office, & hanged him.

geneva@Genesis:41:14 @ Then Pharaoh sent and called (note:)The wicked seek the prophets of God in their time of need, while in their prosperity they abhor them.(:note) Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved [himself], and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

geneva@Genesis:41:16 @ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, (note:)As though he would say if I interpret your dream it comes from God, and not from me.(:note) [It is] not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

geneva@Genesis:41:21 @ And when they had eaten them vp, it could not be knowen that they had eaten them, but they were still as euilfauoured, as they were at the beginning: so did I awake.

geneva@Genesis:41:23 @ And lo, seuen eares, withered, thinne, and blasted with the East winde, sprang vp after them.

geneva@Genesis:41:27 @ Likewise the seuen thinne and euilfauoured kine, that came out after them, are seuen yeeres: and the seuen emptie eares blasted with the East winde, are seuen yeeres of famine.

geneva@Genesis:41:31 @ Neither shall the plentie bee knowen in the land, by reason of this famine that shall come after: for it shalbe exceeding great.

geneva@Genesis:41:32 @ And therefore the dreame was doubled vnto Pharaoh the second time, because the thing is established by God, & God hasteth to performe it.

geneva@Genesis:41:37 @ And the saying pleased Pharaoh and all his seruants.

geneva@Genesis:41:38 @ And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is], a man in whom the (note:)No one should be honoured who does not have gifts from God fitting for the same.(:note) Spirit of God [is]?

geneva@Genesis:41:39 @ The Pharaoh said to Ioseph, For as much as God hath shewed thee all this, there is no man of vnderstanding, or of wisedome like vnto thee.

geneva@Genesis:41:45 @ And Pharaoh called Iosephs name Zaphnath-paaneah: and he gaue him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On. then went Ioseph abrode in the land of Egypt.

geneva@Genesis:41:46 @ And Joseph [was] (note:)His age is mentioned both to show that his authority came from God, and also that he endured imprisonment and exile for twelve years or more.(:note) thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

geneva@Genesis:41:48 @ And hee gathered vp all the foode of the seuen plenteous yeeres, which were in the lande of Egypt, and layde vp foode in the cities: the foode of the fielde, that was round about euery citie, layde he vp in the same.

geneva@Genesis:41:49 @ So Ioseph gathered wheate, like vnto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, vntill he left numbring: for it was without number.

geneva@Genesis:41:50 @ Now vnto Ioseph were borne two sonnes (before the yeeres of famine came) which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On bare vnto him.

geneva@Genesis:41:51 @ And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, [said he], hath made me forget all my toil, and all my (note:)Nonetheless, his father's house was the true Church of God: yet the company of the wicked and prosperity caused him to forget it.(:note) father's house.

geneva@Genesis:41:53 @ So the seuen yeeres of the plentie that was in the land of Egypt were ended.

geneva@Genesis:41:54 @ Then began the seuen yeeres of famine to come, according as Ioseph had saide: and the famine was in all landes, but in all the land of Egypt was bread.

geneva@Genesis:41:55 @ At the length all the lande of Egypt was affamished, and the people cryed to Pharaoh for bread; Pharaoh said vnto all the Egyptians, Goe to Ioseph: what he sayth to you, doe ye.

geneva@Genesis:41:56 @ When the famine was vpon all the land, Ioseph opened all places, wherein the store was, and solde vnto the Egyptians: for the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

geneva@Genesis:41:57 @ And all countries came to Egypt to bye corne of Ioseph, because the famine was sore in all landes.

geneva@Genesis:42:1 @ Now when (note:)This story shows plainly that all things are governed by God's providence for the profit of his Church.(:note) Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye As men destitute of counsel. look one upon another?

geneva@Genesis:42:4 @ But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death should befall him.

geneva@Genesis:42:5 @ And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.

geneva@Genesis:42:6 @ Now Ioseph was gouerner of the land, who solde to all the people of the lande: then Iosephs brethren came, & bowed their face to the groud before him.

geneva@Genesis:42:15 @ Hereby ye shall be proved: (note:)The Egyptians who were idolaters, used to swear by their king's life: but God forbids swearing by anyone but him: yet Joseph dwelling among the wicked was corrupted by them.(:note) By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

geneva@Genesis:42:22 @ And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his (note:)God will take vengeance on us, and measure us with our own measure.(:note) blood is required.

geneva@Genesis:42:26 @ And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.

geneva@Genesis:42:27 @ And as one of them opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender in the ynne, he espyed his money: for lo, it was in his sackes mouth.

geneva@Genesis:42:30 @ The man, who is Lorde of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.

geneva@Genesis:42:35 @ And as they emptied their sacks, behold, euery mans bundel of money was in his sacke: and when they and their father sawe the bundels of their money, they were afrayde.

geneva@Genesis:42:36 @ And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved [of my children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin [away]: all these things are against (note:)For they did not seem to be concerned or have any love for their brother which increased his sorrow: and partly as it appears he suspected them for Joseph.(:note) me.

geneva@Genesis:43:1 @ And the (note:)This was a great temptation to Jacob to suffer such a great famine in the land where God had promised to bless him.(:note) famine [was] sore in the land.

geneva@Genesis:43:6 @ And Israel sayd, Wherefore delt ye so euill with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet a brother or no?

geneva@Genesis:43:7 @ And they answered, The man asked straitly of our selues and of our kinred, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue ye any brother? And wee tolde him according to these wordes: could we knowe certainely that he would say, Bring your brother downe?

geneva@Genesis:43:12 @ And take (note:)When we are in need or danger, God does not forbid us to use honest means to better our estate and condition.(:note) double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an oversight:

geneva@Genesis:43:17 @ And the man did as Ioseph bad, & brought the men vnto Iosephs house.

geneva@Genesis:43:18 @ And the men were (note:)So the judgment of God weighed on their consciences.(:note) afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

geneva@Genesis:43:21 @ And as wee came to an ynne and opened our sackes, behold, euery mans money was in his sackes mouth, euen our money in full weight, but we haue brought it againe in our handes.

geneva@Genesis:43:23 @ And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not: (note:)Despite the corruption of Egypt, Joseph taught his family to fear God.(:note) your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

geneva@Genesis:43:24 @ So the man led them into Iosephs house, & gaue them water to wash their feete, and gaue their asses prouender.

geneva@Genesis:43:26 @ When Ioseph came home, they brought the present into the house to him, which was in their handes, and bowed downe to the grounde before him.

geneva@Genesis:43:27 @ And he asked them of their prosperitie, and sayd, Is your father the olde man, of whome ye tolde me, in good health? is he yet aliue?

geneva@Genesis:43:30 @ And Ioseph made haste (for his affection was inflamed towarde his brother, and sought where to weepe) and entred into his chamber, and wept there.

geneva@Genesis:43:31 @ Afterward he washed his face, & came out, and refrained himselfe, and sayd, Set on meate.

geneva@Genesis:43:34 @ And he took [and sent] messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, (note:)Sometimes this word means «to be drunken», but here it means that they had enough, and drank of the best wine.(:note) and were merry with him.

geneva@Genesis:44:1 @ Afterward he commanded his steward, saying, Fill the mens sackes with foode, as much as they can carry, and put euery mans money in his sackes mouth.

geneva@Genesis:44:2 @ And (note:)We may not use this example to justify any unlawful practices, seeing God has commanded us to walk in simplicity.(:note) put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

geneva@Genesis:44:3 @ And in the morning the men were sent away, they, and their asses.

geneva@Genesis:44:12 @ And he searched, and began at the eldest and left at the yongest: and the cuppe was found in Beniamins sacke.

geneva@Genesis:44:13 @ Then they (note:)To show how greatly the thing displeased them and how sorry they were for it.(:note) rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

geneva@Genesis:44:14 @ So Iudah and his brethren came to Iosephs house (for he was yet there) and they fel before him on the ground.

geneva@Genesis:44:15 @ Then Ioseph sayd vnto them, What acte is this, which ye haue done? know ye not that such a man as I, can deuine and prophecie?

geneva@Genesis:44:18 @ Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou [art] even (note:)Equal in authority or, next to the king.(:note) as Pharaoh.

geneva@Genesis:44:19 @ My Lord asked his seruants, saying, Haue ye a father, or a brother?

geneva@Genesis:44:33 @ Nowe therefore, I pray thee, let me thy seruant bide for the childe, as a seruant to my Lord, and let the childe go vp with his brethren.

geneva@Genesis:44:34 @ For (note:)Meaning, he would rather remain as their prisoner, than to return and see his father in sorrow.(:note) how shall I go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

geneva@Genesis:45:1 @ Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, (note:)Not because he was ashamed of his kindred, but rather because he wanted to cover his brother's sin.(:note) Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

geneva@Genesis:45:3 @ Then Ioseph sayde to his brethren, I am Ioseph: doeth my father yet liue? But his brethren coulde not answere him, for they were astonished at his presence.

geneva@Genesis:45:5 @ Now therefore be not (note:)This example teaches that we must by all means comfort those who are truly ashamed and sorry for their sins.(:note) grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

geneva@Genesis:45:8 @ So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but (note:)Though God detests sin, yet he turns man's wickedness into his glory.(:note) God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

geneva@Genesis:45:9 @ Haste you & go vp to my father, & tel him, Thus saieth thy sonne Ioseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come downe to me, tary not.

geneva@Genesis:45:10 @ And thou shalt dwel in ye land of Goshen, and shalt be neere me, thou and thy children, and thy childrens children, and thy sheepe, and thy beastes, and all that thou hast.

geneva@Genesis:45:11 @ Also I will nourish thee there (for yet remaine fiue yeeres of famine) lest thou perish through pouertie, thou and thy houshold, and all that thou hast.

geneva@Genesis:45:13 @ Therefore tel my father of al mine honour in Egypt, and of all that ye haue seene, and make haste, and bring my father hither.

geneva@Genesis:45:16 @ And the tidinges came vnto Pharaohs house, so that they said, Iosephs brethre are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his seruants.

geneva@Genesis:45:17 @ Then Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Say to thy brethren, This doe ye, lade your beastes & depart, go to the land of Canaan,

geneva@Genesis:45:23 @ And vnto his father likewise hee sent ten hee asses laden with the best things of Egypt, and ten shee asses laden with wheate, and bread and meate for his father by the way.

geneva@Genesis:45:26 @ And told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart (note:)As one between hope and fear.(:note) fainted, for he believed them not.

geneva@Genesis:46:4 @ I will (note:)Conducting you by my power.(:note) go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely In your posterity. bring thee up [again]: and Joseph shall Shall shut your eyes when you die: which belongs to him that was most dear or chief of the kindred. put his hand upon thine eyes.

geneva@Genesis:46:17 @ Also the sonnes of Asher: Iimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; the sonnes of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.

geneva@Genesis:46:20 @ And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypt were borne Manasseh, and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On bare vnto him.

geneva@Genesis:46:21 @ Also the sonnes of Beniamin: Belah, & Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

geneva@Genesis:46:32 @ And the men [are] (note:)He was not ashamed of his father and kindred, though they were of base condition.(:note) shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

geneva@Genesis:46:33 @ And if Pharaoh call you, and aske you, What is your trade?

geneva@Genesis:47:2 @ And he took some of his brethren, [even] (note:)That the king might be assured that they had come, and to see what type of people they were.(:note) five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

geneva@Genesis:47:4 @ They sayde moreouer vnto Pharaoh, For to soiourne in ye lande are we come: for thy seruants haue no pasture for their sheepe, so sore is ye famine in the lande of Canaan. Nowe therefore, we pray thee, let thy seruants dwel in the land of Goshen.

geneva@Genesis:47:11 @ And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of (note:)Which was a city in the country of Goshen, (Exo_1:11).(:note) Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

geneva@Genesis:47:12 @ And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, (note:)Some read that he fed them as little babies, because they could not provide for themselves against that famine.(:note) according to [their] families.

geneva@Genesis:47:13 @ Now there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan were famished by reason of the famine.

geneva@Genesis:47:14 @ And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and (note:)In which he both declares his faithfulness to the king, and his freedom from covetousness.(:note) Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

geneva@Genesis:47:17 @ So they brought their cattell vnto Ioseph, and Ioseph gaue them bread for the horses, & for the flockes of sheepe, and for the heards of cattel, and for the asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattell that yeere.

geneva@Genesis:47:18 @ But when the yeere was ended, they came vnto him the next yeere, and sayd vnto him, We will not hide from my lord, that since our money is spent, and my lord hath the heards of the cattel, there is nothing left in the sight of my lorde, but our bodies and our ground.

geneva@Genesis:47:19 @ Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our (note:)For unless the ground is tilled and sown, it perishes and is as if it was dead.(:note) land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

geneva@Genesis:47:20 @ So Ioseph bought all the lande of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians solde euery man his ground because the famine was sore vpon the: so the land became Pharaohs.

geneva@Genesis:47:21 @ And as for the people, he (note:)By this changing they signified that they had nothing of their own, but received everything from the king's generosity.(:note) removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.

geneva@Genesis:47:24 @ And of the encrease ye shall giue the fifth part vnto Pharaoh, and foure partes shalbe yours for the seede of the fielde, and for your meate, and for them of your housholdes, and for your children to eate.

geneva@Genesis:47:25 @ Then they answered, Thou hast saued our liues: let vs finde grace in the sight of my Lorde, and we will be Pharaohs seruants.

geneva@Genesis:47:28 @ Moreouer, Iaakob liued in the lande of Egypt seuenteene yeeres, so that the whole age of Iaakob was an hundreth fourtie and seuen yeere.

geneva@Genesis:47:30 @ But I will (note:)By this he demonstrated that he died in the faith of his fathers, teaching his children to hope for the promised land.(:note) lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

geneva@Genesis:48:1 @ And it came to pass after these things, that [one] told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took with him his (note:)Joseph valued his children being received into Jacob's family, which was the Church of God, more than enjoying all the treasures of Egypt.(:note) two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

geneva@Genesis:48:4 @ And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee [for] an (note:)Which is true in the carnal Israel until the coming of Christ, and in the spiritual forever.(:note) everlasting possession.

geneva@Genesis:48:5 @ And now thy two sonnes, Manasseh & Ephraim, which are borne vnto thee in the lande of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

geneva@Genesis:48:6 @ But the linage, which thou hast begotten after them, shalbe thine: they shall be called after the names of their brethren in their inheritance.

geneva@Genesis:48:7 @ Nowe when I came from Padan, Rahel died vpon mine hande in the lande of Canaan, by the way when there was but halfe a dayes iourney of grounde to come to Ephrath: and I buryed her there in the way to Ephrath: the same is Beth-lehem.

geneva@Genesis:48:13 @ Then tooke Ioseph them both, Ephraim in his right hand towarde Israels left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israels right hand, so he brought them vnto him.

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:48:16 @ The (note:)This angel must be understood to be Christ, as in (Gen_31:13, Gen_32:1).(:note) Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my Let them be taken as my children. name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

geneva@Genesis:48:17 @ And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it (note:)Joseph fails by binding God's grace to the order of nature.(:note) displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

geneva@Genesis:48:20 @ And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as (note:)In whom God's graces should manifestly appear.(:note) Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

geneva@Genesis:49:1 @ And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you in the (note:)When God will bring you out of Egypt, and because he speaks of the Messiah, he calls it the last days.(:note) last days.

geneva@Genesis:49:4 @ Thou wast light as water: thou shalt not be excellent, because thou wentest vp to thy fathers bed: then diddest thou defile my bed, thy dignitie is gone.

geneva@Genesis:49:6 @ O my soul, come not thou into their (note:)Or, tongue: meaning that he neither consented to them in word or thought.(:note) secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a The Shechemites (Gen_34:26). man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

geneva@Genesis:49:7 @ Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will (note:)For Levi had no part, and Simeon was under Judah, (Jos_19:1) till God gave them the place of the Amalekites, (1Ch_4:43).(:note) divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

geneva@Genesis:49:8 @ Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall (note:)As was verified in David and Christ.(:note) bow down before thee.

geneva@Genesis:49:9 @ Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; (note:)His enemies will so fear him.(:note) who shall rouse him up?

geneva@Genesis:49:11 @ Binding his foal unto the (note:)A country most abundant with vines and pastures is promised to him.(:note) vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

geneva@Genesis:49:14 @ Issachar [is] (note:)His force will be great, but he will lack courage to resist his enemies.(:note) a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

geneva@Genesis:49:15 @ And he shall see that rest is good, and that the land is pleasant, and he shall bow his shoulder to beare, and shalbe subiect vnto tribute.

geneva@Genesis:49:16 @ Dan (note:)Shall have the honour of a tribe.(:note) shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

geneva@Genesis:49:19 @ Gad, an hoste of men shal ouercome him, but he shal ouercome at the last.

geneva@Genesis:49:20 @ Out of Asher his (note:)He will abound in corn and pleasant fruits.(:note) bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

geneva@Genesis:49:26 @ The blessings of thy father have (note:)In as much as he was closer to the accomplishment of the promise and 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@Genesis:49:27 @ Beniamin shall rauine as a wolfe: in the morning he shall deuoure the pray, and at night he shal deuide the spoyle.

geneva@Genesis:49:32 @ The purchase of the fielde and the caue that is therein, was bought of the children of Heth.

geneva@Genesis:49:33 @ And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he (note:)By which is signified how quietly he died.(:note) gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

geneva@Genesis:50:4 @ And when the dayes of his mourning were past, Ioseph spake to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I haue nowe found fauour in your eyes, speake, I pray you, in the eares of Pharaoh, and say,

geneva@Genesis:50:6 @ And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according (note:)Even the infidels would have oaths carried out.(:note) as he made thee swear.

geneva@Genesis:50:11 @ And when the Canaanites the inhabitants of the lande sawe the mourning in Goren Atad, they sayde, This is a great mourning vnto the Egyptians: wherefore the name thereof was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond Iorden.

geneva@Genesis:50:12 @ So his sonnes did vnto him, according as he had commanded them:

geneva@Genesis:50:15 @ And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, (note:)An evil conscience is never fully at rest.(:note) Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

geneva@Genesis:50:17 @ So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the (note:)Meaning, that they who have one God should be joined in most sure love.(:note) God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

geneva@Genesis:50:20 @ When ye thought euill against mee, God disposed it to good, that he might bring to passe, as it is this day, and saue much people aliue.

geneva@Genesis:50:22 @ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an (note:)Who, even though he ruled in Egypt about eighty years, yet was joined with the church of God in faith and religion.(:note) hundred and ten years.

geneva@Genesis:50:23 @ And Ioseph saw Ephraims children, euen vnto the third generation: also the sonnes of Machir the sonne of Manasseh were brought vp on Iosephs knees.

geneva@Genesis:50:26 @ So Ioseph died, when he was an hundreth and ten yere olde: and they enbaumed him & put him in a chest in Egypt.

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

geneva@Exodus:1:4 @ Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

geneva@Exodus:1:5 @ So al the soules, that came out of the loines of Iaakob, were seuentie soules: Ioseph was in Egypt already.

geneva@Exodus:1:7 @ And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the (note:)He means the country of Goshen.(:note) land was filled with them.

geneva@Exodus:1:10 @ Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and [so] (note:)Into Canaan, and so we shall lose our conveniences.(:note) get them up out of the land.

geneva@Exodus:1:11 @ Therefore did they set taskemasters ouer them, to keepe the vnder with burdens: and they built the cities Pithom and Raamses for the treasures of Pharaoh.

geneva@Exodus:1:15 @ And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one [was] (note:)These seem to have been the main of the rest.(:note) Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

geneva@Exodus:1:17 @ Notwithstanding ye midwiues feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commaunded them, but preserued aliue the men children.

geneva@Exodus:1:19 @ And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew (note:)Their disobedience in this was lawful, but their deception is evil.(:note) women [are] not as the Egyptian women; for they [are] lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

geneva@Exodus:1:21 @ And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he (note:)That is, God increased the families of the Israelites by their means.(:note) made them houses.

geneva@Exodus:1:22 @ And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall (note:)When tyrants cannot prevail by deceit, they burst into open rage.(:note) cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

geneva@Exodus:2:1 @ And there went a (note:)This Levite was called Amram, who married Jochebed in (Exo_6:20).(:note) man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife] a daughter of Levi.

geneva@Exodus:2:2 @ And the woman coceiued and bare a sonne: and when she saw that he was faire, she hid him three moneths.

geneva@Exodus:2:5 @ Then ye daughter of Pharaoh came downe to wash her in the riuer, and her maidens walked by the riuers side: and when shee sawe the arke among the bulrushes, she sent her maide to fet it.

geneva@Exodus:2:6 @ Then she opened it, and sawe it was a childe: and beholde, the babe wept: so she had compassion on it, and sayde, This is one of the Ebrewes children.

geneva@Exodus:2:8 @ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the (note:)Man's counsel cannot hinder that which God has determined shall come to pass.(:note) child's mother.

geneva@Exodus:2:10 @ Nowe the childe grewe, and she brought him vnto Pharaohs daughter, and he was as her sonne, and she called his name Moses, because, said she, I drewe him out of the water.

geneva@Exodus:2:11 @ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was (note:)That is, was forty years old; (Act_7:23).(:note) grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

geneva@Exodus:2:12 @ And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he (note:)Being assured that God had appointed him to deliver the Israelites; (Act_7:25).(:note) slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

geneva@Exodus:2:14 @ And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses (note:)Though by his fear he showed his weakness, yet faith covered it; (Heb_11:27).(:note) feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

geneva@Exodus:2:23 @ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they (note:)God humbles his by afflictions, that they should cry to him, and receive the fruit of his promise.(:note) cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

geneva@Exodus:2:25 @ And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had (note:)He judges their causes or acknowledged them as his own.(:note) respect unto [them].

geneva@Exodus:3:1 @ Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the (note:)It was so called after the law was given.(:note) mountain of God, [even] to Called also Sinai. Horeb.

geneva@Exodus:3:2 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a (note:)This shows that the Church is not consumed by the fires of affliction, because God is in the midst of it.(:note) bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.

geneva@Exodus:3:3 @ Therefore Moses saide, I will turne aside nowe, and see this great sight, why the bush burneth not.

geneva@Exodus:3:4 @ And when the (note:)Whom he calls the angel in (Exo_3:2).(:note) LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.

geneva@Exodus:3:6 @ Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was (note:)For sin causes man to fear God's justice.(:note) afraid to look upon God.

geneva@Exodus:3:7 @ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their (note:)Whose cruelty was intolerable.(:note) taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

geneva@Exodus:3:12 @ And he said, (note:)Neither fear your own weakness, or Pharaoh's tyranny.(:note) Certainly I will be with thee; and this [shall be] a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

geneva@Exodus:3:14 @ And God said unto Moses, I (note:)The God who has always been, am, and shall be: the God almighty, by whom all things have their being, and the God of mercy, mindful of my promise.(:note) AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

geneva@Exodus:3:18 @ And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may (note:)Because Egypt was full of idolatry, God would appoint them a place where they could serve him purely.(:note) sacrifice to the LORD our God.

geneva@Exodus:4:1 @ And Moses answered and said, (note:)God bears with Moses doubting, because he was not completely without faith.(:note) But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

geneva@Exodus:4:3 @ Then said he, Cast it on the ground. So he cast it on the grounde, and it was turned into a serpent: and Moses fled from it.

geneva@Exodus:4:4 @ Againe the Lorde saide vnto Moses, Put foorth thine hand, and take it by the tayle. Then he put foorth his hande and caught it, and it was turned into a rod in his hand.

geneva@Exodus:4:6 @ And the Lorde saide furthermore vnto him, Thrust nowe thine hand into thy bosome; he thrust his hand into his bosome, & when he tooke it out againe, behold, his hand was leprous as snowe.

geneva@Exodus:4:7 @ Moreouer he said, Put thine hand into thy bosome againe. So he put his hande into his bosome againe, & pluckt it out of his bosome, and behold, it was turned againe as his other flesh.

geneva@Exodus:4:9 @ And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the (note:)Because these three signs should be sufficient witnesses to prove that Moses should deliver God's people.(:note) water of the river, and pour [it] upon the dry [land]: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land].

geneva@Exodus:4:10 @ But Moses said vnto the Lorde, Oh my Lorde, I am not eloquent, neither at any time haue bene, nor yet since thou hast spoken vnto thy seruant: but I am slowe of speach & slowe of tongue.

geneva@Exodus:4:14 @ And the (note:)Though we provoke God justly to anger, yet he will never reject his own.(:note) anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, [Is] not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

geneva@Exodus:4:16 @ And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, [even] he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of (note:)Meaning, as a wise counsellor and full of God's spirit.(:note) God.

geneva@Exodus:4:20 @ And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the (note:)By which he wrought the miracles.(:note) rod of God in his hand.

geneva@Exodus:4:21 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will (note:)By receiving my spirit and delivering him to Satan to increase his anger.(:note) harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

geneva@Exodus:4:24 @ And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and (note:)God punished him with sickness for neglecting his ordinances.(:note) sought to kill him.

geneva@Exodus:4:25 @ Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and (note:)This act was extraordinary: for Moses was very sick and God even then required it.(:note) cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me.

geneva@Exodus:5:1 @ And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told (note:)Faith overcomes fear, and makes men bold in their calling.(:note) Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may And offer sacrifice. hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

geneva@Exodus:5:3 @ And they saide, We worship the God of the Ebrewes: we pray thee, let vs goe three daies iourney in the desert, and sacrifice vnto the Lord our God, least he bring vpon vs the pestilence or sword.

geneva@Exodus:5:4 @ Then saide the King of Egypt vnto them, Moses & Aaron, why cause ye the people to cease from their workes? get you to your burdens.

geneva@Exodus:5:5 @ And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye (note:)As though you would rebel.(:note) make them rest from their burdens.

geneva@Exodus:5:6 @ And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their (note:)Who were of the Israelites, and had charge to see them do their work.(:note) officers, saying,

geneva@Exodus:5:7 @ Ye shall giue the people no more strawe, to make bricke ( as in time past) but let them goe and gather them strawe them selues:

geneva@Exodus:5:8 @ Notwithstanding lay vpon them the nober of bricke, which they made in time past, diminish nothing thereof: for they be idle, therefore they crie, saying, Let vs go to offer sacrifice vnto our God.

geneva@Exodus:5:10 @ Then went the taskemasters of the people and their officers out, and tolde the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will giue you no more strawe.

geneva@Exodus:5:13 @ And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Finish your dayes worke euery dayes taske, as ye did when ye had strawe.

geneva@Exodus:5:14 @ And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaohs taskemasters had set ouer them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore haue ye not fulfilled your taske in making bricke yesterday and to daye, as in times past?

geneva@Exodus:5:19 @ Then the officers of the children of Israel sawe them selues in an euill case, because it was saide, Ye shall diminish nothing of your bricke, nor of euery dayes taske.

geneva@Exodus:5:20 @ And they met Moses and Aaron, which stood in their way as they came out fro Pharaoh,

geneva@Exodus:5:22 @ Wherefore Moses returned to the Lorde, and saide, Lorde, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou thus sent me?

geneva@Exodus:5:23 @ For since I came to Pharaoh to speake in thy Name, he hath vexed this people, and yet thou hast not deliuered thy people.

geneva@Exodus:6:3 @ And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name (note:)By which he signifies that he will perform indeed that which he promised to their fathers: for this name declares that he is constant and will perform his promise.(:note) JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

geneva@Exodus:6:4 @ Furthermore as I made my couenant with them to giue them ye land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers:

geneva@Exodus:6:7 @ And I will (note:)He means, concerning the outward calling, the dignity of which they lost later by their rebellion: but as for election to life everlasting, it is unchangeable.(:note) take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

geneva@Exodus:6:16 @ And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi [were] an hundred (note:)For he was 42 years old when he came into Egypt and lived there 94 years.(:note) thirty and seven years.

geneva@Exodus:6:20 @ And Amram took him Jochebed his (note:)This type of marriage was later forbidden in the law; (Lev_18:12).(:note) father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and thirty and seven years.

geneva@Exodus:6:21 @ And the sons of Izhar; (note:)Moses and he were cousins, whose rebellion was punished in (Num_16:1).(:note) Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

geneva@Exodus:6:23 @ And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of (note:)Who was a prince of Judah, (Num_1:7).(:note) Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

geneva@Exodus:6:24 @ Also the sonnes of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.

geneva@Exodus:6:25 @ And Eleazar Aarons sonne tooke him one of the daughters of Putiel to his wife, which bare him Phinehas: these are the principall fathers of the Leuites throughout their families.

geneva@Exodus:7:6 @ So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, euen so did they.

geneva@Exodus:7:7 @ And Moses [was] (note:)Moses lived in affliction and banishment forty years before he commanded his office to deliver God's people.(:note) fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.

geneva@Exodus:7:9 @ If Pharaoh speake vnto you, saying, Shewe a miracle for you, then thou shalt say vnto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shalbe turned into a serpent.

geneva@Exodus:7:10 @ Then went Moses and Aaron vnto Pharaoh, and did euen as the Lord had commaunded: and Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharaoh and before his seruants, & it was turned into a serpent.

geneva@Exodus:7:12 @ For they cast downe euery man his rod, & they were turned into serpents: but Aarons rodde deuoured their rods.

geneva@Exodus:7:13 @ So Pharaohs heart was hardened, and hee hearkened not to them, as the Lorde had saide.

geneva@Exodus:7:15 @ Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by (note:)That is, the Nile river.(:note) the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

geneva@Exodus:7:20 @ So Moses and Aaron did euen as the Lord commaunded: and hee lift vp the rodde, and smote the water that was in the riuer in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his seruants: and all the water that was in the riuer, was turned into blood.

geneva@Exodus:7:21 @ And the (note:)To show that it was a true miracle, God plagued them in that which was most needed for the preservation of life.(:note) fish that [was] in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:7:22 @ And the magicians of Egypt did (note:)In outward appearance, after the seven days were ended.(:note) so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the LORD had said.

geneva@Exodus:8:6 @ And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of (note:)But Goshen, where God's people dwelt, was excepted.(:note) Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:8:10 @ Then he said, To morowe; he answered, Be it as thou hast said, that thou maiest know, that there is none like vnto the Lord our God.

geneva@Exodus:8:15 @ But when Pharaoh sawe that hee had rest giuen him, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not vnto them, as the Lord had said.

geneva@Exodus:8:17 @ And they did so: for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth: and lyce came vpon man and vpon beast: all the dust of the earth was lyce throughout all the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:8:18 @ And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they (note:)God confounded their wisdom and authority in a thing most vile.(:note) could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

geneva@Exodus:8:19 @ Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This [is] (note:)They acknowledged that this was done by God's power and not by sorcery; (Luk_11:20).(:note) the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

geneva@Exodus:8:24 @ And the Lorde did so: for there came great swarmes of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his seruants houses, so that through all the lande of Egypt, the earth was corrupt by the swarmes of flies.

geneva@Exodus:8:26 @ And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the (note:)For the Egyptians worshipped various beasts, ox, sheep and such like which the Israelites offered in sacrifice, a thing the Egyptians abhorred to see.(:note) abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

geneva@Exodus:8:27 @ Let vs go three dayes iourney in the desert, and sacrifice vnto the Lord our God, as he hath commanded vs.

geneva@Exodus:9:3 @ Beholde, the hande of the Lorde is vpon thy flocke which is in the fielde: for vpon the horses, vpon the asses, vpon the camels, vpon the cattell, and vpon the sheepe shalbe a mightie great moraine.

geneva@Exodus:9:7 @ And Pharaoh (note:)Into the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.(:note) sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

geneva@Exodus:9:8 @ And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take your handfull of ashes of the fornace, and Moses shall sprinkle them towarde the heauen in the sight of Pharaoh,

geneva@Exodus:9:9 @ And they shall be turned to dust in all the land of Egypt: and it shalbe as a scab breaking out into blisters vpon man, and vpon beast, thorow out all the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:9:10 @ Then they tooke ashes of the fornace, and stoode before Pharaoh: and Moses sprinkled them towarde the heauen, and there came a scab breaking out into blisters vpon man, and vpon beast.

geneva@Exodus:9:11 @ And the sorcerers could not stande before Moses, because of the scab: for the scab was vpon the enchanters, and vpon all the Egyptians.

geneva@Exodus:9:12 @ And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not vnto them, as the Lorde had said vnto Moses.

geneva@Exodus:9:18 @ Beholde, to morowe this time I will cause to raine a mightie great haile, such as was not in Egypt since the foundation thereof was laid vnto this time.

geneva@Exodus:9:19 @ Send therefore now, [and] (note:)Here we see though God's wrath is kindled yet there is a certain mercy shown even to his enemies.(:note) gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; [for upon] every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

geneva@Exodus:9:20 @ Such then as feared the word of the Lorde among the seruants of Pharaoh, made his seruants and his cattell flee into the houses:

geneva@Exodus:9:22 @ And the Lorde saide to Moses, Stretche foorth thine hande towarde heauen, that there may be haile in all the land of Egypt, vpon man, and vpon beast, and vpon all the herbes of the fielde in the lande of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:9:24 @ So there was haile, and fire mingled with the haile, so grieuous, as there was none throughout all the lande of Egypt, since it was a nation.

geneva@Exodus:9:25 @ And the haile smote throughout al ye land of Egypt all that was in the fielde, both man and beast: also ye haile smote all the herbes of ye field, and brake to pieces all the trees of the fielde.

geneva@Exodus:9:26 @ Onely in the lande of Goshen (where the children of Israel were) was no haile.

geneva@Exodus:9:29 @ Then Moses saide vnto him, Assoone as I am out of the citie, I will spreade mine hands vnto the Lorde, and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more haile, that thou mayest knowe that the earth is the Lordes.

geneva@Exodus:9:30 @ But as for thee and thy servants, (note:)Meaning that when they have their request, they are never better off, even though they make many fair promises, in which we see the practices of the wicked.(:note) I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.

geneva@Exodus:9:31 @ (And the flaxe, & the barley were smitten: for the barley was eared, & the flaxe was bolled.

geneva@Exodus:9:33 @ Then Moses went out of the citie from Pharaoh, and spred his hands to the Lorde, and the thunder and the haile ceased, neither rained it vpon the earth.

geneva@Exodus:9:34 @ And when Pharaoh sawe that the raine and the haile and the thunder were ceased, hee sinned againe, and hardened his heart, both he, and his seruants.

geneva@Exodus:9:35 @ So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened: neither would he let the children of Israel goe, as the Lord had said by Moses.

geneva@Exodus:10:4 @ But if thou refuse to let my people go, beholde, to morowe will I bring grashoppers into thy coastes.

geneva@Exodus:10:6 @ And they shall fil thine houses, and all thy seruants houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers fathers haue seene, since the time they were vpon the earth vnto this day. So he returned, and went out from Pharaoh.

geneva@Exodus:10:7 @ And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a (note:)Meaning, the occasion of all these evils: so are the godly ever charged as Elijah was by Ahab.(:note) snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

geneva@Exodus:10:9 @ And Moses answered, We will go with our yong and with our olde, with our sonnes and with our daughters, with our sheepe and with our cattell will we goe: for we must celebrate a feast vnto the Lorde.

geneva@Exodus:10:10 @ And he said unto them, Let (note:)That is, I hope the degree of affection that the Lord has for you is no more than the degree to which I want to let you go.(:note) the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look [to it]; for Punishment is prepared for you. Some read, «You intend some mischief». evil [is] before you.

geneva@Exodus:10:11 @ It shall not be so: nowe goe ye that are men, and serue the Lorde: for that was your desire. Then they were thrust out from Pharaohs presence.

geneva@Exodus:10:12 @ After, the Lord said vnto Moses, Stretch out thine hande vpon the lande of Egypt for the grashoppers, that they may come vpon the lande of Egypt, and eate all the herbes of the land, euen all that the haile hath left.

geneva@Exodus:10:13 @ Then Moses stretched foorth his rod vpon the lande of Egypt: and the Lorde brought an East winde vpon the land all that day, and al that night: and in the morning the East wind brought the grashoppers.

geneva@Exodus:10:14 @ So the grashoppers went vp vpon all the land of Egypt, and remained in all quarters of Egypt: so grieuous Grashoppers, like to these were neuer before, neither after them shalbe such.

geneva@Exodus:10:15 @ For they couered all the face of the earth, so that the lande was darke: and they did eate all the herbes of the lande, and all the fruites of the trees, which the haile had left, so that there was no greene thing left vpon the trees, nor among the herbes of the fielde throughout all the lande of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:10:16 @ Then Pharaoh called for (note:)The wicked in their misery seek God's ministers for help, even though they hate and detest them.(:note) Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

geneva@Exodus:10:19 @ And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the (note:)The water seemed red, because the sand or gravel is red: the Hebrews call it the Sea of bulrushes.(:note) Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:10:21 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be (note:)Because it was so thick.(:note) felt.

geneva@Exodus:10:22 @ Then Moses stretched forth his hande towarde heauen, and there was a blacke darkenesse in all the land of Egypt three daies.

geneva@Exodus:10:23 @ No man saw an other, neither rose vp from ye place where he was for three dayes: but all the children of Israel had light where they dwelt.

geneva@Exodus:10:26 @ Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an (note:)The ministers of God should not yield one iota to the wicked, in regards to their mission.(:note) hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not That is, with what beasts, or how many. with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.

geneva@Exodus:10:28 @ And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in [that] day thou seest my face thou shalt (note:)Though earlier he admitted Moses was just, yet again in his own heart he threatened to put him to death.(:note) die.

geneva@Exodus:10:29 @ Then Moses said, Thou hast said wel: from henceforth will I see thy face no more.

geneva@Exodus:11:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague [more] upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let [you] go, he shall (note:)Without any condition, but with haste and violence.(:note) surely thrust you out hence altogether.

geneva@Exodus:11:3 @ And the Lorde gaue the people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians: also Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaohs seruantes, and in the sight of the people.)

geneva@Exodus:11:5 @ And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that [is] behind (note:)From the highest to the lowest.(:note) the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

geneva@Exodus:11:6 @ Then there shalbe a great crie throughout all the land of Egypt, such as was neuer none like, nor shalbe.

geneva@Exodus:11:7 @ But against none of ye children of Israel shal a dogge moue his tongue, neyther against man nor beast, that ye may knowe that the Lord putteth a differece betweene the Egyptians & Israel.

geneva@Exodus:12:2 @ This (note:)Called Nisan, containing part of March and part of April.(:note) month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first Concerning the observation of feasts: as for other policies, they reckoned from September. month of the year to you.

geneva@Exodus:12:3 @ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of [their] (note:)As the fathers of the household had great or small families.(:note) fathers, a lamb for an house:

geneva@Exodus:12:4 @ And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man according to his (note:)He will take as many as are needed to eat the lamb.(:note) eating shall make your count for the lamb.

geneva@Exodus:12:6 @ And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the (note:)Every one his house.(:note) whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

geneva@Exodus:12:9 @ Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast [with] fire; his (note:)That is, all that may be eaten.(:note) head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

geneva@Exodus:12:11 @ And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: (note:)The lamb was not the Passover, but signified it, as ordinances are not the thing itself which they represent, but rather they signify it.(:note) it [is] the LORD'S passover.

geneva@Exodus:12:12 @ For I will passe through the lande of Egypt the same night, and will smite all the first borne in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and I will execute iudgement vpon all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.

geneva@Exodus:12:13 @ And the blood shalbe a toke for you vpon the houses where ye are: so when I see the blood, I will passe ouer you, and the plague shall not be vpon you to destruction, when I smite the lande of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:12:14 @ And this day shall be unto you for a (note:)Of the benefits received for your deliverance.(:note) memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance That is, until Christ's coming: for then ceremonies will end. for ever.

geneva@Exodus:12:15 @ Seuen daies shall ye eat vnleauened bread, and in any case ye shall put away leauen the first day out of your houses: for whosoeuer eateth leauened bread from the first daie vntill the seuenth day, that person shalbe cut off from Israel.

geneva@Exodus:12:16 @ And in the first day shalbe an holie assemblie: also in the seuenth day shalbe an holy assemblie vnto you: no worke shalbe done in them, saue about that which euery man must eate: that onely may ye do.

geneva@Exodus:12:17 @ Ye shall keepe also the feast of vnleauened bread: for that same daye I will bring your armies out of the lande of Egypt: therefore ye shal obserue this day, throughout your posteritie, by an ordinance for euer.

geneva@Exodus:12:21 @ Then Moses called all the Elders of Israel, and saide vnto them, Choose out and take you for euerie of your housholdes a lambe, & kill the Passeouer.

geneva@Exodus:12:22 @ And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basen, and strike the lintell, and the doore cheekes with the blood that is in the basen, and let none of you goe out at the doore of his house, vntill the morning.

geneva@Exodus:12:23 @ For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the (note:)The angel sent by God to kill the first born.(:note) destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you].

geneva@Exodus:12:24 @ Therefore shall ye obserue this thing as an ordinance both for thee and thy sonnes for euer.

geneva@Exodus:12:25 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the (note:)The land of Canaan.(:note) land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

geneva@Exodus:12:26 @ And when your children aske you, What seruice is this ye keepe?

geneva@Exodus:12:27 @ That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people (note:)They gave God thanks for so great a benefit.(:note) bowed the head and worshipped.

geneva@Exodus:12:28 @ So the children of Israel went, and did as the Lorde had commanded Moses and Aaron: so did they.

geneva@Exodus:12:29 @ Nowe at midnight, the Lorde smote all the first borne in the lande of Egypt, from the first borne of Pharaoh that sate on his throne, vnto the first borne of the captiue that was in prison, and all the first borne of beastes.

geneva@Exodus:12:30 @ And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for [there was] (note:)Of these houses, in which any first born lived, either of men of beasts.(:note) not a house where [there was] not one dead.

geneva@Exodus:12:31 @ And hee called to Moses and to Aaron by night, and saide, Rise vp, get you out from among my people, both yee, and the children of Israel, and goe serue the Lorde as ye haue sayde.

geneva@Exodus:12:32 @ Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and (note:)Pray for me.(:note) bless me also.

geneva@Exodus:12:33 @ And the Egyptians did force the people, because they would send them out of the land in haste: for they said, We die all.

geneva@Exodus:12:34 @ Therfore the people tooke their dough before it was leauened, euen their dough bound in clothes vpon their shoulders.

geneva@Exodus:12:35 @ And the children of Israel did according to the saying of Moses, & they asked of ye Egyptians iewels of siluer & iewels of gold, & raiment.

geneva@Exodus:12:37 @ And the children of Israel journeyed from (note:)Which was a city in Goshen; (Gen_47:11).(:note) Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.

geneva@Exodus:12:39 @ And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt, & made vnleauened cakes: for it was not leauened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, neither coulde they tarie, nor yet prepare themselues vitailes.

geneva@Exodus:12:40 @ So the dwelling of the children of Israel, while they dwelled in Egypt, was foure hundreth and thirtie yeres.

geneva@Exodus:12:41 @ And it came to pass at the end of the (note:)From Abraham's departing from Ur in Chaldea to the departing of the children of Israel from Egypt are 430 years.(:note) four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:12:43 @ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the passover: (note:)Unless he is circumcised, and professes your religion only.(:note) There shall no stranger eat thereof:

geneva@Exodus:12:44 @ But euerie seruant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

geneva@Exodus:12:48 @ But if a stranger dwell with thee, and will obserue the Passeouer of the Lorde, let him circumcise all the males, that belong vnto him, and then let him come and obserue it, & he shall be as one that is borne in the land: for none vncircumcised person shall eate thereof.

geneva@Exodus:12:50 @ Then all the children of Israel did as the Lorde commaunded Moses and Aaron: so did they.

geneva@Exodus:13:2 @ Sanctifie vnto me all the first borne: that is, euery one that first openeth the wombe among the children of Israel, as well of man as of beast: for it is mine.

geneva@Exodus:13:6 @ Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the (note:)Both the seventh and the first day were holy, as in (Exo_12:16).(:note) seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:13:8 @ And thou shalt shew thy son (note:)When you celebrate the feast of unleavened bread.(:note) in that day, saying, [This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:13:9 @ And it shall be for a sign unto thee (note:)You will constantly remember it, as you would of a thing that is in your hand, or before your eyes.(:note) upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:13:10 @ Keepe therefore this ordinance in his season appoynted from yeere to yeere.

geneva@Exodus:13:11 @ And when the Lord shall bring thee into the lande of the Canaanites, as hee sware vnto thee and to thy fathers, and shall giue it thee,

geneva@Exodus:13:12 @ Then thou shalt set apart vnto the Lorde all that first openeth the wombe: also euery thing that first doeth open the wombe, and commeth forth of thy beast: the males shalbe the Lordes.

geneva@Exodus:13:13 @ And every firstling of an (note:)This is also understood about the horse and other beasts which were not offered in sacrifice.(:note) ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou By offering a clean beast in sacrifice; (Lev_12:6). redeem.

geneva@Exodus:13:14 @ And when thy sonne shall aske thee to morowe, saying, What is this? thou shalt then say vnto him, With a mightie hande the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

geneva@Exodus:13:15 @ For when Pharaoh was harde hearted against our departing, the Lord then slewe all the first borne in the lande of Egypt: from the first borne of man euen to the first borne of beast: therefore I sacrifice vnto the Lorde all the males that first open the wombe, but all the first borne of my sonnes I redeeme.

geneva@Exodus:13:16 @ And it shalbe as a token vpon thine hand, and as frontlets betweene thine eyes, that the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt by a mightie hande.

geneva@Exodus:13:17 @ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not [through] the way of the land of the Philistines, although that [was] near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they (note:)Which the Philistines would have made against them by blocking their passage.(:note) see war, and they return to Egypt:

geneva@Exodus:13:18 @ But God led the people about, [through] the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up (note:)That is, not secretly but openly and as the word signifies, set in order by five and five.(:note) harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:14:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, that they (note:)From toward the country of the Philistines.(:note) turn and encamp before So the Sea was before them, mountains on either side, and the enemies at their back: yet they obeyed God, and were delivered. Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.

geneva@Exodus:14:5 @ Then it was told the King of Egypt, that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his seruants was turned against the people, and they sayde, Why haue we this done, and haue let Israel go out of our seruice?

geneva@Exodus:14:11 @ And they sayde vnto Moses, Hast thou brought vs to die in the wildernes, because there were no graues in Egypt? wherefore hast thou serued vs thus, to carie vs out of Egypt?

geneva@Exodus:14:20 @ And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave (note:)The cloud gave light to the Israelites, but to the Egyptians it was darkness, so that their two groups could not join together.(:note) light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

geneva@Exodus:14:21 @ And Moses stretched forth his hande vpon the Sea, & the Lord caused the sea to runne backe by a strong East winde all the night, & made the Sea dry land: for the waters were deuided.

geneva@Exodus:14:24 @ And it came to pass, that in the morning (note:)Which was about the last three hours of the night.(:note) watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

geneva@Exodus:15:4 @ Pharaohs charets and his host hath he cast into the Sea: his chosen captaines also were drowned in the red Sea.

geneva@Exodus:15:5 @ The depths haue couered them, they sanke to the bottome as a stone.

geneva@Exodus:15:7 @ And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against (note:)Those who are enemies to God's people are his enemies.(:note) thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them as stubble.

geneva@Exodus:15:8 @ And by the blast of thy nostrels the waters were gathered, the floods stoode still as an heape, the depthes congealed together in the heart of the Sea.

geneva@Exodus:15:10 @ Thou blewest with thy winde, the Sea couered them, they sanke as leade in the mightie waters.

geneva@Exodus:15:13 @ Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people [which] thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided [them] in thy strength unto thy holy (note:)That is, into the land of Canaan, or into mount Zion.(:note) habitation.

geneva@Exodus:15:15 @ Then the dukes of Edom shalbe amased, & trembling shall come vpon the great men of Moab: all the inhabitantes of Canaan shall waxe faint hearted.

geneva@Exodus:15:16 @ Feare and dread shall fall vpon them: because of the greatnesse of thine arme, they shalbe stil as a stone, till thy people passe, O Lord: til this people passe, which thou hast purchased.

geneva@Exodus:15:17 @ Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine (note:)Which was mount Zion, where later the temple was built.(:note) inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee to dwell in, [in] the Sanctuary, O Lord, [which] thy hands have established.

geneva@Exodus:15:20 @ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with (note:)Signifying their great joy: a custom the Jews observed in certain situations, (Jdg_11:34) but it should not be used as a means to justify our wanton dances.(:note) dances.

geneva@Exodus:15:22 @ So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of (note:)Which was called Etham, (Num_33:8).(:note) Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

geneva@Exodus:15:23 @ And whe they came to Marah, they could not drinke of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of the place was called Marah.

geneva@Exodus:15:25 @ And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, [which] when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there (note:)That is, God, or Moses in God's name.(:note) he proved them,

geneva@Exodus:15:26 @ And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is (note:)Which is, to do only what God commanded.(:note) right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD that healeth thee.

geneva@Exodus:16:1 @ And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of (note:)This is the eighth place in which they had camped, there is another place called Zin, which was the 33rd place in which they camped, and is also called Kadesh, (Num_33:36).(:note) Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:16:3 @ And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh (note:)It is a hard thing for the flesh not to complain against God when the stomach is empty.(:note) pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

geneva@Exodus:16:5 @ But the sixt daye they shall prepare that, which they shal bring home, and it shalbe twise as much as they gather dayly.

geneva@Exodus:16:10 @ Now as Aaron spake vnto the whole Congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wildernesse, and beholde, the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloude.

geneva@Exodus:16:14 @ And when the dewe that was fallen was ascended, beholde, a small round thing was vpon the face of the wildernes, small as the hoare frost on the earth.

geneva@Exodus:16:15 @ And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] (note:)Which signifies a part, portion, or gift: also meat prepared.(:note) manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

geneva@Exodus:16:16 @ This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, (note:)Which contains about half a gallon in our measure.(:note) an omer for every man, [according to] the number of your persons; take ye every man for [them] which [are] in his tents.

geneva@Exodus:16:20 @ Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and (note:)No creature is so pure, but being abused it turns to our destruction.(:note) stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

geneva@Exodus:16:21 @ And they gathered it euery morning, euery man according to his eating: for when the heate of the sunne came, it was melted.

geneva@Exodus:16:22 @ And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they gathered (note:)Which would serve for the Sabbath and the day before.(:note) twice as much bread, two omers for one [man]: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

geneva@Exodus:16:24 @ And they laied it vp till the morning, as Moses bade, and it stanke not, neyther was there any worme therein.

geneva@Exodus:16:27 @ And it came to pass, [that] there (note:)Their unfaithfulness was so great, that they did exactly the opposite of God's commandment.(:note) went out [some] of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

geneva@Exodus:16:31 @ And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it [was] like (note:)In form and figure, but not in colour; (Num_11:7).(:note) coriander seed, white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with honey.

geneva@Exodus:16:34 @ As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the (note:)That is, the Ark of the covenant that is, after the Ark was made.(:note) Testimony, to be kept.

geneva@Exodus:16:36 @ Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an (note:)Which measure contained about five gallons.(:note) ephah.

geneva@Exodus:17:1 @ And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in (note:)Moses does not note every place where they camped as in Numbers 33, but only those places where some notable thing was done.(:note) Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to drink.

geneva@Exodus:17:3 @ So the people thirsted there for water, & the people murmured against Moses, & said, Wherefore hast thou thus brought vs out of Egypt to kil vs and our children and our cattel with thirst?

geneva@Exodus:17:7 @ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the (note:)When in adversity we think God is absent, then we neglect his promise and make him a liar.(:note) LORD among us, or not?

geneva@Exodus:17:10 @ So Ioshua did as Moses bad him, & fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, went vp to the top of the hill.

geneva@Exodus:17:11 @ And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let (note:)So that we see how dangerous a thing it is to cease in prayer.(:note) down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

geneva@Exodus:17:15 @ And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it (note:)That is, the Lord is my banner as he declared by holding up his rod and his hands.(:note) Jehovahnissi:

geneva@Exodus:18:2 @ Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had (note:)It may seem that he sent her back for a time to her father for her impatience, lest she should be a hinderance to his calling, which was so dangerous, (Exo_4:25).(:note) sent her back,

geneva@Exodus:18:3 @ And her two sonnes, (whereof the one was called Gershom: for he sayd, I haue bene an aliant in a strange land:

geneva@Exodus:18:4 @ And the name of the other was Eliezer: for the God of my father, said he, was mine helpe, & deliuered me from the sword of Pharaoh)

geneva@Exodus:18:5 @ And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the (note:)Horeb is called the mount of God, because God did many miracles there. So Peter calls the mount where Christ was transfigured, the holy mount: for by Christ's presence it was holy for a time, (2Pe_1:18).(:note) mount of God:

geneva@Exodus:18:7 @ And Moses went out to meete his father in law, and did obeisance and kissed him, and eche asked other of his welfare: and they came into the tent.

geneva@Exodus:18:11 @ Now I know that the LORD [is] greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly (note:)For they that drowned the children of the Israelites, perished themselves by water.(:note) [he was] above them.

geneva@Exodus:18:12 @ And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law (note:)They ate in the place, where the sacrifice was offered: for part was burnt, and the rest eaten.(:note) before God.

geneva@Exodus:18:19 @ Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to (note:)You judge in difficult cases, which cannot be decided without consulting with God.(:note) God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

geneva@Exodus:18:21 @ Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people (note:)What manner of men ought to be chosen to bear office.(:note) able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

geneva@Exodus:18:22 @ And let them iudge the people at all seasons: but euery great matter let them bring vnto thee, and let them iudge all small causes: so shall it be easier for thee, when they shal beare the burden with thee.

geneva@Exodus:18:24 @ So Moses (note:)Godly counsel should always be obeyed, even if it comes from our inferiors, for to such God often gives wisdom to humble those that are exalted, and to declare that one member has need of another.(:note) hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

geneva@Exodus:18:26 @ And they iudged the people at all seasons, but they brought the hard causes vnto Moses: for they iudged all small matters themselues.

geneva@Exodus:19:1 @ In the (note:)Which was in the beginning of the month of Sivan, containing part of May and part of June.(:note) third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same That they departed from Rephidim. day came they [into] the wilderness of Sinai.

geneva@Exodus:19:5 @ Now therefore if ye wil heare my voyce in deede, and keepe my couenant, then ye shalbe my chiefe treasure aboue all people, though all the earth be mine.

geneva@Exodus:19:10 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and (note:)Teach them to be pure in heart, as they show themselves outwardly clean by washing.(:note) sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

geneva@Exodus:19:13 @ No hand shall touche it, but he shalbe stoned to death, or striken through with darts: whether it be beast or man, he shal not liue: when the horne bloweth long, they shal come vp into the mountaine.

geneva@Exodus:19:14 @ Then Moses went downe from ye mount vnto the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

geneva@Exodus:19:16 @ And the thirde day, when it was morning, there was thunders and lightnings, and a thicke cloude vpon the mount, and the sounde of the trumpet exceeding loude, so that all the people, that was in the campe, was afrayde.

geneva@Exodus:19:18 @ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount (note:)God used these fearful signs, that his law would be held in greater reverence, and his majesty even more feared.(:note) quaked greatly.

geneva@Exodus:19:21 @ Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Go down, charge the people, that they breake not their boundes, to go vp to the Lord to gaze, least many of them perish.

geneva@Exodus:19:22 @ And let the Priestes also which come to the Lorde be sanctified, least the Lorde destroy them.

geneva@Exodus:19:23 @ And Moses sayde vnto the Lord, The people can not come vp into the mount Sinai: for thou hast charged vs, saying, Set markes on the mountaine, and sanctifie it.

geneva@Exodus:19:24 @ And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the (note:)Neither dignity nor multitude have authority to pass the bounds that God's word prescribes.(:note) priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

geneva@Exodus:20:1 @ And God (note:)When Moses and Aaron were gone up, or had passed the bounds of the people, God spoke thus out of the mount Horeb, that all the people heard.(:note) spake all these words, saying,

geneva@Exodus:20:7 @ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in (note:)Either by swearing falsely or rashly by his Name, or by condemning it.(:note) vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

geneva@Exodus:20:10 @ But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayde, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

geneva@Exodus:20:17 @ Thou shalt not (note:)You may not so much as wish his hinderance in anything.(:note) covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.

geneva@Exodus:20:20 @ And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to (note:)Whether you will obey his precepts as you promised in (Exo_19:8).(:note) prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

geneva@Exodus:20:21 @ So the people stoode afarre off, but Moses drew neere vnto the darkenes where God was.

geneva@Exodus:20:25 @ But if thou wilt make mee an altar of stone, thou shalt not buylde it of hewen stones: for if thou lift vp thy toole vpon them, thou hast polluted them.

geneva@Exodus:21:4 @ If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her (note:)Till her time of servitude was expired which might be the seventh year or the fiftieth.(:note) master's, and he shall go out by himself.

geneva@Exodus:21:5 @ But if the seruant saye thus, I loue my master, my wife and my children, I will not goe out free,

geneva@Exodus:21:6 @ Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the (note:)Where the judges sat.(:note) door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for That is, to the year of Jubile, which was every fiftieth year. ever.

geneva@Exodus:21:7 @ And if a man (note:)Forced either by poverty, or else with the intent that the master should marry her.(:note) sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

geneva@Exodus:21:8 @ If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall (note:)By giving another money to buy her from him.(:note) he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

geneva@Exodus:21:22 @ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no (note:)Or, «death»: of the mother or child in the event she miscarries. Also the death on the unborn infant.(:note) mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine].

geneva@Exodus:21:27 @ And if he smite (note:)So God revenges cruelty in the even the least things.(:note) out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

geneva@Exodus:21:28 @ If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely (note:)If the beast be punished, much more shall the murderer.(:note) stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit.

geneva@Exodus:21:29 @ If the oxe were wont to push in times past, and it hath bene tolde his master, and hee hath not kept him, and after he killeth a man or a woman, the oxe shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.

geneva@Exodus:21:32 @ If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty (note:)Read (Gen_23:15).(:note) shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

geneva@Exodus:21:33 @ And when a man shall open a well, or when he shall dig a pit and couer it not, and an oxe or an asse fall therein,

geneva@Exodus:21:34 @ The owner of the pit shall (note:)This law forbids not only to hurt, but to beware lest any be hurt.(:note) make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his.

geneva@Exodus:21:36 @ Or if it bee knowen that the oxe hath vsed to push in times past, & his master hath not kept him, he shal pay oxe for oxe, but the dead shall be his owne.

geneva@Exodus:22:1 @ If a man shall steal an (note:)Either a great beast of the herd, or a small beast of the flock.(:note) ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

geneva@Exodus:22:4 @ If the theft bee founde with him, aliue, (whether it be oxe, asse, or sheepe) he shal restore the double.

geneva@Exodus:22:5 @ If a man doe hurt fielde, or vineyarde, and put in his beast to feed in an other mans fielde, he shall recompence of the best of his owne fielde, and of the best of his owne vineyard.

geneva@Exodus:22:8 @ If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, [to see] whether he have (note:)That is, whether he has stolen.(:note) put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

geneva@Exodus:22:9 @ In all maner of trespasse, whether it bee for oxen, for asse, for sheepe, for raiment, or for any maner of lost thing, which an other chalengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shal come before the iudges, and whom the Iudges condemne, he shall pay the double vnto his neighbour.

geneva@Exodus:22:10 @ If a man deliuer vnto his neighbour to keepe asse, or oxe, or sheepe, or any beast, and it die, or be hurt, or taken away by enemies, and no man see it,

geneva@Exodus:22:13 @ If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring (note:)He shall show some part of the beast or bring in witnesses.(:note) it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.

geneva@Exodus:22:19 @ Whosoeuer lieth with a beast, shall dye the death.

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:22:27 @ For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he (note:)For cold and necessity.(:note) crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.

geneva@Exodus:22:31 @ And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it (note:)And so have nothing to do with it.(:note) to the dogs.

geneva@Exodus:23:4 @ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely (note:)If we are bound to do good to our enemies beast, how much more to our enemy himself, (Mat_5:44).(:note) bring it back to him again.

geneva@Exodus:23:5 @ If thou see the (note:)If God commands us to help our enemy's donkey under his burden, will he suffer us to cast down our brethren with heavy burdens?(:note) ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

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:23:12 @ Sixe dayes thou shalt do thy worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest, that thine oxe, and thine asse may rest, and the sonne of thy maide and the stranger may be refreshed.

geneva@Exodus:23:14 @ Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.

geneva@Exodus:23:15 @ Thou shalt keep the feast of (note:)That is, Easter, in remembrance that the angel passed over and spared the Israelites, when he slew the first born of the Egyptians.(:note) unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

geneva@Exodus:23:16 @ And the (note:)Which is Whit Sunday, in token that the law was given 50 days after they departed from Egypt.(:note) feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the This is the feast of tabernacles, signifying that they lived for 40 years in the tents or the tabernacles in the wilderness. feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

geneva@Exodus:23:26 @ There shall none cast their fruite nor be baren in thy lande: the number of thy dayes will I fulfill.

geneva@Exodus:23:27 @ I will send my (note:)I will make them afraid of your coming and send my angel to destroy them, as in (Exo_35:2).(:note) fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

geneva@Exodus:23:29 @ I will not cast them out from thy face in one yeere, least the land grow to a wildernes: & the beasts of the field multiplie against thee.

geneva@Exodus:23:30 @ By litle and litle I will driue them out from thy face, vntill thou increase, and inherite the lande.

geneva@Exodus:23:33 @ Neither shall they dwell in thy lande, least they make thee sinne against me: for if thou serue their gods, surely it shall be thy destruction.

geneva@Exodus:24:5 @ And he sent young (note:)For as yet the priesthood was not given to Levi.(:note) men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:24:6 @ Then Moses tooke halfe of the blood, and put it in basens, and halfe of the blood he sprinckled on the altar.

geneva@Exodus:24:10 @ And they (note:)As perfectly as their infirmities could behold his majesty.(:note) saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness.

geneva@Exodus:24:17 @ And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like (note:)The Lord appears like devouring fire to carnal men: but to them that he draws with his Spirit, he is like pleasant sapphire.(:note) devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

geneva@Exodus:24:18 @ And Moses entred into the middes of the cloude, and went vp to the mountaine: and Moses was in the mount fourtie dayes and fourty nightes.

geneva@Exodus:25:3 @ And this [is] the offering which ye shall (note:)For the building and use of the tabernacle.(:note) take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

geneva@Exodus:25:12 @ And thou shalt cast foure rings of golde for it, and put them in the foure corners thereof: that is, two rings shalbe on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side thereof.

geneva@Exodus:25:17 @ And thou shalt make a (note:)There God appeared mercifully to them: and this was a figure of Christ.(:note) mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

geneva@Exodus:25:39 @ [Of] a (note:)This was the talent weight of the temple, and weighed 120 pounds.(:note) talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

geneva@Exodus:25:40 @ Looke therefore that thou make them after their facion, that was shewed thee in the mountaine.

geneva@Exodus:26:2 @ The length of one curtaine shalbe eight and twentie cubites, and the bredth of one curtaine, foure cubites: euery one of the curtaines shall haue one measure.

geneva@Exodus:26:8 @ The length of a curtaine shall be thirtie cubites, and the breadth of a curtaine foure cubites: the eleuen curtaines shalbe of one measure.

geneva@Exodus:26:11 @ Likewise thou shalt make fifty taches of brasse, & fasten them on the strings, & shalt couple the couering together, that it may be one.

geneva@Exodus:26:14 @ And thou shalt make a (note:)To be put on the covering that was made of goats hair.(:note) covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] This was the third covering of the tabernacle. badgers' skins.

geneva@Exodus:26:17 @ Two tenons shalbe in one boarde set in order as the feete of a ladder, one against an other: thus shalt thou make for all the boardes of the Tabernacle.

geneva@Exodus:26:24 @ And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be (note:)The Hebrew word signifies twins declaring that they should be as perfect and well joined as possible.(:note) coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

geneva@Exodus:26:30 @ So thou shalt reare vp the Tabernacle, according to the facion thereof, which was shewed thee in the mount.

geneva@Exodus:26:36 @ And thou shalt make an (note:)This hanging or veil was between the holy place, and there where the people were.(:note) hanging for the door of the tent, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

geneva@Exodus:26:37 @ And thou shalt make for the hanging fiue pillers of Shittim, and couer them with gold: their heads shalbe of golde, and thou shalt cast fiue sockets of brasse for them.

geneva@Exodus:27:2 @ And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of (note:)Of the same wood and matter not fastened to it.(:note) the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

geneva@Exodus:27:3 @ Also thou shalt make his ashpannes for his ashes and his besoms, and his basens, and his flesh-hookes, and his censers: thou shalt make all the instruments thereof of brasse.

geneva@Exodus:27:4 @ And thou shalt make vnto it a grate like networke of brasse: also vpon that grate shalt thou make foure brasen rings vpon the foure corners thereof.

geneva@Exodus:27:5 @ And thou shalt put it vnder the compasse of the altar beneath, that the grate may be in the middes of the altar.

geneva@Exodus:27:6 @ Also thou shalt make barres for the altar, barres, I say, of Shittim wood, and shalt couer them with brasse.

geneva@Exodus:27:8 @ Thou shalt make the altar holowe betwene the boardes: as God shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

geneva@Exodus:27:9 @ And thou shalt make the (note:)This was the first entry into the tabernacle, where the people abode.(:note) court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

geneva@Exodus:27:10 @ And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets [shall be of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their (note:)They were certain hoops or circles to beautify the pillar.(:note) fillets [shall be of] silver.

geneva@Exodus:27:11 @ Likewise on the Northside in length there shalbe hangings of an hundreth cubites long, and the twentie pillars thereof with their twentie sockets of brasse: the heades of the pillars and the filets shalbe siluer.

geneva@Exodus:27:13 @ And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall be] (note:)Meaning curtains of fifty cubits.(:note) fifty cubits.

geneva@Exodus:27:17 @ All the pillars of the court shal haue filets of siluer round about, with their heads of siluer, and their sockets of brasse.

geneva@Exodus:27:18 @ The length of the court shalbe an hundreth cubites, and the breadth fiftie at either ende, & the height fiue cubites, and the hangings of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brasse.

geneva@Exodus:27:19 @ All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the (note:)Or stakes, with which the curtains were fastened to the ground.(:note) pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, [shall be of] brass.

geneva@Exodus:27:20 @ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive (note:)Such as comes from the olive, when it is first pressed or beaten.(:note) beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

geneva@Exodus:28:4 @ And these [are] the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an (note:)A short an straight coat without sleeves, put on top of his garments to keep them close to him.(:note) ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

geneva@Exodus:28:10 @ Six of their names on one stone, and [the other] six names of the rest on the other stone, according to (note:)As they were in age, so should they be graven in order.(:note) their birth.

geneva@Exodus:28:14 @ And two chains [of] pure gold (note:)Of the bosses.(:note) at the ends; [of] wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

geneva@Exodus:28:15 @ And thou shalt make the breastplate of (note:)It was so called, because the high priest could not give sentence in judgment without that on his breast.(:note) judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, and [of] fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

geneva@Exodus:28:20 @ And in the fourth rowe a chrysolite, an onix, and a iasper: and they shall be set in golde in their embossements.

geneva@Exodus:28:21 @ And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelue, according to their names, grauen as signets, euerye one after his name, and they shall bee for the twelue tribes.

geneva@Exodus:28:22 @ Then thou shalt make vpon the breast plate two cheines at the endes of wrethen worke of pure golde.

geneva@Exodus:28:23 @ And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on (note:)Which are upmost toward the shoulder.(:note) the two ends of the breastplate.

geneva@Exodus:28:25 @ And the other two endes of the two wrethen cheines, thou shalt fasten in ye two embossements, and shalt put them vpon the shoulders of the Ephod on the foreside of it.

geneva@Exodus:28:26 @ And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the (note:)Which are beneath.(:note) two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which [is] in the side of the ephod inward.

geneva@Exodus:28:28 @ Thus they shall binde the brest plate by his rings vnto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blewe silke, that it may be fast vpon the broydred garde of the Ephod, and that the brest plate be not loosed from the Ephod.

geneva@Exodus:28:29 @ And Aaron shall (note:)Aaron will not enter into the holy place in his own name, but in the name of all the children of Israel.(:note) bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy [place], for a memorial before the LORD continually.

geneva@Exodus:28:30 @ And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the (note:)Urim signifies light, and thummim perfection: declaring that the stones of the breastplate were most clear, and of perfect beauty: by urim also is meant knowledge, and thummim holiness, showing what virtues are required in the priests.(:note) Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

geneva@Exodus:28:32 @ And the hole for his head shalbe in the middes of it, hauing an edge of wouen woorke rounde about the coller of it: so it shalbe as the coller of an habergeon that it rent not.

geneva@Exodus:29:3 @ And thou shalt put them into one basket, and (note:)To offer them in sacrifice.(:note) bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

geneva@Exodus:29:4 @ And shalt bring Aaron and his sonnes vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and wash them with water.

geneva@Exodus:29:5 @ And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the (note:)Which was next under the Ephod.(:note) robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:

geneva@Exodus:29:10 @ And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall (note:)Signifying that the sacrifice was also offered for them, and that they approved it.(:note) put their hands upon the head of the bullock.

geneva@Exodus:29:17 @ And thou shalt cut the ramme in pieces, and wash the inwards of him and his legges, and shalt put them vpon the pieces thereof, and vpon his head.

geneva@Exodus:29:18 @ And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: (note:)Or, savour of rest, which causes the wrath of God to cease.(:note) it [is] a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:29:23 @ And one loafe of bread, and one cake of bread tempered with oyle, and one wafer, out of the basket of the vnleauened bread that is before the Lorde.

geneva@Exodus:29:26 @ And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it (note:)This sacrifice the priest did move toward the East, West, North, and South.(:note) [for] a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.

geneva@Exodus:29:27 @ And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the (note:)So called because it was not only shaken to and fro, but also lifted up.(:note) heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, [even] of [that] which [is] for Aaron, and of [that] which is for his sons:

geneva@Exodus:29:32 @ And Aaron and his sonnes shall eate the flesh of the ram, & the bread that is in the basket, at the doore of ye Tabernacle of ye Congregation.

geneva@Exodus:29:33 @ And they shall eat those things (note:)That is, by the sacrifices.(:note) wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate [and] to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat [thereof], because they [are] holy.

geneva@Exodus:29:36 @ And thou shalt offer every day a bullock [for] a sin offering for (note:)To appease God's wrath that sin may be pardoned.(:note) atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

geneva@Exodus:30:1 @ And thou shalt make an altar (note:)Upon which the sweet perfume was burnt, (Exo_30:34).(:note) to burn incense upon: [of] shittim wood shalt thou make it.

geneva@Exodus:30:4 @ Besides this thou shalt make vnder this crowne two golden rings on either side: euen on euery side shalt thou make them, that they may be as places for the barres to beare it withall.

geneva@Exodus:30:12 @ When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man (note:)By which he testified that he redeemed his life which he had forfeit, as is declared by David, (2Sa_24:1).(:note) a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when [thou] numberest them.

geneva@Exodus:30:13 @ This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the (note:)This shekel was worth two common shekels: and the gerah about 12 pence at a rate of five shillings sterling to an ounce of silver.(:note) shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the offering of the LORD.

geneva@Exodus:30:18 @ Thou shalt also make a lauer of brasse, and his foote of brasse to wash, and shalt put it betweene the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar, and shalt put water therein.

geneva@Exodus:30:19 @ For Aaron and his sons shall (note:)Signifying that he that comes to God must be washed from all sin and corruption.(:note) wash their hands and their feet thereat:

geneva@Exodus:30:20 @ When they go into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, or when they goe vnto the Altar to minister and to make the perfume of ye burnt offring to the Lorde, they shall wash themselues with water, lest they die.

geneva@Exodus:30:21 @ So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute (note:)So long as the priesthood shall last.(:note) for ever to them, [even] to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

geneva@Exodus:30:24 @ Also of cassia fiue hundreth, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, & of oyle oliue an Hin.

geneva@Exodus:30:34 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and (note:)In Hebrew, Sheheleth: which is a sweet kind of gum and shines as the nail.(:note) onycha, and galbanum; [these] sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like [weight]:

geneva@Exodus:31:4 @ To finde out curious workes to worke in golde, and in siluer, and in brasse,

geneva@Exodus:31:5 @ Also in the arte to set stones, & to carue in timber, & to worke in all maner of workmaship.

geneva@Exodus:31:6 @ And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are (note:)I have instructed them, and increased their knowledge.(:note) wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;

geneva@Exodus:31:8 @ And the table and his furniture, and the (note:)So called, because of the cunning and art used in them, or because the whole was beaten out of the piece.(:note) pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,

geneva@Exodus:31:11 @ And the (note:)Which was only to anoint the Priests and the instruments of the tabernacle, not to burn.(:note) anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy [place]: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.

geneva@Exodus:31:16 @ Wherfore the children of Israel shal keepe the Sabbath, that they may obserue the rest throughout their generations for an euerlasting couenant.

geneva@Exodus:31:17 @ It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he (note:)From creating his creatures, but not from governing and preserving them.(:note) rested, and was refreshed.

geneva@Exodus:32:1 @ And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, (note:)The root of Idolatry is when men think that God is not present, unless they see him physically.(:note) make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

geneva@Exodus:32:4 @ And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a (note:)They remembered the sins of Egypt, where they saw calves, oxen and serpents worshipped.(:note) molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:32:7 @ Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Go, get thee downe: for thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath corrupted their wayes.

geneva@Exodus:32:8 @ They (note:)By which we see the need we have to pray earnestly to God, to keep us in his true obedience, and to send us good guides.(:note) have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:32:11 @ But Moses praied vnto the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, why doeth thy wrath waxe hote against thy people, which thou hast brought out of the lande of Egypt, with great power and with a mightie hand?

geneva@Exodus:32:13 @ Remember (note:)That is, your promise made to Abraham.(:note) Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever.

geneva@Exodus:32:16 @ And the tables [were] the work of God, and (note:)All these repetitions show how excellent a thing they defrauded themselves of by their idolatry.(:note) the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

geneva@Exodus:32:17 @ And when Ioshua heard the noyse of the people, as they shouted, he said vnto Moses, There is a noyse of warre in the hoste.

geneva@Exodus:32:19 @ Nowe, as soone as he came neere vnto the hoste, he sawe the calfe and the dancing: so Moses wrath waxed hote, and he cast the Tables out of his handes, and brake them in pieces beneath the mountaine.

geneva@Exodus:32:21 @ Also Moses said vnto Aaron, What did this people vnto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sinne vpon them?

geneva@Exodus:32:24 @ Then I sayde to them, Ye that haue golde, plucke it off: and they brought it me, & I did cast it into the fire, and thereof came this calfe.

geneva@Exodus:32:25 @ And when Moses saw that the people [were] (note:)Both destitute of God's favour, and an occasion for their enemies to speak evil of their God.(:note) naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto [their] shame among their enemies:)

geneva@Exodus:32:27 @ And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and (note:)This fact did so please God, that he turned the curse of Jacob against Levi to a blessing, (Deu_33:9).(:note) slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

geneva@Exodus:32:28 @ So the children of Leui did as Moses had commanded: and there fel of the people the same day about three thousand men.

geneva@Exodus:32:29 @ For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his (note:)In revenging God's glory we must have no partiality to person, but lay aside all carnal affection.(:note) son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

geneva@Exodus:32:32 @ Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, (note:)He esteemed the glory of God so much, that he preferred it even to his own salvation.(:note) out of thy book which thou hast written.

geneva@Exodus:32:33 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my (note:)I will make it known that he was never predestined in my eternal counsel to life everlasting.(:note) book.

geneva@Exodus:33:1 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, [and] (note:)The land of Canaan was surrounded by hills: so those who entered it, must go up by the hills.(:note) go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:

geneva@Exodus:33:2 @ And I will send an Angel before thee & will cast out the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites:

geneva@Exodus:33:3 @ To a lande, I say, that floweth with milke and hony: for I will not goe vp with thee, because thou art a stiffe necked people, least I consume thee in the way.

geneva@Exodus:33:7 @ And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the (note:)That is, the tabernacle of the congregation: so called because the people turned to it, when they needed to be instructed of the Lord's will.(:note) Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which [was] without the camp.

geneva@Exodus:33:8 @ And when Moses went out vnto the Tabernacle, all the people rose vp, and stood euery man at his tent doore, and looked after Moses, vntil he was gone into the Tabernacle.

geneva@Exodus:33:9 @ And assoone as Moses was entred into the Tabernacle, the cloudie pillar descended & stood at the doore of the Tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.

geneva@Exodus:33:11 @ And the LORD spake unto Moses (note:)Most clearly and familiarly of all others, (Num_12:7-8; Deu_34:10)(:note) face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

geneva@Exodus:33:12 @ And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by (note:)I care for you and will preserve you in your calling.(:note) name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

geneva@Exodus:33:17 @ And the Lord sayde vnto Moses, I will doe this also that thou hast saide: for thou hast founde grace in my sight, and I knowe thee by name.

geneva@Exodus:33:19 @ And he said, I will make all my (note:)My mercy and fatherly care.(:note) goodness pass before thee, and I will See (Exo_34:6-7). proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew For finding nothing in man that deserves mercy, he will freely give his. mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

geneva@Exodus:33:20 @ And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and (note:)For Moses did not see his face in full majesty, but as man's weakness could bear.(:note) live.

geneva@Exodus:33:22 @ And while my glory passeth by, I will put thee in a cleft of the rocke, and will couer thee with mine hand whiles I passe by.

geneva@Exodus:33:23 @ And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my (note:)As much of my glory as in this mortal life you are able to see.(:note) back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

geneva@Exodus:34:4 @ Then Moses hewed two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and rose vp earely in the morning, and went vp vnto the mount of Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, & tooke in his hande two Tables of stone.

geneva@Exodus:34:6 @ And the LORD passed by before him, and (note:)This refers to the Lord, and not to Moses proclaiming: as (Exo_33:19).(:note) proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

geneva@Exodus:34:8 @ Then Moses made haste & bowed him selfe to the earth, and worshipped,

geneva@Exodus:34:10 @ And he answered, Behold, I will make a couenant before all thy people, and will do marueiles, such as haue not bene done in all the worlde, neyther in all nations: and all the people among whom thou art, shal see the worke of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

geneva@Exodus:34:11 @ Keepe diligently that which I commande thee this day: Beholde, I will cast out before thee the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites.

geneva@Exodus:34:13 @ But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their (note:)Which pleasant places they chose for their idols.(:note) groves:

geneva@Exodus:34:16 @ And least thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters goe a whoring after their gods, and make thy sonnes goe a whoring after their gods.

geneva@Exodus:34:17 @ Thou shalt make thee no (note:)As gold, silver, brass, or anything that is molten: in this is condemned all types idols, no matter what they are made of.(:note) molten gods.

geneva@Exodus:34:18 @ The feast of vnleauened bread shalt thou keepe: seuen dayes shalt thou eate vnleauened bread, as I commanded thee, in ye time of the moneth of Abib: for in the moneth of Abib thou camest out of Egypt.

geneva@Exodus:34:20 @ But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me (note:)Without offering something.(:note) empty.

geneva@Exodus:34:22 @ And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering (note:)Which was in September, when the days got shorter, that is, the end of their calendar year.(:note) at the year's end.

geneva@Exodus:34:24 @ For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man (note:)God promises to defend them and theirs, who obey his commandment.(:note) desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.

geneva@Exodus:34:25 @ Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leauen, neither shall ought of the sacrifice of the feast of Passeouer be left vnto the morning.

geneva@Exodus:34:28 @ And he was there with the LORD (note:)This miracle was to confirm the authority of the law, and should not be followed any more than other miracles.(:note) forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

geneva@Exodus:34:29 @ So when Moses came downe fro mount Sinai, the two Tables of the Testimonie were in Moses hande, as hee descended from the mount: (nowe Moses wist not that the skinne of his face shone bright, after that God had talked with him.

geneva@Exodus:34:34 @ But when Moses went in (note:)Which was in the tabernacle of the congregation.(:note) before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded.

geneva@Exodus:35:1 @ Then Moses assembled all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and sayd vnto them, These are the wordes which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them:

geneva@Exodus:35:5 @ Take from among you an offering vnto the Lorde: whosoeuer is of a willing heart, let him bring this offring to the Lord, namely golde, and siluer, and brasse:

geneva@Exodus:35:16 @ The Altar of burnt offering with his brasen grate, his barres and all his instrumentes, the Lauer and his foote,

geneva@Exodus:35:19 @ The (note:)Such as belong to the service of the tabernacle.(:note) cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place], the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.

geneva@Exodus:35:22 @ Both men & women, as many as were free hearted, came and brought taches and earings, and rings, and bracelets, all were iewels of golde: and euery one that offered an offring of gold vnto the Lord:

geneva@Exodus:35:24 @ All that offered an oblation of siluer and of brasse, brought the offring vnto the Lord: and euery one, that had Shittim wood for any maner worke of the ministration, brought it.

geneva@Exodus:35:29 @ The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made (note:)Using Moses as a minister of it.(:note) by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Exodus:35:32 @ To finde out curious workes, to worke in golde, and in siluer, and in brasse,

geneva@Exodus:36:2 @ For Moses had called Bezaleel, and Aholiab, and all the wise hearted men, in whose heartes the Lorde had giuen wisedome, euen as many as their hearts encouraged to come vnto that worke to worke it.

geneva@Exodus:36:7 @ For the stuffe they had, was sufficient for all the worke to make it, and too much.

geneva@Exodus:36:9 @ The length of one curtaine was twentie & eight cubits, & the breadth of one curtaine foure cubites: and the curtaines were all of one cise.

geneva@Exodus:36:12 @ Fiftie strings made he in the one curtaine, and fiftie strings made he in the edge of the other curtaine, which was in the second coupling: the strings were set one against another.

geneva@Exodus:36:13 @ After, he made fiftie taches of golde, and coupled the curtaines one to another with the taches: so was it one Tabernacle.

geneva@Exodus:36:18 @ He made also fiftie taches of brasse to couple the couering that it might be one.

geneva@Exodus:36:21 @ The length of a board was ten cubites, and the bredth of one board was a cubite, & an halfe.

geneva@Exodus:36:22 @ One board had two tenons, set in order as the feete of a ladder, one against another: thus made he for all the boardes of the Tabernacle.

geneva@Exodus:36:35 @ And he made a (note:)Which was between the sanctuary and the holiest of holies.(:note) vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: [with] cherubims made he it of cunning work.

geneva@Exodus:36:36 @ And made thereunto foure pillars of Shittim, & ouerlayd them with golde: whose hookes were also of golde, and hee cast for them foure sockets of siluer.

geneva@Exodus:36:37 @ And he made an (note:)Which was between the court and the sanctuary.(:note) hanging for the tabernacle door [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

geneva@Exodus:36:38 @ And the fiue pillars of it with their hookes, and ouerlayde their chapiters & their filets with golde, but their fiue sockets were of brasse.

geneva@Exodus:37:3 @ And cast for it foure rings of golde for the foure corners of it: that is, two rings for the one side of it, & two rings for the other side thereof.

geneva@Exodus:37:6 @ And he made the Merciseate of pure golde: two cubites and an halfe was the length thereof, and one cubite and an halfe the breadth thereof.

geneva@Exodus:37:8 @ One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the [other] end on that side: out (note:)Of the same material that the mercyseat was.(:note) of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

geneva@Exodus:37:10 @ Also he made ye Table of Shittim wood: two cubites was the length thereof, and a cubite the breadth thereof, and a cubite and an halfe the height of it.

geneva@Exodus:37:13 @ And he cast for it foure rings of gold, and put the rings in the foure corners that were in the foure feete thereof.

geneva@Exodus:37:14 @ Against the border were the rings, as places for the barres to beare the Table.

geneva@Exodus:37:22 @ Their knops & their branches were of the same: it was all one beaten worke of pure gold.

geneva@Exodus:37:25 @ Furthermore he made the perfume altar of Shittim wood: the length of it was a cubite, & the breadth of it a cubite (it was square) and two cubites hie, & the hornes thereof were of ye same.

geneva@Exodus:38:1 @ Also he made the altar of the burnt offering of Shittim wood: fiue cubites was the length therof, and fiue cubites the breadth thereof: it was square and three cubites hie.

geneva@Exodus:38:2 @ And hee made vnto it hornes in the foure corners thereof: the hornes thereof were of the same, and he ouerlayd it with brasse.

geneva@Exodus:38:3 @ Also he made al the instruments of the altar: the ashpans, and the besoms, and the basins, the fleshhookes, and the censers: all the instruments thereof made he of brasse.

geneva@Exodus:38:4 @ And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the (note:)So that the gridiron or grate was half as high as the altar and stood within it.(:note) midst of it.

geneva@Exodus:38:5 @ And cast foure rings of brasse for the foure endes of the grate to put barres in.

geneva@Exodus:38:6 @ And he made the barres of Shittim wood, and couered them with brasse.

geneva@Exodus:38:8 @ And he made the laver [of] brass, and the foot of it [of] brass, of the (note:)R. Kimbi says that the women brought their looking glasses, which were of brass or fine metal, and offered them freely for the use of the tabernacle: which was a bright thing and of great majesty.(:note) lookingglasses of [the women] assembling, which assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@Exodus:38:10 @ Their pillars were twentie, and their brasen sockets twentie: the hookes of the pillars, and their filets were of siluer.

geneva@Exodus:38:11 @ And on the Northside the hanginges were an hundreth cubites: their pillars twentie, & their sockets of brasse twentie, the hookes of the pillars and their filets of siluer.

geneva@Exodus:38:13 @ And toward ye Eastside, full East were hangings of fiftie cubites.

geneva@Exodus:38:17 @ But the sockets of ye pillars were of brasse: the hookes of the pillars and their filets of siluer, and the couering of their chapiters of siluer: and all the pillars of the court were hooped about with siluer.

geneva@Exodus:38:19 @ And their pillars were foure with their foure sockets of brasse: their hookes of siluer, & the couering of their chapiters, & their filets of siluer.

geneva@Exodus:38:20 @ But all the pins of the Tabernacle and of the court round about were of brasse.

geneva@Exodus:38:21 @ This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, [for] the service of the (note:)That the Levites might be in charge of it, and minister in the same, as did Eleazar and Ithamar, (Num_3:4).(:note) Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

geneva@Exodus:38:23 @ And with him [was] Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a (note:)Or, a graver, or carpenter, (Exo_36:4).(:note) cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.

geneva@Exodus:38:24 @ All ye gold that was occupied in all ye worke wrought for the holy place (which was the gold of the offring) was nine and twentie talents, and seuen hundreth and thirtie shekels, according to the shekel of the Sanctuarie.

geneva@Exodus:38:25 @ But the siluer of them that were numbred in the Congregation, was an hundreth talents, and a thousand seuen hundreth seuentie and fiue shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie.

geneva@Exodus:38:27 @ Moreouer there were an hundreth talentes of siluer, to cast ye sockets of ye Sanctuary, and the sockets of the vaile: an hundreth sockets of an hundreth talents, a talent for a socket.

geneva@Exodus:38:29 @ And the brass of the offering [was] seventy (note:)Read the weight of a talent, (Exo_25:39).(:note) talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

geneva@Exodus:38:30 @ Whereof he made the sockets to the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate which was for it, with all the instruments of the Altar,

geneva@Exodus:39:1 @ And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made (note:)As coverings for the ark, the candlestick, the altars and such like.(:note) cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place], and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:39:4 @ For the which they made shoulders to couple together: for it was closed by the two edges thereof.

geneva@Exodus:39:5 @ And the broydred garde of his Ephod that was vpon him, was of the same stuffe, and of like worke: euen of golde, of blewe silke, and purple, & skarlet, and fine twined linen, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:39:6 @ And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as (note:)That is, of very fine and curious workmanship.(:note) signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

geneva@Exodus:39:7 @ And put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, as stones for a remembrance of the children of Israel, as the Lorde had commaunded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:39:9 @ They made the brest plate double, & it was square, an hand breadth long, & an hand breadth broad: it was also double.

geneva@Exodus:39:10 @ And they filled it with foure rowes of stones. The order was thus, a Rubie, a Topaze, & a Carbuncle in the first rowe:

geneva@Exodus:39:13 @ Likewise in the fourth rowe, a Chrysolite, an Onix, and a Iasper: closed and set in ouches of golde.

geneva@Exodus:39:18 @ Also the two other endes of the two wrethen chaines they fastened in the two bosses, and put the on the shoulders of the Ephod vpon the forefront of it.

geneva@Exodus:39:19 @ Likewise they made two rings of gold, and put them in the two other corners of the brest plate vpon the edge of it, which was on the inside of the Ephod.

geneva@Exodus:39:21 @ Then they fastened the brest plate by his rings vnto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blewe silke, that it might bee fast vpon the broydered garde of the Ephod, and that the brest plate should not be loosed fro the Ephod, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:39:22 @ And he made the robe of the (note:)Which was next under the Ephod.(:note) ephod [of] woven work, all [of] blue.

geneva@Exodus:39:23 @ And (note:)Where he could put his head through.(:note) [there was] an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, [with] a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.

geneva@Exodus:39:26 @ A bel and a pomegranate, a bel & a pomegranate round about the skirts of the robe to minister in, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:39:29 @ And the girdle of fine twined linen, and of blew silke, and purple, and skarlet, euen of needle worke, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:39:31 @ And they tied vnto it a lace of blewe silke to fasten it on hie vpon the miter, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:39:32 @ Thus was all the worke of the Tabernacle, euen of the Tabernacle of the Congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to al that the Lord had commanded Moses: so dyd they.

geneva@Exodus:39:39 @ The brasen Altar with his grate of brasse, his barres and all his instrumentes, the Lauer and his foote.

geneva@Exodus:39:43 @ And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses (note:)Praised God for the peoples diligence and prayed for them.(:note) blessed them.

geneva@Exodus:40:2 @ On the (note:)After that Moses had been 40 days and 40 nights in the mountain, that is, from the beginning of August to the tenth of September, he came down, and caused this work to be done: which when finished, was set up in Abib, half March and half April.(:note) first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

geneva@Exodus:40:4 @ Also thou shalt bring in the Table, and set it in order as it doth require: thou shalt also bring in the Candlesticke, and light his lampes,

geneva@Exodus:40:5 @ And thou shalt set the altar (note:)That is, the altar of perfume, or to burn incense on.(:note) of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the This hanging or veil was between the sanctuary and the court. hanging of the door to the tabernacle.

geneva@Exodus:40:12 @ Then thou shalt bring Aaron & his sonnes vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and wash them with water.

geneva@Exodus:40:15 @ And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing (note:)Till both the priesthood and the ceremonies should end, which is at Christ's coming.(:note) shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

geneva@Exodus:40:17 @ And it came to pass in the first month in (note:)After they came out of Egypt, (Num_7:1).(:note) the second year, on the first [day] of the month, [that] the tabernacle was reared up.

geneva@Exodus:40:18 @ Then Moses reared vp the Tabernacle and fastened his sockets, and set vp the boardes thereof, and put in the barres of it, and reared vp his pillars.

geneva@Exodus:40:19 @ And he spred the couering ouer the Tabernacle, and put the couering of that couering on hie aboue it, as the Lorde had commaunded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:40:21 @ He brought also the Arke into the Tabernacle, and hanged vp the couering vaile, and couered the Arke of the Testimonie, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:40:23 @ And set the bread in order before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:40:25 @ And he lighted the lampes before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:40:27 @ And burnt sweete incense thereon, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:40:29 @ After, he set the burnt offring Altar without the doore of the Tabernacle, called the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and offered the burnt offering and the sacrifice thereon, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:40:30 @ Likewise he set the Lauer betweene the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar, and powred water therein to wash with.

geneva@Exodus:40:31 @ So Moses and Aaron, and his sonnes washed their handes and their feete thereat.

geneva@Exodus:40:32 @ When they went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and when they approched to the Altar, they washed, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Exodus:40:36 @ Nowe when the cloude ascended vp from the Tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward in all their iourneyes.

geneva@Exodus:40:37 @ But if the cloude ascended not, then they iourneyed not till the day that it ascended.

geneva@Exodus:40:38 @ For (note:)Thus the presence of God preserved and guided them night and day, till they came to the land promised.(:note) the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

geneva@Leviticus:1:1 @ And the (note:)By this Moses declares that he taught nothing to the people but that which he received from God.(:note) LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, The Argument - As God daily by most singular benefits declared himself mindful of his Church: he did not want them to have opportunity to trust either in themselves, or to depend on others, either for lack of physical things, or anything that belonged to his divine service and religion. Therefore he ordained various kinds of duties and sacrifices, to assure them of forgiveness for their offences (if they offered them in true faith and obedience.) Also he appointed the priests and levites, their apparel, offices, conversation and portion; he showed what feasts they should observe, and when. Moreover, he declares by these sacrifices and ceremonies that the reward of sin is death, and that without the blood of Christ the innocent Lamb, there can be no forgiveness of sins. Because they should not give priority to their own inventions (which God detested, as appears by the terrible example of Nadab and Abihu) he prescribed even to the least things, what they should do, what beasts they should offer and eat, what diseases were contagious and to be avoided, how they should purge all types of filthiness and pollution, whose company they should flee, what marriages were lawful, and what customs were profitable. After declaring these things, he promised favour and blessing to those who keep his laws, and threatened his curse to those who transgressed them.

geneva@Leviticus:1:9 @ But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, [to be] a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour (note:)Or a savour of rest, which pacifies the anger of the Lord.(:note) unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:1:10 @ And if his sacrifice for the burnt offering be of the flocks (as of the sheepe, or of the goats) he shall offer a male without blemish,

geneva@Leviticus:1:13 @ But he shall wash the inwardes, and the legges with water, and the Priest shall offer the whole & burne it vpon the altar: for it is a burnt offering, an oblation made by fire for a sweete sauour vnto the Lorde.

geneva@Leviticus:1:16 @ And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the (note:)On the side of the court gate in the pans which stood with ashes; (Exo_27:3).(:note) east part, by the place of the ashes:

geneva@Leviticus:1:17 @ And he shall cleaue it with his wings, but not deuide it asunder: and the Priest shall burne it vpon the altar vpon the wood that is in the fire: for it is a burnt offering, an oblation made by fire for a sweete sauour vnto the Lorde.

geneva@Leviticus:2:12 @ As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer (note:)That is, fruits which were sweet as honey, ye may offer.(:note) them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt But reserved for the priests. on the altar for a sweet savour.

geneva@Leviticus:2:13 @ And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the (note:)Which they were bound (as by covenant) to use all sacrifices, (Num_18:19; 2Ch_13:5; Eze_43:24) or it means a sure and pure covenant.(:note) covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

geneva@Leviticus:3:3 @ And he shall (note:)One part was burnt, another was to the priests, and the third to him that offered.(:note) offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,

geneva@Leviticus:3:6 @ And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD [be] of the flock; (note:)In the peace offering either male or female could be offered, but in the burnt offering only the male: so here no birds can be offered, but in the burnt offering they might: there all was consumed with fire, and in the peace offering divided.(:note) male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

geneva@Leviticus:3:9 @ And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering (note:)The burnt offering was completely consumed, and of the offering made by fire only the inner parts were burnt: the shoulder and breast, with the two jaws and the stomach were the priests, and the rest his that offered.(:note) an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, [and] the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,

geneva@Leviticus:3:11 @ Then the Priest shall burne it vpon the altar, as the meat of an offring made by fire vnto the Lord.

geneva@Leviticus:3:16 @ So the Priest shall burne them vpon the altar, as the meate of an offering made by fire for a sweete sauour: all the fatte is the Lordes.

geneva@Leviticus:3:17 @ [It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither (note:)Eating fat was a symbol of carnality, and eating blood signified cruelty.(:note) fat nor blood.

geneva@Leviticus:4:4 @ And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and (note:)By this confessing that he deserved the same punishment which the beast suffered.(:note) kill the bullock before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:4:6 @ And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the (note:)Which was between the holiest of holies and the sanctuary.(:note) sanctuary.

geneva@Leviticus:4:7 @ And the priest shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which [is] in the (note:)Which was in the court: meaning by the tabernacle the sanctuary: and in the end of this verse it is taken for the court.(:note) tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:4:10 @ As it was taken away from the bullock of the peace offrings, & the Priest shall burne them vpon the altar of burnt offring.

geneva@Leviticus:4:12 @ So he shall cary the whole bullocke out of the host vnto a cleane place, where the ashes are powred, & shall burne him on ye wood in the fire: where ye ashes are cast out, shal he be burnt.

geneva@Leviticus:4:13 @ And if the (note:)The multitude does not excuse the sin, but if all have sinned, they must all be punished.(:note) whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which should not be done, and are guilty;

geneva@Leviticus:4:15 @ And the (note:)For all the people could not lay on their hands: therefore it was sufficient that the elders of the people did it in the name of all the congregation.(:note) elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:4:20 @ And the Priest shal doe with this bullocke, as he did with the bullocke for his sinne: so shall he do with this: so the Priest shal make an atonement for them, and it shalbe forgiuen them.

geneva@Leviticus:4:21 @ For he shal carie the bullocke without the hoste, and burne him as he burned the first bullock: for it is an offring for the sinne of the Congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:4:24 @ And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it (note:)That is, the priest shall kill it; for it was not lawful for any out of that office to kill the beast.(:note) in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it [is] a sin offering.

geneva@Leviticus:4:26 @ And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make (note:)In which he represented Jesus Christ.(:note) an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

geneva@Leviticus:4:31 @ And shall take away all his fat, as the fat of the peace offringes is taken away, and the Priest shall burne it vpon the altar for a sweete sauour vnto the Lorde, and the Priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shalbe forgiuen him.

geneva@Leviticus:4:33 @ And he shall lay his (note:)Meaning that the punishment of his sin should be laid on the beast, or, that he had received all things from God, and offered this willingly.(:note) hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

geneva@Leviticus:4:35 @ And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, (note:)Or, besides the burnt offerings, which were daily offered to the Lord.(:note) according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

geneva@Leviticus:5:2 @ Either if one touche any vncleane thing, whether it be a carion of an vncleane beast, or a carion of vncleane cattel, or a carion of vncleane creeping things, and is not ware of it, yet he is vncleane, and hath offended:

geneva@Leviticus:5:4 @ Or if a soul (note:)Or, vow rashly without just examination of the circumstances, and not knowing what shall be the issue of the same.(:note) swear, pronouncing with [his] lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever [it be] that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth [of it], then he shall be guilty in one of these.

geneva@Leviticus:5:6 @ Therefore shall he bring his trespasse offring vnto the Lord for his sinne which he hath committed, euen a female from ye flocke, be it a lambe or a she goat for a sinne offring, and the Priest shall make an atonement for him, concerning his sinne.

geneva@Leviticus:5:7 @ But if he be not able to bring a sheepe, he shall bring for his trespas which he hath committed, two turtle doues, or two yong pigeons vnto the Lord, one for a sinne offring, and the other for a burnt offring.

geneva@Leviticus:5:11 @ But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an (note:)Which was about a half gallon.(:note) ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no As in the meat offering, (Lev_2:1). oil upon it, neither shall he put [any] frankincense thereon: for it [is] a sin offering.

geneva@Leviticus:5:13 @ So the Priest shal make an atonement for him, as touching his sinne that he hath committed in one of these poyntes, and it shall bee forgiuen him: and the remnant shalbe the Priests, as the meate offring.

geneva@Leviticus:5:15 @ If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, (note:)Concerning the first fruits or tithes, due to the priests and Levites.(:note) in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, By the estimation of the priest, (Lev_27:12). with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

geneva@Leviticus:5:16 @ So hee shall restore that wherein hee hath offended, in taking away of the holy thing, and shall put the fift part more thereto, and giue it vnto the Priest: so the Priest shal make an atonement for him with the ram of ye trespasse offring, and it shalbe forgiuen him.

geneva@Leviticus:5:17 @ And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist [it] not, yet is he guilty, and shall (note:)That is, remembers after that he has sinned when his conscience accuses him.(:note) bear his iniquity.

geneva@Leviticus:5:18 @ And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his (note:)Else if his sin against God come of malice, he must die; (Num_15:30).(:note) ignorance wherein he erred and wist [it] not, and it shall be forgiven him.

geneva@Leviticus:5:19 @ This is the trespasse offring for the trespasse committed against the Lord.

geneva@Leviticus:6:2 @ If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in (note:)To give, and occupy for the use of him that gave it.(:note) fellowship, or in a thing taken away by By any deceit, or unlawful means. violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

geneva@Leviticus:6:3 @ Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, (note:)In which he cannot but sin: or, in which a man accustoms to sin by perjury or such like thing.(:note) sinning therein:

geneva@Leviticus:6:4 @ When, I say, he thus sinneth & trespasseth, he shall then restore the robbery that he robbed, or the thing taken by violence which hee tooke by force, or the thing which was deliuered him to keepe, or the lost thing which he founde,

geneva@Leviticus:6:5 @ Or for whatsoeuer he hath sworne falsely, he shall both restore it in the whole summe, and shall adde the fift parte more thereto, and giue it vnto him to whome perteyneth, the same day that he offreth for trespasse.

geneva@Leviticus:6:6 @ Also he shall bring for his trespasse vnto the Lorde, a ramme without blemish out of the flocke in thy estimation worth two shekels for a trespasse offring vnto the Priest.

geneva@Leviticus:6:7 @ And the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lorde, and it shall be forgiuen him, whatsoeuer thing he hath done, and trespassed therein.

geneva@Leviticus:6:10 @ And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon (note:)Upon his secret parts, (Exo_28:42).(:note) his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the In the ash pans appointed for that use. altar.

geneva@Leviticus:6:11 @ After, he shal put off his garments, and put on other raiment, and cary the ashes foorth without the hoste vnto a cleane place.

geneva@Leviticus:6:15 @ He shall euen take thence his handfull of fine flowre of the meate offring and of the oyle, & all the incense which is vpon the meat offring, and shall burne it vpon the altar for a sweete sauour, as a memoriall therefore vnto the Lorde:

geneva@Leviticus:6:17 @ It shall not be (note:)Or, kneaded with leaven and baked.(:note) baken with leaven. I have given it [unto them for] their portion of my offerings made by fire; it [is] most holy, as [is] the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

geneva@Leviticus:6:20 @ This [is] the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering (note:)So oft as the high priest shall be elected and anointed.(:note) perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

geneva@Leviticus:6:27 @ Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any (note:)Meaning, the garment of the priest.(:note) garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

geneva@Leviticus:6:28 @ But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in (note:)Which was in the laver, (Exo_30:28).(:note) water.

geneva@Leviticus:7:1 @ Likewise this [is] the law of the (note:)Which is for the smaller sins, and such as are committed by ignorance.(:note) trespass offering: it [is] most holy.

geneva@Leviticus:7:2 @ In the place (note:)At the court gate.(:note) where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

geneva@Leviticus:7:5 @ Then the Priest shall burne them vpon the altar, for an offring made by fire vnto the Lorde: this is a trespasse offring.

geneva@Leviticus:7:7 @ As the sin offering [is], so [is] the trespass offering: [there is] one (note:)The same ceremonies, even though this word trespass signifies less then sin.(:note) law for them: the priest that maketh atonement Meaning, the rest which is left and not burnt. therewith shall have [it].

geneva@Leviticus:7:10 @ And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and (note:)Because it had no oil or liquor.(:note) dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one [as much] as another.

geneva@Leviticus:7:17 @ But as much of the offered flesh as remaineth vnto the third day, shalbe burnt with fire.

geneva@Leviticus:7:19 @ And the flesh that toucheth any unclean (note:)After it is sacrificed.(:note) [thing] shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and Of the peace offering that is clean. as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

geneva@Leviticus:7:21 @ Moreouer, whe any toucheth any vncleane thing, as the vncleannesse of man, or of an vncleane beast, or of any filthie abomination, and eate of the flesh of the peace offrings, which pertaineth vnto the Lorde, euen that person shalbe cut off from his people.

geneva@Leviticus:7:24 @ Yet the fat of the dead beast, and the fat of that, which is torne with beastes, shalbe occupied to any vse, but ye shall not eate of it.

geneva@Leviticus:7:25 @ For whosoeuer eateth the fat of the beast, of the which he shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lorde, euen the person that eateth, shalbe cut off from his people.

geneva@Leviticus:7:26 @ Neither shall ye eate any blood, either of foule, or of beast in all your dwellings.

geneva@Leviticus:7:30 @ His own (note:)And should not send it by another.(:note) hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:7:31 @ Then the Priest shall burne the fatte vpon the Altar, and the breast shall be Aarons and his sonnes.

geneva@Leviticus:7:34 @ For the breast shaken to and fro, and the shoulder lifted vp, haue I taken of the children of Israel, euen of their peace offrings, and haue giuen them vnto Aaron the Priest and vnto his sonnes by a statute for euer from among the children of Israel.

geneva@Leviticus:7:37 @ This [is] the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the (note:)Which sacrifice was offered when the priests were consecrated, (Exo_29:22).(:note) consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;

geneva@Leviticus:8:2 @ Take Aaron and his sonnes with him, and the garments and the anointing oyle, and a bullocke for the sinne offring, & two rammes, and a basket of vnleauened bread,

geneva@Leviticus:8:3 @ And assemble all the company at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:8:4 @ So Moses did as the Lord had commanded him, & the companie was assembled at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

geneva@Leviticus:8:6 @ And Moses brought Aaron and his sonnes, and washed them with water,

geneva@Leviticus:8:8 @ After he put the brest plate thereon, and put in the breast plate the Vrim and the Thummim.

geneva@Leviticus:8:9 @ And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, [even] upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the (note:)So called, because this superscription, «holiness to the Lord» was graven in it.(:note) holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:8:10 @ And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the (note:)That is, the holiest of holies, the sanctuary and the court.(:note) tabernacle and all that [was] therein, and sanctified them.

geneva@Leviticus:8:13 @ After, Moses brought Aarons sonnes, and put coates vpon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonets vpon their heades, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:8:16 @ Then he tooke all the fatte that was vpon the inwardes, and the kall of the liuer and the two kidneis, with their fat, which Moses burned vpon the Altar.

geneva@Leviticus:8:17 @ But the bullock, and his (note:)In other burnt offerings, which are not of consecration, or offering for himself, the priest has the skin, (Lev_7:8).(:note) hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:8:21 @ And washed the inwardes and the legges in water: so Moses burnt the ram euery whit vpon ye Altar: for it was a burnt offring for a sweete sauour, which was made by fire vnto the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:8:25 @ And he tooke the fat & the rumpe and all the fat that was vpon the inwards, and the kall of the liuer, and the two kidneis with their fat, & the right shoulder.

geneva@Leviticus:8:26 @ Also he tooke of ye basket of ye vnleauened bread that was before the Lorde, one vnleauened cake and a cake of oiled bread, & one wafer, and put them on the fat, & vpon the right shoulder.

geneva@Leviticus:8:29 @ Likewise Moses tooke the breast of the ram of consecrations, & shooke it to and fro before the Lord: for it was Moses portion, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:8:30 @ Also Moses tooke of the anointing oyle, and of the blood which was vpon the Altar, and sprinkled it vpon Aaron, vpon his garments, and vpon his sonnes, and on his sonnes garments with him: so hee sanctified Aaron, his garments, & his sonnes, and his sonnes garments with him.

geneva@Leviticus:8:31 @ And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh [at] the door of the (note:)At the door of the court.(:note) tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that [is] in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

geneva@Leviticus:8:34 @ As hee hath done this day: so the Lorde hath commanded to doe, to make an atonement for you.

geneva@Leviticus:9:1 @ And it came to pass on the (note:)After their consecration: for the seven days before, the priests were consecrated.(:note) eighth day, [that] Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

geneva@Leviticus:9:7 @ And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for (note:)Read for the understanding of this peace, (Heb_4:5, Heb_7:27).(:note) thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.

geneva@Leviticus:9:8 @ Aaron therefore went vnto the Altar, and killed the calfe of the sinne offring, which was for himselfe.

geneva@Leviticus:9:10 @ But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he (note:)That is, he laid them in order, and so they were burnt when the Lord sent down fire.(:note) burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:9:14 @ And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and (note:)All this must be understood of the preparation of the sacrifices which were burnt after, (Lev_9:24).(:note) burnt [them] upon the burnt offering on the altar.

geneva@Leviticus:9:15 @ Then he offred the peoples offring, and tooke a goate, which was the sinne offring for the people, and slewe it: and offred it for sinne, as the first:

geneva@Leviticus:9:18 @ He slewe also the bullock, and the ram for the peace offrings, that was for the people, and Arons sonnes brought vnto him the blood, which he sprinkled vpon the Altar round about,

geneva@Leviticus:9:20 @ So they layed the fat vpon the breasts, and he burnt the fat vpon the Altar.

geneva@Leviticus:9:21 @ And the (note:)Of the bullock and the ram.(:note) breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.

geneva@Leviticus:9:22 @ And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and (note:)Because the altar was near the sanctuary, which was the upper end, therefore he is said to come down.(:note) came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.

geneva@Leviticus:10:1 @ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered (note:)Not taken from the altar, which was sent from heaven, and endured till the captivity of Babylon.(:note) strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.

geneva@Leviticus:10:5 @ Then they went, and caried them in their coates out of the host, as Moses had comaunded.

geneva@Leviticus:10:6 @ And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, (note:)As though you lamented for them, preferring your carnal affection to God's just judgment; (Lev_19:18; Deu_14:1).(:note) Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath In destroying Nadab and Abihu the chief, and menacing the rest, unless they repent. kindled.

geneva@Leviticus:10:7 @ And go not yee out from the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, least ye dye: for the anointing oyle of the Lorde is vpon you: and they did according to Moses commaundement.

geneva@Leviticus:10:14 @ And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy (note:)For the breast and shoulders of the peace offerings might be brought to their families, so that their daughters might eat of them, as also of the offerings of first fruits, the first born, and the Easter lamb, (Lev_22:12-13).(:note) daughters with thee: for [they be] thy due, and thy sons' due, [which] are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

geneva@Leviticus:10:15 @ The heaue shoulder, and the shaken breast shall they bring with the offringes made by fire of the fat, to shake it to and fro before the Lord, and it shalbe thine and thy sonnes with thee by a lawe for euer, as the Lord hath commaunded.

geneva@Leviticus:10:16 @ And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron [which were] (note:)And not consumed as Nadab and Abihu.(:note) left [alive], saying,

geneva@Leviticus:10:18 @ Beholde, the blood of it was not brought within the holy place: ye should haue eaten it in the holy place, as I commaunded.

geneva@Leviticus:10:20 @ And when Moses heard [that], he was (note:)Moses bore with his infirmity, considering his great sorrow, but does not leave an example to forgive them that maliciously transgress the commandment of God.(:note) content.

geneva@Leviticus:11:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye (note:)Or, of which ye may eat.(:note) shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth.

geneva@Leviticus:11:3 @ Whatsoever parteth the (note:)He notes four types of beasts, some that chew the cud only, and some that only have the hoof cleft. Others neither chew the cud, nor have the hoof cleft, and the fourth both chew the cud and have the hoof divided, which may be eaten.(:note) hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

geneva@Leviticus:11:4 @ But of them that chewe the cud, or deuide the hoofe onely, of them yee shall not eate: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, & deuideth not ye hoofe, he shall be vncleane vnto you.

geneva@Leviticus:11:8 @ Of their (note:)God would that by this for a time they should be discerned as his people from the Gentiles.(:note) flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.

geneva@Leviticus:11:9 @ These shall ye eate, of all that are in the waters: whatsoeuer hath finnes & skales in ye waters, in the seas, or in the riuers, them shal ye eate.

geneva@Leviticus:11:10 @ And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that (note:)As little fish begotten in the slime.(:note) move in the waters, and of any As they which come of generation. living thing which [is] in the waters, they [shall be] an abomination unto you:

geneva@Leviticus:11:22 @ [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the (note:)These were certain types of grasshoppers, which are not now properly known.(:note) bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

geneva@Leviticus:11:25 @ And whosoever (note:)Out of the camp.(:note) beareth [ought] of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

geneva@Leviticus:11:26 @ Euery beast that hath clawes deuided, and is not clouen footed, nor cheweth the cud, such shalbe vncleane vnto you: euery one that toucheth them, shalbe vncleane.

geneva@Leviticus:11:27 @ And whatsoeuer goeth vpon his pawes among all maner beastes that goeth on all foure, such shalbe vncleane vnto you: who so doth touch their carkeis shalbe vncleane vntil the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:11:28 @ And he that beareth their carkeis, shal wash his clothes, and be vncleane vntill the euen: for such shalbe vncleane vnto you.

geneva@Leviticus:11:29 @ These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the (note:)The green frog that sits on the bushes.(:note) tortoise after his kind,

geneva@Leviticus:11:32 @ And upon whatsoever [any] of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it be] any vessel of wood, or raiment, or (note:)As a bottle or bag.(:note) skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel [it be], wherein [any] work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

geneva@Leviticus:11:36 @ Nevertheless a fountain or pit, [wherein there is] plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which (note:)So much of the water as touched it.(:note) toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

geneva@Leviticus:11:38 @ But if [any] (note:)He speaks of seed that is laid to sleep before it is sown.(:note) water be put upon the seed, and [any part] of their carcase fall thereon, it [shall be] unclean unto you.

geneva@Leviticus:11:39 @ If also any beast, whereof ye may eate, die, he that toucheth the carkeis thereof shal be vncleane vntil the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:11:40 @ And he that eateth of the carkeis of it, shal wash his clothes and be vncleane vntil the euen: he also that beareth the carkeis of it, shal wash his clothes, and be vncleane vntil the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:11:42 @ Whatsoeuer goeth vpon the breast, and whatsoeuer goeth vpon al foure, or that hath many feete among all creeping thinges that creepe vpon the earth, ye shal not eate of them, for they shalbe abomination.

geneva@Leviticus:11:46 @ This is the law of beasts, and of foules, and of euery liuing thing that moueth in the waters, and of euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth:

geneva@Leviticus:11:47 @ That there may be a difference betweene the vncleane and cleane, and betweene the beast that may be eaten, and the beast that ought not to be eaten.

geneva@Leviticus:12:4 @ And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three (note:)Besides the first seven days.(:note) and thirty days; she shall touch no As sacrifice, or such like. hallowed thing, nor come into the That is, into the court gate till after forty days. sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

geneva@Leviticus:12:5 @ But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two (note:)Twice as long as if she gave birth to a boy.(:note) weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

geneva@Leviticus:13:6 @ And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, [if] the plague [be] somewhat (note:)As having the skin drawn together, or blackish.(:note) dark, [and] the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it [is but] a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

geneva@Leviticus:13:8 @ And [if] the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him (note:)Concerning his bodily disease: for his disease was not imputed to him for sin before God even though it were the punishment of sin.(:note) unclean: it [is] a leprosy.

geneva@Leviticus:13:13 @ Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, [if] the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce [him] (note:)For it is not that contagious leprosy that infects, but a form of scales which does not leave the skin raw as leprosy does.(:note) clean [that hath] the plague: it is all turned white: he [is] clean.

geneva@Leviticus:13:20 @ And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it [be] in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him (note:)No one was exempted, but if the priest pronounced him unclean, he was put out from among the people: as appears by the example of Mary the prophetess, (Num_12:14) and by king Uzziah, (2Ch_26:20).(:note) unclean: it [is] a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.

geneva@Leviticus:13:24 @ Or if there be [any] flesh, in the skin whereof [there is] a hot burning, and the quick [flesh] that burneth have a (note:)If he has a white spot in the place where the burning was and was later healed.(:note) white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;

geneva@Leviticus:13:30 @ Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it [be] in sight deeper than the skin; [and there be] in it a yellow thin (note:)Which was not wont to be there, or else smaller than in any other part of the body.(:note) hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a dry scall, [even] a leprosy upon the head or beard.

geneva@Leviticus:13:34 @ And the seuenth day the Priest shall looke on the blacke spot: and if the blacke spot growe not in the skinne, nor seeme lower then the other skinne, then the Priest shall clense him, and hee shall wash his clothes, and be cleane.

geneva@Leviticus:13:46 @ As long as the disease shall be vpon him, he shalbe polluted, for he is vncleane: he shall dwell alone, without the campe shall his habitation be.

geneva@Leviticus:13:53 @ And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not (note:)But abide still in one place, as in (Lev_13:37).(:note) spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;

geneva@Leviticus:13:54 @ Then the Priest shall commaunde them to wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it vp seuen dayes more.

geneva@Leviticus:13:55 @ And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, [if] the plague have not changed his (note:)But remain as it did before.(:note) colour, and the plague be not spread; it [is] unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it [is] fret inward, Or, whether it be in any bare place before, or behind. [whether] it [be] bare within or without.

geneva@Leviticus:13:56 @ And if the Priest see that the plague bee darker, after that it is washed, he shall cut it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warpe, or out of the woofe.

geneva@Leviticus:13:58 @ And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin [it be], which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed (note:)So that he might be sure that the leprosy was departed, and that all opportunity for infection might be taken away.(:note) the second time, and shall be clean.

geneva@Leviticus:14:7 @ And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall (note:)Signifying that he that was made clean was set free, and restored to the company of others.(:note) let the living bird loose into the open field.

geneva@Leviticus:14:8 @ Then he that shall be clensed, shall wash his clothes, and shaue off all his heare, and wash himselfe in water, so he shalbe cleane: after that shall he come into the host, but shall tary without his tent seuen dayes.

geneva@Leviticus:14:9 @ So in the seuenth day hee shall shaue off all his heare, both his head, and his beard, and his eye browes: euen all his heare shall he shaue, and shall wash his clothes and shall wash his flesh in water: so he shalbe cleane.

geneva@Leviticus:14:10 @ And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without (note:)Which has no imperfection in any part.(:note) blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, This quantity in Hebrew is called a Log, and holds six eggs in measure. and one log of oil.

geneva@Leviticus:14:12 @ Then the Priest shall take one lambe, and offer him for a trespasse offering, and the pint of oyle, and shake the to and fro before the Lord.

geneva@Leviticus:14:13 @ And hee shall kill the lambe in the place where the sinne offring and the burnt offring are slaine, euen in the holy place: for as the sinne offring is the Priests, so is the trespasse offring: for it is most holy.

geneva@Leviticus:14:14 @ So the Priest shal take of the blood of the trespasse offring, and put it vpon the lappe of the right eare of him that shalbe clensed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foote.

geneva@Leviticus:14:17 @ And of the rest of the oyle that is in his hand, shal the Priest put vpon the lap of the right eare of him that is to bee clensed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foote, where the blood of the trespasse offring was put.

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:14:22 @ Also two turtle doues, or two yong pigeons, as he is able, whereof the one shalbe a sinne offering, and the other a burnt offring,

geneva@Leviticus:14:24 @ And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall (note:)Or, shall offer them as the offering that is shaken to and fro.(:note) wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD:

geneva@Leviticus:14:25 @ And he shall kil the lambe of the trespasse offering, and the Priest shall take of the blood of the trespasse offring, and put it vpon the lap of his right eare that is to be clensed, & vpon ye thumbe of his right hande, and vpon the great toe of his right foote.

geneva@Leviticus:14:28 @ Then the Priest shall put of the oyle that is in his hande, vpon the lap of the right eare of him that is to bee clensed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hande, and vpon the great toe of his right foote: vpon the place of the blood of the trespasse offring.

geneva@Leviticus:14:30 @ And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, (note:)whether of them he can get.(:note) such as he can get;

geneva@Leviticus:14:31 @ Such, I say, as he is able, the one for a sinne offring, and the other for a burnt offring with the meate offring: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him that is to bee clensed before the Lord.

geneva@Leviticus:14:39 @ So the Priest shall come againe ye seuenth day: and if he see that the plague bee increased in the walles of the house,

geneva@Leviticus:14:40 @ Then the Priest shall commande them to take away the stones wherein the plague is, and they shall cast them into a foule place without the citie.

geneva@Leviticus:14:41 @ And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into (note:)Where trash was cast, and other filth, that the people might not be infected by them.(:note) an unclean place:

geneva@Leviticus:14:45 @ And he shall (note:)That is, he shall command it to be pulled down, as in (Lev_14:40).(:note) break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city into an unclean place.

geneva@Leviticus:14:47 @ Hee also that sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes: he likewise that eateth in the house, shall wash his clothes.

geneva@Leviticus:14:49 @ And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and (note:)It seems that this was a lace or string to bind the hyssop to the wood, and so was made a sprinkle: the apostle to the Hebrews calls it scarlet wool, (Heb_9:19).(:note) scarlet, and hyssop:

geneva@Leviticus:15:5 @ Whosoeuer also toucheth his bed, shal wash his clothes, and wash himselfe in water, and shall be vncleane vntill the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:15:6 @ And he that sitteth on any thing, whereon he sate that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and wash himselfe in water, and shalbe vncleane vntill the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:15:7 @ Also he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue, shal wash his clothes, & wash himselfe in water, & shalbe vncleane vntil the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:15:8 @ And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then (note:)Of whom the unclean man did spit.(:note) he shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.

geneva@Leviticus:15:10 @ And whosoeuer toucheth any thing that was vnder him, shall be vncleane vnto the euen: and he that beareth those things, shall wash his clothes, and wash himselfe in water, and shall be vncleane vntill the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:15:11 @ Likewise whomesoeuer hee toucheth that hath the issue (and hath not washed his handes in water) shal wash his clothes and wash himselfe in water, and shalbe vncleane vntill the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:15:13 @ And when he that hath an issue is (note:)That is, be restored to his old state, and be healed of it.(:note) cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

geneva@Leviticus:15:16 @ And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his (note:)Meaning, all his body.(:note) flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

geneva@Leviticus:15:17 @ And euery garment, & euery skinne whereupon shalbe issue of seede, shall be euen washed with water, and be vncleane vnto the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:15:18 @ If he that hath an issue of seede, do lie with a woman, they shall both wash themselues with water, and be vncleane vntill the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:15:20 @ And every thing that she lieth upon in (note:)That is, when she has her period, by which she is separate from her husband, from the tabernacle and from touching any holy thing.(:note) her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.

geneva@Leviticus:15:21 @ Whosoeuer also toucheth her bedde, shall wash his clothes, and wash himselfe with water, & shalbe vncleane vnto the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:15:22 @ And whosoeuer toucheth any thing that she sate vpon, shal wash his clothes, and wash him selfe in water, & shalbe vncleane vnto the euen:

geneva@Leviticus:15:25 @ Also when a womans issue of blood runneth long time besides the time of her floures, or when she hath an issue, longer then her floures, all the dayes of the issue of her vncleannesse shee shalbe vncleane, as in the time of her floures.

geneva@Leviticus:15:26 @ Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the (note:)Shall be unclean as the bed on which she lay when she had her natural disease.(:note) bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.

geneva@Leviticus:15:27 @ And whosoeuer toucheth these things, shal be vncleane, & shal wash his clothes, & wash him selfe in water, & shalbe vncleane vnto the euen.

geneva@Leviticus:16:4 @ He shal put on the holy linnen coate, and shal haue linnen breeches vpon his flesh, & shal be girded with a linnen girdle, and shal couer his head with a linnen miter: these are the holy garments: therefore shal hee wash his flesh in water, when he doeth put them on.

geneva@Leviticus:16:8 @ And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the (note:)In Hebrew it is called Azazel, which some say is a mountain near Sinai, where this goat was sent. Rather it is called the scapegoat because it was not offered but sent into the desert, as in (Lev_16:11).(:note) scapegoat.

geneva@Leviticus:16:10 @ But the goate, on which the lot shal fall to be the Scape goate, shalbe presented aliue before the Lord, to make reconciliation by him, & to let him go (as a Scape goate) into the wildernes.

geneva@Leviticus:16:14 @ And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle [it] with his finger upon the mercy seat (note:)That is, on the side which was toward the people: for the head of the sanctuary stood westward.(:note) eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

geneva@Leviticus:16:15 @ Then shall he kill the goate that is the peoples sinne offring, and bring his blood within the vaile, and doe with that blood, as he did with the blood of the bullocke, and sprinckle it vpon the Merciseate, and before the Merciseate.

geneva@Leviticus:16:18 @ And he shall go out unto the (note:)Upon which the sweet incense and perfume was offered.(:note) altar that [is] before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about.

geneva@Leviticus:16:24 @ And he shall wash his flesh with water in (note:)In the court where the laver was, (Exo_30:28).(:note) the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.

geneva@Leviticus:16:26 @ And he that caried forth the goat, called the Scape goat, shal wash his clothes, & wash his flesh in water, and after that shal come into the hoste.

geneva@Leviticus:16:27 @ Also the bullocke for the sinne offring, & the goate for the sinne offring (whose blood was brought to make a reconciliation in the Holy place) shal one carie out without the hoste to be burnt in the fire, with their skinnes, and with their flesh, and with their doung.

geneva@Leviticus:16:28 @ And hee that burneth them shal wash his clothes, and wash his flesh in water, and afterward come into the hoste.

geneva@Leviticus:16:29 @ And [this] shall be a statute for ever unto you: [that] in the (note:)Which was Tisri, part September and part October.(:note) seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall Meaning, by abstinence and fasting, (Num_29:7). afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

geneva@Leviticus:16:34 @ And this shalbe an euerlasting ordinance vnto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sinnes once a yeere: and as the Lord commanded Moses, he did.

geneva@Leviticus:17:4 @ And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; (note:)I abhor it as much as if he had killed a man as in (Isa_66:3).(:note) blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

geneva@Leviticus:17:10 @ And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set (note:)I will declare my wrath by taking vengeance on him as in (Lev_20:3).(:note) my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

geneva@Leviticus:17:13 @ And whatsoever man [there be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be (note:)Which the law permits to be eaten, because it is clean.(:note) eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

geneva@Leviticus:17:15 @ And euery person that eateth it which dyeth alone, or that which is torne with beastes, whether it be one of the same countrey or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and wash himselfe in water, and be vncleane vnto the euen: after he shalbe cleane.

geneva@Leviticus:17:16 @ But if he wash them not, nor wash his flesh, then he shall beare his iniquitie.

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

geneva@Leviticus:18:19 @ Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put (note:)Or while she has her period.(:note) apart for her uncleanness.

geneva@Leviticus:18:21 @ And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to (note:)Which was an idol of the Ammonites, to whom they burned and sacrificed their children, (2Ki_23:10). This seemed to be the chief and principal of all idols: and as the Jews write, was of a great stature, and hollow within, having seven places or chambers within him: one was to receive meal that was offered: another turtle doves: the third, a sheep: the fourth, a ram: the fifth a calf: the sixth an ox: the seventh a child. This idols face was like a calf: his hands were ever stretched out to receive gifts: his priests were called Chemarims, (2Ki_23:5; Hos_10:5; Zep_1:4).(:note) Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:18:22 @ Thou shalt not lie with ye male as one lieth with a woman: for it is abomination.

geneva@Leviticus:18:23 @ Thou shalt not also lie with any beast to bee defiled therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie downe thereto: for it is abomination.

geneva@Leviticus:18:24 @ Yee shall not defile your selues in any of these things: for in al these the nations are defiled, which I will cast out before you:

geneva@Leviticus:18:25 @ And the land is defiled: therefore I do (note:)I will punish the land where such incestuous marriages and pollutions are tolerated.(:note) visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself He compares the wicked to evil humours and overeating, which corrupt the stomach, and oppress nature, and therefore must be cast out by vomit. vomiteth out her inhabitants.

geneva@Leviticus:18:26 @ Ye shall keepe therefore mine ordinances, and my iudgementes, and commit none of these abominations, aswell hee that is of the same countrey, as the straunger that soiourneth among you.

geneva@Leviticus:18:28 @ That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it (note:)Both for their wicked marriages, unnatural copulations, idolatry or spiritual whoredom with Molech and such like abominations.(:note) spued out the nations that [were] before you.

geneva@Leviticus:19:16 @ Thou shalt not (note:)As a slanderer, backbiter, or quarrel picker.(:note) go up and down [as] a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou By consenting to his death, or conspiring with the wicked. stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:19:18 @ Thou shalt not auenge, nor be mindful of wrong against ye childre of thy people, but shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe: I am the Lord.

geneva@Leviticus:19:19 @ Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a (note:)As a horse to leap an ass, or a mule a mare.(:note) diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

geneva@Leviticus:19:21 @ And he shall bring for his trespasse offring vnto the Lorde, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, a ramme for a trespasse offering.

geneva@Leviticus:19:22 @ Then the Priest shall make an atonement for him with the ramme of the trespasse offering before the Lorde, concerning his sinne which he hath done, and pardon shalbe giuen him for his sinne which he hath committed.

geneva@Leviticus:19:23 @ And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye (note:)It shall be unclean as that thing, which is not circumcised.(:note) shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

geneva@Leviticus:19:25 @ And in the fifth yeere shall ye eate of the fruite of it that it may yeelde to you the encrease thereof: I am the Lorde your God.

geneva@Leviticus:19:26 @ Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor (note:)To measure lucky or unlucky days.(:note) observe times.

geneva@Leviticus:19:27 @ Ye shall not (note:)As did the Gentiles in sign of mourning.(:note) round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

geneva@Leviticus:19:29 @ Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a (note:)As did the Cyprians, and Locrenses.(:note) whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

geneva@Leviticus:19:34 @ But the stranger that dwelleth with you, shalbe as one of your selues, and thou shalt loue him as thy selfe: for ye were strangers in the lad of Egypt: I am the Lorde your God.

geneva@Leviticus:19:35 @ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in (note:)As in measuring the ground.(:note) meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

geneva@Leviticus:19:36 @ Just balances, just weights, a just (note:)By these two measures he means all other. Of Ephah, read (Exo_16:36) and of Hin, (Exo_29:40).(:note) ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Leviticus:20:6 @ And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a (note:)To esteem sorcerers or conjurers is spiritual whoredom, or idolatry.(:note) whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

geneva@Leviticus:20:13 @ The ma also that lyeth with the male, as one lyeth with a woman, they haue both committed abomination: they shall dye the death, their blood shalbe vpon them.

geneva@Leviticus:20:15 @ Also the man that lyeth with a beast, shall dye the death, and ye shall slay the beast.

geneva@Leviticus:20:16 @ And if a woman come to any beast, and lye therewith, then thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall die the death, their blood shalbe vpon them.

geneva@Leviticus:20:18 @ The man also that lyeth with a woman hauing her disease, and vncouereth her shame, and openeth her fountaine, and she open the foutaine of her blood, they shall bee euen both cut off from among their people.

geneva@Leviticus:20:20 @ And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die (note:)They shall be cut off from their people, and their children shall be taken as bastards, and not counted among the Israelites.(:note) childless.

geneva@Leviticus:20:23 @ Wherefore ye shall not walke in the maners of this nation which I cast out before you: for they haue committed all these things, therefore I abhorred them.

geneva@Leviticus:20:25 @ Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls (note:)By eating them contrary to my commandment.(:note) abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

geneva@Leviticus:21:4 @ [But] he shall not defile himself, [being] a (note:)The priest was permitted to mourn for his next kindred only.(:note) chief man among his people, to profane himself.

geneva@Leviticus:21:7 @ They shall not take a wife [that is] a whore, or (note:)Which has an evil name or is defamed.(:note) profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he [is] holy unto his God.

geneva@Leviticus:21:10 @ And [he that is] the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not (note:)He shall use no such ceremonies as the mourners observed.(:note) uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

geneva@Leviticus:21:12 @ Neither shall he go out of the (note:)To go to the dead.(:note) sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the For by his anointing he was preferred above the other priests and therefore could not lament the dead, least he should have polluted his holy anointing. crown of the anointing oil of his God [is] upon him: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:21:15 @ Neither shall he profane his (note:)By marrying any unchaste or defamed woman.(:note) seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

geneva@Leviticus:21:17 @ Speake vnto Aaron, and say, Whosoeuer of thy seede in their generations hath any blemishes, shall not prease to offer the bread of his God:

geneva@Leviticus:21:18 @ For whatsoever man [he be] that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath (note:)Which is deformed or bruised.(:note) a flat nose, or any As not of equal proportion, or having in number more or less. thing superfluous,

geneva@Leviticus:21:20 @ Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, (note:)Or that has a web or pearl.(:note) or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

geneva@Leviticus:21:21 @ No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the (note:)As the show bread, and meat offerings.(:note) bread of his God.

geneva@Leviticus:21:22 @ He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the (note:)As of sacrifice for sin.(:note) most holy, and As of the tithes and first fruits. of the holy.

geneva@Leviticus:22:2 @ Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they (note:)Meaning, that the priests abstain from eating, as long as they are polluted.(:note) separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name [in those things] which they hallow unto me: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:22:6 @ The person that hath touched such, shall therefore be vncleane vntill the euen, and shall not eat of ye holy things, except he haue washed his flesh with water.

geneva@Leviticus:22:8 @ Of a beast that dyeth, or is rent with beasts, whereby he may be defiled, hee shall not eate: I am the Lorde.

geneva@Leviticus:22:9 @ Let them keepe therefore mine ordinance, least they beare their sinne for it, and die for it, if they defile it: I the Lord sanctifie them.

geneva@Leviticus:22:13 @ Notwithstanding if the Priests daughter be a widowe or diuorced, and haue no childe, but is returned vnto her fathers house shee shall eate of her fathers bread, as she did in her youth but there shall no stranger eate thereof.

geneva@Leviticus:22:16 @ Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of (note:)For if they did not offer sacrifice for their error, the people by their example might commit the same offence.(:note) trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

geneva@Leviticus:22:28 @ As for the cowe or the ewe, yee shall not kill her, and her yong both in one day.

geneva@Leviticus:23:2 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, & say vnto them, The feastes of ye Lord which yee shall call ye holie assemblies, euen these are my feasts.

geneva@Leviticus:23:4 @ These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their (note:)For the sabbath was kept every week, and these others were kept only once every year.(:note) seasons.

geneva@Leviticus:23:5 @ In the first moneth, and in the fourteenth day of the moneth at euening shalbe ye Passeouer of the Lord.

geneva@Leviticus:23:6 @ And on the fifteenth day of this moneth shalbe the feast of vnleauened bread vnto the Lord: seuen dayes ye shall eate vnleauened bread.

geneva@Leviticus:23:8 @ But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the (note:)The first day of the feast and the seventh were kept holy: in the rest they might work, except any feasts that were together, as were the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of sheaves which were on the fifteenth and sixteenth days.(:note) seventh day [is] an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work [therein].

geneva@Leviticus:23:11 @ And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the (note:)That is, the second sabbath of the Passover.(:note) sabbath the priest shall wave it.

geneva@Leviticus:23:15 @ And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the (note:)That is, the seventh day after the first sabbath of the Passover.(:note) sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

geneva@Leviticus:23:17 @ Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with (note:)Because the priest should eat them, as in (Lev_7:13), and they should not be offered to the Lord on the altar.(:note) leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:23:24 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the (note:)That is, about the end of September.(:note) seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall ye Or, a holy day to the Lord. have a sabbath, a memorial of Which blowing was to remind them of the many feasts that were in that month, and of the Jubile. blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

geneva@Leviticus:23:27 @ Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month [there shall be] a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall (note:)By fasting and prayer.(:note) afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:23:32 @ It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth [day] of the month at even, from (note:)Which contains a night and a day: yet they took it as their natural day.(:note) even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

geneva@Leviticus:23:34 @ Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say, In the fifteenth day of this seueth moneth shalbe for seuen dayes the feast of Tabernacles vnto the Lorde.

geneva@Leviticus:23:36 @ Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a (note:)Or, a day in which the people refrain from all work.(:note) solemn assembly; [and] ye shall do no servile work [therein].

geneva@Leviticus:23:37 @ These [are] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a (note:)Or, peace offering.(:note) sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

geneva@Leviticus:23:39 @ Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day [shall be] a (note:)Or, a solemn feast.(:note) sabbath, and on the eighth day [shall be] a sabbath.

geneva@Leviticus:23:41 @ So ye shall keepe this feast vnto the Lorde seuen daies in the yere, by a perpetuall ordinance through your generations: in the seuenth moneth shall you keepe it.

geneva@Leviticus:23:44 @ So Moses declared vnto the children of Israel the feastes of the Lord.

geneva@Leviticus:24:3 @ Without the vail (note:)Which separated the holiest of holies, where the ark of the testimony from the sanctuary was.(:note) of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: [it shall be] a statute for ever in your generations.

geneva@Leviticus:24:7 @ And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that (note:)For it was burnt every sabbath, when the bread was taken away.(:note) it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:24:8 @ Euery Sabbath hee shall put them in rowes before the Lord euermore, receiuing them of the children of Israel for an euerlasting couenant.

geneva@Leviticus:24:10 @ And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father [was] an Egyptian, went (note:)Meaning, out of his tent.(:note) out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish [woman] and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;

geneva@Leviticus:24:11 @ And the Israelitish woman's son (note:)By swearing or despising God.(:note) blasphemed the name [of the LORD], and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)

geneva@Leviticus:24:14 @ Bring the blasphemer without the hoste, and let all that heard him, put their handes vpon his head, and let all the Congregation stone him.

geneva@Leviticus:24:16 @ And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shalbe put to death: all the Congregation shall stone him to death: aswell the stranger, as he that is borne in the lande: when he blasphemeth the name of the Lorde, let him beslaine.

geneva@Leviticus:24:18 @ And he that killeth a beast, he shal restore it, beast for beast.

geneva@Leviticus:24:19 @ Also if a man cause any blemish in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him.

geneva@Leviticus:24:20 @ Breache for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: such a blemish as he hath made in any, such shalbe repayed to him.

geneva@Leviticus:24:21 @ And he that killeth a beast shall restore it: but he that killeth a man shall be slaine.

geneva@Leviticus:24:22 @ Ye shall haue one lawe: it shalbe aswel for the stranger as for one borne in the countrey: for I am the Lorde your God.

geneva@Leviticus:24:23 @ And (note:)Because the punishment was not yet appointed by the law for the blasphemer, Moses consulted with the Lord, and told the people what God commanded.(:note) Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Leviticus:25:7 @ And for thy cattell, and for the beastes that are in thy lande shall all the encrease thereof be meate.

geneva@Leviticus:25:12 @ For it is the Iubile, it shall be holy vnto you: ye shall eate of the encrease thereof out of the fielde.

geneva@Leviticus:25:16 @ According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the (note:)And not the full possession of the land.(:note) fruits doth he sell unto thee.

geneva@Leviticus:25:20 @ And if ye shall say, What shall we eate the seuenth yeere, for we shall not sowe, nor gather in our increase?

geneva@Leviticus:25:27 @ Then let him (note:)Deducting money for the years past, and paying for the rest of the years to come.(:note) count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

geneva@Leviticus:25:31 @ But the houses of villages, which haue no walles round about them, shalbe esteemed as the fielde of the countrey: they may be bought out againe, and shall goe out in the Iubile.

geneva@Leviticus:25:32 @ Notwithstanding, the cities of the Leuites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Leuites redeeme at all seasons.

geneva@Leviticus:25:33 @ And if a man purchase of the Leuites, the house that was solde, and the citie of their possession shall goe out in the Iubile: for the houses of the cities of the Leuites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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:25:37 @ Thou shalt not giue him thy money to vsurie, nor lende him thy vitailes for increase.

geneva@Leviticus:25:39 @ If thy brother also that dwelleth by thee, be impouerished, and be sold vnto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serue as a bond seruant,

geneva@Leviticus:25:40 @ But as an hired seruant, and as a soiourner he shalbe with thee: he shall serue thee vnto the yeere of the Iubile.

geneva@Leviticus:25:42 @ For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not (note:)To perpetual servitude.(:note) be sold as bondmen.

geneva@Leviticus:25:46 @ So ye shall take them as inheritance for your children after you, to possesse them by inheritance, ye shall vse their labours for euer: but ouer your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule one ouer another with crueltie.

geneva@Leviticus:25:50 @ And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of (note:)Which remains yet to the Jubile.(:note) years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

geneva@Leviticus:25:51 @ If there be many yeeres behind, according to them he shall giue againe for his deliuerance, of the money that he was bought for.

geneva@Leviticus:25:53 @ [And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy (note:)You shall not allow him to treat him severely, if you know it.(:note) sight.

geneva@Leviticus:26:4 @ Then I will give you (note:)By promising abundance of earthly things, he stirs the mind to consider the rich treasures of the spiritual blessings.(:note) rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

geneva@Leviticus:26:6 @ And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make [you] afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the (note:)You shall have no war.(:note) sword go through your land.

geneva@Leviticus:26:7 @ Also ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you vpon the sworde.

geneva@Leviticus:26:8 @ And fiue of you shall chase an hundreth, and an hundreth of you shall put ten thousande to flight, and your enemies shall fall before you vpon the sworde.

geneva@Leviticus:26:13 @ I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the (note:)I have set you at full liberty, while before you were as beasts tied in bands.(:note) bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

geneva@Leviticus:26:19 @ And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as (note:)You shall have drought and barrenness.(:note) iron, and your earth as brass:

geneva@Leviticus:26:20 @ And your strength shalbe spent in vaine: neither shall your lande giue her increase, neither shall the trees of the land giue their fruite.

geneva@Leviticus:26:21 @ And if ye walk (note:)Or as some read, by fortune, imputing my plagues to chance and fortune.(:note) contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

geneva@Leviticus:26:22 @ I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall (note:)Read (2Ki_17:25).(:note) rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your Because no one dares to pass by it for fear of the beasts. [high] ways shall be desolate.

geneva@Leviticus:26:28 @ Then will I walke stubburnly in mine anger against you, and I will also chastice you seuen times more according to your sinnes.

geneva@Leviticus:26:30 @ I will also destroy your hye places, & cut away your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the bodies of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.

geneva@Leviticus:26:31 @ And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I (note:)I will not accept your sacrifices.(:note) will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

geneva@Leviticus:26:32 @ I will also bring the land vnto a wildernes, and your enemies, which dwell therein, shalbe astonished thereat.

geneva@Leviticus:26:33 @ Also I wil scatter you among the heathen, and will drawe out a sworde after you, & your land shalbe waste, & your cities shalbe desolate.

geneva@Leviticus:26:34 @ Then shall the land inioy her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth voide, and yee shalbe in your enemies land: then shall the land rest, and enioy her Sabbaths.

geneva@Leviticus:26:35 @ As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your (note:)Which I commanded you to keep.(:note) sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

geneva@Leviticus:26:36 @ And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall (note:)As if their enemies chased them.(:note) flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

geneva@Leviticus:26:37 @ They shall fall also one vpon another, as before a sword, though none pursue them, and ye shall not be able to stand before your enemies:

geneva@Leviticus:26:39 @ And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with (note:)In that, as they are blameworthy of their fathers faults, they shall be punished as well as their fathers.(:note) them.

geneva@Leviticus:26:40 @ Then they shall confesse their iniquitie, & the wickednes of their fathers for their trespasse, which they haue trespassed against mee, and also because they haue walked stubburnly against me.

geneva@Leviticus:26:44 @ Yet notwithstanding this, when they shalbe in the lande of their enemies, I wil not cast them away, neither will I abhorre them, to destroy them vtterly, nor to breake my couenant with them: for I am the Lord their God:

geneva@Leviticus:27:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a (note:)As of his son or daughter.(:note) singular vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD by Who art the priest. thy estimation.

geneva@Leviticus:27:9 @ And if [it be] a (note:)Which is clean, (Lev_11:2).(:note) beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

geneva@Leviticus:27:10 @ He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be (note:)That is, consecrate to the Lord.(:note) holy.

geneva@Leviticus:27:11 @ And if it be any vncleane beast, of which men do not offer a sacrifice vnto the Lorde, hee shall then present the beast before the Priest.

geneva@Leviticus:27:12 @ And the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: and as thou valuest it, which art the Priest, so shall it bee.

geneva@Leviticus:27:14 @ Also whe a man shall dedicate his house to be holy vnto the Lorde, then the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad, and as ye Priest shall prise it, so shall the value be.

geneva@Leviticus:27:16 @ And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an (note:)Homer is a measure containing ten ephahs, read of an ephah in (Exo_16:16, Exo_16:36).(:note) homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver.

geneva@Leviticus:27:17 @ If he dedicate his field immediately from the yeere of Iubile, it shall bee worth as thou doest esteeme it.

geneva@Leviticus:27:21 @ But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be (note:)That is, who dedicate to the Lord with a curse to him that turns it to his private use, (Num_21:2; Deu_13:15; Jos_9:17).(:note) holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

geneva@Leviticus:27:23 @ Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give (note:)The priests evaluation.(:note) thine estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:27:24 @ But in the yeere of Iubile, the fielde shall returne vnto him, of whome it was bought: to him, I say, whose inheritance the land was.

geneva@Leviticus:27:26 @ Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether [it be] ox, or sheep: it [is] the (note:)It was the Lord's already.(:note) LORD'S.

geneva@Leviticus:27:27 @ But if it be an vncleane beast, then he shall redeeme it by thy valuation, and giue the fift part more thereto: & if it be not redeemed, then it shalbe solde, according to thy estimation.

geneva@Leviticus:27:28 @ Notwithstanding, nothing separate from the common vse that a man doeth separate vnto the Lord of all that he hath (whether it bee man or beast, or lande of his inheritance) may be solde nor redeemed: for euery thing separate from the common vse is most holy vnto the Lorde.

geneva@Leviticus:27:32 @ And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, [even] of whatsoever passeth under the (note:)All that which is numbered: that is, every tenth as he falls by tale without exception or respect.(:note) rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.

geneva@Leviticus:27:33 @ He shal not looke if it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: els if he change it, both it, and that it was changed withall, shalbe holy, and it shall not be redeemed.

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

geneva@Numbers:1:10 @ Of the children of Ioseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the sonne of Ammihud: of Manasseh, Gamliel, the sonne of Pedahzur:

geneva@Numbers:1:13 @ Of Asher, Pagiel, the sonne of Ocran:

geneva@Numbers:1:14 @ Of Gad, Eliasaph, the sonne of Deuel:

geneva@Numbers:1:18 @ And they assembled all the congregation together on the first [day] of the second month, and they declared (note:)In showing every man his tribe and his ancestors.(:note) their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

geneva@Numbers:1:19 @ As the Lord had commanded Moses, so he nombred them in the wildernesse of Sinai.

geneva@Numbers:1:20 @ So were the sonnes of Reuben Israels eldest sonne by their generations, by their families, and by the houses of their fathers, according to the nomber of their names, man by man euery male from twentie yere olde and aboue, as many as went forth to warre:

geneva@Numbers:1:21 @ The nomber of them, I say, of the tribe of Reuben, was sixe and fourtie thousande, and fiue hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:23 @ The summe of them, I say, of the tribe of Simeon was nine and fiftie thousande, and three hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:25 @ The number of them, I say, of the tribe of Gad was fiue and fourtie thousand, and six hundreth and fiftie.

geneva@Numbers:1:27 @ The nomber of them, I say, of the tribe of Iudah was three score and fourteene thousande, and sixe hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:29 @ The nomber of them also of the tribe of Issachar was foure and fiftie thousande and foure hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:31 @ The nomber of them also of the tribe of Zebulun was seuen and fiftie thousand and foure hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:33 @ The nomber of them also of the tribe of Ephraim was fourtie thousande & fiue hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:34 @ Of the sonnes of Manasseh by their generations, by their families, and by the houses of their fathers, according to the nomber of their names, from twentie yeere olde and aboue, all that went foorth to warre:

geneva@Numbers:1:35 @ The nober of the also of ye tribe of Manasseh was two & thirtie thousand & two hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:37 @ The nomber of them also of the tribe of Beniamin was fiue and thirtie thousande and foure hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:39 @ The nomber of the also of ye tribe of Dan was three score & two thousand & seue hudreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:40 @ Of the sonnes of Asher by their generations, by their families, and by the houses of their fathers, according to the number of their names, from twentie yeere olde and aboue, all that went foorth to warre:

geneva@Numbers:1:41 @ The nomber of them also of ye tribe of Asher was one & fourtie thousand & fiue hudreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:43 @ The nomber of them also of the tribe of Naphtali, was three and fiftie thousand, & foure hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:1:45 @ So this was all the summe of the sonnes of Israel, by the houses of their fathers, from twenty yeere olde and aboue, all that went to the warre in Israel,

geneva@Numbers:2:3 @ On the East side towarde the rising of the sunne, shall they of the standerd of the hoste of Iudah pitch according to their armies: and Nahshon the sonne of Amminadab shalbe captaine of the sonnes of Iudah.

geneva@Numbers:2:14 @ And the tribe of Gad, and the captaine ouer the sonnes of Gad shall be Eliasaph the sonne of Deuel:

geneva@Numbers:2:17 @ Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the (note:)Because it might be an equal distance from each one, and all indifferently have recourse to it.(:note) midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.

geneva@Numbers:2:20 @ And by him shalbe the tribe of Manasseh, and the captaine ouer the sonnes of Manasseh shalbe Gamliel the sonne of Pedahzur:

geneva@Numbers:2:25 @ The standard of the camp of (note:)Dan and Naphtali the sons of Bilhah Rachel's maid with Asher the son of Zilpah make the fourth standard.(:note) Dan [shall be] on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan [shall be] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

geneva@Numbers:2:27 @ And by him shal the tribe of Asher pitch, and the captaine ouer the sonnes of Asher shalbe Pagiel the sonne of Ocran.

geneva@Numbers:2:31 @ All the nomber of the host of Dan was an hundreth and seuen and fiftie thousand and sixe hundreth: they shall goe hinmost with their standerdes.

geneva@Numbers:2:33 @ But the Leuites were not nombred among the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:3:13 @ Because all the first borne are mine: for the same day, that I smote all the first borne in the land of Egypt, I sanctified vnto me all the first borne in Israel, both man and beast: mine they shalbe: I am the Lord.

geneva@Numbers:3:16 @ Then Moses nombred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

geneva@Numbers:3:24 @ The captaine and auncient of the house of the Gershonites shalbe Eliasaph the sonne of Lael.

geneva@Numbers:3:25 @ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation [shall be] the (note:)Their charge was to carry the covering and hangings of the tabernacle.(:note) tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

geneva@Numbers:3:34 @ And the summe of them, according to the nomber of all the males, from a moneth olde and aboue was sixe thousand and two hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:3:38 @ But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, [even] before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, [shall be] Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary (note:)That no one should enter into the tabernacle contrary to God's appointment.(:note) for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

geneva@Numbers:3:39 @ All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two (note:)So that the first born of the children of Israel were more by 273, as in (Num_3:43).(:note) thousand.

geneva@Numbers:3:42 @ And Moses nombred, as the Lord commanded him, all the first borne of the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:3:51 @ And Moses gaue the money of them that were redeemed, vnto Aaron and to his sonnes according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:4:11 @ And upon the golden (note:)Which was to burn incense, read (Exo_30:1).(:note) altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:

geneva@Numbers:4:13 @ And they shall take away the ashes from the (note:)Of the burnt offering.(:note) altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:

geneva@Numbers:4:14 @ And shall put vpon it all the instruments thereof, which they occupie about it: the censers, the fleshhookes and the besomes, & the basens, euen al the instruments of the altar and they shal spread vpon it a couering of badgers skinnes, and put to the barres of it.

geneva@Numbers:4:15 @ And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the (note:)That is, in folding up the things of the sanctuary, as the ark, etc.(:note) sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear [it]: but they shall not Before it is covered. touch [any] holy thing, lest they die. These [things are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@Numbers:4:16 @ And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the (note:)Which was offered at morning and evening.(:note) daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein [is], in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

geneva@Numbers:4:26 @ And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, (note:)Which compassed both the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar of burnt offering.(:note) which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.

geneva@Numbers:4:30 @ From thirty yere olde and aboue, euen vnto fiftie yere olde shalt thou nomber the, all that enter into the assemblie, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

geneva@Numbers:4:35 @ From thirtie yeere olde and aboue, euen vnto fiftie yere olde, all that enter into the assemblie for the seruice of the Tabernacle of ye Congregation.

geneva@Numbers:4:39 @ From thirtie yere olde and vpwarde, euen vnto fiftie yere olde: all that enter into the assemblie for the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Cogregation.

geneva@Numbers:4:43 @ From thirtie yeere olde and vpwarde, euen vnto fiftie yeere olde: all that enter into the assemblie for the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

geneva@Numbers:4:49 @ According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded (note:)So that Moses neither added, nor diminished from that which the Lord commanded him.(:note) Moses.

geneva@Numbers:5:4 @ And the children of Israel did so, and put them out of the host, euen as the Lord had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:5:6 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin (note:)Commit any fault willingly.(:note) that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;

geneva@Numbers:5:7 @ Then they shall confesse their sinne which they haue done, and shall restore the domage thereof with his principall, and put the fift part of it more thereto, and shall giue it vnto him, against whom he hath trespassed.

geneva@Numbers:5:8 @ But if the (note:)If he is dead to whom the wrong is done and also has no relatives.(:note) man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, [even] to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

geneva@Numbers:5:9 @ And every offering of all the (note:)Or, things offered to the Lord, as first fruits, etc.(:note) holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

geneva@Numbers:5:12 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife (note:)By breaking the band of marriage, and playing the harlot.(:note) go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

geneva@Numbers:5:18 @ And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the (note:)It was so called by the effect, because it declared the woman to be accursed, and turned to her destruction.(:note) curse:

geneva@Numbers:5:19 @ And the Priest shall charge her by an oth, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lien with thee, neither thou hast turned to vncleannesse from thine husbande, be free from this bitter and cursed water.

geneva@Numbers:5:20 @ But if thou hast turned fro thine husband, and so art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thine husband,

geneva@Numbers:5:22 @ And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, (note:)That is, may it be as you wished, as in (Psa_41:13; Deu_27:15).(:note) Amen, amen.

geneva@Numbers:5:23 @ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall (note:)Shall wash the curses, which are written, into the water in the vessel.(:note) blot [them] out with the bitter water:

geneva@Numbers:5:26 @ And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, [even] the memorial thereof, and burn [it] upon the (note:)Where the incense was offered.(:note) altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

geneva@Numbers:5:27 @ When yee haue made her drinke the water, (if she bee defiled and haue trespassed against her husband) then shall the cursed water, turned into bitternesse, enter into her, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shal be accursed among her people.

geneva@Numbers:6:2 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate [themselves] to vow a vow of a (note:)Who separated themselves from the world, and dedicated themselves to God: a figure which was accomplished in Christ.(:note) Nazarite, to separate [themselves] unto the LORD:

geneva@Numbers:6:4 @ As long as his abstinence endureth, shall hee eat nothing that is made of the wine of the vine, neither the kernels, nor the huske.

geneva@Numbers:6:5 @ While hee is separate by his vowe, the rasor shall not come vpon his head, vntill the dayes be out, in the which he separateth him selfe vnto the Lord, he shalbe holy, and shall let the lockes of the heare of his head growe.

geneva@Numbers:6:6 @ All the days that he separateth [himself] unto the LORD he shall come at no (note:)As at burials, or mournings.(:note) dead body.

geneva@Numbers:6:7 @ He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God [is] upon (note:)In that he allowed his hair to grow, he signified that he was consecrated to God.(:note) his head.

geneva@Numbers:6:11 @ And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by (note:)By being present where the deceased was.(:note) the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

geneva@Numbers:6:12 @ And he shall (note:)Beginning at the eighth day, when he is purified.(:note) consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the So that he shall begin his vow anew. days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

geneva@Numbers:6:15 @ And a basket of vnleauened bread, of cakes of fine floure, mingled with oyle, and wafers of vnleauened bread anointed with oile, with their meate offring, and their drinke offrings:

geneva@Numbers:6:17 @ He shal prepare also the ram for a peace offring vnto the Lorde, with the basket of vnleauened bread, and the Priest shal make his meate offring, and his drinke offring.

geneva@Numbers:6:18 @ And the Nazarite shall shave the head (note:)In token that his vow is ended.(:note) of his separation [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and For the hair which was consecrated to the Lord, might not be cast into any profane place. put [it] in the fire which [is] under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

geneva@Numbers:6:19 @ Then the Priest shall take ye sodden shoulder of the ramme, and an vnleauened cake out of the basket, and a wafer vnleauened, and put them vpon the hands of the Nazarite, after he hath shauen his consecration.

geneva@Numbers:6:20 @ And the Priest shal shake them to & fro before the Lorde: this is an holy thing for the Priest besides the shaken breast, and besides the heaue shoulder: so afterwarde the Nazarite may drinke wine.

geneva@Numbers:6:21 @ This [is] the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, [and of] his offering unto the LORD for his separation, (note:)At the least he shall do this, if he is not able to offer more.(:note) beside [that] that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

geneva@Numbers:7:9 @ But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: (note:)The holy thing of the sanctuary must be carried on their shoulders and not drawn with oxen, (Num_4:15).(:note) because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them [was that] they should bear upon their shoulders.

geneva@Numbers:7:10 @ And the princes offered for (note:)That is, when the first sacrifice was offered on it by Aaron, in (Lev_9:1).(:note) dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.

geneva@Numbers:7:13 @ And his offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuenty shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both ful of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:17 @ And for peace offrings, two bullockes, fiue rams, fiue hee goates, and fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offring of Nahshon the sonne of Amminadab.

geneva@Numbers:7:23 @ And for peace offrings, two bullockes, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offring of Nethaneel the sonne of Zuar.

geneva@Numbers:7:25 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirty shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both ful of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:29 @ And for peace offrings, two bullockes, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offering of Eliab the sonne of Helon.

geneva@Numbers:7:31 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both ful of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:35 @ And for a peace offring, two bullockes, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, and fiue lambes of a yere olde: this was the offering of Elizur the sonne of Shedeur.

geneva@Numbers:7:37 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both ful of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:41 @ And for a peace offring, two bullocks, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yere old: this was the offering of Shelumiel the sonne of Zurishaddai.

geneva@Numbers:7:42 @ The sixt day Eliasaph the sonne of Deuel prince of the children of Gad offred.

geneva@Numbers:7:43 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both ful of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:47 @ And for a peace offering, two bullockes, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yere olde: this was the offring of Eliasaph the sonne of Deuel.

geneva@Numbers:7:49 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, both full of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offering,

geneva@Numbers:7:53 @ And for a peace offring, two bullockes, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offring of Elishama the sonne of Ammiud.

geneva@Numbers:7:54 @ The eight day offred Gamliel the sonne of Pedazur, prince of the children of Manasseh.

geneva@Numbers:7:55 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both full of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:59 @ And for a peace offring, two bullockes, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offring of Gamliel the sonne of Pedazur.

geneva@Numbers:7:61 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both full of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:65 @ And for a peace offring, two bullockes, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offring of Abidan the sonne of Gideoni.

geneva@Numbers:7:67 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both full of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:71 @ And for a peace offring, two bullocks, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offring of Ahiezer the sonne of Ammishaddai.

geneva@Numbers:7:72 @ The eleuenth day Pagiel the sonne of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher offred.

geneva@Numbers:7:73 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both full of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:77 @ And for a peace offring, two bullockes, fiue rams, fiue he goates, fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offring of Pagiel the sonne of Ocran.

geneva@Numbers:7:79 @ His offring was a siluer charger of an hundreth and thirtie shekels weight, a siluer boule of seuentie shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, both full of fine floure, mingled with oyle, for a meate offring,

geneva@Numbers:7:83 @ And for peace offerings, two bullockes, fiue rammes, fiue hee goates, fiue lambes of a yeere olde: this was the offering of Ahira the sonne of Enan.

geneva@Numbers:7:84 @ This [was] the (note:)This was the offering of the princes, when Aaron dedicated the altar.(:note) dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

geneva@Numbers:7:86 @ Twelue incense cups of gold ful of incense, conteining ten shekels euery cup, after the shekell of the Sanctuarie: all the gold of the incense cups was an hundreth and twentie shekels.

geneva@Numbers:7:88 @ And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings [were] twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This [was] the dedication of the altar, after that it was (note:)By Aaron.(:note) anointed.

geneva@Numbers:7:89 @ And when Moses was gone into the (note:)That is, the sanctuary.(:note) tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that [was] upon the ark of testimony, from According as he had promised in (Exo_25:22). between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

geneva@Numbers:8:3 @ And Aaron did so, lighting the lampes thereof towarde ye forefront of the Candlesticke, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:8:4 @ And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, [was] beaten work: (note:)And not set together of various pieces.(:note) according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.

geneva@Numbers:8:7 @ And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle (note:)In Hebrew it is called the water of sin, because it is made to purge sin, as in (Num_19:9).(:note) water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and [so] make themselves clean.

geneva@Numbers:8:9 @ And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the (note:)That you may do this in the presence of them all.(:note) whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

geneva@Numbers:8:11 @ And Aaron shall offer the Leuites before the Lord, as a shake offring of ye childre of Israel, that they may execute the seruice of the Lorde.

geneva@Numbers:8:13 @ And thou shalt set the Leuites before Aaron and before his sonnes, & offer the as a shake offring to the Lorde.

geneva@Numbers:8:15 @ And afterwarde shall the Leuites goe in, to serue in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and thou shalt purifie them and offer them, as a shake offering.

geneva@Numbers:8:16 @ For they are freely giuen vnto me from among the children of Israel, for such as open any wombe: for all the first borne of the children of Israel haue I taken them vnto me.

geneva@Numbers:8:17 @ For all the first borne of the children of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast: since the day that I smote euery first borne in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for my selfe.

geneva@Numbers:8:19 @ And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the (note:)Which the Israelites should do.(:note) children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the Because the levites go into the sanctuary in their name. sanctuary.

geneva@Numbers:8:21 @ So the Leuites were purified, and washed their clothes, and Aaron offred them as a shake offring before the Lord, and Aaron made an atonement for them, to purifie them.

geneva@Numbers:8:22 @ And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation (note:)In their presence to serve them.(:note) before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

geneva@Numbers:8:25 @ And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the (note:)Such office as was painful, as to bear burdens and such like.(:note) service [thereof], and shall serve no more:

geneva@Numbers:9:2 @ The children of Israel shall also celebrate the Passeouer at ye time appointed thereunto.

geneva@Numbers:9:3 @ In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to (note:)Even in all points as the Lord has instituted it.(:note) all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

geneva@Numbers:9:4 @ Then Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, to celebrate the Passeouer.

geneva@Numbers:9:5 @ And they kept the Passeouer in the fouretenth day of the first moneth at euen in the wildernesse of Sinai: according to all that the Lord had comanded Moses, so did ye children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:9:6 @ And there were certain men, who were defiled (note:)By touching a corpse, or being at the burial.(:note) by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

geneva@Numbers:9:7 @ And those men said unto him, We [are] defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not (note:)Or, celebrate the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month.(:note) offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

geneva@Numbers:9:10 @ Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet (note:)And cannot come where the tabernacle is, when others keep it.(:note) he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:9:12 @ They shall leaue none of it vnto the morning, nor breake any bone of it: according to all the ordinance of the Passeouer shall they keepe it.

geneva@Numbers:9:13 @ But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a (note:)When the Passover is celebrated.(:note) journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

geneva@Numbers:9:14 @ And if a stranger dwell among you, and wil keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord, as the ordinance of the Passeouer, & as the maner thereof is, so shall he do: ye shall haue one lawe both for the stranger, and for him that was borne in the same lande.

geneva@Numbers:9:15 @ And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the (note:)Like a pillar, read (Exo_13:21-22).(:note) appearance of fire, until the morning.

geneva@Numbers:9:16 @ So it was always: the cloude couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

geneva@Numbers:9:17 @ And when the cloude was taken vp from the Tabernacle, then afterwarde the children of Israel iourneyed: and in the place where the cloude abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

geneva@Numbers:9:18 @ At the commandment of the (note:)Who taught them what to do by the cloud.(:note) LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

geneva@Numbers:9:21 @ And though the cloud abode vpo the Tabernacle from euen vnto the morning, yet if the cloude was taken vp in the morning, then they iourneyed: whether by daye or by night the cloude was taken vp, then they iourneyed.

geneva@Numbers:9:22 @ Or if the cloude taryed two dayes or a moneth, or a yeere vpon the Tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel abode still, and iourneyed not: but when it was taken vp, they iourneyed.

geneva@Numbers:10:2 @ Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a (note:)Or, of work beaten out with the hammer.(:note) whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.

geneva@Numbers:10:3 @ And when they shall blowe with them, all the Congregation shall assemble to thee before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Cogregation.

geneva@Numbers:10:5 @ When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the (note:)That is, the host of Judah and they that are under his ensign.(:note) east parts shall go forward.

geneva@Numbers:10:7 @ But in assembling the Congregation, ye shall blowe without an alarme.

geneva@Numbers:10:8 @ And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall (note:)So that only the priests must blow the trumpets, as long as the priesthood lasted.(:note) blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.

geneva@Numbers:10:10 @ Also in the day of your (note:)When you rejoice that God has removed any plague.(:note) gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I [am] the LORD your God.

geneva@Numbers:10:11 @ And in the seconde yeere, in the seconde moneth, and in the twentieth day of the moneth the cloude was taken vp from the Tabernacle of the Testimonie.

geneva@Numbers:10:14 @ In the first place went the standerd of the hoste of the children of Iudah, according to their armies: and Nahshon the sonne of Amminabad was ouer his band.

geneva@Numbers:10:15 @ And ouer the band of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel ye sonne of Zuar.

geneva@Numbers:10:16 @ And ouer the band of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the sonne of Helon.

geneva@Numbers:10:17 @ And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing (note:)With all the belongings of it.(:note) the tabernacle.

geneva@Numbers:10:18 @ After, departed the standerd of the hoste of Reuben, according to their armies, and ouer his band was Elizur the sonne of Shedeur.

geneva@Numbers:10:19 @ And ouer the band of the tribe of ye children of Simeon was Shelumiel the sonne of Shurishaddai.

geneva@Numbers:10:20 @ And ouer the bande of the tribe of ye children of Gad was Eliasaph the sonne of Deuel.

geneva@Numbers:10:22 @ Then the standerd of the hoste of the children of Ephraim went forward according to their armies, and ouer his bande was Elishama the sonne of Ammiud.

geneva@Numbers:10:23 @ And ouer the band of the tribe of ye sonnes of Manasseh was Gamliel the sonne of Pedazur.

geneva@Numbers:10:24 @ And ouer the band of ye tribe of the sonnes of Beniamin was Abidan the sonne of Gideoni.

geneva@Numbers:10:25 @ And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, [which was] the (note:)Leaving none behind, nor any of the former that fainted in the way.(:note) rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host [was] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

geneva@Numbers:10:26 @ And ouer the bande of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the sonne of Ocran.

geneva@Numbers:10:27 @ And ouer the bande of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira ye sonne of Enan.

geneva@Numbers:10:29 @ And Moses said unto (note:)Some think that Reuel, Jethro, Hobab, and Keni were all one: Kimhi says that Reuel was Jethro's father: so Hobab was Moses father-in-law, see (Exo_2:18, Exo_3:1, Exo_4:18, Exo_18:1; Jdg_4:11)(:note) Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.

geneva@Numbers:10:34 @ And the cloude of the Lord was vpon the by day, when they went out of the campe.

geneva@Numbers:10:35 @ And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, (note:)Declare your might and power.(:note) Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.

geneva@Numbers:11:1 @ Vvhen the people became murmurers, it displeased the Lorde: and the Lorde heard it, therefore his wrath was kindled, and the fire of the Lorde burnt among them, and consumed the vtmost parte of the hoste.

geneva@Numbers:11:2 @ Then the people cryed vnto Moses: and when Moses praied vnto the Lorde, the fire was quenched.

geneva@Numbers:11:4 @ And the mixt (note:)Which were of those strangers that came out of Egypt with them, (Exo_12:38).(:note) multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

geneva@Numbers:11:7 @ And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of (note:)Which is a white pearl, or precious stone.(:note) bdellium.

geneva@Numbers:11:8 @ The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in milles, or beat it in morters, and baked it in a cauldron, and made cakes of it, and the taste of it was like vnto the taste of fresh oyle.

geneva@Numbers:11:10 @ Then Moses heard the people weepe throughout their families, euery man in the doore of his tent, and the wrath of the Lord was grieuously kindled: also Moses was grieued.

geneva@Numbers:11:11 @ And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found (note:)Or, how have I displeased you?(:note) favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

geneva@Numbers:11:12 @ Have I (note:)Am I their father, that no one may have charge of them but I?(:note) conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the Of Canaan promised by another to our fathers. land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

geneva@Numbers:11:15 @ And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy (note:)I would rather die than see my grief and misery daily increased by their rebellion.(:note) sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

geneva@Numbers:11:17 @ And I will come down and talk with thee there: (note:)I will distribute my spirit among them, as I have done to you.(:note) and I will take of the spirit which [is] upon thee, and will put [it] upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear [it] not thyself alone.

geneva@Numbers:11:18 @ And say thou unto the people, (note:)Prepare yourselves that you may be clean.(:note) Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

geneva@Numbers:11:20 @ [But] even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have (note:)Or, cast him off, because you refused manna, which he appointed as most suitable for you.(:note) despised the LORD which [is] Who leads and governs you. among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

geneva@Numbers:11:21 @ And Moses said, The people, (note:)Of whom I have charge.(:note) among whom I [am], [are] six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

geneva@Numbers:11:23 @ And the Lorde saide vnto Moses, Is the Lordes hand shortened? Thou shalt see now whether my word shal come to passe vnto thee, or no.

geneva@Numbers:11:25 @ And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that [was] upon him, and gave [it] unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, [that], when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not (note:)From that day the spirit of prophecy did not settle them.(:note) cease.

geneva@Numbers:11:26 @ But there remained two of the men in the hoste: the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad, and the Spirit rested vpon them, (for they were of them that were written, and went not out vnto the Tabernacle) and they prophecied in the hoste.

geneva@Numbers:11:28 @ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, [one] of his (note:)Or, a young man whom he had chosen from his youth.(:note) young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, Such blind zeal was in the apostles, (Mar_9:38; Luk_9:44). forbid them.

geneva@Numbers:11:32 @ And the people stood up all that day, and all [that] night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten (note:)Of Homer, read (Lev_27:16) also it signifies a heap, as in (Exo_8:14; Jdg_15:16).(:note) homers: and they spread [them] all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

geneva@Numbers:11:33 @ While the flesh was yet betweene their teeth, before it was chewed, euen the wrath of the Lorde was kindled against the people, and the Lorde smote the people with an exceeding great plague.

geneva@Numbers:11:34 @ So the name of the place was called, Kibroth-hattaauah: for there they buried the people that fell a lusting.

geneva@Numbers:12:1 @ And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married (note:)Zipporah, Moses' wife, was a Midianite, and because Midian bordered on Ethiopia, it is sometimes referred to in the scriptures by this name.(:note) an Ethiopian woman.

geneva@Numbers:12:3 @ (Now the man Moses [was] very (note:)And so endured their grudging, although he knew of them.(:note) meek, above all the men which [were] upon the face of the earth.)

geneva@Numbers:12:7 @ My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful (note:)In all Israel which was his Church.(:note) in all mine house.

geneva@Numbers:12:8 @ With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he (note:)As far as any man was able to comprehend, which he calls his back parts, (Exo_33:23).(:note) behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

geneva@Numbers:12:9 @ Thus the Lorde was very angrie with them, and departed.

geneva@Numbers:12:10 @ And the cloud departed from off the (note:)From the door of the tabernacle.(:note) tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous.

geneva@Numbers:12:11 @ Then Aaron saide vnto Moses, Alas, my Lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sinne vpon vs, which we haue foolishly committed and wherein we haue sinned.

geneva@Numbers:12:12 @ Let her not be as one (note:)As a child that is stillborn, as if it is only the skin.(:note) dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

geneva@Numbers:12:14 @ And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but (note:)In his displeasure.(:note) spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again].

geneva@Numbers:12:15 @ So Miriam was shut out of the hoste seuen dayes, and the people remooued not, till Miriam was brought in againe.

geneva@Numbers:12:16 @ And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of (note:)That is, in Rithmah, which was in Paran, (Num_33:18).(:note) Paran.

geneva@Numbers:13:11 @ {\cf2 (13:12)} Of the tribe of Ioseph, to wit, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the sonne of Susi:

geneva@Numbers:13:13 @ {\cf2 (13:14)} Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the sonne of Michael:

geneva@Numbers:13:20 @ {\cf2 (13:21)} And what the land is: whether it be fat or leane, whether there be trees therein, or not. And be of good courage, and bring of the fruite of the lande (for then was the time of the first ripe grapes)

geneva@Numbers:13:21 @ So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of (note:)Which was in the wilderness of Paran.(:note) Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

geneva@Numbers:13:22 @ And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of (note:)Which were a type of giant.(:note) Anak, [were]. (Now Declaring the antiquity of it: also Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob were buried there. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

geneva@Numbers:13:24 @ {\cf2 (13:25)} That place was called the riuer Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes, which the children of Israel cut downe thence.

geneva@Numbers:13:29 @ {\cf2 (13:30)} The Amalekites dwell in the South countrey, and the Hittites, and the Iebusites, & the Amorites dwell in the mountaines, & the Canaanites dwell by the sea, & by the coast of Iorden.

geneva@Numbers:13:33 @ {\cf2 (13:34)} For there we sawe gyants, the sonnes of Anak, which come of the gyants, so that we seemed in our sight like grashoppers: and so wee were in their sight.

geneva@Numbers:14:2 @ And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron: and the whole assemblie said vnto them, Would God we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wildernesse: would God we were dead.

geneva@Numbers:14:5 @ Then Moses and Aaron (note:)Lamenting the people, and praying for them.(:note) fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:14:6 @ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, (note:)For sorrow, hearing their blasphemy.(:note) rent their clothes:

geneva@Numbers:14:7 @ And spake vnto all the assemblie of the childre of Israel, saying, The land which we walked through to search it, is a very good lande.

geneva@Numbers:14:9 @ Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] (note:)We shall easily overcome them.(:note) bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.

geneva@Numbers:14:15 @ Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as (note:)So that none shall escape.(:note) one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

geneva@Numbers:14:16 @ Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the lande, which he sware vnto them, therefore hath he slaine them in the wildernesse.

geneva@Numbers:14:17 @ And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lorde be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

geneva@Numbers:14:19 @ Be mercifull, I beseech thee, vnto the iniquitie of this people, according to thy great mercie, and as thou hast forgiuen this people from Egypt, euen vntill nowe.

geneva@Numbers:14:21 @ Notwithstanding, as I liue, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

geneva@Numbers:14:28 @ Tell them, As I liue (saith the Lorde) I wil surely do vnto you, euen as ye haue spoken in mine eares.

geneva@Numbers:14:33 @ And your children shall (note:)The word signifies to be shepherds, or to wander like shepherds to and fro.(:note) wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your Your infidelity and disobedience against God. whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

geneva@Numbers:14:41 @ But Moses said, Wherefore transgresse yee thus the commandement of the Lorde? it will not so come well to passe.

geneva@Numbers:14:43 @ For the Amalekites & the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sworde: for in as much as ye are turned away from the Lord, the Lord also will not be with you.

geneva@Numbers:15:3 @ And will make an offring by fire vnto the Lorde, a burnt offring or a sacrifice to fulfil a vowe, or a free offring, or in your feastes, to make a sweete sauour vnto the Lord of the hearde, or of the flocke.

geneva@Numbers:15:7 @ And for a (note:)The liquor was so called, because it was poured on the thing that was offered.(:note) drink offering thou shalt offer the third [part] of an hin of wine, [for] a sweet savour unto the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:15:12 @ According to the number (note:)Every sacrifice of beasts must have their meat offering and drink offering according to this proportion.(:note) that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

geneva@Numbers:15:14 @ And if a stranger soiourne with you, or whosoeuer bee among you in your generations, and will make an offring by fire of a sweete sauour vnto the Lord, as ye do, so hee shall doe.

geneva@Numbers:15:15 @ One ordinace shalbe both for you of the Congregation, & also for the stranger that dwelleth with you, euen an ordinance for euer in your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger bee before the Lord.

geneva@Numbers:15:20 @ Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your (note:)Which is made from the first corn you harvest.(:note) dough [for] an heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.

geneva@Numbers:15:30 @ But the person that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be borne in the land, or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the Lord: therefore that person shalbe cut off from among his people,

geneva@Numbers:15:34 @ And they put him warde: for it was not declared what should be done vnto him.

geneva@Numbers:15:36 @ And all the Congregation brought him without the hoste, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:15:39 @ And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a (note:)By leaving God's commandments and following your own fantasies.(:note) whoring:

geneva@Numbers:16:2 @ And they rose vp against Moses, with certaine of the children of Israel, two hundreth and fiftie captaines of the assemblie, famous in the Congregation, and men of renoume,

geneva@Numbers:16:3 @ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, (note:)Or let it suffice you: meaning, to have abused them this long.(:note) [Ye take] too much upon you, seeing all the congregation [are] holy, All are equally holy: therefore no one should be preferred above other: thus the wicked reason against God's ordinance. every one of them, and the LORD [is] among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

geneva@Numbers:16:10 @ And he hath brought thee near [to (note:)To serve in the congregation, as in the verse before.(:note) him], and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

geneva@Numbers:16:13 @ [Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up (note:)Thus they spoke contemptuously, preferring Egypt to Canaan.(:note) out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

geneva@Numbers:16:14 @ Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou (note:)Will you make those who searched the land believe that they did not see that which they saw?(:note) put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

geneva@Numbers:16:15 @ Then Moses waxed verie angry, and saide vnto the Lord, Looke not vnto their offring: I haue not taken so much as an asse from them, neither haue I hurt any of them.

geneva@Numbers:16:31 @ And assoone as he had made an ende of speaking all these wordes, euen the ground claue asunder that was vnder them,

geneva@Numbers:16:34 @ And all Israel that were about them, fled at the crie of them: for they said, Let vs flee, least the earth swalow vs vp.

geneva@Numbers:16:39 @ Then Eleazar the Priest tooke the brasen censers, which they, that were burnt, had offred, and made broade plates of them for a couering of the Altar.

geneva@Numbers:16:40 @ [To be] a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which [is] not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as (note:)Who presumed above his calling.(:note) Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Numbers:16:42 @ And when the Congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, then they turned their faces toward the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and beholde, the cloude couered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

geneva@Numbers:16:46 @ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the (note:)For it was not lawful to take any other fire, but of the altar of burnt offering, (Lev_10:1).(:note) altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.

geneva@Numbers:16:47 @ And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the (note:)God had begun to punish the people.(:note) plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

geneva@Numbers:16:48 @ And he stood between the dead and the living; and the (note:)God drew back his hand and stopped punishing them.(:note) plague was stayed.

geneva@Numbers:16:50 @ And Aaro went againe vnto Moses before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the plague was stayed.

geneva@Numbers:17:1 @ And the LORD spake unto (note:)While he was in the door of the tabernacle.(:note) Moses, saying,

geneva@Numbers:17:5 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] the man's rod, whom I shall (note:)To be the chief priest.(:note) choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.

geneva@Numbers:17:6 @ And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, [even] twelve rods: and the rod (note:)Though Joseph's tribe was divided into two in the distribution of the land, yet here it is but one and Levi makes a tribe.(:note) of Aaron [was] among their rods.

geneva@Numbers:17:8 @ And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron (note:)To declare that God chose the house of Levi to serve him in the tabernacle.(:note) for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

geneva@Numbers:17:11 @ So Moses did as the Lord had commanded him: so did he.

geneva@Numbers:18:1 @ And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear (note:)If you trespass in anything concerning the ceremonies of the sanctuary of your office, you will be punished.(:note) the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

geneva@Numbers:18:4 @ And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a (note:)Which was not of the tribe of Levi.(:note) stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

geneva@Numbers:18:6 @ For lo, I haue taken your brethren the Leuites from among the children of Israel, which as a gift of yours, are giuen vnto the Lord, to do the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

geneva@Numbers:18:8 @ And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave (note:)As the first fruit, first born, and the tithes.(:note) offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

geneva@Numbers:18:9 @ This shall be thine of the most holy things, [reserved] from the (note:)That which was not burned should be the priests.(:note) fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, [shall be] most holy for thee and for thy sons.

geneva@Numbers:18:15 @ All that first openeth the matrice of any flesh, which they shal offer vnto the Lord, of man or beast, shalbe thine: but the first borne of man shalt thou redeeme, and the first borne of the vncleane beast shalt thou redeeme.

geneva@Numbers:18:18 @ And the flesh of them shalbe thine, as the shake breast, and as the right shoulder shalbe thine.

geneva@Numbers:18:24 @ For the tythes of the children of Israel, which they shal offer as an offring vnto the Lord, I haue giuen the Leuites for an inheritance: therfore I haue said vnto them, Among the children of Israel ye shal possesse none inheritance.

geneva@Numbers:18:27 @ And [this] your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though [it were] the (note:)As acceptable as the fruit of your own ground or vineyard.(:note) corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

geneva@Numbers:18:30 @ Therefore thou shalt say vnto them, When ye haue offred the fat thereof, then it shalbe couted vnto the Leuites, as the encrease of the corne floore, or as the encrease of the wine presse.

geneva@Numbers:18:31 @ And ye shall eat it in every (note:)As in (Num_18:11).(:note) place, ye and your households: for it [is] your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@Numbers:18:32 @ And ye shall (note:)You shall not be punished therefore.(:note) bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy The offerings which the Israelites have offered to God. things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

geneva@Numbers:19:6 @ Then shal the Priest take cedar wood, and hyssope & skarlet lace, and cast them in the mids of the fire where the kow burneth.

geneva@Numbers:19:7 @ Then the (note:)Meaning, Eleazar.(:note) priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

geneva@Numbers:19:8 @ And he that (note:)The inferior priest who killed her, and burned her.(:note) burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

geneva@Numbers:19:9 @ And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay [them] up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a (note:)Or, the water of separation because they that were separate due to their uncleanness, were sprinkled with it and made clean, (Num_8:7). It is also called holy water, because it was ordained for a holy use, (Num_1:17).(:note) water of separation: it [is] a purification for sin.

geneva@Numbers:19:10 @ Therefore he that gathereth the ashes of the kowe, shal wash his clothes, and remaine vncleane vntil euen: and it shalbe vnto the children of Israel, and vnto the stranger that dwelleth among them, a statute for euer.

geneva@Numbers:19:13 @ Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be (note:)So that he should not be esteemed to be of the holy people, but as a polluted and excommunicated person.(:note) cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet upon him.

geneva@Numbers:19:15 @ And all the vessels that bee open, which haue no couering fastened vpon them, shall be vncleane.

geneva@Numbers:19:17 @ And for an unclean [person] they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for (note:)Of the red cow burnt for sin.(:note) sin, and Water of the fountain or river. running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

geneva@Numbers:19:19 @ And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and (note:)Because he had been among them that were unclean: or else had touched the water as in (Num_19:21).(:note) wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

geneva@Numbers:19:21 @ And it shalbe a perpetual lawe vnto them, that he that sprinkleth the sprinkling water, shall wash his clothes: also hee that toucheth the sprinkling water, shalbe vncleane vntill euen.

geneva@Numbers:20:1 @ Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first (note:)This was forty years after their departure from Egypt.(:note) month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Moses and Aaron's sister. Miriam died there, and was buried there.

geneva@Numbers:20:2 @ And there was no water for the congregation: and they (note:)Another rebellion was in Rephidim (Exo. strkjv@17:1-16), and this was in Kadesh.(:note) gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

geneva@Numbers:20:6 @ Then Moses and Aaron went from the assemblie vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and fell vpon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared vnto them.

geneva@Numbers:20:8 @ Take the (note:)With which you did miracles in Egypt and divided the sea.(:note) rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

geneva@Numbers:20:9 @ Then Moses tooke the rod from before the Lord, as he had commanded him.

geneva@Numbers:20:10 @ And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; (note:)The punishment which followed declared that Moses and Aaron did not believe the Lord's promise as it appeared in (Num_20:12).(:note) must we fetch you water out of this rock?

geneva@Numbers:20:11 @ Then Moses lift vp his hande, and with his rod he smote the rocke twise, and the water came out aboundantly: so the Congregation, and their beastes dranke.

geneva@Numbers:20:13 @ This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he (note:)By showing himself almighty and maintaining his glory.(:note) was sanctified in them.

geneva@Numbers:20:14 @ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of (note:)Because Jacob or Israel was Esau's brother, who was called Edom.(:note) Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

geneva@Numbers:20:17 @ I pray thee that we may passe through thy countrey: we will not goe through the fieldes nor the vineyardes, neither will we drinke of the water of the welles: we will goe by the kings way, and neither turne vnto the right hand nor to the left, vntill we be past thy borders.

geneva@Numbers:20:18 @ And Edom answered him, Thou shalt not passe by mee, least I come out against thee with the sword.

geneva@Numbers:20:21 @ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel (note:)To pass by another way.(:note) turned away from him.

geneva@Numbers:20:23 @ And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and to Aaron in the mount Hor neere the coast of the land of Edom, saying,

geneva@Numbers:20:27 @ And Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went vp into the mount Hor, in the sight of all the Congregation.

geneva@Numbers:20:29 @ When al the Congregation sawe that Aaron was dead, al the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirtie dayes.

geneva@Numbers:21:4 @ And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to (note:)For they were forbidden to destroy it, (Deu_2:5).(:note) compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

geneva@Numbers:21:8 @ And the Lord said vnto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it vp for a signe, that as many as are bitten, may looke vpon it, and liue.

geneva@Numbers:21:9 @ So Moses made a serpent of brasse, and set it vp for a signe: and when a serpent had bitten a man, then he looked to the serpent of brasse, and liued.

geneva@Numbers:21:11 @ And they departed from Oboth, & pitched in lie-abarim, in the wildernesse, which is before Moab on the Eastside.

geneva@Numbers:21:13 @ Thence they departed, & pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wildernesse, and commeth out of the coasts of the Amorites: (for Arnon is the border of Moab, betweene the Moabites and the Amorites)

geneva@Numbers:21:14 @ Wherefore it is said in the (note:)Which seems to be the book of the Judges, or as some think, a book which is lost.(:note) book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

geneva@Numbers:21:16 @ And from thence they turned to Beer: the same is the well where the Lord said vnto Moses, Assemble the people, and I wil giue them water.

geneva@Numbers:21:18 @ The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by [the direction of] the (note:)Only Moses and Aaron, the heads of the people, struck the rock with the rod or staff, which gave water as a well that was deep digged.(:note) lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah:

geneva@Numbers:21:22 @ Let me goe through thy land: we wil not turne aside into the fieldes, nor into the vineyardes, neither drinke of the waters of ye welles: we will goe by the kings way, vntill we be past thy countrey.

geneva@Numbers:21:23 @ But Sihon gaue Israel no licence to passe through his countrey, but Sihon assembled all his people, and went out against Israel into the wildernesse: and he came to Iahoz, and fought against Israel.

geneva@Numbers:21:24 @ And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto (note:)The river.(:note) Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon [was] For the people were tall and strong like giants; (Deu_2:20). strong.

geneva@Numbers:21:26 @ For (note:)For if it had been the Moabites, the Israelites might not have possessed it, (Deu_2:9).(:note) Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

geneva@Numbers:21:29 @ Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of (note:)Chemosh was the idol of the Moabites, (1Ki_11:33) who was not able to defend his worshippers, who took the idol for their father.(:note) Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

geneva@Numbers:21:33 @ And they turned and went vp toward Bashan: and Og the King of Bashan came out against them, hee, and all his people, to fight at Edrei.

geneva@Numbers:21:34 @ Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Feare him not: for I haue deliuered him into thine hand and all his people, and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou diddest vnto Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

geneva@Numbers:21:35 @ They smote him therefore, and his sonnes, and all his people, vntill there was none left him: so they conquered his land.

geneva@Numbers:22:1 @ And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on (note:)Being at Jericho, it was beyond the Jordan, but where the Israelites were, it was on this side.(:note) this side Jordan [by] Jericho.

geneva@Numbers:22:4 @ And Moab said unto the (note:)Who were the heads and governors.(:note) elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all [that are] round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor [was] king of the Moabites at that time.

geneva@Numbers:22:8 @ And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and (note:)Whom before he called elders: meaning the governors, and later calls them servants: that is, subjects to their king.(:note) the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

geneva@Numbers:22:19 @ Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me (note:)Because he tempted God to require him contrary to his commandment, his petition was granted, but it turned to his own condemnation.(:note) more.

geneva@Numbers:22:21 @ So Balaam rose vp early, and sadled his asse, and went with the princes of Moab.

geneva@Numbers:22:22 @ And God's anger was kindled because he (note:)Moved rather with covetousness than to obey God.(:note) went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants [were] with him.

geneva@Numbers:22:23 @ And when the asse saw the Angel of the Lord stand in the way, and his sworde drawen in his hand, the asse turned out of the way and went into the field, but Balaam smote the asse, to turne her into the way.

geneva@Numbers:22:25 @ And when the asse sawe the Angel of the Lord, she thrust her selfe vnto the wall, and dasht Balaams foote against the wall: wherefore hee smote her againe.

geneva@Numbers:22:26 @ Then the Angel of the Lord went further, & stoode in a narowe place, where was no way to turne, either to the right hand, or to the left.

geneva@Numbers:22:27 @ And when the asse sawe the Angell of the Lorde, she lay downe vnder Balaam: therefore Balaam was very wroth, and smote the asse with a staffe.

geneva@Numbers:22:28 @ And the LORD (note:)Gave her power to speak.(:note) opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

geneva@Numbers:22:29 @ And Balaam saide vnto the asse, Because thou hast mocked me: I woulde there were a sworde in mine hand, for nowe would I kill thee.

geneva@Numbers:22:30 @ And the ass said unto Balaam, [Am] not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever (note:)Since you have been my master.(:note) since [I was] thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.

geneva@Numbers:22:32 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because [thy] (note:)Both your heart is corrupt and your enterprise wicked.(:note) way is perverse before me:

geneva@Numbers:22:33 @ But the asse sawe me, and turned fro me now three times: for els, if she had not turned fro me, surely I had euen nowe slaine thee, and saued her aliue.

geneva@Numbers:22:34 @ Then Balaam saide vnto the Angel of the Lorde, I haue sinned: for I wist not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore if it displease thee, I will turne home againe.

geneva@Numbers:22:35 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the (note:)Because his heart was evil, his charge was renewed, that he should not pretend ignorance.(:note) word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

geneva@Numbers:22:36 @ And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which [is] in the (note:)Near the place where the Israelites camped.(:note) border of Arnon, which [is] in the utmost coast.

geneva@Numbers:22:41 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of (note:)Where the idol Baal was worshipped.(:note) Baal, that thence he might see the utmost [part] of the people.

geneva@Numbers:23:2 @ And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and (note:)For among the Gentiles the kings often used to sacrifice, as did the priests.(:note) Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.

geneva@Numbers:23:7 @ And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacob, and come, (note:)Cause everyone to hate and detest them.(:note) defy Israel.

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

geneva@Numbers:23:11 @ Then Balak saide vnto Balaam, What hast thou done vnto mee? I tooke thee to curse mine enemies, and beholde, thou hast blessed them altogether.

geneva@Numbers:23:21 @ He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God [is] with him, and the (note:)They triumph as victorious kings over their enemies.(:note) shout of a king [is] among them.

geneva@Numbers:23:22 @ God brought them out of Egypt: their strength is as an vnicorne.

geneva@Numbers:23:24 @ Behold, the people shal rise vp as a lyon, & lift vp himselfe as a yong lyon: hee shall not lye downe, till he eate of the pray, and till he drinke the blood of the slayne.

geneva@Numbers:23:27 @ And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another (note:)Thus the wicked imagine of God that what he will not grant in one place, he will do in another.(:note) place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

geneva@Numbers:23:30 @ And Balak did as Balaam had sayd, and offred a bullocke and a ram on euery altar.

geneva@Numbers:24:1 @ And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the (note:)Where the Israelites camped.(:note) wilderness.

geneva@Numbers:24:4 @ He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, (note:)Though he lay as in a sleep, yet the eyes of his mind were open.(:note) falling [into a trance], but having his eyes open:

geneva@Numbers:24:6 @ As the valleis, are they stretched forth, as gardes by the riuers side, as the aloe trees, which the Lorde hath planted, as the cedars beside the waters.

geneva@Numbers:24:7 @ He shall pour the (note:)His prosperity and posterity will be very great.(:note) water out of his buckets, and his seed [shall be] in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Which name was common to the kings of Amalek. Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

geneva@Numbers:24:8 @ God brought him out of Egypt: his strength shalbe as an vnicorne: he shal eate the nations his enemies, and bruise their bones, & shoote them through with his arrowes.

geneva@Numbers:24:9 @ He coucheth and lieth downe as a yong lion, and as a lion: who shall stirre him vp? blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

geneva@Numbers:24:10 @ And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he (note:)In token of anger.(:note) smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed [them] these three times.

geneva@Numbers:24:13 @ If Balak would giue me his house ful of siluer and gold, I can not passe the commandement of the Lorde, to doe either good or bad of mine owne minde? what the Lord shall commaunde, the same will I speake.

geneva@Numbers:24:20 @ And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek [was] the (note:)The Amalekites first made war against Israel, (Num_14:45).(:note) first of the nations; but his latter end [shall be] that he perish for ever.

geneva@Numbers:24:21 @ And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou (note:)Make yourself as strong as you can.(:note) puttest thy nest in a rock.

geneva@Numbers:24:22 @ Neuerthelesse, the Kenite shalbe spoyled vntill Asshur cary thee away captiue.

geneva@Numbers:24:23 @ And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, (note:)Some read, Oh who shall not perish when the enemy (that is, Antichrist) shall set himself up as God?(:note) who shall live when God doeth this!

geneva@Numbers:24:24 @ And ships [shall come] from the coast of (note:)The Grecians and Romans.(:note) Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and Meaning, Eber, or the Jews for rebelling against God. he also shall perish for ever.

geneva@Numbers:25:3 @ And Israel (note:)Worshipped the idol of the Moabites, which was in the hill Peor.(:note) joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

geneva@Numbers:25:7 @ And when Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest sawe it, hee rose vp from the middes of the Congregation, & tooke a speare in his hand,

geneva@Numbers:25:8 @ And followed ye man of Israel into the tent, and thrust them both through: to wit, the man of Israel, and the woman, through her belly: so the plague ceased from the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:25:11 @ Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he (note:)He was zealous to maintain my glory.(:note) was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

geneva@Numbers:25:13 @ And he shall have it, and his seed after him, [even] the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an (note:)He has pacified God's wrath.(:note) atonement for the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:25:14 @ And the name of the Israelite thus slayne, which was killed with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri the sonne of Salu, prince of the familie of the Simeonites.

geneva@Numbers:25:15 @ And the name of the Midianitish woman, that was slayne, was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was head ouer the people of his fathers house in Midian.

geneva@Numbers:25:18 @ For they vex you with their (note:)Causing you to commit both corporal and spiritual fornication by Balaam's counsel, (Num_31:16; Rev_2:14).(:note) wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.

geneva@Numbers:26:1 @ And it came to pass after the (note:)Which came because of their whoredom and idolatry.(:note) plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

geneva@Numbers:26:4 @ From twentie yeere olde and aboue ye shall nomber the people, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and the childre of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Numbers:26:9 @ And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This [is that] Dathan and Abiram, [which were] famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the (note:)In that rebellion of which Korah was head.(:note) company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:

geneva@Numbers:26:10 @ And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they (note:)That is, as an example that others should not complain and rebel against God's ministers.(:note) became a sign.

geneva@Numbers:26:24 @ Of Iashub the familie of the Iashubites: of Shimron, the familie of the Shimronites.

geneva@Numbers:26:28 @ The sonnes of Ioseph, after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.

geneva@Numbers:26:29 @ The sonnes of Manasseh were: of Machir, the familie of the Machirites: and Machir begate Gilead: of Gilead came the familie of the Gileadites.

geneva@Numbers:26:31 @ Of Asriel, the familie of the Asrielites: of Shechem, the familie of Shichmites.

geneva@Numbers:26:34 @ These are the families of Manasseh, & the nomber of them, two and fiftie thousand and seuen hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:26:38 @ These are the sonnes of Beniamin after their families: of Bela came the familie of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the familie of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the familie of the Ahiramites:

geneva@Numbers:26:44 @ The sonnes of Asher after their families were: of Iimnah, the familie of the Iimnites: of Isui, the familie of the Isuites: of Beriah, the familie of the Berijtes.

geneva@Numbers:26:46 @ And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.

geneva@Numbers:26:47 @ These are the families of the sonnes of Asher after their nombers, three and fifty thousand and foure hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:26:59 @ And Amrams wife was called Iochebed the daughter of Leui, which was borne vnto Leui in Egypt: and she bare vnto Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

geneva@Numbers:26:62 @ And their nombers were three and twentie thousand, all males from a moneth old and aboue: for they were not nombred among the children of Israel, because there was none inheritance giuen them among the children of Israel.

geneva@Numbers:26:64 @ But among these there was not a man of them (note:)In which appears the great power of God, that so wonderfully increased his people.(:note) whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

geneva@Numbers:26:65 @ For the Lorde said of them, They shall die in the wildernes: so there was not left a man of them, saue Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun.

geneva@Numbers:27:1 @ Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the sonne of Hepher, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh, of the familie of Manasseh, the sonne of Ioseph (and the names of his daughters were these, Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah)

geneva@Numbers:27:2 @ And stoode before Moses, and before Eleazar the Priest, and before the Princes, and all the assemblie, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, saying,

geneva@Numbers:27:3 @ Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own (note:)According as all men die, for as much as they are sinners.(:note) sin, and had no sons.

geneva@Numbers:27:5 @ And Moses brought their (note:)That is, their matter to be judged, to know what he should determine, as he did all hard matters.(:note) cause before the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:27:11 @ And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of (note:)Meaning, an ordinance to judge by.(:note) judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:27:13 @ And when thou hast seene it, thou shalt be gathered vnto thy people also, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

geneva@Numbers:27:14 @ For ye were disobedient vnto my worde in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the assemblie, to sanctifie me in the waters before their eyes. That is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin.

geneva@Numbers:27:16 @ Let the LORD, the God of the (note:)Who as he has created, so he governs the hearts of all men.(:note) spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

geneva@Numbers:27:17 @ Which may (note:)That is, govern them and do his duty, as in (2Ch_1:10).(:note) go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

geneva@Numbers:27:20 @ And thou shalt (note:)Commend him to the people as suitable for the office and appointed by God.(:note) put [some] of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

geneva@Numbers:27:21 @ And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask [counsel] for him after the (note:)According to his office: signifying that the civil magistrate could execute nothing but that which he knew to be the will of God.(:note) judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, [both] he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.

geneva@Numbers:27:22 @ So Moses did as the Lord had commanded him, and he tooke Ioshua, and set him before Eleazar the Priest, & before all the Congregation.

geneva@Numbers:27:23 @ And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a (note:)How he should govern himself in his office.(:note) charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Numbers:28:2 @ Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, [and] (note:)By bread he means all manner of sacrifice.(:note) my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, [for] a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

geneva@Numbers:28:6 @ This shalbe a daily burnt offering, as was made in the mount Sinai for a sweete sauour: it is a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lord.

geneva@Numbers:28:8 @ And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer [it], (note:)The meat offering and drink offering of the evening sacrifice.(:note) a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:28:9 @ And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two (note:)Of the measure ephah.(:note) tenth deals of flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:

geneva@Numbers:28:10 @ [This is] the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the (note:)Which was offered every day at morning and evening.(:note) continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

geneva@Numbers:28:16 @ Also the fourtenth day of the first moneth is the Passeouer of the Lord.

geneva@Numbers:28:17 @ And in ye fiftenth day of the same moneth is the feast: seuen dayes shall vnleauened bread be eaten.

geneva@Numbers:28:18 @ In the first day [shall be] an holy (note:)Or, solemn assembly.(:note) convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work [therein]:

geneva@Numbers:28:26 @ Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your (note:)In counting seven weeks from the Passover to Whit Sunday, as in (Lev_23:15).(:note) weeks [be out], ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:

geneva@Numbers:29:7 @ And ye shall have on the tenth [day] of this seventh month an holy (note:)Which is the feast of reconciliation.(:note) convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work [therein]:

geneva@Numbers:29:12 @ And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy (note:)Meaning, the feast of the tabernacles.(:note) convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:

geneva@Numbers:29:35 @ In the eight day, yee shall haue a solemne assemblie: yee shall doe no seruile worke therein,

geneva@Numbers:29:39 @ These [things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your (note:)Beside the sacrifices that you will vow or offer of your own minds.(:note) vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.

geneva@Numbers:30:14 @ But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from (note:)And warn her not the same day that he hears it, as in (Num_30:8).(:note) day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which [are] upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard [them].

geneva@Numbers:31:3 @ And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go (note:)As he had commanded in (Num_25:17), declaring also that the injury done against his people is done against him.(:note) against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.

geneva@Numbers:31:6 @ And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every] tribe, them and (note:)For his great zeal that he bare for the Lord, (Num_25:13).(:note) Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

geneva@Numbers:31:7 @ And they warred against Midian, as the Lorde had commaunded Moses, and slue all the males.

geneva@Numbers:31:11 @ And they tooke all the spoyle and all the pray both of men and beastes.

geneva@Numbers:31:12 @ And they brought the (note:)As the women and little children.(:note) captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which [are] by Jordan [near] Jericho.

geneva@Numbers:31:14 @ And Moses was angry with the captaines of the hoste, with the captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, which came from the warre and battel.

geneva@Numbers:31:15 @ And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the (note:)As though he said, you should have spared none.(:note) women alive?

geneva@Numbers:31:16 @ Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD (note:)For worshipping of Peor.(:note) in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:31:22 @ As for gold, and siluer, brasse, yron, tynne, and lead:

geneva@Numbers:31:23 @ Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be (note:)The third day and before it is molten.(:note) purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the It shall be washed. water.

geneva@Numbers:31:24 @ Ye shal wash also your clothes the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane: and afterward ye shal come into the Hoste.

geneva@Numbers:31:26 @ Take the summe of the praie that was taken, both of persons and of cattell, thou and Eleazar the Priest, and the chiefe fathers of the Congregation.

geneva@Numbers:31:28 @ And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the (note:)Of the prey that falls to the soldiers.(:note) men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:

geneva@Numbers:31:29 @ Yee shall take it of their halfe and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest, as an heaue offring of the Lorde.

geneva@Numbers:31:30 @ And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take (note:)The Israelites who had not been at war, of every fiftieth paid one to the Lord: and the soldiers one of every five hundred.(:note) one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:31:31 @ And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:31:32 @ And the bootie, to wit, the rest of the praie which the men of warre had spoyled, was sixe hundreth seuentie and fiue thousand sheepe,

geneva@Numbers:31:34 @ And three score and one thousand asses,

geneva@Numbers:31:36 @ And the halfe, to wit, the part of them that went out to warre touching the nomber of sheepe, was three hundreth seuen and thirtie thousand, and fiue hundreth.

geneva@Numbers:31:37 @ And the (note:)This is the portion that the soldiers gave to the Lord.(:note) LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

geneva@Numbers:31:38 @ And the beeues were six & thirty thousad, whereof the Lordes tribute was seuentie & two.

geneva@Numbers:31:39 @ And the asses were thirtie thousande and fiue hundreth, whereof the Lordes tribute was three score and one:

geneva@Numbers:31:40 @ And (note:)Meaning, of the maids, or virgins who had not slept with a man.(:note) the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] thirty and two persons.

geneva@Numbers:31:41 @ And Moses gaue the tribute of the Lordes offring vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:31:42 @ And of the children of Israel's (note:)Of that part which was given to them in dividing the spoil.(:note) half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,

geneva@Numbers:31:43 @ (For the halfe that perteined vnto the Congregation, was three hundreth thirtie and seuen thousand sheepe and fiue hundreth,

geneva@Numbers:31:45 @ And thirtie thousand asses, & fiue hudreth,

geneva@Numbers:31:47 @ Even of the (note:)Which had not been at war.(:note) children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, [both] of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Numbers:31:52 @ And all the golde of the offring that they offered vp to the Lorde (of the captaines ouer thousands and hundreds) was sixteene thousande seuen hundreth and fiftie shekels,

geneva@Numbers:32:1 @ Now the children of (note:)Reuben came from Leah, and Gad from Zilpah her handmaid.(:note) Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Which was named for the heap of stones that Jacob made as a sign of the covenant between him and Laban in (Gen_31:47). Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;

geneva@Numbers:32:10 @ And the Lordes wrath was kindled the same day, and he did sweare, saying,

geneva@Numbers:32:13 @ And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done (note:)Because they complained and would not believe their report, which told the truth concerning the land.(:note) evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

geneva@Numbers:32:14 @ And behold, ye are risen vp in your fathers steade as an encrease of sinfull men, still to augment the fierce wrath of the Lord, toward Israel.

geneva@Numbers:32:15 @ For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and (note:)By your occasion.(:note) ye shall destroy all this people.

geneva@Numbers:32:19 @ Neither wil we inherite with them beyond Iorden and on that side, because our inheritance is fallen to vs on this side Iorden Eastwarde.

geneva@Numbers:32:23 @ But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin (note:)You shall assuredly be punished for your sin.(:note) will find you out.

geneva@Numbers:32:25 @ Then the children of Gad & the children of Reuben spake vnto Moses, saying, Thy seruats will doe as my lorde commandeth:

geneva@Numbers:32:27 @ But thy seruants will goe euery one armed to warre before the Lorde for to fight, as my lorde saith.

geneva@Numbers:32:31 @ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the (note:)This is attributed to the Lord, which his messenger speaks.(:note) LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

geneva@Numbers:32:33 @ And Moses gave unto them, [even] to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the (note:)The Amorites dwelled on both sides of Jordan: but here he makes mention of them that dwelt on this side: (Jos_10:12) he speaks of them that inhabited beyond Jordan.(:note) Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, [even] the cities of the country round about.

geneva@Numbers:32:39 @ And the children of Machir the sonne of Manasseh went to Gilead, and tooke it, and put out the Amorites that dwelt therein.

geneva@Numbers:32:40 @ Then Moses gaue Gilead vnto Machir the sonne of Manasseh, and he dwelt therein.

geneva@Numbers:32:41 @ And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them (note:)That is the villages of Jair.(:note) Havothjair.

geneva@Numbers:33:3 @ Nowe they departed from Rameses the first moneth, euen the fifteenth day of the first moneth, on the morowe after the Passeouer: and the children of Israel went out with an hie hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

geneva@Numbers:33:14 @ And they remoued from Alush, and lay in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drinke.

geneva@Numbers:33:29 @ And they went from Mithkah, and pitched in Hashmonah.

geneva@Numbers:33:30 @ And they departed from Hashmonah, and lay in Moseroth.

geneva@Numbers:33:39 @ And Aaron was an hundreth, and three and twentie yeere olde, when hee dyed in mount Hor.

geneva@Numbers:33:56 @ Moreouer, it shal come to passe, that I shal doe vnto you, as I thought to do vnto them.

geneva@Numbers:34:2 @ Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this [is] the (note:)Meaning, the description of the land.(:note) land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, [even] the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)

geneva@Numbers:34:3 @ And your Southquarter shalbe from the wildernesse of Zin to the borders of Edom: so that your Southquarter shall be from the salt Sea coast Eastwarde:

geneva@Numbers:34:4 @ And the border shall compasse you from the South to Maaleh-akrabbim, and reach to Zin, and goe out from the South to Kadesh-barnea: thence it shal stretch to Hazar-addar, & go along to Azmon.

geneva@Numbers:34:5 @ And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the (note:)Which was Nilus, or as some think Rhinocotura.(:note) river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.

geneva@Numbers:34:6 @ And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the (note:)Which is called the Mediterranean.(:note) great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

geneva@Numbers:34:8 @ From mount Hor ye shall point out till it come vnto Hamath, and the end of the coast shal be at Zedad.

geneva@Numbers:34:9 @ And the coast shall reach out to Ziphron, & goe out at Hazar-enan. this shalbe your Northquarter.

geneva@Numbers:34:10 @ And ye shall marke out your Eastquarter from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

geneva@Numbers:34:11 @ And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of (note:)Which in the Gospel is called the lake of Gennesaret.(:note) Chinnereth eastward:

geneva@Numbers:34:12 @ Also that border shall goe downe to Iorden, & leaue at the salt Sea. this shalbe your land with the coastes thereof round about.

geneva@Numbers:34:14 @ For the tribe of the children of Reuben, according to the housholdes of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad, according to their fathers housholdes, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh, haue receiued their inheritance.

geneva@Numbers:34:15 @ Two tribes and an halfe tribe haue receiued their inheritance on this side of Iorden toward Iericho full East.

geneva@Numbers:34:23 @ Of the sonnes of Ioseph: of the tribe of the sonnes of Manasseh, the prince Hanniel the sonne of Ephod.

geneva@Numbers:34:27 @ Of the tribe also of the sonnes of Asher, the prince Ahihud, the sonne of Shelomi.

geneva@Numbers:35:2 @ Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the (note:)Because they had no inheritance assigned them in the land of Canaan.(:note) Levites of the inheritance of their possession God would have them scattered through all the land, because the people might be preserved by them in the obedience of God and his Law. cities to dwell in; and ye shall give [also] unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.

geneva@Numbers:35:3 @ So they shall haue the cities to dwell in, & their suburbes shall be for their cattell, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

geneva@Numbers:35:5 @ And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side (note:)So that in all were three thousand, and in the compass of these two thousand, they might plant and sow.(:note) two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city [shall be] in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

geneva@Numbers:35:14 @ Ye shall give three cities (note:)Among the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, (Deu_4:41).(:note) on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, [which] shall be cities of refuge.

geneva@Numbers:35:22 @ But if he pusshed him vnaduisedly, and not of hatred, or cast vpon him any thing, without laying of waite,

geneva@Numbers:35:23 @ Or any stone (whereby he might be slaine) and sawe him not, or caused it to fall vpon him, and he die, and was not his enemie, neither sought him any harme,

geneva@Numbers:35:25 @ And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the (note:)Under this figure is declared, that our sins could not be remitted, but by the death of the high Priest Jesus Christ.(:note) high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

geneva@Numbers:35:26 @ But if the slayer come without the borders of the citie of his refuge, whither he was fled,

geneva@Numbers:36:1 @ And the (note:)It seems that the tribes contended who might marry these daughters to have their inheritance: and therefore the sons of Joseph proposed the matter to Moses.(:note) chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

geneva@Numbers:36:2 @ And they said, The LORD commanded (note:)Meaning Moses.(:note) my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

geneva@Numbers:36:5 @ And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said (note:)For the tribe could not have continued, if the inheritance which was the maintenance of it should have been alienated to others.(:note) well.

geneva@Numbers:36:10 @ As the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.

geneva@Numbers:36:12 @ They were wiues to certaine of the families of the sonnes of Manasseh the sonne of Ioseph: so their inheritance remained in the tribe of the familie of their father.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:1 @ These [be] the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on (note:)In the country of Moab.(:note) this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain So that the wilderness was between the sea and the plain of Moab. over against the Red [sea], between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is actively set forth in this book. Even through their ingratitude and many rebellions against God, for the space forty years. (Deu_9:7) they deserved to have been cut off from the number of his people, and forever to have been deprived of the use of his holy word and ordinances: yet he ever preserved his Church even for his own mercy's sake, and would still have his name called upon among them. Wherefore he brings them into the land of Canaan, destroys their enemies, gives them their country, towns and goods, and exhorts them by the example of their fathers (whose infidelity, idolatry, adulteries, complaining and rebellions, he had most severely punished) to fear and obey the Lord, to embrace and keep his law without adding to it or diminishing from it. For by his word he would be known to be their God, and they his people, by his word he would govern his Church, and by the same they would learn to obey him: by his word he would discern the false prophet from the true, light form darkness, ignorance from knowledge, and his own people from all the other nations and infidels: teaching them by it to refuse and detest, destroy and abolish whatever is not agreeable to his holy will, seem it otherwise never so good or precious in the eyes of man. For this cause God promised to raise up kings and governors, for the setting forth of his word and preservation of his Church: giving to them a special charge for the executing of it: whom therefore he wills to exercise themselves diligently in the continual study and meditation of the same: that they might learn to fear the Lord, love their subjects, abhor covetousness and vices, and whatever offends the majesty of God. As he had before instructed their fathers in all things belonging both to his spiritual service and also for the maintenance of that society which is between men: so he prescribes here anew all such laws and ordinances, which either concern his divine service, or else are necessary for a common good: appointing to every estate and degree their charge and duty: as well, how to rule and live in the fear of God, as to nourish friendship toward their neighbours, and to preserve the order which God has established among men: threatening most horrible plagues to them that transgress his commandments, and promising blessings and happiness to those who observe and obey them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:2 @ ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from (note:)In Horeb, or Sinai, forty years before the law was given: but because all that were then of age and judgment were now dead, Moses repeats the same to the youth who either then were not born, or had not judgment.(:note) Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:3 @ And it came to passe in the first day of the eleuenth moneth, in the fourtieth yeere that Moses spake vnto the children of Israel according vnto all that the Lord had giuen him in commandement vnto them,

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:4 @ After he had slain (note:)By these examples of God's favour, their minds are prepared to receive the law.(:note) Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:10 @ The LORD your God hath (note:)Not so much by the course of nature, as miraculously.(:note) multiplied you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:11 @ (The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you, as he hath promised you)

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:14 @ Then ye answered me and said, The thing is good that thou hast commanded vs to doe.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:17 @ Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is] (note:)You are his Lieutenants.(:note) God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:19 @ Then we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wildernesse (as yee haue seene) by the way of the mountaine of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commaunded vs: and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:20 @ And (note:)So that the fault was in themselves, that they did not sooner possess the inheritance promised.(:note) I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:21 @ Beholde, the Lord thy God hath layde the land before thee: go vp and possesse it, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath saide vnto thee: feare not, neither be discouraged.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:23 @ So the saying pleased me well, and I tooke twelue men of you, of euery tribe one.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:27 @ And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD (note:)Such was the Jews unthankfulness, that they counted God's special love, hatred.(:note) hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:31 @ And in the wildernesse, where thou hast seene how the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doeth beare his sonne, in all the way which ye haue gone, vntill ye came vnto this place.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:34 @ Then the Lorde heard the voyce of your wordes, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:37 @ Also the Lorde was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not goe in thither,

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:40 @ But as for you, turne backe, and take your iourney into the wildernesse by the way of the red Sea.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:42 @ And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I [am] (note:)Signifying that man has no strength, but when God is at hand to help him.(:note) not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

geneva@Deuteronomy:1:44 @ Then the Amorites which dwelt in that mountaine came out against you, and chased you (as bees vse to doe) and destroied you in Seir, euen vnto Hormah.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:1 @ Then (note:)They obeyed, after God had chastised them.(:note) we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir Eight and thirty years, as in (Deu_2:14). many days.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:3 @ Ye haue compassed this mountaine long ynough: turne you Northward.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:4 @ And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through the (note:)This was the second time, before they had caused the Israelites to return, (Num_20:21).(:note) coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:5 @ Ye shall not prouoke them: for I wil not giue you of their land so much as a foot breadth, because I haue giuen mount Seir vnto Esau for a possession.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:7 @ For the LORD thy God hath (note:)And given you means, with which you may make recompence: also God will direct you by his providence, as he has done.(:note) blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:10 @ The (note:)Signifying that as these giants were driven out for their sins: so the wicked when their sins are ripe, cannot avoid God's plagues.(:note) Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:11 @ They also were taken for gyants as the Anakims: whom the Moabites call Emims.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:12 @ The Horims also dwelt in Seir before time, whome the children of Esau chased out and destroyed them before them, and dwelt in their steade: as Israel shall doe vnto the land of his possession, which the Lord hath giuen them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:14 @ And the (note:)He shows by this, that as God is true in his promise, so his threatenings are not in vain.(:note) space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:15 @ For indeed the (note:)His plague and punishment to destroy all that were twenty years old and above.(:note) hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:18 @ Thou shalt goe through Ar the coast of Moab this day:

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:20 @ (That also was accounted a land (note:)Who called themselves Rephaims: that is, preservers, or physicians to heal and reform vices: but were indeed Zamzummims, that is, wicked and abominable.(:note) of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:21 @ A people that was great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: but the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them in their inheritance, and dwelt in their stead:

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:22 @ As he did to the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims before them, and they possessed them, and dwelt in their stead vnto this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:24 @ Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the (note:)According to his promise made to Abraham, (Gen_15:16).(:note) Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess [it], and contend with him in battle.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:27 @ Let me passe through thy land: I will go by the hie way: I will neither turne vnto the right hand nor to the left.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:29 @ (As the (note:)Because neither intreaty nor examples or others could move him, he could not complain of his just destruction.(:note) children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:30 @ But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God (note:)God in his election and reprobation not only appoints the ends, but the means tending to the same.(:note) hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as [appeareth] this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:2:36 @ From Aroer, which is by the banke of the riuer of Arnon, and from the citie that is vpon the riuer, euen vnto Gilead: there was not one citie that escaped vs: for the Lorde our God deliuered vp all before vs.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:1 @ Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan (note:)Therefore aside from the commandment of the Lord, they had just cause to fight against him.(:note) came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:2 @ And the Lorde sayde vnto me, Feare him not, for I will deliuer him, and all his people, and his land into thine hand, and thou shalt doe vnto him as thou diddest vnto Sihon King of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:3 @ So the Lorde our God deliuered also vnto our hand, Og the King of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him, vntill none was left him aliue,

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:4 @ And we tooke all his cities the same time, neither was there a citie which we tooke not from them, euen three score cities, and all ye countrey of Argob, the kingdome of Og in Bashan.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:5 @ All these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside (note:)As villages and small towns.(:note) unwalled towns a great many.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:6 @ And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, (note:)Because this was God's appointment, therefore it may not be judged cruel.(:note) women, and children, of every city.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:8 @ Thus we tooke at that time out of the hand of two Kings of the Amorites, the land that was on this side Iorden from the riuer of Arnon vnto mount Hermon:

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:10 @ All the cities of the plaine, and all Gilead, and all Bashan vnto Salchah, and Edrei, cities of the kingdome of Og in Bashan.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:11 @ For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his (note:)The more terrible this giant was, the greater reason they had to glorify God for the victory.(:note) bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:13 @ And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdome of Og, gaue I vnto the halfe tribe of Manasseh: euen all the countrey of Argob with all Bashan, which is called, The land of gyants.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:14 @ Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto (note:)Meaning, when he wrote this history.(:note) this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:17 @ The plaine also and Iorden, and the borders from Chinnereth euen vnto the Sea of the plaine, to wit, the salt Sea vnder the springs of Pisgah Eastwarde.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:18 @ And I commanded (note:)That is, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half Manasseh, as in (Num_32:32).(:note) you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all [that are] meet for the war.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:20 @ Vntill the Lorde haue giuen rest vnto your brethren as vnto you, and that they also possesse the lande, which the Lorde your God hath giuen them beyond Iorden: then shall ye returne euery man vnto his possession, which I haue giuen you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:21 @ And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the (note:)So that the victories did not come by your own wisdom, strength or multitude.(:note) LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:24 @ O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in heaven or in earth, that can (note:)He speaks according to the common and corrupt speech of those who attribute power to idols that only belongs to God.(:note) do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:26 @ But the Lord was angrie with me for your sakes, and would not heare me: and the Lord said vnto me, Let it suffice thee, speake no more vnto me of this matter.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:27 @ Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and (note:)As before he saw by the spirits of prophecy the good mountain which was Zion: so here his eyes were lifted up above the order of nature to behold all the plentiful land of Canaan.(:note) lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:5 @ Behold, I haue taught you ordinances, and lawes, as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should doe euen so within the land whither ye goe to possesse it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:7 @ For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] (note:)Helping us, and delivering us out of all dangers, as in (2Sa_7:23).(:note) nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]?

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:8 @ And what nation is so great, that hath ordinances and lawes so righteous, as all this Lawe, which I set before you this day?

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:11 @ And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain (note:)The law was given with fearful miracles, to declare both that God was the author of it, and also that no flesh was able to abide the rigour of the same.(:note) burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:17 @ The likenes of any beast that is on earth, or the likenesse of any fethered foule that flieth in the aire:

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:19 @ And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath (note:)He has appointed them to serve man.(:note) divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:20 @ But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the (note:)He has delivered you out of most miserable slavery and freely chosen you for his.(:note) iron furnace, [even] out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as [ye are] this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:21 @ And the Lord was angrie with me for your words, and sware that I should not goe ouer Iorden, and that I should not goe in vnto that good land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:22 @ But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but (note:)Moses good affection appears in that while he himself is deprived of such an excellent treasure, he does not envy those who must enjoy it.(:note) ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:23 @ Take heede vnto your selues, least ye forget the couenant of the Lorde your God which hee made with you, and least ye make you any grauen image, or likenes of any thing, as the Lorde thy God hath charged thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:31 @ (For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he (note:)To certify to them even more the assurance of their salvation.(:note) sware unto them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:32 @ For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and (note:)Man's negligence is partially the cause for his ignorance of God.(:note) [ask] from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been [any such thing] as this great thing [is], or hath been heard like it?

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:33 @ Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast heard, and liued?

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:34 @ Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by (note:)By so manifest proofs that none could doubt of it.(:note) temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:35 @ Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest (note:)He shows the reason why God did these miracles.(:note) know that the LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:38 @ To thrust out nations greater and mightier then thou, before thee, to bring thee in, and to giue thee their land for inheritance: as appeareth this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:40 @ Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may (note:)God promises reward not for our merits, but to encourage us, and to assure us that our labour will not be lost.(:note) go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:42 @ That the slayer should flee thither, which had killed his neighbour at vnwares, and hated him not in time past, might flee, I say, vnto one of those cities, and liue:

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:43 @ That is, Bezer in the wildernesse, in the plaine countrey of the Reubenites: and Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites: and Golan in Bashan among them of Manasseh.

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:47 @ And they possessed his land, and the lande of Og King of Bashan, two Kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Iorden towarde the sunne rising:

geneva@Deuteronomy:4:49 @ And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto (note:)That is, the salt sea.(:note) the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:12 @ Keepe the Sabbath day, to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:14 @ But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not doe any worke therein, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruant, nor thy mayd, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, neither any of thy cattel, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruant and thy mayde may rest aswell as thou.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:15 @ For, remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lorde thy God brought thee out thence by a mightie hand and a stretched out arme: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to obserue the Sabbath day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:22 @ These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he (note:)Teaching us by his example to be content with his word, and add nothing to it.(:note) added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:26 @ For what flesh was there euer, that heard the voyce of the liuing God speaking out of the middes of the fire as we haue, and liued?

geneva@Deuteronomy:5:32 @ Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not (note:)You shall neither add nor take away, (Deu_4:2).(:note) turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:3 @ Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, (note:)Which has an abundance of all things needed for man's life.(:note) in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:8 @ And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:11 @ And houses full of all maner of goods which thou filledst not, and welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards & oliue trees which thou plantedst not, and when thou hast eaten and art full,

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:15 @ (For the Lorde thy God is a ielous God among you:) least the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from the face of the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:16 @ Ye shall not (note:)By doubting his power, refusing lawful means, and abusing his graces.(:note) tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:19 @ To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lord hath sayd.

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

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:24 @ Therefore the Lord hath commanded vs, to doe all these ordinances, and to feare the Lord our God, that it may goe euer well with vs, and that he may preserue vs aliue as at this present.

geneva@Deuteronomy:6:25 @ And it shall be our (note:)Because no one can fully obey the law, we must turn to Christ to be justified by faith.(:note) righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:1 @ When the Lorde thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possesse it, and shall roote out many nations before thee: the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, seuen nations greater and mightier then thou,

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

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:13 @ And he wil loue thee, and blesse thee, and multiplie thee: he will also blesse the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy land, thy corne and thy wine, and thine oyle and the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe in the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:15 @ Moreouer, the Lorde will take away from thee all infirmities, and will put none of the euill diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) vpon thee, but wil send them vpon all that hate thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:17 @ If thou say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, how can I cast them out?

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:22 @ And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the (note:)It is to your advantage that God does not accomplish his promise as soon as you would wish.(:note) beasts of the field increase upon thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:24 @ And he shall deliuer their Kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from vnder heauen: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, vntill thou hast destroyed them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:2 @ And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to (note:)Which is declared in afflictions, either by patience, or by grudging against God's visitation.(:note) prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:4 @ Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot (note:)As those that go barefoot.(:note) swell, these forty years.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:5 @ Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God (note:)So that his affliction are signs of his fatherly love toward us.(:note) chasteneth thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:9 @ A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land (note:)Where there are mines of metal.(:note) whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:10 @ When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt (note:)To receive God's benefits and not be thankful, is to despise God in them.(:note) bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:12 @ Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast built goodly houses & dwelt therein,

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:13 @ And thy beastes, and thy sheepe are increased, and thy siluer and golde is multiplied, and all that thou hast is increased,

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:15 @ Who was thy guide in the great and terrible wildernes (wherein were fierie serpents, & scorpions, and drought, where was no water, who brought forth water for thee out of ye rock of flint:

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:17 @ Beware least thou say in thine heart, My power, and the strength of mine owne hand hath prepared me this abundance.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:18 @ But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] he that (note:)If things concerning this life proceed only from God's mercy, how much more do spiritual gifts and everlasting life.(:note) giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:19 @ And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I (note:)Or take to witness the heaven and the earth, as in (Deu_4:26).(:note) testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

geneva@Deuteronomy:8:20 @ As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before you, so ye shall perish, because ye woulde not be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lord your God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:1 @ Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan (note:)Meaning shortly.(:note) this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:2 @ A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast (note:)By the report of the spies. (Num_13:26).(:note) heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Anak!

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:3 @ Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which (note:)To guide you and govern you.(:note) goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:4 @ Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my (note:)Man by himself deserves nothing but God's anger, and if God spares anyone it comes from his great mercy.(:note) righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:5 @ For thou entrest not to inherite their lande for thy righteousnesse, or for thy vpright heart: but for the wickednesse of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might performe the worde which the Lord thy God sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iacob.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:6 @ Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a (note:)Like stubborn oxen who will not endure their masters yoke.(:note) stiffnecked people.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:7 @ Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: (note:)He proves by the length of time, that their rebellion was great and intolerable.(:note) from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:8 @ Also in Horeb ye prouoked the Lorde to anger so that the Lord was wroth with you, euen to destroy you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:9 @ When I was gone vp into the mount, to receiue the tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant, which the Lord made with you: and I abode in the mount fourtie daies & fourtie nights, and I neither ate bread nor yet dranke water:

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:10 @ And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the (note:)That is, miraculously, and not by the hand of men.(:note) finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:12 @ And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have (note:)As soon as man declines from the obedience of God, his ways are corrupt.(:note) corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:16 @ And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the (note:)That is, from the Law: in which he declares what the cause of our punishment is.(:note) way which the LORD had commanded you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:17 @ Therefore I tooke the two Tables, and cast them out of my two handes, and brake them before your eyes.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:18 @ And I fell downe before the Lorde, fourtie dayes, and fourtie nightes, as before: I neither ate bread nor dranke water, because of al your sinnes, which ye had committed, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, in that ye prouoked him vnto wrath.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:19 @ (For I was afraide of the wrath and indignation, wherewith the Lord was mooued against you, euen to destroy you) yet the Lord heard me at that time also.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:20 @ And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have (note:)By which he shows the danger they are in who have authority and do not resist wickedness.(:note) destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:21 @ And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the (note:)Horeb, or Sinai.(:note) mount.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:22 @ Also in Taberah, & in Massah and in Kibrothhattaauah ye prouoked ye Lord to anger.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:25 @ Thus I fell down before the LORD (note:)By which is signified that God requires earnest continuance in prayer.(:note) forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:26 @ And I prayed vnto the Lorde, and saide, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatnesse, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt by a mightie hand.

geneva@Deuteronomy:9:28 @ Lest the countrey, whence thou broughtest them, say, Because ye Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, or because he hated them, he caried them out, to slay them in the wildernesse.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:4 @ And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the (note:)When you were assembled to receive the Law.(:note) assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:5 @ And I departed, and came downe from the Mount, and put the Tables in the Arke which I had made: and there they be, as the Lorde commanded me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:6 @ And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to (note:)This mountain was also called Hor, (Num_20:28).(:note) Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:9 @ Wherefore Levi hath no part nor (note:)So God turned the curse of Jacob to a blessing (Gen_49:7).(:note) inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:10 @ And I taried in the mount, as at ye first time, fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and the Lorde heard me at that time also, and the Lorde would not destroy thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:10:22 @ Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with seuentie persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee, as ye starres of ye heauen in multitude.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:2 @ And (note:)You who have seen God's graces with your eyes should be moved, rather than your children who have only heard of them.(:note) know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:4 @ And what he did vnto the hoste of the Egyptians, vnto their horses, and to their charets, when he caused the waters of the red Sea to ouerflowe them, as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroied them vnto this day:

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:5 @ And (note:)As well concerning his benefits, as his corrections.(:note) what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:8 @ Therefore shall ye keep (note:)Because you have felt both his chastisement and his benefits.(:note) all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:10 @ For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, [is] not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst [it] with thy (note:)By making gutters for the water to come out of the Nile river to water the land.(:note) foot, as a garden of herbs:

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:14 @ That I will give [you] the rain of your land in his due season, (note:)In the seed time, and toward harvest.(:note) the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:15 @ Also I will send grasse in thy fieldes, for thy cattel, that thou maist eate, and haue inough.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:16 @ Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not (note:)By devising foolish devotions according to your own fantasies.(:note) deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:18 @ Therefore shal ye lay vp these my words in your heart and in your soule, and binde them for a signe vpon your hand, that they may be as a frontlet betweene your eyes,

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:21 @ That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as (note:)As long as the heavens and earth endure, (2Pe_3:10, 2Pe_3:12).(:note) the days of heaven upon the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:23 @ Then will the Lorde cast out all these nations before you, and ye shall possesse great nations and mightier then you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:24 @ Every place whereon the soles of (note:)This was accomplished in David and Solomon's time.(:note) your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost The Mediterranean. sea shall your coast be.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:25 @ No man shall stande against you: for the Lorde your God shall cast the feare and dread of you vpon all the land that ye shal treade vpon, as he hath said vnto you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:28 @ And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not (note:)He reproves the malice of men who leave that which is certain to follow that which is uncertain.(:note) known.

geneva@Deuteronomy:11:31 @ For yee shall passe ouer Iorden, to goe in to possesse the land, which ye Lorde your God giueth you, and ye shall possesse it, & dwell therein.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:8 @ Ye shall not do after all [the things] that we do (note:)Not that they sacrificed after their fantasies, but that God would be served more purely in the land of Canaan.(:note) here this day, every man whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:10 @ But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you (note:)It was not enough to conquer unless God maintained them in rest under his protection.(:note) rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:14 @ But in the place which the LORD shall (note:)As was declared ever by the placing of the ark in Shiloh 243 years, or as some write more that 300 years, and in other places till the temple was built.(:note) choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:15 @ Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the (note:)As God has given you power and ability.(:note) blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, Everyone may eat equally at home the beast appointed for sacrifice and the other. as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:16 @ Onely ye shal not eat the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:17 @ Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the (note:)Meaning, whatever was offered to the Lord, may not be eaten, except where he had appointed.(:note) tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:19 @ Beware, that thou forsake not the Leuite, as long as thou liuest vpon the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:20 @ When the Lorde thy God shall enlarge thy border, as hee hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I wil eate flesh, (because thine heart longeth to eate flesh) thou maiest eate flesh, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:21 @ If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his Name there, be farre from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy bullockes, and of thy sheepe which the Lorde hath giuen thee, as I haue commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:22 @ Euen as the roe bucke, and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them. both the vncleane and the cleane shall eate of them alike.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:23 @ Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood (note:)Because the life of beasts is in their blood.(:note) [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:24 @ Therefore thou shalt not eat it, but powre it vpon the earth as water.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:26 @ Only thy (note:)That which you will offer in sacrifice.(:note) holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:1 @ If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of (note:)Who says that he has things revealed to him in dreams.(:note) dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:2 @ And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, (note:)He shows that to which the false prophets tend.(:note) Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:6 @ If (note:)All natural affection must give place to God's honour.(:note) thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own Whom you love as your life. soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:9 @ But thou shalt surely kill him; (note:)As the witness is charged.(:note) thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:11 @ That all Israel may heare and feare, and doe no more any such wickednesse as this among you.

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:14 @ Then shalt (note:)Which are appointed to see faults punished.(:note) thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought among you;

geneva@Deuteronomy:13:17 @ And there shall cleave nought of the (note:)Of the spoil of that idolatrous and cursed city, read (Deu_7:26; Jos_7:11).(:note) cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:6 @ And euery beast that parteth ye hoofe, and cleaueth the clift into two clawes, and is of the beasts that cheweth the cudde, that shall ye eate.

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:21 @ Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that (note:)Because their blood was not shed, but remains in them.(:note) dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the Who is not of your religion. stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:22 @ Thou shalt truly (note:)The tithes were ordained for the maintenance of the Levites, who had no inheritance.(:note) tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:26 @ And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: (note:)After the Priest has received the Lord's part.(:note) and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

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:15:2 @ And this [is] the manner of the release: Every (note:)He shall only release his debtors, who are not able to pay for that year.(:note) creditor that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he shall not exact [it] of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:3 @ Of a stranger thou mayest require it: but that which thou hast with thy brother, thine hand shall remit:

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:6 @ For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, as he hath promised thee: and thou shalt lend vnto many nations, but thou thy selfe shalt not borow, and thou shalt reigne ouer many nations, & they shall not reigne ouer thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:14 @ Thou shalt (note:)In token that you acknowledge the benefit which God has given you by his labours.(:note) furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:15 @ And remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, & the Lord thy God deliuered thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:21 @ But if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or haue any euill fault, thou shalt not offer it vnto the Lord thy God,

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:22 @ Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, (note:)You will eat them, as well as the roe buck and other wild beasts.(:note) as the roebuck, and as the hart.

geneva@Deuteronomy:15:23 @ Onely thou shalt not eate the blood thereof, but powre it vpon the ground as water.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:1 @ Observe the month of (note:)Read (Exo_13:4).(:note) Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:2 @ Thou shalt therefore (note:)You shall eat the Easter lamb.(:note) sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:3 @ Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of (note:)Which signified the affliction which you had in Egypt.(:note) affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:4 @ And there shalbe no leauen seene with thee in all thy coastes seuen dayes long: neither shall there remaine the night any of the flesh vntil the morning which thou offeredst ye first day at euen.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:5 @ Thou mayest (note:)This was chiefly accomplished, when the temple was built.(:note) not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:6 @ But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the (note:)Which was instituted to remind them of their deliverance our of Egypt and to encourage them in the hope of Jesus Christ, of whom this lamb was a figure.(:note) passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:8 @ Six daies shalt thou eate vnleauened bread, and ye seuenth day shall be a solemne assemblie to ye Lord thy God thou shalt do no worke therei n.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:9 @ Seven weeks shalt thou (note:)Beginning the next morning after the Passover, (Lev_23:15; Exo_13:4).(:note) number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:10 @ And thou shalt keepe the feast of weekes vnto the Lord thy God, euen a free gift of thine hand, which thou shalt giue vnto the Lorde thy God, as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:12 @ And thou shalt remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt: therefore thou shalt obserue and doe these ordinances.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:13 @ Thou shalt (note:)That is, the 15th day of the seventh month, (Lev_23:34).(:note) observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:14 @ And thou shalt reioyce in thy feast, thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy seruant, & thy maid, & the Leuite, & the stranger, & the fatherlesse, and the widow, that are wtin thy gates.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:15 @ Seuen daies shalt thou keepe a feast vnto the Lorde thy God in the place which the Lorde shall chuse: when the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all thine increase, and in all the workes of thine hands, thou shalt in any case be glad.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:16 @ Three times in the yeere shall all the males appeare before the Lorde thy God in the place which he shall chuse: in the feast of the vnleauened bread, and in the feast of the weekes, and in the feast of the Tabernacles: and they shall not appeare before the Lord emptie.

geneva@Deuteronomy:16:17 @ Every man [shall give] as he is (note:)According to the ability that God has given him.(:note) able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:1 @ Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is (note:)You shall not serve God for selfish means as the hypocrites do.(:note) blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:3 @ And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not (note:)By which he condemns all religion and serving of God which God has not commanded.(:note) commanded;

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:4 @ And it be tolde vnto thee, and thou hast heard it, then shalt thou inquire diligently: and if it be true, and the thing certaine, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:9 @ And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the (note:)Who will sentence as the priests counsel him by the Law of God.(:note) judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to (note:)So long as he is the true minister of God, and pronounces according to his word.(:note) minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:14 @ Whe thou shalt come vnto ye land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, and shalt possesse it, and dwell therein, if thou say, I will set a King ouer me, like as all the nations that are about me,

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to (note:)To avenge their injuries and to take their best horses from them; (1Ki_10:28).(:note) Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:20 @ That his heart be not lifted up above his (note:)By which is meant that kings should love their subjects as nature causes one brother to love another.(:note) brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:2 @ Therefore shall they haue no inheritance among their brethren: for the Lorde is their inheritance, as he hath sayd vnto them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:6 @ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with (note:)Meaning, to serve God whole heartedly, and not to seek ease.(:note) all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:7 @ He shall then minister in the Name of the Lorde his God, as all his brethren the Leuites, which remaine there before the Lord.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:10 @ There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to (note:)Signifying they were purged by this ceremony of passing between two fires.(:note) pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:11 @ Or a charmer, or that counselleth with spirits, or a soothsaier, or that asketh counsel at ye dead.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:12 @ For all that doe such things are abomination vnto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lorde thy God doeth cast them out before thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:14 @ For these nations which thou shalt possesse, hearken vnto those that regarde the times, and vnto sorcerers: as for thee, the Lorde thy God hath not suffred thee so.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:16 @ According to al that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assemblie, when thou saidest, Let me heare the voice of my Lorde God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I die not.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:19 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will (note:)By executing punishment on him.(:note) require [it] of him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:18:22 @ When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing (note:)Under this sure note he comprises all the other tokens.(:note) follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:3 @ Thou shalt (note:)Make an open and ready way.(:note) prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every Who killed against his will, and bore no hatred in his heart. slayer may flee thither.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:4 @ This also is ye cause wherfore the manslaier shal flee thither, and liue: who so killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and hated him not in time passed:

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:5 @ As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he (note:)That murder not be committed on murder.(:note) shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:6 @ Least the auenger of the blood followe after the manslaier, while his heart is chafed, and ouertake him, because the way is long, and slaie him, although he be not worthy of death, because he hated him not in time passed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:8 @ And if the LORD thy God (note:)When you go over Jordan to possess the whole land of Canaan.(:note) enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:15 @ One witnes shall not rise against a man for any trespasse, or for any sinne, or for any fault that hee offendeth in, but at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be stablished.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:16 @ If a false witnesse rise vp against a man to accuse him of trespasse,

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:17 @ Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the (note:)God's presence where his true ministers are assembled.(:note) LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:19 @ Then shall yee doe vnto him as hee had thought to doe vnto his brother: so thou shalt take euil away forth of the middes of thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:19:21 @ Therefore thine eye shall have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote.

geneva@Deuteronomy:20:1 @ When (note:)Meaning, upon just occasion: for God does not permit his people to fight every time it seems good to them.(:note) thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Deuteronomy:20:3 @ And shal say vnto them, Heare, O Israel: ye are come this day vnto battell against your enemies: let not your heartes faynt, neither feare, nor be amased, nor adread of them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:20:8 @ And let the officers speake further vnto the people, and say, Whosoeuer is afrayde and faynt hearted, let him go & returne vnto his house, least his brethrens heart faynt like his heart.

geneva@Deuteronomy:20:17 @ But shalt vtterly destroy them: to wit, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, & the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:2 @ Then thine Elders & thy Iudges shal come forth, and measure vnto the cities that are round about him that is slayne.

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:4 @ And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough (note:)That the blood shed of the innocent beasts in a solitary place, might make them abhor the fact.(:note) valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:6 @ And all the Elders of that citie that came neere to the slayne man, shal wash their hands ouer the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:8 @ Be merciful, (note:)This was the prayer, which the priests made in the audience of the people.(:note) O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:11 @ And shalt see among the captiues a beautifull woman, and hast a desire vnto her, & wouldest take her to thy wife,

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:13 @ And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, (note:)As having renounced parents and country.(:note) and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy This was only allowed in the wars, otherwise the Israelites could not marry strangers. wife.

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:14 @ And if thou haue no fauour vnto her, then thou mayest let her go whither she will, but thou shalt not sell her for money, nor make marchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:15 @ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another (note:)This declares that the plurality of wives came from a corrupt affection.(:note) hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:17 @ But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [for] the firstborn, by giving him a (note:)As much as to two of the others.(:note) double portion of all that he hath: for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] Unless he is unworthy, as Reuben, Jacob's son, was. his.

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:18 @ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his (note:)For it is the mother's duty also to instruct her children.(:note) mother, and [that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:21 @ And all the men of his city shall (note:)A death which was also appointed for blasphemers and idolaters: so that to disobey the parents is most horrible.(:note) stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

geneva@Deuteronomy:21:22 @ If a man also haue committed a trespasse worthy of death, and is put to death, & thou hangest him on a tree,

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:1 @ Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and (note:)As though your did not see it.(:note) hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:3 @ In like manner shalt thou do with his (note:)You are bound to do much more for your neighbour.(:note) ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:4 @ Thou shalt not see thy brothers asse nor his oxe fal downe by the way, and withdrawe thy selfe from them, but shalt lift them vp with him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:9 @ Thou shalt not (note:)The tenor of this law is to walk in simplicity and not to be curious about new fads.(:note) sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:10 @ Thou shalt not plow with an oxe and an asse together.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:11 @ Thou shalt not weare a garment of diuers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:14 @ And give (note:)That is, be an occasion that she is slandered.(:note) occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:17 @ And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the (note:)Meaning, the sheet, in which the signs of her virginity were.(:note) cloth before the elders of the city.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:18 @ Then the Elders of the citie shal take that man and chastise him,

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:19 @ And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father (note:)For the fault of the child becomes the shame of the parents: therefore he was recompensed when she was faultless.(:note) of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:26 @ But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so (note:)Meaning, that the innocent cannot be punished.(:note) [is] this matter:

geneva@Deuteronomy:22:27 @ For he found her in the fieldes: the betrothed mayde cryed, and there was no man to succour her.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:7 @ Thou shalt not abhorre an Edomite: for he is thy brother, neither shalt thou abhorre an Egyptian, because thou wast a strager in his land.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:11 @ But at euen he shall wash him selfe with water, and when the sunne is downe, he shall enter into the hoste.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:13 @ And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and (note:)Meaning by this that his people should be pure both in body and soul.(:note) cover that which cometh from thee:

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:15 @ Thou shalt not (note:)This is meant of the heathen, who fled because of their masters' cruelty, and embrace the true religion.(:note) deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:19 @ Thou shalt not giue to vsurie to thy brother: as vsurie of money, vsurie of meate, vsurie of any thing that is put to vsurie.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:20 @ Unto a (note:)This was permitted for a time because of the hardness of their hearts.(:note) stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may If you show charity to your brother, God will declare his love toward you. bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:23 @ That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt (note:)If the vow is lawful and godly.(:note) keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:23:24 @ When thou comest into (note:)Being hired for labour.(:note) thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any] in thy To bring home to your house. vessel.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:1 @ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: (note:)By this God does not approve light divorcement, but permits it to avoid further inconvenience; (Mat_19:7).(:note) then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:8 @ Take heede of the plague of leprosie, that thou obserue diligently, and doe according to all that the Priestes of the Leuites shall teach you: take heede ye doe as I commanded them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:10 @ When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go (note:)As though you would appoint what to have, but shall receive what be may spare.(:note) into his house to fetch his pledge.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:13 @ In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee (note:)Though he would be unthankful, yet God will not forget it.(:note) before the LORD thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:17 @ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the (note:)Because the world valued these people least, therefore God has most care over them.(:note) stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:18 @ But remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt, and howe the Lorde thy God deliuered thee thence. Therefore I commaund thee to doe this thing.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:19 @ When thou cuttest downe thine haruest in thy fielde, and hast forgotten a sheafe in the fielde, thou shalt not goe againe to fet it, but it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherles, & for the widowe: that the Lorde thy God may blesse thee in all the workes of thine hands.

geneva@Deuteronomy:24:22 @ And thou shalt remember that thou wast (note:)God judged them not mindful of his beasts, unless they were beneficial to others.(:note) a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her (note:)Because the Hebrew word does not signify the natural brother, and the word that signifies a brother, is taken also for a kinsman: it seems that it does not mean that the natural brother should marry his brothers wife, but some other kindred that was in the degree that might marry.(:note) husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:14 @ Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers measures, a great and a small:

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:15 @ But thou shalt haue a right & iust weight: a perfite and a iust measure shalt thou haue, that thy dayes may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:18 @ How he met thee by ye way, & smote ye hindmost of you, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast fainted & weary, & he feared not God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:19 @ Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou shalt blot out the (note:)This was partly accomplished by Saul, about 450 years later.(:note) remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:4 @ Then the Priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, & set it downe before the altar of the Lord thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:5 @ And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A (note:)Meaning, Jacob, who served 20 years in Syria.(:note) Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, Only by God's mercy, and not by their father's deserving. and populous:

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:10 @ And now, behold, I have (note:)In token of a thankful heart, and mindful of this benefit.(:note) brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:12 @ When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tythes of thine increase, the thirde yeere, which is the yeere of tithing, and hast giuen it vnto the Leuite, to the stranger, to the fatherlesse, & to the widowe, that they may eate within thy gates, and be satisfied,

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:13 @ Then thou shalt (note:)Without hypocrisy.(:note) say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [mine] house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not Of malice and contempt. transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:14 @ I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done (note:)As far as my sinful nature would allow: or else as David and Paul say, there is not one just, (Psa_14:3; Rom_3:10).(:note) according to all that thou hast commanded me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:15 @ Looke downe from thine holy habitation, euen from heauen, and blesse thy people Israel, & the lande which thou hast giuen vs (as thou swarest vnto our fathers) the land that floweth with milke and hony.

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:17 @ Thou hast set vp the Lorde this day to be thy God, and to walke in his wayes, and to keepe his ordinances, and his commandements, and his lawes, and to hearken vnto his voyce.

geneva@Deuteronomy:26:19 @ And to make thee high aboue al nations (which he hath made) in praise, & in name, and in glory, & that thou shouldest be an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, as he hath said.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:1 @ And Moses with the elders of Israel (note:)As God's minister and charged with the same.(:note) commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:2 @ And when ye shal passe ouer Iorden vnto the lande which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, thou shalt set thee vp great stones, and playster them with plaister,

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:4 @ Therefore when ye shal passe ouer Iorden, ye shal set vp these stones, which I command you this daye in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:10 @ Thou (note:)This condition has bound you to it, that if you will be his people, you must keep his laws.(:note) shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:12 @ These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and (note:)Meaning, Ephraim and Manasseh.(:note) Joseph, and Benjamin:

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:13 @ And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to (note:)Signifying, that if they would not obey God out of love, they would be made to obey out of fear.(:note) curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

geneva@Deuteronomy:27:21 @ Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: And all the people shal say: So be it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:1 @ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will (note:)He will make you the most excellent of all people.(:note) set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:4 @ Blessed [shall be] the fruit (note:)Your children and succession.(:note) of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:5 @ Blessed shalbe thy basket and thy dough.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:9 @ The Lorde shal make thee an holy people vnto himself, as he hath sworne vnto thee, if thou shalt keepe the commandements of the Lord thy God, and walke in his wayes.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:12 @ The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the (note:)For nothing in the earth is profitable but when God sends his blessings from heaven.(:note) heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:17 @ Cursed shal thy basket be, & thy dough.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:18 @ Cursed shall be the fruite of thy body, and the fruite of thy land, the increase of thy kine, & the flockes of thy sheepe.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:20 @ The Lorde shall sende vpon thee cursing, trouble, & shame, in all that which thou settest thine hand to do, vntil thou be destroyed, and perish quickely, because of the wickednesse of thy workes whereby thou hast forsaken me.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:22 @ The Lorde shall smite thee with a consumption, and with the feuer, and with a burning ague, and with feruent heate, & with the sworde, and with blasting, and with the mildew, & they shal pursue thee vntill thou perish.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:23 @ And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be (note:)It will give you no more moisture than if it were of brass.(:note) brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:24 @ The Lorde shal giue thee for the rayne of thy land, dust & ashes: euen from heauen shal it come downe vpon thee, vntil thou be destroyed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:25 @ The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be (note:)Some read, you shall be a terror and fear, when they hear how God has plagued you.(:note) removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:26 @ And thy (note:)You will be cursed both in your life and in your death: for the burial is a testimony of the resurrection a sign you will lack because of your wickedness.(:note) carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray [them] away.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:28 @ And ye Lorde shal smite thee with madnes, and with blindnes, and with astonying of heart.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:29 @ And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the (note:)In things most evident and clear you will lack discretion and judgment.(:note) blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:31 @ Thine oxe shalbe slayne before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eate thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shalbe giuen vnto thine enemies, and no man shal rescue them for thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:36 @ The LORD shall bring thee, and thy (note:)As he did Manasseh, Joiakim, Zedekiah and others.(:note) king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:38 @ Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:40 @ Thou shalt haue Oliue trees in all thy coastes, but shalt not anoynt thy selfe with the oyle: for thine oliues shall fall.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:49 @ The Lord shall bring a nation vpon thee from farre, euen from the ende of the world, flying swift as an Egle: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not vnderstand:

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:50 @ A nation of a fierce countenance, which will not regarde the person of the olde, nor haue compassion of the yong.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:51 @ The same shall eate the fruit of thy cattell, and the fruite of thy land vntill thou be destroyed, and he shall leaue thee neyther wheate, wine, nor oyle, neither the increase of thy kyne, nor the flockes of thy sheepe, vntill he haue brought thee to nought.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:56 @ The tender and delicate (note:)As came to pass in the days of Joram king of Israel, (2Ki_6:28) and when the Romans besieged Jerusalem.(:note) woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:59 @ The the Lord wil make thy plagues wonderfull, and the plagues of thy seede, euen great plagues and of long continuance, and sore diseases, and of long durance.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:60 @ Moreouer, he will bring vpon thee all the diseases of Egypt, whereof thou wast afraide, and they shall cleaue vnto thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:61 @ Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not (note:)Declaring, that God has infinite means to plague the wicked, besides those that are ordinary or written.(:note) written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:62 @ And ye shall be left few in nomber, where ye were as the starres of heauen in multitude, because thou wouldest not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:63 @ And as the Lord hath reioyced ouer you, to doe you good, and to multiply you, so he will reioyce ouer you, to destroy you, and bring you to nought, and ye shalbe rooted out of the land, whither thou goest to possesse it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:66 @ And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt feare both night and day, and shalt haue none assurance of thy life.

geneva@Deuteronomy:28:68 @ And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with (note:)Because they were unmindful of that miracle, when the sea made room for them to pass through.(:note) ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:1 @ These [are] the (note:)That is, the articles, or conditions.(:note) words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in At the first giving of the law, which was forty years earlier. Horeb.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:7 @ After, ye came vnto this place, and Sihon King of Heshbon, and Og King of Bashan came out against vs vnto battell, and we slewe them,

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:8 @ And tooke their lande, and gaue it for an inheritance vnto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:12 @ That thou shouldest (note:)Alluding to them, that when they made a sure covenant, divided a beast in two, and past between the parts divided, (Gen_15:10).(:note) enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:13 @ For to establish thee this day a people vnto him selfe, and that he may be vnto thee a God, as he hath said vnto thee, and as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:16 @ For ye knowe, how we haue dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed thorowe the middes of the nations, which ye passed by.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:18 @ Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you (note:)Such sin, as the bitter fruit of it might choke and destroy you.(:note) a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:19 @ And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add (note:)For as he that is thirsty desires to drink much so he that follows his appetites seeks by all means and yet cannot be satisfied.(:note) drunkenness to thirst:

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:22 @ So that the (note:)God's plagues on those who rebel against him will be so strong, that all ages will be astonished.(:note) generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:23 @ (For all that land shall burne with brimstone and salt: it shall not be sowen, nor bring forth, nor any grasse shall growe therein, like as in the ouerthrowing of Sodom, and Gomorah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord ouerthrewe in his wrath and in his anger)

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:28 @ And ye Lord hath rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and hath cast them into another land, as appeareth this day.

geneva@Deuteronomy:29:29 @ The (note:)Moses by this proves their curiosity, who seek those things that are only known to God: and their negligence who do not regard that which God has revealed to them, as the law.(:note) secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:1 @ And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt (note:)By calling to mind both his mercies and his plagues.(:note) call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:3 @ Then the Lord thy God wil cause thy captiues to returne, and haue compassion vpon thee, and wil returne, to gather thee out of all the people, where the Lord thy God had scattered thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:9 @ And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again (note:)He does not mean that God is subject to these passions, to rejoice, or to be sad: but he uses this manner of speech to declare the love that he has for us.(:note) rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

geneva@Deuteronomy:30:18 @ I pronounce vnto you this day, that ye shal surely perish, ye shall not prolong your dayes in the lande, whither thou passest ouer Iorden to possesse it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:3 @ The Lord thy God he will go ouer before thee: he will destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt possesse them. Ioshua, he shall goe before thee, as the Lorde hath said.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:4 @ And the Lord shall doe vnto them, as he did to Sihon and to Og Kings of the Amorites: and vnto their lande whome he destroyed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:8 @ And the LORD, he [it is] that doth (note:)Signifying that man can never be of good courage, unless he is persuaded of God's favour and assistance.(:note) go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:10 @ And Moses commanded them, saying, Euery seuenth yeere when the yeere of freedome shalbe in the feast of the Tabernacles:

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:11 @ When all Israel is come to appear (note:)Before the Ark of the covenant, which was the sign of God's presence, and the figure of Christ.(:note) before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:13 @ And [that] their children, which (note:)Who were not born when the law was given.(:note) have not known [any thing], may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:15 @ And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a (note:)In a cloud that was fashioned like a pillar.(:note) cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:17 @ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will (note:)That is, I will take my favour from them; as turning his face toward us shows his favour.(:note) hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not among us?

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:21 @ And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall (note:)That these evils are come upon them, because they have forsaken me.(:note) testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:28 @ Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your (note:)As governors, judges and magistrates.(:note) officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:31:29 @ For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt [yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the (note:)By idolatry, and worshipping images, which are the work of your hands.(:note) work of your hands.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:1 @ Give ear, O ye (note:)As witness of this people's ingratitude.(:note) heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:2 @ My (note:)He desires that he may speak to God's glory and that the people, as the green grass, may receive the dew of his doctrine.(:note) doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:6 @ Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not (note:)Not according to the common creation, but he has made you a new creature by his Spirit.(:note) made thee, and established thee?

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:7 @ Remember the dayes of olde: consider the yeeres of so many generations: aske thy father, and he will shewe thee: thine Elders, and they will tell thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:10 @ He found him in ye land of ye wildernes, in a waste, & roaring wildernes: he led him about, he taught him, and kept him as ye apple of his eye.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:11 @ As an eagle stirreth up her nest, (note:)To teach them to fly.(:note) fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:12 @ So the Lorde alone led him, and there was no strange god with him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:13 @ He made him ride on the high places of the (note:)Meaning, of the land of Canaan, which was high in respect to Egypt.(:note) earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck That is, abundance of all things even in the very rocks. honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:14 @ Butter of kine, and milke of sheepe with fat of the lambes, and rammes fed in Bashan, and goates, with the fat of the graines of wheat, and the red licour of the grape hast thou drunke.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:18 @ Thou hast forgotten the mightie God that begate thee, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:22 @ For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burne vnto the bottome of hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:24 @ They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents creeping in the dust.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:26 @ I haue said, I would scatter them abroade: I would make their remembrance to cease from among men,

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:29 @ O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would (note:)They would consider the happiness that was prepared for them, if they had obeyed God.(:note) consider their latter end!

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:30 @ How should one chase a thousand, & two put ten thousande to flight, except their strong God had sold the, & the Lord had shut them vp?

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:31 @ For their god is not as our God, euen our enemies being iudges.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:33 @ Their (note:)The fruit of the wicked are as poison, detestable to God, and dangerous for man.(:note) wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:34 @ Is not this laide in store with me, and sealed vp among my treasures?

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:35 @ Vengeance and recompence are mine: their foote shall slide in due time: for the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come vpon them, make haste.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:50 @ And die in the mount which thou goest vp vnto, and thou shalt be gathered vnto thy people, as Aaro thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered vnto his people,

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:51 @ Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye (note:)You were not earnest and constant to maintain my honour.(:note) sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:1 @ And this [is] the (note:)This blessing contains not only a simple prayer, but an assurance of the effect of it.(:note) blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:3 @ Yea, he loved the people; (note:)Hebrew, his saints, that is, the children of Israel.(:note) all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at As thy disciples. thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:5 @ Then he was among the righteous people, as King, when the heades of the people, and the tribes of Israel were assembled.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:8 @ And of Leui he said, Let thy Thummim and thine Vrim be with thine Holy one, whome thou diddest proue in Massah, and didst cause him to striue at the waters of Meribah.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:12 @ [And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall (note:)Because the temple would be built in Zion, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, he shows that God would dwell with him there.(:note) dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:14 @ And for the sweete increase of the sunne, and for the sweete increase of the moone,

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:16 @ And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and [for] the good will of him that dwelt in the (note:)Which was God appearing to Moses, (Exo_3:2).(:note) bush: let [the blessing] come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him [that was] separated from his brethren.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:17 @ His beautie shalbe like his first borne bullock, & his hornes as the hornes of an vnicorne: with them hee shall smite the people together, euen the endes of the world: these are also the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:19 @ They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for (note:)The tribe of Zebulun.(:note) they shall suck [of] the abundance of the seas, and [of] treasures hid in the sand.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:20 @ Also of Gad he said, Blessed be hee that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, that catcheth for his praye the arme with the head.

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

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:22 @ And of Dan he said, Dan is a lions whelp: he shall leape from Bashan.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:24 @ And of Asher he saide, Asher shalbe blessed with children: he shalbe acceptable vnto his brethren, and shall dippe his foote in oyle.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:25 @ Thy shoes [shall be] (note:)You will be strong or, your country full of metal. It seems that Simeon is left out, because he was under Judah, and his portion of his inheritance, (Jos_19:9).(:note) iron and brass; and as thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be].

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:27 @ The eternall God is thy refuge, and vnder his armes thou art for euer: hee shall cast out the enemie before thee, and will say, Destroy them.

geneva@Deuteronomy:33:28 @ Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: (note:)Who was plentiful in issue as a fountain.(:note) the fountain of Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:1 @ And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of (note:)Which was a part of mount Abarim, (Num_27:12).(:note) Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:2 @ And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost (note:)Called Mediterranean.(:note) sea,

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:7 @ Moses was nowe an hundreth and twentie yeere olde when hee died, his eye was not dimme, nor his naturall force abated.

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:9 @ And (note:)By this the favour of God is demonstrated, in that he does not leave his Church destitute of a governor.(:note) Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Deuteronomy:34:10 @ And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew (note:)To whom the Lord revealed himself so plainly as in (Exo_33:11).(:note) face to face,

geneva@Joshua:1:1 @ Now after the (note:)The beginning of this book depends on the last chapter of Deuteronomy which was written by Joshua as a preparation to his history.(:note) death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, The Argument - In this book the Holy Spirit sets most lively before us the accomplishment of God's promise, who as he promised by the mouth of Moses, that a prophet would be raised up to the people like him, whom he wills to obey, (Deu_18:15): so he shows himself true to his promise, as at all other times, and after the death of Moses his faithful servant, he raises up Joshua to be ruler and governor over his people, that they should neither be discouraged for lack of a captain, nor have reason to distrust God's promises later. So that Joshua might be confirmed in his calling, and the people also might have no opportunity to grudge, as though he were not approved by God: he is adorned with most excellent gifts and graces from God, both to govern the people with counsel, and to defend them with strength, that he lacks nothing which either belongs to a valiant captain, or a faithful minister. So he overcomes all difficulties, and brings them into the land of Canaan: which according to God's ordinance he divides among the people and appoints their borders: he established laws and ordinances, and put them in remembrance of God's revealed benefits, assuring them of his grace and favour if they obey God, and of his plagues and vengeance if they disobey him. This history represents Jesus Christ the true Joshua, who leads us into eternal happiness, signified to us by this land of Canaan. From the beginning of Genesis to the end of this book is 2567 years. For from Adam to the flood are 1656, from the flood to the departure of Abraham out of Chaldea 423, and from then to the death of Joseph 290. So that Genesis contains 2369, Exodus 140, the other three books of Moses 40, Joshua 27. So the whole makes 2576 years.

geneva@Joshua:1:3 @ Euery place that the sole of your foote shall treade vpon, haue I giuen you, as I said vnto Moses.

geneva@Joshua:1:4 @ From the (note:)Of Zin, called Kadesh and Paran.(:note) wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Meaning, the whole land of Canaan. Hittites, and unto the great Called Mediterranean. sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

geneva@Joshua:1:5 @ There shall not a man be able to withstande thee all the dayes of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leaue thee, nor forsake thee.

geneva@Joshua:1:11 @ Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for (note:)Meaning, from the day that this was proclaimed, (Jos_3:2).(:note) within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

geneva@Joshua:1:12 @ And vnto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to halfe the tribe of Manasseh spake Ioshua, saying,

geneva@Joshua:1:13 @ Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this (note:)Which belonged to Sihon the king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan.(:note) land.

geneva@Joshua:1:15 @ Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as [he hath given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant (note:)By your request, but yet by God's secret appointment, (Deu_33:21).(:note) gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.

geneva@Joshua:1:16 @ Then they answered Ioshua, saying, Al that thou hast commaunded vs, we will doe, and whithersoeuer thou sendest vs, we will goe.

geneva@Joshua:1:17 @ According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, (note:)They not only promise to obey him as long as God is with him: but to help punish all who rebel against him.(:note) so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.

geneva@Joshua:2:1 @ And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of (note:)Which was in the plain of Moab near Jordan.(:note) Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

geneva@Joshua:2:2 @ Then report was made to the King of Iericho, saying, Beholde, there came men hither to night, of the children of Israel, to spie out the countrey.

geneva@Joshua:2:7 @ And certaine men pursued after them, the way to Iorden, vnto the foordes, and as soone as they which pursued after them, were gone out, they shut the gate.

geneva@Joshua:2:11 @ And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for (note:)In this the great mercy of God appears, that in this common destruction he would draw a most miserable sinner to repent, and confess his Name.(:note) the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

geneva@Joshua:2:12 @ Now therefore, I pray you, sweare vnto me by the Lord; that as I haue shewed you mercie, ye will also shewe mercie vnto my fathers house, and giue me a true token,

geneva@Joshua:2:15 @ Then she let them downe by a corde thorowe the windowe: for her house was vpon the towne wall, and she dwelt vpon the wall.

geneva@Joshua:2:16 @ And she said unto them, Get you to the (note:)which was near to the city.(:note) mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

geneva@Joshua:2:17 @ And the men said unto her, (note:)We will be released from our oath if you perform this condition that follows for so shall you and yours be delivered.(:note) We [will be] blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

geneva@Joshua:2:20 @ And if thou utter this our (note:)So that others should think to escape by the same means.(:note) business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

geneva@Joshua:2:23 @ So the two men returned, and descended from the mountaine, and passed ouer, and came to Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and tolde him all things that came vnto them.

geneva@Joshua:3:1 @ And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to (note:)Which according to the Hebrews was in March, about 40 days after Moses' death.(:note) Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

geneva@Joshua:3:2 @ And it came to pass after (note:)Which was given to prepare food (Jos_1:11).(:note) three days, that the officers went through the host;

geneva@Joshua:3:4 @ Yet there shalbe a space betweene you and it, about two thousande cubites by measure: ye shall not come neere vnto it, that ye may knowe the way, by the which ye shall goe: for ye haue not gone this way in times past.

geneva@Joshua:3:7 @ Then the Lorde saide vnto Ioshua, This day will I begin to magnifie thee in the sight of all Israel, which shall knowe, that as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.

geneva@Joshua:3:10 @ And Joshua said, (note:)By this miracle in dividing the water.(:note) Hereby ye shall know that the living God [is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

geneva@Joshua:3:11 @ Beholde, the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde of all the worlde passeth before you into Iorden.

geneva@Joshua:3:13 @ And assoone as the soles of the feete of the Priestes (that beare the Arke of the Lorde God the Lorde of all the worlde) shall stay in the waters of Iorden, the waters of Iorden shall be cut off: for the waters that come from aboue, shall stande still vpon an heape.

geneva@Joshua:3:15 @ And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his (note:)Because the river was accustomed at this time to be full, the miracle is so much greater.(:note) banks all the time of harvest,)

geneva@Joshua:3:16 @ Then the waters that came downe from aboue, stayed and rose vpon an heape and departed farre from the citie of Adam, that was beside Zaretan: but the waters that came downe towarde the Sea of the wildernes, euen the salt Sea, failed, and were cut off: so the people went right ouer against Iericho.

geneva@Joshua:3:17 @ And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood (note:)Either tarrying till the people were past, or as some read, sure, as though they had been on dry land.(:note) firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

geneva@Joshua:4:3 @ And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood (note:)As in (Jos_3:17).(:note) firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the Meaning, the place where they would camp. lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.

geneva@Joshua:4:6 @ That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your (note:)God commands that not only we ourselves profit by this wonderful work, but that our posterity may know the cause of it, and glorify his Name.(:note) children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones?

geneva@Joshua:4:7 @ Then ye may answere them, That the waters of Iorden were cut off before the Arke of the couenant of the Lord: for when it passed through Iorden, the waters of Iorden were cut off: therefore these stones are a memoriall vnto the children of Israel for euer.

geneva@Joshua:4:8 @ Then ye children of Israel did euen so as Ioshua had commanded, & tooke vp twelue stones out of the mids of Iorden as ye Lord had said vnto Ioshua, according to the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel, & caried them away with them vnto the lodging, & layd them down there.

geneva@Joshua:4:10 @ So the Priests, which bare ye Arke, stoode in the middes of Iorden, vntill euery thing was finished that ye Lorde had comanded Ioshua to say vnto the people, according to all that Moses charged Ioshua: then the people hasted & went ouer.

geneva@Joshua:4:11 @ And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, (note:)Meaning, in the presence or sight of the people.(:note) in the presence of the people.

geneva@Joshua:4:12 @ And the sonnes of Reuben, & the sonnes of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh went ouer before the children of Israel armed, as Moses had charged them.

geneva@Joshua:4:13 @ About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the (note:)That is, before the Ark.(:note) LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

geneva@Joshua:4:14 @ That day the Lord magnified Ioshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses all dayes of his life.

geneva@Joshua:4:18 @ And when the Priests that bare the Arke of the couenant of ye Lorde were come vp out of the middes of Iorden, and assoone as the soles of the Priests feete were set on the dry land, the waters of Iorde returned vnto their place, & flowed ouer all the bankes thereof, as they did before.

geneva@Joshua:4:19 @ And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of the (note:)Called Abib or Nisan, containing part of March and part of April.(:note) first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

geneva@Joshua:4:21 @ And he spake vnto ye childre of Israel, saying, When your children shall aske their fathers in time to come, & say, What meane these stones?

geneva@Joshua:4:23 @ For the Lord your God dryed vp ye waters of Iorden before you, vntill ye were gone ouer, as the Lord your God did the red Sea, which hee dryed vp before vs, till we were gone ouer,

geneva@Joshua:4:24 @ That all the people of the (note:)God's benefits serve as a further condemnation to the wicked, and stir up his own to reverence and obey him.(:note) earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.

geneva@Joshua:5:1 @ And it came to pass, when all the kings of the (note:)The Amorites were on both sides of Jordan, of which two kings were slain already on the side toward Moab.(:note) Amorites, which [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:5:3 @ And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at (note:)Gilgal was so called, because they were there circumcised.(:note) the hill of the foreskins.

geneva@Joshua:5:5 @ Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, [them] they had (note:)For they looked daily to move at the Lord's command, which they who were newly circumcised could not do without great danger.(:note) not circumcised.

geneva@Joshua:5:8 @ And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they (note:)For their sore was so grievous, that they were not able to move.(:note) were whole.

geneva@Joshua:5:10 @ So the children of Israel abode in Gilgal, and kept ye feast of the Passeouer the fourteenth day of the moneth at euen in ye plaine of Iericho.

geneva@Joshua:5:11 @ And they did eat of the corne of the land, on the morow after the Passeouer, vnleauened breade, and parched corne in the same day.

geneva@Joshua:5:12 @ And the MAN ceased on the morowe after they had eaten of the corne of the land, neither had the children of Israel MAN any more, but did eate of the fruite of the land of Canaan that yeere.

geneva@Joshua:5:13 @ And when Ioshua was by Iericho, he lift vp his eyes and looked: and behold, there stood a man against him, hauing a sword drawen in his hand: and Ioshua went vnto him, and said vnto him, Art thou on our side, or on our aduersaries?

geneva@Joshua:5:14 @ And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and (note:)In that Joshua worships him, he acknowledges him to be God: and in that he calls himself the Lord's captain he declares himself to be Christ.(:note) did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

geneva@Joshua:6:1 @ Now Jericho was straitly (note:)That none could go out.(:note)That none could go in. shut up for fear of the Israelites. because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

geneva@Joshua:6:3 @ And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war, [and] go round about the city (note:)Every day one.(:note) once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

geneva@Joshua:6:4 @ And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of (note:)That the conquest might not be assigned to man's power, but to the mercy of God, which with most weak things can overcome that which seems most strong.(:note) rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

geneva@Joshua:6:5 @ And when they make a long blast with the rams horne, and ye heare the sound of the trumpet, al the people shal shoute with a great shoute: then shall the wall of the citie fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp, euery man streight before him.

geneva@Joshua:6:7 @ And he said unto the people, (note:)This is chiefly meant by the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.(:note) Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:6:9 @ And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the (note:)Meaning, the gathering host, in which was the standard of the tribe of Dan, (Num_10:25).(:note) rereward came after the ark, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

geneva@Joshua:6:11 @ So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about [it] (note:)For that day.(:note) once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

geneva@Joshua:6:13 @ And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the (note:)The tribe of Dan was so called, because it marched last and gathered up whatever was left of others.(:note) rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

geneva@Joshua:6:14 @ And the second day they compassed the citie once, and returned into the host: thus they did sixe dayes.

geneva@Joshua:6:15 @ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner (note:)Beside every day once for the space of six days.(:note) seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

geneva@Joshua:6:19 @ But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are] (note:)And therefore cannot be put to any private use, but must be first molten, and then serve for the Tabernacle.(:note) consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:6:21 @ And they vtterly destroyed all that was in the citie, both man and woman, yong, and olde, and oxe, and sheepe, and asse, with the edge of the sword.

geneva@Joshua:6:22 @ But Ioshua had said vnto the two men that had spied out the countrey, Go into the harlots house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware to her.

geneva@Joshua:6:23 @ And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them (note:)For it was not lawful for strangers to dwell among the Israelites, till they were purged.(:note) without the camp of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:6:24 @ And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the (note:)Meaning, the tabernacle.(:note) house of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:6:25 @ And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she (note:)For she was married to Salmon prince of the tribe of Judah, (Mat_1:5).(:note) dwelleth in Israel [even] unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

geneva@Joshua:6:26 @ And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: (note:)He will build it to the destruction of all his stock, which was fulfilled in Hiel of Beth-el, (1Ki_16:34).(:note) he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates of it.

geneva@Joshua:6:27 @ So the Lord was with Ioshua, and he was famous through all the world.

geneva@Joshua:7:1 @ But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the (note:)In taking that which was commanded to be destroyed.(:note) accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:7:2 @ And Joshua sent men from Jericho to (note:)This was a city of the Amorites: for there was another so called among the Amorites, (Jer_49:3). The first Ai is called Aiah, (Isa_10:28).(:note) Ai, which [is] beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

geneva@Joshua:7:3 @ And returned to Ioshua, and saide vnto him, Let not al the people go vp, but let as it were two or three thousand men go vp, and smite Ai, and make not al the people to labour thither, for they are fewe.

geneva@Joshua:7:5 @ And the (note:)God would by this overthrow make them more earnest to search out and punish the sin committed.(:note) men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

geneva@Joshua:7:7 @ And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the (note:)This infirmity of his faith shows how we are inclined by nature to distrust.(:note) other side Jordan!

geneva@Joshua:7:9 @ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great (note:)When your enemies will blaspheme you and say that you were not able to defend us from them.(:note) name?

geneva@Joshua:7:16 @ So Ioshua rose vp earely in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes: and the tribe of Iudah was taken.

geneva@Joshua:7:17 @ And he brought the families of Iudah, and tooke the familie of the Zarhites, and he brought the familie of the Zarhites, man by man, and Zabdi was taken.

geneva@Joshua:7:18 @ And he brought his houshold, man by man, and Achan ye sonne of Carmi, the sonne of Zabdi, the sonne of Zerah of the tribe of Iudah was take.

geneva@Joshua:7:19 @ And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and (note:)By declaring truth: for God is glorified when the truth is confessed.(:note) make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide [it] not from me.

geneva@Joshua:7:21 @ When I saw among the spoils a goodly (note:)Such a rich garment as the states of Babylon wore.(:note) Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

geneva@Joshua:7:22 @ Then Ioshua sent messengers, which ran vnto the tent, and beholde, it was hid in his tent, and the siluer vnder it.

geneva@Joshua:7:24 @ And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the (note:)Some read a plate: others, a rod, and some a tongue.(:note) wedge of gold, and his This judgment belonged only to God, and to whom he will reveal it. He had commanded man not to punish the child for the father's sins, (Deu_24:16). sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

geneva@Joshua:7:25 @ And Joshua said, (note:)He declares that this is God's judgment because he had offended, and caused others to be slain.(:note) Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

geneva@Joshua:7:26 @ And they cast vpon him a great heape of stones vnto this day: and so the Lord turned from his fierce wrath: therefore hee called the name of that place, The valley of Achor, vnto this day.

geneva@Joshua:8:2 @ And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city (note:)Meaning on the west side, as in (Jos_8:9).(:note) behind it.

geneva@Joshua:8:4 @ And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye (note:)God would not destroy Ai by a miracle, as Jericho, so that other nations would fear the power and policy of his people.(:note) shall lie in wait against the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

geneva@Joshua:8:5 @ And I and all the people that are with me, will approche vnto the citie: and when they shall come out against vs, as they did at the first time, then will we flee before them.

geneva@Joshua:8:6 @ For they wil come out after vs, till we haue brought them out of the citie: for they will say, They flee before vs as at the first time: so we will flee before them.

geneva@Joshua:8:11 @ Also all the men of warre that were with him went vp and drewe neere, and came against the citie, and pitched on the Northside of Ai: and there was a valley betweene them and Ai.

geneva@Joshua:8:13 @ And when they had set the people, [even] all the host that [was] on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the (note:)To the intent that they in the city more easily discover his army.(:note) midst of the valley.

geneva@Joshua:8:14 @ And when the King of Ai sawe it, then the men of the citie hasted and rose vp earely, and went out against Israel to battell, hee and all his people at the time appointed, before the plaine: for he knew not that any lay in waite against him on the backeside of the citie.

geneva@Joshua:8:15 @ And Joshua and all Israel (note:)As they who pretended to flee for fear.(:note) made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

geneva@Joshua:8:17 @ So that there was not a man left in Ai, nor in Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the citie open, and pursued after Israel.

geneva@Joshua:8:19 @ And they that lay in wait, arose quickly out of their place, and ranne as soone as he had stretched out his hand, and they entred into the citie, and tooke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fire.

geneva@Joshua:8:20 @ And the men of Ai looked behinde them, and sawe it: for loe, the smoke of the citie ascended vp to heauen, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: for the people that fled to the wildernesse, turned backe vpon the pursuers.

geneva@Joshua:8:24 @ And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and (note:)For the fire, which they had before set in the city, was not to consume it, but to signify to Joshua that they had entered.(:note) smote it with the edge of the sword.

geneva@Joshua:8:29 @ And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded (note:)According as it was commanded, (Deu_21:23).(:note) that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this day.

geneva@Joshua:8:31 @ As Moses the seruant of the Lord had commaunded the children of Israel, as it is written in the booke of the Lawe of Moses, an altar of whole stone, ouer which no man had lift an yron: and they offered thereon burnt offrings vnto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.

geneva@Joshua:8:33 @ And all Israel (and their Elders, and officers and their iudges stoode on this side of the Arke, and on that side, before the Priestes of the Leuites, which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde) as well the stranger, as he that is borne in the countrey: halfe of them were ouer against mount Gerizim, and halfe of them ouer against mount Ebal, as Moses the seruant of the Lorde had commaunded before, that they should blesse the people of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:8:35 @ There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the (note:)So neither young nor old, man nor woman, were exempted from hearing the word of the Lord.(:note) women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

geneva@Joshua:9:1 @ And it came to pass, when all the kings which (note:)In respect to the plain of Moab.(:note) [were] on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the The main sea called the Mediterranean. great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [thereof];

geneva@Joshua:9:4 @ They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and (note:)Because they were all worn.(:note) bound up;

geneva@Joshua:9:5 @ And olde shoes and clouted vpon their feete: also the raiment vpon them was old, and all their prouision of bread was dried, and mouled.

geneva@Joshua:9:10 @ And all that he hath done to the two Kings of the Amorites that were beyonde Iorden, to Sihon King of Heshbon, & to Og King of Bashan, which were at Ashtaroth.

geneva@Joshua:9:13 @ Also these bottels of wine which we filled, were newe, and lo, they be rent, and these our garments and our shooes are olde, by reason of the exceeding great iourney.

geneva@Joshua:9:14 @ And the (note:)Some think that the Israelites are of their victuals, and so made a league with them.(:note) men took of their victuals, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:9:20 @ This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the (note:)This does not establish rash oaths, but shows God's mercy toward his, who would not punish them for their sin.(:note) oath which we sware unto them.

geneva@Joshua:9:21 @ And the Princes sayd vnto them againe, Let them liue, but they shall hewe wood, and drawe water vnto all the Congregation, as the Princes appoint them.

geneva@Joshua:9:24 @ And they answered Ioshua, and sayd, Because it was tolde thy seruants, that the Lord thy God had commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land out of your sight, therefore we were exceeding sore afraid for our liues at the presence of you, and haue done this thing:

geneva@Joshua:9:25 @ And beholde nowe, we are in thine hand: doe as it seemeth good and right in thine eyes to doe vnto vs.

geneva@Joshua:9:27 @ And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the (note:)That is, for the service of the temple, as in (Jos_9:23).(:note) altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

geneva@Joshua:10:1 @ Now when Adoni-zedek King of Ierusalem had heard how Ioshua had taken Ai and had destroyed it, ( for as he had done to Iericho and to the King thereof, so he had done to Ai and to the King thereof) and howe the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,

geneva@Joshua:10:2 @ Then they feared exceedingly: for Gibeon was a great citie, as one of the royall cities: for it was greater then Ai, and all the men thereof were mightie.

geneva@Joshua:10:7 @ So Ioshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of warre with him, and all the men of might.

geneva@Joshua:10:10 @ And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth vp to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

geneva@Joshua:10:11 @ And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which died with (note:)So we see that all things serve to execute God's vengeance against the wicked.(:note) hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

geneva@Joshua:10:13 @ And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in the book of (note:)Some read, the book of the righteous, meaning Moses: the Chaldea text reads, in the book of the Law, but it is likely that it was a book thus named, which is now lost.(:note) Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

geneva@Joshua:10:14 @ And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD (note:)By taking away the enemies hearts and destroying them with the hail stones.(:note) fought for Israel.

geneva@Joshua:10:17 @ And it was tolde Ioshua, saying, The fiue Kings are found hid in a caue at Makkedah.

geneva@Joshua:10:21 @ And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in (note:)Or in safety, so that none gave them as much as an evil word.(:note) peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:10:24 @ And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the (note:)Signifying what would become of the rest of God's enemies, seeing that kings themselves were not spared.(:note) necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

geneva@Joshua:10:27 @ And at the going downe of the sunne, Ioshua gaue commaundement, that they should take them downe off the trees, and cast them into the caue (wherein they had bene hid) and they layde great stones vpon the caues mouth, which remaine vntill this day.

geneva@Joshua:10:28 @ And that same day Ioshua tooke Makkedah & smote it with the edge of the sword, and the King thereof destroyed he with them, and all the soules that were therein, he let none remaine: for hee did to the King of Makkedah as he had done vnto the King of Iericho.

geneva@Joshua:10:30 @ And the Lorde gaue it also and the King thereof into the hand of Israel: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the soules that were therein: he let none remaine in it: for he did vnto the King thereof, as he had done vnto the King of Iericho.

geneva@Joshua:10:31 @ And Ioshua departed from Libnah, and all Israel with him vnto Lachish, and besieged it, and assaulted it.

geneva@Joshua:10:32 @ And the Lord gaue Lachish into the hand of Israel, which tooke it the second day, & smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the soules that were therein, according to all as he had done to Libnah.

geneva@Joshua:10:34 @ And from Lachish Ioshua departed vnto Eglon, and all Israel with him, & they besieged it, and assaulted it,

geneva@Joshua:10:37 @ And when they had taken it, they smote it with the edge of the sword, & the King thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the soules that were therein: he left none remaining, according to all as he had done to Eglon: for he destroyed it vtterly, and all the soules that were therein.

geneva@Joshua:10:39 @ And when he had taken it, and the King thereof, and all the citie thereof, they smote them with the edge of the sword, and vtterly destroyed all the soules that were therein, he let none remaine: as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the King thereof, as he had also done to Libnah, and to the King thereof.

geneva@Joshua:10:40 @ So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the (note:)Some read, Ashedoth, which signifies the descents of the hills.(:note) vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.

geneva@Joshua:10:43 @ And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to (note:)Where the ark was, there to give thanks for their victories.(:note) Gilgal.

geneva@Joshua:11:1 @ And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard [those things], that he (note:)The more God's power appears, the more the wicked rage against it.(:note) sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

geneva@Joshua:11:2 @ And to the kings that [were] on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of (note:)Which the evangelists call the lake of Gennesaret, or Tiberias.(:note) Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,

geneva@Joshua:11:3 @ [And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and [to] the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and [to] the Hivite under (note:)Which was mount Sion, as in (Deu_4:48).(:note) Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.

geneva@Joshua:11:4 @ And they came out & all their hostes with them, many people as the sande that is on the sea shore for multitude, with horses and charets exceeding many.

geneva@Joshua:11:8 @ And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto (note:)Which signifies hot waters, or according to some, brine pits.(:note) Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.

geneva@Joshua:11:9 @ And Ioshua did vnto them as the Lorde bade him: he houghed their horses, & burnt their charets with fire.

geneva@Joshua:11:10 @ At that time also Ioshua turned backe, and tooke Hazor, & smote the King thereof with the sword: for Hazor before time was the head of all those kingdomes.

geneva@Joshua:11:11 @ And they smote all the (note:)Both men, women and children.(:note) souls that [were] therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

geneva@Joshua:11:12 @ So all ye cities of those Kings, & all the kings of them did Ioshua take, & smote them with the edge of the sword, and vtterly destroyed them, as Moses the seruant of the Lord had commaunded.

geneva@Joshua:11:13 @ But [as for] the cities that stood still in their (note:)Which were strong by situation and not hurt by war.(:note) strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that] did Joshua burn.

geneva@Joshua:11:15 @ As the Lorde had commaunded Moses his seruant, so did Moses commande Ioshua, and so did Ioshua: he left nothing vndone of all that the Lord had commaunded Moses.

geneva@Joshua:11:17 @ [Even] from the mount (note:)So called, because it was bare and without trees.(:note) Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.

geneva@Joshua:11:19 @ Neither was there any citie that made peace with the children of Israel, saue those Hiuites that inhabited Gibeon: all other they tooke by battell.

geneva@Joshua:11:20 @ For it was of the LORD to (note:)That is, to give them over to themselves: and therefore they could not but rebel against God and seek their own destruction.(:note) harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

geneva@Joshua:11:21 @ And that same season came Ioshua, and destroyed the Anakims out of the mountaines: as out of Hebron, out of Debir, out of Anab, and out of all the mountaines of Iudah, and out of all the mountaines of Israel: Ioshua destroyed them vtterly with their cities.

geneva@Joshua:11:22 @ There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, (note:)Out of which came Goliath, (1Sa_17:4).(:note) in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

geneva@Joshua:11:23 @ So Ioshua tooke the whole land, according to all that the Lorde had saide vnto Moses: and Ioshua gaue it for an inheritance vnto Israel according to their portion through their tribes: then the land was at rest without warre.

geneva@Joshua:12:1 @ Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the (note:)From Gilgal where Joshua camped.(:note) other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

geneva@Joshua:12:3 @ And from the plaine vnto the sea of Cinneroth Eastward, and vnto the Sea of the plaine, euen the salt sea Eastward, the way to Beth-ieshimoth, and from the South vnder the springs of Pisgah.

geneva@Joshua:12:4 @ They conquered also the coast of Og King of Bashan of the remnant of the gyants, which dwelt at Ashtaroth, and at Edrei,

geneva@Joshua:12:5 @ And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, vnto the border of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites, and halfe Gilead, euen the border of Sihon King of Heshbon.

geneva@Joshua:12:6 @ Moses the seruant of the Lord, and the children of Israel smote them: Moses also the seruant of the Lorde gaue their land for a possession vnto the Reubenites, and vnto the Gadites, and to halfe the tribe of Manasseh.

geneva@Joshua:12:9 @ The King of Iericho was one: the King of Ai, which is beside Beth-el, one:

geneva@Joshua:12:18 @ The King of Aphek, one: the King of Lasharon, one:

geneva@Joshua:13:1 @ Now Joshua was old [and] (note:)Being almost a hundred and ten years old.(:note) stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be After the enemies are overcome. possessed.

geneva@Joshua:13:3 @ From Nilus which is in Egypt, euen vnto the borders of Ekron Northward: this is counted of the Canaanites, euen fiue Lordships of the Philistims, the Azzithites, and the Ashdodites, the Eshkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, and the Auites:

geneva@Joshua:13:6 @ All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto (note:)Read (Jos_11:8).(:note) Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

geneva@Joshua:13:7 @ Nowe therefore deuide this lande to inherite, vnto the nine tribes, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh.

geneva@Joshua:13:8 @ For with halfe therof the Reubenites & the Gadites haue receiued their inheritance, which Moses gaue them beyond Iorden Eastward, euen as Moses the seruant of the Lord had giuen them,

geneva@Joshua:13:11 @ And Gilead, and the borders of the Geshurites and of the Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, with all Bashan vnto Salcah:

geneva@Joshua:13:12 @ All the kingdome of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei: (who remained of the rest of the gyants) for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.

geneva@Joshua:13:13 @ Nevertheless the children of Israel (note:)Because they had not destroyed all as God had commanded they that remainder were snares and pricks to hurt them, (Num_33:35; Jos_23:13; Jdg_2:3).(:note) expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

geneva@Joshua:13:14 @ Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] (note:)Levi will live by the sacrifices, (Num_18:21).(:note) their inheritance, as he said unto them.

geneva@Joshua:13:16 @ And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the brinke of the riuer Arnon, and from the citie that is in the middes of the riuer, and all the plaine which is by Medeba:

geneva@Joshua:13:20 @ And Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-ieshimoth:

geneva@Joshua:13:23 @ And the border of the children of Reuben was Iorden with the coastes. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, with the cities and their villages.

geneva@Joshua:13:25 @ And their coastes were Iazer, and all the cities of Gilead and halfe the lande of the children of Ammon vnto Aroer, which is before Rabbah:

geneva@Joshua:13:27 @ And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the (note:)That is, in the land of Moab.(:note) other side Jordan eastward.

geneva@Joshua:13:29 @ Also Moses gaue inheritance vnto the halfe tribe of Manasseh: and this belonged to the halfe tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.

geneva@Joshua:13:30 @ And their border was from Mahanaim, euen all Bashan, to wit, all the kingdome of Og King of Bashan, and all the townes of Iair which are in Bashan, threescore cities,

geneva@Joshua:13:31 @ And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the (note:)Meaning, his nephews and posterity.(:note) children of Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.

geneva@Joshua:13:32 @ These are the heritages, which Moses did distribute in the plaine of Moab beyond Iorden, toward Iericho Eastward.

geneva@Joshua:13:33 @ But vnto the tribe of Leui Moses gaue none inheritance: for the Lorde God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said vnto them.

geneva@Joshua:14:2 @ By the lot of their inheritance, as the Lord had commaunded by the hande of Moses, to giue to the nine tribes, and the halfe tribe.

geneva@Joshua:14:3 @ For Moses had given the inheritance of (note:)As Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, (Num_32:33).(:note) two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

geneva@Joshua:14:4 @ For the children of Joseph were (note:)So though Levi lacked, yet were there still twelve tribes by this means.(:note) two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

geneva@Joshua:14:5 @ As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did when they deuided the land.

geneva@Joshua:14:6 @ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and (note:)Which was that only those two should enter into the land, (Num_14:24).(:note) thee in Kadeshbarnea.

geneva@Joshua:14:7 @ Fourtie yeere olde was I, when Moses the seruant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espie the land, and I brought him word againe, as I thought in mine heart.

geneva@Joshua:14:9 @ Wherefore Moses sware the same day, saying, Certainely the land whereon thy feete haue troden, shalbe thine inheritance, & thy childrens for euer, because thou hast followed constantly the Lord my God.

geneva@Joshua:14:10 @ Therefore beholde nowe, the Lorde hath kept me aliue, as he promised: this is the fourtie and fift yeere since the Lord spake this thing vnto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wildernes: and nowe loe, I am this day foure score and fiue yeere olde:

geneva@Joshua:14:11 @ And yet am as strong at this time, as I was when Moses sent me: as strong as I was then, so strong am I nowe, either for warre, or for gouernment.

geneva@Joshua:14:12 @ Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced: (note:)This he spoke out of modesty, and not from doubting.(:note) if so be the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

geneva@Joshua:14:15 @ And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba; [which Arba was] a (note:)Either for his power or person.(:note) great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

geneva@Joshua:15:1 @ This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Iudah by their families: euen to the border of Edom and the wildernesse of Zin, Southward on the Southcoast.

geneva@Joshua:15:2 @ And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the (note:)The Hebrew word signifies tongue, by which it means either the arm of the sea that comes into the land, or a rock, or cape that goes into the sea.(:note) bay that looketh southward:

geneva@Joshua:15:3 @ And it went out on the Southside towarde Maaleth-akrabbim, and went along to Zin, and ascended vp on the Southside vnto Kadesh-barnea, and went along to Hezron, and went vp to Adar, and fet a compasse to Karkaa.

geneva@Joshua:15:4 @ From thence went it along to Azmon, and reached vnto the riuer of Egypt, and the end of that coast was on the Westside: this shall be your South coast.

geneva@Joshua:15:5 @ And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the (note:)Meaning the mouth of the river where it runs into the Salt sea.(:note) end of Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:

geneva@Joshua:15:6 @ And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the (note:)Which was a mark to part their countries.(:note) stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:

geneva@Joshua:15:9 @ So this border compasseth from the top of the mountaine vnto the fountaine of the water of Nephtoah, & goeth out to the cities of mount Ephron: and this border draweth to Baalah, which is Kiriath-iearim.

geneva@Joshua:15:10 @ Then this border compasseth from Baalah Westward vnto mount Seir, and goeth along vnto the side of mount Iearim, which is Chesalon on the Northside: so it commeth downe to Bethshemesh, and goeth to Timnah.

geneva@Joshua:15:11 @ And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the (note:)Meaning, toward Syria.(:note) sea.

geneva@Joshua:15:13 @ And vnto Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh did Ioshua giue a part among the children of Iudah, as the Lord commanded him, euen Kiriath-arba of the father of Anak, which is Hebron.

geneva@Joshua:15:14 @ And Caleb (note:)This was done after the death of Joshua, (Jdg_1:10, Jdg_1:20).(:note) drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

geneva@Joshua:15:15 @ And he went vp thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before time was Kiriath-sepher.

geneva@Joshua:15:18 @ And it came to pass, as she came [unto him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: (note:)Because her husband tarried too long.(:note) and she lighted off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

geneva@Joshua:15:19 @ Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; (note:)Because her country was barren, she wanted a field that had springs from her father. (Jdg_1:14-15).(:note) give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.

geneva@Joshua:15:21 @ And the vtmost cities of the tribe of the children of Iudah, toward the coastes of Edom Southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Iagur,

geneva@Joshua:15:28 @ And Hasar-shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,

geneva@Joshua:15:30 @ And Eltolad, and Chesil, and (note:)Which before was called Zephath, (Jdg_1:17).(:note) Hormah,

geneva@Joshua:15:33 @ In the lowe countrey were Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,

geneva@Joshua:15:37 @ Zenam, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,

geneva@Joshua:15:42 @ Lebnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

geneva@Joshua:15:43 @ And Iipthtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,

geneva@Joshua:15:46 @ From Ekron, euen vnto the Sea, all that lyeth about Ashdod with their villages.

geneva@Joshua:15:47 @ Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the (note:)Meaning, the Nile (Jos_13:3).(:note) river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:

geneva@Joshua:15:50 @ And Anab, and Ashtemoth, and Anim,

geneva@Joshua:15:62 @ And Nibshan, and the (note:)Of this city the salt sea has it's name.(:note) city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.

geneva@Joshua:15:63 @ As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them (note:)That is, utterly, though they slew the most part, and burnt their city, (Jdg_1:8).(:note) out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

geneva@Joshua:16:1 @ And the lot of the (note:)That is, to Ephraim and his children: for Manasseh's portion follows.(:note) children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,

geneva@Joshua:16:3 @ And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out (note:)Of their inheritance.(:note) thereof are at the sea.

geneva@Joshua:16:4 @ So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, (note:)Severally, first Ephraim, and then Manasseh.(:note) took their inheritance.

geneva@Joshua:16:5 @ Also the borders of the children of Ephraim according to their families, euen the borders of their inheritance on the Eastside were Atroth-addar, vnto Beth-horon the vpper.

geneva@Joshua:16:6 @ And this border goeth out to the Sea vnto Michmethah on the Northside, and this border returneth Eastward vnto Taanathshiloh, and passeth it on the Eastside vnto Ianohah,

geneva@Joshua:16:7 @ And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, (note:)For so far the coasts reach.(:note) and went out at Jordan.

geneva@Joshua:16:9 @ And the (note:)Because Ephraim's tribe was far greater than Manasseh, therefore he had more cities.(:note) separate cities for the children of Ephraim [were] among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

geneva@Joshua:16:10 @ And they cast not out the Canaanite that dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanite dwelt among the Ephraimites vnto this day, and serued vnder tribute.

geneva@Joshua:17:1 @ This was also the lot of the tribe of Manasseh: for he was the first borne of Ioseph, to wit, of Machir the first borne of Manasseh, and the father of Gilead: nowe because he was a man of warre, he had Gilead and Bashan.

geneva@Joshua:17:2 @ There was also [a lot] for the (note:)For the other half tribe had their portion beyond Jordan.(:note) rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these [were] the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.

geneva@Joshua:17:3 @ But Zelophehad the sonne of Hephir, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, ye sonne of Manasseh, had no sonnes, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah:

geneva@Joshua:17:5 @ And there fell ten portions to (note:)In the land of canaan: five to the males: and other five to the daughters of Zelophehad.(:note) Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side Jordan;

geneva@Joshua:17:6 @ Because the daughters of Manasseh did inherite among his sonnes: and Manassehs other sonnes had the land of Gilead.

geneva@Joshua:17:7 @ So the borders of Manasseh were from Asher to Michmethah that lieth before Shechem, and this border goeth on the right hand, euen vnto the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

geneva@Joshua:17:8 @ [Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but (note:)Meaning, the city itself.(:note) Tappuah on the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;

geneva@Joshua:17:9 @ And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also [was] on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the (note:)That is, toward the main sea.(:note) sea:

geneva@Joshua:17:10 @ Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and northward [it was] Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in (note:)In the tribe of Asher, and tribe of Issachar.(:note) Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.

geneva@Joshua:17:11 @ And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Beth-shean, and her townes, and Ibleam, and her townes, and the inhabitants of Dor with ye townes thereof, and the inhabitants of En-dor with the townes thereof, and the inhabitants of Thaanach with her townes, and the inhabitants of Megiddo with the townes of the same, euen three countreis.

geneva@Joshua:17:12 @ Yet the children of Manasseh (note:)For at first they lacked courage, and later agreed with them on condition, contrary to God's commandment.(:note) could not drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

geneva@Joshua:17:13 @ Neuerthelesse, when the children of Israel were strong, they put the Canaanites vnder tribute, but cast them not out wholy.

geneva@Joshua:17:14 @ And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath (note:)According to my father Jacob's prophecy, (Gen_48:19).(:note) blessed me hitherto?

geneva@Joshua:17:15 @ And Joshua answered them, If thou [be] a great people, [then] get thee up to the wood [country], and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, (note:)If this mount is not large enough, why do you not get more by destroying God's enemies, as he has commanded.(:note) if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.

geneva@Joshua:17:16 @ Then the children of Ioseph saide, The mountaine will not be ynough for vs: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the lowe countrey haue charets of yron, aswell they in Beth-shean, and in the townes of the same, as they in the valley of Izreel.

geneva@Joshua:17:17 @ And Ioshua spake vnto the house of Ioseph, to Ephraim, and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power, and shalt not haue one lot.

geneva@Joshua:18:1 @ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the (note:)For they had now removed it from Gilgal, and set it up in Shiloh.(:note) tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

geneva@Joshua:18:2 @ And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, (note:)As Eleazar, Joshua, and the heads of the tribes had done to Judah, Ephraim, and half of Manasseh.(:note) which had not yet received their inheritance.

geneva@Joshua:18:5 @ And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall (note:)For these had their inheritance already appointed.(:note) abide in their coasts on the north.

geneva@Joshua:18:6 @ Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the (note:)Before the ark of the Lord.(:note) LORD our God.

geneva@Joshua:18:7 @ But the Levites have no part among you; for the (note:)That is, the sacrifices and offerings, (Jos_13:14).(:note) priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

geneva@Joshua:18:8 @ And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to (note:)By writing the names of every country and city.(:note) describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

geneva@Joshua:18:9 @ So the men departed, and passed through the lande, and described it by cities into seuen partes in a booke, and returned to Ioshua into the campe at Shiloh.

geneva@Joshua:18:10 @ And Joshua (note:)That everyone should be content with God's appointment.(:note) cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

geneva@Joshua:18:11 @ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth (note:)Their inheritance bordered on Judah and Joseph.(:note) between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

geneva@Joshua:18:12 @ And their coast on the Northside was from Iorden, and the border went vp to the side of Iericho on the Northpart, and went vp through the mountaines Westward, and the endes thereof are in the wildernesse of Beth-auen:

geneva@Joshua:18:13 @ And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which [is] (note:)Which was in the tribe of Ephraim: another Bethel was in the tribe of Benjamin.(:note) Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.

geneva@Joshua:18:14 @ So the border turneth, and compasseth the corner of the Sea Southward, from the mount that lyeth before Beth-horon Southward: and the endes thereof are at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-iearim) a citie of the children of Iudah: this is the Westquarter.

geneva@Joshua:18:17 @ And was drawn from the north, and went forth to (note:)Which is in the tribe of Ephraim.(:note) Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which [is] over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,

geneva@Joshua:18:19 @ And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south (note:)To the very straight, where the river runs into the Salt sea.(:note) end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast.

geneva@Joshua:18:20 @ Also Iorden is the border of it on the Eastside: this is the inheritance of the children of Beniamin by the coastes thereof rounde about according to their families.

geneva@Joshua:18:28 @ And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] (note:)Which was not completely in the tribe of Benjamin, but part of it was also in the tribe of Judah.(:note) Jerusalem, Gibeath, [and] Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

geneva@Joshua:19:1 @ And the second lot came forth to Simeon, [even] for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was (note:)According to Jacob's prophecy that he would be scattered among the other tribes.(:note) within the inheritance of the children of Judah.

geneva@Joshua:19:7 @ Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan: foure cities with their villages.

geneva@Joshua:19:9 @ Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too (note:)But this large portion was given them by God's providence to declare their increase in time to come.(:note) much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

geneva@Joshua:19:10 @ Also the third lot arose for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the coastes of their inheritance came to Sarid,

geneva@Joshua:19:11 @ And their border went up (note:)Or, westward, toward the great sea.(:note) toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is] before Jokneam;

geneva@Joshua:19:12 @ And turneth from Sarid Eastward towarde the sunne rising vnto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and goeth out to Daberath, and ascendeth to Iaphia,

geneva@Joshua:19:13 @ And from thence goeth along Eastwarde towarde the sunne rising to Gittah-hepher to Ittah-kazin, and goeth foorth to Rimmon, and turneth to Neah.

geneva@Joshua:19:14 @ And this border compasseth it on ye North side to Hannathon, and the endes thereof are in the valley of Iiphtah-el,

geneva@Joshua:19:15 @ And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and (note:)There was another Bethlehem in the tribe of Judah.(:note) Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

geneva@Joshua:19:18 @ And their coast was Izreelah, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,

geneva@Joshua:19:21 @ And Remeth, and (note:)There was another city of this name in the tribe of Judah: for in various tribes certain cities had the same name, and were distinguished by the tribe only.(:note) Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;

geneva@Joshua:19:22 @ And this coast reacheth to Tabor, & Shahazimath, and Beth-shemesh, and the endes of their coast reach to Iorden: sixteene cities with their villages.

geneva@Joshua:19:24 @ Also the fift lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

geneva@Joshua:19:25 @ And their coast was Helcath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,

geneva@Joshua:19:27 @ And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to (note:)Joins to the tribe of Zebulun, which lay more to the east.(:note) Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,

geneva@Joshua:19:29 @ And [then] the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city (note:)Which was Zoar, a strong city at the sea.(:note) Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:

geneva@Joshua:19:31 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families: that is, these cities and their villages.

geneva@Joshua:19:33 @ And their coast was from (note:)These cities were in the country of Zaanannim.(:note) Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:

geneva@Joshua:19:34 @ So this coast turneth Westwarde to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the Southside, and goeth to Asher on the Westside, and to Iudah by Iorden toward the sunne rising.

geneva@Joshua:19:41 @ And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,

geneva@Joshua:19:47 @ And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too little] for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to (note:)According as Jacob had prophesied in (Gen_49:17).(:note) fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

geneva@Joshua:19:49 @ When they had made an ende of deuiding the lande by the coastes thereof, then the children of Israel gaue an inheritance vnto Ioshua the sonne of Nun among them.

geneva@Joshua:19:50 @ According to the worde of the Lord they gaue him the citie which hee asked, euen Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and hee built the citie and dwelt therein.

geneva@Joshua:20:6 @ And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for (note:)Till his cause was proved.(:note) judgment, [and] until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

geneva@Joshua:20:8 @ And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the (note:)Out of the half tribe of Manasseh beyond the Jordan.(:note) tribe of Manasseh.

geneva@Joshua:21:5 @ And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, tenne cities.

geneva@Joshua:21:6 @ Also the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, & out of the tribe of Asher, and out of ye tribe of Naphtali, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities.

geneva@Joshua:21:8 @ So the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbes, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Joshua:21:10 @ Which the children of (note:)For Aaron came from Kohath, and therefore the priests office remained in that family.(:note) Aaron, [being] of the families of the Kohathites, [who were] of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.

geneva@Joshua:21:13 @ Thus they gave to the (note:)That is, the priest of the family of the Kohathites, of whom Aaron was chief.(:note) children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,

geneva@Joshua:21:25 @ And out of the (note:)Who dwelt in Canaan.(:note) half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.

geneva@Joshua:21:27 @ And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the [other] half tribe of Manasseh [they gave] (note:)Golan and Kedesh were the cities of refuge under the Gershonites.(:note) Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.

geneva@Joshua:21:30 @ And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbes, Abdon with her suburbes,

geneva@Joshua:21:34 @ And unto the families of the children of Merari, the (note:)They are here called the rest, because they are last numbered, and Merari was the younger brother, (Gen_46:11).(:note) rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,

geneva@Joshua:21:45 @ There failed nothing of all the good things, which the Lord hath sayde vnto the house of Israel, but all came to passe.

geneva@Joshua:22:1 @ Then (note:)After that the Israelites enjoyed the land of Canaan.(:note) Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

geneva@Joshua:22:2 @ And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD (note:)Which was to go armed before their brethren, (Num_32:29).(:note) commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

geneva@Joshua:22:3 @ You haue not forsaken your brethren this long season vnto this day, but haue diligently kept the commandement of the Lord your God.

geneva@Joshua:22:4 @ And nowe the Lorde hath giuen rest vnto your brethren as he promised them: therefore nowe returne ye and goe to your tentes, to the land of your possession, which Moses the seruant of the Lord hath giuen you beyond Iorden.

geneva@Joshua:22:7 @ Nowe vnto one halfe of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had giuen a possession in Bashan: and vnto the other halfe thereof gaue Ioshua among their brethren on this side Iorden Westwarde: therefore when Ioshua sent them away vnto their tents, and blessed them,

geneva@Joshua:22:8 @ And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your (note:)Who remained at home and did not go to the war, (Num_31:27; 1Sa_30:24).(:note) brethren.

geneva@Joshua:22:9 @ So the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel from Shiloh (which is in the land of Canaan) to goe vnto the countrey of Gilead to the land of their possession, which they had obteyned, according to ye word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

geneva@Joshua:22:10 @ And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that [are] in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built (note:)That is, beyond Jordan: for sometime the whole country on both sides of Jordan is referred to as Canaan.(:note) there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.

geneva@Joshua:22:11 @ When the children of Israel heard say, Beholde, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh haue built an altar in the forefront of the lande of Canaan vpon the borders of Iorden at the passage of the children of Israel:

geneva@Joshua:22:12 @ And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up (note:)Such was their zeal, that they would rather lose their lives, that allow the true religion to be changed or corrupted.(:note) to war against them.

geneva@Joshua:22:13 @ Then the children of Israel sent vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to ye halfe tribe of Manasseh into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest,

geneva@Joshua:22:14 @ And with him ten princes, of euery chiefe house a prince, according to all the tribes of Israel: for euery one was chiefe of their fathers housholde among the thousands of Israel.

geneva@Joshua:22:15 @ So they went vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh, vnto the land of Gilead, and spake with them, saying,

geneva@Joshua:22:16 @ Thus saith (note:)Not only of the princes, but also of the common people.(:note) the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?

geneva@Joshua:22:17 @ [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not (note:)Meaning, God is not fully pacified, in that no punishment can be sufficient for such wickedness and idolatry.(:note) cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,

geneva@Joshua:22:19 @ Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession [be] (note:)In your judgment.(:note) unclean, [then] pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but To use any other service than God has appointed is to rebel against God, (1Sa_15:23). rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.

geneva@Joshua:22:20 @ Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man (note:)Signifying, that if many suffered for one man's sin, for the fault of many, all should suffer.(:note) perished not alone in his iniquity.

geneva@Joshua:22:21 @ Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh answered, and saide vnto the heads ouer the thousands of Israel,

geneva@Joshua:22:25 @ For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children (note:)Or, to turn back from the true God.(:note) cease from fearing the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:22:30 @ And when Phinehas the Priest, and the princes of the Congregation and heads ouer the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the wordes, that the children of Reuben, and children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spake, they were well content.

geneva@Joshua:22:31 @ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is] (note:)By preserving and governing us.(:note) among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have Whom if ye had offended; he would have punished with you. delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:22:32 @ Then Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest with the princes returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, vnto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them answere.

geneva@Joshua:22:33 @ And the saying pleased the children of Israel: and the children of Israel blessed God, and minded not to goe against them in battell, for to destroy the land, wherein the children of Reuben, and Gad dwelt.

geneva@Joshua:23:1 @ And a long season after that the Lord had giuen rest vnto Israel from all their enemies round about, and Ioshua was olde, and stricken in age,

geneva@Joshua:23:5 @ And the LORD your God, he shall expel (note:)Which yet remain and are not overcome, as in (Jos_13:2).(:note) them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.

geneva@Joshua:23:8 @ But sticke fast vnto the Lord your God, as ye haue done vnto this day.

geneva@Joshua:23:9 @ For ye Lorde hath cast out before you great nations and mightie, and no man hath stand before your face hitherto.

geneva@Joshua:23:10 @ One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

geneva@Joshua:23:14 @ And, behold, this day I [am] (note:)I die according to the course of nature.(:note) going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your Most certainly. hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing hath failed thereof.

geneva@Joshua:23:15 @ Therefore as all good things are come vpon you, which the Lorde your God promised you, so shall the Lord bring vpon you euery euill thing, vntill he haue destroyed you out of this good land, which ye Lord your God hath giue you.

geneva@Joshua:24:1 @ And Joshua gathered all the (note:)That is, the nine tribes and the half.(:note) tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before Before the ark which was brought to Shechem, when they went to bury Joseph's bones. God.

geneva@Joshua:24:7 @ And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a (note:)Even forty years.(:note) long season.

geneva@Joshua:24:11 @ And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the (note:)Because it was the chief city, under it he contains all the country: else they of the city fought not.(:note) men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.

geneva@Joshua:24:12 @ And I sent hornets before you, which cast them out before you, euen the two kings of the Amorites, and not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

geneva@Joshua:24:15 @ And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: (note:)This teaches us that if all the world would go from God, yet every one of us particularly is bound to cleave to him.(:note) but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

geneva@Joshua:24:26 @ And Ioshua wrote these woordes in the booke of the Lawe of God, and tooke a great stone, and pitched it there vnder an oke that was in the Sanctuarie of the Lord.

geneva@Joshua:24:30 @ And they buried him in ye border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the Northside of mount Gaash.

geneva@Joshua:24:31 @ And Israel (note:)Such are the people commonly as their rulers are.(:note) served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.

geneva@Joshua:24:33 @ Also Eleazar the sonne of Aaron died, whome they buried in the hill of Phinehas his sonne, which was giuen him in mount Ephraim.

geneva@Judges:1:1 @ Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel (note:)By the judgment of Urim; Read (Exo_28:30; Num_27:21; 1Sa_28:6)(:note) asked the LORD, saying, Who shall be our captain? Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

geneva@Judges:1:6 @ But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and (note:)This was God's just judgment, as the tyrant himself confesses, that as he had done, so did he receive, (Lev_24:19-20).(:note) cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

geneva@Judges:1:7 @ And Adoni-bezek said, Seuentie Kings hauing the thumbes of their hands & of their feete cut off, gathered bread vnder my table: as I haue done, so God hath rewarded me. so they brought him to Ierusalem, and there he died.

geneva@Judges:1:8 @ Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the (note:)Which was later built again, and possessed by the Jebusites, (2Sa_5:6).(:note) city on fire.

geneva@Judges:1:10 @ And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba:) and they slew (note:)These three were giants, and the children of Anak.(:note) Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

geneva@Judges:1:11 @ And from thence hee went to the inhabitantes of Debir, and the name of Debir in olde time was Kiriath-sepher.

geneva@Judges:1:14 @ And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: (note:)Read (Jos_15:18).(:note) and she lighted from off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

geneva@Judges:1:15 @ And shee answered him, Giue mee a blessing: for thou hast giuen me a South countrey, giue me also springs of water: and Caleb gaue her the springs aboue and the springs beneath.

geneva@Judges:1:16 @ And the children of the (note:)This was one of the names of Moses father in law, read (Num_10:29).(:note) Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

geneva@Judges:1:18 @ Also Judah took (note:)These cities and others were later possessed by the Philistines, (1Sa_6:17).(:note) Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.

geneva@Judges:1:19 @ And the Lord was with Iudah, and he possessed the mountaines: for he could not driue out the inhabitantes of the valleis, because they had charrets of yron.

geneva@Judges:1:20 @ And they gaue Hebron vnto Caleb, as Moses had saide, and hee expelled thence the three sonnes of Anak.

geneva@Judges:1:22 @ They also that were of the house of Ioseph, went vp to Beth-el, and the Lord was with them,

geneva@Judges:1:23 @ And the house of Ioseph caused to viewe Beth-el (and the name of the citie beforetime was Luz)

geneva@Judges:1:27 @ Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of] Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: (note:)Wherefore God permitted the Canaanites to still dwell in the land, read (Jdg_3:5).(:note) but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

geneva@Judges:1:28 @ Neuerthelesse when Israel was strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and expelled them not wholly.

geneva@Judges:1:30 @ Neither did (note:)That is, the tribe of Zebulun as is also to be understood of the rest.(:note) Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.

geneva@Judges:1:31 @ Neither did Asher cast out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob,

geneva@Judges:1:32 @ But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them (note:)But made them pay tribute as the others did.(:note) out.

geneva@Judges:1:35 @ But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the (note:)Meaning, when he was stronger than they.(:note) hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.

geneva@Judges:1:36 @ And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going up to Akrabbim, from the (note:)Or Selah, which was a city in Arabia.(:note) rock, and upward.

geneva@Judges:2:1 @ And an (note:)That is, messenger, or prophet, as some think, Phinehas.(:note) angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

geneva@Judges:2:3 @ Wherefore, I sayd also, I wil not cast them out before you, but they shalbe as thornes vnto your sides, & their gods shalbe your destruction.

geneva@Judges:2:8 @ But Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of the Lord dyed, when he was an hundreth and ten yeeres olde:

geneva@Judges:2:9 @ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in (note:)Heres, by turning the letters backward is Sereh, as in (Jos_24:30).(:note) Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

geneva@Judges:2:10 @ And so all that generation was gathered vnto their fathers, & another generation arose after them, which neither knewe the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel.

geneva@Judges:2:13 @ And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and (note:)These were idols, which had the form of a ewe or sheep among the Sidonians.(:note) Ashtaroth.

geneva@Judges:2:14 @ And the wrath of the Lorde was hote against Israel, & he deliuered them into the hands of spoylers, that spoyled them, and he sold them into the handes of their enemies rounde about them, so that they could no longer stande before their enemies.

geneva@Judges:2:18 @ And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings (note:)Seeing their cruelty.(:note) by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

geneva@Judges:2:19 @ Yet when the Iudge was dead, they returned, and did worse then their fathers, in following other gods to serue them and worshippe them: they ceased not from their owne inuentions, nor from their rebellious way.

geneva@Judges:2:20 @ Wherfore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sayd, Because this people hath transgressed my couenant, which I commaded their fathers, & hath not obeyed my voyce,

geneva@Judges:2:21 @ I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the (note:)As the Hivites, Jebusites, Amorites, etc.(:note) nations which Joshua left when he died:

geneva@Judges:2:22 @ That through them I may (note:)So that both outward enemies and false prophets are but a trial to prove our faith, (Deu_13:3; Jdg_3:1).(:note) prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.

geneva@Judges:3:1 @ Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the (note:)Which were achieved by the hand of God, and not by the power of man.(:note) wars of Canaan;

geneva@Judges:3:2 @ Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew (note:)For they trusted in God and he fought for them.(:note) nothing thereof;

geneva@Judges:3:7 @ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the (note:)Or Ashteroth, trees or woods erected for idolatry.(:note) groves.

geneva@Judges:3:8 @ Therefore the wrath of the Lorde was kindled against Israel, and he solde them into the hand of Chushan rishathaim King of Aram-naharaim, and the children of Israel serued Chushan rishathaim eyght yeeres.

geneva@Judges:3:10 @ And the (note:)He was stirred up by the Spirit of the Lord.(:note) Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.

geneva@Judges:3:17 @ And he presented ye gift vnto Eglon King of Moab (and Eglon was a very fat man)

geneva@Judges:3:19 @ But he himself turned again from the (note:)Or, as some read from the places of idols.(:note) quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep Till all be departed. silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

geneva@Judges:3:24 @ And when he was gone out, his seruantes came: who seeing that the doores of the parler were locked, they sayd, Surely he doeth his easement in his sommer chamber.

geneva@Judges:3:25 @ And they taryed till they were ashamed: & seeing he opened not the doores of the parler, they tooke the key, and opened them, & behold, their lord was fallen dead on the earth.

geneva@Judges:3:26 @ So Ehud escaped (while they taried) & was passed the quarris, and escaped vnto Seirah.

geneva@Judges:3:28 @ Then said he vnto them, Follow me: for the Lorde hath deliuered your enemies, euen Moab into your hand. So they went downe after him, & tooke the passages of Iorden towarde Moab, and suffred not a man to passe ouer.

geneva@Judges:3:30 @ So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the (note:)Meaning, the Israelites.(:note) land had rest fourscore years.

geneva@Judges:3:31 @ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox (note:)So that it is not the number, nor the means that God regards, when he will get the victory.(:note) goad: and he also delivered Israel.

geneva@Judges:4:1 @ And the children of Israel began againe to do wickedly in the sight of the Lorde when Ehud was dead.

geneva@Judges:4:2 @ And the LORD sold them into the hand of (note:)There was another Jabin, whom Joshua killed and burnt his city Hazor, (Jos_11:13).(:note) Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host [was] Sisera, which dwelt in That is in a wood, or strong place, Harosheth of the Gentiles.

geneva@Judges:4:8 @ And Barak said unto her, (note:)Fearing his own weakness and his enemies power, he desires the prophetess to go with him to assure him of God's will from time to time.(:note) If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go.

geneva@Judges:4:11 @ Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent (note:)Meaning, that he possessed a great part of that country.(:note) unto the plain of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh.

geneva@Judges:4:12 @ Then they shewed Sisera, that Barak the sonne of Abinoam was gone vp to mout Tabor.

geneva@Judges:4:14 @ And Deborah said unto Barak, (note:)She still encourages him to this enterprise by assuring him of God's favour and aid.(:note) Up; for this [is] the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

geneva@Judges:4:16 @ But Barak pursued after the charets, and after the hoste vnto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the hoste of Sisera fel vpon the edge of the sworde: there was not a man left.

geneva@Judges:4:17 @ Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of (note:)Whose ancestors were strangers, but worshipped the true God, and therefore were joined with Israel.(:note) Heber the Kenite: for [there was] peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

geneva@Judges:4:21 @ Then Jael Heber's wife took a (note:)That is, the pin or stake, by which it was fastened to the ground.(:note) nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

geneva@Judges:4:22 @ And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold, Sisera lay (note:)So he saw that a woman had the honour, as Deborah prophesied.(:note) dead, and the nail [was] in his temples.

geneva@Judges:5:5 @ The mountaines melted before the Lord, as did that Sinai before the Lord God of Israel.

geneva@Judges:5:7 @ [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a (note:)Miraculously stirred up by God to pity them and deliver them.(:note) mother in Israel.

geneva@Judges:5:8 @ They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a (note:)They had no heart to resist their enemies.(:note) shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

geneva@Judges:5:10 @ Speak, ye that ride on (note:)You governors.(:note) white asses, ye that sit Or by Middin, as in danger of your enemies. in judgment, and walk by the way.

geneva@Judges:5:14 @ Out of Ephraim (note:)Joshua first fought against Amalek, and Saul destroyed him.(:note) [was there] a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

geneva@Judges:5:15 @ And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even (note:)Even the whole tribe.(:note) Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great They marvelled that they did not cross the Jordan to help them. thoughts of heart.

geneva@Judges:5:21 @ The river of Kishon (note:)As a broom does to the filth of the house.(:note) swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.

geneva@Judges:5:23 @ Curse ye (note:)It was a city near Tabor, where they fought.(:note) Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

geneva@Judges:5:25 @ He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth (note:)Some read churned milk in a great cup.(:note) butter in a lordly dish.

geneva@Judges:5:30 @ Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, [meet] (note:)Because he was chief of the army.(:note) for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?

geneva@Judges:5:31 @ So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the (note:)Shall grow daily more and more in God's favour.(:note) sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

geneva@Judges:6:3 @ When Israel had sowen, then came vp the Midianites, the Amalekites, & they of the East, and came vpon them,

geneva@Judges:6:4 @ And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto (note:)Even almost the whole country.(:note) Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

geneva@Judges:6:5 @ For they went vp, and their cattel, & came with their tentes as grashoppers in multitude: so that they & their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

geneva@Judges:6:6 @ And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the (note:)This is the purpose of God's punishments, to call his to repentance, that they may seek help from him.(:note) children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

geneva@Judges:6:9 @ And I haue deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and haue cast them out before you, and giuen you their land.

geneva@Judges:6:11 @ And the Angell of the Lord came, and sate vnder the oke which was in Ophrah, that perteined vnto Ioash the father of the Ezrites, and his sonne Gideon threshed wheate by the winepresse, to hide it from the Midianites.

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@Judges:6:16 @ Then the Lord sayd vnto him, I wil therefore be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man.

geneva@Judges:6:19 @ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an (note:)Of Ephah, read (Exo_16:36).(:note) ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto him under the oak, and presented [it].

geneva@Judges:6:21 @ Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire (note:)By the power of God only, as in the sacrifice of Elijah, (1Ki_18:38).(:note) out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.

geneva@Judges:6:22 @ And when Gideon perceiued that it was an Angel of the Lord, Gideon then sayde, Alas, my Lord God: for because I haue seene an Angell of the Lord face to face, I shall die.

geneva@Judges:6:25 @ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock (note:)That is, as the Chaldea text writes, fed seven years.(:note) of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it:

geneva@Judges:6:27 @ Then Gideon tooke tenne men of his seruants, and did as ye Lord bade him: but because he feared to doe it by day for his fathers housholde, and the men of the citie, he did it by night.

geneva@Judges:6:28 @ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that [was] by it, and the (note:)Meaning, the fat bull, which was kept to be offered to Baal.(:note) second bullock was offered upon the altar [that was] built.

geneva@Judges:6:29 @ Therefore they saide one to another, Who hath done this thing? and when they inquired & asked, they saide, Gideon the sonne of Ioash hath done this thing.

geneva@Judges:6:30 @ Then the men of the citie said vnto Ioash, Bring out thy sonne, that hee may dye: for he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath also cut downe the groue that was by it.

geneva@Judges:6:31 @ And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? (note:)Thus we ought to justify those who are zealous of God's cause, though all the multitude are against us.(:note) he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he [be] a god, let him plead for himself, because [one] hath cast down his altar.

geneva@Judges:6:32 @ And in that day was Gideon called Ierubbaal, that is, Let Baal pleade for himselfe because he hath broken downe his altar.

geneva@Judges:6:33 @ Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and they of ye East, were gathered together, aud went and pitched in the valley of Izreel.

geneva@Judges:6:34 @ But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and (note:)The family of Abiezer, of which he was.(:note) Abiezer was gathered after him.

geneva@Judges:6:35 @ And he sent messengers thorowout al Manasseh, which also was ioyned with him, and he sent messengers vnto Asher, and to Zebulun and to Naphtali, and they came vp to meete them.

geneva@Judges:6:36 @ And Gideon said unto God, (note:)This request proceeds not from infidelity, but that he might be confirmed in his calling.(:note) If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,

geneva@Judges:6:37 @ Beholde, I wil put a fleece of wooll in the threshing place: if the dewe come on the fleece onely, and it be drie vpon all the earth, then shall I be sure, that thou wilt saue Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

geneva@Judges:6:38 @ And so it was: for he rose vp earely on the morow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, and filled a bowle of water.

geneva@Judges:6:40 @ And God did so that night: for it was (note:)By which he was assured that it was a miracle of God.(:note) dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

geneva@Judges:7:1 @ Then Ierubbaal (who is Gideon) rose vp early, and all the people that were with him, and pitched beside the well of Harod, so that the hoste of the Midianites was on the Northside of them in the valley by the hill of Moreh.

geneva@Judges:7:5 @ So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; (note:)Let them depart as unfit for this enterprise.(:note) likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

geneva@Judges:7:8 @ So the people tooke vitailes with them, & their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, euery man vnto his tent, and reteined the three hundreth men: and the hoste of Midian was beneath him in a valley.

geneva@Judges:7:9 @ And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, (note:)Thus the Lord by various means strengthens him, that he faint not in so great an enterprise.(:note) get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.

geneva@Judges:7:12 @ And the Midianites, and the Amalekites and all they of the East, lay in the valley like grashoppers in multitude, and their camels were without nomber, as the sande which is by the sea side for multitude.

geneva@Judges:7:13 @ And when Gideon was come, behold, [there was] a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a (note:)Some read, a trembling noise of barley bread: meaning, that one of no reputation would make their great army tremble.(:note) cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

geneva@Judges:7:14 @ And his fellow answered, and sayde, This is nothing els saue the sworde of Gideon the sonne of Ioash a man of Israel: for into his hande hath God deliuered Midian and all the hoste.

geneva@Judges:7:15 @ And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he (note:)Or, gave God thanks, as it is in the Chaldea text.(:note) worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

geneva@Judges:7:17 @ And he sayd vnto them, Looke on me, and do likewise, when I come to the side of the hoste: euen as I do, so do you.

geneva@Judges:7:23 @ Then the men of Israel being gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, pursued after the Midianites.

geneva@Judges:7:24 @ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the (note:)Meaning, the passages or the fords so they could not escape.(:note) waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.

geneva@Judges:8:1 @ And the men of Ephraim said unto him, (note:)They began to object, because he had the glory of the victory.(:note) Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.

geneva@Judges:8:2 @ And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of (note:)Who have slain two princes, Oreb and Zeeb.(:note) you? [Is] not the This last act of the whole tribe is more famous, than the whole enterprise of one man of one family. gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

geneva@Judges:8:3 @ God hath deliuered into your handes the princes of Midian, Oreb & Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? & when he had thus spoken, then their spirits abated toward him.

geneva@Judges:8:4 @ And Gideon came to Iorden to passe ouer, hee, and the three hundreth men that were with him, weary, yet pursuing them.

geneva@Judges:8:8 @ And he went vp thence to Penuel, and spake vnto them likewise, and the men of Penuel answered him, as the men of Succoth answered.

geneva@Judges:8:10 @ Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] (note:)A city east of Jordan.(:note) in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

geneva@Judges:8:11 @ And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in (note:)He went by the wilderness where the Arabians dwelt in tents.(:note) tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.

geneva@Judges:8:13 @ And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle (note:)Some read, the sun being yet high.(:note) before the sun [was up],

geneva@Judges:8:18 @ Then saide he vnto Zebah & Zalmunna, What maner of men were they, whom ye slew at Tabor? and they answered, As thou art, so were they: euery one was like the children of a King.

geneva@Judges:8:19 @ And he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the (note:)We all came from the same womb: therefore I will be revenged.(:note) sons of my mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

geneva@Judges:8:20 @ Then he sayde vnto Iether his first borne sonne, Vp, & slay them: but the boy drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet yong.

geneva@Judges:8:21 @ Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for (note:)Meaning, that they would be freed from their pain at once, or else have a valiant man put them to death.(:note) as the man [is, so is] his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that [were] on their camels' necks.

geneva@Judges:8:22 @ Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy (note:)That is, thy posterity.(:note) son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

geneva@Judges:8:24 @ And Gideon said unto them, (note:)His intent was to show himself thankful for this victory by restoring religion, which because it was not according to God's command, turned to their destruction.(:note) I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.)

geneva@Judges:8:25 @ And they answered, Wee will giue them; they spred a garment, and did cast therein euery man the earings of his pray.

geneva@Judges:8:26 @ And the weight of the golden earings that he required, was a thousande and seuen hundreth shekels of golde, beside collers and iewels, and purple rayment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the cheynes that were about their camels neckes.

geneva@Judges:8:27 @ And Gideon made an (note:)That is, such things as pertained to the use of the tabernacle. See ephod, (Exo_28:4, Exo_28:6; Jdg_17:5; 1Sa_2:18; 2Sa_6:14).(:note) ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

geneva@Judges:8:28 @ Thus was Midian brought lowe before the children of Israel, so that they lift vp their heads no more: and the countrey was in quietnes fourtie yeeres in the dayes of Gideon.

geneva@Judges:8:29 @ Then Ierubbaal the sonne of Ioash went, and dwelt in his owne house.

geneva@Judges:8:31 @ And his concubine that was in Shechem, bare him a sonne also, whose name he called Abimelech.

geneva@Judges:8:32 @ And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in (note:)A city belonging to the family of the Ezrites.(:note) Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

geneva@Judges:8:33 @ And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made (note:)That is, Baal, to whom they had bound themselves by covenant.(:note) Baalberith their god.

geneva@Judges:9:5 @ And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and (note:)Thus tyrants to establish their usurped power, spare not the innocent blood, (2Ki_10:7; 2Ch_21:4).(:note) slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, [being] threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

geneva@Judges:9:6 @ And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of (note:)Which was as the town house, or common hall, which he calls the tower of Shechem in (Jdg_9:49).(:note) Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem.

geneva@Judges:9:25 @ So the men of Shechem set men in wayte for him in the toppes of the mountaines: who robbed all that passed that way by them: and it was tolde Abimelech.

geneva@Judges:9:29 @ And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to (note:)Braggingly, as though he had been present, or to his captain Zebul.(:note) Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.

geneva@Judges:9:30 @ And when Zebul the ruler of the citie heard the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Ebed, his wrath was kindled.

geneva@Judges:9:33 @ And rise early in the morning as soone as the sunne is vp, and assault the citie: and when he and the people that is with him, shall come out against thee, doe to him what thou canst.

geneva@Judges:9:36 @ And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the (note:)You are afraid of a shadow.(:note) shadow of the mountains as [if they were] men.

geneva@Judges:9:38 @ Then sayd Zebul vnto him, Where is now thy mouth, that said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serue him? Is not this the people that thou hast despised? Go out now, I pray thee, and fight with them.

geneva@Judges:9:39 @ And Gaal (note:)As their captain.(:note) went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

geneva@Judges:9:42 @ And on the morowe, the people went out into the fielde: which was tolde Abimelech.

geneva@Judges:9:45 @ And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with (note:)That it should be unfruitful and never serve to any use.(:note) salt.

geneva@Judges:9:46 @ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into an hold of the house of the god (note:)That is, of Baniberith, as (Jdg_8:33).(:note) Berith.

geneva@Judges:9:47 @ And it was tolde Abimelech, that all the men of the towre of Shechem were gathered together.

geneva@Judges:9:48 @ And Abimelech gate him vp to mounte Zalmon, hee and all the people that were with him: and Abimelech tooke axes with him, and cut downe boughes of trees, and tooke them, and bare them on his shoulder, and sayde vnto the folke that were with him, What ye haue seene me doe, make haste, and doe like me.

geneva@Judges:9:49 @ And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem (note:)Meaning, that all were destroyed as well as those in the tower.(:note) died also, about a thousand men and women.

geneva@Judges:9:51 @ But there was a strong towre within the citie, and thither fledde all the men and women, and all the chiefe of the citie, and shut it to them, and went vp to the toppe of the towre.

geneva@Judges:9:53 @ But a certaine woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon Abimelechs head, and brake his braine pan.

geneva@Judges:9:54 @ Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man (note:)Thus God by such miserable death takes vengeance on tyrants even in this life.(:note) thrust him through, and he died.

geneva@Judges:9:55 @ And when the men of Israel sawe that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his owne place.

geneva@Judges:10:2 @ And he iudged Israel three and twentie yeere and dyed, and was buried in Shamir.

geneva@Judges:10:4 @ And he had thirty sons that (note:)Signifying, they were men of authority.(:note) rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which [are] in the land of Gilead.

geneva@Judges:10:5 @ And Iair dyed, and was buried in Kamon.

geneva@Judges:10:6 @ And the children of Israel wrought wickednesse againe in the sight of the Lord, and serued Baalim and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistims, and forsooke the Lord and serued not him.

geneva@Judges:10:7 @ Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he solde them into the hands of the Philistims, and into the handes of the children of Ammon:

geneva@Judges:10:8 @ And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, (note:)As the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.(:note) all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.

geneva@Judges:10:9 @ Moreouer, the children of Ammon went ouer Iorden to fight against Iudah, and against Beniamin, and against the house of Ephraim: so that Israel was sore tormented.

geneva@Judges:10:11 @ And the LORD (note:)By stirring them up some prophets, as in (Jdg_6:8).(:note) said unto the children of Israel, [Did] not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

geneva@Judges:10:16 @ And they put away the strange gods from among them, and (note:)This is true repentance, to put away evil, and serve God aright.(:note) served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

geneva@Judges:10:17 @ Then the children of Ammon gathered themselues together, and pitched in Gilead: and the children of Israel assembled themselues, and pitched in Mizpeh.

geneva@Judges:11:1 @ Then Gilead begate Iphtah, and Iphtah the Gileadite was a valiant man, but the sonne of an harlot.

geneva@Judges:11:2 @ And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou [art] the son of a (note:)That is, of a harlot as in (Jdg_11:1).(:note) strange woman.

geneva@Judges:11:3 @ Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of (note:)Where the governor of the country was called Tob.(:note) Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and Joined with him, as some think, against his brethren. went out with him.

geneva@Judges:11:5 @ And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the (note:)Or, ambassadors, sent for that purpose.(:note) elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

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@Judges:11:12 @ Then Iphtah sent messengers vnto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to doe with me, that thou art come against me, to fight in my lande?

geneva@Judges:11:18 @ Then they went through the wildernesse, and compassed the lande of Edom, and the lande of Moab, and came by the Eastside of the lande of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, and came not within the coast of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.

geneva@Judges:11:19 @ Also Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon, King of the Amorites, the King of Heshbon, and Israel said vnto him, Let vs passe, we pray thee, by thy lande vnto our place.

geneva@Judges:11:20 @ But Sihon (note:)He trusted them not to go through his country.(:note) trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

geneva@Judges:11:22 @ And they possessed all the coast of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabbok, and from the wildernesse euen vnto Iorden.

geneva@Judges:11:23 @ Nowe therefore the Lorde God of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possesse it?

geneva@Judges:11:26 @ While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that [be] along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover (note:)Meaning their towns.(:note) [them] within that time?

geneva@Judges:11:29 @ Then the (note:)That is, the spirit of strength and zeal.(:note) Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon.

geneva@Judges:11:30 @ And Jephthah (note:)As the apostle commends Jephthah for his worthy enterprise in delivering the people, (Heb_11:32) so by his rash vow and wicked performance of the same, his victory was defaced: and here we see that the sins of the godly do not utterly extinguish their faith.(:note) vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

geneva@Judges:11:34 @ And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with (note:)According to the manner after the victory.(:note) timbrels and with dances: and she [was his] only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

geneva@Judges:11:35 @ And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he (note:)Being overcome with blind zeal, and not considering whether the vow was lawful or not.(:note) rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.

geneva@Judges:11:36 @ And she said vnto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth vnto the Lorde, doe with me as thou hast promised, seeing that the Lorde hath auenged thee of thine enemies the children of Ammon.

geneva@Judges:11:37 @ And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and (note:)For it was counted as a shame in Israel, to die without children, and therefore they rejoiced to be married.(:note) bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

geneva@Judges:11:39 @ And after the ende of two moneths, she turned againe vnto her father, who did with her according to his vowe which he had vowed, and she had knowen no man; it was a custome in Israel:

geneva@Judges:12:1 @ And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went (note:)After they had passed Jordan.(:note) northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call Thus ambition envies God's work in others as they did against Gideon, (Jdg_8:1). us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

geneva@Judges:12:3 @ And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, (note:)That is, I ventured my life, and when man's help failed, I put my trust only in God.(:note) I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

geneva@Judges:12:4 @ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim (note:)You ran from us, and chose Gilead, and now in respect to us you are nothing.(:note) among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites.

geneva@Judges:12:5 @ Also the Gileadites tooke the passages of Iorden before the Ephraimites, and when the Ephraimites that were escaped, saide, Let me passe, then the men of Gilead said vnto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay,

geneva@Judges:12:6 @ Then said they unto him, Say now (note:)Which signifies the fall of waters, or an ear of corn.(:note) Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

geneva@Judges:12:7 @ And Iphtah iudged Israel sixe yeere: then dyed Iphtah the Gileadite, and was buryed in one of the cities of Gilead.

geneva@Judges:12:8 @ And after him (note:)Some think that this was Boaz the husband of Ruth.(:note) Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

geneva@Judges:12:10 @ Then Ibzan died, and was buryed at Bethlehem.

geneva@Judges:12:12 @ Then Elon the Zebulonite dyed, and was buryed in Aijalon in the countrey of Zebulun.

geneva@Judges:12:14 @ And he had fourty sonnes and thirtie nephewes that rode on seuentie assecoltes: and he iudged Israel eight yeeres.

geneva@Judges:12:15 @ Then dyed Abdon the sonne of Hillel the Pirathonite, & was buryed in Pirathon, in ye lande of Ephraim, in the Mount of the Amalekites.

geneva@Judges:13:2 @ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] (note:)Signifying that their deliverance came only from God, and not by man's power.(:note) barren, and bare not.

geneva@Judges:13:6 @ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of God, very (note:)If flesh is not able to endure the sight of an angel, how much less the presence of God?(:note) terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither told he me his name:

geneva@Judges:13:9 @ And God heard the voyce of Manoah, and the Angel of God came againe vnto the wife, as she sate in the fielde, but Manoah her husbande was not with her.

geneva@Judges:13:10 @ And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the (note:)It seems that the angel appeared to her twice in one day.(:note) [other] day.

geneva@Judges:13:11 @ And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the (note:)He calls him man, because he so seemed, but he was Christ the eternal word, which at his appointed time became man.(:note) man, and said unto him, [Art] thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I [am].

geneva@Judges:13:12 @ Then Manoah sayde, Nowe let thy saying come to passe: but howe shall we order the childe and doe vnto him?

geneva@Judges:13:16 @ And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the (note:)Showing that he did not seek his own honour but God's, whose messenger he was.(:note) LORD. For Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD.

geneva@Judges:13:17 @ Againe Manoah said vnto the Angell of the Lorde, What is thy name, that when thy saying is come to passe, we may honour thee?

geneva@Judges:13:18 @ And the Angell of the Lorde saide vnto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, which is secret?

geneva@Judges:13:20 @ For when the flame came vp toward heauen from the altar, the Angel of the Lorde ascended vp in the flame of the altar, and Manoah and his wife behelde it, and fell on their faces vnto the grounde.

geneva@Judges:13:21 @ (So the Angel of the Lorde did no more appeare vnto Manoah and his wife.) Then Manoah knewe that it was an Angel of the Lord.

geneva@Judges:13:23 @ But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a (note:)These graces that we have received from God, and his accepting of our obedience, are sure tokens of his love for us, so that nothing can hurt us.(:note) burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.

geneva@Judges:14:3 @ Then his father and his mother said unto him, [Is there] (note:)Though his parents justly reprove him, yet it appears that this was the secret work of the Lord, (Jdg_14:4).(:note) never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

geneva@Judges:14:4 @ But his father and his mother knew not that it [was] of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the (note:)To fight against them for the deliverance of Israel.(:note) Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

geneva@Judges:14:6 @ And the Spirit of the LORD (note:)By which he had strength and boldness.(:note) came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had] nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

geneva@Judges:14:7 @ And he went down, & talked with the woman which was beautifull in the eyes of Samson.

geneva@Judges:14:8 @ And within a fewe dayes, when he returned to receiue her, he went aside to see the karkeis of the Lion: and behold, there was a swarme of bees, and hony in the body of the Lyon.

geneva@Judges:14:10 @ So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a (note:)Meaning when he was married.(:note) feast; for so used the young men to do.

geneva@Judges:14:11 @ And it came to pass, when (note:)That is, her parents or friends.(:note) they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

geneva@Judges:14:12 @ And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty (note:)To wear at feasts, or solemn days.(:note) change of garments:

geneva@Judges:14:15 @ And it came to pass (note:)Or as the seventh day drew near, for it was the fourth day.(:note) on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? [is it] not [so]?

geneva@Judges:14:16 @ And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the (note:)To those who are of my nation.(:note) children of my people, and hast not told [it] me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told [it] my father nor my mother, and shall I tell [it] thee?

geneva@Judges:14:17 @ And she wept before him the (note:)Or, to the seventh day beginning at the fourth.(:note) seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

geneva@Judges:14:19 @ And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down (note:)Which was one of the five chief cities of the Philistines.(:note) to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

geneva@Judges:14:20 @ Then Samsons wife was giuen to his companion, whom he had vsed as his friend.

geneva@Judges:15:1 @ But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will (note:)That is, I will use her as my wife.(:note) go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

geneva@Judges:15:3 @ And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more (note:)For through his father-in-law's actions, he was moved again to take vengeance on the Philistines.(:note) blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

geneva@Judges:15:5 @ And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the (note:)Or, that which was reaped and gathered.(:note) shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives.

geneva@Judges:15:7 @ And Samson saide vnto them, Though yee haue done this, yet wil I be auenged of you, and then I wil cease.

geneva@Judges:15:10 @ And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To (note:)And so being our prisoner to punish him.(:note) bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

geneva@Judges:15:11 @ Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? (note:)Such was their gross ignorance, that they judged God's great benefits to be a plague to them.(:note) what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

geneva@Judges:15:13 @ And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and (note:)Thus they would rather betray their brother than use the means that God had given for their deliverance.(:note) deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

geneva@Judges:15:14 @ When hee came to Lehi, the Philistims shouted against him, and the Spirite of the Lord came vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes, became as flaxe that was burnt with fire: for the bandes loosed from his handes.

geneva@Judges:15:15 @ And he found a (note:)That is, of an ass recently slain.(:note) new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

geneva@Judges:15:16 @ Then Samson sayd, With the iaw of an asse are heapes vpon heapes: with the iawe of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men.

geneva@Judges:15:17 @ And when he had left speaking, hee cast away the iawebone out of his hande, and called that place, Ramath-Lehi.

geneva@Judges:15:18 @ And he was sore athirst, and (note:)By which it appears that he did these things in faith, and so with a true zeal to glorify God, and deliver his country.(:note) called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

geneva@Judges:15:19 @ Then God brake the cheeke tooth, that was in the iawe, and water came thereout: and when he had drunke, his Spirit came againe, and he was reuiued: wherefore the name therof is called, Enhakkore, which is in Lehi vnto this day.

geneva@Judges:16:2 @ And it was tolde to the Azzahites, Samson is come hither. And they went about, and laied wayte for him all night in the gate of the citie, & were quiet all the nyght, saying, Abide till the morning earely, and we shall kill him.

geneva@Judges:16:4 @ And after this hee loued a woman by the riuer of Sorek, whose name was Delilah:

geneva@Judges:16:7 @ Samson then answered vnto her, If they binde mee with seuen greene cordes, that were neuer dryed, then shall I bee weake, and be as an other man.

geneva@Judges:16:9 @ Now [there were] (note:)Certain Philistines in a secret chamber.(:note) men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when When fire comes near it. it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

geneva@Judges:16:10 @ And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now (note:)Though her deceit threatened his life, yet his affection so blinded him, that he could not beware.(:note) tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

geneva@Judges:16:11 @ Then he answered her, If they binde mee with newe ropes that neuer were occupied, then shal I be weake, and be as an other man.

geneva@Judges:16:12 @ Delilah therefore tooke newe ropes, and bounde him therewith, and saide vnto him, The Philistims be vpon thee, Samson: (and men lay in wayte in the chamber) and hee brake them from his armes, as a threede.

geneva@Judges:16:13 @ And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. (note:)It is impossible if we give place to our wicked affections, for eventually we will be destroyed.(:note) And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

geneva@Judges:16:14 @ And she fastened it with a pinne, and saide vnto him, The Philistims be vpon thee, Samson; he awoke out of his sleepe, and went away with the pinne of the webbe and the woufe.

geneva@Judges:16:15 @ And she said unto him, How canst thou say, (note:)For Samson used to say «I love you».(:note) I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth].

geneva@Judges:16:16 @ And because shee was importunate vpon him with her wordes continually, and vexed him, his soule was pained vnto the death.

geneva@Judges:16:19 @ And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went (note:)Not for the loss of his hair, but for the contempt of the ordinance of God, which was the reason God departed from him.(:note) from him.

geneva@Judges:16:20 @ Then she said, The Philistims be vpon thee, Samson; hee awoke out of his sleepe, and thought, I will go out now as at other times, and shake my selfe, but he knewe not that the Lorde was departed from him.

geneva@Judges:16:22 @ Howbeit the hair of his head began to (note:)Yet he did not regain his strength, till he had called on God and reconciled himself.(:note) grow again after he was shaven.

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

geneva@Judges:16:27 @ (Nowe the house was full of men and women, and there were all the princes of the Philistims: also vpon the roofe were about three thousande men and women that behelde while Samson played)

geneva@Judges:16:29 @ And Samson layd hold on the two middle pillars whereupon the house stood, and on which it was borne vp: on the one with his right hand, and on the other with his left.

geneva@Judges:17:1 @ And there (note:)Some think this history was in the time of Othniel, or as Josephus writes, immediately after Joshua.(:note) was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was] Micah.

geneva@Judges:17:4 @ And when he had restored the money vnto his mother, his mother tooke two hundreth shekels of siluer, and gaue them to the founder, which made thereof a grauen and molten image, and it was in the house of Michah.

geneva@Judges:17:5 @ And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an (note:)He would serve both God and idols.(:note) ephod, and By Teraphim some understand certain idols, having the likeness of a man, but others understand by it all manner of things and instruments belonging to those who sought an answer at God's hands, as in (Jdg_18:5-6). teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

geneva@Judges:17:6 @ In those days [there was] no (note:)For where there is no Magistrate fearing God, there can be no true religion or order.(:note) king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.

geneva@Judges:17:7 @ And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah (note:)Which Bethlehem was in the tribe of Judah.(:note) of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.

geneva@Judges:17:8 @ And the man departed out of the citie, euen out of Beth-lehem Iudah, to dwell where he coulde finde a place: and as he iourneyed, he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Michah

geneva@Judges:17:9 @ And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, (note:)For in those days the service of God was corrupt in all estates and the Levites were not looked to.(:note) I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].

geneva@Judges:17:11 @ And the Levite was (note:)Not considering that he forsook the true worship of God to maintain his own belly.(:note) content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

geneva@Judges:17:12 @ And Michah consecrated the Leuite, and the yong man was his Priest, and was in the house of Michah.

geneva@Judges:18:1 @ In those days [there was] no (note:)Meaning, no ordinary magistrate to punish vice according to God's word.(:note) king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day [all their] inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

geneva@Judges:18:2 @ And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, (note:)For the portion which Joshua gave them, was not sufficient for all their tribe.(:note) Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

geneva@Judges:18:3 @ When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the (note:)They knew by his speech that he was a stranger there.(:note) voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this [place]? and what hast thou here?

geneva@Judges:18:5 @ Againe they said vnto him, Aske counsell nowe of God, that we may knowe whether the way which we goe, shalbe prosperous.

geneva@Judges:18:17 @ And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, [and] came in thither, [and] took the (note:)Superstition blinded them so that they thought God's power was in the idols, and that they would have good success because of them, though they took them away by robbery and violence.(:note) graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.

geneva@Judges:18:20 @ And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the (note:)With the six hundred men.(:note) people.

geneva@Judges:18:25 @ And the children of Dan sayde vnto him, Let not thy voyce be heard among vs, least angrie fellowes runne vpon thee, and thou lose thy life with the liues of thine housholde.

geneva@Judges:18:27 @ And they took [the (note:)Meaning, the idols, as in (Jdg_18:18).(:note) things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

geneva@Judges:18:28 @ And there was none to helpe, because Laish was farre from Zidon, and they had no businesse with other men: also it was in the valley that lyeth by Beth-rehob. After, they built the citie, and dwelt therein,

geneva@Judges:18:29 @ And called the name of the citie Dan, after the name of Dan their father which was borne vnto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the beginning.

geneva@Judges:18:30 @ And the children of Dan set up the (note:)Thus instead of giving glory to God, they attributed the victory to their idols, and honoured them therefore.(:note) graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the That is, till the Ark was taken, (1Sa_5:1). captivity of the land.

geneva@Judges:18:31 @ So they set them vp the grauen image, which Michah had made, all the while the house of God was in Shiloh.

geneva@Judges:19:1 @ Also in those dayes, when there was no king in Israel, a certaine Leuite dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, and tooke to wife a concubine out of Beth-lehem Iudah,

geneva@Judges:19:3 @ And her husband arose and went after her, to speake friendly vnto her, and to bring her againe: he had also his seruant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him vnto her fathers house, and when the yong womans father sawe him, he reioyced of his coming.

geneva@Judges:19:7 @ And when the man rose vp to depart, his father in lawe was earnest: therefore he returned, and lodged there.

geneva@Judges:19:8 @ And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, (note:)Meaning, that he should refresh himself with food, as in (Jdg_19:5).(:note) Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.

geneva@Judges:19:10 @ But the man would not tarry, but arose & departed, and came ouer against Iebus, (which is Ierusalem) and his two asses laden, and his concubine were with him.

geneva@Judges:19:11 @ When they were neere to Iebus, the day was sore spent, and the seruant said vnto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let vs turne into this citie of the Iebusites, and lodge all night there.

geneva@Judges:19:12 @ And his master said unto him, (note:)Though in these days there were most horrible corruptions, even necessity could not compel them to associate with those who did not profess the true God.(:note) We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

geneva@Judges:19:15 @ Then they turned thither to goe in and lodge in Gibeah: and when he came, he sate him downe in a streete of the citie: for there was no man that tooke them into his house to lodging.

geneva@Judges:19:16 @ And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] (note:)Or, the children of Jamini.(:note) Benjamites.

geneva@Judges:19:18 @ And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the (note:)To Shiloh of Mizpeh where the ark was.(:note) house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me to house.

geneva@Judges:19:19 @ Although we haue straw and prouader for our asses, and also bread and wine for me & thine handmayde, and for the boy that is with thy seruant: we lacke nothing.

geneva@Judges:19:20 @ And the olde man sayde, Peace bee with thee: as for all that thou lackest, shalt thou finde with me: onely abide not in the streete al night.

geneva@Judges:19:21 @ So he brought him into his house, & gaue fodder vnto the asses: and they washed their feete, and did eate and drinke.

geneva@Judges:19:22 @ [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] (note:)In an attempt to break it.(:note) beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

geneva@Judges:19:23 @ And this man the master of ye house went out vnto the, & said vnto them, Nay my brethre, do not so wickedly, I pray you: seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this villenie.

geneva@Judges:19:24 @ Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, (note:)That is, abuse them, as in (Gen_19:8).(:note) and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.

geneva@Judges:19:26 @ Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and (note:)She fell down dead, as in (Jdg_19:27).(:note) fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was], till it was light.

geneva@Judges:19:27 @ And her lorde arose in the morning, and opened the doores of the house, and went out to goe his way, and beholde, the woman his concubine was dead at the doore of the house and her handes lay vpon the thresholde.

geneva@Judges:19:28 @ And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her [up] upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his (note:)Meaning, home to mount Ephraim.(:note) place.

geneva@Judges:19:29 @ And whe he was come to his house, he took a knife, and laid hand on his concubine, and deuided her in pieces with her bones into twelue parts, and sent her through all quarters of Israel.

geneva@Judges:19:30 @ And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no (note:)For this was like the sin of Sodom for which God rained down fire and brimstone from heaven.(:note) such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak [your minds].

geneva@Judges:20:1 @ Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as (note:)That is, all with one consent.(:note) one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the To ask counsel. LORD in Mizpeh.

geneva@Judges:20:2 @ And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that (note:)Meaning, men able to handle their weapons.(:note) drew sword.

geneva@Judges:20:3 @ (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then (note:)To the Levite.(:note) said the children of Israel, Tell [us], how was this wickedness?

geneva@Judges:20:4 @ And the same Leuite, the womans husband that was slaine, answered and saide, I came vnto Gibeah that is in Beniamin with my concubine to lodge,

geneva@Judges:20:8 @ And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his (note:)Before we have avenged this wickedness.(:note) house.

geneva@Judges:20:11 @ So all the men of Israel were gathered against the citie, knit together, as one man.

geneva@Judges:20:18 @ And the children of Israel arose, and went up (note:)That is, to the ark, which was in Shiloh some think in Mizpeh, as in (Jdg_20:1).(:note) to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first.

geneva@Judges:20:23 @ (For the children of Israel had gone vp and wept before the Lord vnto the euening, and had asked of the Lorde, saying, Shall I goe againe to battel against the children of Beniamin my brethren? and the Lord said, Go vp against them)

geneva@Judges:20:26 @ Then al the children of Israel went vp and all the people came also vnto the house of God, and wept and sate there before the Lord & fasted that day vnto the euening, and offred burnt offrings and peace offrings before the Lord.

geneva@Judges:20:27 @ And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God [was] (note:)That is, in Shiloh.(:note) there in those days,

geneva@Judges:20:28 @ And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, (note:)Or, served in the priest's office in those days: for the Jews write that he lived three hundred years.(:note) stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

geneva@Judges:20:30 @ And the children of Israel went vp against the children of Beniamin the third day, and put theselues in aray against Gibeah, as at other times.

geneva@Judges:20:31 @ And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were (note:)By the policy of the children of Israel.(:note) drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

geneva@Judges:20:32 @ And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the (note:)Meaning, crossways or paths to various places.(:note) highways.

geneva@Judges:20:34 @ And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that (note:)They did not know that God's judgment was at hand to destroy them.(:note) evil [was] near them.

geneva@Judges:20:37 @ And they that lay in wait hasted, and brake forth toward Gibeah, & the ambushment drewe themselues along, and smote all the citie with the edge of the sword.

geneva@Judges:20:39 @ And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to (note:)For they had grown bold because of the two former victories.(:note) smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first battle.

geneva@Judges:20:40 @ But when the flame bega to arise out of the citie, as a pillar of smoke, the Beniamites looked backe, and behold, the flame of the citie began to ascend vp to heauen.

geneva@Judges:20:41 @ And when the men of Israel turned (note:)And withstood their enemies.(:note) again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

geneva@Judges:20:43 @ Thus they compassed the Beniamites about, and chased them at ease, and ouerranne them, euen ouer against Gibeah on the Eastside.

geneva@Judges:20:45 @ And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they (note:)They slew them one by one, as they were scattered abroad.(:note) gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

geneva@Judges:20:48 @ And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the (note:)If they belonged to the Benjamites.(:note) cities that they came to.

geneva@Judges:21:1 @ Now the men of Israel had (note:)This was a rash oath, and not from judgment: for they later broke it, showing secretly the means to marry certain of their daughters.(:note) sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

geneva@Judges:21:3 @ And sayde, O Lorde God of Israel, why is this come to passe in Israel, that this day one tribe of Israel should want?

geneva@Judges:21:4 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an (note:)According to their custom, when they would consult the Lord.(:note) altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

geneva@Judges:21:6 @ And the children of Israel (note:)Or, were sorry that they had destroyed their brethren, as it appears in (Jdg_21:15).(:note) repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

geneva@Judges:21:8 @ And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that (note:)Condemning them as lovers of evil, who would not punish it.(:note) came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

geneva@Judges:21:19 @ Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the (note:)He describes the place where the maids used to dance yearly, and sing psalms and songs of God's works among them, as the custom was then.(:note) north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

geneva@Judges:21:22 @ And it shall be, (note:)Though they attempted to convince man that they had kept their oath, before God it was broken.(:note) when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, [that] ye should be guilty.

geneva@Judges:21:25 @ In those dayes there was no King in Israel, but euery man did that which was good in his eyes.

geneva@Ruth:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the (note:)In the land of Canaan.(:note) land. And a certain man of In the tribe of Judah, which was also called Bethlehem Ephrathat, because there was another city so called in the tribe of Zebulun. Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. The Argument - This book is called Ruth, who is the main person spoken of in this writing. In which also the state of the Church is set forth figuratively, being subject to many afflictions and yet eventually God gives good and joyful offspring, teaching us to abide with patience till God delivers us out of troubles. In this also it is described how Jesus Christ, who according to the flesh came from David, proceeded by Ruth, of whom the Lord Jesus promised to come, nonetheless she was a Moabite of base condition, and a stranger to the people of God; declaring to us by it that the Gentiles would be sanctified by him, and joined with his people, and that there would be one sheepfold, and one shepherd. It would appear that this account belongs to the time of the judges.

geneva@Ruth:1:2 @ And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi: and the names of his two sonnes, Mahlon, and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem Iudah: and when they came into the land of Moab, they continued there.

geneva@Ruth:1:4 @ And they took them wives of the (note:)By this wonderful providence of God Ruth became one of God's household, of whom Christ came.(:note) women of Moab; the name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

geneva@Ruth:1:5 @ And Mahlon and Chilion dyed also both twaine: so the woman was left destitute of her two sonnes, and of her husband.

geneva@Ruth:1:7 @ Wherefore shee departed out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her, and they went on their way to returne vnto the land of Iudah.

geneva@Ruth:1:8 @ Then Naomi saide vnto her two daughters in lawe, Goe, returne eche of you vnto her owne mothers house: the Lord shew fauour vnto you, as ye haue done with the dead, and with me.

geneva@Ruth:1:15 @ And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: (note:)No persuasion can convince them to turn back from God, if he has chosen them to be his.(:note) return thou after thy sister in law.

geneva@Ruth:1:18 @ Whe she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left speaking vnto her.

geneva@Ruth:1:19 @ So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was (note:)By which it appears that she was of a great family of good reputation.(:note) moved about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi?

geneva@Ruth:1:22 @ So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of (note:)Which was in the month of Nisan, that is, part March and part April.(:note) barley harvest.

geneva@Ruth:2:1 @ And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of (note:)Or power, both in virtue, authority and riches.(:note) wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name [was] Boaz.

geneva@Ruth:2:3 @ And she went, and came and gleaned in the fielde after the reapers, and it came to passe, that she met with the portion of the fielde of Boaz, who was of the familie of Elimelech.

geneva@Ruth:2:5 @ Then saide Boaz vnto his seruant that was appointed ouer the reapers, Whose maide is this?

geneva@Ruth:2:6 @ And the seruant that was appointed ouer the reapers, answered, and said, It is the Moabitish maide, that came with Naomi out of the countrey of Moab:

geneva@Ruth:2:11 @ And Boaz answered, & said vnto her, All is told and shewed me that thou hast done vnto thy mother in lawe, since the death of thine husband, and how thou hast left thy father & thy mother, and ye land where thou wast borne, & art come vnto a people which thou knewest not in time past.

geneva@Ruth:2:13 @ Then she saide, Let me finde fauour in thy sight, my lord: for thou hast comforted mee, and spoken comfortably vnto thy mayde, though I be not like to one of thy maydes.

geneva@Ruth:2:14 @ And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched [corn], and she did eat, and was sufficed, and (note:)Which she brought home to her mother in law.(:note) left.

geneva@Ruth:2:17 @ So she gleaned in the fielde vntill euening, and she thresshed that shee had gathered, and it was about an Ephah of barly.

geneva@Ruth:2:18 @ And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she (note:)That is, from her bag, as it is in the Chaldee text.(:note) brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.

geneva@Ruth:2:19 @ Then her mother in lawe saide vnto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he, that knewe thee; she shewed her mother in lawe, with whome she had wrought, and saide, The mans name, with whom I wrought to day, is Boaz.

geneva@Ruth:3:2 @ Now also is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maides thou wast? beholde, he winoweth barly to night in the floore.

geneva@Ruth:3:3 @ Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: [but] make not thyself known unto the (note:)Boaz, nor yet any other.(:note) man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

geneva@Ruth:3:7 @ And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his (note:)That is, he had refreshed himself among his servants.(:note) heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.

geneva@Ruth:3:8 @ And at midnight the man was afraide and caught holde: and loe, a woman lay at his feete.

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@Ruth:3:13 @ Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if he (note:)If he will take you to as his wife because of his relation by marriage, according to God's law, (Deu_25:5).(:note) will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.

geneva@Ruth:3:15 @ Also he sayd, Bring the sheete that thou hast vpon thee, and holde it; when she helde it, he measured sixe measures of barly, and layde them on her, and she went into the citie.

geneva@Ruth:3:16 @ And when she came to her mother in law, she said, (note:)Believing by her returning home that he had not taken her as his wife, she was astonished.(:note) Who [art] thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

geneva@Ruth:3:17 @ And said, These sixe measures of barly gaue he me: for he sayd to me, Thou shalt not come emptie vnto thy mother in lawe.

geneva@Ruth:4:1 @ Then went Boaz up to the (note:)Which was the place of judgment.(:note) gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, The Hebrews here use two words which have no proper meaning, but serve to denote a certain person, as we would say, «Ho, so-and-so». Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

geneva@Ruth:4:3 @ And he said vnto ye kinsman, Naomi, that is come againe out of ye countrey of Moab, wil sell a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelechs.

geneva@Ruth:4:7 @ Now this [was the manner] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave [it] to his neighbour: and this [was] a (note:)That he had resigned his right, (Deu_25:9).(:note) testimony in Israel.

geneva@Ruth:4:8 @ Therefore the kinsman sayd to Boas, Buy it for thee: and he drew off his shooe.

geneva@Ruth:4:9 @ And Boaz sayd vnto the Elders & vnto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I haue bought all that was Elimelechs, and all that was Chilions and Mahlons, of the hand of Naomi.

geneva@Ruth:4:10 @ Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his (note:)Or, of the city where he remained.(:note) place: ye [are] witnesses this day.

geneva@Ruth:4:13 @ So Boaz tooke Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in vnto her, the Lorde gaue that she conceiued, and bare a sonne.

geneva@Ruth:4:17 @ And the women her neighbours gaue it a name, saying, There is a childe borne to Naomi, and called the name thereof Obed: the same was the father of Ishai, the father of Dauid.

geneva@1Samuel:1:1 @ Now there was a certain man of (note:)There were two Ramatus, so that in this city in mount Ephraim were Zophim, that is, the learned men and prophets.(:note) Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: The Argument - As God had ordained in (Deu_17:14), that when the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, he would appoint a king for them: so here in the first book of Samuel the state of the people under their first king Saul is declared. Not content with the order that God had temporarily appointed for the government of his Church, they demanded a king, so that they might be as other nations. As well they thought they would be better off, not because they could serve God better by it, but because they would be under the safeguard of him who represented Jesus Christ the true deliverer. Therefore God gave them a tyrant and a hypocrite to rule over them, so that they might learn that a king is not sufficient to defend them, unless God by his power preserves and keeps them. Therefore he punishes the ingratitude of his people, and sends them continual wars both at home and abroad. Also, because Saul, whom God had given to the honour of a king out of nothing, did not acknowledge God's mercy to him, but rather disobeyed the word of God and was not zealous of his glory, he was removed from his estate by God, and David the true figure of Messiah was placed in his stead. His patience, modesty, constancy, persecution by open enemies, feigned friends, and deceitful flatterers, is left to the Church and to every member of it, as a pattern and example of their state and calling.

geneva@1Samuel:1:2 @ And he had two wiues: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

geneva@1Samuel:1:3 @ And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in (note:)For the ark was there at that time.(:note) Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there.

geneva@1Samuel:1:6 @ And her aduersarie vexed her sore, forasmuch as she vpbraided her, because the Lorde had made her barren.

geneva@1Samuel:1:7 @ (And so did he yeere by yeere) and as oft as she went vp to the house of the Lord, thus she vexed her, that she wept and did not eate.

geneva@1Samuel:1:9 @ So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the (note:)That is of the house where the ark was.(:note) temple of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:1:10 @ And she was troubled in her minde, and prayed vnto the Lord, and wept sore:

geneva@1Samuel:1:11 @ Also she vowed a vowe, and sayd, O Lord of hostes, if thou wilt looke on the trouble of thine handmaide, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaide, but giue vnto thine handmaide a manchilde, then I will giue him vnto the Lord all the dayes of his life, and there shall no rasor come vpon his head.

geneva@1Samuel:1:12 @ And as she continued praying before the Lord, Eli marked her mouth.

geneva@1Samuel:1:13 @ For Hannah spake in her heart: her lips did moue onely, but her voyce was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had bene drunken.

geneva@1Samuel:1:17 @ Then Eli answered, and sayd, Go in peace, and the God of Israel graunt thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

geneva@1Samuel:1:18 @ And she said, Let thine handmaid find (note:)That is, pray to the Lord for me.(:note) grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more [sad].

geneva@1Samuel:1:20 @ For in processe of time Hannah conceiued, and bare a sonne, and she called his name Samuel, Because, said she, I haue asked him of the Lord.

geneva@1Samuel:1:21 @ And the man (note:)This Elkanah was a Levite, (1Ch_6:27), and as some write once a year they were accustomed to appear before the Lord with their families.(:note) Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

geneva@1Samuel:1:23 @ And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his (note:)Because her prayer took effect, therefore it was called the Lord's promise.(:note) word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

geneva@1Samuel:1:24 @ And when she had weined him, she tooke him with her with three bullockes and an Ephah of floure and a bottell of wine, and brought him vnto the house of the Lorde in Shiloh, and the childe was yong.

geneva@1Samuel:1:26 @ And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy (note:)That is, most certainly.(:note) soul liveth, my lord, I [am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:1:27 @ I prayed for this childe, and the Lord hath giuen me my desire which I asked of him.

geneva@1Samuel:1:28 @ Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he (note:)Meaning, Eli gave thanks to God for her.(:note) worshipped the LORD there.

geneva@1Samuel:2:2 @ There is none holy as the Lord: yea, there is none besides thee, & there is no god like our God.

geneva@1Samuel:2:5 @ [They that were] full have hired out themselves for (note:)They sell their labours for necessary food.(:note) bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

geneva@1Samuel:2:10 @ The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his (note:)She grounded her prayer on Jesus Christ who was to come.(:note) king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

geneva@1Samuel:2:13 @ For the Priestes custome towarde the people was this: when any man offered sacrifice, the Priestes boy came, while the flesh was seething, and a fleshhooke with three teeth, in his hand,

geneva@1Samuel:2:15 @ Also before they burnt the (note:)Which was commanded first to have been offered to God.(:note) fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

geneva@1Samuel:2:16 @ And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul (note:)Not passing for their own profit, so that God might be served rightly.(:note) desireth; then he would answer him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me] now: and if not, I will take [it] by force.

geneva@1Samuel:2:17 @ Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men (note:)Seeing the horrible abuse of it.(:note) abhorred the offering of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:2:20 @ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord giue thee seede of this woman, for the petition that she asked of the Lord: and they departed vnto their place.

geneva@1Samuel:2:22 @ Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that (note:)Which was (as the Hebrews write) after their travail, when they came to be purified, read (Exo_38:8; Lev_12:6).(:note) assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@1Samuel:2:26 @ (Nowe the childe Samuel profited and grewe, and was in fauour both with the Lord and also with men)

geneva@1Samuel:2:29 @ Wherefore (note:)Why have you contemned my sacrifices, and as it were trod them under foot?(:note) kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

geneva@1Samuel:2:34 @ And this shalbe a signe vnto thee, that shal come vpon thy two sonnes Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both.

geneva@1Samuel:2:35 @ And I will raise me up a (note:)Meaning Zadok, who succeeded Abiathar, and was the figure of Christ.(:note) faithful priest, [that] shall do according to [that] which [is] in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

geneva@1Samuel:2:36 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left in thine house shall come [and] (note:)That is, will be inferior to him.(:note) crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

geneva@1Samuel:3:1 @ And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD (note:)The Chaldee text reads «while Eli lived».(:note) before Eli. And the word of the LORD was Because there were very few prophets to declare it. precious in those days; [there was] no open vision.

geneva@1Samuel:3:2 @ And it came to pass at that time, when Eli [was] laid down in his (note:)In the court next to the tabernacle.(:note) place, and his eyes began to wax dim, [that] he could not see;

geneva@1Samuel:3:3 @ And ere the (note:)That is, the lamps which burnt in the night.(:note) lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God [was], and Samuel was laid down [to sleep];

geneva@1Samuel:3:4 @ That the LORD (note:)Josephus writes that Samuel was 12 years old when the Lord appeared to him.(:note) called Samuel: and he answered, Here [am] I.

geneva@1Samuel:3:7 @ Now Samuel did not yet know (note:)By vision.(:note) the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.

geneva@1Samuel:3:8 @ And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And Eli (note:)Such was the corruption of those times that the chief priest had become dull and negligent to understand the Lord's appearing.(:note) perceived that the LORD had called the child.

geneva@1Samuel:3:10 @ And the Lord came, and stoode, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speake, for thy seruant heareth.

geneva@1Samuel:3:19 @ And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words (note:)The Lord accomplished whatever he had said.(:note) fall to the ground.

geneva@1Samuel:3:20 @ And all Israel fro Dan to Beer-sheba knew that faithfull Samuel was the Lordes Prophet.

geneva@1Samuel:4:2 @ And the Philistims put themselues in aray against Israel: and when they ioyned the battell, Israel was smitten downe before the Philistims: who slewe of the armie in the fielde about foure thousand men.

geneva@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, (note:)For it seems that this war was undertaken by Samuel's commandment.(:note) Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

geneva@1Samuel:4:4 @ So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which (note:)For he used to appear to the Israelites between the cherubim over the ark of the covenant, (Exo_25:17).(:note) dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.

geneva@1Samuel:4:6 @ And when the Philistims heard the noyse of the shoute, they said, What meaneth the sound of this mightie shoute in the host of the Ebrewes? and they vnderstoode, that the Arke of the Lord was come into the hoste.

geneva@1Samuel:4:7 @ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, (note:)Before we fought against men, and now God has come to fight against us.(:note) Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.

geneva@1Samuel:4:8 @ Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these [are] the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the (note:)For in the Red Sea in the wilderness the Egyptians were destroyed, which was the last of all his plagues.(:note) wilderness.

geneva@1Samuel:4:9 @ Be strong and play the men, O Philistims, that ye be not seruants vnto the Ebrewes, as they haue serued you: be valiant therefore, and fight.

geneva@1Samuel:4:10 @ And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel (note:)David alluding to this place in (Psa_78:63) says they were consumed with fire: meaning they were suddenly destroyed.(:note) thirty thousand footmen.

geneva@1Samuel:4:11 @ And the Arke of God was taken, and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas died.

geneva@1Samuel:4:14 @ And when Eli heard the noyse of the crying, he sayd, What meaneth this noyse of the tumult? and the man came in hastily, and tolde Eli.

geneva@1Samuel:4:15 @ (Nowe Eli was fourescore and eighteene yeere olde, and his eyes were dimme that hee could not see)

geneva@1Samuel:4:17 @ And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, (note:)According as God had said before.(:note) are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

geneva@1Samuel:4:18 @ And when he had made mention of the Arke of God, Eli fell from his seate backward by the side of the gate, and his necke was broken, and he dyed: for he was an olde man and heauie: and he had iudged Israel fourtie yeeres.

geneva@1Samuel:4:19 @ And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, [near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she (note:)And positioned her body for her labour and delivery.(:note) bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

geneva@1Samuel:4:20 @ And about the time of her death, the women that stoode about her, sayd vnto her, Feare not: for thou hast borne a sonne: but she answered not, nor regarded it.

geneva@1Samuel:4:21 @ And she named the childe Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel, because the Arke of God was taken, and because of her father in lawe and her husband.

geneva@1Samuel:5:1 @ And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto (note:)Which was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines.(:note) Ashdod.

geneva@1Samuel:5:2 @ When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of (note:)Which was their chief idol, and as some write, from the navel downward was like a fish, and upward like a man.(:note) Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

geneva@1Samuel:5:3 @ And when they of Ashdod rose the next day in the morning, beholde, Dagon was fallen vpon his face on the ground before the Arke of the Lord, and they tooke vp Dagon, and set him in his place againe.

geneva@1Samuel:5:4 @ Also they rose vp earely in the morning the next day, and beholde, Dagon was fallen vpon his face on the ground before the Arke of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and the two palmes of his hands were cut off vpon the thresholde: onely the stumpe of Dagon was left to him.

geneva@1Samuel:5:5 @ Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, (note:)Thus instead of acknowledging the true God by this miracle, they fall into greater superstition.(:note) tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

geneva@1Samuel:5:6 @ But the hand of the Lord was heauie vpon them of Ashdod, and destroyed them, and smote them with the emerods, both Ashdod, and the coastes thereof.

geneva@1Samuel:5:7 @ And when the men of Ashdod sawe this, they sayd, Let not the Arke of the God of Israel abide with vs: for his hand is sore vpon vs and vpon Dagon our god.

geneva@1Samuel:5:9 @ And when they had caried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the citie with a very great destruction, and he smote the men of the citie both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret partes.

geneva@1Samuel:5:10 @ Therefore they sent the Arke of God to Ekron: and assoone as the Arke of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cryed out, saying, They haue brought the Arke of the God of Israel to vs to slay vs and our people.

geneva@1Samuel:5:11 @ So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send (note:)The wicked when they feel the hand of God, grudge and reject him, where the godly humble themselves, and cry for mercy.(:note) away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

geneva@1Samuel:6:1 @ And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines (note:)They thought by continuance of time the plague would have ceased, and so would have kept the ark still.(:note) seven months.

geneva@1Samuel:6:3 @ And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him (note:)The idolaters confess there is a true God, who punishes sin justly.(:note) a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

geneva@1Samuel:6:4 @ Then sayd they, What shalbe the sinne offring, which we shall giue vnto it? And they answered, Fiue golden emerods and fiue golden mise, according to the number of the princes of the Philistims: for one plague was on you all, and on your princes.

geneva@1Samuel:6:6 @ Wherefore then should ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let them goe, and they departed?

geneva@1Samuel:6:8 @ And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the (note:)Meaning, the golden emerods and the golden mice.(:note) jewels of gold, which ye return him [for] a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

geneva@1Samuel:6:9 @ And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [then] (note:)The God of Israel.(:note) he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us: it [was] a The wicked attribute almost all things to fortune and chance, whereas indeed there is nothing done without God's providence and decree. chance [that] happened to us.

geneva@1Samuel:6:12 @ And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after (note:)For the trial of the matter.(:note) them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

geneva@1Samuel:6:14 @ And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and (note:)That is, the men of Bethshemesh, who were Israelites.(:note) they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:6:15 @ And the Leuites tooke downe the Arke of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the iewels of golde were, and put them on the great stone, and the men of Beth-shemesh offred burnt offring, and sacrificed sacrifices that same day vnto the Lord.

geneva@1Samuel:6:17 @ And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for (note:)These were the five principal cities of the Philistines, which were not all conquered to the time of David.(:note) Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

geneva@1Samuel:6:19 @ And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they (note:)For it was not lawful for anyone either to touch or to see it, only to Aaron and his sons (Num_4:15, Num_4:20).(:note) had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter.

geneva@1Samuel:7:2 @ And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented (note:)Lamented for their sins, and followed the Lord.(:note) after the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:7:3 @ Then Samuel spake vnto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye be come againe vnto the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, and Ashtaroth, & direct your hearts vnto the Lord, & serue him only, and he shall deliuer you out of the hand of ye Philistims.

geneva@1Samuel:7:4 @ Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim & Ashtaroth, & serued the Lord onely.

geneva@1Samuel:7:5 @ And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to (note:)For Shiloh was now desolate, because the Philistines had taken the ark from it.(:note) Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:7:6 @ And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and (note:)The Chaldee text says that they drew water out of their heart: that is, wept abundantly for their sins.(:note) drew water, and poured [it] out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

geneva@1Samuel:7:8 @ And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to (note:)Signifying that in the prayers of the godly, there should be a vehement zeal.(:note) cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

geneva@1Samuel:7:10 @ And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD (note:)According to the prophecy of Hannah Samuel's mother, (1Sa_2:10).(:note) thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:7:12 @ Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and (note:)Which was a great rock over against Mizpeh.(:note) Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

geneva@1Samuel:7:13 @ So the Philistims were brought vnder, and they came no more againe into the coastes of Israel: and the hand of the Lorde was against the Philistims all the dayes of Samuel.

geneva@1Samuel:7:14 @ And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the (note:)Meaning, the Philistines.(:note) Amorites.

geneva@1Samuel:7:17 @ And his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an (note:)Which was not contrary to the Law: for as yet a certain place was not appointed.(:note) altar unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:8:1 @ And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he (note:)Because he was not able to bear the charge.(:note) made his sons judges over Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:8:2 @ Now the name of his firstborn was (note:)Who was also called Vashni, (1Ch_6:28).(:note) Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: [they were] judges in Beersheba.

geneva@1Samuel:8:3 @ And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke rewards, and peruerted the iudgement.

geneva@1Samuel:8:4 @ Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto (note:)For there his house was, (1Sa_7:17).(:note) Ramah,

geneva@1Samuel:8:6 @ But the thing (note:)Because they were not content with the order that God had appointed, but would be governed as the Gentiles were.(:note) displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:8:7 @ And the Lord said vnto Samuel, Heare the voyce of the people in all that they shall say vnto thee: for they haue not cast thee away, but they haue cast me away, that I should not reigne ouer the.

geneva@1Samuel:8:8 @ As they haue euer done since I brought them out of Egypt euen vnto this day, (and haue forsaken me, and serued other gods) euen so doe they vnto thee.

geneva@1Samuel:8:10 @ So Samuel told all the wordes of the Lord vnto the people that asked a King of him.

geneva@1Samuel:8:11 @ And he said, This will be the (note:)Not that kings have this authority by their office, but that such as reign in God's wrath would usurp this over their brethren, contrary to the law, (Deu_17:20).(:note) manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some] shall run before his chariots.

geneva@1Samuel:8:16 @ And he will take your men seruants, and your maide seruants, and the chiefe of your yong men, and your asses, and put them to his worke.

geneva@1Samuel:8:18 @ And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not (note:)Because you do not repent for your sins, but because you long for your afflictions, into which you cast yourselves willingly.(:note) hear you in that day.

geneva@1Samuel:9:1 @ Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name [was] Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a (note:)That is, both valiant and rich.(:note) mighty man of power.

geneva@1Samuel:9:2 @ And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a (note:)So that it might seem that God approved their request in appointing such a person.(:note) choice young man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was] higher than any of the people.

geneva@1Samuel:9:3 @ And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go (note:)All these circumstances were means to serve God's providence, by which Saul (though not approved by God) was made king.(:note) seek the asses.

geneva@1Samuel:9:4 @ So he passed through mount Ephraim, and went through the lande of Shalishah, but they found them not. Then they went through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: he went also through ye land of Iemini, but they found the not.

geneva@1Samuel:9:5 @ [And] when they were come to the land of (note:)Where was Ramath Zophim, the city of Samuel.(:note) Zuph, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us.

geneva@1Samuel:9:6 @ And he said vnto him, Behold nowe, in this citie is a man of God, and he is an honorable man: all that he saith commeth to passe: let vs nowe goe thither, if so be that he can shewe vs what way we may goe.

geneva@1Samuel:9:9 @ (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the (note:)So called because he foresaw things to come.(:note) seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

geneva@1Samuel:9:10 @ Then saide Saul to his seruant, Well saide, come, let vs goe: so they went into the citie where the man of God was.

geneva@1Samuel:9:11 @ And as they were going vp the hie way to the citie, they found maydes that came out to draw water, & said vnto them, Is there here a Seer?

geneva@1Samuel:9:12 @ And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for [there is] a (note:)That is, a feast after the offering, which would be kept in a high place of the city appointed for that use.(:note) sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:

geneva@1Samuel:9:13 @ As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth (note:)That is, give thanks and distribute the meat according to their custom.(:note) bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.

geneva@1Samuel:9:16 @ To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain over my people Israel, that he may (note:)Despite their wickedness, yet God was ever mindful of his inheritance.(:note) save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

geneva@1Samuel:9:20 @ And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And (note:)Whom does Israel desire to be their king, but thee?(:note) on whom [is] all the desire of Israel? [Is it] not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

geneva@1Samuel:9:21 @ But Saul answered, and said, Am not I the sonne of Iemini of the smallest tribe of Israel? and my familie is the least of all the families of the tribe of Beniamin. Wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

geneva@1Samuel:9:22 @ And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the (note:)Where the feast was.(:note) parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which [were] about thirty persons.

geneva@1Samuel:9:24 @ And the cook took up the shoulder, and [that] which [was] (note:)That is, the shoulder with the breast, which the priest had for his family in all peace offerings, (Lev_10:14)(:note) upon it, and set [it] before Saul. And [Samuel] said, Behold that which is left! set [it] before thee, [and] eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I That both by the assembling of the people, and by the meat prepared for you, you might understand that I knew of your coming. have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

geneva@1Samuel:9:26 @ And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the (note:)To speak with him secretly: for the houses were flat above.(:note) top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

geneva@1Samuel:9:27 @ [And] as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee (note:)God's commandment concerning you.(:note) the word of God.

geneva@1Samuel:10:2 @ When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The (note:)Samuel confirms him by these signs, that God has appointed him king.(:note) asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

geneva@1Samuel:10:4 @ And they will aske thee if all be well, and will giue thee the two loaues of bread, which thou shalt receiue of their handes.

geneva@1Samuel:10:5 @ After that thou shalt come to the (note:)Which was a high place in the city Kirjath-jearim, where the ark was, (1Sa_7:2).(:note) hill of God, where [is] the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:

geneva@1Samuel:10:7 @ Therefore when these signes shall come vnto to thee, doe as occasion shall serue: for God is with thee.

geneva@1Samuel:10:9 @ And it was [so], that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another (note:)He gave him such virtues as were fitting for a king.(:note) heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.

geneva@1Samuel:10:12 @ And one of the same place answered and said, But who [is] their (note:)Meaning, that prophecy comes not by succession, but is given to whom it pleases God.(:note) father? Therefore it became a proverb, [Is] Saul also among the Noting by it him that from low degree comes suddenly to honour. prophets?

geneva@1Samuel:10:14 @ And Sauls vncle saide vnto him, and to his seruant, Whither went ye? And he saide, To seeke the asses: and when we sawe that they were no where, we came to Samuel.

geneva@1Samuel:10:16 @ Then Saul saide to his vncle, He tolde vs plainely that the asses were founde: but concerning the kingdome whereof Samuel spake, tolde he him not.

geneva@1Samuel:10:17 @ And Samuel (note:)Both to declare to them their fault in asking a king, and also to show God's sentence in it.(:note) called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;

geneva@1Samuel:10:19 @ But ye haue this day cast away your God, who onely deliuereth you out of all your aduersities and tribulations: and ye said vnto him, No, but appoint a King ouer vs. Nowe therefore stand ye before the Lord according to your tribes, and according to your thousands.

geneva@1Samuel:10:20 @ And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was (note:)That is, by casting of lot.(:note) taken.

geneva@1Samuel:10:21 @ Afterwarde he assembled the tribe of Beniamin according to their families, and the familie of Matri was taken. So Saul the sonne of Kish was taken, and when they sought him, he coulde not be found.

geneva@1Samuel:10:22 @ Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he (note:)As though he were unworthy and unwilling.(:note) hath hid himself among the stuff.

geneva@1Samuel:10:23 @ And they ranne, and brought him thence: and when he stoode among the people, he was hier then any of the people from the shoulders vpwarde.

geneva@1Samuel:10:25 @ Then Samuel told the people (note:)As it is written in (Deu_17:15).(:note) the manner of the kingdom, and wrote [it] in a book, and laid [it] up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

geneva@1Samuel:11:1 @ Then Nahash the Ammonite (note:)After that Saul was chosen king: for fear of whom they asked a king, as in (1Sa_12:12).(:note) came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.

geneva@1Samuel:11:2 @ And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this [condition] will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all your (note:)This declares that the closer the tyrants are to their destruction, the more cruel they are.(:note) right eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:11:3 @ To whome the Elders of Iabesh said, Giue vs seuen daies respet, that we may sende messengers vnto all the coastes of Israel: and then if no man deliuer vs, we will come out to thee.

geneva@1Samuel:11:6 @ And the Spirit of God (note:)God gave him the spirit of strength and courage to go against this tyrant.(:note) came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.

geneva@1Samuel:11:7 @ And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after (note:)He adds Samuel because Saul was not yet approved by all.(:note) Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

geneva@1Samuel:11:11 @ And when the morowe was come, Saul put the people in three bandes, and they came in vpon the hoste in the morning watche, and slewe the Ammonites vntill the heate of the day: and they that remained, were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

geneva@1Samuel:12:3 @ Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: (note:)God would have this confession be a pattern for all who have any charge or office.(:note) whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

geneva@1Samuel:12:4 @ Then they sayde, Thou hast done vs no wrong, nor hast hurt vs, neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand.

geneva@1Samuel:12:7 @ Nowe therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord according to all the righteousnesse of the Lorde, which he shewed to you and to your fathers.

geneva@1Samuel:12:8 @ After that Iaakob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried vnto the Lorde, then the Lorde sent Moses and Aaron which brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

geneva@1Samuel:12:10 @ And they cried vnto the Lorde, and saide, We haue sinned, because we haue forsaken the Lorde, and haue serued Baalim and Ashtaroth. Nowe therefore deliuer vs out of the handes of our enemies, and we will serue thee.

geneva@1Samuel:12:12 @ And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, (note:)Leaving God to seek the help of man, (1Sa_8:5).(:note) Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.

geneva@1Samuel:12:14 @ If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue (note:)You shall be preserved as they that follow the Lord's will.(:note) following the LORD your God:

geneva@1Samuel:12:15 @ But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your (note:)Meaning, the governors.(:note) fathers.

geneva@1Samuel:12:17 @ [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] (note:)In that you have forsaken him, who has all power in his hand, for a mortal man.(:note) great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.

geneva@1Samuel:12:19 @ And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto (note:)Not only at other times, but now chiefly.(:note) all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.

geneva@1Samuel:12:20 @ And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: (note:)He shows that there is no sin so great, but it shall be forgiven, if the sinner turn again to God.(:note) yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

geneva@1Samuel:12:22 @ For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you (note:)Of his free mercy, and not of your merits, and therefore he will not forsake you.(:note) his people.

geneva@1Samuel:12:23 @ Moreouer God forbid, that I should sinne against the Lord, and cease praying for you, but I will shewe you the good and right way.

geneva@1Samuel:13:2 @ Then Saul chose him three thousand of Israel: and two thousande were with Saul in Michmash, & in mount Beth-el, and a thousande were with Ionathan in Gibeah of Beniamin: and the rest of the people he sent euery one to his tent.

geneva@1Samuel:13:3 @ And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that [was] in (note:)Of Kirjath-jearim, where the ark was, (1Sa_10:5).(:note) Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the That everyone should prepare themselves to fight. trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

geneva@1Samuel:13:4 @ And al Israel heard say, Saul hath destroied a garison of the Philistims: wherefore Israel was had in abomination with the Philistims: and the people gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

geneva@1Samuel:13:5 @ And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from (note:)Which was also called Beth-el, in the tribe of Benjamin.(:note) Bethaven.

geneva@1Samuel:13:7 @ And [some of] the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of (note:)Where the two tribes and the half remained.(:note) Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he [was] yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

geneva@1Samuel:13:8 @ And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were (note:)Thinking that the absence of the prophet was a sign, that they would lose the victory.(:note) scattered from him.

geneva@1Samuel:13:10 @ And assoone as hee had made an ende of offering the burnt offering, beholde, Samuel came: and Saul went foorth to meete him, to salute him.

geneva@1Samuel:13:11 @ And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were (note:)Though these causes seem sufficient in man's judgment: yet because they had not the word of God, they turned to his destruction.(:note) scattered from me, and [that] thou camest not within the days appointed, and [that] the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;

geneva@1Samuel:13:12 @ Therefore said I, The Philistims will come downe nowe vpon me to Gilgal, and I haue not made supplication vnto the Lorde. I was bolde therefore and offred a burnt offring.

geneva@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy (note:)Who willed you to obey him, and rest on the words spoken by his prophet.(:note) God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

geneva@1Samuel:13:14 @ But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a (note:)That is, David.(:note) man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.

geneva@1Samuel:13:16 @ And Saul and Ionathan his sonne, and the people that were found with them, had their abiding in Gibeah of Beniamin: but the Philistims pitched in Michmash.

geneva@1Samuel:13:19 @ Then there was no smith founde throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistims sayde, Lest the Ebrewes make them swordes or speares.

geneva@1Samuel:13:22 @ So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither (note:)To declare that the victory only came from God, and not by their force.(:note) sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

geneva@1Samuel:13:23 @ And the garison of the Philistims came out to the passage of Michmash.

geneva@1Samuel:14:1 @ Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, (note:)By this example God declared to Israel that the victory did not consist in multitude or armour, but only because of his grace.(:note) Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that [is] on the other side. But he told not his father.

geneva@1Samuel:14:2 @ And Saul taried in the border of Gibeah vnder a pomegranate tree, which was in Migron, and the people that were with him, were about sixe hundreth men.

geneva@1Samuel:14:3 @ And Ahiah the sonne of Ahitub, Ichabods brother, the sonne of Phinehas, the sonne of Eli, was the Lordes Priest in Shiloh, and ware an Ephod: and the people knewe not that Ionathan was gone.

geneva@1Samuel:14:4 @ Nowe in the way whereby Ionathan sought to go ouer to the Philistims garison, there was a sharpe rocke on the one side, and a sharpe rocke on the other side: the name of the one was called Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

geneva@1Samuel:14:5 @ The one rocke stretched from the North towarde Michmash, and the other was from the South toward Gibeah.

geneva@1Samuel:14:13 @ And Jonathan climbed up upon (note:)That is, he crept up, or went up with all haste.(:note) his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.

geneva@1Samuel:14:14 @ And that (note:)The second was when they slew one another, and the third when the Israelites chased them.(:note) first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, [which] a yoke [of oxen might plow].

geneva@1Samuel:14:15 @ And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth (note:)In that the insensible creatures tremble for fear of God's judgment, it declares how terrible his vengeance will be against his enemies.(:note) quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

geneva@1Samuel:14:16 @ Then the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Beniamin sawe: and beholde, the multitude was discomfited, and smitten as they went.

geneva@1Samuel:14:18 @ And Saul said vnto Ahiah, Bring hither the Arke of God (for the Arke of God was at that time with the children of Israel)

geneva@1Samuel:14:19 @ And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, (note:)Leave the Ephod alone, for I have no time now to ask counsel from God, (Num_27:21).(:note) Withdraw thine hand.

geneva@1Samuel:14:20 @ And Saul was assembled with all the people that were with him, and they came to the battell: and behold, euery mans sworde was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

geneva@1Samuel:14:21 @ Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the (note:)Though before for fear of the Philistines they declared themselves as enemies to their brethren.(:note) Israelites that [were] with Saul and Jonathan.

geneva@1Samuel:14:24 @ And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, (note:)Such was his hypocrisy and arrogancy, that he thought to attribute to his policy that which God had given by the hand of Jonathan.(:note) Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted [any] food.

geneva@1Samuel:14:27 @ But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that [was] in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his (note:)Which were dim before from weariness and hunger.(:note) eyes were enlightened.

geneva@1Samuel:14:29 @ Then said Jonathan, My father hath (note:)By making this cruel law.(:note) troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

geneva@1Samuel:14:31 @ And they smote the Philistims that day, from Michmash to Aiialon: and the people were exceeding faint.

geneva@1Samuel:14:33 @ Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: (note:)That the blood of the beast that shall be slain, may be pressed out upon it.(:note) roll a great stone unto me this day.

geneva@1Samuel:14:35 @ Then Saul made an altar vnto the Lorde, and that was the first altar that he made vnto the Lord.

geneva@1Samuel:14:36 @ And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us (note:)To ask counsel from him.(:note) draw near hither unto God.

geneva@1Samuel:14:37 @ So Saul asked of God, saying, Shall I goe downe after ye Philistims? wilt thou deliuer them into the hands of Israel? But he answered him not at that time.

geneva@1Samuel:14:39 @ For as the Lord liueth, which saueth Israel, though it be done by Ionathan my sonne, he shall dye the death. But none of all the people answered him.

geneva@1Samuel:14:41 @ Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give (note:)Cause the lot to fall on him that has broken the oath, but he does not consider his presumption in commanding the same oath.(:note) a perfect [lot]. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.

geneva@1Samuel:14:42 @ And Saul saide, Cast lot betweene me and Ionathan my sonne; Ionathan was taken.

geneva@1Samuel:14:43 @ Then Saul said to Ionathan, Tell me what thou hast done; Ionathan tolde him, & said, I tasted a litle hony with the ende of the rod, that was in mine hand, and loe, I must die.

geneva@1Samuel:14:45 @ And the people said unto Saul, (note:)The people thought it their duty to rescue him, who out of ignorance had broken a rash law, and by whom they had received so great a benefit.(:note) Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: [as] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.

geneva@1Samuel:14:47 @ So Saul helde the kingdome ouer Israel, and fought against all his enemies on euery side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the Kings of Zobah, and against the Philistims: and whithersoeuer he went, he handled them as wicked men.

geneva@1Samuel:14:48 @ And he gathered an host, and smote the (note:)As the Lord had commanded, (Deu_25:17).(:note) Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

geneva@1Samuel:14:49 @ Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, (note:)Called also Abinadab, (1Sa_31:2).(:note) and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters [were these]; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Who was the wife of David, (1Sa_18:27). Michal:

geneva@1Samuel:14:50 @ And the name of Saul's wife [was] Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host [was] (note:)Whom Joab, David's captain, slew (2Sa_3:27).(:note) Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.

geneva@1Samuel:14:51 @ And Kish was Sauls father: and Ner the father of Abner was the sonne of Abiel.

geneva@1Samuel:14:52 @ And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: (note:)As Samuel had forewarned in (1Sa_8:11).(:note) and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.

geneva@1Samuel:15:1 @ Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore (note:)Because he has preferred you to this honour, you are bound to obey him.(:note) hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:15:2 @ Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, howe they laide waite for the in ye way, as they came vp fro Egypt.

geneva@1Samuel:15:3 @ Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but (note:)That this might be an example of God's vengeance against those who deal cruelly with his people.(:note) slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

geneva@1Samuel:15:4 @ And Saul assembled ye people, and nombred them in Telaim, two hundreth thousande footemen, and ten thousand men of Iudah.

geneva@1Samuel:15:7 @ So Saul smote the Amalekites from Hauilah as thou commest to Shur, that is before Egypt,

geneva@1Samuel:15:9 @ But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the better sheepe, and the oxen, and the fat beasts, and the lambes, and all that was good, and they would not destroy them: but euery thing that was vile and nought worth, that they destroyed.

geneva@1Samuel:15:11 @ It (note:)God in his eternal counsel never changes or repents, as in (1Sa_15:29), though he seems to us to repent when anything goes contrary to his temporal election.(:note) repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

geneva@1Samuel:15:17 @ And Samuel said, When thou [wast] (note:)Meaning, of base condition as in (1Sa_9:21).(:note) little in thine own sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

geneva@1Samuel:15:19 @ Nowe wherefore hast thou not obeyed the voyce of the Lorde, but hast turned to the pray, and hast done wickedly in the sight of the Lord?

geneva@1Samuel:15:22 @ And Samuel saide, Hath the Lord as great pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as when the voyce of the Lord is obeyed? Beholde, to obey is better then sacrifice, and to hearken is better then the fatte of rammes.

geneva@1Samuel:15:23 @ For (note:)God hates nothing more than the disobedience of his commandment, even though the intent seems good to man.(:note) rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.

geneva@1Samuel:15:25 @ Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my (note:)This was not true repentance, but deceit out of fear for the loss of his kingdom.(:note) sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:15:26 @ But Samuel saide vnto Saul, I will not returne with thee: for thou hast cast away the word of the Lorde, and the Lorde hath cast away thee, that thou shalt not be King ouer Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:15:27 @ And as Samuel turned himselfe to goe away, he caught the lappe of his coate, and it rent.

geneva@1Samuel:15:32 @ Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the (note:)He expected nothing less than death, or as some write, he passed not for death.(:note) bitterness of death is past.

geneva@1Samuel:15:33 @ And Samuel sayde, As thy sworde hath made women childlesse, so shall thy mother bee childelesse among other women; Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

geneva@1Samuel:15:34 @ Then Samuel went to (note:)Where his house was.(:note) Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

geneva@1Samuel:15:35 @ And Samuel came no more to (note:)Though Saul came where Samuel was, (1Sa_19:22).(:note) see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD As in (1Sa_15:11). repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:16:1 @ And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, (note:)Signifying that we should not show ourselves more pitiful than God, nor to lament those whom he casts out.(:note) seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

geneva@1Samuel:16:2 @ And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear [it], he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come (note:)That is, to make a peace offering, which may be done even though the ark was not there.(:note) to sacrifice to the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:16:4 @ And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town (note:)Afraid, lest some grievous crime had been committed, because the prophet was not wont to come there.(:note) trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

geneva@1Samuel:16:6 @ And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S (note:)Thinking that Eliab had been appointed by God to be made king.(:note) anointed [is] before him.

geneva@1Samuel:16:7 @ But the Lord said vnto Samuel, Looke not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature, because I haue refused him: for God seeth not as man seeth: for ma looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

geneva@1Samuel:16:12 @ And he sent, and brought him in: and he was ruddie, & of a good countenance, and comely visage; the Lorde saide, Arise, and anoynt him: for this is he.

geneva@1Samuel:16:16 @ Let our Lord therefore command thy seruants, that are before thee, to seeke a man that is a cunning plaier vpon the harpe: that when the euil spirit of God commeth vpon thee, hee may play with his hand, and thou maiest be eased.

geneva@1Samuel:16:18 @ Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a (note:)Though David was now anointed king by the prophet, yet God would strengthen and test him in various ways before he had the use of his kingdom.(:note) son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD [is] with him.

geneva@1Samuel:16:20 @ And Ishai tooke an asse laden with breade and a flagon of wine and a kidde, and sent them by the hand of Dauid his sonne vnto Saul.

geneva@1Samuel:16:21 @ And Dauid came to Saul, and stoode before him: and he loued him verie well, and he was his armour bearer.

geneva@1Samuel:16:23 @ And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was (note:)God would have Saul receive this benefit from David's hand, that his condemnation might be even more evident, for his cruel hate toward him.(:note) refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

geneva@1Samuel:17:1 @ Nowe the Philistims gathered their armies to battell, & came together to Shochoh, which is in Iudah, and pitched betweene Shochoh and Azekah, in the coast of Dammim.

geneva@1Samuel:17:2 @ And Saul, and the men of Israel assembled, and pitched in the valley of Elah, and put themselues in battell araie to meete the Philistims.

geneva@1Samuel:17:3 @ And the Philistims stoode on a mountaine on the one side, and Israel stoode on a mountaine on the other side: so a valley was betweene them.

geneva@1Samuel:17:4 @ And there (note:)Between the two camps.(:note) went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span.

geneva@1Samuel:17:5 @ And [he had] an helmet of brass upon his head, and he [was] armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five thousand (note:)That is, 156 pounds 4 ounces, after half and ounce to the shekel: and 600 shekels weight amounts to 18 3/4 pounds.(:note) shekels of brass.

geneva@1Samuel:17:6 @ And he had bootes of brasse vpon his legs, and a shield of brasse vpon his shoulders.

geneva@1Samuel:17:7 @ And the shaft of his speare was like a weauers beame: and his speare head weyed sixe hundreth shekels of yron: and one bearing a shielde went before him.

geneva@1Samuel:17:12 @ Nowe this Dauid was the sonne of an Ephrathite of Beth-lehem Iudah, named Ishai, which had eight sonnes: and this man was taken for an olde man in the daies of Saul.

geneva@1Samuel:17:14 @ So Dauid was the least: and the three eldest went after Saul.

geneva@1Samuel:17:20 @ So Dauid rose vp earely in the morning, and left the sheepe with a keeper, and tooke and went as Ishai had commaunded him, and came within the compasse of the hoste: and the hoste went out in araie, and shouted in the battell.

geneva@1Samuel:17:22 @ And Dauid left the things, which hee bare, vnder the handes of the keeper of the cariage, and ranne into the hoste, and came, and asked his brethren howe they did.

geneva@1Samuel:17:23 @ And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the (note:)As in (1Sa_17:8-9).(:note) same words: and David heard [them].

geneva@1Samuel:17:28 @ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake vnto the men, and Eliab was verie angrie with Dauid, and sayde, Why camest thou downe hither? and with whome hast thou left those fewe sheepe in the wildernesse? I knowe thy pride and the malice of thine heart, that thou art come downe to see the battell.

geneva@1Samuel:17:29 @ And David said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a (note:)For his father's sending was a just occasion, and also he felt himself inwardly moved by God's Spirit.(:note) cause?

geneva@1Samuel:17:34 @ And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a (note:)David, because of previous experience with God's help, did not doubt to overcome this danger, seeing as he was zealous for God's honour.(:note) lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

geneva@1Samuel:17:36 @ So thy seruaunt slue both the lyon, and the beare: therefore this vncircumcised Philistim shall be as one of them, seeing hee hath railed on the hoste of the liuing God.

geneva@1Samuel:17:37 @ David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, (note:)For by these examples he saw that the power of God was with him.(:note) Go, and the LORD be with thee.

geneva@1Samuel:17:38 @ And Saul put his rayment vpon Dauid, & put an helmet of brasse vpon his head, and put a brigandine vpon him.

geneva@1Samuel:17:40 @ And he took his (note:)So that by these weak means, It might be known that only God was the author of this victory.(:note) staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

geneva@1Samuel:17:42 @ Now when the Philistim looked about & saw Dauid, he disdeined him: for he was but yong, ruddie, and of a comely face.

geneva@1Samuel:17:44 @ And the Philistim sayd to Dauid, Come to me, & I will giue thy flesh vnto the foules of the heauen, and to the beastes of the field.

geneva@1Samuel:17:45 @ Then sayd Dauid to the Philistim, Thou commest to me with a sword, and with a speare, & with a shield, but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of hostes, the God of the hoste of Israel, whom thou hast rayled vpon.

geneva@1Samuel:17:46 @ This (note:)David being assured both of his cause and of his calling prophecies of the destruction of the Philistines.(:note) day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:17:47 @ And that all this assembly may know, that the Lord saueth not with sworde nor with speare (for the battel is the Lords) and he will giue you into our handes.

geneva@1Samuel:17:48 @ And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David (note:)Being moved with a fervent zeal to be revenged of this blaspheme of God's name.(:note) hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

geneva@1Samuel:17:51 @ Then Dauid ranne, & stood vpon the Philistim, and tooke his sword and drew it out of his sheath, and slewe him, and cut off his head therewith. So whe the Philistims saw, that their champion was dead, they fled.

geneva@1Samuel:17:55 @ And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, (note:)That is, of what family and tribe is he? He had forgotten David, even though he had received so great a benefit by him.(:note) whose son [is] this youth? And Abner said, [As] thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

geneva@1Samuel:17:57 @ And when Dauid was returned from the slaughter of the Philistim, then Abner tooke him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistim in his hand.

geneva@1Samuel:18:1 @ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the (note:)His affection was fully bent toward him.(:note) soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

geneva@1Samuel:18:3 @ Then Ionathan and Dauid made a couenant: for he loued him as his owne soule.

geneva@1Samuel:18:4 @ And Ionathan put off the robe that was vpon him, & gaue it Dauid, & his garments, euen to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

geneva@1Samuel:18:5 @ And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself (note:)That is, he prospered in all his doings.(:note) wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

geneva@1Samuel:18:6 @ And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the (note:)That is, Goliath.(:note) Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

geneva@1Samuel:18:8 @ Therefore Saul was exceeding wroth, and the saying displeased him, & he sayde, They haue ascribed vnto Dauid ten thousand, & to me they haue ascribed but a thousand, & what can he haue more saue the kingdome?

geneva@1Samuel:18:10 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he (note:)That is, spoke as a man beside himself for so the people abused this word, when they could not understand.(:note) prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and [there was] a javelin in Saul's hand.

geneva@1Samuel:18:12 @ And Saul was afrayd of Dauid, because the Lord was with him, & was departed from Saul.

geneva@1Samuel:18:13 @ Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went (note:)Meaning he was captain over the people.(:note) out and came in before the people.

geneva@1Samuel:18:14 @ And Dauid behaued himselfe wisely in all his wayes: for the Lord was with him.

geneva@1Samuel:18:15 @ Wherefore when Saul saw that he was very wise, he was afrayde of him.

geneva@1Samuel:18:19 @ But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that (note:)By whom he had five sons who David put to death at the request of the Gibeonites, (2Sa_21:8).(:note) she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

geneva@1Samuel:18:20 @ Then Michal Sauls daughter loued Dauid: & they shewed Saul, & the thing pleased him.

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:18:26 @ And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the (note:)Because he thought himself able to compass the king's request.(:note) king's son in law: and the days were not expired.

geneva@1Samuel:18:28 @ Then Saul sawe, and vnderstoode that the Lord was with Dauid, & that Michal the daughter of Saul loued him.

geneva@1Samuel:18:29 @ And Saul was yet the more afraid (note:)To be deprived of his kingdom.(:note) of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

geneva@1Samuel:18:30 @ Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, [that] (note:)That is, David had better success against the Philistines than Saul's men.(:note) David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

geneva@1Samuel:19:6 @ And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul (note:)Whatever he pretended outwardly, yet his heart was full of malice.(:note) sware, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.

geneva@1Samuel:19:7 @ So Ionathan called Dauid, and Ionathan shewed him all those words, & Ionathan brought Dauid to Saul, and hee was in his presence as in times past.

geneva@1Samuel:19:9 @ And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David (note:)He played on his harp to appease the rage of the evil spirit, (1Sa_16:23).(:note) played with [his] hand.

geneva@1Samuel:19:10 @ And Saul intended to smite Dauid to the wall with the speare: but hee turned aside out of Sauls presence, & he smote the speare against the wall: but Dauid fled, & escaped the same night.

geneva@1Samuel:19:16 @ And when the messengers were come in, behold, an image was in the bed, with a pillow of goates heare vnder the head of it.

geneva@1Samuel:19:17 @ And Saul said vnto Michal, Why hast thou mocked me so, & sent away mine enemie, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said vnto me, Let me go, or els I will kill thee.

geneva@1Samuel:19:18 @ So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in (note:)Naioth was a school where the word of God was studied, near Ramah.(:note) Naioth.

geneva@1Samuel:19:20 @ And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing (note:)Being their chief instructor.(:note) [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also Changed their minds and praised God. prophesied.

geneva@1Samuel:19:21 @ And when it was tolde Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophecied likewise: againe Saul sent the third messengers, and they prophecied also.

geneva@1Samuel:19:22 @ Then went he himselfe to Ramah, & came to a great well that is in Sechu, and he asked, and sayd, Where are Samuel and Dauid? & one sayd, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.

geneva@1Samuel:19:23 @ And he (note:)With a mind to persecute them.(:note) went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

geneva@1Samuel:19:24 @ And he stripped off his (note:)His kingly apparel.(:note) clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay He humbled himself as others did. down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?

geneva@1Samuel:20:1 @ And David (note:)For Saul was detained, and prophesied a day and a night by God's providence, that David might have time to escape.(:note) fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what [is] my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?

geneva@1Samuel:20:3 @ And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a (note:)I am in great danger of death.(:note) step between me and death.

geneva@1Samuel:20:5 @ And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is] the (note:)At what time there would be a solemn sacrifice, (Num_28:11), to which they added peace offerings and feasts.(:note) new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third [day] at even.

geneva@1Samuel:20:6 @ If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked [leave] of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for [there is] a (note:)Read (1Sa_1:21).(:note) yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

geneva@1Samuel:20:8 @ So shalt thou shew mercy vnto thy seruant: for thou hast ioyned thy seruant into a couenant of the Lord with thee, and if there be in me iniquitie, slay thou me: for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

geneva@1Samuel:20:13 @ The LORD (note:)The Lord punish me most grievously.(:note) do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father [to do] thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

geneva@1Samuel:20:17 @ And againe Ionathan sware vnto Dauid, because he loued him (for he loued him as his owne soule)

geneva@1Samuel:20:19 @ Therefore thou shalt hide thy selfe three dayes, then thou shalt goe downe quickely and come to the place where thou diddest hide thy selfe, when this matter was in hand, and shalt remayne by the stone Ezel.

geneva@1Samuel:20:20 @ And I will shoote three arrowes on the side thereof, as though I shot at a marke.

geneva@1Samuel:20:21 @ And after I wil sende a boy, saying, Goe, seeke the arrowes. If I say vnto the boy, See, the arrowes are on this side thee, bring them, & come thou: for it is well with thee and no hurt, as the Lord liueth.

geneva@1Samuel:20:23 @ As touching the thing which thou and I haue spoken of, beholde, the Lorde be betweene thee and me for euer.

geneva@1Samuel:20:25 @ And the King sate, as at other times vpon his seate, euen vpon his seate by the wall: and Ionathan arose, and Abner sate by Sauls side, but Dauids place was emptie.

geneva@1Samuel:20:27 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, [which was] the second [day] of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not (note:)Thus he speaks contemptuously of David.(:note) the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?

geneva@1Samuel:20:30 @ Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou (note:)You are always contrary to me as your mother is.(:note) son of the perverse rebellious [woman], do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?

geneva@1Samuel:20:31 @ For as long as the sonne of Ishai liueth vpon the earth, thou shalt not be stablished, nor thy kingdome: wherefore now send and fet him vnto me, for he shall surely die.

geneva@1Samuel:20:32 @ And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be (note:)For it was too great tyranny to put one to death and not to give a reason why.(:note) slain? what hath he done?

geneva@1Samuel:20:33 @ And Saul cast a speare at him to hit him, whereby Ionathan knew, that it was determined of his father to slay Dauid.

geneva@1Samuel:20:34 @ So Ionathan arose from the table in a great anger, and did eate no meate the seconde day of the moneth: for he was sorie for Dauid, and because his father had reuiled him.

geneva@1Samuel:20:35 @ And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field (note:)For this was the third day, as it was agreed on in (1Sa_20:5).(:note) at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.

geneva@1Samuel:20:36 @ And he saide vnto his boy, Runne now, seeke the arrowes which I shoote, and as the boy ran, he shot an arrowe beyond him.

geneva@1Samuel:20:37 @ And when the boy was come to the place where the arrowe was that Ionathan had shot, Ionathan cryed after the boy, and sayde, Is not the arrowe beyond thee?

geneva@1Samuel:20:38 @ And Jonathan cried after the lad, (note:)By these words be admonished David what he should do.(:note) Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

geneva@1Samuel:20:40 @ Then Ionathan gaue his bowe and arrowes vnto the boy that was with him, and sayd vnto him, Goe, carrie them into the citie.

geneva@1Samuel:20:41 @ [And] as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the (note:)It seems that he shot on the north side of the stone, least the boy should have seen David.(:note) south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

geneva@1Samuel:20:42 @ And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have (note:)Which oath he calls the covenant of the Lord in (1Sa_20:8).(:note) sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

geneva@1Samuel:21:1 @ Then came David to (note:)Where the ark then was to ask counsel of the Lord.(:note) Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man with thee?

geneva@1Samuel:21:2 @ And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The (note:)These infirmities that we see in the saints of God, teach us that no one has his justice in himself, but receives it from God's mercy.(:note) king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place.

geneva@1Samuel:21:3 @ Nowe therefore if thou hast ought vnder thine hande, giue me fiue cakes of bread, or what commeth to hand.

geneva@1Samuel:21:4 @ And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from (note:)If they have not accompanied with their wives.(:note) women.

geneva@1Samuel:21:5 @ And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women [have been] kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the (note:)That is, their bodies.(:note) vessels of the young men are holy, and [the bread is] in a manner common, yea, though it Shall be more careful to keep his vessel holy, when he has eaten of this holy food. were sanctified this day in the vessel.

geneva@1Samuel:21:6 @ So the Priest gaue him halowed bread: for there was no bread there, saue the shewe bread that was taken from before the Lord, to put hote bread there, the day that it was taken away.

geneva@1Samuel:21:7 @ Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that day, (note:)Tarrying to worship before the ark.(:note) detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.

geneva@1Samuel:21:8 @ And Dauid said vnto Ahimelech, Is there not here vnder thine hand a speare or a sworde? for I haue neither brought my sworde nor mine harnesse with me, because the Kings businesse required haste.

geneva@1Samuel:22:1 @ David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave (note:)Which was in the tribe of Judah, near Bethlehem.(:note) Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard [it], they went down thither to him.

geneva@1Samuel:22:2 @ And there gathered vnto him all men that were in trouble and all men that were in dette, and all those that were vexed in minde, and he was their prince, and there were with him about foure hundreth men.

geneva@1Samuel:22:3 @ And David went thence to Mizpeh of (note:)For there was another so called in Judah.(:note) Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.

geneva@1Samuel:22:4 @ And he (note:)For he feared the rage of Saul against his house.(:note) brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in That is, in Mizpeh, which was a stronghold. the hold.

geneva@1Samuel:22:6 @ When Saul heard that David was (note:)That a great brute came on him.(:note) discovered, and the men that [were] with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants [were] standing about him;)

geneva@1Samuel:22:8 @ That all of you have conspired against me, and [there is] none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my (note:)By this he would persuade them that this conspiracy was most horrible, where the son conspired against the father, and the servant against his master.(:note) son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

geneva@1Samuel:22:9 @ Then answered Doeg the Edomite (who was appoynted ouer the seruants of Saul) & sayd, I saw the sonne of Ishai when he came to Nob, to Ahimelech the sonne of Ahitub,

geneva@1Samuel:22:10 @ Who asked counsell of the Lorde for him and gaue him vitailes, and he gaue him also the sword of Goliath the Philistim.

geneva@1Samuel:22:13 @ Then Saul sayde vnto him, Why haue yee conspired against me, thou & the sonne of Ishai, in that thou hast giuen him vitaile, and a sworde, and hast asked counsell of God for him, that he should rise against me, and lye in wayte as appeareth this day?

geneva@1Samuel:22:14 @ And Ahimelech answered the King, and sayde, Who is so faithfull among all thy seruants as Dauid, being also the Kings sonne in lawe, and goeth at thy commandement, and is honourable in thine house?

geneva@1Samuel:22:19 @ Also Nob the citie of the Priestes smote he with the edge of the sword, both man & woman, both childe and suckling, both oxe and asse, and sheepe with the edge of the sword.

geneva@1Samuel:22:20 @ And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, (note:)This was God's providence, who according to his promise preserved some of the house of Eli, (1Sa_2:33).(:note) escaped, and fled after David.

geneva@1Samuel:22:22 @ And Dauid sayd vnto Abiathar, I knewe it the same day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would tell Saul. I am the cause of the death of all the persons of thy fathers house.

geneva@1Samuel:23:1 @ Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against (note:)Which was a city in the tribe of Judah, (Jos_15:44).(:note) Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.

geneva@1Samuel:23:2 @ Therfore Dauid asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shal I goe and smite these Philistims? And the Lord answered Dauid, Go and smite the Philistims, and saue Keilah.

geneva@1Samuel:23:4 @ Then Dauid asked counsell of the Lord againe; the Lord answered him, & sayd, Arise, go downe to Keilah: for I wil deliuer the Philistims into thine hand.

geneva@1Samuel:23:6 @ And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, [that] he came down [with] an (note:)By God's providence the ephod was preserved and kept with David the true king.(:note) ephod in his hand.

geneva@1Samuel:23:7 @ And it was tolde Saul that Dauid was come to Keilah, & Saul sayd, God hath deliuered him into mine hand: for he is shut in, seeing he is come into a citie that hath gates and barres.

geneva@1Samuel:23:11 @ Wil the lordes of Keilah deliuer me vp into his hand? and will Saul come downe, as thy seruant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy seruant; the Lord sayde, He will come downe.

geneva@1Samuel:23:13 @ Then Dauid and his men, which were about sixe hundreth, arose, & departed out of Keilah, and went whither they coulde; it was tolde Saul, that Dauid was fled from Keilah, and he left off his iourney.

geneva@1Samuel:23:15 @ And Dauid sawe that Saul was come out for to seeke his life: and Dauid was in the wildernes of Ziph in the wood.

geneva@1Samuel:23:17 @ And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be (note:)Jonathan assured David, that God would accomplish his promise, and that his father warred against his own conscience.(:note) king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.

geneva@1Samuel:23:21 @ And Saul said, (note:)the Lord recompense this friendship.(:note) Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.

geneva@1Samuel:23:23 @ See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the (note:)In your country of Ziph, which is in Judah.(:note) land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

geneva@1Samuel:23:25 @ Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of (note:)Which was also in the tribe of Judah, (Jos_15:55).(:note) Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

geneva@1Samuel:23:26 @ And Saul and his men went on the one side of the mountaine, and Dauid and his men on the other side of the mountaine: and Dauid made haste to get from the presence of Saul: for Saul and his men compassed Dauid and his men round about, to take them.

geneva@1Samuel:23:27 @ But there came a (note:)Thus the Lord can pull back the bridle of the tyrants and deliver his out of the lion's mouth.(:note) messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

geneva@1Samuel:24:1 @ And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David [is] in the wilderness of (note:)A city of Judah, (Jos_15:62).(:note) Engedi.

geneva@1Samuel:24:3 @ {\cf2 (24:4)} And hee came to the sheepecoates by the way where there was a caue, & Saul went in to do his easement: and Dauid and his men sate in the inward parts of the caue.

geneva@1Samuel:24:4 @ And the men of David said unto him, (note:)Here we see how ready we are to hasten God's promise, if the occasion serve never so little.(:note) Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.

geneva@1Samuel:24:5 @ And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart (note:)For seeing it was his own private cause, he repented that he had touched his enemy.(:note) smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

geneva@1Samuel:24:6 @ {\cf2 (24:7)} And he said vnto his men, The Lord keepe mee from doing that thing vnto my master the Lords Anoynted, to lay mine hand vpon him: for he is the Anoynted of the Lord.

geneva@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, (note:)Contrary to the report of those who said David was Saul's enemy, he proves himself to be his friend.(:note) Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

geneva@1Samuel:24:10 @ {\cf2 (24:11)} Behold, this day thine eyes haue seene, that the Lorde had deliuered thee this day into mine hand in the caue, and some bade me kill thee, but I had compassion on thee, and said, I will not lay mine hande on my master: for he is the Lordes Anoynted.

geneva@1Samuel:24:13 @ {\cf2 (24:14)} According as the olde prouerbe sayeth, Wickednesse proceedeth from the wicked, but mine hand be not vpon thee.

geneva@1Samuel:24:16 @ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, (note:)Though he was a cruel enemy to David, yet by his great gentleness his conscience compelled him to yield.(:note) [Is] this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

geneva@1Samuel:24:17 @ {\cf2 (24:18)} And sayd to Dauid, Thou art more righteous then I: for thou hast rendred me good, and I haue rendred thee euill.

geneva@1Samuel:24:18 @ {\cf2 (24:19)} And thou hast shewed this day, that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had closed me in thine hands, thou killedst me not.

geneva@1Samuel:24:19 @ {\cf2 (24:20)} For who shal finde his enemie, and let him depart free? wherefore the Lorde render thee good for that thou hast done vnto me this day.

geneva@1Samuel:24:20 @ And now, behold, I (note:)Though this tyrant saw and confessed the favour of God toward David, yet he did not cease to persecute him against his own conscience.(:note) know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.

geneva@1Samuel:25:2 @ And [there was] a man in (note:)Maon and Carmel were cities in the tribe of Judah. Carmel the mountain was in Galilee.(:note) Maon, whose possessions [were] in Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

geneva@1Samuel:25:3 @ The name also of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, & she was a woman of singular wisdome, and beautifull, but the man was churlish, and euil conditioned, and was of the familie of Caleb.

geneva@1Samuel:25:5 @ Therefore Dauid sent tenne yong men, & Dauid said vnto the yong men, Go vp to Carmel, and go to Nabal, & aske him in my name how he doeth.

geneva@1Samuel:25:6 @ And thus shall ye say (note:)Or, for salvation.(:note) to him that liveth [in prosperity], Peace [be] both to thee, and peace [be] to thine house, and peace [be] unto all that thou hast.

geneva@1Samuel:25:7 @ Behold, I haue heard, that thou hast sherers: now thy shepherds were with vs, and we did the no hurt, neyther did they misse any thing all the while they were in Carmel.

geneva@1Samuel:25:8 @ Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever (note:)Whatever you have ready for us.(:note) cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

geneva@1Samuel:25:10 @ And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the (note:)Thus the covetous wretches instead of relieving the needs of God's children, reviled their persons and condemned their cause.(:note) son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

geneva@1Samuel:25:14 @ Nowe one of the seruantes tolde Abigail Nabals wife, saying, Beholde, Dauid sent messengers out of the wildernesse to salute our master, and he rayled on them.

geneva@1Samuel:25:15 @ But the men [were] very good (note:)When we kept our sheep in the wilderness of Paran.(:note) unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:

geneva@1Samuel:25:16 @ They were as a wall vnto vs both by night & by day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe.

geneva@1Samuel:25:17 @ Nowe therefore take heede, and see what thou shalt doe: for euill will surely come vpon our master, and vpon all his familie: for he is so wicked that a man can not speake to him.

geneva@1Samuel:25:18 @ Then Abigail made haste, & tooke two hundreth cakes, & two bottels of wine, & fiue sheepe ready dressed, & fiue measures of parched corne, and an hundreth frailes of raisins, & two hundreth of figs, and laded them on asses.

geneva@1Samuel:25:20 @ And as shee rode on her asse, shee came downe by a secret place of the mountaine, and beholde, Dauid and his men came downe against her, and she met them.

geneva@1Samuel:25:21 @ And Dauid said, In deede I haue kept all in vaine that this fellow had in the wildernesse, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained vnto him: for he hath requited me euill for good.

geneva@1Samuel:25:23 @ And when Abigail sawe Dauid, she hasted and lighted off her asse, and fell before Dauid on her face, and bowed her selfe to the ground,

geneva@1Samuel:25:25 @ Let not my lorde, I pray thee, regard this wicked man Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and follie is with him: but I thine handmayde sawe not the yong men of my lord whom thou sentest.

geneva@1Samuel:25:26 @ Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own (note:)That is, that you should not be revenged by your enemy.(:note) hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

geneva@1Samuel:25:28 @ I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a (note:)Confirm his kingdom to his posterity.(:note) sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy days.

geneva@1Samuel:25:29 @ Yet (note:)That is, Saul.(:note) a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the God will preserve you long in his service, and destroy your enemies. bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.

geneva@1Samuel:25:31 @ That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath (note:)That he did not avenge himself, which would have tormented his conscience.(:note) avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.

geneva@1Samuel:25:33 @ And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, (note:)Read (1Sa_25:31).(:note) and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

geneva@1Samuel:25:34 @ For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, (note:)He attributes it to the Lord's mercy, and not to himself that he was stayed.(:note) which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

geneva@1Samuel:25:36 @ And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him (note:)For he had no reason either to consider, or to give thanks for this great benefit of deliverance.(:note) nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

geneva@1Samuel:25:37 @ But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became [as] (note:)For fear of the great danger.(:note) a stone.

geneva@1Samuel:25:39 @ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to (note:)For he had experienced her great godliness, wisdom and humility.(:note) take her to him to wife.

geneva@1Samuel:25:41 @ And she arose, and bowed her selfe on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmayde be a seruant to wash the feete of the seruants of my lord.

geneva@1Samuel:25:42 @ And Abigail hasted, & arose, and rode vpon an asse, and her fiue maides folowed her, and she went after the messengers of Dauid, and was his wife.

geneva@1Samuel:25:44 @ Now Saul had giuen Michal his daughter Dauids wife to Phalti the sonne of Laish, which was of Gallim.

geneva@1Samuel:26:4 @ (For Dauid had sent out spies, and vnderstood, that Saul was come in very deede)

geneva@1Samuel:26:5 @ Then Dauid arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched, and when Dauid beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the sonne of Ner which was his chiefe captaine, (for Saul lay in the fort, and the people pitched round about him)

geneva@1Samuel:26:6 @ Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the (note:)Who was a stranger, and not an Israelite.(:note) Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Who afterward was David's chief captain. Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

geneva@1Samuel:26:10 @ Moreouer Dauid said, As the Lord liueth, eyther the Lorde shall smite him, or his day shall come to dye, or he shall descend into battel, and perish.

geneva@1Samuel:26:12 @ So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water from Sauls head, and they gate them away, and no man saw it, nor marked it, neither did any awake, but they were all asleepe: for the Lorde had sent a dead sleepe vpon them.

geneva@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant] (note:)Esteemed most valiant and fit to save the king?(:note) man? and who [is] like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

geneva@1Samuel:26:16 @ This is not well done of thee: as the Lord liueth, ye are worthy to dye, because ye haue not kept your master the Lordes Anointed: and now see where the Kings speare is, and the pot of water that was at his head.

geneva@1Samuel:26:19 @ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him (note:)Let his anger toward us be pacified by a sacrifice.(:note) accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve As much as lay in them, they compelled him to idolatry because they forced him to flee to the idolaters. other gods.

geneva@1Samuel:26:20 @ Nowe therefore let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lorde: for the King of Israel is come out to seeke a flea, as one would hunt a partridge in the mountaines.

geneva@1Samuel:26:21 @ Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was (note:)Because you saved my life this day.(:note) precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

geneva@1Samuel:26:24 @ And beholde, like as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes: so let my life be set by in the eyes of the Lord, that he may deliuer me out of all tribulation.

geneva@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart, I shall now (note:)David distrusts God's protection and therefore flees to the idolaters, who were enemies to God's people.(:note) perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

geneva@1Samuel:27:4 @ And it was tolde Saul that Dauid was fled to Gath: so he sought no more for him.

geneva@1Samuel:27:7 @ And the time that Dauid dwelt in the countrey of the Philistims, was foure moneths and certaine dayes.

geneva@1Samuel:27:8 @ And David and his men went up, and invaded the (note:)These were the wicked Canaanites, whom God had appointed to be destroyed.(:note) Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

geneva@1Samuel:27:9 @ And Dauid smote the lande, and left neither man nor woman aliue, and tooke sheepe, & oxen, and asses, and camels, and apparell, and returned and came to Achish.

geneva@1Samuel:28:1 @ And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, (note:)Though it was a great grief to David to fight against the people of God, yet such was his infirmity, he did not dare deny him.(:note) Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.

geneva@1Samuel:28:3 @ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had (note:)According to the commandment of God, (Exo_22:18; Deu_18:10-11).(:note) put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

geneva@1Samuel:28:4 @ Then the Philistims assembled themselues, and came, and pitched in Shunem: and Saul assembled all Israel, and they pitched in Gilboa.

geneva@1Samuel:28:5 @ And when Saul saw the hoste of the Philistims, he was afraid, & his heart was sore astonied.

geneva@1Samuel:28:7 @ Then saide Saul vnto his seruants, Seeke me a woman that hath a familiar spirite, that I may goe to her, and aske of her; his seruants said to him, Beholde, there is a woman at En-dor that hath a familiar spirit.

geneva@1Samuel:28:10 @ And Saul sware to her by the Lorde, saying, As the Lord liueth, no harme shall come to thee for this thing.

geneva@1Samuel:28:11 @ Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up (note:)He speaks according to his gross ignorance not considering the state of the saints after this life, and how Satan has no power over them.(:note) Samuel.

geneva@1Samuel:28:12 @ And when the woman sawe Samuel, she cryed with a loude voyce, and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceiued me? for thou art Saul.

geneva@1Samuel:28:13 @ And the King said vnto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said vnto Saul, I saw gods ascending vp out of the earth.

geneva@1Samuel:28:14 @ And he said unto her, What form [is] he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he [is] covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it [was] (note:)To his imagination, even though it was Satan, who to blind his eyes took on him the form of Samuel, as he can do of an angel of light.(:note) Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face to the ground, and bowed himself.

geneva@1Samuel:28:15 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me vp? Then Saul answered, I am in great distresse: for the Philistims make warre against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by Prophetes, neither by dreames: therefore I haue called thee, that thou mayest tell me, what I shall doe.

geneva@1Samuel:28:16 @ Then said Samuel, Wherefore then doest thou aske of me, seeing the Lord is gone from thee, and is thine enemie?

geneva@1Samuel:28:17 @ And the LORD hath done to (note:)That is, to David.(:note) him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, [even] to David:

geneva@1Samuel:28:20 @ Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore (note:)The wicked when they hear God's judgments, tremble and despair, but cannot seek for mercy by repentance.(:note) afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

geneva@1Samuel:28:21 @ And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I (note:)I have ventured my life.(:note) have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

geneva@1Samuel:28:24 @ And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded [it], and did bake (note:)Because it required haste.(:note) unleavened bread thereof:

geneva@1Samuel:29:2 @ And the lords of the Philistines passed on by (note:)According to their bands, or ensigns.(:note) hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.

geneva@1Samuel:29:4 @ And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? [should it] not [be] with the (note:)Would not Saul receive him to favour, if he would betray us?(:note) heads of these men?

geneva@1Samuel:29:6 @ Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, [as] the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy (note:)That is, was conversant with me.(:note) going out and thy coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

geneva@1Samuel:29:7 @ Wherefore nowe returne, and go in peace, that thou displease not the princes of the Philistims.

geneva@1Samuel:29:8 @ And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may (note:)This deception cannot be excused, for it grieved him to go against the people of God.(:note) not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

geneva@1Samuel:29:9 @ Achish then answered, and said to Dauid, I knowe thou pleasest mee, as an Angell of God: but the princes of the Philistims haue saide, Let him not goe vp with vs to battell.

geneva@1Samuel:29:10 @ Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy (note:)With them that fled to thee from Saul.(:note) master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

geneva@1Samuel:30:1 @ And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on (note:)After that he departed from Achish.(:note) the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and That is, destroyed their city. smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

geneva@1Samuel:30:3 @ So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, [it was] burned with fire; and their (note:)For those only remained in the city, when the men were gone to war.(:note) wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

geneva@1Samuel:30:4 @ Then Dauid and the people that was with him, lift vp their voyces and wept, vntill they could weepe no more.

geneva@1Samuel:30:6 @ And David was greatly distressed; for the people (note:)Thus we see that in trouble and adversity we do not consider God's providence, but like raging beasts forget both our own duty and contemn God's appointment over us.(:note) spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

geneva@1Samuel:30:13 @ And Dauid saide vnto him, To whome belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he saide, I am a yong man of Egypt, and seruant to an Amalekite: and my master left me three dayes agoe, because I fell sicke.

geneva@1Samuel:30:14 @ We roued vpon the South of Chereth, & vpon the coast belonging to Iudah, and vpon the South of Caleb, and we burnt Ziklag with fire.

geneva@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, (note:)For others were in all ages held in most reverence, even among the heathen.(:note) Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.

geneva@1Samuel:30:16 @ And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were] spread abroad upon all the earth, (note:)The wicked in their pomp and pleasures do not consider the judgment of God, which is then at hand to smite them.(:note) eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

geneva@1Samuel:30:24 @ For who will obey you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth downe to the battel, so shall his part be, that tarieth by the stuffe: they shal part alike.

geneva@1Samuel:30:30 @ And to them of Hormah, and to them of Chor-ashan, and to them of Athach,

geneva@1Samuel:31:2 @ And the Philistims preassed sore vpon Saul and his sonnes, and slewe Ionathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua Sauls sonnes.

geneva@1Samuel:31:3 @ And when the battel went sore against Saul, the archers and bowmen hit him, and hee was sore wounded of the archers.

geneva@1Samuel:31:4 @ Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, (note:)So we see that his cruel life has a desperate end, as is commonly seen in those who persecute the children of God.(:note) Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

geneva@1Samuel:31:5 @ And when his armour bearer sawe that Saul was dead, he fell likewise vpon his sword, & dyed with him.

geneva@1Samuel:31:7 @ And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of the (note:)Near to Gilboa.(:note) valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side The tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

geneva@1Samuel:31:10 @ And they layed vp his armour in the house of Ashtaroth, but they hanged vp his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

geneva@1Samuel:31:12 @ Then they arose (as many as were strong men) and went all night, and tooke the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sonnes, from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Iabesh, and burnt them there,

geneva@1Samuel:31:13 @ And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and (note:)According to the custom of mourners.(:note) fasted seven days.

geneva@2Samuel:1:1 @ Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; (note:)The Argument - This book and the former are called Samuel, because they contain the conception, birth and the whole course of his life, and also the lives and acts of two kings, that is, of Saul and David, whom he anointed and consecrated kings by the ordinance of God. The first book contains those things which God brought to pass among this people under the government of Samuel and Saul. This second book declares the noble acts of David, after the death of Saul when he began to reign, to the end of his kingdom, and how it was expanded by him. It also contains the great troubles and dangers he sustained both within his house and without, the horrible and dangerous insurrections, uproars, and treasons wrought against him, partly by false counsellors, feigned friends and flatterers and partly by his own children and people. By God's assistance he overcame all difficulties, and enjoyed his kingdom in rest and peace. In the person of David the scripture sets forth Christ Jesus the chief king, who came from David according to the flesh, and was persecuted on every side with outward and inward enemies, as well in his own person, as in his members, but at length he overcomes all his enemies, and gives his Church victory against all power both spiritual and temporal; and so reigns with them, king for ever.(:note)

geneva@2Samuel:1:2 @ It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with (note:)Seeming to lament the overthrow of the people of Israel.(:note) his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and [so] it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

geneva@2Samuel:1:6 @ And the young man that told him said, (note:)As I fled the chase.(:note) As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.

geneva@2Samuel:1:8 @ And he said unto me, Who [art] thou? And I answered him, I [am] an (note:)He was an Amalekite born, but renounced his country and joined with the Israelites.(:note) Amalekite.

geneva@2Samuel:1:10 @ So I came vpon him, and slewe him, and because I was sure that hee coulde not liue, after that hee had fallen, I tooke the crowne that was vpon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arme, and brought them hither vnto my lord.

geneva@2Samuel:1:12 @ And they mourned and wept, and fasted vntil euen, for Saul and for Ionathan his sonne, & for the people of the Lorde, and for the house of Israel, because they were slaine with the sword.

geneva@2Samuel:1:14 @ And Dauid said vnto him, How wast thou not afrayd, to put forth thine hand to destroy the Anoynted of the Lord?

geneva@2Samuel:1:18 @ (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah (note:)That they might be able to match their enemies the Philistines in that art.(:note) [the use of] the bow: behold, [it is] written in the book of Jasher.)

geneva@2Samuel:1:20 @ Tell it not in Gath, nor publish it in the streetes of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistims reioyce, lest the daughters of the vncircumcised triumph.

geneva@2Samuel:1:21 @ Ye mountains of Gilboa, [let there be] no dew, neither [let there be] rain, upon you, nor (note:)Let their fertile fields be barren, and bring forth no fruit to offer to the Lord.(:note) fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, [as though he had] not [been] anointed with oil.

geneva@2Samuel:1:23 @ Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not (note:)They died both together in Gilboa.(:note) divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

geneva@2Samuel:1:24 @ Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, (note:)As rich garments and costly jewels.(:note) with [other] delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

geneva@2Samuel:1:25 @ Howe were the mightie slaine in the mids of the battel! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine hie places.

geneva@2Samuel:1:26 @ I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of (note:)Either toward their husbands or their children.(:note) women.

geneva@2Samuel:2:1 @ And it came to pass after this, that David (note:)By means of the high priest, (1Sa_23:2; 2Sa_5:19).(:note) enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Which was also called Kirjatharba (Jos_14:15). Hebron.

geneva@2Samuel:2:7 @ Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me (note:)So that you shall not want a captain and a defender.(:note) king over them.

geneva@2Samuel:2:8 @ But Abner the sonne of Ner that was captaine of Sauls hoste, tooke Ish-bosheth the sonne of Saul, and brought him to Mahanaim,

geneva@2Samuel:2:9 @ And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over (note:)Over the eleven tribes.(:note) all Israel.

geneva@2Samuel:2:10 @ Ish-bosheth Sauls sonne was fourtie yeere olde wen he began to reigne ouer Israel, and reigned two yeere: but the house of Iudah followed Dauid.

geneva@2Samuel:2:11 @ And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six (note:)After this he reigned over all the country 33 years, (2Sa_5:5).(:note) months.

geneva@2Samuel:2:16 @ And they caught every one his (note:)Meaning his adversary.(:note) fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon.

geneva@2Samuel:2:17 @ And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, (note:)After that these four and twenty were slain.(:note) before the servants of David.

geneva@2Samuel:2:18 @ And there were three sonnes of Zeruiah there, Ioab, and Abishai, and Asahel; Asahel was as light on foote as a wilde roe.

geneva@2Samuel:2:19 @ And Asahel followed after Abner, and in going he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from Abner.

geneva@2Samuel:2:20 @ Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, Yea.

geneva@2Samuel:2:21 @ Then Abner said, Turne thee either to the right hande, or to the left, and take one of the yong men, and take thee his weapons: and Asahel would not depart from him.

geneva@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: (note:)Why do you provoke me to kill you?(:note) wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

geneva@2Samuel:2:23 @ Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the (note:)Some read, in those parts where the lively parts lie, the heart, lungs, liver, and gall bladder.(:note) fifth [rib], that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, [that] as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

geneva@2Samuel:2:27 @ And Joab said, [As] God liveth, unless thou hadst (note:)If you had not provoked them to battle, (2Sa_2:14).(:note) spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

geneva@2Samuel:2:29 @ And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plaine, and went ouer Iorden, and past through all Bithron till they came to Mahanaim.

geneva@2Samuel:2:30 @ Ioab also returned backe from Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of Dauids seruants nineteene men and Asahel.

geneva@2Samuel:2:32 @ And they tooke vp Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem: and Ioab and his men went all night, & when they came to Hebron, the day arose.

geneva@2Samuel:3:1 @ Now there was (note:)That is, without intermission enduring two years, which was the whole reign of Ishbosheth.(:note) long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

geneva@2Samuel:3:2 @ And vnto Dauid were children borne in Hebron: and his eldest sonne was Amnon of Ahinoam the Izreelite,

geneva@2Samuel:3:6 @ Nowe while there was warre betweene the house of Saul and the house of Dauid, Abner made all his power for the house of Saul.

geneva@2Samuel:3:7 @ And Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiiah; Ish-bosheth sayde to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in to my fathers concubine?

geneva@2Samuel:3:8 @ Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, [Am] I a (note:)Do you esteem me no more than a dog, for all my service done to your father's house?(:note) dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?

geneva@2Samuel:3:17 @ And Abner had (note:)Rather for malice that he bore toward Ishbosheth, than for love he bore to David.(:note) communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past [to be] king over you:

geneva@2Samuel:3:20 @ So Abner came to Dauid to Hebron, hauing twentie men with him, and Dauid made a feast vnto Abner, and to the men that were with him.

geneva@2Samuel:3:22 @ And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came (note:)From war against the Philistines.(:note) from [pursuing] a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner [was] not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

geneva@2Samuel:3:23 @ When Ioab, & all the hoste that was with him were come, men tolde Ioab, saying, Abner the sonne of Ner came to the King, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

geneva@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Joab came to the king, and said, (note:)Here appears the malicious mind of Joab, who would have had the king slay Abner for his private grudge.(:note) What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why [is] it [that] thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

geneva@2Samuel:3:26 @ And when Ioab was gone out from Dauid, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him againe from the well of Siriah vnknowing to Dauid.

geneva@2Samuel:3:27 @ And when Abner was come againe to Hebron, Ioab tooke him aside in the gate to speake with him peaceably, and smote him vnder the fift ryb, that he dyed, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

geneva@2Samuel:3:30 @ So Joab and (note:)Abishai is said to slay him with Joab, because he consented to the murder.(:note) Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

geneva@2Samuel:3:33 @ And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner (note:)He declares that Abner died not as a wretch or vile person, but as a valiant man might do, being traitorously deceived by the wicked.(:note) as a fool dieth?

geneva@2Samuel:3:34 @ Thine handes were not bounde, nor thy feete tyed in fetters of brasse: but as a man falleth before wicked men, so diddest thou fall; all the people wept againe for him.

geneva@2Samuel:3:35 @ And when all the people came to cause David to eat (note:)According to their custom, which was to feast at burials.(:note) meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

geneva@2Samuel:3:36 @ And all the people took notice [of it], and it (note:)It is expedient sometimes not only to conceive inward sorrow, but also that it may appear to others, so that they may be satisfied.(:note) pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

geneva@2Samuel:3:37 @ For all the people and all Israel vnderstoode that day, howe that it was not the Kings deede that Abner the sonne of Ner was slaine.

geneva@2Samuel:4:1 @ And when Saul's (note:)That is, Ishbosheth.(:note) son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were Meaning, that he was discouraged. feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

geneva@2Samuel:4:2 @ And Saul's son had two men [that were] captains of bands: the name of the one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for (note:)This city Beeroth was in the tribe of Benjamin, (Jos_18:25).(:note) Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

geneva@2Samuel:4:4 @ And Ionathan Sauls sonne had a sonne that was lame on his feete: he was fiue yere olde when the tydings came of Saul and Ionathan out of Israel: then his nourse tooke him, and fledde away; as she made haste to flee, the childe fell, and beganne to halte, and his name was Mephibosheth.

geneva@2Samuel:4:6 @ And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they (note:)They disguised themselves as merchants, who came to buy wheat.(:note) would have fetched wheat; and they There is nothing so vile and dangerous, which the wicked will not undertake in hope of money and favour. smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

geneva@2Samuel:4:9 @ Then Dauid answered Rechab & Baanah his brother, the sonnes of Rimmon the Beerothite, and saide vnto them, As the Lorde liueth, who hath deliuered my soule out of al aduersity,

geneva@2Samuel:4:10 @ When one tolde me, and sayde that Saul was dead, (thinking to haue brought good tydings) I tooke him and slewe him in Ziklag, who thought that I woulde haue giuen him a rewarde for his tidings:

geneva@2Samuel:4:11 @ How (note:)In that neither the example of him that slew Saul, nor duty to their master, nor the innocency of the person, nor reverence for the place, nor time moved them, they deserved most grievous punishment.(:note) much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

geneva@2Samuel:5:2 @ And in time past when Saul was our King, thou leddest Israel in and out: and the Lord hath sayde to thee, Thou shalt feede my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captaine ouer Israel.

geneva@2Samuel:5:3 @ So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron (note:)That is, taking the Lord to witness: for the ark was still in Abinadab's house.(:note) before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.

geneva@2Samuel:5:4 @ Dauid was thirtie yeere olde when he began to reigne: and hee reigned fortie yeere.

geneva@2Samuel:5:10 @ And Dauid prospered and grewe: for the Lord God of hostes was with him.

geneva@2Samuel:5:11 @ Hiram also king of Tyrus sent messengers to Dauid, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons for walles: and they built Dauid an house.

geneva@2Samuel:5:13 @ And Dauid tooke him mo concubines & wiues out of Ierusalem, after hee was come from Hebron, & mo sonnes and daughters were borne to Dauid.

geneva@2Samuel:5:20 @ Then Dauid came to Baal-perazim, & smote them there, and sayde, The Lorde hath deuided mine enemies asunder before mee, as waters be deuided asunder: therefore he called the name of that place, Baal-perazim.

geneva@2Samuel:5:23 @ And when Dauid asked counsell of the Lorde, hee answered, Thou shalt not goe vp, but turne about behinde them, and come vpon them ouer against the mulberie trees.

geneva@2Samuel:5:25 @ And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to (note:)Which was in the tribe of Benjamin, but the Philistines possessed it.(:note) Gazer.

geneva@2Samuel:6:2 @ And David arose, and went with all the people that [were] with him from (note:)This was a city in Judah called also Kirjathjearim, (Jos_15:9).(:note) Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth [between] the cherubims.

geneva@2Samuel:6:3 @ And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that [was] in (note:)which was a high place in the city of Baale.(:note) Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.

geneva@2Samuel:6:4 @ And when they brought the Arke of God out of the house of Abinadab, that was at Gibeah, Ahio went before the Arke,

geneva@2Samuel:6:7 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God (note:)Here we see the danger it is to follow good intentions, or to do anything in God's service without his express word.(:note) smote him there for [his] error; and there he died by the ark of God.

geneva@2Samuel:6:8 @ And Dauid was displeased, because the Lord had smitten Vzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez Vzzah vntill this day.

geneva@2Samuel:6:10 @ So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom (note:)Who was a Levite, and had dwelt in Gittaim, (1Ch_15:21).(:note) the Gittite.

geneva@2Samuel:6:12 @ And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that [pertaineth] unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and (note:)Meaning, he caused the Levites to bear it according to the law.(:note) brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.

geneva@2Samuel:6:13 @ And when they that bare the Arke of the Lord had gone sixe paces, he offred an oxe, and a fatte beast.

geneva@2Samuel:6:14 @ And David danced before the LORD with all [his] might; and David [was] girded with a linen (note:)With a garment like the priest's garment.(:note) ephod.

geneva@2Samuel:6:16 @ And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she (note:)The worldlings are not able to comprehend the emotions that move the children of God to praise God in all kinds of ways.(:note) despised him in her heart.

geneva@2Samuel:6:18 @ And assoone as Dauid had made an ende of offring burnt offrings and peace offrings, hee blessed the people in the Name of the Lorde of hostes,

geneva@2Samuel:6:19 @ And gaue among all the people, euen among the whole multitude of Israel, aswel to the women as men, to euerie one a cake of bread, and a piece of flesh, and a bottell of wine: so all the people departed euerie one to his house.

geneva@2Samuel:6:20 @ Then David returned to (note:)That is, to pray for his house, as he had done for the people.(:note) bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

geneva@2Samuel:6:21 @ And David said unto Michal, (note:)It was for no worldly affection, but only for that zeal that I bore to God's glory.(:note) [It was] before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.

geneva@2Samuel:6:22 @ And will yet be more vile then thus, and will be low in mine owne sight, and of the verie same maidseruants, which thou hast spoken of, shal I be had in honour.

geneva@2Samuel:6:23 @ Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had (note:)Which was a punishment because she mocked the servant of God.(:note) no child unto the day of her death.

geneva@2Samuel:7:9 @ And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a (note:)I have made you famous through all the world.(:note) great name, like unto the name of the great [men] that [are] in the earth.

geneva@2Samuel:7:10 @ Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move (note:)He promises them quietness, if they will walk in his fear and obedience.(:note) no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

geneva@2Samuel:7:14 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the (note:)That is, gently, as fathers use to chastise their children.(:note) rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

geneva@2Samuel:7:15 @ But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I tooke it from Saul whome I haue put away before thee.

geneva@2Samuel:7:16 @ And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be (note:)This was begun in Solomon, as a figure, but accomplished in Christ.(:note) established for ever.

geneva@2Samuel:7:18 @ Then King Dauid went in, and sate before the Lorde, and sayde, Who am I, O Lorde God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

geneva@2Samuel:7:19 @ And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And [is] this the manner of (note:)Does this not come rather from your free mercy, than from any worthiness that can be in man?(:note) man, O Lord GOD?

geneva@2Samuel:7:21 @ For thy words sake, and according to thine owne heart hast thou done all these great things, to make them knowen vnto thy seruant.

geneva@2Samuel:7:24 @ For thou hast (note:)He shows that God's free election is the only reason why the Israelites were chosen to be his people.(:note) confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.

geneva@2Samuel:7:25 @ Nowe therefore, O Lorde God, confirme for euer the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy seruant and his house, and doe as thou hast sayde.

geneva@2Samuel:7:27 @ For thou, O Lord of hostes, God of Israel, hast reueiled vnto thy seruant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy seruant bene bold to pray this prayer vnto thee.

geneva@2Samuel:7:28 @ Therefore now, O Lord God, (for thou art God, and thy words be true, and thou hast tolde this goodnes vnto thy seruant)

geneva@2Samuel:7:29 @ Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast (note:)Therefore I firmly believe it will come to pass.(:note) spoken [it]: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.

geneva@2Samuel:8:1 @ And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the (note:)So that they paid no more tribute.(:note) hand of the Philistines.

geneva@2Samuel:8:2 @ And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with (note:)He slew two parts as it pleased him, and reserved the third.(:note) two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And [so] the Moabites became David's servants, [and] brought gifts.

geneva@2Samuel:8:3 @ Dauid smote also Hadadezer the sonne of Rehob King of Zobah, as he went to recouer his border at the riuer Euphrates.

geneva@2Samuel:8:6 @ Then David put garrisons in (note:)In that part of Syria, where Damascus was.(:note) Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, They paid yearly tribute. [and] brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

geneva@2Samuel:8:8 @ And out of Betah, and Berothai (cities of Hadadezer) king Dauid brought exceeding much brasse.

geneva@2Samuel:8:10 @ Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to (note:)For seeing David victorious, he was glad to ask for peace.(:note) bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:

geneva@2Samuel:8:15 @ And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed (note:)He gave judgment in controversies, and was merciful toward the people.(:note) judgment and justice unto all his people.

geneva@2Samuel:8:16 @ And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah was ouer the hoste, and Ioshaphat the sonne of Ahilud was recorder.

geneva@2Samuel:8:18 @ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] both the (note:)The Cherethites and Pelethites were as the king's guard, and had charge of his person.(:note) Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

geneva@2Samuel:9:2 @ And there was of the housholde of Saul a seruant whose name was Ziba, & when they had called him vnto Dauid, the King sayd vnto him, Art thou Ziba? And he sayd, I thy seruant am he.

geneva@2Samuel:9:3 @ And the king said, [Is] there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the (note:)Such mercy as shall be acceptable to God.(:note) kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, [which is] lame on [his] feet.

geneva@2Samuel:9:5 @ Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of (note:)Who was also called Eliam the father of Bathsheba, David's wife.(:note) Ammiel, from Lodebar.

geneva@2Samuel:9:6 @ Nowe when Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Saul was come vnto Dauid, he fel on his face, and did reuerence; Dauid sayde, Mephibosheth? And he answered, Beholde thy seruant.

geneva@2Samuel:9:8 @ And he bowed himself, and said, What [is] thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such (note:)Meaning, a despised person.(:note) a dead dog as I [am]?

geneva@2Samuel:9:9 @ Then the king called Ziba Sauls seruant, & said vnto him, I haue giue vnto thy masters sonne all that perteined to Saul and to all his house.

geneva@2Samuel:9:10 @ Thou therefore, and (note:)Be ye provident overseers and governors of his lands, that they may be profitable.(:note) thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

geneva@2Samuel:9:11 @ Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. (note:)That Mephibosheth may have all things at commandment, as becomes a king's son.(:note) As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.

geneva@2Samuel:9:13 @ And Mephibosheth dwelt in Ierusalem: for he did eate continually at the Kings table, & was lame on both his feete.

geneva@2Samuel:10:2 @ Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father (note:)The children of God are not unmindful of a benefit received.(:note) shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

geneva@2Samuel:10:5 @ When it was told vnto Dauid, he sent to meete them (for the men were exceedingly ashamed) and the King sayde, Tary at Iericho, vntill your beards be growen, then returne.

geneva@2Samuel:10:6 @ And when the children of Ammon saw that they (note:)That they deserved David's displeasure, for the harm done to his ambassadors.(:note) stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.

geneva@2Samuel:10:8 @ And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of (note:)These were various parts of the country of Syria, by which it appears that the Syrians served where they might have entertainment, as now the Sweitzers do.(:note) Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, [were] by themselves in the field.

geneva@2Samuel:10:9 @ When Ioab saw that the front of the battel was against him before and behinde, he chose of all the choyse of Israel, and put them in aray against the Aramites.

geneva@2Samuel:10:13 @ Then Ioab, and the people that was with him, ioyned in battel with the Aramites, who fled before him.

geneva@2Samuel:10:17 @ And when it was told David, he gathered (note:)Meaning, the greatest part.(:note) all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

geneva@2Samuel:10:18 @ And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the men of] (note:)Who were the chief and most principal: for in all he destroyed 7000, as in (1Ch_19:18), or the soldiers who were in 700 chariots.(:note) seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

geneva@2Samuel:11:1 @ And it came to pass, after the year was (note:)The year following about the spring time.(:note) expired, at the time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

geneva@2Samuel:11:2 @ And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his (note:)Upon which he used to rest in the afternoon, as was read of Ishbosheth in (2Sa_4:7).(:note) bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon.

geneva@2Samuel:11:3 @ And David sent and enquired after the woman. And [one] said, [Is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the (note:)Who was not an born an Israelite, but converted to the true religion.(:note) Hittite?

geneva@2Samuel:11:4 @ Then Dauid sent messengers, & tooke her away: and she came vnto him & he lay with her: (now she was purified from her vncleannes) & she returned vnto her house.

geneva@2Samuel:11:8 @ And David said to Uriah, (note:)David thought that if Uriah lay with his wife, his sin might be covered.(:note) Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess [of meat] from the king.

geneva@2Samuel:11:11 @ And Uriah said unto David, (note:)By this God would touch David's conscience, for seeing the fidelity and religion of his servant, he would declare himself forgetful of God, and injurious to his servant.(:note) The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [as] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

geneva@2Samuel:11:13 @ And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him (note:)He made him drink more liberally than he was wont to do, thinking by this he would have slept with his wife.(:note) drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

geneva@2Samuel:11:16 @ So when Ioab besieged the citie, he assigned Vriah vnto a place, where he knewe that strong men were.

geneva@2Samuel:11:19 @ And he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an ende of telling all the matters of the warre vnto the King,

geneva@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who smote Abimelech the son of (note:)Meaning Gideon, (Jdg_9:52-53).(:note) Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

geneva@2Samuel:11:25 @ Then David said unto the messenger, (note:)He conceals the truth from the messenger, so that neither his cruel commandment, nor Joab's wicked obedience would be discovered.(:note) Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

geneva@2Samuel:11:26 @ And when the wife of Vriah heard that her husband Vriah was dead, she mourned for her husband.

geneva@2Samuel:11:27 @ So when the mourning was past, Dauid sent and tooke her into his house, and shee became his wife, and bare him a sonne: but ye thing that Dauid had done, displeased the Lord.

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:12:5 @ Then Dauid was exceeding wroth with the man, and sayde to Nathan, As the Lorde liueth, the man that hath done this thing, shall surely dye,

geneva@2Samuel:12:8 @ And I gave thee thy master's (note:)For David succeeded Saul in his kingdom.(:note) house, and thy master's The Jews take this to be Eglah and Michal, or Rizpah and Michal. wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if [that had been] too little, I would moreover have given unto thee That is, greater things than these: for God's love and benefits increase toward his own, if they do not hinder him by their ingratitude. such and such things.

geneva@2Samuel:12:9 @ Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the (note:)You have most cruelly given him into the hands of God's enemies.(:note) children of Ammon.

geneva@2Samuel:12:10 @ Now therefore the sworde shall neuer depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Vriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

geneva@2Samuel:12:14 @ Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to (note:)In saying, that the Lord has appointed a wicked man to reign over his people.(:note) blaspheme, the child also [that is] born unto thee shall surely die.

geneva@2Samuel:12:15 @ So Nathan departed vnto his house: and the Lord stroke the childe that Vriahs wife bare vnto Dauid, and it was sicke.

geneva@2Samuel:12:16 @ David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and (note:)That is, to his private chamber.(:note) went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

geneva@2Samuel:12:18 @ So on the seuenth day the child dyed: and the seruants of Dauid feared to tell him that the childe was dead: for they sayde, Beholde, while the childe was aliue, we spake vnto him, and he woulde not hearken vnto our voyce: how then shall we say vnto him, The childe is dead, to vexe him more?

geneva@2Samuel:12:19 @ But when Dauid sawe that his seruantes whispered, Dauid perceiued that the childe was dead: therefore Dauid sayde vnto his seruants, Is the childe dead? And they sayd, He is dead.

geneva@2Samuel:12:20 @ Then David (note:)Showing that our lamentations should not be excessive, but moderate: and that we must praise God in all his doings.(:note) arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed [himself], and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.

geneva@2Samuel:12:21 @ Then (note:)As they who did not consider that God grants many things to the sobs and tears of the faithful.(:note) said his servants unto him, What thing [is] this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, [while it was] alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

geneva@2Samuel:12:22 @ And he sayde, While the childe was yet aliue, I fasted, and wept: for I sayde, Who can tell whether God will haue mercy on me, that the childe may liue?

geneva@2Samuel:12:23 @ But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? (note:)By this consideration he appeased his sorrow.(:note) can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

geneva@2Samuel:12:27 @ And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of (note:)That is, the chief city and where all the water pipes are, is as good as taken.(:note) waters.

geneva@2Samuel:12:30 @ And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof [was] a (note:)That is, 60 pounds after the weight of the common talent.(:note) talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was [set] on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.

geneva@2Samuel:12:31 @ And he brought forth the people that [were] therein, and put [them] under (note:)Signifying that as they were malicious enemies of God, so he put them to cruel death.(:note) saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

geneva@2Samuel:13:1 @ And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name [was] (note:)Tamar was Absalom's sister both by father and mother, and Amnon's only by father.(:note) Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

geneva@2Samuel:13:2 @ And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she [was] a (note:)And therefore kept her father's house, as virgins were accustomed.(:note) virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.

geneva@2Samuel:13:3 @ But Amnon had a friend called Ionadab, the sonne of Shimeah Dauids brother: and Ionadab was a very subtile man.

geneva@2Samuel:13:6 @ So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of (note:)Meaning, some delicate and dainty meat.(:note) cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

geneva@2Samuel:13:9 @ And she took a pan, and (note:)That is, she served them on a dish.(:note) poured [them] out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from For the wicked are ashamed to do that before men, which they are not afraid to commit in the sight of God. me. And they went out every man from him.

geneva@2Samuel:13:13 @ And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of (note:)As a lewd and wicked person.(:note) the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.

geneva@2Samuel:13:15 @ Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred wherewith he hated her, was greater then the loue, wherewith hee had loued her: and Amnon sayde vnto her, Vp, get thee hence.

geneva@2Samuel:13:18 @ And [she had] a garment of (note:)For that which was of various colours or pieces, in those days was greatly esteemed, (Gen_37:3; Jdg_5:30).(:note) divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters [that were] virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.

geneva@2Samuel:13:19 @ And Tamar put ashes on her head and rent the garment of diuers colours which was on her, and layde her hand on her head, and went her way crying.

geneva@2Samuel:13:21 @ But when King Dauid heard all these things, he was very wroth.

geneva@2Samuel:13:23 @ And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which [is] beside Ephraim: and (note:)That is, to a banquet, thinking by it to fulfil his wicked purpose.(:note) Absalom invited all the king's sons.

geneva@2Samuel:13:26 @ Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother (note:)Pretending to the king that Amnon was most dear to him.(:note) Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?

geneva@2Samuel:13:27 @ But Absalom was instant vpon him, & he sent Amnon with him, & all the Kings children.

geneva@2Samuel:13:28 @ Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not (note:)Such is the pride of the wicked masters, that in all their wicked commandments they think to be obeyed.(:note) I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

geneva@2Samuel:13:29 @ And the seruantes of Absalom did vnto Amnon, as Absalom had commanded: and al the Kings sonnes arose, and euery man gate him vp vpon his mule, and fled.

geneva@2Samuel:13:31 @ Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the (note:)Lamenting, as he that felt the wrath of God on his house, (2Sa_12:10).(:note) earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

geneva@2Samuel:13:35 @ And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, (note:)That only Amnon is dead.(:note) so it is.

geneva@2Samuel:13:36 @ And assoone as hee had left speaking, behold, the Kings sonnes came, & lift vp their voyces, and wept: and the King also and all his seruants wept exceedingly sore.

geneva@2Samuel:13:37 @ But Absalom fled, and went to (note:)For Maachah his mother was the daughter of this Talmai, (2Sa_3:3).(:note) Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son every day.

geneva@2Samuel:13:38 @ So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three yeeres.

geneva@2Samuel:13:39 @ And King Dauid desired to go forth vnto Absalom, because he was pacified concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

geneva@2Samuel:14:1 @ Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's (note:)That the king favoured him.(:note) heart [was] toward Absalom.

geneva@2Samuel:14:2 @ And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and (note:)In token of mourning: for they used anointing to seem cheerful.(:note) anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

geneva@2Samuel:14:6 @ And thy handmaid had two (note:)Under this parable she describes the death of Amnon by Absalom.(:note) sons, and they two strove together in the field, and [there was] none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.

geneva@2Samuel:14:7 @ And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the (note:)Because he has slain his brother he ought to be slain according to the law, (Gen_9:6; Exo_21:12).(:note) life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband [neither] name nor remainder upon the earth.

geneva@2Samuel:14:11 @ Then said she, I pray thee, let the king (note:)Swear that they will not revenge the blood, which are many in number.(:note) remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

geneva@2Samuel:14:13 @ And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou (note:)Why do you give contrary sentence to your son Absalom?(:note) thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.

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@2Samuel:14:17 @ Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an (note:)Is of great wisdom to discern right from wrong.(:note) angel of God, so [is] my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.

geneva@2Samuel:14:18 @ Then the King answered, and said vnto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall aske thee; the woman sayde, Let my lord the King now speake.

geneva@2Samuel:14:19 @ And the king said, [Is not] (note:)Have you not done this by the counsel of Joab.(:note) the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, [As] thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:

geneva@2Samuel:14:24 @ And the king said, Let him (note:)Covering by this his affection, and showing some part of justice to please the people.(:note) turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.

geneva@2Samuel:14:25 @ Nowe in all Israel there was none to be so much praysed for beautie as Absalom: from the sole of his foote euen to the toppe of his head there was no blemish in him.

geneva@2Samuel:14:26 @ And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled [it]: because [the hair] was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred (note:)Which weighed 6 pounds 4 ounces after half an ounce the shekel.(:note) shekels after the king's weight.

geneva@2Samuel:14:27 @ And Absalom had three sonnes, and one daughter named Tamar, which was a fayre woman to looke vpon.

geneva@2Samuel:15:1 @ And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to (note:)Which were as a guard to set forth his estate.(:note) run before him.

geneva@2Samuel:15:2 @ And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was [so], that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city [art] thou? And he said, Thy servant [is] of one of the (note:)That is, noting of what city or place he was.(:note) tribes of Israel.

geneva@2Samuel:15:7 @ And it came to pass after (note:)Counting from the time that the Israelites had asked a king of Samuel.(:note) forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

geneva@2Samuel:15:8 @ For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will (note:)By offering a peace-offering, which was lawful to do in any place.(:note) serve the LORD.

geneva@2Samuel:15:11 @ And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, [that were] (note:)And bid to his feast in Hebron.(:note) called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.

geneva@2Samuel:15:12 @ Also Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite Dauids counseller, from his citie Giloh, while he offred sacrifices: & the treason was great: for the people encreased still with Absalom.

geneva@2Samuel:15:17 @ And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was (note:)That is, from Jerusalem.(:note) far off.

geneva@2Samuel:15:18 @ And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the (note:)These were as the king's guard, or as some write, his counsellors.(:note) Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

geneva@2Samuel:15:19 @ Then said the king to (note:)Who as some write was the king's son of Gath.(:note) Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou [art] a stranger, and also an exile.

geneva@2Samuel:15:20 @ Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy (note:)Meaning, those of his family.(:note) brethren: mercy and God require of you your friendship and fidelity. truth [be] with thee.

geneva@2Samuel:15:21 @ And Ittai answered the King, and sayde, As the Lorde liueth, and as my lord the King liueth, in what place my lord the King shalbe, whether in death or life, euen there surely will thy seruant bee.

geneva@2Samuel:15:23 @ And all the country wept with a loud voice, and (note:)That is, the four hundred men.(:note) all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

geneva@2Samuel:15:24 @ And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites [were] with him, (note:)Which was the charge, of the Kohathites, (Num_4:4).(:note) bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went To stand by the ark. up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.

geneva@2Samuel:15:26 @ But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, (note:)The faithful in all their afflictions show themselves obedient to God's will.(:note) [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

geneva@2Samuel:15:30 @ And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head (note:)With ashes and dust in sign of sorrow.(:note) covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that [was] with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

geneva@2Samuel:15:34 @ But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy (note:)Though Hushai was deceitful here at the king's request, we may not use this example to excuse our deceit.(:note) servant, O king; [as] I [have been] thy father's servant hitherto, so [will] I now also [be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

geneva@2Samuel:15:35 @ And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the Priests? therefore what so euer thou shalt heare out of the Kings house, thou shalt shew to Zadok and Abiathar the Priests.

geneva@2Samuel:16:1 @ And when David was a little past the (note:)Which was the hill of olives, (2Sa_15:30).(:note) top [of the hill], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

geneva@2Samuel:16:2 @ And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The (note:)Commonly there are no viler traitors than they, who under the pretence of friendship accuse others.(:note) asses [be] for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

geneva@2Samuel:16:3 @ And the king sayde, But where is thy masters sonne? Then Ziba answered the King, Beholde, he remayneth in Ierusalem: for he sayde, This day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdome of my father.

geneva@2Samuel:16:5 @ And when king David came to (note:)Which was a city in the tribe of Benjamin.(:note) Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name [was] Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

geneva@2Samuel:16:6 @ And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men [were] on his (note:)That is, round about him.(:note) right hand and on his left.

geneva@2Samuel:16:8 @ The LORD hath returned upon thee all the (note:)Reproaching him, as though by his means Ishbosheth and Abner were slain.(:note) blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou [art taken] in thy mischief, because thou [art] a bloody man.

geneva@2Samuel:16:10 @ And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath (note:)David felt that this was the judgment of God for his sin, and therefore humbles himself to his rod.(:note) said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?

geneva@2Samuel:16:13 @ And as Dauid and his men went by the way, Shimei went by the side of the mountaine ouer against him, and cursed as he went, & threw stones against him, and cast dust.

geneva@2Samuel:16:16 @ And when Hushai the Archite Dauids friend was come vnto Absalom, Hushai said vnto Absalom, God saue the King, God saue the King.

geneva@2Samuel:16:19 @ And moreouer vnto whome shall I doe seruice? not to his sonne? as I serued before thy father, so will I before thee.

geneva@2Samuel:16:21 @ And (note:)Suspecting the change of the kingdom, and so his own overthrow, he gives such counsel as might most hinder his father's reconciliation: and also declare to the people that Absalom was in highest authority.(:note) Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that [are] with thee be strong.

geneva@2Samuel:16:23 @ And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, [was] as if a man had (note:)It was so esteemed for the success of it.(:note) enquired at the oracle of God: so [was] all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

geneva@2Samuel:17:3 @ And I will bring back all the people unto thee: (note:)Meaning David.(:note) the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.

geneva@2Samuel:17:4 @ And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the Elders of Israel.

geneva@2Samuel:17:8 @ For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father, and his men, that they be strong men, and are chafed in minde as a beare robbed of her whelps in the fielde: also thy father is a valiant warrier, and will not lodge with the people.

geneva@2Samuel:17:10 @ Then he also that is valiant whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall shrinke and faint: for all Israel knoweth, that thy father is valiant, and they which be with him, stout men.

geneva@2Samuel:17:11 @ Therefore my counsell is, that all Israel be gathered vnto thee, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba as the sand of the sea in nomber, and that thou goe to battell in thine owne person.

geneva@2Samuel:17:12 @ So shall we come vpon him in some place, where we shall finde him, and we will vpon him as the dewe falleth on the ground: and of all the men that are with him, wee will not leaue him one.

geneva@2Samuel:17:14 @ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the (note:)That counsel which seemed good at first to Absalom, (2Sa_17:4).(:note) good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might For by the counsel of Hushai, he went to the battle, where he was destroyed. bring evil upon Absalom.

geneva@2Samuel:17:16 @ Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass (note:)That is, over Jordan.(:note) over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that [are] with him.

geneva@2Samuel:17:19 @ And (note:)Thus God sends help to his, in their greatest dangers.(:note) the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

geneva@2Samuel:17:20 @ And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the (note:)The Chaldee text reads: Now they have passed the Jordan.(:note) brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find [them], they returned to Jerusalem.

geneva@2Samuel:17:21 @ And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for (note:)That is, to pursue you with all haste.(:note) thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

geneva@2Samuel:17:22 @ Then David arose, and all the people that [were] with him, and they passed over Jordan: (note:)They travelled all night, and by morning had all their company passed over.(:note) by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

geneva@2Samuel:17:23 @ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and (note:)God's just vengeance even in this life is poured on them who are enemies, traitors, or persecutors of his Church.(:note) hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

geneva@2Samuel:17:24 @ Then Dauid came to Mahanaim; Absalom passed ouer Iorden, he, and all the men of Israel with him.

geneva@2Samuel:17:25 @ And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa [was] a man's son, whose name [was] Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of (note:)Who was also called Jesse, David's father.(:note) Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

geneva@2Samuel:17:27 @ And when Dauid was come to Mahanaim, Shobi the sonne of Nahash out of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the sonne of Ammiel out of Lo-debar, and Barzelai the Gileadite out of Rogel

geneva@2Samuel:18:6 @ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the (note:)So called, because the Ephraimites (as some say) fed their cattle beyond Jordan in this wood.(:note) wood of Ephraim;

geneva@2Samuel:18:7 @ Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid: so there was a great slaughter that day, euen of twentie thousande.

geneva@2Samuel:18:8 @ For the battel was skattered ouer all the countrey: and the wood deuoured much more people that day, then did the sworde.

geneva@2Samuel:18:9 @ Nowe Absalom met the seruants of Dauid, and Absalom rode vpon a mule, and the mule came vnder a great thicke oke: and his head caught holde of the oke, and he was taken vp betweene the heauen and the earth: and the mule that was vnder him went away.

geneva@2Samuel:18:11 @ Then Ioab saide vnto the man that tolde him, And hast thou in deede seene? why then diddest thou not there smite him to the grounde, and I woulde haue giuen thee ten shekels of siluer, and a girdle?

geneva@2Samuel:18:12 @ Then the man saide vnto Ioab, Though I should receiue a thousande shekels of siluer in mine hande, yet woulde I not lay mine hande vpon the Kings sonne: for in our hearing the King charged thee, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Beware, least any touche the yong man Absalom.

geneva@2Samuel:18:14 @ Then saide Ioab, I will not thus tary with thee; he tooke three dartes in his hande, and thrust them through Absalom, while he was yet aliue in the middes of the oke.

geneva@2Samuel:18:15 @ And tenne seruants that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slewe him.

geneva@2Samuel:18:17 @ And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great (note:)Thus God turned his vain glory to shame.(:note) pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

geneva@2Samuel:18:21 @ Then said Ioab to Cushi, Goe, tel the king, what thou hast seene; Cushi bowed himselfe vnto Ioab, and ran.

geneva@2Samuel:18:22 @ Then saide Ahimaaz the sonne of Zadok againe to Ioab, What, I pray thee, if I also runne after Cushi? And Ioab said, Wherefore now wilt thou runne, my sonne, seeing that thou hast no tidings to bring?

geneva@2Samuel:18:29 @ And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's (note:)That is, Cushi, who was an Ethiopian.(:note) servant, and [me] thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what [it was].

geneva@2Samuel:18:30 @ And the King said vnto him, Turne aside, and stand here. so he turned aside & stoode still.

geneva@2Samuel:18:32 @ Then the King saide vnto Cushi, Is the yong man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lorde the King, and all that rise against thee to doe thee hurt, be as that yong man is.

geneva@2Samuel:18:33 @ And the king was much (note:)Because he considers both the judgment of God against his sin, and could not otherwise hide his fatherly affection for his son.(:note) moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

geneva@2Samuel:19:1 @ And it was tolde Ioab, Behold, the King weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

geneva@2Samuel:19:2 @ Therefore the victorie of that day was turned into mourning to all the people: for the people heard say that day, The King soroweth for his sonne.

geneva@2Samuel:19:3 @ And the people went that day into the citie secretly, as people confounded hide them selues when they flee in battell.

geneva@2Samuel:19:4 @ But the king (note:)As they do that mourn.(:note) covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

geneva@2Samuel:19:5 @ And Joab came into the (note:)At Mahanaim.(:note) house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

geneva@2Samuel:19:6 @ In that thou louest thine enemies, and hatest thy friendes: for thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither thy princes nor seruants: therefore this day I perceiue, that if Absalom had liued, and we all had dyed this day, that then it would haue pleased thee well.

geneva@2Samuel:19:11 @ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the (note:)That they should reprove the negligence of the elders, seeing the people were so forward.(:note) priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, [even] to his house.

geneva@2Samuel:19:12 @ Ye are my brethren: my bones and my flesh are ye: wherefore then are ye the last that bring the King againe?

geneva@2Samuel:19:13 @ And say ye to Amasa, [Art] thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the (note:)By this policy David thought that by winning the captain, he would have the hearts of all the people.(:note) room of Joab.

geneva@2Samuel:19:14 @ So he bowed the heartes of all the men of Iudah, as of one man: therefore they sent to the King, saying, Returne thou with all thy seruants.

geneva@2Samuel:19:16 @ And (note:)Who had before reviled him, (2Sa_16:13).(:note) Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which [was] of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

geneva@2Samuel:19:18 @ And there went ouer a boate to carie ouer the Kings houshold, and to do him pleasure. Then Shimei the sonne of Gera fell before the King, when he was come ouer Iorden,

geneva@2Samuel:19:19 @ And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did (note:)For in his adversity he was his most cruel enemy, and now in his prosperity, seeks by flattery to creep into favour.(:note) perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

geneva@2Samuel:19:20 @ For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of (note:)By Joseph he means Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin (of which he was) because those three were under one standard, (Num_2:18).(:note) Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

geneva@2Samuel:19:24 @ And Mephibosheth the sonne of Saul came downe to meete the king, and had neither washed his feete, nor dressed his beard, nor washed his clothes from the time the king departed, vntill he returned in peace.

geneva@2Samuel:19:25 @ And it came to pass, when (note:)When Mephibosheth being at Jerusalem had met the King.(:note) he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?

geneva@2Samuel:19:26 @ And he answered, My lorde the king, my seruant deceiued me: for thy seruant said, I would haue mine asse sadled to ride thereon, for to goe with the king, because thy seruant is lame.

geneva@2Samuel:19:27 @ And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king [is] as an (note:)Able for his wisdom to judge in all matters.(:note) angel of God: do therefore [what is] good in thine eyes.

geneva@2Samuel:19:32 @ Nowe Barzillai was a very aged man, euen fourescore yeere olde, and he had prouided the king of sustenance, while he lay at Mahanaim: for he was a man of very great substance.

geneva@2Samuel:19:35 @ I [am] this day fourscore years old: [and] can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a (note:)He thought it was not fitting to receive benefits from him to whom he was not able to do service again.(:note) burden unto my lord the king?

geneva@2Samuel:19:39 @ So all the people went ouer Iorden: and the King passed ouer: and the King kissed Barzillai, and blessed him, and hee returned vnto his owne place.

geneva@2Samuel:20:1 @ And there happened to be (note:)Where the ten tribes contended against Judah.(:note) there a man of Belial, whose name [was] Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in As they of Judah say. David, neither have we inheritance in the son He thought by speaking contemptuously of the king, to stir the people farther to sedition, or else by causing Israel to depart, thought that they of Judah would have esteemed him less. of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

geneva@2Samuel:20:2 @ So every man of Israel went up from after David, [and] followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from (note:)From Gilgal which was near Jordan.(:note) Jordan even to Jerusalem.

geneva@2Samuel:20:4 @ Then said the king to (note:)Who was his chief captain in Joab's place, (2Sa_19:13).(:note) Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.

geneva@2Samuel:20:5 @ So Amasa went to assemble Iudah, but hee taried longer then the time which he had appoynted him.

geneva@2Samuel:20:8 @ When they [were] at the great stone which [is] in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's (note:)Which was his coat, that he used to wear in the wars.(:note) garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

geneva@2Samuel:20:9 @ And Ioab sayde to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? & Ioab tooke Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kisse him.

geneva@2Samuel:20:10 @ But Amasa tooke no heede to the sworde that was in Ioabs hande: for therewith he smote him in the fift rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and smote him not the second time: so he dyed. then Ioab and Abishai his brother followed after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

geneva@2Samuel:20:11 @ And one of Joab's men (note:)He stood by Amasa at Joab's appointment.(:note) stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that [is] for David, [let him go] after Joab.

geneva@2Samuel:20:12 @ And Amasa wallowed in blood in the mids of the way: and when the man sawe that all the people stood still, he remooued Amasa out of the way into the fielde, and cast a cloth vpon him, because he saw that euery one that came by him, stoode still.

geneva@2Samuel:20:13 @ When hee was remoued out of the way, euerie man went after Ioab, to followe after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

geneva@2Samuel:20:14 @ And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to (note:)To the city Abel, which was near Bethmaachah.(:note) Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

geneva@2Samuel:20:15 @ And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab (note:)That is, he went about to overthrow it.(:note) battered the wall, to throw it down.

geneva@2Samuel:20:18 @ Then she spake, saying, (note:)She shows that the old custom was not to destroy a city before peace was offered, (Deu_20:10-11).(:note) They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].

geneva@2Samuel:20:21 @ The (note:)Hearing his fault, he gave in to reason, and required only he that was instigator of the treason.(:note) matter [is] not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, [even] against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

geneva@2Samuel:20:22 @ Then the woman went vnto all the people with her wisedome, and they cut off the head of Sheba the sonne of Bichri, and cast it to Ioab: the he blewe the trumpet, and they retired from the citie, euery man to his tent: and Ioab returned to Ierusalem vnto the King.

geneva@2Samuel:20:23 @ Then Ioab was ouer all the hoste of Israel, and Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada ouer the Cherethites and ouer the Pelethies,

geneva@2Samuel:20:25 @ And Sheia was Scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar the Priests,

geneva@2Samuel:20:26 @ And Ira also the Jairite was a (note:)Either in dignity or familiarity.(:note) chief ruler about David.

geneva@2Samuel:21:1 @ Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the (note:)Thinking to gratify the people, because these were not of the seed of Abraham.(:note) Gibeonites.

geneva@2Samuel:21:3 @ Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, (note:)With what may your wrath be appeased, that you may pray to God to remove this plague from his people.(:note) What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

geneva@2Samuel:21:5 @ Then they answered the King, The man that consumed vs and that imagined euill against vs, so that we are destroyed from remaining in any coast of Israel,

geneva@2Samuel:21:7 @ But the King had compassion on Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, because of the Lordes othe, that was betweene them, euen betweene Dauid and Ionathan the sonne of Saul.

geneva@2Samuel:21:8 @ But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of (note:)Here Michal is named for Merab Adriel's wife, as it appears in (1Sa_18:19) for Michal was the wife of Paltiel, (1Sa_25:44) and never had a child (2Sa_6:23).(:note) Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

geneva@2Samuel:21:9 @ And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the (note:)Which was in the month Abib or Nisan which contained part of March and part of April.(:note) first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest.

geneva@2Samuel:21:10 @ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took (note:)To make her a tent in which she prayed to God to turn away his wrath.(:note) sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until Because drought was the cause of this famine, God by sending rain showed that he was pacified. water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

geneva@2Samuel:21:11 @ And it was told Dauid, what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah ye concubine of Saul had done.

geneva@2Samuel:21:14 @ And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was (note:)For where the government permits faults to go unpunished, there the plague of God lies on the land.(:note) intreated for the land.

geneva@2Samuel:21:16 @ And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of (note:)Or, of Haraphah, the race of giants.(:note) the giant, the weight of whose spear [weighed] three hundred Which amounts to 9 3/4 pounds. [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.

geneva@2Samuel:21:18 @ And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at (note:)Called Gezer, and Saph is called Sippai, (1Ch_20:4).(:note) Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant.

geneva@2Samuel:21:19 @ And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] (note:)That is, Lahmi the brother of Goliath, whom David slew, (1Ch_20:5).(:note) Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam.

geneva@2Samuel:21:20 @ Afterward there was also a battel in Gath, where was a man of a great stature, and had on euerie hand sixe fingers, and on euerie foote sixe toes, foure and twentie in nomber: who was also the sonne of Haraphah.

geneva@2Samuel:22:2 @ And he said, The LORD [is] my (note:)By the diversity of these comfortable means, he shows how his faith was strengthened in all temptations.(:note) rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

geneva@2Samuel:22:3 @ God is my strength, in him will I trust: my shielde, and the horne of my saluation, my hie tower and my refuge: my Sauiour, thou hast saued me from violence.

geneva@2Samuel:22:5 @ When the (note:)As David (who was the figure of Christ) was by God's power delivered from all dangers: so Christ and his Church will overcome most grievous dangers, tyranny and death.(:note) waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

geneva@2Samuel:22:6 @ The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee.

geneva@2Samuel:22:8 @ Then the earth trembled and quaked: the foundations of the heauens mooued and shooke, because he was angrie.

geneva@2Samuel:22:10 @ He (note:)So it seems when the air is dark.(:note) bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness [was] under his feet.

geneva@2Samuel:22:11 @ And he rode upon a (note:)To fly in a moment through the world.(:note) cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

geneva@2Samuel:22:16 @ And the (note:)He alludes to the miracle of the Red Sea.(:note) channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

geneva@2Samuel:22:19 @ They (note:)I was so beset, that all means seemed to fail.(:note) prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

geneva@2Samuel:22:24 @ I was vpright also towarde him, and haue kept me from my wickednesse.

geneva@2Samuel:22:31 @ [As for] God, his way [is] (note:)The manner that God uses to aid his own, never fails.(:note) perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he [is] a buckler to all them that trust in him.

geneva@2Samuel:22:35 @ He teacheth mine handes to fight, so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.

geneva@2Samuel:22:36 @ Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation, and thy louing kindnesse hath caused me to increase.

geneva@2Samuel:22:37 @ Thou hast inlarged my steppes vnder me, and mine heeles haue not slid.

geneva@2Samuel:22:40 @ For thou hast (note:)He acknowledges that God was the author of his victories, who gave him strength.(:note) girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

geneva@2Samuel:22:41 @ And thou hast giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

geneva@2Samuel:22:42 @ They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] unto the (note:)The wicked in their time of need are forced to flee to God, but it is too late.(:note) LORD, but he answered them not.

geneva@2Samuel:22:43 @ Then did I beate them as small as the dust of the earth: I did treade them flat as the clay of the streete, and did spread them abroad.

geneva@2Samuel:22:44 @ Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my (note:)Meaning, of the Jews, who conspired against me.(:note) people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.

geneva@2Samuel:22:45 @ Strangers (note:)Not willingly obeying me, but deceitfully.(:note) shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

geneva@2Samuel:22:49 @ And rescueth me from mine enemies: (thou also hast lift me vp from them that rose against me, thou hast deliuered me from the cruell man.

geneva@2Samuel:23:1 @ Now these [be] the (note:)Which he spoke after he had written the psalms.(:note) last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man [who was] raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,

geneva@2Samuel:23:2 @ The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word [was] in my (note:)Meaning, he spoke nothing but by the motion of God's Spirit.(:note) tongue.

geneva@2Samuel:23:4 @ And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender (note:)Which grows quickly, and fades soon.(:note) grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

geneva@2Samuel:23:5 @ Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to (note:)But that my kingdom may continue for ever according to his promise.(:note) grow.

geneva@2Samuel:23:6 @ But the wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, because they can not be taken with handes.

geneva@2Samuel:23:8 @ These [be] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the (note:)As one of the king's counsel.(:note) seat, chief among the captains; the same [was] Adino the Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

geneva@2Samuel:23:9 @ And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, [one] of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines [that] were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were (note:)Meaning, fled from the battle.(:note) gone away:

geneva@2Samuel:23:10 @ He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his (note:)By a cramp which came from weariness and fighting.(:note) hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.

geneva@2Samuel:23:11 @ After him was Shammah the sonne of Age the Hararite: for the Philistims assembled at a towne, where was a piece of a fielde full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistims.

geneva@2Samuel:23:12 @ But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a (note:)Which has no respect for many or few, when he will show his power.(:note) great victory.

geneva@2Samuel:23:14 @ And Dauid was then in an holde, and the garison of ye Philistims was then in Beth-lehem.

geneva@2Samuel:23:16 @ And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but (note:)Bridling his affection, and also desiring God not to be offended for that rash enterprise.(:note) poured it out unto the LORD.

geneva@2Samuel:23:18 @ And Abishai the brother of Ioab, the sonne of Zeruiah, was chiefe among the three, and he lifted vp his speare against three hundreth, and slewe them, and he had the name among the three.

geneva@2Samuel:23:19 @ For he was most excellent of the three, & was their captaine, but he attained not vnto the first three.

geneva@2Samuel:23:20 @ And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, which had done many actes, and was of Kabzeel, slewe two strong men of Moab: he went downe also, and slewe a lyon in the middes of a pit in the time of snowe.

geneva@2Samuel:23:21 @ And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a (note:)Which was as big as a weavers beam, (1Ch_11:23).(:note) spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

geneva@2Samuel:23:23 @ He was more honourable than the (note:)He was more valiant than the thirty that follow and not so valiant as the six before.(:note) thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.

geneva@2Samuel:23:24 @ Asahel the brother of Ioab was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem:

geneva@2Samuel:23:30 @ Benaiah the Pirathonite: Hiddai of the riuer of Gaash:

geneva@2Samuel:23:32 @ Elihaba the Shaalbonite: of the sonnes of Iashen, Ionathan:

geneva@2Samuel:23:34 @ Eliphelet the sonne of Ahasbai the sonne of Maachathi: Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite:

geneva@2Samuel:24:1 @ And (note:)Before they were plagued with famine, (2Sa_21:1).(:note) again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and The Lord permitted Satan, as in (1Ch_21:2). he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

geneva@2Samuel:24:2 @ For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which [was] with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the (note:)Because he did this to determine his power and to trust in it, it offended God, for otherwise it was lawful to number the people, (Exo_30:12; Num_1:2).(:note) number of the people.

geneva@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Ioab saide vnto the King, The Lorde thy God increase the people an hundreth folde mo then they be, and that the eyes of my lorde the King may see it: but why doeth my lord the King desire this thing?

geneva@2Samuel:24:5 @ And they passed ouer Iorden, & pitched in Aroer at the right side of the citie that is in the middes of the valley of Gad and toward Iazer.

geneva@2Samuel:24:10 @ Then Dauids heart smote him, after that he had numbred the people: and Dauid said vnto the Lorde, I haue sinned exceedingly in that I haue done: therefore nowe, Lorde, I beseech thee, take away the trespasse of thy seruant: for I haue done very foolishly.

geneva@2Samuel:24:11 @ For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's (note:)Whom God had appointed for David and his time.(:note) seer, saying,

geneva@2Samuel:24:13 @ So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall (note:)Three years of famine were past for the Gibeonites and this was the fourth year to which should have been added another three more years, (1Ch_21:12).(:note) seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

geneva@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: (note:)The Lord spared this place, because he had chosen it to build his temple there.(:note) stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

geneva@2Samuel:24:17 @ And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they (note:)David did not see the just cause why God plagued the people, and therefore he offers himself for God's correction as the only cause of this evil.(:note) done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

geneva@2Samuel:24:19 @ And Dauid (according to the saying of Gad) went vp, as the Lord had commanded.

geneva@2Samuel:24:23 @ All these [things] did Araunah, (note:)That is, abundantly, for as some write, he was king of Jerusalem before David won the tower.(:note) [as] a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

geneva@2Samuel:24:24 @ And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy [it] of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for (note:)Some write that every tribe gave 50 which makes 600, or that afterward he bought as much as came to 550 shekels.(:note) fifty shekels of silver.

geneva@2Samuel:24:25 @ And Dauid built there an altar vnto the Lorde, and offred burnt offrings and peace offrings, and the Lord was appeased toward ye lande, and the plague ceased from Israel.

geneva@1Kings:1:1 @ Now king David was (note:)He was about 70 years old, (2Sa_5:4).(:note) old [and] stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no For his natural heat was worn away with travels. heat. The Argument - Because the children of God should expect no continual rest and quietness in this world, the Holy Spirit sets before our eyes in this book the variety and change of things, which came to the people of Israel from the death of David, Solomon, and the rest of the kings, to the death of Ahab. Declaring that flourishing kingdoms, unless they are preserved by God's protection, (who then favours them when his word is truly set forth, virtue esteemed, vice punished, and concord maintained) fall to decay and come to nothing as appears by the dividing of the kingdom under Rehoboam and Jeroboam, who were one people before and now by the just punishment of God were made two. Judah and Benjamin were under Rehoboam, and this was called the kingdom of Judah. The other ten tribes held with Jeroboam, and this was called the kingdom of Israel. The king of Judah had his throne in Jerusalem, and the king of Israel in Samaria, after it was built by Omri Ahab's father. Because our Saviour Christ according to the flesh, comes from the stock of David, the genealogy of the kings of Judah is here described, from Solomon to Joram the son of Jehoshaphat, who reigned over Judah in Jerusalem as Ahab did over Israel in Samaria.

geneva@1Kings:1:3 @ So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag (note:)A city in the tribe of Issachar, (Jos_19:18).(:note) a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

geneva@1Kings:1:4 @ And the maid was exceeding faire, and cherished the King, and ministred to him, but the King knew her not.

geneva@1Kings:1:6 @ And his father would not displease him from his childehood, to say, Why hast thou done so? And hee was a very goodly man, and his mother bare him next after Absalom.

geneva@1Kings:1:10 @ But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and (note:)As the Cherethites and Pelethites.(:note) the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.

geneva@1Kings:1:11 @ Wherefore Nathan spake vnto Bath-sheba the mother of Salomon, saying, Hast thou not heard, that Adoniiah ye sonne of Haggith doeth reigne, and Dauid our lord knoweth it not?

geneva@1Kings:1:13 @ Go, and get thee in vnto King Dauid, and say vnto him, Didest not thou, my lorde, O King, sweare vnto thine handmaide, saying, Assuredly Salomo thy sonne shall reigne after me, & he shal sit vpon my throne? why is then Adoniiah King?

geneva@1Kings:1:14 @ Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and (note:)By declaring such things, as may further the same.(:note) confirm thy words.

geneva@1Kings:1:15 @ So Bath-sheba went in vnto the King into the chamber, and the King was verie olde, and Abishag the Shunammite ministred vnto ye King.

geneva@1Kings:1:17 @ And shee answered him, My lorde, thou swarest by the Lorde thy God vnto thine handmaide, saying, Assuredly Salomon thy sonne shall reigne after me, and he shall sit vpon my throne.

geneva@1Kings:1:21 @ Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be (note:)And so put to death as wicked transgressors.(:note) counted offenders.

geneva@1Kings:1:23 @ And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face (note:)Acknowledging him to be the true and worthy king appointed by God, as the figure of his Christ.(:note) to the ground.

geneva@1Kings:1:24 @ And Nathan saide, My lorde, O King, hast thou said, Adoniiah shall reigne after mee, and he shall sit vpon my throne?

geneva@1Kings:1:27 @ Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed [it] unto thy (note:)Meaning, that in such affairs he should undertake nothing unless he had consulted with the Lord.(:note) servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

geneva@1Kings:1:29 @ And the King sware, saying, As the Lorde liueth, who hath redeemed my soule out of all aduersitie,

geneva@1Kings:1:30 @ Even as I (note:)Moved by the Spirit of God to do so, because he foresaw that Solomon would be the figure of Christ.(:note) sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.

geneva@1Kings:1:33 @ The king also said unto them, Take with you the (note:)Meaning, the king's servants and such as were of his guard.(:note) servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:

geneva@1Kings:1:37 @ As the Lord hath bene with my lorde the King, so be he with Salomon, and exalt his throne aboue the throne of my lorde king Dauid.

geneva@1Kings:2:2 @ I go the (note:)I am ready to die as all men must.(:note) way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

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

geneva@1Kings:2:5 @ Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, [and] what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and (note:)He shed his blood in time of peace, as if there had been war.(:note) shed the blood of war in peace, and He put the bloody sword into his sheath. put the blood of war upon his girdle that [was] about his loins, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet.

geneva@1Kings:2:10 @ So Dauid slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.

geneva@1Kings:2:12 @ Then sate Salomon vpon the throne of Dauid his father, and his kingdome was stablished mightily.

geneva@1Kings:2:13 @ And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, (note:)For she was afraid lest he would work treason against the king.(:note) Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.

geneva@1Kings:2:15 @ And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and [that] all Israel (note:)In sign of their favour and consent.(:note) set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:2:16 @ Nowe therefore I aske thee one request, refuse me not; she said vnto him, Say on.

geneva@1Kings:2:20 @ Then she sayd, I desire a small request of thee, say me not nay. Then the King sayde vnto her, Aske on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.

geneva@1Kings:2:22 @ And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the (note:)Meaning, that if he would have granted Abishag, who was so dear to his father, he would later have aspired for the kingdom.(:note) kingdom also; for he [is] mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

geneva@1Kings:2:24 @ Now therefore as ye Lord liueth, who hath established me, & set me on the throne of Dauid my father, who also hath made me an house, as he promised, Adoniiah shall surely die this day.

geneva@1Kings:2:26 @ And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou (note:)When he fled before Absalom, (2Sa_15:24).(:note) barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

geneva@1Kings:2:27 @ So Salomon cast out Abiathar from being Priest vnto the Lord, that he might fulfill the wordes of the Lord, which he spake against the house of Eli in Shiloh.

geneva@1Kings:2:29 @ And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the (note:)Thinking to be saved by the holiness of the place.(:note) altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

geneva@1Kings:2:31 @ And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and (note:)For it was lawful to take the wilful murderer from the altar, (Exo_21:14).(:note) fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.

geneva@1Kings:2:32 @ And the Lorde shall bring his blood vpon his owne head: for he smote two men more righteous and better then he, and slew them with the sword, & my father Dauid knew not: to wit, Abner the sonne of Ner, captaine of the hoste of Israel, and Amasa the sonne of Iether captaine of the hoste of Iudah.

geneva@1Kings:2:33 @ Their blood shall therefore return upon the (note:)Joab will be justly punished for the blood that he has cruelly shed.(:note) head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:2:34 @ So Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada went vp, & smote him, and slewe him, & he was buryed in his owne house in the wildernesse.

geneva@1Kings:2:35 @ And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the (note:)And so took the office of high priest from the house of Eli, and restored it to the house of Phinehas.(:note) priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

geneva@1Kings:2:37 @ For that day that thou goest out, and passest ouer the riuer of Kidron, knowe assuredly, that thou shalt dye the death: thy blood shall be vpon thine owne head.

geneva@1Kings:2:38 @ And Shimei sayd vnto the King, The thing is good: as my lord the King hath sayd, so wil thy seruant doe. So Shimei dwelt in Ierusalem many dayes.

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

geneva@1Kings:2:40 @ And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and (note:)His covetous mind moved him to risk his life, rather than to lose the worldly profit he had by his servants.(:note) Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

geneva@1Kings:2:41 @ And it was tolde Salomon, that Shimei had gone from Ierusalem to Gath, and was come againe.

geneva@1Kings:2:42 @ And the King sent and called Shimei, and sayde vnto him, Did I not make thee to sweare by the Lorde, and protested vnto thee, saying, That day that thou goest out, and walkest any whither, knowe assuredly that thou shalt dye the death? And thou saydest vnto mee, The thing is good, that I haue heard.

geneva@1Kings:2:43 @ Why then hast thou not kept the othe of the Lorde, and the commandement wherewith I charged thee?

geneva@1Kings:2:46 @ So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was (note:)Because all his enemies were destroyed.(:note) established in the hand of Solomon.

geneva@1Kings:3:1 @ And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the (note:)Which was Bethlehem.(:note) city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

geneva@1Kings:3:2 @ Only the people sacrificed in (note:)Where altars were appointed before the temple was built, to offer to the Lord.(:note) high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

geneva@1Kings:3:4 @ And the king went to (note:)For there the tabernacle was (2Ch_1:3).(:note) Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

geneva@1Kings:3:5 @ In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Salomon in a dreame by night: and God sayd, Aske what I shal giue thee.

geneva@1Kings:3:6 @ And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast (note:)You have performed your promise.(:note) kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day.

geneva@1Kings:3:7 @ And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to (note:)That is, to behave himself in executing this charge of ruling.(:note) go out or come in.

geneva@1Kings:3:8 @ And thy seruant is in the mids of thy people, which thou hast chosen, euen a great people which cannot be told nor nobred for multitude.

geneva@1Kings:3:10 @ And this pleased the Lorde wel, that Salomon had desired this thing.

geneva@1Kings:3:11 @ And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine (note:)That is, that their enemy would die.(:note) enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;

geneva@1Kings:3:13 @ And I haue also giuen thee that, which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that among the Kings there shall be none like vnto thee all thy dayes.

geneva@1Kings:3:14 @ And if thou wilt walke in my wayes, to keepe mine ordinances & my commandements, as thy father Dauid did walke, I will prolong thy dayes.

geneva@1Kings:3:15 @ And Solomon awoke; and, behold, [it was] (note:)He knew that God had appeared to him in a dream.(:note) a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

geneva@1Kings:3:17 @ And the one woman sayd, Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe with her in the house.

geneva@1Kings:3:18 @ And the third day after that I was deliuered, this woman was deliuered also: and we were in the house together: no stranger was with vs in the house, saue we twaine.

geneva@1Kings:3:21 @ And when I rose in the morning to giue my sonne sucke, beholde, he was dead: and when I had wel considered him in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne, whom I had borne.

geneva@1Kings:3:24 @ And the king said, (note:)Unless God gives judges understanding, the impudency of the trespasser will overthrow the just cause of the innocent.(:note) Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

geneva@1Kings:3:26 @ Then spake the woman whose the living child [was] unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and (note:)Her motherly affection appears in that she would rather endure the rigor of the law than see her child cruelly slain.(:note) in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, [but] divide [it].

geneva@1Kings:3:28 @ And all Israel heard the iudgement, which the King had iudged, and they feared the King: for they sawe that the wisedome of God was in him to doe iustice.

geneva@1Kings:4:1 @ And King Salomon was King ouer all Israel.

geneva@1Kings:4:2 @ And these [were] the (note:)That is, his chief officers.(:note) princes which he had; He was the son of Achimais and Zadok's nephew. Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,

geneva@1Kings:4:4 @ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host: and Zadok and (note:)Not Abiathar whom Solomon had put from his office, (1Ki_2:27) but another of that name.(:note) Abiathar [were] the priests:

geneva@1Kings:4:5 @ And Azariah the sonne of Nathan was ouer the officers, and Zabud the sonne of Nathan Priest was the Kings friend,

geneva@1Kings:4:6 @ And Ahishar was ouer the houshold: and Adoniram the sonne of Abda was ouer the tribute.

geneva@1Kings:4:13 @ The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him [pertained] the towns of (note:)Which bore Jair's name, because he took them from the Canaanites, (Num_32:41).(:note) Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:

geneva@1Kings:4:15 @ Ahimaaz in Naphtali, and he tooke Basmath the daughter of Salomon to wife:

geneva@1Kings:4:16 @ Baanah the sonne of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth:

geneva@1Kings:4:17 @ Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in (note:)Solomon did not observe the division that Joshua made, but divided it as might best serve his purposes.(:note) Issachar:

geneva@1Kings:4:19 @ Geber the sonne of Vri in the countrey of Gilead, the land of Sihon King of the Amorites, and of Og King of Bashan, and was officer alone in the land.

geneva@1Kings:4:20 @ Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, (note:)They lived in all peace and security.(:note) eating and drinking, and making merry.

geneva@1Kings:4:22 @ And Salomons vitailes for one day were thirtie measures of fine floure, and threescore measures of meale:

geneva@1Kings:4:23 @ Ten fat oxen, and twentie oxen of the pastures, and an hundreth sheepe, beside hartes, and buckes, and bugles, and fat foule.

geneva@1Kings:4:29 @ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and (note:)Meaning, great understanding and able to comprehend all things.(:note) largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.

geneva@1Kings:4:30 @ And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the (note:)That is, the philosophers and astronomers who were judged most wise.(:note) east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

geneva@1Kings:4:31 @ For he was wiser then any man: yea, then were Ethan the Ezrahite, the Heman, then Chalcol, then Darda the sonnes of Mahol: and he was famous throughout all nations round about.

geneva@1Kings:4:33 @ And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the (note:)From the highest to the lowest.(:note) hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

geneva@1Kings:5:4 @ But now the LORD my God hath given me (note:)He declares that he was bound to set forth God's glory for as much as the Lord had sent him rest and peace.(:note) rest on every side, [so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

geneva@1Kings:5:5 @ And beholde, I purpose to build an house vnto ye Name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake vnto Dauid my father, saying, Thy sonne, whom I wil set vpon thy throne for thee, he shal build an house vnto my Name.

geneva@1Kings:5:6 @ Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give (note:)This was his equity, that he would not receive a benefit without some recompence.(:note) hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.

geneva@1Kings:5:7 @ And it came to pass, when (note:)In Hiram is prefigured the calling of the Gentiles who would help build the spiritual temple.(:note) Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.

geneva@1Kings:5:11 @ And Salomon gaue Hiram twentie thousand measures of wheate for foode to his householde, & twentie measures of beaten oyle. Thus much gaue Salomon to Hiram yere by yere.

geneva@1Kings:5:12 @ And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they (note:)Concerning the furniture of wood.(:note) two made a league together.

geneva@1Kings:5:13 @ And King Salomon raised a summe out of all Israel, and the summe was thirtie thousand men:

geneva@1Kings:5:14 @ Whome he sent to Lebanon, ten thousand a moneth by course: they were a moneth in Lebanon, and two moneths at home; Adoniram was ouer the summe.

geneva@1Kings:5:15 @ And Salomon had seuentie thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousand masons in the mountaine,

geneva@1Kings:5:18 @ And Solomon's builders and Hiram's (note:)The Hebrew word is Giblim, which some say were excellent masons.(:note) builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

geneva@1Kings:6:1 @ And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month (note:)Which contains part of April and part of May.(:note) Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the By which is meant the temple and the oracle. house of the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:6:2 @ And the house which King Salomon built for the Lorde, was three score cubites long, and twentie broade, and thirtie cubites hie.

geneva@1Kings:6:3 @ And the (note:)Or the court where the people prayed which was before the place where the altar of burnt offerings stood.(:note) porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.

geneva@1Kings:6:6 @ The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed (note:)Which were certain stones coming out of the wall, as stays for the beams to rest upon.(:note) rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

geneva@1Kings:6:7 @ And when the house was built, it was built of stone perfite, before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any toole of yron heard in the house, while it was in building.

geneva@1Kings:6:8 @ The doore of the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, & men went vp with winding stayres into the middlemost, and out of the middlemost into the third.

geneva@1Kings:6:13 @ And I will (note:)According as he promised to Moses, (Exo_25:22).(:note) dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

geneva@1Kings:6:15 @ And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and (note:)Meaning, to the roof which was also sealed.(:note) the walls of the cieling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

geneva@1Kings:6:17 @ And the (note:)For when he spoke of the house in the first verse, he meant both the oracle and the temple.(:note) house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].

geneva@1Kings:6:18 @ And the cedar of the house within was carued with knops, and grauen with floures: all was cedar, so that no stone was seene.

geneva@1Kings:6:20 @ And the place of the oracle within was twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broad, and twentie cubites hie, and hee couered it with pure golde, and couered the altar with cedar.

geneva@1Kings:6:22 @ And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the (note:)Meaning, the altar of incense, (Exo_30:1).(:note) whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

geneva@1Kings:6:24 @ The wing also of the one Cherub was fiue cubites, and the wing of the other Cherub was fiue cubites: from the vttermost part of one of his wings vnto the vttermost part of the other of his wings, were ten cubites.

geneva@1Kings:6:25 @ Also the other Cherub was of ten cubites: both the Cherubims were of one measure and one sise.

geneva@1Kings:6:26 @ For the height of the one Cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other Cherub.

geneva@1Kings:6:32 @ The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold, and (note:)So that the fashion of the carved work might still appear.(:note) spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.

geneva@1Kings:6:36 @ And he built the inner (note:)Where the priests were, and was thus called in respect to the great court, which is called the porch of Solomon in (Act_3:11) where the people used to pray.(:note) court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

geneva@1Kings:6:37 @ In the fourth yeere was the foundation of the house of the Lorde layed in the moneth of Zif:

geneva@1Kings:6:38 @ And in the eleventh year, in the month (note:)Which contains part of October and part of November.(:note) Bul, which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

geneva@1Kings:7:1 @ But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he (note:)After he had built the temple.(:note) finished all his house.

geneva@1Kings:7:2 @ He built also the house (note:)Because of the beauty of the place, and great abundance of cedar trees that went into the building of it, it was compared to mount Lebanon.(:note) of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

geneva@1Kings:7:3 @ And it was couered aboue with cedar vpon the beames, that lay on the fourtie and fiue pillars, fifteene in a rowe.

geneva@1Kings:7:4 @ And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] (note:)There were as many and like proportion on the one side as the other, and at every end even three in a row one above another.(:note) against light [in] three ranks.

geneva@1Kings:7:5 @ And all the doores, and the side postes with the windowes were foure square, and windowe was ouer against windowe in three rankes.

geneva@1Kings:7:6 @ And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before (note:)Before the pillars of the house.(:note) them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.

geneva@1Kings:7:7 @ Then he made a porch (note:)For his house which was at Jerusalem.(:note) for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

geneva@1Kings:7:8 @ And in his house, where he dwelt, was an other hall more inwarde then the porche which was of the same worke. Also Salomon made an house for Pharaohs daughter ( whom he had taken to wife) like vnto this porche.

geneva@1Kings:7:9 @ All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto (note:)Which were rests and stays for the beams to lie on.(:note) the coping, and [so] on the outside toward the great court.

geneva@1Kings:7:10 @ And the foundation was of costly stones, and great stones, euen of stones of ten cubites, and stones of eight cubites.

geneva@1Kings:7:11 @ And (note:)From the foundation upward.(:note) above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

geneva@1Kings:7:12 @ And the great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, (note:)As the Lord's house was built so was this, only the great court of Solomon's house was uncovered.(:note) both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

geneva@1Kings:7:14 @ He [was] a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and (note:)Thus when God will have his glory set forth, he raises up men, and gives them excellent gifts for the accomplishment of the same, (Exo_31:2-3).(:note) he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.

geneva@1Kings:7:15 @ For he cast two pillars of brasse: ye height of a pillar was eighteene cubites, and a threede of twelue cubites did compasse either of ye pillars.

geneva@1Kings:7:16 @ And he made two chapiters of molten brasse to set on the tops of the pillars: the height of one of the chapiters was fiue cubites, and the height of the other chapiter was fiue cubites.

geneva@1Kings:7:19 @ And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of (note:)As was seen commonly wrought in costly porches.(:note) lily work in the porch, four cubits.

geneva@1Kings:7:21 @ And he set up the pillars in the (note:)Which was in the inner court between the temple and the oracle.(:note) porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof That is, he will stablish, that is, his promise toward this house. Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof That is, in strength: meaning the power of it will continue. Boaz.

geneva@1Kings:7:22 @ And vpon the top of the pillars was worke of lilyes: so was the workemanship of the pillars finished.

geneva@1Kings:7:23 @ And he made a molten (note:)So called for the size of the vessel.(:note) sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

geneva@1Kings:7:24 @ And vnder the brimme of it were knoppes like wilde cucumers compassing it round about, ten in one cubite, compassing the sea round about: and the two rowes of knoppes were cast, when it was molten.

geneva@1Kings:7:25 @ It stoode on twelue bulles, three looking towarde the North, and three toward the West, and three toward the South, and three towarde the East: and the sea stoode aboue vpon them, and all their hinder partes were inward.

geneva@1Kings:7:26 @ And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand (note:)Bath and ephah seem to be one measure, (Eze_45:11) a bath contains about 5 gallons.(:note) baths.

geneva@1Kings:7:27 @ And he made tenne bases of brasse, one base was foure cubites long, and foure cubites broad, and three cubites hie.

geneva@1Kings:7:28 @ And the worke of the bases was on this maner, They had borders, and the borders were betweene the ledges:

geneva@1Kings:7:29 @ And on the borders that were betweene the ledges, were lyons, bulles and Cherubims: and vpon the ledges there was a base aboue: and beneath the lyons and bulles, were addicions made of thinne worke.

geneva@1Kings:7:30 @ And euery base had foure brasen wheeles, and plates of brasse: and the foure corners had vndersetters: vnder the caldron were vndersetters molten at the side of euery addicion.

geneva@1Kings:7:31 @ And the (note:)The mouth of the great base or frame entered into the chapiter, or pillar that bore up the cauldron.(:note) mouth of it within the chapiter and above [was] a cubit: but the mouth thereof [was] round [after] the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it [were] gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

geneva@1Kings:7:32 @ And vnder the borders were foure wheeles, and the axeltrees of the wheeles ioyned to the base: and the height of a wheele was a cubite and halfe a cubite.

geneva@1Kings:7:33 @ And the facion of the wheeles was like the facion of a charet wheele, their axeltrees, and their naues and their felloes, and their spokes were all molten.

geneva@1Kings:7:34 @ And foure vndersetters were vpon the foure corners of one base: and the vndersetters thereof were of the base it selfe.

geneva@1Kings:7:35 @ And in the top of the base [was there] a round (note:)Which was called the pillar, chapiter or small base, in which the cauldron stood.(:note) compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof [were] of the same.

geneva@1Kings:7:37 @ Thus made he the tenne bases, They had all one casting, one measure, and one syse.

geneva@1Kings:7:38 @ Then made he (note:)To keep waters for the use of the sacrifices.(:note) ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the ten bases one laver.

geneva@1Kings:7:39 @ And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the (note:)That is, of the temple or sanctuary.(:note) house eastward over against the south.

geneva@1Kings:7:40 @ And Hiram made caldrons, and besomes, & basens, & Hiram finished all the worke that he made to King Salomon for the house of ye Lord:

geneva@1Kings:7:43 @ And the ten bases, and ten caldrons vpon the bases,

geneva@1Kings:7:45 @ And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which (note:)By this name also Hiram the king of Tyrus was called.(:note) Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, [were of] bright brass.

geneva@1Kings:7:46 @ In the plaine of Iorden did the King cast them in clay betweene Succoth and Zarthan.

geneva@1Kings:7:47 @ And Salomon left to weigh all the vessels because of the exceeding aboundance, neyther could the weight of the brasse be counted.

geneva@1Kings:7:48 @ And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the LORD: the (note:)This was done according to the form that the Lord prescribed to Moses in Exodus.(:note) altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread [was],

geneva@1Kings:7:50 @ And the bowls, (note:)Some take this for some musical instrument.(:note) and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of] gold, [both] for the doors of the inner house, the most holy [place, and] for the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple.

geneva@1Kings:7:51 @ So was finished all the worke that King Salomon made for the house of the Lorde, and Salomon brought in the things which Dauid his father had dedicated: the siluer and the golde and the vessels, and layed them among the treasures of the house of the Lord.

geneva@1Kings:8:1 @ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might (note:)For David brought it from Obed-edom, and placed it in the tabernacle which he made for it in (2Sa_6:17).(:note) bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.

geneva@1Kings:8:2 @ And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month (note:)Containing part of September and part of October, in which they held three solemn feasts, (Num_29:1).(:note) Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.

geneva@1Kings:8:5 @ And King Salomon and all the Congregation of Israel, that were assembled vnto him, were with him before the Arke, offering sheepe and beeues, which could not be tolde, nor nombred for multitude.

geneva@1Kings:8:9 @ [There was] nothing in the ark (note:)For it is likely that the enemy when they had the ark in their hands took away the rod of Aaron and the pot of manna.(:note) save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@1Kings:8:13 @ I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for (note:)He spoke according to the tenor of God's promise which was on the condition that they served him correctly.(:note) ever.

geneva@1Kings:8:17 @ And it was in ye heart of Dauid my father to builde an house to the Name of the Lorde God of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:8:18 @ And the Lord said vnto Dauid my father, Where as it was in thine heart to build an house vnto my Name, thou diddest well, that thou wast so minded:

geneva@1Kings:8:20 @ And the Lorde hath made good his worde that he spake: and I am risen vp in the roume of Dauid my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and haue built the house for the Name of the Lord God of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:8:24 @ Thou that hast kept with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou hast promised him: for thou spakest with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thine hande, as appeareth this day.

geneva@1Kings:8:25 @ Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father that thou hast promised him, saying, Thou shalt not want a man in my sight to sit vpon ye throne of Israel: so that thy childre take heed to their way, that they walke before me; as thou hast walked in my sight

geneva@1Kings:8:29 @ That thine eyes may be open toward this house, night and day, euen towarde the place whereof thou hast said, My Name shalbe there: that thou mayest hearken vnto the prayer which thy seruant prayeth in this place.

geneva@1Kings:8:31 @ If any man trespass against his neighbour, (note:)That is, the judge or neighbours.(:note) and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

geneva@1Kings:8:36 @ Then heare thou in heauen, and pardon the sinne of thy seruants and of thy people Israel (when thou hast taught the the good way wherein they may walke) and giue raine vpon the land that thou hast giuen to thy people to inherite.

geneva@1Kings:8:37 @ When there shalbe famine in the land, when there shalbe pestilence, when there shall be blasting, mildewe, grashopper or caterpiller, when their enemie shall besiege them in the cities of their lande, or any plague, or any sickenesse,

geneva@1Kings:8:39 @ Heare thou then in heauen, in thy dwelling place, and be mercifull, and doe, and giue euery man according to all his wayes, as thou knowest his heart, (for thou only knowest the heartes of all the children of men)

geneva@1Kings:8:40 @ That they may feare thee as long as they liue in ye lad, which thou gauest vnto our fathers.

geneva@1Kings:8:41 @ Moreover concerning a (note:)He means such as should be turned from their idolatry to serve the true God.(:note) stranger, that [is] not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;

geneva@1Kings:8:43 @ Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy (note:)That this is the true religion with which you will be worshipped.(:note) name.

geneva@1Kings:8:44 @ When thy people shall go out to battell against their enemie by the way that thou shalt sende them, and shall pray vnto the Lorde towarde the way of the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I haue built for thy Name,

geneva@1Kings:8:47 @ [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee (note:)Though the temple was the chief place of prayer, yet he does not exclude them who being forced by necessity to call upon him in other places.(:note) in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

geneva@1Kings:8:48 @ And [so] return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward (note:)As Daniel did in (Dan_6:10).(:note) their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

geneva@1Kings:8:50 @ And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may (note:)He understood by faith, that God of enemies would make friends with them who converted to him.(:note) have compassion on them:

geneva@1Kings:8:53 @ For thou diddest separate them to thee from among all people of the earth for an inheritance, as thou saidest by the hand of Moses thy seruant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

geneva@1Kings:8:54 @ And it was [so], that when Solomon had made an (note:)Solomon is a figure of Christ, who continually is the mediator between God and his Church.(:note) end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

geneva@1Kings:8:57 @ The Lorde our God be with vs, as he was with our fathers, that he forsake vs not, neither leaue vs,

geneva@1Kings:8:59 @ And these my wordes, which I haue prayed before the Lorde, be neere vnto the Lorde our God day and night, that he defende the cause of his seruant, and the cause of his people Israel alway as the matter requireth,

geneva@1Kings:8:61 @ Let your heart therefore be perfit with the Lorde our God to walke in his statutes, and to keepe his commandements, as this day.

geneva@1Kings:8:63 @ And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the (note:)Before the oracle where the ark was.(:note) house of the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:8:64 @ The same day did the King halowe the middle of the court, that was before the house of the Lorde: for there he made burnt offerings, and the meate offrings, and the fat of the peace offeringes, because the brasen altar that was before the Lorde, was too litle to receiue the burnt offerings, and the meate offerings, and the fat of the peace offrings.

geneva@1Kings:8:65 @ And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of (note:)That is, from North to South: meaning all the country.(:note) Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, Seven days for the dedication, and seven for the feast. seven days and seven days, [even] fourteen days.

geneva@1Kings:9:2 @ Then the Lorde appeared vnto Salomon the second time, as he appeared vnto him at Gibeon.

geneva@1Kings:9:3 @ And the Lord sayd vnto him, I haue heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I haue halowed this house (which thou hast built) to put my Name there for euer, and mine eyes, and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

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

geneva@1Kings:9:5 @ Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdome vpon Israel for euer, as I promised to Dauid thy father, saying, Thou shalt not wat a man vpon the throne of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:9:6 @ [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will (note:)God declares that disobedience against him, is the cause of his displeasure, and so of all misery.(:note) not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

geneva@1Kings:9:7 @ Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a (note:)The world will make a mockery of you for the vile contempt and abusing of God's most liberal benefit.(:note) proverb and a byword among all people:

geneva@1Kings:9:8 @ Euen this hie house shall bee so: euery one that passeth by it, shalbe astonied, and shall hisse, and they shal say, Why hath the Lord done thus vnto this land and to this house?

geneva@1Kings:9:12 @ And Hiram came out from Tyrus to see the cities which Salomon had giuen him, & they pleased him not.

geneva@1Kings:9:13 @ Therefore hee sayde, What cities are these which thou hast giuen me, my brother? And hee called them the land of Cabul vnto this day.

geneva@1Kings:9:14 @ And Hiram sent to the king (note:)For his tribute toward the building.(:note) sixscore The common talent was about 60 pound weight. talents of gold.

geneva@1Kings:9:15 @ And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and (note:)Millo was as the town house or place of assembly which was open above.(:note) Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

geneva@1Kings:9:20 @ [And] all the people [that were] (note:)These were as bondmen and paid what was required, either labour or money.(:note) left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not of the children of Israel,

geneva@1Kings:9:23 @ These [were] the chief of the officers that [were] over Solomon's work, (note:)The overseers of Solomon's works were divided into three parts: the first contained 3300, the second 300, and the third 250 who were Israelites. Here are the two last parts, which make 550. See (2Ch_8:10).(:note) five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

geneva@1Kings:9:25 @ And thrise a yere did Salomon offer burnt offringes and peace offrings vpon the altar which he built vnto the Lord: and hee burnt incense vpon the altar that was before the Lorde, when hee had finished the house.

geneva@1Kings:10:1 @ And when the queen of (note:)Josephus says that she was Queen of Ethiopia, and that Sheba was the name of the chief city of Meroe, which is an island of the Nile.(:note) Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

geneva@1Kings:10:2 @ And she came to Ierusalem with a verie great traine, and camels that bare sweete odours, and golde exceeding much, and precious stones: and shee came to Salomon, & communed with him of all that was in her heart.

geneva@1Kings:10:3 @ And Salomon declared vnto her all her questions: nothing was hid from the King, which he expounded not vnto her.

geneva@1Kings:10:5 @ And the (note:)That is, the whole order, and trade of his house.(:note) meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

geneva@1Kings:10:6 @ And shee sayde vnto the King, It was a true worde that I heard in mine owne lande of thy sayings, and of thy wisedome.

geneva@1Kings:10:7 @ Howebeit I beleeued not this report till I came, & had seene it with mine eyes: but lo, ye one halfe was not tolde mee: for thou hast more wisedome & prosperitie, then I haue heard by report.

geneva@1Kings:10:9 @ Blessed be the LORD thy God, which (note:)It is a chief sign of God's favour, when godly and wise rulers fit in the throne of justice.(:note) delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do This is the reason kings are appointed. judgment and justice.

geneva@1Kings:10:10 @ And she gaue the King sixe score talents of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much, and precious stones. There came no more such aboudance of sweete odours, as the Queene of Sheba gaue to King Salomon.

geneva@1Kings:10:13 @ And King Salomo gaue vnto the Queene of Sheba, whatsoeuer she would aske, besides that, which Salomon gaue her of his kingly liberalitie: so she returned and went to her owne countrey, both shee, and her seruantes.

geneva@1Kings:10:14 @ Also the weight of golde, that came to Salomon in one yeere, was sixe hundreth three score and six talents of gold,

geneva@1Kings:10:15 @ Beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the (note:)That is, Arabia, which for the great abundance of all things was called Happy.(:note) country.

geneva@1Kings:10:19 @ The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne [was] round behind: and [there were] (note:)As the chair bows, or places to lean upon.(:note) stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.

geneva@1Kings:10:20 @ And there stoode twelue lions on the sixe steps on either side: there was not the like made in any kingdome.

geneva@1Kings:10:21 @ And all King Salomons drinking vessels were of golde, and all the vessels of the house of the woode of Lebanon were of pure golde, none were of siluer: for it was nothing esteemed in the dayes of Salomon.

geneva@1Kings:10:22 @ For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of (note:)By Tharshish is meant Cilicia, which was abundant in the variety of precious things.(:note) Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

geneva@1Kings:10:27 @ And the King gaue siluer in Ierusalem as stones, and gaue cedars as the wilde figtrees that growe abundantly in the plaine.

geneva@1Kings:11:4 @ For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not (note:)He did not serve God with a pure heart.(:note) perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.

geneva@1Kings:11:5 @ For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after (note:)Who was also called Molech in (1Ki_11:7). See also (2Ki_23:10).(:note) Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

geneva@1Kings:11:6 @ So Salomon wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lord, but continued not to followe the Lord, as did Dauid his father.

geneva@1Kings:11:7 @ Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the (note:)Thus the scripture calls whatever man reveres and serves as God.(:note) abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

geneva@1Kings:11:9 @ Therefore the Lord was angry with Salomon, because hee had turned his heart from the Lorde God of Israel, which had appeared vnto him twise,

geneva@1Kings:11:11 @ Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as (note:)That you have forsaken me and worshipped idols.(:note) this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

geneva@1Kings:11:13 @ Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give one (note:)Because the tribes of Judah and Benjamin had their possessions mixed, they are here taken as one tribe.(:note) tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.

geneva@1Kings:11:14 @ And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he [was] of the king's (note:)Of the king of Edom's stock.(:note) seed in Edom.

geneva@1Kings:11:15 @ For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the (note:)Of the Edomites.(:note) slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;

geneva@1Kings:11:17 @ That Hadad (note:)Thus God reserved this idolater as scourge to punish his people's sins.(:note) fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being] yet a little child.

geneva@1Kings:11:19 @ And Hadad (note:)God brought him honour, that his power might be more able to compass his enterprises against Solomon's house.(:note) found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

geneva@1Kings:11:20 @ And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his sonne, whome Tahpenes wayned in Pharaohs house: and Genubath was in Pharaohs house among the sonnes of Pharaoh.

geneva@1Kings:11:21 @ And when Hadad heard in Egypt, that Dauid slept with his fathers, and that Ioab the captaine of the hoste was dead, Hadad sayde to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may goe to mine owne countrey.

geneva@1Kings:11:22 @ But Pharaoh saide vnto him, What hast thou lacked with me, that thou wouldest thus go to thine owne countrey? And he answered, Nothing, but in any wise let me goe.

geneva@1Kings:11:24 @ And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, (note:)That is, the men whom he had gathered to him.(:note) and reigned in Damascus.

geneva@1Kings:11:25 @ Therefore was he an aduersarie to Israel all the daies of Salomon: besides the euil that Hadad did, he also abhorred Israel, & reigned ouer Aram

geneva@1Kings:11:26 @ And Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat an Ephrathite of Zereda Salomons seruant (whose mother was called Zeruah a widowe) lift vp his hand against the King.

geneva@1Kings:11:27 @ And this was the cause that he lift vp his hande against the King, When Salomon built Millo, he repared the broken places of the citie of Dauid his father.

geneva@1Kings:11:28 @ And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him (note:)He was overseer of Solomon's works for the tribe of Ephraim and Manasseh.(:note) ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.

geneva@1Kings:11:30 @ And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and (note:)By these visible signs the prophets would more deeply print their message into the hearts of those to whom they were sent.(:note) rent it [in] twelve pieces:

geneva@1Kings:11:33 @ Because they haue forsaken me, and haue worshipped Ashtaroth the god of the Zidonians, and Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and haue not walked in my wayes (to do right in mine eyes, & my statutes, & my lawes) as did Dauid his father.

geneva@1Kings:11:37 @ And I wil take thee, and thou shalt reigne, euen as thine heart desireth, and shalt be King ouer Israel.

geneva@1Kings:11:38 @ And if thou hearken vnto all that I commande thee, and wilt walke in my wayes, and doe right in my sight, to keepe my statutes and my commandements, as Dauid my seruant did, then will I be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built vnto Dauid, and wil giue Israel vnto thee.

geneva@1Kings:11:39 @ And I will (note:)For this idolatry that Solomon has committed.(:note) for this afflict the seed of David, For the whole spiritual kingdom was restored in the Messiah. but not for ever.

geneva@1Kings:11:40 @ Salomon sought therefore to kill Ieroboam, and Ieroboam arose, and fled into Egypt vnto Shishak King of Egypt, and was in Egypt vntil the death of Salomon.

geneva@1Kings:11:41 @ And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, [are] they not written in the (note:)Which it is thought was lost in their captivity.(:note) book of the acts of Solomon?

geneva@1Kings:11:42 @ The time that Salomon reigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel, was fourtie yeere.

geneva@1Kings:11:43 @ And Salomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the citie of Dauid his father: and Rehoboam his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@1Kings:12:2 @ And whe Ieroboam ye sonne of Nebat heard of it (who was yet in Egypt, whither Ieroboam had fled from king Salomon, & dwelt in Egypt)

geneva@1Kings:12:7 @ And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a (note:)They showed him that there was no way to win the people's hearts but to grant them their just petition.(:note) servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

geneva@1Kings:12:8 @ But he forsooke the counsell that the olde men had giuen him, and asked counsell of the yong men that had bene brought vp with him, and waited on him.

geneva@1Kings:12:10 @ And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little [finger] shall be (note:)I am much more able to keep you in subjection than my father was.(:note) thicker than my father's loins.

geneva@1Kings:12:11 @ Now where as my father did burden you with a grieuous yoke, I will yet make your yoke heauier: my father hath chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges.

geneva@1Kings:12:12 @ So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had (note:)The people declare their obedience in this that they attempted nothing before the king gave them just opportunity.(:note) appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.

geneva@1Kings:12:14 @ And spake to them after the counsell of the yong men, saying, My father made your yoke grieuous, and I will make your yoke more grieuous: my father hath chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges.

geneva@1Kings:12:15 @ And the King hearkened not vnto the people: for it was the ordinance of the Lorde, that he might perfourme his saying, which the Lorde had spoken by Ahiiah the Shilonite vnto Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.

geneva@1Kings:12:16 @ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in (note:)Though their cause was good, yet it was hard for the people to control their desires, as these vile words declare.(:note) David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

geneva@1Kings:12:20 @ And when all Israel had heard that Ieroboam was come againe, they sent and called him vnto the assemblie, and made him King ouer all Israel: none followed the house of Dauid, but the tribe of Iudah onely.

geneva@1Kings:12:21 @ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he (note:)For as yet he did not realize that the Lord had so appointed it.(:note) assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

geneva@1Kings:12:24 @ Thus saith the (note:)Who of his just judgment will punish the trespasser, and of his mercy spare the innocent people.(:note) LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:12:27 @ If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD (note:)He feared least his people should have by this means been enticed to rebel against him.(:note) at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, [even] unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.

geneva@1Kings:12:28 @ Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves [of] gold, and said unto them, (note:)So crafty are carnal persuasions of princes, when they will make a religion serve their appetite.(:note) It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@1Kings:12:32 @ And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the (note:)Because he would bind the people's devotion to his idolatry even more, he made a new holy day, besides those that the Lord had appointed in the law.(:note) fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that [is] in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

geneva@1Kings:12:33 @ And he offered vpon the altar, which he had made in Beth-el, the fifteenth day of the eight moneth, (euen in the moneth which he had forged of his owne heart) and made a solemne feast vnto the children of Israel: and he went vp to the altar, to burne incense.

geneva@1Kings:13:1 @ And, behold, there came (note:)That is, a prophet.(:note) a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Not that that was called Luz in Benjamin, but another of that name. Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

geneva@1Kings:13:3 @ And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the (note:)By this sign you will know that the Lord has sent me.(:note) sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out.

geneva@1Kings:13:4 @ And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, (note:)The wicked rage against the prophets of God, when they declare God's judgment to them.(:note) Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

geneva@1Kings:13:5 @ The altar also claue asunder, and the ashes fell out from the altar, according to the signe, which the man of God had giuen by the commandement of the Lord.

geneva@1Kings:13:6 @ And the king answered and said unto the man of God, (note:)Though the wicked humble themselves for a time when they feel God's judgment, they return to their old malice and declare that they are but vile hypocrites.(:note) Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as [it was] before.

geneva@1Kings:13:9 @ For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, (note:)Seeing he had the express word of God, he should not have declined from it, neither for the persuasion of man nor angel.(:note) Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

geneva@1Kings:13:13 @ And hee saide vnto his sonnes, Saddle mee the asse. Who sadled him the asse, and hee rode thereon,

geneva@1Kings:13:17 @ For it was charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Thou shalt eate no bread, nor drinke water there, nor turne againe to goe by the way that thou wentest.

geneva@1Kings:13:18 @ He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an (note:)His fault is here double, first in that he did not permit the prophet to obey God's express commandment, and next that he pretended to have a revelation to the contrary.(:note) angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.

geneva@1Kings:13:20 @ And as they sate at the table, the worde of the Lorde came vnto the Prophet, that brought him againe.

geneva@1Kings:13:21 @ And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)God would reprove his folly by him who caused him to err.(:note) Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

geneva@1Kings:13:22 @ But camest backe againe, and hast eaten bread and drunke water in the place (whereof he did say vnto thee, Thou shalt eate no bread nor drinke any water) thy carkeis shall not come vnto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

geneva@1Kings:13:23 @ And when he had eaten bread & drunke, he sadled him the asse, to wit, to the Prophet whome he had brought againe.

geneva@1Kings:13:24 @ And when he was gone, (note:)By this fearful example, God sets forth how dangerous it is for men to behave coldly, or deceitfully in the charge to which God has called them.(:note) a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

geneva@1Kings:13:25 @ And beholde, men that passed by, sawe the carkeis cast in the way, and the lion standing by the corps: and they came and tolde it in ye towne where the olde Prophet dwelt.

geneva@1Kings:13:27 @ And he spake to his sonnes, saying, Saddle me the asse; they sadled him.

geneva@1Kings:13:28 @ And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had (note:)To declare that this was only the judgment of God: for if the lion had done it for hunger, he would also have devoured the body.(:note) not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.

geneva@1Kings:13:29 @ And the Prophet tooke vp the body of the man of God, & layed it vpon the asse, & brought it againe, and the olde Prophet came to the citie, to lament and burie him.

geneva@1Kings:13:30 @ And he laid his carcase in his (note:)Which he had prepared for himself.(:note) own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!

geneva@1Kings:13:32 @ For that thing which he cried by the word of the Lorde against the altar that is in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the hie places, which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to passe.

geneva@1Kings:14:2 @ And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, (note:)His own conscience bore witness to him that the prophet of God would not satisfy his desires, who was a wicked man.(:note) and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told me that [I should be] king over this people.

geneva@1Kings:14:3 @ And take with (note:)According to the custom when they went to ask counsel of prophets, (1Sa_9:7).(:note) thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

geneva@1Kings:14:4 @ And Ieroboams wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahiiah: but Ahiiah could not see, for his sight was decayed for his age.

geneva@1Kings:14:5 @ And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself [to be] (note:)Than the wife of Jeroboam.(:note) another [woman].

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:14:7 @ Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted (note:)Who was but a servant.(:note) thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

geneva@1Kings:14:8 @ And haue rent the kingdome away from the house of Dauid, and haue giuen it thee, and thou hast not bene as my seruant Dauid, which kept my commaundements, and followed mee with all his heart, and did onely that which was right in mine eyes,

geneva@1Kings:14:9 @ But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and (note:)That is, two calves.(:note) molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

geneva@1Kings:14:10 @ Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that (note:)Every male even to the dogs, (1Sa_25:22).(:note) pisseth against the wall, [and] him that As well him that is in the stronghold, as him that is abroad. is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

geneva@1Kings:14:13 @ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found (note:)In the midst of the wicked, God has some on whom he bestows his mercies.(:note) [some] good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

geneva@1Kings:14:15 @ For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the (note:)Meaning the Euphrates.(:note) river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

geneva@1Kings:14:21 @ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen (note:)And died about four years before Jeroboam.(:note) years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.

geneva@1Kings:14:24 @ And there were also sodomites in the (note:)Where idolatry reigns, all horrible vices are committed, till at length God's just judgment destroys them completely.(:note) land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:14:26 @ And tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house, and tooke away all: also he caried away all the shields of golde which Salomon had made.

geneva@1Kings:14:27 @ And King Rehoboam made for them brasen shieldes, and committed them vnto ye hands of the chiefe of the garde, which wayted at the doore of the Kings house.

geneva@1Kings:14:30 @ And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam (note:)That is, all the days of Rehoboam's life.(:note) all [their] days.

geneva@1Kings:14:31 @ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an (note:)Whose idolatry Rehoboam her son followed.(:note) Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Kings:15:2 @ Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of (note:)Some think that this was Absalom Solomon's son.(:note) Abishalom.

geneva@1Kings:15:3 @ And hee walked in all the sinnes of his father, which hee had done before him: and his heart was not perfit with the Lord his God as the heart of Dauid his father.

geneva@1Kings:15:5 @ Because Dauid did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde, and turned from nothing that he commanded him, all the dayes of his life, saue onely in the matter of Vriah the Hittite.

geneva@1Kings:15:6 @ And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam as long as he liued.

geneva@1Kings:15:7 @ The rest also of the actes of Abiiam, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah? There was also warre betweene Abiiam, and Ieroboam.

geneva@1Kings:15:8 @ And Abiiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie of Dauid: and Asa his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@1Kings:15:9 @ And in the twentie yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel reigned Asa ouer Iudah.

geneva@1Kings:15:10 @ And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his (note:)That is, his grandmother, as David is often called the father of those who are his grandchildren.(:note) mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

geneva@1Kings:15:11 @ And Asa did right in the eyes of the Lord, as did Dauid his father.

geneva@1Kings:15:13 @ And also Maachah his mother, even her he (note:)Neither kindred nor authority should be regarded when they blaspheme God and become idolaters, but must be punished.(:note) removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.

geneva@1Kings:15:14 @ But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was (note:)Though he permitted them to worship God in other places than he had appointed it came from ignorance, and not from malice.(:note) perfect with the LORD all his days.

geneva@1Kings:15:16 @ And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.

geneva@1Kings:15:17 @ And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built (note:)For the same reason that Jeroboam did, because the people should not go up to Jerusalem, least they follow Asa.(:note) Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

geneva@1Kings:15:18 @ Then Asa tooke all the siluer and the gold that was left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, & the treasures of the kings house, and deliuered them into the handes of his seruantes, and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the sonne of Tabrimon, the sonne of Hezion king of Aram that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

geneva@1Kings:15:19 @ [There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may (note:)And vex me no longer.(:note) depart from me.

geneva@1Kings:15:20 @ So Ben-hadad hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines of the hosts, which he had, against the cities of Israel, and smote lion, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, & all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

geneva@1Kings:15:21 @ And when Baasha heard thereof, hee left buylding of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

geneva@1Kings:15:22 @ Then king Asa assembled al Iudah, none excepted; they tooke the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had buylt, & King Asa built with them Geba of Beniamin and Mizpah.

geneva@1Kings:15:23 @ The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his (note:)He had gout and put his trust physicians rather than in the Lord, (2Ch_16:12).(:note) feet.

geneva@1Kings:15:24 @ And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his (note:)His great-grandfather.(:note) father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Kings:15:25 @ And Nadab the sonne of Ieroboam began to reigne ouer Israel the second yere of Asa King of Iudah, and reigned ouer Israel two yeere.

geneva@1Kings:15:27 @ And Baasha the sonne of Ahijah of ye house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha slue him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistims: for Nadab and all Israel layde siege to Gibbethon.

geneva@1Kings:15:28 @ Euen in the third yeere of Asa King of Iudah did Baasha slay him, & reigned in his steade.

geneva@1Kings:15:29 @ And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he (note:)So God stirred up one tyrant to punish the wickedness of another.(:note) smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

geneva@1Kings:15:32 @ And there was warre betweene Asa & Baasha King of Israel, all their dayes.

geneva@1Kings:15:33 @ In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in (note:)Which was the place where the kings of Israel remained.(:note) Tirzah, twenty and four years.

geneva@1Kings:16:1 @ Then the word of the Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

geneva@1Kings:16:3 @ Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make (note:)Meaning, the house of Baasha.(:note) thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

geneva@1Kings:16:4 @ He that dyeth of Baashas stocke in the citie, him shal the dogs eate: and that man of him which dyeth in the fieldes, shall the foules of the ayre eate.

geneva@1Kings:16:5 @ And the rest of the actes of Baasha & what he did, & his power, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

geneva@1Kings:16:6 @ So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buryed in Tirzah, and Elah his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@1Kings:16:7 @ And also (note:)That is, the prophet did his message.(:note) by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed Meaning, Nadab Jeroboam's son. him.

geneva@1Kings:16:8 @ In the sixe and twentie yeere of Asa king of Iudah began Elah ye sonne of Baasha to reigne ouer Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two yeere.

geneva@1Kings:16:9 @ And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, (note:)The Chaldee text has this, «Drinking till he was drunk in the temple of Arza the idol by his house in Tirzah».(:note) drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of [his] house in Tirzah.

geneva@1Kings:16:10 @ And Zimri came and smote him & killed him, in the seuen and twentie yeere of Asa king of Iudah, and reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Kings:16:11 @ And when he was King, and sate on his throne, he slew al the house of Baasha, not leauing thereof one to pisse against a wall, neither of his kinsfolkes nor of his friendes.

geneva@1Kings:16:12 @ Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the (note:)Both Hanani his father and he were prophets.(:note) prophet,

geneva@1Kings:16:13 @ For all the sinnes of Baasha, and sinnes of Elah his sonne, which they sinned & made Israel to sinne, and prouoked the Lorde God of Israel with their vanities.

geneva@1Kings:16:15 @ In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encamped (note:)The siege had continued from the time of Nadab Jeroboam's son.(:note) against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines.

geneva@1Kings:16:18 @ And when Zimri saw, that the citie was taken, he went into the palace of the Kings house, and burnt himselfe, and the Kings house with fire, and so dyed,

geneva@1Kings:16:20 @ And the rest of the actes of Zimri, and his treason that hee wrought, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kinges of Israel?

geneva@1Kings:16:23 @ In the one and thirtie yeere of Asa King of Iudah bega Omri to reigne ouer Israel, & reigned twelue yeere. Sixe yeere reigned he in Tirzah.

geneva@1Kings:16:25 @ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did (note:)For such is the nature of idolatry, that the superstition of it daily increases, and the older it is, the more abominable it is before God and his Church.(:note) worse than all that [were] before him.

geneva@1Kings:16:28 @ So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in (note:)He was the first king that was buried in Samaria, after that the kings house was burnt in Tirzah.(:note) Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Kings:16:29 @ Nowe Ahab the sonne of Omri began to reigne ouer Israel, in the eyght & thirtie yeere of Asa king of Iudah: and Ahab the sonne of Omri reigned ouer Israel in Samaria two & twety yere.

geneva@1Kings:16:31 @ And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took (note:)By whose influence he fell into wicked and strange idolatry and cruel persecution.(:note) to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

geneva@1Kings:17:1 @ And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I (note:)That is, whom I serve.(:note) stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but But as I will declare it by God's revelation. according to my word.

geneva@1Kings:17:3 @ Go hence, and turne thee Eastwarde, and hide thy selfe in the riuer Cherith, that is ouer against Iorden,

geneva@1Kings:17:8 @ And the (note:)As the troubles of the saints of God are many, so his mercy is always at hand to deliver them.(:note) word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

geneva@1Kings:17:10 @ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there (note:)All this was to strengthen the faith of Elijah, to the intent that he would look for nothing worldly, but only trust God's providence.(:note) gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

geneva@1Kings:17:11 @ And as she was going to fet it, he called to her, and sayde, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsell of bread in thine hand.

geneva@1Kings:17:12 @ And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and (note:)For there is no hope of any more sustenance.(:note) die.

geneva@1Kings:17:13 @ And Eliiah said vnto her, Feare not, come, do as thou hast sayd, but make me thereof a litle cake first of all, and bring it vnto mee, and afterward make for thee, and thy sonne.

geneva@1Kings:17:14 @ For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, (note:)God receives no benefit for the use of his own, but he promises an ample recompence for them.(:note) The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.

geneva@1Kings:17:16 @ The barrell of the meale wasted not, nor the oyle was spent out of the cruse, according to the worde of the Lorde, which he spake by the hand of Eliiah.

geneva@1Kings:17:17 @ And it came to pass after these things, [that] the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no (note:)God would test whether she had learned by his merciful providence to make him her only stay and comfort.(:note) breath left in him.

geneva@1Kings:17:20 @ And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also (note:)He was afraid lest God's name be blasphemed and his ministry contemned, unless he continued his mercies as he had begun them, especially while he remained there.(:note) brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

geneva@1Kings:18:1 @ And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the (note:)After that he departed from the river Cherith.(:note) third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

geneva@1Kings:18:2 @ And Eliiah went to shew himselfe vnto Ahab, and there was a great famine in Samaria.

geneva@1Kings:18:3 @ And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of [his] house. (Now Obadiah (note:)God had begun to work his fear in his heart, but had not yet brought him to the knowledge which is also required of the godly: that is, to profess his Name openly.(:note) feared the LORD greatly:

geneva@1Kings:18:5 @ And Ahab saide vnto Obadiah, Goe into the land, vnto all the fountaines of water, and vnto all the riuers, if so be that we may finde grasse to saue the horses and the mules aliue, lest we depriue the lande of the beastes.

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@1Kings:18:10 @ As the Lorde thy God liueth, there is no nation or kingdome, whither my lorde hath not sent to seeke thee: and when they sayd, He is not here, he tooke an othe of the kingdome and nation, if they had not found thee.

geneva@1Kings:18:12 @ And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant (note:)I am not of the wicked persecutors that you should procure to me such displeasure, but serve God and favour his children.(:note) fear the LORD from my youth.

geneva@1Kings:18:13 @ Was it not tolde my lord, what I did when Iezebel slew the Prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundreth men of the Lordes Prophets by fifties in a caue, and fed them with bread & water?

geneva@1Kings:18:15 @ And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew (note:)By my presence I will declare that you have told him the truth.(:note) myself unto him to day.

geneva@1Kings:18:18 @ And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but (note:)The true ministers of God should not only not permit falsehoods, but should boldly reprove the wicked slanderers without respect of persons.(:note) thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

geneva@1Kings:18:26 @ And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed [it], and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But [there was] no voice, nor any that answered. And they (note:)As men possessed by some strange spirit.(:note) leaped upon the altar which was made.

geneva@1Kings:18:27 @ And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be (note:)He mocks their beastly madness, who think that by any instance or suit, the dead and vile idols can help their worshippers in their necessity.(:note) awaked.

geneva@1Kings:18:28 @ And they cryed loude, and cut them selues as their maner was, with kniues and launcers, till the blood gushed out vpon them.

geneva@1Kings:18:29 @ And when midday was passed, & they had prophecied vntil the offring of the euening sacrifice, there was neither voyce, nor one to answere, nor any that regarded.

geneva@1Kings:18:30 @ And Eliiah said vnto all the people, Come to me; all the people came to him; he repayred the altar of the Lorde that was broken downe.

geneva@1Kings:18:32 @ And with the stones he buylt an altar in the Name of the Lorde: and he made a ditch round about the altar, as great as woulde conteine two measures of seede.

geneva@1Kings:18:37 @ Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou [art] the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back (note:)Though God permits his to run in blindness and error for a time, yet eventually he calls them home to him by some notorious sign and work.(:note) again.

geneva@1Kings:18:38 @ Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt offring, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked vp the water that was in the ditche.

geneva@1Kings:18:40 @ And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not (note:)He commanded them that as they were truly persuaded to confess the only God: so they should serve him with all their power, and destroy the idolaters his enemies.(:note) one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

geneva@1Kings:18:43 @ And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, [There is] nothing. And he said, Go again (note:)As God's spirit moved him to pray, so was he strengthened by the same that he did not faint, but continued still till he had obtained.(:note) seven times.

geneva@1Kings:18:45 @ And in the meane while the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, and there was a great rayne. Then Ahab went vp and came to Izreel.

geneva@1Kings:18:46 @ And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran (note:)He was so strengthened by God's spirit that he ran faster than the chariot was able to run.(:note) before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

geneva@1Kings:19:2 @ Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, (note:)Though the wicked rage against God's children, yet he holds them back so they cannot execute their malice.(:note) So let the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.

geneva@1Kings:19:5 @ And as he lay and slept vnder the iuniper tree, behold now, an Angel touched him, and said vnto him, Vp, and eate.

geneva@1Kings:19:6 @ And when he looked about, behold, there was a cake baken on the coles, and a pot of water at his head: so he did eate and drinke, and returned and slept.

geneva@1Kings:19:10 @ And he said, I have (note:)He complains that the more zealous he was to maintain God's glory, the more cruelly he was persecuted.(:note) been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

geneva@1Kings:19:11 @ And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] (note:)For the nature of man is not able to come near God, if he appeared in his strength and full majesty, and therefore he mercifully submits himself to our limitations.(:note) not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in the earthquake:

geneva@1Kings:19:12 @ And after the earthquake came fire: but the Lorde was not in the fire: and after the fire came a still and soft voyce.

geneva@1Kings:19:15 @ And the Lord said vnto him, Goe, returne by the wildernes vnto Damascus, and when thou commest there, anoint Hazael King ouer Aram.

geneva@1Kings:19:19 @ So he departed thence, and found Elisha the sonne of Shaphat who was plowing with twelue yoke of oxen before him, and was with the twelft: & Eliiah went towards him, and cast his mantel vpon him.

geneva@1Kings:19:21 @ And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the (note:)He would not stay till wood was brought, so great was his desire to follow his calling.(:note) instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

geneva@1Kings:20:8 @ And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken (note:)They thought it their duty to risk their lives, rather than grant that thing which was not lawful, only to satisfy the lust of a tyrant.(:note) not [unto him], nor consent.

geneva@1Kings:20:11 @ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him], Let not him that girdeth on [his harness] boast himself as he that (note:)Do not boast before the victory is won.(:note) putteth it off.

geneva@1Kings:20:12 @ And when he heard that tidings, as he was with the Kings drinking in the pauilions, he sayd vnto his seruants, Bring forth your engines, and they set them against the citie.

geneva@1Kings:20:13 @ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know (note:)Before God went about with signs and miracles to pull Ahab from his impiety, and now again with wonderful victories.(:note) that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:20:16 @ And they went out at noone: but Ben-hadad did drinke till he was drunken in the tentes, both he and the Kings: for two and thirtie Kings helped him.

geneva@1Kings:20:23 @ And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their (note:)Thus the wicked blaspheme God in their fury, who nonetheless he does not permit to go unpunished.(:note) gods [are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

geneva@1Kings:20:25 @ And nomber thy selfe an armie, like the armie that thou hast lost, with such horses, & such charets, & we wil fight against them in the plaine, and doubtlesse we shall ouercome them: and he hearkened vnto their voyce, and did so.

geneva@1Kings:20:26 @ And after the yeere was gone about, Ben-hadad nombred the Aramites, and went vp to Aphek to fight against Israel.

geneva@1Kings:20:28 @ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD [is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that (note:)Who has the same power in the valley as on the hills and can also destroy a multitude with few as with many.(:note) I [am] the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:20:29 @ And they pitched one ouer against the other seuen dayes, & in the seuenth day the battel was ioyned: and the children of Israel slew of the Aramites an hundreth thousand footemen in one day.

geneva@1Kings:20:33 @ Now the men did diligently observe whether [any thing would come] from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Thy brother (note:)He is alive.(:note) Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

geneva@1Kings:20:34 @ And [Benhadad] said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in (note:)You shall appoint in my chief city what you will, and I will obey you.(:note) Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then [said Ahab], I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.

geneva@1Kings:20:36 @ Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall (note:)Because you have transgressed the commandment of the Lord.(:note) slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

geneva@1Kings:20:38 @ So the Prophet departed, & wayted for the King by the way, & disguised himselfe with ashes vpon his face.

geneva@1Kings:20:39 @ And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, (note:)By this parable he makes Ahab condemn himself who made a covenant with God's enemy, and let him escape whom God had appointed to be slain.(:note) Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

geneva@1Kings:20:40 @ And as thy seruant had here and there to do, he was gone: And the King of Israel said vnto him, So shall thy iudgement be: thou hast giuen sentence.

geneva@1Kings:20:41 @ And hee hasted, and tooke the ashes away from his face: and the King of Israel knewe him that he was of the Prophets:

geneva@1Kings:20:42 @ And he said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let goe out of thine handes a man whom I appoynted to dye, thy life shall goe for his life, and thy people for his people.

geneva@1Kings:20:43 @ And the King of Israel went to his house heauie and in displeasure, & came to Samaria.

geneva@1Kings:21:2 @ And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, (note:)Though Ahab's tyranny is condemned by the Holy Spirit, yet he was not so rigorous that he would take from another man his right without full recompense.(:note) Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

geneva@1Kings:21:4 @ And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down (note:)Thus the wicked do not consider what is just and lawful, but fret inwardly when they cannot have their inordinate lusts satisfied.(:note) upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

geneva@1Kings:21:6 @ And he said vnto her, Because I spake vnto Naboth the Izreelite, & sayd vnto him, Giue me thy vineyard for money, or if it please thee, I will giue thee another vineyard for it: but he answered, I wil not giue thee my vineyarde.

geneva@1Kings:21:7 @ And Jezebel his wife said unto him, (note:)As though she said, «You do not know what it means to reign. Command and do not beg».(:note) Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

geneva@1Kings:21:9 @ And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a (note:)For then they used to enquire of men's faults: for no one could truly fast if he was a notorious sinner.(:note) fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:

geneva@1Kings:21:10 @ And set two wicked men before him, & let them witnesse against him, saying, Thou diddest blaspheme God and the King: then cary him out, and stone him that he may dye.

geneva@1Kings:21:11 @ And the (note:)Thus the worldlings contrary to God's commandment, who does not consent to the shedding of innocent blood, would rather obey the wicked commandments of princes than the just laws.(:note) men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, [and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

geneva@1Kings:21:12 @ They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth among the chiefe of the people,

geneva@1Kings:21:13 @ And there came two wicked men, & sate before him: & the wicked men witnessed against Naboth in the presence of the people saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the King. Then they caried him away out of the citie, and stoned him with stones, that he dyed.

geneva@1Kings:21:15 @ And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, (note:)This example of monstrous cruelty the Holy Spirit leaves to us, to the intent that we should abhor all tyranny, and especially in those whom nature and kind should move to be pitiful and inclined to mercy.(:note) Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

geneva@1Kings:21:16 @ And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he rose to go downe to the vineyard of Naboth the Izreelite, to take possession of it.

geneva@1Kings:21:19 @ And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, (note:)Do you think to have an advantage by murdering an innocent?(:note) Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, This was fulfilled in Joram his son (2Ki_9:25-26). In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

geneva@1Kings:21:20 @ And Ahab sayd to Eliiah, Hast thou found mee, O mine enemie? And he answered, I haue found thee: for thou hast solde thy selfe to worke wickednes in the sight of the Lord.

geneva@1Kings:21:21 @ Beholde, I will bring euill vpon thee, and wil take away thy posteritie, and wil cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, as well him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel,

geneva@1Kings:21:22 @ And I wil make thine house like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah, for the prouocation wherewith thou hast prouoked, and made Israel to sinne.

geneva@1Kings:21:25 @ But there was none like unto Ahab, which did (note:)By the wicked counsel of his wife he became a vile idolater, and cruel murderer, as one that gave himself wholly to serve sin.(:note) sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

geneva@1Kings:21:26 @ For he did exceeding abominably in following idoles, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.)

geneva@1Kings:21:27 @ And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went (note:)In token of mourning, or as some read, barefooted.(:note) softly.

geneva@1Kings:22:2 @ And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah (note:)To see and visit him.(:note) came down to the king of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:22:3 @ And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that (note:)The kings of Syria kept Ramoth before this league was made by Benhadad: therefore he did not think he was bound by it to restore it.(:note) Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?

geneva@1Kings:22:4 @ And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, (note:)I am ready to join and go with you, and all of mine is at your command.(:note) I [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

geneva@1Kings:22:6 @ Then the king of Israel gathered the (note:)Meaning the false prophets, who were liars and served for money whom Jezebel had assembled and kept after the death of those whom Elijah slew.(:note) prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.

geneva@1Kings:22:9 @ Then the king of Israel called an (note:)Read (Gen_37:36).(:note) officer, and said, Hasten [hither] Micaiah the son of Imlah.

geneva@1Kings:22:13 @ And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the king with (note:)This is the common argument of the wicked, who think that no one should speak against anything if the majority approves of it, be they ever so ungodly.(:note) one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak [that which is] good.

geneva@1Kings:22:14 @ And Michaiah saide, As the Lord liueth, whatsoeuer the Lord sayth vnto me, that will I speake.

geneva@1Kings:22:17 @ And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, (note:)It is better for them to return home than to be punished and scattered because they go to war without God's counsel and approval.(:note) These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.

geneva@1Kings:22:21 @ And there came forth a spirit, and (note:)Here we see that though the devil is always ready to bring us to destruction, yet he has no more power than God gives him.(:note) stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.

geneva@1Kings:22:24 @ But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, (note:)Thus the wicked would that none were in the favour of God but they, and that God has given his graces to none so much as to them.(:note) Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

geneva@1Kings:22:26 @ And the King of Israel sayd, Take Michaiah, and cary him vnto Amon the gouernour of the citie, and vnto Ioash the Kings sonne,

geneva@1Kings:22:27 @ And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with (note:)Let him waste away with hunger and be fed with a small portion of bread and water.(:note) bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

geneva@1Kings:22:28 @ And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, (note:)That when you see these things come to pass you may give God the glory, and know that I am his true prophet.(:note) Hearken, O people, every one of you.

geneva@1Kings:22:32 @ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it [is] the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat (note:)That is, to the Lord for help.(:note) cried out.

geneva@1Kings:22:33 @ And when the captaines of the charets saw that he was not the King of Israel, they turned backe from him.

geneva@1Kings:22:35 @ And the battle increased that day: and the (note:)That is, Ahab, king of Israel.(:note) king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.

geneva@1Kings:22:37 @ So the King died, and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the King in Samaria.

geneva@1Kings:22:38 @ And one washed the charet in the poole of Samaria, and the dogs licked vp his blood (and they washed his armour) according vnto the word of the Lord which he spake.

geneva@1Kings:22:41 @ And Iehoshaphat the sonne of Asa began to reigne vpon Iudah in the fourth yeere of Ahab King of Israel.

geneva@1Kings:22:42 @ Iehoshaphat was fiue and thirty yere olde, when he began to reigne, and reigned fiue and twentie yeere in Ierusalem; his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

geneva@1Kings:22:43 @ And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless (note:)Meaning, that he was led with an error, thinking that they might still sacrifice to the Lord in those places, as they did before the temple was built.(:note) the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

geneva@1Kings:22:46 @ And the Sodomites, which remayned in the dayes of his father Asa, he put cleane out of the land.

geneva@1Kings:22:47 @ [There was] then no king in Edom: a (note:)In the time of this king, Idumea was subject to Judah, and was governed by whom they of Judah appointed.(:note) deputy [was] king.

geneva@1Kings:22:50 @ And Iehoshaphat did sleepe with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father, and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:1:1 @ Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. (note:)The Argument - This second book contains the acts of the kings of Judah and Israel: that is, of Israel, from the death of Ahab to the last king Hoshea, who was imprisoned by the king of Assyria, and his city Samaria taken, and the ten tribes led into captivity by the just plague of God for their idolatry and disobedience to God. Also of Judah, from the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat to Zedekiah, who for contemning the Lord's commandment by his prophets, and neglecting his many admonitions by famine and other means was taken by his enemies, saw his sons most cruelly slain before his face, and his own eyes put out, as the Lord had declared to him before by his prophet Jeremiah. By the just vengeance of God for contempt of his word Jerusalem was destroyed, the temple burnt, and he and all his people were led away captives into Babylon. In this book are notable examples of God's favour toward those rulers and people who obey his prophets, and embrace his word: and contrariwise of his plagues on those who neglect his ministers, and do not obey his commandments.(:note)

geneva@2Kings:1:2 @ And (note:)So that he was punished for his idolatry in two ways: for the Moabites which were wont to pay him tribute rebelled and he fell out a window which was high in his house to give light beneath.(:note) Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of The Philistines who lived at Ekron worshipped this idol, the god of flies, thinking that he could preserve them from the biting of flies: or else he was so called, because flies were drawn in great abundance by the blood of the sacrifices that were offered to that idol. Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

geneva@2Kings:1:7 @ And he saide vnto them, What maner of man was he which came and met you, and tolde you these wordes?

geneva@2Kings:1:8 @ And they answered him, [He was] an (note:)Some think that this meant his garments, which were rough and made of hair.(:note) hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite.

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

geneva@2Kings:1:12 @ And Elijah answered and said unto them, (note:)Meaning, that God would show by effect whether he was a true prophet or not.(:note) If I [be] a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

geneva@2Kings:1:13 @ And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my (note:)Which humble myself before God and his servant.(:note) life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be That is, spare my life, and do not let me die as the other two. precious in thy sight.

geneva@2Kings:1:16 @ And he saide vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde, Because thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, (was it not because there was no God in Israel to inquire of his worde?) therefore thou shalt not come downe off the bed, on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death.

geneva@2Kings:1:17 @ So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And (note:)Jehoshaphat going to battle against the Syrians, made his son Jehoram king in the 17th year of his reign: and in the 18th year which was the second year of his son, Jehoram the son of Ahab reigned in Israel: and in the fifth year of this Jehoram Jehoshaphat died, and the kingdom of Judah was confirmed to his son.(:note) Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

geneva@2Kings:2:1 @ And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from (note:)Which was the place where the children of Israel were circumcised after they came over Jordan and had been forty years in the wilderness, (Jos_5:9).(:note) Gilgal.

geneva@2Kings:2:2 @ Then Eliiah saide to Elisha, Tarie here, I pray thee: for the Lorde hath sent me to Bethel. But Elisha said, As the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. So they came downe to Beth-el.

geneva@2Kings:2:3 @ And the (note:)So called, because they are begotten anew as it were by the heavenly doctrine.(:note) sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from That is, from being your head any more: for to be as the head, is to be the master, as to be at the feet, is to be a scholar. thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I For the Lord had revealed it to him. know [it]; hold ye your peace.

geneva@2Kings:2:4 @ Againe Eliiah saide vnto him, Elisha, tarie here, I pray thee: for the Lorde hath sent me to Iericho: But he said, As the Lorde liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. So they came to Iericho.

geneva@2Kings:2:5 @ And the sons of the prophets that [were] at (note:)Not only at Bethel, but at Jericho and other places were there prophets, who had scholars, whom they instructed and brought up in the true fear of God.(:note) Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know [it]; hold ye your peace.

geneva@2Kings:2:6 @ Moreouer Eliiah saide vnto him, Tarie, I pray thee, here: for the Lorde hath sent me to Iorden. But he saide, As the Lorde liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. So they went both together.

geneva@2Kings:2:9 @ And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, (note:)Let your spirit have double force in me, because of these dangerous times: or let me have twice as much as the rest of the prophets: or if your spirit were to be divided into three parts, let me have two.(:note) let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

geneva@2Kings:2:10 @ And he saide, Thou hast asked an hard thing: yet if thou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt haue it so: & if not, it shal not be.

geneva@2Kings:2:11 @ And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into (note:)Thus God has left a testimony in all ages (both before the law, in the law and in the gospel).(:note) heaven.

geneva@2Kings:2:15 @ And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The (note:)The Spirit of prophecy was given to him as it was to Elijah.(:note) spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

geneva@2Kings:2:16 @ And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, (note:)Because the fact was extraordinary, they doubted where he had gone, but Elisha was assured that he was taken up to God.(:note) Ye shall not send.

geneva@2Kings:2:17 @ Yet they were instant vpon him, til he was ashamed: wherefore he saide, Sende. So they sent fiftie men, which sought three dayes, but founde him not.

geneva@2Kings:2:19 @ And the men of the citie saide vnto Elisha, Beholde, we pray thee: the situation of this citie is pleasant, as thou, my lorde, seest, but the water is naught, and the ground baren.

geneva@2Kings:2:21 @ And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast (note:)Thus God gave him power, even contrary to nature, to make the water profitable for man's use, which before was hurtful.(:note) the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land].

geneva@2Kings:2:23 @ And he went vp from thence vnto Beth-el; as he was going vp the way, litle children came out of the citie, and mocked him, and saide vnto him, Come vp, thou balde head, come vp, thou balde head.

geneva@2Kings:2:24 @ And he turned back, and looked on them, and (note:)Perceiving their malicious heart against the Lord and his word, he asks God to avenge the injury done to him.(:note) cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

geneva@2Kings:3:4 @ And (note:)This was done after David had made the Moabites tributaries to his successors.(:note) Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

geneva@2Kings:3:5 @ But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab rebelled against the King of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:3:6 @ Therefore King Iehoram went out of Samaria the same season, and nombred all Israel,

geneva@2Kings:3:7 @ And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: (note:)Read (1Ki_22:4).(:note) I [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy horses.

geneva@2Kings:3:9 @ So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the (note:)Meaning the viceroy, or lieutenant of the king of Judah, (1Ki_22:47).(:note) king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.

geneva@2Kings:3:10 @ Therefore the King of Israel sayde, Alas, that the Lord hath called these three Kings, to giue them into the hand of Moab.

geneva@2Kings:3:11 @ But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of Shaphat, which (note:)That is, who was his servant.(:note) poured water on the hands of Elijah.

geneva@2Kings:3:14 @ And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would (note:)God suffers his word to be declared to the wicked because of the godly that are among them.(:note) not look toward thee, nor see thee.

geneva@2Kings:3:15 @ But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel (note:)He sang songs to God's glory, and so stirred up the prophets heart to prophecy.(:note) played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.

geneva@2Kings:3:17 @ For thus saith the Lorde, Ye shall neither see winde nor see raine, yet the valley shalbe filled with water, that ye may drinke, both ye and your cattel, and your beastes.

geneva@2Kings:3:19 @ And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and (note:)Though God bestows his benefits for a time on the enemies, yet he has his seasons, when he will take them away to the intent they might see his vengeance which is prepared for them.(:note) mar every good piece of land with stones.

geneva@2Kings:3:20 @ And in the morning whe the meat offring was offred, beholde, there came water by the way of Edom: and the countrey was filled with water.

geneva@2Kings:3:21 @ And when al the Moabites heard that the Kings were come vp to fight against them, they gathered all that was able to put on harnesse, & vpwarde, and stood in their border.

geneva@2Kings:3:22 @ And they rose earely in the morning, when the sunne arose vpon the water, and the Moabites saw the water ouer against them, as red as blood.

geneva@2Kings:3:25 @ And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in (note:)Which was one of the principle cities of the Moabites, in which they left nothing but the walls.(:note) Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote it.

geneva@2Kings:3:26 @ And when the King of Moab saw that the battel was too sore for him, he tooke with him seuen hudreth men that drew the sword, to break through vnto the King of Edom: but they could not.

geneva@2Kings:3:27 @ Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and (note:)Some refer it to the king of Edom's son, whom they say he had taken in that skirmish: but rather it seemed to be his own son, whom he offered to his gods to pacify them: which barbarous cruelty moved the Israelites hearts of pity to depart.(:note) offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to [their own] land.

geneva@2Kings:4:2 @ And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a (note:)Thus God permits his to be brought many times to extreme necessity, before he helps them, that afterward they may praise his mercy even more.(:note) pot of oil.

geneva@2Kings:4:4 @ And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into (note:)The Prophet declares by this to her, that God never fails to provide for his servants, their wives and children, it they trust in him.(:note) all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.

geneva@2Kings:4:6 @ And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, [There is] not a vessel more. And the oil (note:)Or ceased to increase.(:note) stayed.

geneva@2Kings:4:8 @ And on a time Elisha came to Shunem, and there a woman of great estimation constrained him to eate bread: and as he passed by, he turned in thither to eate bread.

geneva@2Kings:4:9 @ And she sayde vnto her husband, Beholde, I know now, that this is an holy man of God that passeth by vs continually.

geneva@2Kings:4:13 @ And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; (note:)Thus the servants of God are not unthankful for the benefits they receive.(:note) what [is] to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I I am content with what God has sent me, and can lack nothing that one can do for another. dwell among mine own people.

geneva@2Kings:4:14 @ And he said, What then [is] to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath (note:)Which was shameful and therefore he would that his master should pray to God for her that she might be fruitful.(:note) no child, and her husband is old.

geneva@2Kings:4:17 @ So the woman conceiued, & bare a sonne at that same season, according to the time of life, that Elisha had sayd vnto her.

geneva@2Kings:4:18 @ And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father, and to the reapers.

geneva@2Kings:4:19 @ And he said unto his father, (note:)His head was hurt badly and therefore he cried.(:note) My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

geneva@2Kings:4:22 @ Then she called to her husband, & sayd, Send with me, I pray thee, one of the yong men and one of the asses: for I will haste to the man of God, and come againe.

geneva@2Kings:4:24 @ Then she sadled an asse, and sayde to her seruant, Driue, and goe forward: staye not for me to get vp, except I bid thee.

geneva@2Kings:4:30 @ And the mother of the childe sayde, As the Lorde liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. Therefore he arose, and followed her.

geneva@2Kings:4:31 @ But Gehazi was gone before them, & had layed the staffe vpon the face of the childe, but he neither spake nor heard: wherefore hee returned to meete him, and told him, saying, The childe is not waken.

geneva@2Kings:4:32 @ Then came Elisha into the house, and beholde, the childe was dead, and layed vpon his bedde.

geneva@2Kings:4:38 @ And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the (note:)That is, in the land of Israel.(:note) land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

geneva@2Kings:4:40 @ So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] (note:)They feared that they were poisoned because of the bitterness.(:note) death in the pot. And they could not eat [thereof].

geneva@2Kings:4:41 @ Then he said, Bring meale; hee cast it into the potte, and sayd, Powre out for the people, that they may eate: and there was none euill in the pot.

geneva@2Kings:5:1 @ Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given (note:)Here it appears that among the infidels God has his, and also that the infidels esteem those who do good to their country.(:note) deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he was] a leper.

geneva@2Kings:5:5 @ And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and (note:)To give this as a present to the prophets.(:note) took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

geneva@2Kings:5:8 @ And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, (note:)The prophet rebukes the king because he did not consider that God was true in his promise, and therefore would not leave his Church destitute of a prophet, whose prayers he would hear, and to whom others could have recourse for comfort.(:note) Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

geneva@2Kings:5:10 @ And Elisha sent a messenger vnto him, saying, Go and wash thee in Iorden seuen times, and thy flesh shall come againe to thee, and thou shalt be clensed.

geneva@2Kings:5:11 @ But Naaman was (note:)Man's reason murmurs when it considers only the signs and outward things, and has no regard for the word of God, which is contained there.(:note) wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

geneva@2Kings:5:12 @ Are not Abanah and Pharpar, riuers of Damascus, better then all the waters of Israel? may I not washe mee in them, and bee cleansed? so hee turned, and departed in displeasure.

geneva@2Kings:5:13 @ And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, (note:)This declares that servants should reverence and love their masters as children their fathers, and likewise masters toward their servants, must be affectioned as toward their children.(:note) My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

geneva@2Kings:5:14 @ Then went he downe, and washed him selfe seuen times in Iorden, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came againe, like vnto ye flesh of a litle child, & he was cleane.

geneva@2Kings:5:16 @ But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; (note:)So the Lord commands that they that receive freely, should also give freely.(:note) but he refused.

geneva@2Kings:5:18 @ In this thing the LORD (note:)He feels his conscience is wounded by being present at idols service, and therefore desires God to forgive him, lest others by his example might fall to idolatry: for as for his own part he confesses that he will never serve any but the true God.(:note) pardon thy servant, [that] when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.

geneva@2Kings:5:20 @ And Gehazi the seruant of Elisha the man of God sayde, Beholde, my master hath spared this Aramite Naaman, receiuing not those things at his hand that he brought: as the Lord liueth, I will runne after him, and take somewhat of him.

geneva@2Kings:5:21 @ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw [him] running after him, (note:)Declaring by it, the honour and affection he bore to the prophet his master.(:note) he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, [Is] all well?

geneva@2Kings:5:22 @ And he answered, All is well: my master hath set me, saying, Behold, there be come to me, euen nowe from mount Ephraim two yong men of the children of the Prophets: giue them, I pray thee, a talent of siluer, & two change of garmets.

geneva@2Kings:5:25 @ Then he went in, and stoode before his master; Elisha said vnto him, Whence commest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy seruant went no whither.

geneva@2Kings:5:26 @ And he said unto him, (note:)Was I not present with you in spirit?(:note) Went not mine heart [with thee], when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and That is, money to buy possessions with: meaning that it is detestable in the servants of God to have covetous minds. oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

geneva@2Kings:5:27 @ The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy (note:)To be an example to all, by whose covetousness God's word might be slandered.(:note) seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.

geneva@2Kings:6:5 @ And as one was felling of a tree, the yron fell into the water: then he cryed, and said, Alas master, it was but borowed.

geneva@2Kings:6:6 @ And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither; and the iron did (note:)God wrought this miraculously to confirm the authority of Elisha, to whom he had given such abundance of his Spirit.(:note) swim.

geneva@2Kings:6:11 @ And the heart of the King of Aram was troubled for this thing: therefore he called his seruants and saide vnto them, Will ye not shewe me, which of vs bewrayeth our counsel to the king of Israel?

geneva@2Kings:6:14 @ Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a (note:)Though it was nothing in man's judgment to have taken Elisha, yet the wicked doubt, and think they are never able to prepare enough power, though it be but against one or a few.(:note) great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

geneva@2Kings:6:15 @ And when the seruant of the man of God arose earely to goe out, beholde, an hoste compassed the citie with horses and charets. Then his seruant sayde vnto him, Alas master, howe shall we doe?

geneva@2Kings:6:16 @ And he answered, (note:)For he was assured of God's help, and that millions of angels camped about the godly to deliver them.(:note) Fear not: for they that [be] with us [are] more than they that [be] with them.

geneva@2Kings:6:17 @ And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, (note:)That he may behold how you have prepared an army to rescue us.(:note) that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

geneva@2Kings:6:22 @ And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: doest thou not smite them that thou hast taken with thy sworde, and with thy bowe? but set bread and water before them, that they may eate and drinke and goe to their master.

geneva@2Kings:6:23 @ And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no (note:)For this gentle intreaty and the miracle wrought by the prophet, did more for peace than if they had been overcome in battle for they did not return at that time to fight against Israel, or in that king's days.(:note) more into the land of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:6:25 @ And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's (note:)The Hebrews write, that they burned it in the seige for lack of wood.(:note) dung for five [pieces] of silver.

geneva@2Kings:6:26 @ And as the King of Israel was going vpon the wall, there cryed a woman vnto him, saying, Helpe, my lord, O King.

geneva@2Kings:6:27 @ And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the (note:)Meaning, any kind of food as corn and wine.(:note) barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

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

geneva@2Kings:6:32 @ But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a (note:)Meaning, Jehoram Ahab's son, who killed the prophets and caused Naboth to be stoned.(:note) murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

geneva@2Kings:7:1 @ Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, (note:)The godly are always assured of God's help in their necessity, but the times and hours are only revealed by God's Spirit.(:note) To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:7:2 @ Then a lord on whose hand the king (note:)To whom the king gave the charge and oversight of things as in (2Ki_7:17).(:note) leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make He mocked at the prophets words saying, that if God rained down corn from heaven, yet this could not come to pass. windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not Your infidelity will be punished in this when you see this miracle, and yet not partake of it. eat thereof.

geneva@2Kings:7:3 @ And there were four leprous men at the (note:)For it was commanded in the law that they should dwell apart, and not among their brethren, (Lev_13:46).(:note) entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

geneva@2Kings:7:5 @ So they rose vp in the twilight, to goe to the campe of the Aramites: and when they were come to the vtmost part of the campe of the Aramites, loe, there was no man there.

geneva@2Kings:7:7 @ Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it [was], and (note:)The wicked need no greater enemy than their own conscience to pursue them.(:note) fled for their life.

geneva@2Kings:7:10 @ So they came, and called vnto the porters of the citie, and tolde them, saying, We came to the campe of the Aramites, and loe, there was no man there, neither voyce of man, but horses tyed and asses tyed: and the tents are as they were.

geneva@2Kings:7:12 @ And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, (note:)He mistrusted the prophets words, and therefore could believe nothing, as they who are more prudent than godly always cast more doubt than is needed.(:note) I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we [be] hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.

geneva@2Kings:7:13 @ And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some] take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they [are] as all the (note:)There are no more left, but they, or the rest are consumed by the famine, as the rest of the people.(:note) multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, [I say], they [are] even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.

geneva@2Kings:7:15 @ And they went after them vnto Iorden, and loe, all the way was full of clothes and vessels which the Aramites had cast from them in their hast: & the messengers returned, and told ye King.

geneva@2Kings:7:16 @ And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, (note:)Which he spoke by the mouth of Elisha, (2Ki_7:1).(:note) according to the word of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:7:17 @ And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people (note:)As the people pressed out of the gate to run to the Syrian's tents, where they had heard meat and great spoil was left.(:note) trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

geneva@2Kings:7:18 @ And it came to passe, as the man of God had spoken to the King, saying, Two measures of barley at a shekel, and a measure of fine floure shall be at a shekel, to morowe about this time in the gate of Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:7:19 @ But the prince had answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, coulde it come so to passe? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.

geneva@2Kings:8:3 @ And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth (note:)That is, to complain of them who had taken her possessions while she was absent.(:note) to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

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:8:6 @ And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that [was] hers, and all the (note:)The king caused that to be justly restored which was wrongfully withheld from her.(:note) fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

geneva@2Kings:8:7 @ Then Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-hadad the King of Aram was sicke, and one told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

geneva@2Kings:8:8 @ And the king sayd vnto Hazael, Take a present in thine hande, and goe meete the man of God, that thou mayest inquire of ye Lord by him, saying, Shall I recouer of this disease?

geneva@2Kings:8:9 @ So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every (note:)Of all the chiefest and precious things of the country.(:note) good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

geneva@2Kings:8:10 @ And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly (note:)Meaning that he would recover of this disease: but he knew that this messenger Hazael would slay him to obtain the kingdom.(:note) recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

geneva@2Kings:8:11 @ And hee looked vpon him stedfastly, till Hazael was ashamed, and the man of God wept.

geneva@2Kings:8:12 @ And Hazael sayde, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I knowe the euill that thou shalt do vnto the children of Israel: for their strong cities shalt thou set on fire, and their yong men shalt thou slay with the sworde, and shalt dash their infantes against the stones, and rent in pieces their women with child.

geneva@2Kings:8:14 @ So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, What saide Elisha to thee? And he answered, Hee tolde mee that thou shouldest recouer.

geneva@2Kings:8:15 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and (note:)Under pretence to refresh or ease him, he suffocated him with his cloak.(:note) spread [it] on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:8:17 @ He was two and thirtie yere olde, when he began to reigne: and hee reigned eight yeere in Ierusalem.

geneva@2Kings:8:18 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the (note:)The Holy Spirit shows by this the danger of joining with infidels.(:note) daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:8:19 @ Yet the Lord would not destroy Iudah, for Dauid his seruants sake, as he had promised him to giue him a light, and to his children for euer.

geneva@2Kings:8:22 @ Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then (note:)This was a city in Judah given to the Levites, (Jos_21:13) that later turned from king Jehoram, because of his idolatry.(:note) Libnah revolted at the same time.

geneva@2Kings:8:24 @ And Ioram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid; Ahaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:8:27 @ And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did euill in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab: for hee was the sonne in law of the house of Ahab.

geneva@2Kings:8:28 @ And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in (note:)Which was a city in the tribe of Gad beyond Jordan.(:note) Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.

geneva@2Kings:8:29 @ And king Joram went back to be healed in (note:)This is a city belonging to the tribe of Issachar.(:note) Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

geneva@2Kings:9:6 @ And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have (note:)This anointing was for kings, priests and prophets which were all figures of Messiah, in whom these three offices were accomplished.(:note) anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.

geneva@2Kings:9:7 @ And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may auenge the blood of my seruants the Prophets, and the blood of al the seruants of the Lord of the hand of Iezebel.

geneva@2Kings:9:8 @ For the whole house of Ahab shalbe destroied: and I will cut off from Ahab, him that maketh water against the wall, as well him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel.

geneva@2Kings:9:9 @ And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah.

geneva@2Kings:9:11 @ Then Jehu came forth to the (note:)That is, the rest of the army, whom he called his brethren before, (2Ki_9:2).(:note) servants of his lord: and [one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this The world always holds the ministers of God is this estimation and has always slandered the children of God (they called the Son of God a deceiver, and said he had the devil) therefore they should not be discouraged. mad [fellow] to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.

geneva@2Kings:9:13 @ Then they made haste, and tooke euerie man his garment, and put it vnder him on the top of the staires, and blewe the trumpet, saying, Iehu is King.

geneva@2Kings:9:16 @ So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And (note:)God had thus ordained as in (2Ch_12:7), that this wicked and idolatrous king, who was more ready to please wicked Joram than to obey the will of God, would perish with him, by whose means he thought to have been stronger.(:note) Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

geneva@2Kings:9:17 @ And the watchman that stoode in the towre in Izreel spyed the companie of Iehu as hee came, & sayd, I see a companie; Iehoram said, Take a horseman and send to meete them, that hee may say, Is it peace?

geneva@2Kings:9:18 @ So there went one on horseback to meete him, and sayde, Thus sayth the King, Is it peace? And Iehu sayd, What hast thou to do with peace? Turne behinde me; the watchman tolde, saying, The messenger came to them, but he commeth not againe.

geneva@2Kings:9:19 @ Then hee sent out another on horsebacke, which came to them, and sayde, Thus sayth the King, Is it peace? And Iehu answered, What hast thou to doe with peace? turne behinde me.

geneva@2Kings:9:20 @ And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth (note:)As one that went earnestly about his business.(:note) furiously.

geneva@2Kings:9:21 @ Then Iehoram sayd, Make ready: and his charet was made ready; Iehoram King of Israel and Ahaziah King of Iudah went out eyther of them in his charet against Iehu, and met him in the fielde of Naboth the Izreelite.

geneva@2Kings:9:22 @ And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it] (note:)Meaning, since God is their enemy because of their sins, he will always stir up someone to avenge his cause.(:note) peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?

geneva@2Kings:9:23 @ Then Iehoram turned his hand, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, O Ahaziah, there is treason.

geneva@2Kings:9:25 @ Then said Iehu to Bidkar a captaine, Take, and cast him in some place of the fielde of Naboth the Izreelite: for I remember that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lorde layed this burden vpon him.

geneva@2Kings:9:26 @ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his (note:)By this it is evident that Jezebel caused both Naboth and his sons to be put to death, that Ahab might enjoy his vineyard more quietly: else his children might have claimed possession.(:note) sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:9:27 @ But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the going up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to (note:)After he was wounded in Samaria, he fled to Megiddo, a city of Judah.(:note) Megiddo, and died there.

geneva@2Kings:9:30 @ And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and (note:)Being of a harsh and cruel nature, she would still retain her royal state and dignity.(:note) looked out at a window.

geneva@2Kings:9:31 @ And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had] (note:)As if to say, «Can a traitor or anyone who rises against his superior succeed?», see (1Ki_16:10).(:note) Zimri peace, who slew his master?

geneva@2Kings:9:33 @ And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: (note:)This he did by the moving of the Spirit of God, that her blood would be shed, who had shed the blood of innocents, to be a spectacle and example of God's judgment for all tyrants.(:note) and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.

geneva@2Kings:9:34 @ And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a (note:)That is, of the king of Zidon, (1Ki_16:31).(:note) king's daughter.

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

geneva@2Kings:10:2 @ Nowe when this letter commeth to you, (for ye haue with you your masters sonnes, yee haue with you both charets and horses, and a defenced citie, and armour)

geneva@2Kings:10:3 @ Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and (note:)He wrote this, to prove them whether they would take his side or not.(:note) set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

geneva@2Kings:10:5 @ And he that was gouernour of Ahabs house, and he that ruled the citie, and the Elders, & the bringers vp of the children sent to Iehu, saying, We are thy seruants, and will doe all that thou shalt bid vs: we will make no King: do what seemeth good to thee.

geneva@2Kings:10:6 @ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, (note:)God as a just judge punishes the wicked children of wicked parents to the third and fourth generations.(:note) take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

geneva@2Kings:10:7 @ And when the letter came to them, they tooke the Kings sonnes, and slewe the seuentie persons, and layde their heads in baskets, and sent them vnto him to Izreel.

geneva@2Kings:10:9 @ And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] (note:)You cannot justly condemn me for the king's death, seeing as you have done the same to his posterity: for the Lord commanded me, and moved you to carry out his judgment.(:note) righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?

geneva@2Kings:10:10 @ Knowe nowe that there shal fall vnto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the Lorde hath brought to passe the things that hee spake by his seruant Eliiah.

geneva@2Kings:10:12 @ And he arose, and departed and came to Samaria. And as Iehu was in the way by an house where the shepheards did shere,

geneva@2Kings:10:15 @ And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he (note:)For he feared God, and lamented the wickedness of those times: therefore Jehu was glad to join with him: of Rechab read (Jer_35:2).(:note) saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give [me] thine hand. And he gave [him] his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

geneva@2Kings:10:18 @ And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served (note:)Here Baal is taken for Ashtaroth the idol of the Zidonians, who Jezebel caused to be worshipped, as it is also so used in (1Ki_22:53).(:note) Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.

geneva@2Kings:10:20 @ And Iehu sayd, Proclaime a solemne assemblie for Baal; they proclaimed it.

geneva@2Kings:10:21 @ So Iehu sent vnto all Israel, and all the seruants of Baal came, and there was not a man left that came not; they came into the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was full from ende to ende.

geneva@2Kings:10:23 @ And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the (note:)Thus God would have his servants preserved and idolaters destroyed, as in his law he gives express command, (Deu_13:5).(:note) servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.

geneva@2Kings:10:25 @ And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast [them] out, and went to the (note:)Which was near Samaria.(:note) city of the house of Baal.

geneva@2Kings:10:30 @ And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing [that which is] right in mine eyes, [and] hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in mine heart, thy (note:)Thus God approves and rewards his zeal, in executing God's judgment, though his wickedness was later punished.(:note) children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:10:32 @ In those dayes the Lorde began to lothe Israel, and Hazael smote them in all the coastes of Israel,

geneva@2Kings:10:33 @ From Iorden Eastward, euen all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, & them that were of Manasseh, from Aroer (which is by the riuer Arnon) and Gilead and Bashan.

geneva@2Kings:11:1 @ And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the (note:)Meaning, all the posterity of Jehoshaphat, to whom the kingdom belonged: thus God used the cruelty of this woman to destroy the family of Ahab.(:note) seed royal.

geneva@2Kings:11:2 @ But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, (note:)The Lord promised to maintain the family of David, and not to quench the light of it, therefore he moved the heart of Jehosheba to preserve him.(:note) took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons [which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in Where the priests slept. the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

geneva@2Kings:11:3 @ And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord sixe yeere: and Athaliah did reigne ouer the land.

geneva@2Kings:11:6 @ And a third part [shall be] at the gate of (note:)Called the east gate of the temple, (2Ch_23:5).(:note) Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.

geneva@2Kings:11:8 @ And ye shal compasse the King rounde about, euery man with his weapon in his hande, and whosoeuer commeth within the ranges, let him be slayne: be you with the King, as he goeth out and in.

geneva@2Kings:11:12 @ And he brought forth (note:)That is, Joash, who had been kept secret six years.(:note) the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and [gave him] Meaning, the law of God, which is his chief charge, and by which only his throne is established. the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.

geneva@2Kings:11:14 @ And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a (note:)Where the king's place was in the temple.(:note) pillar, as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.

geneva@2Kings:11:16 @ Then they laid hands on her, and she went by the way, by the which the horses goe to the house of the King, and there was she slaine.

geneva@2Kings:11:18 @ And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the (note:)Even in the place where he had blasphemed God, and thought to have been helped by his idol, there God poured his vengeance on him.(:note) altars. And the That is, Jehoiada. priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:11:20 @ And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: (note:)Who by his cruelty and persecution had troubled the whole land.(:note) and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house.

geneva@2Kings:11:21 @ Seuen yeere olde was Iehoash when he began to reigne.

geneva@2Kings:12:1 @ In the seuenth yere of Iehu Iehoash began to reigne, & reigned fourty yeres in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

geneva@2Kings:12:2 @ And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein (note:)As long as rulers give ear to the true ministers of God, they prosper.(:note) Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

geneva@2Kings:12:4 @ And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the (note:)That is, the money of redemption (Exo_30:12), also the money which the priest valued the vows at (Lev_27:2), and their free gift.(:note) account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

geneva@2Kings:12:5 @ Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the (note:)For the temple which was built a hundred and fifty-five years before, had many things decayed in it, both by the negligence of the king's predecessors, and also by the wickedness of the idolaters.(:note) breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

geneva@2Kings:12:6 @ Yet in the three and twentieth yeere of King Iehoash the Priestes had not mended that which was decayed in the Temple.

geneva@2Kings:12:7 @ Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore (note:)He takes from them the ordering of the money, because of their negligence.(:note) receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

geneva@2Kings:12:9 @ But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the (note:)That is, on the south side.(:note) right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:12:10 @ And when they sawe there was much money in the chest, the Kinges Secretarie came vp and the hie Priest, and put it vp after that they had tolde the money that was found in the house of the Lord,

geneva@2Kings:12:12 @ And to the masons and hewers of stone, and to bye timber and hewed stone, to repayre that was decayed in the house of the Lorde, and for all that which was layed out for the reparation of the Temple.

geneva@2Kings:12:13 @ Howbeit there were (note:)For these men only had charge of the repairing of the temple, the rest of the money was brought to the king who caused these to be made later, (2Ch_24:14).(:note) not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:

geneva@2Kings:12:16 @ The money of the trespasse offring and the money of ye sinne offrings was not brought into the house of the Lord: for it was the Priests.

geneva@2Kings:12:18 @ And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and (note:)After the death of Jehoiada, Joash fell to idolatry: therefore God rejected him, and stirred up his enemy against him, whom he pacified with the treasures of the temple: for God would not be served with those gifts, seeing the king's heart was wicked.(:note) sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

geneva@2Kings:12:19 @ Concerning the rest of the acts of Ioash & all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?

geneva@2Kings:12:20 @ And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and (note:)Because he had put Zachariah the son of Jehoiada to death, (2Ch_24:25).(:note) slew Joash in the house of Read (2Sa_5:9). Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

geneva@2Kings:13:1 @ In the three and twentieth yeere of Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah King of Iudah, Iehoahaz the sonne of Iehu began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seuenteene yeere.

geneva@2Kings:13:2 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to (note:)By worshipping the calves Jeroboam erected in Israel.(:note) sin; he departed not therefrom.

geneva@2Kings:13:3 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all (note:)While Jehoahaz lived.(:note) [their] days.

geneva@2Kings:13:5 @ (And the LORD gave Israel a (note:)That is, Joash the son of Jehoahaz.(:note) saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel Safely and without danger. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.

geneva@2Kings:13:9 @ And Iehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Ioash his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king (note:)His chief purpose is to describe the kingdom of Judah, and how God performed his promise made to the house of David: but in the process he shows how Israel was afflicted and punished for their great idolatry, who though they had now degenerated, yet God both by sending them many prophets and various punishments, called them to him again.(:note) of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.

geneva@2Kings:13:12 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Ioash and all that he did, and his valiant deedes, and how he fought against Amaziah King of Iudah, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

geneva@2Kings:13:13 @ And Ioash slept with his fathers, and Ieroboam sate vpon his seate: and Ioash was buryed in Samaria among the Kings of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:13:14 @ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, (note:)Thus they used to call the prophets and servants of God, by whom God blesses his people, as in (2Ki_2:12) meaning that they prospered their country more by their prayers than by force of arms.(:note) O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

geneva@2Kings:13:17 @ And he said, Open the window (note:)That is, toward Syria: so that he not only prophesied with words but also confirmed him by these signs that he would have the victory.(:note) eastward. And he opened [it]. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed [them].

geneva@2Kings:13:18 @ Againe he said, Take the arrowes; he tooke them; he sayde vnto the King of Israel, Smite the ground; he smote thrise, and ceased.

geneva@2Kings:13:19 @ And the man of God was (note:)Because he seemed content to have victory against the enemies of God two or three times but did not have the zeal to overcome them continually, and to destroy them completely.(:note) wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.

geneva@2Kings:13:21 @ And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he (note:)By this miracle God confirmed the authority of Elisha, whose doctrine in his life they contemned, that at this sight they might return and embrace the same doctrine.(:note) revived, and stood up on his feet.

geneva@2Kings:13:23 @ And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as (note:)That is, until their sins were come to a full measure and there was no more hope of amendment.(:note) yet.

geneva@2Kings:13:25 @ Therefore Iehoash the sonne of Iehoahaz returned, and tooke out of the hand of Ben-hadad the sonne of Hazael the cities which he had taken away by warre out of the hand of Iehoahaz his father: for three times did Ioash beate him, and restored the cities vnto Israel.

geneva@2Kings:14:1 @ The second yeere of Ioash sonne of Iehoahaz King of Israel reigned Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah.

geneva@2Kings:14:2 @ He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned nine and twentie yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Iehoadan of Ierusalem.

geneva@2Kings:14:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)In the beginning of his reign he seemed to have an outward show of godliness, but later he became an idolater and worshipped the idols of the Idumeans.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

geneva@2Kings:14:4 @ Notwithstanding the hie places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense in the hie places.

geneva@2Kings:14:5 @ And when the kingdome was confirmed in his hand, he slewe his seruants which had killed the King his father.

geneva@2Kings:14:8 @ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, (note:)Let us fight hand to hand, and try it by battle, and not destroy one another's cities.(:note) let us look one another in the face.

geneva@2Kings:14:9 @ And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the (note:)By this parable Jehoash compares himself to a cedar tree, because of his great kingdom over ten tribes and Amaziah to the thistle because he ruled over but two tribes and the wild beasts are Jehoash's soldiers, that spoiled the cities of Judah.(:note) cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

geneva@2Kings:14:10 @ Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: (note:)Brag of the victory, so that you stay at home and do not provoke me.(:note) glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?

geneva@2Kings:14:11 @ But Amaziah would not heare: therefore Iehoash King of Israel went vp: and he and Amaziah King of Iudah sawe one another in the face at Beth-shemesh which is in Iudah.

geneva@2Kings:14:12 @ And Iudah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fledde euery man to their tents.

geneva@2Kings:14:13 @ But Iehoash King of Israel tooke Amaziah King of Iudah, the sonne of Iehoash the sonne of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Ierusalem, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, foure hundreth cubites.

geneva@2Kings:14:14 @ And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and (note:)That is, which the Israelites had given to them from Judah for an assurance of peace.(:note) hostages, and returned to Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:14:15 @ Concerning the rest of the acts of Iehoash which he did and his valiant deedes, and how he fought with Amaziah King of Iudah, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

geneva@2Kings:14:16 @ And Iehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried at Samaria among the Kings of Israel: and Ieroboam his sonne reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:14:17 @ And Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah, liued after the death of Iehoash sonne of Iehoahaz King of Israel fifteene yeere.

geneva@2Kings:14:20 @ And they brought him on horses, and he was buried at Ierusalem with his fathers in the citie of Dauid.

geneva@2Kings:14:21 @ And all the people of Judah took (note:)Who is also called Uzziah, (2Ch_26:1).(:note) Azariah, which [was] sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

geneva@2Kings:14:23 @ In the fifteenth yeere of Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah, was Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash made King ouer Israel in Samaria, and reigned one and fourtie yeere.

geneva@2Kings:14:24 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the (note:)Because this idolatry was so vile and almost incredible, that men should forsake the living God, to worship calves, the work of man's hands, therefore the Scripture often repeats it in the reproach of all idolaters.(:note) sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

geneva@2Kings:14:25 @ He restored the coast of Israel, from the entring of Hamath, vnto the Sea of the wildernesse, according to the worde of the Lorde God of Israel, which he spake by his seruant Ionah the sonne of Amittai the Prophet, which was of Gath Hepher.

geneva@2Kings:14:26 @ For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it was] very bitter: for [there was] not any (note:)Read (1Ki_14:10).(:note) shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

geneva@2Kings:14:27 @ Yet the Lord had not decreed to put out the name of Israel from vnder the heauen: therefore he preserued them by the hand of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash.

geneva@2Kings:14:28 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and (note:)Which was also called Antiochia of Syria or Riblah.(:note) Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

geneva@2Kings:15:2 @ Sixteene yeere olde was he, when he was made King, and he reigned two and fiftie yeere in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Iecholiah of Ierusalem.

geneva@2Kings:15:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)As long as he listened to Zachariah the prophet.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

geneva@2Kings:15:5 @ And the LORD (note:)His father and grandfather were slain by their subjects and servants, and he because he would usurp the priest's office contrary to God's ordinance was smitten immediately by the hand of God with the leprosy, (2Ch_26:21).(:note) smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son [was] over the house, As viceroy or deputy to his father. judging the people of the land.

geneva@2Kings:15:8 @ In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six (note:)He was the fourth in descent from Jehu, who reigned according to God's promise, but in him God began to execute his wrath against the house of Jehu.(:note) months.

geneva@2Kings:15:9 @ And did euill in the sight of the Lorde, as did his fathers: for he departed not fro the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne.

geneva@2Kings:15:10 @ And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and (note:)Zachariah was the last in Israel, that had the kingdom by succession, save only Pekahiah the son of Menahem, who reigned only two years.(:note) slew him, and reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:15:12 @ This was the word of the Lord, which he spake vnto Iehu, saying, Thy sonnes shall sit on the throne of Israel vnto the fourth generation after thee; it came so to passe.

geneva@2Kings:15:15 @ Cocerning the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the treason which he wrought, beholde, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:15:16 @ Then Menahem smote (note:)Which was a city of Israel that would not receive him as their king.(:note) Tiphsah, and all that [were] therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not [to him], therefore he smote [it; and] all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

geneva@2Kings:15:19 @ [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the (note:)That is, of Israel.(:note) land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand Instead of seeking help from God, he went about by money to purchase the favour of this king being an infidel and therefore God forsook him, and Pul soon afterward broke his promises, destroyed his country and led his people away captive. talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

geneva@2Kings:15:20 @ And Menahem exacted the money in Israel, that all men of substance shoulde giue the King of Asshur fiftie shekels of siluer a piece: so the king of Asshur returned and taried not there in the land.

geneva@2Kings:15:29 @ In the days of Pekah king of Israel (note:)For God stirred up Pul and Tiglathpileser against Israel for their sins, (1Ch_5:26).(:note) came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

geneva@2Kings:15:30 @ And Hoshea the sonne of Elah wrought treason against Pekah the sonne of Remaliah, and smote him, and slewe him, and reigned in his stead in the twentieth yeere of Iotham the sonne of Vzziah.

geneva@2Kings:15:33 @ Fiue and twentie yeere olde was he, when he began to reigne, and he reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Ierusha the daughter of Zadok.

geneva@2Kings:15:34 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD: he did according (note:)He shows that his uprightness was not such, but that he had many great faults.(:note) to all that his father Uzziah had done.

geneva@2Kings:15:38 @ And Iotham slept with his fathers, & was buryed with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father, & Ahaz his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@2Kings:16:1 @ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah (note:)This was a wicked son of a godly father, as of him again came godly Hezekiah, and of him wicked Manasseh, save that God in the end showed him mercy. Thus we see how uncertain it is to depend on the dignity of our fathers.(:note) Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

geneva@2Kings:16:2 @ Twentie yeere olde was Ahaz, when hee began to reigne, and he reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and did not vprightly in the sight of the Lord his God, like Dauid his father:

geneva@2Kings:16:3 @ But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to (note:)That is, offered him to Molech or made him pass between two fires, as the manner of the Gentiles was, (Lev_18:21; Deu_18:10).(:note) pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:16:7 @ So Ahaz sent (note:)Contrary to the admonition of the prophet Isaiah, (Isa_7:4).(:note) messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

geneva@2Kings:16:8 @ And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the (note:)Thus he did not spare the temple of God from being spoiled to gain help from men and would not once lift his heart to God to desire his help or hear his prophet's counsel.(:note) house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.

geneva@2Kings:16:9 @ And the King of Asshur consented vnto him: and the King of Asshur went vp against Damascus; when he had taken it, he caryed the people away to Kir, and slew Rezin.

geneva@2Kings:16:10 @ And King Ahaz went vnto Damascus to meete Tiglath Pileser King of Asshur: and when King Ahaz sawe the altar that was at Damascus, he sent to Vriiah the Priest the paterne of the altar, and the facion of it, and all the workemanship thereof.

geneva@2Kings:16:11 @ And Urijah the priest built an altar (note:)We see that there is no prince so wicked that he cannot find liars and false ministers to serve his purposes.(:note) according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

geneva@2Kings:16:12 @ And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered (note:)Either offerings for peace or prosperity, or thanksgiving as in (Lev_3:1) or else meaning the morning and evening offering, (Exo_29:38; Num_28:3) and thus he contemned the means and the altar which God had commanded by Solomon, to serve God after his own fantasy.(:note) thereon.

geneva@2Kings:16:14 @ And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the (note:)That is, at the right hand, as men went into the temple.(:note) north side of the altar.

geneva@2Kings:16:15 @ And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the (note:)Here he establishes by commandment his own wicked proceedings, and abolishes the commandment and ordinance of God.(:note) brasen altar shall be for me to enquire [by].

geneva@2Kings:16:17 @ And King Ahaz brake the borders of the bases, and tooke the caldrons from off them, and tooke downe the sea from the brasen oxen that were vnder it, and put it vpon a pauement of stones.

geneva@2Kings:16:18 @ And the (note:)Or tent, in which they lay on the sabbath, who had served their week in the temple and so departed home.(:note) covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD Either to flatter the king of Assyria, when he should thus see him change the ordinance of God or else that the temple might be a refuge for him if the king should suddenly assault his house. for the king of Assyria.

geneva@2Kings:16:20 @ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buryed with his fathers in the citie of Dauid, and Hezekiah his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@2Kings:17:2 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, (note:)Though he invented no new idolatry or impiety as others did, yet he sought help from the Egyptians, whom God had forbidden.(:note) but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

geneva@2Kings:17:3 @ And Shalmaneser king of Asshur came vp against him, and Hoshea became his seruant, and gaue him presents.

geneva@2Kings:17:4 @ And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, (note:)For he had paid tribute for eight years.(:note) as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

geneva@2Kings:17:5 @ Then the king of Asshur came vp throughout all the lande, and went against Samaria, and besieged it three yeere.

geneva@2Kings:17:6 @ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the (note:)For at this time the Medes and Persians were subject to the Assyrians.(:note) Medes.

geneva@2Kings:17:7 @ For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had (note:)He sets forth at length the cause of this great plague and perpetual captivity, to admonish all people, and nations to cleave to the Lord God, and worship only him for fear of similar judgment.(:note) sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

geneva@2Kings:17:8 @ And walked according to the facions of the Heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the maners of the Kings of Israel, which they vsed,

geneva@2Kings:17:11 @ And there burnt incense in all the hie places, as did the heathen, whom the Lord had taken away before them, and wrought wicked things to anger the Lord,

geneva@2Kings:17:17 @ And they caused their sons and their daughters to (note:)Read (2Ki_16:3).(:note) pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and Read of this phrase in (1Ki_21:20, 1Ki_21:25). sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

geneva@2Kings:17:18 @ Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah (note:)No whole tribe was left but Judah, and they of Benjamin and Levi who remained were counted with Judah.(:note) only.

geneva@2Kings:17:20 @ And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his (note:)Out of the land where he showed the greatest tokens of his presence and favour.(:note) sight.

geneva@2Kings:17:23 @ Vntill the Lord put Israel away out of his sight, as he had said by all his seruants the Prophets, and caryed Israel away out of their land to Asshur vnto this day.

geneva@2Kings:17:24 @ And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from (note:)Of these people came the Samaritans, of which mention is so often made in the gospel, and with whom the Jews would have nothing to do, (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@2Kings:17:25 @ And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they (note:)That is, they served him not: therefore, lest they should blaspheme him, as though there were no God, because he chastised the Israelites, he shows his mighty power among them by this strange punishment.(:note) feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew [some] of them.

geneva@2Kings:17:26 @ Wherefore they spake to the King of Asshur, saying, The nations which thou hast remoued, and placed in the cities of Samaria, knowe not the maner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they slay them, because they knowe not the maner of the God of the land.

geneva@2Kings:17:27 @ Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God (note:)That is, how to worship him: thus the wicked rather than losing their conveniences will change to all religions.(:note) of the land.

geneva@2Kings:17:30 @ And the men of Babylon made (note:)Meaning that every country served the idol that was most esteemed in the place to which they came.(:note) Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

geneva@2Kings:17:33 @ They (note:)That is, they had a certain knowledge of God, and feared him because of the punishment, but they continued to be idolaters as do the papists who worship both God and idols: but this is not to fear God, as appears in (2Ki_17:34).(:note) feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

geneva@2Kings:17:41 @ So these (note:)That is, these strangers who were sent into Samaria by the Assyrians.(:note) nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

geneva@2Kings:18:2 @ He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned nine and twenty yeere in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Abi the daughter of Zachariah,

geneva@2Kings:18:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)Although they of Judah were given to idolatry and impiety, as they of Israel were, yet God for the sake of his promise was merciful to the throne of David, and yet by his judgment toward the other, provoked to repentance.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

geneva@2Kings:18:4 @ He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it (note:)That is «a piece of brass»: thus he calls the serpent by contempt, which even though it was set up by the word of God, and miracles were wrought by it, when it was used for idolatry this good king destroyed it, not thinking it worthy to be called a serpent, but a piece of brass.(:note) Nehushtan.

geneva@2Kings:18:5 @ He trusted in the Lorde God of Israel: so that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Iudah, neither were there any such before him.

geneva@2Kings:18:7 @ So the Lord was with him, and he prospered in all thinges, which he tooke in hande: also he rebelled against the King of Asshur, and serued him not.

geneva@2Kings:18:9 @ And in the fourth yere of King Hezekiah, (which was the seuenth yeere of Hoshea sonne of Elah King of Israel) Shalmaneser King of Asshur came vp against Samaria, and besieged it.

geneva@2Kings:18:10 @ And after three yeeres they tooke it, euen in the sixt yeere of Hezekiah: that is, the ninth yeere of Hoshea King of Israel was Samaria taken.

geneva@2Kings:18:11 @ Then the King of Asshur did carry away Israel vnto Asshur, and put them in Halah and in Habor, by the riuer of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

geneva@2Kings:18:13 @ Moreouer, in the fourteenth yeere of King Hezekiah, Saneherib King of Asshur came vp against all the strong cities of Iudah, and tooke them.

geneva@2Kings:18:14 @ And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, (note:)As his zeal was before praised, so his weakness is here set forth, that no one should glory in himself.(:note) I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

geneva@2Kings:18:15 @ Therefore Hezekiah gaue all the siluer that was found in the house of the Lorde, and in the treasures of the Kings house.

geneva@2Kings:18:16 @ At the same season did Hezekiah pul off the plates of the doores of the Temple of the Lord, and the pillars (which the sayd Hezekiah King of Iudah had couered ouer) and gaue them to the King of Asshur.

geneva@2Kings:18:17 @ And the king of Assyria sent (note:)After certain years, when Hezekiah ceased to send the tribute appointed by the king of the Assyrians, he sent his captains and army against him.(:note) Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which [is] in the highway of the fuller's field.

geneva@2Kings:18:18 @ And called to the King. Then came out to them Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, which was steward of the house, and Shebnah the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder.

geneva@2Kings:18:19 @ And Rabshakeh sayde vnto them, Tell ye Hezekiah, I pray you, Thus saith the great King, euen the great King of Asshur, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

geneva@2Kings:18:20 @ Thou sayest, (but [they are but] vain words,) [I have] (note:)You think that words will serve to persuade your people, or to move my master.(:note) counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

geneva@2Kings:18:23 @ Now therefore, I pray thee, give (note:)Meaning, that it was best for him to yield to the king of Assyria because his power was so small that he did not have men to care for two thousand horses.(:note) pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

geneva@2Kings:18:24 @ For how canst thou despise any captaine of the least of my masters seruants, and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and horsemen?

geneva@2Kings:18:27 @ But Rabshakeh saide vnto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master & to thee to speake these words, and not to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eate their owne doung, and drinke their owne pisse with you?

geneva@2Kings:18:28 @ So Rabshakeh stoode and cryed with a loude voyce in the Iewes language, and spake, saying, Heare the wordes of the great King, of the king of Asshur.

geneva@2Kings:18:30 @ Neither let Hezekiah make you to trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliuer vs, and this citie shall not be giuen ouer into the hand of the king of Asshur.

geneva@2Kings:18:31 @ Hearken not vnto Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Asshur, Make appointment with me, and come out to me, that euery man may eate of his owne vine, & euery man of his owne figge tree, and drinke euery man of the water of his owne well,

geneva@2Kings:18:32 @ Until (note:)He makes himself so sure, that he will not grant them a truce, unless they give themselves to him to be led away as captives.(:note) I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

geneva@2Kings:18:33 @ Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered his lande out of the hand of the King of Asshur?

geneva@2Kings:18:35 @ Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the (note:)This is an execrable blasphemy against the true God, to make him equal with the idols of other nations: therefore God sharply punished him.(:note) LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

geneva@2Kings:18:36 @ But the people helde their peace, and answered not him a worde: for the Kings commandement was, saying, Answere ye him not.

geneva@2Kings:18:37 @ Then Eliakim, the sonne of Hilkiah which was steward of the house, and Shebnah the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.

geneva@2Kings:19:2 @ And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, (note:)To hear some new prophecy and to have comfort from him.(:note) to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

geneva@2Kings:19:3 @ And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to (note:)The dangers are so great, that we can neither avenge this blasphemy, or help ourselves any more than a woman in labour.(:note) the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.

geneva@2Kings:19:4 @ It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the (note:)Meaning, for Jerusalem which only remained of all the cities of Judah.(:note) remnant that are left.

geneva@2Kings:19:6 @ And Isaiah said vnto them, So shall ye say to your master, Thus sayeth the Lorde, Be not afraide of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the seruants of the king of Asshur haue blasphemed me.

geneva@2Kings:19:7 @ Behold, I will send a blast (note:)The Lord can with one blast blow away all the strength of man, and turn it into dust.(:note) upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

geneva@2Kings:19:8 @ So Rabshakeh returned, and founde the King of Asshur fighting against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

geneva@2Kings:19:9 @ And when (note:)That is, Sennacherib.(:note) he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, For the kings of Ethiopia and Egypt joined together against the king of Assyria because of his oppression of other countries. Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

geneva@2Kings:19:10 @ Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy (note:)The closer the wicked are to their destruction, the more they blaspheme.(:note) God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

geneva@2Kings:19:11 @ Beholde, thou hast heard what the Kings of Asshur haue done to all landes, how they haue destroyed them: and shalt thou be deliuered?

geneva@2Kings:19:12 @ Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them which my fathers haue destroyed? as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Thelasar?

geneva@2Kings:19:15 @ And Hezekiah (note:)He shows what the true refuge and help is in all dangers, that is, to flee to the Lord by earnest prayer.(:note) prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou art the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

geneva@2Kings:19:16 @ LORD, (note:)Show by effect that you will not allow your Name to be blasphemed.(:note) bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the By this title he discerns God from all idols and false gods. living God.

geneva@2Kings:19:17 @ Trueth it is, Lord, that the Kings of Asshur haue destroyed the nations and their landes,

geneva@2Kings:19:19 @ Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the (note:)He shows the reason the faithful desire God to deliver them: that is, that he may be glorified by their deliverance.(:note) kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD God, [even] thou only.

geneva@2Kings:19:20 @ Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I haue heard that which thou hast prayed me, concerning Saneherib King of Asshur.

geneva@2Kings:19:21 @ This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The (note:)Because as yet Jerusalem had not been taken by the enemy therefore he calls her virgin.(:note) virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

geneva@2Kings:19:22 @ Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] (note:)God counts that as an injury done to him, and will avenge what is done to any of his saints.(:note) against the Holy [One] of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:19:23 @ By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the (note:)Meaning Jerusalem, which Isaiah calls the height of his borders, that is, of Judah, (Isa_37:24).(:note) lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel.

geneva@2Kings:19:25 @ Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? (note:)He declares that as he is the author and beginning of his Church, he will never allow it to be completely destroyed, as other cities and kingdoms.(:note) now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps.

geneva@2Kings:19:26 @ Therefore their (note:)Thus he describes the wicked, who flourish for a time, and later fade and decay like flowers.(:note) inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.

geneva@2Kings:19:28 @ Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my (note:)I will bridle your rage, and turn you to and fro as it pleases me.(:note) hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

geneva@2Kings:19:29 @ And this [shall be] a (note:)God not only promised him the victory, but gives him a sign to confirm his faith.(:note) sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

geneva@2Kings:19:31 @ For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the (note:)The love, that God has for his Church will overcome the counsels and enterprises of men.(:note) zeal of the LORD [of hosts] shall do this.

geneva@2Kings:19:32 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lorde, concerning the King of Asshur, He shall not enter into this citie, nor shoote an arrowe there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a mount against it:

geneva@2Kings:19:35 @ And the same night the Angell of the Lorde went out and smote in the campe of Asshur an hundreth foure score and fiue thousande: so when they rose earely in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

geneva@2Kings:19:36 @ So Saneherib King of Asshur departed, & went his way, and returned, & dwelt in Nineueh.

geneva@2Kings:19:37 @ And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons (note:)This was the just judgment of God for his blasphemy, that he would be slain before the idol that he preferred to the living God, and by those who should by nature have needed his defence.(:note) smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:20:1 @ About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amoz came to him, and said vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde, Put thine house in an order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.

geneva@2Kings:20:3 @ I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a (note:)Meaning, without all hypocrisy.(:note) perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah Not so much for his own death, as for fear that idolatry would be restored which he had destroyed, and so God's Name be dishonoured. wept sore.

geneva@2Kings:20:4 @ And afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle of the court, the worde of the Lord came to him, saying,

geneva@2Kings:20:6 @ And I wil adde vnto thy dayes fiftene yere, and wil deliuer thee & this citie out of the hand of the King of Asshur, and will defende this citie for mine owne sake, & for Dauid my seruats sake.

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

geneva@2Kings:20:12 @ At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a (note:)Moved by the favour that God showed to Hezekiah, and also because he had declared himself an enemy of Sennacherib who was now destroyed.(:note) present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

geneva@2Kings:20:13 @ And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his (note:)Being moved by ambition and vain glory, and also because he seemed to rejoice in the friendship of him who was God's enemy and an infidel.(:note) dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

geneva@2Kings:20:15 @ Then saide he, What haue they seene in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house haue they seene: there is nothing among my treasures, that I haue not shewed the.

geneva@2Kings:20:19 @ Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast (note:)He acknowledges Isaiah to be the true prophet of God and therefore humbles himself to his word.(:note) spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if Seeing that God has shown me this favour to grant me quietness during my life: for he was afraid lest the enemies would have had opportunity to rejoice if the Church had decayed in his time, because he had restored religion. peace and truth be in my days?

geneva@2Kings:20:21 @ And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@2Kings:21:1 @ Manasseh was twelue yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned fiftie and fiue yeere in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Hephzi-bah.

geneva@2Kings:21:2 @ And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde after the abomination of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:21:3 @ For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed: and he erected vp altars for Baal, and made a groue, as did Ahab King of Israel, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen and serued them.

geneva@2Kings:21:6 @ And he made his son (note:)Read (2Ki_16:3).(:note) pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.

geneva@2Kings:21:8 @ Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will (note:)Therefore seeing they did not obey the commandment of God, they were justly cast from the land which they had only on condition.(:note) observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

geneva@2Kings:21:9 @ Yet they obeyed not, but Manasseh ledde them out of the way, to doe more wickedly then did the heathen people, whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:21:11 @ Because that Manasseh King of Iudah hath done such abominations, and hath wrought more wickedly then al that the Amorites (which were before him) did, and hath made Iudah sinne also with his idoles,

geneva@2Kings:21:12 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall (note:)Meaning, that whoever hears of this great plague, will be astonished.(:note) tingle.

geneva@2Kings:21:13 @ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line (note:)As I have destroyed Samaria and the house of Ahab so will I destroy Judah.(:note) of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down.

geneva@2Kings:21:16 @ Moreover Manasseh shed (note:)The Hebrews write that he slew Isaiah the prophet, who was his father-in-law.(:note) innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:21:17 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Manasseh, and all that hee did, and his sinne that he sinned, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?

geneva@2Kings:21:18 @ And Manasseh slept with his fathers, & was buried in the garden of his own house, euen in the garden of Vzza: and Amon his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@2Kings:21:19 @ Amon was two and twentie yere olde, when he began to reigne, and hee reygned two yeere in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Iotbah.

geneva@2Kings:21:20 @ And he did euill in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh did.

geneva@2Kings:22:1 @ Iosiah was eight yeere olde when he beganne to reigne, and hee reigned one and thirtie yeere in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Iedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozcath.

geneva@2Kings:22:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and (note:)His zeal was prophesied of, and his name mentioned by Iddo the prophet, more than 300 years before, (1Ki_13:2) and being but eight years old, he sought the God of his father David, (2Ch_34:3).(:note) walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

geneva@2Kings:22:4 @ Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the (note:)Certain of the priests were appointed to this office, as in (2Ki_12:9).(:note) door have gathered of the people:

geneva@2Kings:22:5 @ And let (note:)From the time of Joash for the space of 244 years, the temple remained without repairs through the negligence of the priests. This shows that they who have a charge and do not execute it should have it taken from them.(:note) them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

geneva@2Kings:22:6 @ To wit, vnto the artificers and carpenters & masons, and to bye timber, and hewed stone to repaire the house.

geneva@2Kings:22:7 @ Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt (note:)So God provided him with faithful servants, seeing he went about so zealously to set forth the work of God.(:note) faithfully.

geneva@2Kings:22:8 @ And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the (note:)This was the copy that Moses left them, as it appears in (2Ch_34:14), which either by the negligence of the priests had been lost, or else by the wickedness of idolatrous kings had been abolished.(:note) book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

geneva@2Kings:22:9 @ So Shaphan the chanceller came to ye King, and brought him word againe, and saide, Thy seruants haue gathered the money, that was found in the house, and haue deliuered it vnto the hands of them that doe the worke, and haue the ouersight of the house of the Lord.

geneva@2Kings:22:12 @ Therefore the King commaunded Hilkiah the Priest, & Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, and Achbor the sonne of Michaiah, and Shaphan the chanceller, and Asahiah the Kings seruant, saying,

geneva@2Kings:22:13 @ Go ye, (note:)Meaning, to some prophet to whom God reveals the knowledge of things, as in (Jer_21:8), though at other times they enquired the Lord by Urim and Thummim.(:note) enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

geneva@2Kings:22:14 @ So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the (note:)Or the house of doctrine, which was near the temple, and where the learned assembled to search the scriptures and the doctrine of the prophets.(:note) college;) and they communed with her.

geneva@2Kings:22:18 @ But to the King of Iudah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, so shal ye say vnto him, Thus sayeth the Lorde God of Israel, The wordes that thou hast heard, shal come to passe.

geneva@2Kings:22:19 @ Because thine heart was (note:)Meaning, that he repented as they that do not repent are said to harden their heart, (Psa_95:8).(:note) tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:23:2 @ And the King went vp into the house of the Lord, with all the men of Iudah and all the inhabitants of Ierusalem with him, and the Priests & Prophets, and all the people both smal and great: and he reade in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.

geneva@2Kings:23:3 @ And the king stood by (note:)Where the king had his place, (2Ki_11:14).(:note) a pillar, and made a As Joshua did, (Jos_24:22, Jos_24:25). covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

geneva@2Kings:23:4 @ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the (note:)Meaning, they who were next in dignity to the high priest.(:note) priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried In contempt of the altar Jeroboam had built there to sacrifice to his calves. the ashes of them unto Bethel.

geneva@2Kings:23:6 @ And he brought out the (note:)He removed the grove which idolaters for devotion had planted near the temple, contrary to the commandment of the Lord, (Deu_16:21), or as some read, the similitude of a grove which was hung in the temple.(:note) grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the Both in contempt of the idols and reproach of them who had worshipped them in their lives. graves of the children of the people.

geneva@2Kings:23:8 @ Also he brought all the priests out of the cities of Iudah, and defiled the hie places where the Priests had burnt incense, euen from Geba to Beer-sheba, and destroyed the hie places of the gates, that were in the entring in of the gate of Ioshua the gouernour of the citie, which was at the left hand of the gate of the citie.

geneva@2Kings:23:10 @ And he defiled (note:)Which was a valley near to Jerusalem, and signifies a tabret because they smote on the tabret while their children were burning, that their cry should not be heard, (Lev_18:21), after which Josiah commanded trash to be cast in contempt of it.(:note) Topheth, which [is] in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

geneva@2Kings:23:11 @ And he took away the (note:)The idolatrous kings had dedicated horses and chariots to the sun, either to carry about the image of it as the heathen did, or else to sacrifice them as a most agreeable sacrifice.(:note) horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

geneva@2Kings:23:12 @ And the altars that were on the top of the chamber of Ahaz, which the Kings of Iudah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord did the King breake downe, and hasted thence, & cast the dust of them in the brooke Kedron.

geneva@2Kings:23:13 @ And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem, which [were] on the right hand of the (note:)That was the mount of olives, so called because it was full of idols.(:note) mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

geneva@2Kings:23:15 @ Moreover (note:)Which Jeroboam had built in Israel, (1Ki_12:28-29).(:note) the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove.

geneva@2Kings:23:16 @ And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the (note:)According to the prophecy of Iddo, (1Ki_13:2).(:note) man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

geneva@2Kings:23:17 @ Then he sayde, What title is that which I see? And the men of the citie sayd vnto him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Iudah, and tolde these things that thou hast done to the altar of Beth-el.

geneva@2Kings:23:21 @ Then the king commanded all the people, saying, Keepe the passeouer vnto the Lorde your God, as it is written in the booke of this couenant.

geneva@2Kings:23:22 @ Surely there was not holden (note:)For the multitude and zeal of the people with the great preparation.(:note) such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

geneva@2Kings:23:23 @ And in the eightenth yere of King Iosiah was this Passeouer celebrated to the Lord in Ierusalem.

geneva@2Kings:23:25 @ Like vnto him was there no King before him, that turned to the Lord with al his heart, and with all his soule, and with all his might according to all the Lawe of Moses, neither after him arose there anie like him.

geneva@2Kings:23:26 @ Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the (note:)Because of the wicked heart of the people, who would not turn to him by repentance.(:note) fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

geneva@2Kings:23:27 @ Therefore the Lorde saide, I will put Iudah also out of my sight, as I haue put away Israel, and will cast off this citie Ierusalem, which I haue chosen, and the house whereof I said, My name shalbe there.

geneva@2Kings:23:29 @ In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah (note:)Because Pharaoh passed through his country, he was afraid Pharaoh would have done him harm and would have stopped him, yet he did not consult the Lord, and therefore was slain.(:note) went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

geneva@2Kings:23:31 @ Iehoahaz was three and twentie yeere olde when he beganne to reigne, and reigned three moneths in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Hamutal the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah.

geneva@2Kings:23:32 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his (note:)Meaning, the wicked kings before.(:note) fathers had done.

geneva@2Kings:23:33 @ And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands (note:)Which was Antiochia in Syria, also called Hamath.(:note) at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

geneva@2Kings:23:36 @ Iehoiakim was fiue and twentie yere olde, when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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

geneva@2Kings:24:6 @ So Jehoiakim (note:)Not that he was buried with his fathers, but he died in the way, as they let him prisoner toward Babylon, see (Jer_22:19).(:note) slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Kings:24:8 @ Iehoiachin was eighteene yere old, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned in Ierusalem three moneths. His mothers name also was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Ierusalem.

geneva@2Kings:24:10 @ In that time came the seruants of Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babel vp against Ierusalem: so the citie was besieged.

geneva@2Kings:24:13 @ And he caryed out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lorde, & the treasures of the Kings house, and brake all the vessels of gold, which Salomon King of Israel had made in the Temple of the Lorde, as the Lord had saide.

geneva@2Kings:24:18 @ Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde, when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Hamutal the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah.

geneva@2Kings:24:20 @ For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his (note:)Out of Jerusalem and Judah into Babylon.(:note) presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

geneva@2Kings:25:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)That is, of Zedekiah.(:note) ninth year of his reign, in the Which the Hebrews call Teber, and it contains part of December and part of January. tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

geneva@2Kings:25:2 @ So the citie was besieged vnto the eleueth yeere of King Zedekiah.

geneva@2Kings:25:3 @ And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine (note:)So much that the mothers ate their children, (Lam_4:10).(:note) prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

geneva@2Kings:25:4 @ And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the (note:)Which was a back door, or some secret gate to leave by.(:note) gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.

geneva@2Kings:25:5 @ But the armie of the Caldees pursued after the King, and tooke him in the desertes of Iericho, and all his hoste was scattered from him.

geneva@2Kings:25:6 @ So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they (note:)Or, condemned him for his perjury and treason, (2Ch_36:13).(:note) gave judgment upon him.

geneva@2Kings:25:13 @ Also the pillars of brasse that were in the house of the Lorde, and the bases, and the brasen Sea that was in the house of the Lorde, did the Caldees breake, and caried the brasse of them to Babel.

geneva@2Kings:25:14 @ And the (note:)Of these read (Exo_27:3).(:note) pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

geneva@2Kings:25:15 @ And the asshe pannes, and the basens, and all that was of gold, and that was of siluer, tooke the chiefe steward away,

geneva@2Kings:25:16 @ With the two pillers, one Sea and the bases, which Salomon had made for the house of the Lorde: the brasse of all these vessels was without weight.

geneva@2Kings:25:17 @ The height of the one piller was eighteene cubits, and the chapiter thereon was brasse, & the height of the chapiter was with networke three cubites, and pomegranates vpon the chapiter rounde about, all of brasse: and likewise was the second piller with the networke.

geneva@2Kings:25:19 @ And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and (note:)Jeremiah makes mention of seven but here he speaks of those who were the chiefest.(:note) five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land [that were] found in the city:

geneva@2Kings:25:21 @ And the King of Babel smote them, & slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Iudah was caried away captiue out of his owne land.

geneva@2Kings:25:24 @ And Gedaliah (note:)That is, he exhorted them in the Name of the Lord, according to Jeremiah's counsel, to submit themselves to Nebuchadnezzar, seeing it was the revealed will of the Lord.(:note) sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.

geneva@2Kings:25:27 @ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of (note:)This long were he, his wife and his children in Babylon, whom Nebuchadnezzar's son after his father's death preferred to honour: thus by God's providence the seed of David was preserved even to Christ.(:note) Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

geneva@2Kings:25:30 @ And his (note:)Meaning, that he had standing in the court.(:note) allowance [was] a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:1 @ Adam, (note:)Meaning, that Seth was Adam's son, and Enoch was Seth's son.(:note) Sheth, Enosh, The Argument - The laws comprehend both these books in one, which the Grecians because of the length, divide into two: and they are called Chronicles, because they note briefly the history from Adam to the return from their captivity in Babylon. But these are not the books of Chronicles which are mentioned in the books of the kings of Judah and Israel, which set forth the story of both kingdoms, and later perished in the captivity, but an abridgement of the same, and were gathered by Ezra, as the Jews write after their return from Babylon. This first book contains a brief rehearsal of the children of Adam to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the twelve patriarchs, chiefly of Judah, and the reign of David, because Christ came from him according to the flesh. Therefore it sets forth more amply his acts both concerning civil government, and also the administration and care of things concerning religion, for the good success of which he rejoices and gives thanks to the Lord.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:4 @ Noah, (note:)It would have been sufficient to have named Shem of whom came Abraham and David, but because the world was restored by these three, mention is also made of Ham and Japheth.(:note) Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:5 @ The sonnes of Iapheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:6 @ And the sonnes of Gomer, Ashchenaz, and Iphath and Togarmah.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:12 @ Pathrusim also, and Casluhim, of whome came the Philistims, and Caphtorim.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:14 @ And the Iebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

geneva@1Chronicles:1:17 @ The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and (note:)Of whom came the Syrians, and therefore they are called Amramites throughout all scripture.(:note) Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:18 @ And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat (note:)Of him came the Hebrews who were later called Israelites of Israel, who was Jacob and Jews of Judah because of the excellency of that tribe.(:note) Eber.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:19 @ Vnto Eber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg: for in his dayes was ye earth deuided: & his brothers name was Ioktan.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:29 @ These are their generations. The eldest sonne of Ishmael was Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

geneva@1Chronicles:1:30 @ Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

geneva@1Chronicles:1:36 @ The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and (note:)Which was Eliphaz's concubine, read (Gen_36:12).(:note) Timna, and Amalek.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:41 @ The sonne of Anah was Dishon; the sonnes of Dishon, Amran, and Eshban, & Ithran, and Cheran.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:43 @ Now these [are] the (note:)He makes mention of the kings that came from Esau according to God's promise made to Abraham concerning him, that kings would come from him. These eight kings reigned one after another in Idumea to the time of David who conquered their country.(:note) kings that reigned in the land of Edom before [any] king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:44 @ And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of (note:)Which was the principal city of the Edomites.(:note) Bozrah reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:45 @ And whe Iobab was dead, Hussham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:46 @ And when Hussham was dead, Hadad the sonne of Bedad which smote Midian in the fielde of Moab, reigned in his steade, and the name of his citie was Auith.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:47 @ So Hadad dyed, and Samlah of Mashrecah reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:49 @ And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the sonne of Achbor reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Chronicles:1:50 @ And Baal-hanan dyed, and Hadad reigned in his stead, and the name of his citie was Pai, & his wiues name Mehetabel the daughter of Matred the daughter of Mezahab.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:2 @ Dan, Ioseph, and Beniamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:3 @ The sons of (note:)Though Judah was not Jacob's eldest son, yet he first begins with him, because he would come to the genealogy of David, of whom came Christ.(:note) Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: [which] three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:16 @ Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail; the sonnes of Zeruiah, Abishai, & Ioab, and Asahel.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:17 @ And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Iether an Ishmeelite.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:18 @ And (note:)Who was called Chelubai the son of Hezron, (1Ch_2:9).(:note) Caleb the son of Hezron begat [children] of Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth: her sons [are] these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:19 @ And when Azubah was dead, Caleb tooke vnto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:21 @ And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of (note:)Who was prince of mount Gilead, (Num_32:40).(:note) Gilead, whom he married when he [was] threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:24 @ And after that Hezron was dead in (note:)Which was a town named for the husband and wife, also called Bethlehem Ephratah.(:note) Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the Meaning, the chief and prince. father of Tekoa.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:26 @ Also Ierahmeel had another wife named Atarah, which was the mother of Onam.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:29 @ And the name of the wife of Abishur was called Abiahil, and shee bare him Ahban and Molid.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:31 @ And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; (note:)Who died while his father was alive, and therefore it is said in (1Ch_2:34) that Sheshan had no sons.(:note) Ahlai.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:34 @ And Sheshan had no sonnes, but daughters; Sheshan had a seruant that was an Egyptian named Iarha.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:39 @ And Azariah begate Helez, and Helez begate Eleasah,

geneva@1Chronicles:2:40 @ And Eleasah begate Sisamai, and Sisamai begate Shallum,

geneva@1Chronicles:2:42 @ Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel [were], Mesha his firstborn, which was the (note:)That is, the chief governor or prince of the Ziphims, because the prince should have a fatherly care and affection for his people.(:note) father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:45 @ The sonne also of Shammai was Maon: & Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:46 @ And Ephah, Caleb's (note:)The difference between the wife and the concubine was that the wife was taken with a ceremony of marriage and her children inherited, while the concubine had no marriage ceremony, neither did her children inherit, but had a portion of goods or money given to them.(:note) concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:49 @ She bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and Sheua the father of Machbenah, & the father of Gibea. And Achsah was Calebs daughter.

geneva@1Chronicles:2:52 @ And Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim had sonnes, & he was the ouerseer of halfe Hammenoth.

geneva@1Chronicles:3:1 @ Now these were the sons of (note:)He returns to the genealogy of David, to show that Christ came from his stock.(:note) David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Who in (2Sa_3:3) is called Chileab, born of her that was Nabal's wife the Carmelite. Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:

geneva@1Chronicles:3:10 @ And Salomons sonne was Rehoboam, whose sonne was Abiah, and Asa his sonne, and Iehoshaphat his sonne,

geneva@1Chronicles:3:11 @ And Ioram his sonne, and Ahaziah his sonne, and Ioash his sonne,

geneva@1Chronicles:3:13 @ And Ahaz his sonne, and Hezekiah his sonne, and Manasseh his sonne,

geneva@1Chronicles:3:15 @ And the sons of Josiah [were], the (note:)So called because he was preferred for the royal dignity before his brother Jehoiakim who was the elder.(:note) firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

geneva@1Chronicles:3:17 @ And the sonnes of Ieconiah, Assir & Shealtiel his sonne:

geneva@1Chronicles:3:19 @ And the sons of Pedaiah [were], (note:)Matthew says that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel, meaning that he was his nephew according to the Hebrew speech: for he was Pedaiah's son.(:note) Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:

geneva@1Chronicles:3:20 @ And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hazadiah, & Iushabheshed, fiue in nomber.

geneva@1Chronicles:3:22 @ And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, (note:)So that Shemaiah was Shechaniah's natural son, and the other five his nephews and in all there were six.(:note) six.

geneva@1Chronicles:3:24 @ And the sonnes of Elioenai were Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Iohanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seuen.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:1 @ The (note:)Meaning, they came from Judah, as nephews and kinsmen: for only Pharez was his natural son.(:note) sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:3 @ And these were of the father of Etam, Izreel, and Ishma and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:5 @ But Asher the father of Tekoa had two wiues, Heleah, and Naarah.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:6 @ And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni and Haashtari: these were the sonnes of Naarah.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:9 @ And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name (note:)Otherwise called Othniel, (Jdg_1:13).(:note) Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:10 @ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and (note:)It is to be understood that then he would accomplish his vow which he made.(:note) that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep [me] from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:11 @ And Chelub the brother of Shuah begate Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:12 @ And Eshton begate Beth-rapha, & Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of the citie of Nahash: these are the men of Rechah.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:14 @ And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the (note:)The Lord of the valley where the artificers worked.(:note) father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:16 @ And the sonnes of Iehaleel were Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:21 @ The sonnes of Shelah, the sonne of Iudah were Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, & the families of the householdes of them that wrought fine linnen in the house of Ashbea.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:22 @ And Iokim and the men of Chozeba and Ioash, and Saraph, which had the dominion in Moab, and Iashubi Lehem. These also are auncient things.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:25 @ Whose sonne was Shallum, and his sonne, Mibsam, and his sonne Mishma.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:26 @ And the sonnes of Mishma, Hamuel was his sonne, Zacchur his sonne, and Shimei his sonne.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:27 @ And Shimei had sixteene sonnes, and sixe daughters, but his brethren had not many children, neither was all their familie like to the children of Iudah in multitude.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:32 @ And their townes were Etam, & Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, fiue cities.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:34 @ And Meshobab, and Iamlech, and Ioshah the sonne of Amashiah,

geneva@1Chronicles:4:35 @ And Ioel and Iehu the sonne of Ioshibiah, the sonne of Seraiah, the sonne of Asiel,

geneva@1Chronicles:4:36 @ And Elionai, and Iaakobah, & Ieshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Iesimiel, & Benaiah,

geneva@1Chronicles:4:38 @ These were famous princes in their families, and increased greatly their fathers houses.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:39 @ And they (note:)For the tribe of Simeon was so great in number, that in the time of Hezekiah they sought new dwellings to Gedor, which is in the tribe of Daniel.(:note) went to the entrance of Gedor, [even] unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:40 @ And they found fat pasture and good, and a wide land, both quiet and fruitfull: for they of Ham had dwelt there before.

geneva@1Chronicles:4:41 @ And these described by name, came in the dayes of Hezekiah king of Iudah, & smote their tents, and the inhabitants that were found there, and destroyed them vtterly vnto this day, and dwelt in their roume, because there was pasture there for their sheepe.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:1 @ Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he [was] the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the (note:)Because they were made two tribes, they had a double portion.(:note) sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:2 @ For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him [came] (note:)That is, he was the chiefest of all the tribes according to Jacob's prophecy, (Gen_49:8), and because Christ would come from him.(:note) the chief ruler; but the birthright [was] Joseph's:)

geneva@1Chronicles:5:6 @ Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria (note:)That is, in the time of Uzziah king of Israel, (2Ki_15:23).(:note) carried away [captive]: he [was] prince of the Reubenites.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:8 @ And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in (note:)These places were beyond Jordan toward the east in the land given to the Reubenites.(:note) Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:

geneva@1Chronicles:5:9 @ Also Eastwarde he inhabited vnto the entring in of the wildernes fro the riuer Perath for they had much cattel in the land of Gilead.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:10 @ And in the days of Saul they made war with the (note:)The Ishmaelites who came from Hagar Abraham's concubine.(:note) Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east [land] of Gilead.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:11 @ And the children of Gad dwelt ouer against them in the land of Bashan, vnto Salchah.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:12 @ Ioel was the chiefest, and Shapham the second, but Iaanai and Shaphat were in Bashan.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:15 @ Ahi the sonne of Abdiel, the sonne of Guni was chiefe of the houshold of their fathers.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:16 @ And they dwelt in Gilead in (note:)Both the whole country and one particular city were called Bashan.(:note) Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:18 @ The sonnes of Reuben and of Gad, and of halfe the tribe of Manasseh of those that were viliant men, able to beare shield, and sworde, and to draw a bowe, exercised in warre, were foure & fourtie thousand, seuen hundreth and three score, that went out to the warre.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:20 @ And they were (note:)That is, by the Lord who gave them the victory.(:note) helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that [were] with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:21 @ And they led away their cattel, euen their camels fiftie thousand, and two hundreth, & fiftie thousand sheepe, and two thousand asses, and of persons an hundreth thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:22 @ For there fell down many slain, because the war [was] of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the (note:)Meaning, the captivity of the ten tribes under Tiglath Pileser.(:note) captivity.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:23 @ And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto (note:)Otherwise called Baal-gad.(:note) Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.

geneva@1Chronicles:5:26 @ And the God of Israel (note:)Thus God stirred up the wicked and used them as instruments to execute his just judgment against sinners, although they were led by malice and ambition.(:note) stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:4 @ Eleazar begate Phinehas. Phinehas begate Abishua,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:8 @ And Ahitub begat (note:)Who was high priest after Abiathar was deposed, according to the prophecy of Eli the priest, (1Sa_2:31, 1Sa_2:35).(:note) Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:15 @ And (note:)That is, he was led into captivity with his father Seraiah the high priest, (2Ki_25:18).(:note) Jehozadak went [into captivity], when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:22 @ The sons of Kohath; (note:)Who seems to be called Izhar, (Exo_6:21).(:note) Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:23 @ Elkanah his sonne, and Ebiasaph his sonne, and Assir his sonne,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:25 @ And the sonnes of Elkanah, Amasai, and Ahimoth.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:28 @ And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn (note:)Who is also called Joel, (1Sa_8:2; 1Ch_6:33).(:note) Vashni, and Abiah.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:30 @ Shimea his sonne, Haggiah his sonne, Asaiah his sonne.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:31 @ And these [are they] whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had (note:)After it was brought to the place where the temple would be built and was no longer carried to and fro.(:note) rest.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:35 @ The sonne of Zuph, the sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Mahath, the sonne of Amasai,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:37 @ The sonne of Tahath, the sonne of Assir, the sonne of Ebiasaph, the sonne of Korah,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:39 @ And his brother (note:)Meaning, the son of Heman, (1Ch_6:33).(:note) Asaph, who stood on his right hand, [even] Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:40 @ The sonne of Michael, the sonne of Baaseiah, the sonne of Malchiah,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:45 @ The sonne of Hashabiah, the sonne of Amaziah, the sonne of Hilkiah,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:49 @ But Aaron and his sonnes burnt incense vpon the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all that was to do in the most holy place, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the seruant of God had commaunded.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:50 @ These are also the sonnes of Aaron, Eleazar his sonne, Phinehas his sonne, Abishua his sonne,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:54 @ Now these [are] their (note:)Or, cities which were given to the Levites.(:note) dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the They were first appointed, and prepared for. lot.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:55 @ And they gave them (note:)Which was also called Kirjatharba, (Gen_23:2; Jos_21:11).(:note) Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:57 @ And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, [namely], Hebron, [the city] of (note:)That he that had killed a man might flee to it for help till his case was tried, (Deu_19:2).(:note) refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:59 @ And Ashan and her suburbes, and Bethshemesh and her suburbes:

geneva@1Chronicles:6:61 @ And unto the sons of (note:)That is, they gave a portion to the Kohathites, who were the remnant of the tribe of Levi, out of the half tribe of Manasseh and out of Ephraim, (1Ch_6:66).(:note) Kohath, [which were] left of the family of that tribe, [were cities given] out of the half tribe, [namely, out of] the half [tribe] of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:62 @ And to the sonnes of Gershom according to their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:66 @ And they of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities and their coastes out of the tribe of Ephraim.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:70 @ And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Aner and her suburbes, and Bileam and her suburbes, for the families of the remnant of the sonnes of Kohath.

geneva@1Chronicles:6:71 @ Unto the sons of (note:)Who in the first verse is also called Gershon.(:note) Gershom [were given] out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:

geneva@1Chronicles:6:74 @ And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal and her suburbes, and Abdon and her suburbes,

geneva@1Chronicles:6:78 @ And on the other side Iorden by Iericho, euen on the Eastside of Iorden, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wildernesse with her suburbes, and Iahzah with her suburbes,

geneva@1Chronicles:7:1 @ Now the sons of Issachar [were], Tola, and Puah, (note:)Who also is called Job, (Gen_46:13).(:note) Jashub, and Shimron, four.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:2 @ And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, [to wit], of Tola: [they were] valiant men of might in their generations; (note:)That is, their number was found to be this big when David counted the people, (2Sa_24:1).(:note) whose number [was] in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:6 @ [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and (note:)Also called Ashbel, (Gen_46:21; Num_26:38).(:note) Jediael, Who were the chief: or else there were seven in all as it appears in (Gen_46:21). three.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:8 @ And the sonnes of Becher, Zemirah, and Ioash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Ierimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth: all these were the sonnes of Becher.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:10 @ And the sonne of Iediael was Bilhan, and the sonnes of Bilhan, Ieush, and Beniamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, & Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:12 @ Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, [and] Hushim, the sons of (note:)Meaning that he was not the son of Benjamin, but of Dan (Gen_46:23).(:note) Aher.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:14 @ The sonne of Manasseh was Ashriel whom she bare vnto him, but his concubine of Aram bare Machir the father of Gilead.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:15 @ And Machir tooke to wife the sister of Huppim & Shuppim, and the name of their sister was Maachah; the name of the second sonne was Zelophthad, and Zelophehad had daughters.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:16 @ And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a sonne, and called his name Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh: and his sonnes were Vlam and Rakem.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:17 @ And the sonne of Vlam was Bedan. These were the sonnes of Gilead the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:21 @ And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of (note:)Which was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines and who slew the Ephraimites.(:note) Gath [that were] born in [that] land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:23 @ And when he went in to his wife, she conceiued, and bare him a sonne, and he called his name Beriah, because affliction was in his house.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:24 @ And his daughter was Sherah, which built Beth-horon the nether, and the vpper, and Vzzen Sheerah.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:25 @ And Rephah [was] his (note:)That is, of Ephraim.(:note) son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

geneva@1Chronicles:7:28 @ And their possessions and their habitations were Beth-el, & the villages thereof, & Eastward Naaran, and Westwarde Gezer with the villages thereof, Shechem also and the villages thereof, vnto Azzah, and the villages thereof,

geneva@1Chronicles:7:29 @ And by the places of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her villages, Taanach and her villages, Megiddo and her villages, Dor and her villages. In those dwelt the children of Ioseph the sonne of Israel.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:30 @ The sonnes of Asher were Imnah, and Isuah, & Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:33 @ And the sonnes of Iaphlet were Pasach, & Bimhal, and Ashuath: these were the children of Iaphlet.

geneva@1Chronicles:7:40 @ All these were the children of Asher, the heads of their fathers houses, noble men, valiant men of warre and chiefe princes, and they were rekoned by their genealogies for warre and for battell to the nomber of sixe and twentie thousand men.

geneva@1Chronicles:8:1 @ Now Benjamin (note:)He continues in the description of the tribe of Benjamin, because his purpose is to set forth the genealogy of Saul.(:note) begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

geneva@1Chronicles:8:14 @ And Ahio, Shashak and Ierimoth,

geneva@1Chronicles:8:25 @ Iphedeiah & Penuel ye sonnes of Shashak,

geneva@1Chronicles:8:29 @ And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maachah.

geneva@1Chronicles:8:30 @ And his eldest sonne was Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,

geneva@1Chronicles:8:34 @ And the son of Jonathan [was] (note:)He is also called Mephibosheth, (2Sa_9:6).(:note) Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah.

geneva@1Chronicles:8:37 @ And Moza begate Bineah, whose sonne was Raphah, and his sonne Eleasah, and his sonne Azel.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:1 @ So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they [were] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, [who] were (note:)Until now he has described their genealogies before they went into captivity, and now he describes their history after their return.(:note) carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:3 @ And in Ierusalem dwelt of the children of Iudah, and of the children of Beniamin, & of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:5 @ And of Shiloni, Asaiah the eldest, and his sonnes.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:7 @ And of the sonnes of Beniamin, Sallu the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Hodauiah, the sonne of Hasenuah,

geneva@1Chronicles:9:11 @ And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the (note:)That is, he was the high priest.(:note) ruler of the house of God;

geneva@1Chronicles:9:12 @ And Adaiah the sonne of Ieroham, ye sonne of Pashhur, the sonne of Malchiiah, and Maasai the sonne of Adiel, the sonne of Iahzerah, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Meshillemith, the sonne of Immer.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:14 @ And of the Leuites, Shemaiah the sonne of Hasshub, the sonne of Azrikam, the sonne of Hashabiah of the sonnes of Merari,

geneva@1Chronicles:9:15 @ And Bakbakkar, Heresh & Galal, & Mattaniah the sonne of Micha, the sonne of Zichri, the sonne of Asaph,

geneva@1Chronicles:9:16 @ And Obadiah the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Ieduthun, and Berechiah, the sonne of Asa, the sonne of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:17 @ And the porters were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, & their brethren: Shallum was the chiefe.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:18 @ Who hitherto [waited] in the (note:)So called because the king came into the temple by it, and not the common people.(:note) king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:19 @ And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the (note:)Their charge was that no one should enter those places, which were only appointed for the priests to minister in.(:note) tabernacle: and their fathers, [being] over the host of the LORD, [were] keepers of the entry.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:20 @ And Phinehas ye sonne of Eleazar was their guide, and the Lord was with him.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:21 @ Zechariah the sonne of Meshelemiah was the porter of the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:24 @ The porters were in foure quarters Eastward, Westward, Northward and Southward.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:25 @ And their brethren, [which were] in their villages, [were] to come after (note:)They served weekly, as in (Exo_29:30).(:note) seven days from time to time with them.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:26 @ For these foure chiefe porters were in perpetuall office, and were of the Leuites and had charge of the chambers, and of the treasures in the house of God.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:27 @ And they lay rounde about the house of God, because the charge was theirs, and they caused it to be opened euery morning.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:29 @ [Some] of them also [were] appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine (note:)Of which the meat offering was made, (Lev_2:8).(:note) flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:31 @ And Mattithiah one of the Leuites which was the eldest sonne of Shallum the Korhite, had the charge of the things that were made in the frying panne.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:35 @ And in Gibeon dwelt ye father of Gibeon, Ieiel, & the name of his wife was Maachah.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:36 @ And his eldest sonne was Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

geneva@1Chronicles:9:40 @ And the sonne of Ionathan was Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begate Micah.

geneva@1Chronicles:9:42 @ And Ahaz begat (note:)Who was also called Jehoiada, (1Ch_8:36).(:note) Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;

geneva@1Chronicles:9:43 @ And Moza begate Binea, whose sonne was Rephaiah, & his sonne was Eleasah, and his sonne Azel.

geneva@1Chronicles:10:3 @ And the battel was sore against Saul; and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

geneva@1Chronicles:10:4 @ Then sayde Saul to his armour bearer, Drawe out thy sworde, and thrust me thorowe therewith, lest these vncircumcised come and mocke at me: but his armour bearer would not, for he was sore afraid: therefore Saul tooke the sword and fell vpon it.

geneva@1Chronicles:10:5 @ And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise vpon the sworde, and dyed.

geneva@1Chronicles:10:10 @ And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of (note:)Which was the idol of the Philistines, and from the belly downward had the form of a fish, and upward of a man.(:note) Dagon.

geneva@1Chronicles:10:12 @ Then they arose (all the valiant men) and tooke the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sonnes, and brought them to Iabesh, and buryed the bones of them vnder an oke in Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.

geneva@1Chronicles:10:13 @ So Saul dyed for his transgression, that he committed against the Lord, euen against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and in that he sought & asked counsel of a familiar spirit,

geneva@1Chronicles:10:14 @ And asked not of the Lorde: therefore he slewe him, and turned the kingdome vnto Dauid the sonne of Ishai.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:1 @ Then all Israel (note:)This was after the death of Ishbosheth Saul's son, when David had reigned over Judah seven years and six months in Hebron, (2Sa_5:5).(:note) gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:2 @ And in time past, euen when Saul was King, thou leddest Israel out & in: and the Lord thy God sayde vnto thee, Thou shalt feede my people Israel, and thou shalt be captaine ouer my people Israel.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:6 @ And Dauid sayd, Whosoeuer smiteth the Iebusites first, shalbe the chiefe and captaine. So Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah went first vp, and was captaine.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:9 @ And Dauid prospered, and grewe: for the Lord of hostes was with him.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:11 @ And this [is] the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the (note:)Meaning, the most excellent and best esteemed for his valiantry: some read, the chief of the princes.(:note) chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain [by him] at one time.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:12 @ And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo the Ahohite, which was one of the three valiant men.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:13 @ He was with Dauid at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistims were gathered together to battel: and there was a parcell of ground full of barley, & the people fled before the Philistims.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:14 @ And they set themselves in the midst of [that] parcel, (note:)This act refers to Shammah, (2Sa_23:11), who it seems was the chiefest of these.(:note) and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved [them] by a great deliverance.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:16 @ And when Dauid was in the hold, the Philistims garison was at Beth-lehem.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:18 @ Then these three brake thorowe the hoste of the Philistims, and drewe water out of the wel of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, and tooke it and brought it to Dauid: but Dauid would not drinke of it, but powred it for an oblation to the Lord,

geneva@1Chronicles:11:20 @ And Abishai the brother of Ioab, he was chiefe of the three, & he lift vp his speare against three hundreth, and slew them, and had the name among the three.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:21 @ Among the three he was more honourable then the two, and he was their captaine: but he attained not vnto the first three.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:22 @ Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada (the sonne of a valiant man) which had done many actes, and was of Kabzeel, he slewe two strong men of Moab: he went downe also and slewe a lion in the middes of a pit in time of snowe.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:23 @ And he slewe an Egyptian, a man of great stature, euen fiue cubites long, and in the Egyptians hand was a speare like a weauers beame: and he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slewe him with his owne speare.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:25 @ Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the (note:)Meaning, those three who brought the water to David.(:note) [first] three: and David set him over his guard.

geneva@1Chronicles:11:26 @ These also were valiant men of warre, Asahel the brother of Ioab, Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

geneva@1Chronicles:11:32 @ Hurai of the riuers of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,

geneva@1Chronicles:11:34 @ The sonnes of Hashem the Gizonite, Ionathan the sonne of Shageh the Harite,

geneva@1Chronicles:11:44 @ Vzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Ieiel the sonnes of Otham the Aroerite,

geneva@1Chronicles:11:47 @ Eliel and Obed, and Iaasiel the Mesobaite.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:2 @ [They were] armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and [shooting] arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul's (note:)That is, of the tribe of Benjamin, of which Saul was, and in which were excellent throwers with slings, (Jdg_20:16).(:note) brethren of Benjamin.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:3 @ The chiefe were Ahiezer, and Ioash the sonnes of Shemaah a Gibeathite, and Ieziel, and Pelet the sonnes of Asinaueth, Berachah and Iehu the Antothite,

geneva@1Chronicles:12:6 @ Elkanah, and Ishiah, and Azariel, and Ioezer, Iashobeam of Hakorehim,

geneva@1Chronicles:12:8 @ And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, [and] men of war [fit] for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces [were like] the faces of (note:)Meaning, fierce and terrible.(:note) lions, and [were] as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

geneva@1Chronicles:12:14 @ These were the sonnes of Gad, captaines of the hoste: one of the least could resist an hundreth, and the greatest a thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:15 @ These [are] they that went over Jordan in the (note:)Which the Hebrews called Nisan, or Abib, containing half March and half April, when Jordan was wont to overflow its banks, read (Jos_3:15).(:note) first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all [them] of the valleys, [both] toward the east, and toward the west.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:18 @ Then the (note:)The spirit of boldness and courage moved him to speak thus.(:note) spirit came upon Amasai, [who was] chief of the captains, [and he said], Thine [are we], David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace [be] unto thee, and peace [be] to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:19 @ And there fell [some] of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they (note:)They came only to help David, and not to help the Philistines, who were enemies of their country.(:note) helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to [the jeopardy of] our heads.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:20 @ As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Iozabad, and Iediael, and Michael, and Iozabad, and Elihu, and Ziltai, heads of the thousands that were of Manasseh.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:22 @ For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of (note:)Meaning, mighty or strong, for the Hebrews say a thing is of God when it is excellent.(:note) God.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:27 @ And Jehoiada [was] the leader of the (note:)Of the Levites who came by the descent of Aaron.(:note) Aaronites, and with him [were] three thousand and seven hundred;

geneva@1Chronicles:12:31 @ And of the halfe tribe of Manasseh eighteene thousand, which were appointed by name to come and make Dauid King.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:32 @ And of the children of Issachar, [which were men] that had understanding of the (note:)Men of good experience, who knew at all times what was to be done.(:note) times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them [were] two hundred; and all their brethren [were] at their commandment.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:36 @ And of Asher that went out to the battell and were trained in the warres, fourtie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:37 @ And of the other side of Iorden of the Reubenites, and of the Gadites, and of the halfe tribe of Manasseh with all instruments of warre to fight with, an hundreth and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:12:40 @ Moreouer they that were neere them vntill Issachar, and Zebulun, and Naphtali brought bread vpon asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, euen meate, floure, figges, and reisins, and wine and oyle, and beeues and sheepe abundantly: for there was ioy in Israel.

geneva@1Chronicles:13:2 @ And Dauid said to all the Congregation of Israel, If it seeme good to you, and that it proceedeth of the Lorde our God, we will sende to and fro vnto our brethren, that are left in all the lande of Israel (for with them are the Priests and the Leuites in the cities and their suburbes) that they may assemble them selues vnto vs.

geneva@1Chronicles:13:3 @ And let us bring again the (note:)His first concern was to restore religion, which had in Saul's day been corrupted and neglected.(:note) ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.

geneva@1Chronicles:13:6 @ And Dauid went vp and all Israel to Baalath, in Kiriath-iearim, that was in Iudah, to bring vp from thence the Arke of God the Lorde that dwelleth betweene the Cherubims, where his Name is called on.

geneva@1Chronicles:13:10 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died (note:)Before the Ark for usurping that which did not belong to his calling: for this charge was given to the priests, (Num_4:15), so that here all good intentions are condemned, unless they are commanded by the word of God.(:note) before God.

geneva@1Chronicles:13:11 @ And Dauid was angrie, because the Lorde had made a breach in Vzza, and he called the name of that place Perez-vzza vnto this day.

geneva@1Chronicles:13:13 @ So David brought not the ark [home] to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of (note:)Who was a Levite, and called Gittite, because he dwelt at Gath.(:note) Obededom the Gittite.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:1 @ Then sent Hiram the King of Tyrus messengers to Dauid, and cedar trees, with masons and carpenters to builde him an house.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:2 @ And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his (note:)Because of God's promise made to the people of Israel.(:note) people Israel.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:8 @ But when the Philistims heard that Dauid was anointed King ouer Israel, all the Philistims came vp to seeke Dauid; when Dauid heard, he went out against them.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:10 @ Then Dauid asked counsel at God, saying, Shall I goe vp against the Philistims, and wilt thou deliuer them into mine hande? And the Lorde saide vnto him, Goe vp: for I will deliuer them into thine hande.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:14 @ And when Dauid asked againe counsell at God, God said to him, Thou shalt not goe vp after them, but turne away from them, that thou mayest come vpon them ouer against the mulberie trees.

geneva@1Chronicles:14:16 @ So Dauid did as God had commaunded him: and they smote the hoste of the Philistims from Gibeon euen to Gezer.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:1 @ And [David] made him houses in the (note:)That was in Zion (2Sa_5:7,9).(:note) city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:4 @ And Dauid assembled the sonnes of Aaron, and the Leuites.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:6 @ Of the sonnes of Merari, Asaiah the chiefe, and his brethren two hundreth and twentie.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:8 @ Of the sons of (note:)Who was the son of Uzziel, the fourth son of Kohath, (Exo_6:18, Exo_6:22; Num_3:30).(:note) Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:

geneva@1Chronicles:15:11 @ And Dauid called Zadok and Abiathar the Priestes, and of the Leuites, Vriel, Asaiah and Ioel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab:

geneva@1Chronicles:15:13 @ For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due (note:)According as he has appointed in the law.(:note) order.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:15 @ And the sonnes of the Leuites bare the Arke of God vpon their shoulders with the barres, as Moses had commanded, according to the worde of the Lorde.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:17 @ So the Leuites appointed Heman the sonne of Ioel, and of his brethren Asaph the sonne of Berechiah, and of the sonnes of Merari their brethren, Ethan the sonne of Kushaiah,

geneva@1Chronicles:15:18 @ And with them their brethren of the (note:)Which were inferior in dignity.(:note) second [degree], Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:19 @ So Heman, Asaph and Ethan were fingers to make a sounde with cymbales of brasse,

geneva@1Chronicles:15:20 @ And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on (note:)This was an instrument of music or a certain tune, to which they sang psalms.(:note) Alamoth;

geneva@1Chronicles:15:21 @ And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the (note:)Which was the eighth tune, over which he that was most excellent had charge.(:note) Sheminith to excel.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:22 @ And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, (note:)That is, to appoint Psalms and songs to them that sang.(:note) [was] for song: he instructed about the song, because he [was] skilful.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:24 @ And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah [were] doorkeepers (note:)With Berechiah and Elkanah, (1Ch_15:23).(:note) for the ark.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:26 @ And it came to pass, when God (note:)That is, gave them strength to execute their office.(:note) helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered Besides the bullock and the fat beast which David offered at every sixth pace, (2Sa_6:13). seven bullocks and seven rams.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:27 @ And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an (note:)Read (2Sa_6:14).(:note) ephod of linen.

geneva@1Chronicles:15:29 @ And it came to pass, [as] the ark of the (note:)It was so called because it reminded the Israelites of the Lord's covenant made with them.(:note) covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:5 @ Asaph the chiefe, and next to him Zechariah, Ieiel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehiel, & Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed Edom, euen Ieiel with instruments, violes and harpes, and Asaph to make a sound with cymbales,

geneva@1Chronicles:16:7 @ Then on that day David (note:)David gave them this Psalm to praise the Lord, signifying that in all our enterprises the Name of God should be praised and called upon.(:note) delivered first [this psalm] to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:8 @ Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his (note:)Of which this is the chiefest, that he has chosen himself a Church to call upon his name.(:note) deeds among the people.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:9 @ Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his (note:)Who of his wonderful providence has chosen a few of the stock of Abraham to be his children.(:note) wondrous works.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:17 @ And hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a Law, & to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,

geneva@1Chronicles:16:21 @ He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved (note:)As Pharaoh and Abimelech.(:note) kings for their sakes,

geneva@1Chronicles:16:37 @ Then he left there before the Arke of the Lordes couenant Asaph and his brethren to minister continually before the Arke, that which was to be done euery day:

geneva@1Chronicles:16:39 @ And Zadok the Priest and his brethren the Priestes were before the Tabernacle of ye Lorde, in the hie place that was at Gibeon,

geneva@1Chronicles:16:43 @ And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to (note:)Declaring that after our duty to God we are chiefly bound to our own house, for which as for all other things we should pray to God, and instruct our families to praise his Name.(:note) bless his house.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:1 @ Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of (note:)Well built and fair.(:note) cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under That is, in tents covered with skin. curtains.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:2 @ Then Nathan said unto David, Do (note:)As yet God had not revealed to the prophet what he purposed concerning David, therefore seeing God favoured David, he spoke what he thought.(:note) all that [is] in thine heart; for God [is] with thee.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:3 @ And it came to pass the same (note:)After Nathan had spoken to David.(:note) night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

geneva@1Chronicles:17:6 @ Wheresoever I have (note:)Meaning, wherever his ark went, which was a sign of his presence.(:note) walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?

geneva@1Chronicles:17:8 @ And I haue bene with thee whithersoeuer thou hast walked, and haue destroyed all thine enemies out of thy sight, and haue made thee a name, like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:9 @ Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will (note:)Make them sure that they will not move.(:note) plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,

geneva@1Chronicles:17:12 @ He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for (note:)That is, to the coming of Christ: for then these figures would cease.(:note) ever.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:13 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took [it] from [him] that was before (note:)Which was Saul.(:note) thee:

geneva@1Chronicles:17:16 @ And David the king (note:)He went into the tent where the Ark was, showing what we should do when we receive any benefits from the Lord.(:note) came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] mine house, that thou hast brought me Meaning to this kingly estate. hitherto?

geneva@1Chronicles:17:17 @ And [yet] this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast [also] spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of (note:)You have promised a kingdom that will continue to me and my posterity and that Christ will proceed from me.(:note) high degree, O LORD God.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:19 @ O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own (note:)Freely and according to the purpose of your will, without any deserving.(:note) heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all [these] great things.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:21 @ Moreouer what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whose God went to redeeme them to be his people, and to make thy selfe a Name, and to doe great and terrible things by casting out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast deliuered out of Egypt?

geneva@1Chronicles:17:22 @ For thou hast ordeined thy people Israel to be thine owne people for euer, and thou Lord art become their God.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:23 @ Therefore nowe Lorde, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy seruant & concerning his house, be confirmed for euer, and doe as thou hast sayd,

geneva@1Chronicles:17:25 @ For thou, O my God, hast (note:)You have declared to me by Nathan the prophet.(:note) told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found [in his heart] to pray before thee.

geneva@1Chronicles:17:26 @ Therefore nowe Lord (for thou art God, & hast spoken this goodnesse vnto thy seruant)

geneva@1Chronicles:17:27 @ Now therfore, it hath pleased thee to blesse the house of thy seruant, that it may bee before thee for euer: for thou, O Lord, hast blessed it, and it shalbe blessed for euer.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:1 @ Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took (note:)Which (2Sa_8:1) calls the bridle of bondage, because it was a strong town and kept the country around it in subjection.(:note) Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:3 @ And Dauid smote Hadarezer King of Zobah vnto Hamath, as he went to stablish his border by the riuer Perath.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:5 @ Then came the Aramites of Damascus to succour Hadarezer King of Zobah, but Dauid slewe of the Aramites two and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:6 @ Then David put [garrisons] in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, [and] brought gifts. Thus the LORD (note:)That is in all things that he attempted.(:note) preserved David whithersoever he went.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:8 @ Likewise from (note:)Which in (2Sa_8:8) is called Betah and Berothai.(:note) Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:10 @ He sent (note:)Called also Joram (2Sa_8:10).(:note) Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and [with him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:12 @ Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt (note:)Which is understood that Joab slew 12,000 as is in (Psa_60:1) and Abishai the rest.(:note) eighteen thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:18:15 @ And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah was ouer the hoste, and Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud recorder,

geneva@1Chronicles:18:17 @ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the (note:)Read (2Sa_8:18).(:note) Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David [were] chief about the king.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:1 @ After this also Nahash the King of the children of Ammon dyed, and his sonne reigned in his stead.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:2 @ And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his (note:)Because Nahash received David and his company, when Saul persecuted him he would now show pleasure to his son for the same.(:note) father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:4 @ Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and (note:)They shaved off half of their beards, (2Sa_10:4).(:note) shaved them, and cut off their To put them to shame and villany, while the ambassadors should have been honoured: and because the Jews used to wear side garments and beards, they thus disfigured them, to make them odious to others. garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:5 @ And there went certaine and tolde Dauid concerning the men: and he sent to meete them (for the men were exceedingly ashamed) and the King saide, Tarie at Iericho, vntill your beardes be growen: then returne.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:7 @ So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before (note:)Which was a city of the tribe of Reuben beyond Jordan.(:note) Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:10 @ When Ioab saw that the front of the battel was against him before and behinde, then he chose out of all the choyse of Israel, and set him selfe in aray to meete the Aramites.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:14 @ So Ioab and the people that was with him, came neere before the Aramites vnto the battel, and they fled before him.

geneva@1Chronicles:19:17 @ And when it was shewed Dauid, he gathered all Israel, and went ouer Iorden, and came vnto them, & put him selfe in aray against them: And when Dauid had put him selfe in battel aray to meete the Aramites, they fought with him.

geneva@1Chronicles:20:1 @ And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out [to battle], Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged (note:)Which was the chief city of the Ammonites.(:note) Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

geneva@1Chronicles:20:2 @ And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a (note:)Which mounts about the value of seven thousand and seventy crowns, which is about 60 pound weight.(:note) talent of gold, and [there were] precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.

geneva@1Chronicles:20:5 @ And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew (note:)Read (2Sa_21:19).(:note) Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff [was] like a weaver's beam.

geneva@1Chronicles:20:6 @ And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, (note:)Meaning that he had six apiece on hands and feet.(:note) six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:3 @ And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of (note:)It was a thing indifferent and usual to number the people, but because he did it for ambitious reasons, as though his strength stood in his people, God punished him.(:note) trespass to Israel?

geneva@1Chronicles:21:5 @ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were (note:)Joab partly for grief and partly through negligence gathered not the whole sum as it is here declared.(:note) a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] In Samuel 30,000 more are mentioned, which was either by joining to them some of the Benjamites who were mixed with Judah, or as the Hebrews write, here the chief and princes are left out. four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:6 @ But the Leuites and Beniamin counted he not among them: for the Kings worde was abominable to Ioab.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:7 @ And God was displeased with this thing: therefore he smote Israel.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:12 @ Either three yeeres famine, or three moneths to be destroyed before thine aduersaries, and the sworde of thine enemies to take thee, or els the sworde of the Lorde and pestilence in the lande three dayes, that the Angel of the Lorde may destroy throughout all the coastes of Israel: nowe therefore aduise thee, what word I shal bring againe to him that sent me.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:15 @ And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and (note:)Read (2Sa_24:16).(:note) as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he When God draws back his plagues, he seems to repent, read (Gen_6:6). repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:17 @ And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on (note:)Thus he both shows a true repentance and a fatherly care toward his people, who desire God to spare them, and to punish him and his.(:note) thy people, that they should be plagued.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:20 @ And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him (note:)If man hides himself at the sight of an angel who is a creature, how much more as a sinner able to appear before the face of God?(:note) hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:21 @ And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and sawe Dauid, and went out of the thresshing floore, and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the grounde.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:24 @ And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full (note:)That is, as much as it is worth: for having enough of his own, and yet to have taken of another man's goods to offer to the Lord would had been theft and not acceptable to God.(:note) price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:26 @ And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he (note:)God declared that he heard his request, in that he sent down fire from heaven for they could use no fire in sacrifice but that which was reserved still upon the altar, (Lev_6:13) and came down from heaven, (Lev_9:24) as appeared by the punishment of Nadab and Abihu, (Lev_10:1).(:note) answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:29 @ (But the Tabernacle of the Lorde which Moses had made in the wildernesse, and the altar of burnt offring were at that season in the hie place at Gibeon.

geneva@1Chronicles:21:30 @ And Dauid could not go before it to aske counsel at God: for he was afraide of the sworde of the Angel of the Lorde.)

geneva@1Chronicles:22:2 @ And David commanded to gather together the (note:)Meaning, cunning men of other nations who dwelt among the Jews.(:note) strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:3 @ And David prepared iron (note:)That is, which weighed fifty shekels of gold, (2Ch_3:9).(:note) in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;

geneva@1Chronicles:22:8 @ But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (note:)This declares how greatly God detests the shedding of blood, seeing David for this cause is prevented from building the temple of the Lord, though he enterprised no war, but by God's command and against his enemies.(:note) Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:11 @ Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and (note:)He shows that there can be no prosperity, but when the Lord is with us.(:note) prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.

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@1Chronicles:22:15 @ Moreouer thou hast workmen with thee enough, hewers of stone, and workemen for timber, and all men expert in euery worke.

geneva@1Chronicles:22:16 @ Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, [there is] no number. (note:)That is, go about it quickly.(:note) Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:1 @ So when Dauid was olde and full of dayes, he made Salomon his sonne King ouer Israel.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:3 @ And the Leuites were numbred from ye age of thirtie yeere and aboue, and their nomber according to their summe was eight & thirtie thousand men.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:8 @ The sonnes of Laadan, the chiefe was Iehiel, and Zetham and Ioel, three.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:11 @ And Iahath was the chiefe, and Zizah the seconde, but Ieush and Beriah had not many sonnes: therfore they were in the families of their father, counted but as one.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:13 @ The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should (note:)That is, to serve in the most holy place, and to consecrate the holy things.(:note) sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:14 @ Now [concerning] Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the (note:)They were but of the order of the Levites and not of the priests as Aaron's sons.(:note) tribe of Levi.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:16 @ Of the sonnes of Gershom was Shebuel the chiefe.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:18 @ The sone of Izhar was Shelomith ye chiefe.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:24 @ These [were] the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; [even] the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of (note:)David chose the Levites twice, first at the age of thirty as in (1Ch_23:3) and again afterward at twenty as the office required: at the beginning they had no charge in the temple before they were twenty-five years old, and had none after fifty, (Num_4:3).(:note) twenty years and upward.

geneva@1Chronicles:23:27 @ Therefore according to the last wordes of Dauid, the Leuites were nombred from twentie yeere and aboue,

geneva@1Chronicles:23:28 @ Because their office [was] to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the (note:)In washing and cleansing all the holy vessels.(:note) purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;

geneva@1Chronicles:23:29 @ Both for the shewbread, and for the fine floure, for the meate offring, and for the vnleauened cakes, and for the fryed things, and for that which was rosted, and for all measures and cise,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:7 @ Now the first (note:)This lot was ordained to take away all occasion of envy or grudging of one against another.(:note) lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:10 @ The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to (note:)Zachariah the father of John the Baptist was of this course or lot of Abia, (Luk_1:5).(:note) Abijah,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:12 @ The eleuenth to Eliashib, the twelft to Iakim,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:19 @ These [were] the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under (note:)By the dignity that God gave to Aaron.(:note) Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

geneva@1Chronicles:24:20 @ And of the sonnes of Leui that remained of the sonnes of Amram, was Shubael, of the sonnes of Shubael, Iedeiah,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:24 @ The sonne of Vzziel was Michah, ye sonne of Michah was Shamir,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:25 @ The brother of Michah was Isshiiah, the sonne of Isshiiah, Zechariah,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:26 @ The sonnes of Merari, were Mahli and Mushi, the sonne of Iaaziiah was Beno,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:29 @ Of Kish. the sonne of Kish was Ierahmeel,

geneva@1Chronicles:24:30 @ The sons also of (note:)Who was the second son of Merari.(:note) Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.

geneva@1Chronicles:24:31 @ These likewise cast (note:)That is, every one had that honour which fell to him by lot.(:note) lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:1 @ Moreover David and the captains of the host (note:)The singers were divided into 24 courses, so that every course or order contained twelve, and in all there were 288, as in (1Ch_25:7).(:note) separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

geneva@1Chronicles:25:2 @ Of the sonnes of Asaph, Zaccur, and Ioseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah the sonnes of Asaph were vnder the hand of Asaph, which sang prophesies by the commission of the King.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:3 @ Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, (note:)Of which one is not here numbered.(:note) six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who Meaning, psalms and songs to praise God. prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:4 @ Of Heman, the sonnes of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Vzziel, Shebuel, and Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Ioshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:6 @ All these were vnder the hande of their father, singing in the house of the Lorde with cymbales, violes and harpes, for the seruice of the house of God, and Asaph, and Ieduthun, and Heman were at the Kings commandement.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:7 @ So was their nomber with their brethre that were instruct in ye songs of the Lord, euen of al that were cunning, two hundreth foure score & eight.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:8 @ And they cast lots, (note:)Who should be in every company and course.(:note) ward against [ward], as well the Without respect to age or cunning. small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:9 @ Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to (note:)So that he served in the first turn and the rest every one as his turn followed in order.(:note) Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons [were] twelve:

geneva@1Chronicles:25:19 @ The twelft, to Ashabiah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.

geneva@1Chronicles:25:24 @ The seuenteenth, to Ioshbekashah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:1 @ Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of (note:)This Asaph was not the notable musician, but another of that name also called Ebiasaph in (1Ch_6:23, 1Ch_6:37, 1Ch_9:19) and also Jasaph.(:note) Asaph.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:10 @ And of Hosah of the sonnes of Merari, the sonnes were Shuri the chiefe, and (though he was not the eldest, yet his father made him the chiefe)

geneva@1Chronicles:26:12 @ Among these [were] the divisions of the porters, [even] among the chief men, [having] wards one (note:)According to their turns as well the one as the other.(:note) against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:13 @ And they cast lottes both small and great for the house of their fathers, for euery gate.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:14 @ And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, (note:)One expert and fit to keep that gate.(:note) a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:15 @ To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of (note:)This was a house where they used to resort to consult things concerning the temple, as a convocation house.(:note) Asuppim.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:16 @ To Shuppim and Hosah [the lot came forth] westward, with the gate (note:)At which they used to cast out the filth of the city.(:note) Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:17 @ Eastward [were] six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim (note:)Meaning two one day and two another.(:note) two [and] two.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:18 @ At (note:)Which was a house in which they kept the instruments of the temple.(:note) Parbar westward, four at the causeway, [and] two at Parbar.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:20 @ And of the Leuites. Ahiiah was ouer the treasures of the house of God, and ouer the treasures of the dedicate things.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:22 @ The sonnes of Iehieli were Zethan & Ioel his brother, appoynted ouer the treasures of the house of the Lord.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:23 @ Of the (note:)These also had charge over the treasures.(:note) Amramites, [and] the Izharites, the Hebronites, [and] the Uzzielites:

geneva@1Chronicles:26:24 @ And Shebuel the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Moses, a ruler ouer the treasures.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:25 @ And of his brethren which came of Eliezer, was Rehabiah his sonne, & Ieshaiah his sonne, and Ioram his sonne, and Zichri his sonne, and Shelomith his sonne.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:26 @ Which Shelomith and his brethren [were] over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had (note:)According as the Lord commanded, (Num_31:28).(:note) dedicated.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:28 @ And al that Samuel the Seer had dedicate and Saul the sonne of Kish and Abner the sonne of Ner, & Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, & whosoeuer had dedicate any thing, it was vnder the hand of Shelomith, and his brethren.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:30 @ [And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, [were] officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of (note:)That is, for the king's house.(:note) the king.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:31 @ Among the Hebronites was Iediiah the chiefest, euen the Hebronites by his generations according to the families; in the fourtieth yere of the reigne of Dauid they were sought for: and there were founde among them men of actiuitie at Iazer in Gilead.

geneva@1Chronicles:26:32 @ And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to (note:)Both in spiritual and temporal things.(:note) God, and affairs of the king.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:2 @ Ouer the first course for the first moneth was Iashobeam the sonne of Zabdiel: and in his course were foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:3 @ Of the sonnes of Perez was the chiefe ouer all the princes of the armies for the first moneth.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:4 @ And over the course of the second month [was] Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course [was] Mikloth also the (note:)That is, Dodais lieutenant.(:note) ruler: in his course likewise [were] twenty and four thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:5 @ The captaine of the thirde hoste for the third moneth was Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the chiefe Priest: and in his course were foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:6 @ This Benaiah was mightie among thirtie and aboue the thirtie, and in his course was Amizabad his sonne.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:7 @ The fourth for the fourth moneth was Asahel the brother of Ioab, & Zebadiah his sonne after him: and in his course were foure & twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:8 @ The fift for ye fift moneth was prince Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:9 @ The sixt for the sixt moneth was Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:10 @ The seuenth for the seuenth moneth was Helez the Pelonite, of the sonnes of Ephraim: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:11 @ The eight for the eight moneth was Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zarhites: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:12 @ The ninth for the ninth moneth was Abiezer the Anethothite of the sonnes of Iemini: & in his course foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:13 @ The tenth for the tenth moneth was Maharai, the Netophathite of the Zarhites: & in his course foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:14 @ The eleueth for the eleuenth moneth was Benaiah the Pirathonite of the sonnes of Ephraim: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:15 @ The twelft for the twelft moneth was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: & in his course foure and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:16 @ Furthermore (note:)Meaning besides those twelve captains.(:note) over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites [was] Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:17 @ Ouer the Leuites, Hashabiah the sonne of Remuel: ouer them of Aharon, and Zadok:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:20 @ Ouer the sonnes of Ephraim, Hoshea the sonne of Azazziah: ouer the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Ioel the sonne of Pedaiah:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:21 @ Of the (note:)Which is beyond Jordan in respect to Judah, also one captain was over the Reubenites and the Gadites.(:note) half [tribe] of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:23 @ But Dauid tooke not the nober of them from twentie yeere olde and vnder, because the Lord had sayde that he would increase Israel like vnto the starres of the heauens.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:24 @ Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, (note:)The commandment of the king was abominable to Joab, (1Ch_21:6).(:note) because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the The Hebrews make both these books of Chronicles but one, and at this verse make the middle of the book concerning the number of verses. chronicles of king David.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:25 @ And ouer the Kings treasures was Azmaueth the sonne of Adiel: and ouer the treasures in the fieldes, in the cities & in the villages & in the towers was Iehonathan the sonne of Vzziah:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:26 @ And ouer the workemen in the fielde that tilled the ground, was Ezri the sonne of Chelub:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:27 @ And ouer them that dressed the vines, was Shimei the Ramathite: and ouer that which apperteined to the vines, and ouer the store of the wine was Sabdi the Shiphmite:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:28 @ And ouer the oliue trees & mulberie trees that were in the valleys, was Baal Hanan the Gederite: and ouer the store of the oyle was Ioash:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:29 @ And ouer the oxen that fed in Sharon, was Shetrai the Sharonite: and ouer the oxen in the valleyes was Shaphat the sonne of Adlai:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:30 @ And ouer the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and ouer the asses was Iehdeiah the Meronothite:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:31 @ And ouer the sheepe was Iaziz the Hagerite: all these were the rulers of the substance that was King Dauids.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:32 @ Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a (note:)That is, a man learned in the word of God.(:note) scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni [was] with the king's To be their schoolmasters and teachers. sons:

geneva@1Chronicles:27:33 @ And Ahitophel was the Kings counseller, and Hushai the Archite the Kings friend.

geneva@1Chronicles:27:34 @ And (note:)After Ahithophel hanged himself, (2Sa_17:23), Jehoiada was made counsellor.(:note) after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army [was] Joab.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:1 @ Nowe Dauid assembled all the princes of Israel: the princes of the tribes, and the captaines of the bandes that serued the King, and the captaines of thousands and the captaines of hundreths, and the rulers of all the substance & possession of the King, and of his sonnes, with the eunuches, and the mightie, and all the men of power, vnto Ierusalem.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:2 @ Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in mine heart to build an house of (note:)Where the ark would stay and no longer move to and fro.(:note) rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

geneva@1Chronicles:28:3 @ But God sayde vnto me, Thou shalt not buylde an house for my Name, because thou hast bene a man of warre, and hast shed blood.

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

geneva@1Chronicles:28:9 @ And thou, Salomon my sonne, know thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a perfit heart, and with a willing minde: For the Lorde searcheth all hearts, and vnderstandeth all the imaginations of thoughts: if thou seeke him, he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for euer.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:12 @ And the paterne of all that he had in his minde for the courtes of the house of the Lorde, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of God, and for the treasures of the dedicate things,

geneva@1Chronicles:28:17 @ And pure golde for the fleshhookes, and the bowles, and plates, and for basens, golde in weight for euery basen, and for siluer basens, by weight for euery basen,

geneva@1Chronicles:28:18 @ And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of (note:)Meaning, of the mercy seat that covered the ark, which was called the chariot, because the Lord declared himself there.(:note) the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:19 @ All [this, said David], the LORD made me understand in writing (note:)For all this was left in writing in the book of the Law, (Exo_25:40), which the king was bound to put in execution, (Deu_17:19).(:note) by [his] hand upon me, [even] all the works of this pattern.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:20 @ And Dauid said to Salomon his sonne, Be strong, and of a valiant courage and doe it: feare not, nor be afraide: for the Lorde God, euen my God is with thee: he will not leaue thee nor forsake thee till thou hast finished all the worke for the seruice of the house of the Lord.

geneva@1Chronicles:28:21 @ And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, [even they shall be with thee] for all the service of the house of God: and [there shall be] with thee for all manner of workmanship (note:)That is, everyone will be ready to help you with those gifts that God has given him.(:note) every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people [will be] wholly at thy commandment.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:2 @ Now I haue prepared with all my power for the house of my God, golde for vessels of golde, and siluer for them of siluer, and brasse for things of brasse, yron for things of yron, & wood for things of wood, and onix stones, and stones to be set, and carbuncle stones and of diuers colours, and all precious stones, and marble stones in aboundance.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:3 @ Moreover, because I have set my (note:)His great zeal for the furtherance of the temple made him spare no expenses, but to bestow his own peculiar treasure.(:note) affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, [which] I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

geneva@1Chronicles:29:5 @ The gold for [things] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the hands of artificers. And who [then] is (note:)He was not only liberal himself but provoked others to set forth the work of God.(:note) willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?

geneva@1Chronicles:29:7 @ And they gaue for the seruice of the house of God fiue thousande talents of golde, and ten thousand pieces, and ten thousand talents of siluer, and eighteene thousand talents of brasse, and one hundreth thousand talents of yron.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:8 @ And they with whom [precious] stones were (note:)Meaning, they who had any.(:note) found gave [them] to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:11 @ Thine, O Lord, is greatnesse & power, and glory, and victorie & praise: for all that is in heauen and in earth is thine: thine is the kingdome, O Lord, and thou excellest as head ouer all.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:15 @ For we [are] (note:)Therefore we have this land loaned to us for a time.(:note) strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:17 @ I knowe also, my God, that thou tryest the heart, and hast pleasure in righteousnesse: I haue offred willingly in the vprightnesse of mine heart all these things: now also haue I seene thy people which are found here, to offer vnto thee willingly with ioy.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:21 @ And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with their (note:)Meaning, all kinds of liquor which they mingled with their sacrifices, as wine, oil, etc.(:note) drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

geneva@1Chronicles:29:23 @ Then Solomon sat on the (note:)This declares that the kings of Judah were figures of Christ, who was the true anointed, and to whom God gave the chief government of all things.(:note) throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:25 @ And the Lord magnified Salomon in dignitie, in the sight of all Israel, and gaue him so glorious a kingdome, as no King had before him in Israel.

geneva@1Chronicles:29:27 @ And the space that he reigned ouer Israel, was fourtie yeere: seuen yeere reigned he in Hebron, and three and thirtie yeere reigned he in Ierusalem:

geneva@1Chronicles:29:29 @ Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of (note:)The books of Nathan and Gad are thought to have been lost in the captivity.(:note) Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,

geneva@2Chronicles:1:1 @ And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly. (note:)The Argument - This second book contains in brief the contents of the two books of the kings: that is, from the reign of Solomon to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity. In this story some things are told in more detail than in the books of the kings and therefore help greatly in the understanding of the prophets. Three things are chiefly to be considered here: First, that when the godly kings saw the plagues of God prepared against their country for sin, they turned to the Lord and by earnest prayer were heard, and the plagues removed. Secondly, while the good rulers always loved the prophets of God and were zealous to set forth his religion throughout their dominions, it offended God greatly that the wicked hated his ministers, deposed them and set up idolatry and attempted served God according to the fantasy of men. Thus we have the chief acts from the beginning of the world to the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the 32nd year of Darius, in total 3568 years and six months.(:note)

geneva@2Chronicles:1:3 @ So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at (note:)Read (1Ki_3:4).(:note) Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle So called, because by it God showed signs of his presence to the congregation. of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:5 @ Moreover the (note:)Which was for the burnt offerings, (Exo_27:1).(:note) brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:6 @ And Salomon offred there before the Lord vpon the brasen altar that was in the Tabernacle of the Congregation: euen a thousand burnt offrings offred he vpon it.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:7 @ The same night did God appeare vnto Salomon, and sayde vnto him, Aske what I shall giue thee.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:8 @ And Salomon sayde vnto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy vnto Dauid my father and hast made me to reigne in his stead.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:9 @ Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be (note:)Perform your promise made to my father concerning me.(:note) established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:11 @ And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the (note:)That is, to be avenged on your enemies.(:note) life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

geneva@2Chronicles:1:12 @ Wisdome and knowledge is granted vnto thee, and I will giue thee riches and treasures and honour, so that there hath not bene the like among the Kings which were before thee, neither after thee shal there be the like.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:13 @ Then Salomon came from the hie place, that was at Gibeon, to Ierusalem from before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and reigned ouer Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:1:15 @ And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as (note:)He caused so great plenty that it was valued no more than stones.(:note) stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:2 @ And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and (note:)Which is to be understood of all sorts of officers and overseers: for else the chief officers were but 3300 as in (1Ki_5:16).(:note) six hundred to oversee them.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:3 @ And Salomon sent to Huram the king of Tyrus, saying, As thou hast done to Dauid my father, and didst sende him cedar trees to buylde him an house to dwell in, so do to me.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:4 @ Behold, I buylde an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God, to sanctifie it vnto him, and to burne sweete incense before him, and for the continuall shewbread, and for the burnt offrings of the morning and euening, on the Sabbath dayes, and in the new moneths, & in the solemne feastes of the Lorde our God: this is a perpetuall thing for Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:6 @ But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn (note:)That is, to do the service which he has commanded, signifying that no one is able to honour and serve God in the perfection his majesty deserves.(:note) sacrifice before him?

geneva@2Chronicles:2:7 @ Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man that can worke in golde, in siluer, & in brasse, and in yron, & in purple, and crimosin & blue silke, & that can graue in grauen worke with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah & in Ierusalem, whom Dauid my father hath prepared.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:10 @ And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty (note:)Of «bath» read (1Ki_7:26). It is also called ephah, but an ephah measures dry things as a bath is a measure for liquids.(:note) thousand baths of oil.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:12 @ Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a (note:)The very heavens confessed that it was a singular gift of God when he gave to any nation a king that was wise and of understanding, though it appears that this Hiram had the true knowledge of God.(:note) wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:14 @ The son of a woman of the (note:)It is also written that she was of the tribe of Naphtali, (1Ki_7:14) which may be understood that by reason of the confusion of tribes which then began to be, they married in various tribes so that by her father she might be of Dan and by her mother of Naphtali.(:note) daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

geneva@2Chronicles:2:16 @ And we wil cut wood in Lebanon as much as thou shalt neede, and will bring it to thee in raftes by the sea to Iapho, so thou mayest cary them to Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:1 @ Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount (note:)Which is the mountain where Abraham was thought to have sacrificed his son, (Gen_22:2).(:note) Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:3 @ Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first (note:)According to the whole length of the temple,(:note) measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:4 @ And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the (note:)It contained as much as the breadth of the temple did, (1Ki_6:3).(:note) breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an From the foundation to the top: for in the book of the kings mention is made from the foundation to the first stage. hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:6 @ And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of (note:)Some think it is Peru.(:note) Parvaim.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:8 @ He made also the house of the most holy place: the length thereof was in the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, & the breadth thereof twentie cubites: and he ouerlayde it with the best golde, of sixe hundreth talents.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:9 @ And the weight of the nayles was fiftie shekels of golde, and hee ouerlayde the chambers with golde.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:11 @ And the winges of the Cherubims were twentie cubites long: the one wing was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing fiue cubites, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:12 @ Likewise the wing of ye other Cherub was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house, & the other wing fiue cubites ioyning to the wing of the other Cherub.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:15 @ Also he made before the house two pillars of (note:)Every one was eighteen cubits long, but the half cubit could not be seen, for it was hid in the roundness of the chapiter, and therefore he gives to every one only 17 and a half.(:note) thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.

geneva@2Chronicles:3:16 @ And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the pillars; and made an (note:)For every pillar a hundred, read (1Ki_7:20).(:note) hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:1 @ And hee made an altar of brasse twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten cubites hie.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:2 @ Also he made a molten (note:)A great vessel of brass, so called because of the great quantity of water which it contained, (1Ki_7:24).(:note) sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:3 @ And under (note:)Meaning, under the brim of the sea, (1Ki_7:24).(:note) it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: In the length of every cubit were ten heads or knops which in all are 300. ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:4 @ It stoode vpon twelue oxen: three looked toward the North, and three looked towarde the West, and three looked towarde the South, and three looked towarde the East, and the Sea stoode about vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inwarde.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:5 @ And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held (note:)In the first book of the kings, (1Ki_7:26), mention is only made of 2000, but the lesser number was taken there, and here according as the measures proved afterwards, is declared.(:note) three thousand baths.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:6 @ He made also ten caldrons, and put fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left, to wash in them, and to clense in them that which apperteined to the burnt offrings: but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:7 @ And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to (note:)Even as they should be made.(:note) their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:8 @ And he made ten tables, & put them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, & fiue on the left: and he made an hundreth basens of golde.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:9 @ Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great (note:)Called also the porch of Solomon, (Act_3:11). It is also taken for the temple where Christ preached, (Mat_21:23).(:note) court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:10 @ And he set the Sea on the right side Eastward toward the South.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:11 @ And Huram made pottes and besoms and basens, and Huram finished the worke that hee shoulde make for King Salomon for the house of God,

geneva@2Chronicles:4:14 @ He made also bases, and made caldrons vpon the bases:

geneva@2Chronicles:4:16 @ The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram (note:)Whom Solomon reverenced for the gifts that God had given him, as a father; he had the same name as Huram the king of Tyrus, his mother was a Jewess, and his father a Tyrian. Some read, for his father, the author of this work.(:note) his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:17 @ In the playne of Iorden did the King cast them in clay betweene Succoth & Zeredathah.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:18 @ And Salomon made al these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of brasse could not be rekoned.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:19 @ And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the (note:)In Hebrew, the bread of the faces because they were set before the ark, where the Lord showed his presence.(:note) shewbread [was set];

geneva@2Chronicles:4:21 @ And the floures and the lampes, and the snuffers of gold, which was fine golde.

geneva@2Chronicles:4:22 @ And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the temple, [were (note:)That is, covered with plates of gold.(:note) of] gold.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:1 @ So was all the worke finished that Salomon made for the house of the Lord, and Salomon brought in the things that Dauid his father had dedicated, with the siluer and the golde, and all the vessels, and put them among the treasures of the house of God.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:2 @ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the (note:)Read (2Sa_6:12).(:note) city of David, which [is] Zion.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:3 @ Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the (note:)When the things were dedicated and brought into the temple.(:note) feast which [was] in the seventh Called in Hebrew Ethanim, containing part of September and part of October, (1Ki_8:2), which moves the Jews called the first month, because they say that the world was created in that month, and after they came from Egypt, they began at March: but because this opinion is uncertain, we always make March the first as the best writers do. month.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:6 @ And King Salomon & all the Congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him, were before ye Arke, offring sheepe & bullocks, which could not be told nor nobred for multitude.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:10 @ [There was] nothing in the ark save (note:)For Aaron's rod and manna were taken from there before it was brought to this place.(:note) the two tables which Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

geneva@2Chronicles:5:11 @ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were (note:)Were prepared to serve the Lord.(:note) sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:

geneva@2Chronicles:5:12 @ And the Leuites the singers of all sortes, as of Asaph, of Heman, of Ieduthun, and of their sonnes and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen, stoode with cymbales, and with violes and harpes at the East ende of the altar, and with them an hundreth and twentie Priestes blowing with trumpets:

geneva@2Chronicles:5:13 @ It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] (note:)They all played the same tune.(:note) as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, [saying], This was the effect of their songs, (Psa_118:1, Psa_136:1). For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD;

geneva@2Chronicles:6:7 @ And it was in the heart of Dauid my father to builde an house vnto the Name of the Lord God of Israel,

geneva@2Chronicles:6:8 @ But the Lorde sayde to Dauid my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to buylde an house vnto my Name, thou diddest well, that thou wast so minded.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:10 @ And the Lorde hath performed his worde that he spake: and I am risen vp in the roume of Dauid my father, and am set on the throne of Israel as the Lord promised, & haue built an house to the Name of the Lord God of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:12 @ And (note:)On a scaffold that was made for that purpose, that he praying for the whole people might be heard by all, as in (1Ki_8:22).(:note) he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

geneva@2Chronicles:6:13 @ For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and (note:)Both to give thanks for the great benefits of God bestowed on him, and also to pray for the perseverance and prosperity of his people.(:note) spread forth his hands toward heaven,

geneva@2Chronicles:6:15 @ Thou that hast kept with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou hast promised him: for thou spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as appeareth this day.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:16 @ Therefore now Lord God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou hast promised him, saying, Thou shalt not want a man in my sight, that shall sit vpon the throne of Israel: so that thy sonnes take heede to their wayes, to walke in my Lawe, as thou hast walked before me.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:20 @ That thine (note:)That you may declare in effect that you have a continual care over this place.(:note) eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:22 @ If a man sin against his (note:)By retaining anything from him, or by denying that which he has left him to keep, or do him any wrong.(:note) neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

geneva@2Chronicles:6:23 @ Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way (note:)Meaning, to give him that which he has deserved.(:note) upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:27 @ Then heare thou in heauen, and pardon the sinne of thy seruants, and of thy people Israel (when thou hast taught them the good way wherein they may walke) and giue rayne vpon thy lande, which thou hast giuen vnto thy people for an inheritance.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:28 @ When there shalbe famine in the land, when there shalbe pestilence, blasting, or mildew, when there shall be grashopper, or caterpiller, when their enemie shall besiege them in the cities of their land, or any plague or any sickenesse,

geneva@2Chronicles:6:29 @ Then what prayer and supplication so euer shalbe made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, whe euery one shall knowe his owne plague, and his owne disease, and shall stretch forth his hands toward this house,

geneva@2Chronicles:6:31 @ That they may feare thee, and walke in thy wayes as long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:34 @ If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that (note:)Meaning, that no one should enterprise any war, but at the Lord's command, that is, which is lawful by his word.(:note) thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

geneva@2Chronicles:6:38 @ If they turne againe to thee with all their heart, and with all their soule in the land of their captiuitie, whither they haue caryed them captiues, and pray toward their land, which thou gauest vnto their fathers, & toward the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I haue built for thy Name,

geneva@2Chronicles:7:1 @ Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the (note:)By this God declared that he was pleased with Solomon's prayer.(:note) fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:3 @ And when all the children of Israel saw the fire, and the glory of the Lord come downe vpon the house, they bowed themselues with their faces to the earth vpon the pauement, and worshipped and praysed the Lord, saying, For he is good, because his mercy lasteth for euer.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:6 @ And the Priests waited on their offices, and the Leuites with the instruments of musicke of the Lorde, which King Dauid had made to praise the Lord, Because his mercy lasteth for euer: whe Dauid praysed God by them, the Priestes also blewe trumpets ouer against them: and all they of Israel stoode by.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:7 @ Moreouer Salomon halowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there hee had prepared burnt offerings, and the fatte of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Salomon had made, was not able to receiue the burnt offering, and the meate offring, and the fat.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:8 @ Also at the same time Solomon kept (note:)The feast of the tabernacles which was kept in the seventh month.(:note) the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:9 @ And in the eighth day they (note:)They assembled to hear the word of God, after they had remained seven days in the booths or tabernacles.(:note) made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:13 @ If I shut the heauen that there be no raine, or if I commaunde the grashopper to deuoure the lande, or if I sende pestilence among my people,

geneva@2Chronicles:7:14 @ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will (note:)I will cause the pestilence to cease and destroy the beasts that hurt the fruit of the earth, and send rain in due season.(:note) heal their land.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:17 @ And if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, to doe according vnto all that I haue commanded thee, and shalt obserue my statutes and my iudgements,

geneva@2Chronicles:7:18 @ Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdome, according as I made the couenant with Dauid thy father, saying, Thou shalt not want a man to be ruler in Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:20 @ Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have (note:)Declaring that God had more concern for their salvation than for the advancement of his own glory: and where men abuse those things which God has appointed to set forth his praise, he withdraws his graces.(:note) sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.

geneva@2Chronicles:7:21 @ And this house which is most hie, shall be an astonishment to euery one that passeth by it, so that he shall say, Why hath the Lorde done thus to this lande, and to this house?

geneva@2Chronicles:8:1 @ And it came to pass at the end of (note:)Signifying that he was 20 years in building them.(:note) twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

geneva@2Chronicles:8:2 @ That the cities which Huram had (note:)That is, which Hiram gave again to Solomon because they did not please him and therefore called them Cabul, that is, dirt or filth, (1Ki_9:13).(:note) restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:4 @ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the (note:)Meaning of munitions and treasures for the war.(:note) store cities, which he built in Hamath.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:6 @ Also Baalath, and al the cities of store that Salomon had, and all the charet cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and euery pleasaunt place that Salomon had a minde to builde in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the lande of his dominion.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:13 @ Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, (note:)Read (Leviticus. strkjv@23:1-44).(:note) three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:14 @ And he set the courses of the Priestes to their offices, according to the order of Dauid his father, and the Leuites in their watches, for to praise and minister before the Priestes euery day, and the porters by their courses, at euery gate: for so was the commandement of Dauid the man of God.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:15 @ And they declined not from the commandement of the King, concerning the Priests and the Leuites, touching al things, and touching the treasures.

geneva@2Chronicles:8:16 @ Now all the (note:)Both for the matte and also for the workmanship.(:note) work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:1 @ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to (note:)To know whether his wisdom was as great as the report was.(:note) prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:2 @ And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was (note:)There was no question so hard that he did not resolve.(:note) nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:4 @ And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruants, and the order of his wayters, and their apparel, and his butlers, and their apparel, & his burnt offrings which he offred in the house of the Lorde, and she was greatly astonied.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:5 @ And she saide to the King, It was a true worde which I heard in mine owne lande of thy sayings, and of thy wisedome:

geneva@2Chronicles:9:6 @ Howbeit I beleeued not their report, vntil I came, and mine eyes had seene it: & beholde, the one halfe of thy great wisedom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:9 @ Then she gaue the King sixe score talents of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much & precious stones: neither was there such sweete odours since, as the Queene of Sheba gaue vnto King Salomon.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:12 @ And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, (note:)That is, which the king gave her for recompense of the treasure which she brought.(:note) beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:13 @ Also the weight of golde that came to Salomon in one yeere, was sixe hundreth three score and sixe talents of golde,

geneva@2Chronicles:9:18 @ And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] (note:)That is, the steps and the footstool were fastened to the throne.(:note) fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the Upon the pommels or knops. stays:

geneva@2Chronicles:9:19 @ And twelue lyons stoode there on the sixe steps on either side: there was not the like made in any kingdome.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:20 @ And all King Salomons drinking vessels were of golde, and all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold: for siluer was nothing esteemed in ye dayes of Salomo.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:25 @ And Solomon had (note:)That is, ten horses in every stable, which in all amounts to 40,000 as in (1Ki_4:26).(:note) four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:27 @ And the king made silver in Jerusalem (note:)The abundance of those temporal treasures in Solomon's kingdom is a figure of the spiritual treasures which the elect will enjoy in the heavens under the true Solomon, Christ.(:note) as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance.

geneva@2Chronicles:9:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer (note:)That is, who prophesied against him.(:note) against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

geneva@2Chronicles:10:2 @ And when Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat heard it, (which was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Salomon the King) he returned out of Egypt.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:4 @ Thy father (note:)That is, handled us rudely, it seems that God hardened their hearts, so that they murmured without cause, which declares also the inconstancy of the people.(:note) made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:7 @ And they spake vnto him, saying, If thou be kinde to this people, and please them, and speake louing words to them, they will be thy seruants for euer.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:10 @ And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My (note:)Or, little finger, meaning that he was of far greater power than his father was.(:note) little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:11 @ Now whereas my father did burden you with a grieuous yoke, I will yet increase your yoke: my father hath chastised you with roddes, but I will correct you with scourges.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:12 @ Then Ieroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the King had appointed saying, Come againe to me the third day.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:14 @ And spake to them after ye counsell of the yong men, saying, My father made your yoke grieuous, but I wil incease it: my father chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:15 @ So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the (note:)God's will overrides all so that nothing can be done but according to the same, and yet man's will works by itself, so that he cannot use the excuse that his deed was of God's ordinance.(:note) cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

geneva@2Chronicles:10:18 @ Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was ouer the tribute, and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died: then King Rehoboham made speede to get him vp to his charet, to flee to Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:1 @ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and (note:)That is, the half tribe of Benjamin for the other half went after Jeroboam.(:note) Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against Meaning the ten tribes who rebelled. Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:13 @ And the Priests and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted vnto him out of all their coastes.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:14 @ For the Leuites left their suburbes & their possession, and came to Iudah and to Ierusalem: for Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them out from ministring in the Priestes office vnto the Lorde.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:16 @ And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their (note:)Who were zealous of true religion and feared God.(:note) hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:17 @ So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they (note:)As long as they feared God, and set forth his word, they prospered.(:note) walked in the way of David and Solomon.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:1 @ And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and (note:)For such is the inconstancy of the people, that for the most part they follow the vices of their governors.(:note) all Israel with him.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and (note:)Signifying that no calamity can come to us unless we forsake God, and that he never leaves us till we have cast him off.(:note) therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:8 @ Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my (note:)He shows that God's punishments are not to utterly destroy his, but to chastise them, to bring them to the knowledge of themselves, and to know how much better it is to serve God than tyrants.(:note) service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:9 @ Then Shishak King of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem, and tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house he tooke euen all, and hee caried away the shields of golde, which Salomon had made.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:10 @ In stead whereof King Rehoboam made shieldes of brasse, and committed them to the handes of the chiefe of the garde, that wayted at the doore of the Kings house.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:13 @ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned (note:)That is, twelve years after he had been overcome by Shishak, (2Ch_12:2).(:note) seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:15 @ The actes also of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the booke of Shemaiah the Prophet, and Iddo the Seer, in rehearsing the genealogie? and there was warre alway betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam.

geneva@2Chronicles:12:16 @ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid, and Abiiah his sonne reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:2 @ He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] (note:)Or Maacah, (1Ki_15:2).(:note) Michaiah the daughter of Called also Absalom, for Absalom was her grandfather, (1Ki_15:2). Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:4 @ And Abijah stood up upon mount (note:)Which was one of the peaks of mount Ephraim.(:note) Zemaraim, which [is] in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

geneva@2Chronicles:13:7 @ And there are gathered unto him (note:)This word in the Chaldee tongue is Racha, which our saviour uses, (Mat_5:22).(:note) vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was Meaning, in heart and courage. young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:9 @ Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a (note:)He shows the nature of idolaters who take no trial of the calling, life and doctrine of their ministers, but think the most vile and greatest beasts sufficient to serve their turn.(:note) young bullock and seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:11 @ And they burn unto the LORD every (note:)As it was appointed in the law, (Exo_29:39).(:note) morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also [set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:12 @ And, behold, God himself [is] (note:)Because their cause was good and approved by the Lord, they did not doubt the success and victory.(:note) with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:13 @ But Jeroboam caused an ambushment (note:)Contemning the good counsel which came from the Spirit of God, he thought to have overcome by deceit.(:note) to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind them.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:14 @ Then Iudah looked, and beholde, the battel was before and behinde them, and they cried vnto the Lorde, and the Priests blewe with the trumpets,

geneva@2Chronicles:13:15 @ And the men of Iudah gaue a shoute: and euen as the men of Iudah shouted, God smote Ieroboam and also Israel before Abiiah and Iudah.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:18 @ Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, (note:)He shows that the stay of all kingdoms and assurance of victories depends on our trust and confidence in the Lord.(:note) because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:1 @ So Abiiah slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid, and Asa his sonne reigned in his steade: in whose dayes the lande was quiet ten yeere.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:2 @ And Asa did that was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:5 @ Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was (note:)He shows that the rest and quietness of kingdoms stands in abolishing idolatry and advancing true religion.(:note) quiet before him.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:6 @ He built also strong cities in Iudah, because the lande was in rest, and he had no warre in those yeeres: for the Lord had giuen him rest.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:8 @ And Asa had an armie of Iudah that bare shieldes and speares, three hundreth thousande, and of Beniamin that bare shieldes and drewe bowes, two hundreth and foure score thousande: all these were valiant men.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:9 @ And there came out against them Zerah the (note:)The king of Ethiopia, or Egypt.(:note) Ethiopian with an host of a million, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Which was a city in Judah, (Jos_15:44) where Michaiah the prophet was born. Mareshah.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:10 @ Then Asa went out before him, and they set the battell in aray in the valley of Zephathah beside Mareshah.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:11 @ And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God; (note:)Thus the children of God neither trust in their own power or policy, nor fear the strength and subtilty of their enemies, but consider the cause and see whether their enterprises tend to God's glory, and thereupon assure themselves of the victory by him, who alone is Almighty and can turn all flesh into dust with the breath of his mouth.(:note) let not man prevail against thee.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:12 @ So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Iudah, and the Ethiopians fled.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:13 @ And Asa and the people that was with him, pursued them vnto Gerar; the Ethiopians hoste was ouerthrowen, so that there was no life in them: for they were destroyed before the Lorde and before his hoste: and they caryed away a mightie great spoyle.

geneva@2Chronicles:14:14 @ And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the (note:)The Lord had stricken them with fear.(:note) fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:1 @ And the Spirit of God came upon (note:)Who was called Obed as his father was, (2Ch_15:8).(:note) Azariah the son of Oded:

geneva@2Chronicles:15:2 @ And he went out to meete Asa, and said vnto him, O Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, heare ye me. The Lorde is with you, while ye be with him: and if ye seeke him, he wil be founde of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:3 @ Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the (note:)For the space of twelve years under Rehoboam, and three years under Abijah, religion was neglected, and idolatry planted.(:note) true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:4 @ But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he (note:)He shows that despite the wickedness of tyrants and their rage, yet God has his whom he hears in their tribulation as he delivered his from Zerah king of the Ethiopians, (2Ch_14:9, 2Ch_14:12) and out of all other dangers, when they called upon the Lord.(:note) was found of them.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:5 @ And in that time there was no peace to him, that did goe out and goe in: but great troubles were to all the inhabitants of the earth.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:6 @ For nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God troubled them with all aduersitie.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:8 @ And when Asa heard these wordes, and the prophesie of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away the abominations out of all the lande of Iudah, and Beniamin, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephraim, and he renued the altar of the Lorde, that was before the porche of the Lorde.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:9 @ And he gathered all Iudah and Beniamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for there fell many to him out of Israel, when they sawe that the Lorde his God was with him.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:10 @ So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the (note:)Called Shiuam, containing part of May and part of June.(:note) third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:15 @ And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was (note:)As long as they served him correctly, so long did he preserve and prosper them.(:note) found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:16 @ And also [concerning] Maachah the (note:)Or grandmother, and in this he showed that he lacked zeal, for she should have died both by the covenant, as (2Ch_15:13) and by the law of God, but he gave place to foolish pity and would also seem after a sort to satisfy the law.(:note) mother of Asa the king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:17 @ But the high places were not (note:)Which was partly because of lack of zeal on his part, partly through the negligence of his officers and partly by the superstition of the people that all were not taken away.(:note) taken away out of Because God was called the God of Israel, by reason of his promise to Jacob, therefore Israel is sometimes taken for Judah, because Judah was his chief people. Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was In respect to his predecessors. perfect all his days.

geneva@2Chronicles:15:19 @ And there was no warre vnto the fiue and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:1 @ In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa (note:)Who reigned after Nadab the son of Jeroboam.(:note) Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built He fortified it with walls and ditches: it was a city in Benjamin near Gibeon. Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:2 @ Then Asa brought out siluer and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lorde, and of the Kings house, and sent to Benhadad King of Aram that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

geneva@2Chronicles:16:3 @ [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, (note:)He thought to repulse his adversary by an unlawful means, that is, by seeking help from infidels, as they who seek the help of Turks, thinking by it to make themselves stronger.(:note) break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:4 @ And Benhadad hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines of the armies which hee had, against the cities of Israel; they smote Iion, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:5 @ And when Baasha heard it, he left building of Ramah, and let his worke cease.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:6 @ Then Asa the King tooke all Iudah, and caryed away the stones of Ramah and the tymber thereof, wherewith Baasha did builde, and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:7 @ And at that same time Hanani the Seer came to Asa King of Iudah, and saide vnto him, Because thou hast rested vpon the king of Aram, and not rested in the Lorde thy God, therefore is the hoste of the King of Aram escaped out of thine hande.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:9 @ For the eyes of the Lorde beholde all the earth to shewe him selfe strong with them that are of perfite heart towarde him: thou hast then done foolishly in this: therefore from henceforth thou shalt haue warres.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:10 @ Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] (note:)Thus instead of turning to God in repentance, he disdained the admonition of the prophet, and punished him, as the wicked do when they are told of their faults.(:note) in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:11 @ And behold, the actes of Asa first and last, loe, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:12 @ And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] (note:)God plagued his rebellion and by this declared that it is nothing to begin well, unless we continue to the end, that is, zealous of God's glory and put our whole trust in him.(:note) exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the He shows that it is useless to seek the physicians unless we first seek God to purge our sins, which are the chief cause of all our diseases, and later use the help of the physicians as a means by which God works. physicians.

geneva@2Chronicles:16:13 @ So Asa slept with his fathers, and dyed in the one and fourtieth yeere of his reigne.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:2 @ And he put garisons in all the strong cities of Iudah, and set bandes in the lande of Iudah and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:3 @ And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the (note:)That is, his virtues meaning before he had committed with Bathsheba, and against Uriah.(:note) first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Did not seek help from strange Gods. Baalim;

geneva@2Chronicles:17:6 @ And his heart was (note:)He gave himself wholly to serve the Lord.(:note) lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:7 @ Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to (note:)He knew it was in vain to profess religion, unless such were appointed who could instruct the people in the same, and had authority to put away all idolatry.(:note) teach in the cities of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:8 @ And with them Leuites, Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehonathan, and Adoniiah, and Tobiiah, and Tob-adoniiah, Leuites, and with the Elishama and Iehoram Priestes.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:16 @ And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, (note:)Meaning, who was a Nazarite.(:note) who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:3 @ And Ahab King of Israel saide vnto Iehoshaphat King of Iudah, Wilt thou goe with mee to Ramoth Gilead? And hee answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people, and wee will ioyne with thee in the warre.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:5 @ Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of (note:)Who were the prophets of Baal, signifying that the wicked esteem none but liars and such as will bear with their inordinate affections.(:note) prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:7 @ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I (note:)Yet the true ministers of God should not cease to do their duty, even though the wicked magistrates cannot abide them speaking the truth.(:note) hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say Meaning, that he should not refuse to hear any that was from God. so.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:12 @ And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one (note:)Thinking, that since four hundred prophets had agreed in one thing, that he being but one man and in least estimation, did not dare to go against it.(:note) assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:13 @ And Michaiah saide, As the Lorde liueth, whatsoeuer my God saith, that will I speake.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:14 @ And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, (note:)He spoke this in derision of the false prophets as the king well knew.(:note) Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:16 @ Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, (note:)He prophesied of how the people would be scattered and Ahab slain.(:note) These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to his house in peace.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:23 @ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the (note:)By this cruelty his ambition and hypocrisy was discovered; thus the hypocrites boast of the Spirit which they do not have, and declare their malice against them on whom the true Spirit is.(:note) cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

geneva@2Chronicles:18:25 @ And the King of Israel sayde, Take ye Michaiah, and cary him to Amon the gouernour of the citie, and to Ioash the Kings sonne,

geneva@2Chronicles:18:31 @ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat (note:)He cried to the Lord by acknowledging his fault in going with this wicked king to war against the word of the Lord by his prophet and also by desiring mercy for the same.(:note) cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:32 @ For when the captaines of the charets saw that hee was not the King of Israel, they turned backe from him.

geneva@2Chronicles:18:34 @ And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel (note:)He disguised his wound that his soldiers might fight more courageously.(:note) stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

geneva@2Chronicles:19:3 @ Neuertheles good things are found in thee, because thou hast taken away ye groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God.

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

geneva@2Chronicles:19:11 @ And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the (note:)Shall be chief overseer of the public affairs of the realm.(:note) king's matters: also the Levites [shall be] officers They will have the handling of inferior causes. before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the God will assist them that do justice. good.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:1 @ It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the (note:)That is, who copied the Ammonites in language and apparel. The Hebrews thought that they were the Amalekites, but as it appeared by (2Ch_20:10) they were the Idumeans of mount Seir.(:note) Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:3 @ And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself (note:)This declares what the fear of the godly is, which is the prick to stir them to prayer and to depend on the Lord, while it moves the wicked either to seek after worldly means and policies or else to fall into despair.(:note) to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:4 @ And Iudah gathered them selues together to aske counsel of the Lord: they came euen out of all the cities of Iudah to inquire of the Lord,

geneva@2Chronicles:20:7 @ [Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and (note:)He grounds his prayer on God's power, by which he is able to help and also on his mercy, which he will continue toward his, as he has once chosen them and began to show his graces toward them.(:note) gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

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

geneva@2Chronicles:20:10 @ And now beholde, the children of Ammon and Moab, and mount Seir, by whome thou wouldest not let Israel goe, when they came out of the land of Egypt: but they turned aside from them, and destroyed them not:

geneva@2Chronicles:20:11 @ Behold, I say, they reward vs, in coming to cast vs out of thine inheritance, which thou hast caused vs to inherit.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:14 @ Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came (note:)Who was moved by the Spirit of God to prophecy.(:note) the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

geneva@2Chronicles:20:15 @ And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the (note:)They fight against God and not against you, therefore he will fight for you.(:note) battle [is] not yours, but God's.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:20 @ And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his (note:)Give credit to their words and doctrine.(:note) prophets, so shall ye prosper.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:21 @ And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, (note:)This was a psalm of thanksgiving which they used commonly to sing when they praised the Lord for his benefits, and was made by David, (Psa. strkjv@136:1-26).(:note) Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:25 @ And when Iehoshaphat & his people came to take away the spoyle of them, they founde among them in abundance both of substance and also of bodies laden with precious iewels, which they tooke for themselues, till they could cary no more: they were three dayes in gathering of the spoyle: for it was much.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:26 @ And on the fourth day they (note:)To give thanks to the Lord for the victory: and therefore the valley was called Berachah, that is, blessing or thanksgiving, which was also called the valley of Jehoshaphat, (Joe_3:2, Joe_3:12) because the Lord judged the enemies according to Jehoshaphat's prayer.(:note) assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:29 @ And the (note:)He declares by this that the works of God always bring comfort or deliverance to his, and fear or destruction to his enemies.(:note) fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:30 @ So the kingdom of Iehoshaphat was quiet, and his God gaue him rest on euery side.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:31 @ And Iehoshaphat reigned ouer Iudah, and was fiue and thirtie yeere olde, when he began to reigne: and reigned fiue and twentie yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:32 @ And he walked in the way of (note:)Meaning, in his virtues, and those ways in which he followed God.(:note) Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:33 @ Howbeit the high places were (note:)If the great care and diligence of this good king was not able to utterly abolish all the superstition of this people, but they still retained it, how much less are they able to reform evil, who either have little zeal, or not as he had: though here he was not to be excused?(:note) not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:34 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoshaphat first and last, beholde, they are written in the booke of Iehu the sonne of Hanani, which is mentioned in the booke of the kings of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:35 @ Yet after this did Iehoshaphat King of Iudah ioyne himselfe with Ahaziah King of Israel, who was giuen to do euill.

geneva@2Chronicles:20:37 @ Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast (note:)Thus God would not have his join in company with idolaters and wicked men.(:note) joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:1 @ Iehoshaphat then slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his steade.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:3 @ And their father gaue them great giftes of siluer and of golde, and of precious things, with strong cities in Iudah, but the kingdome gaue he to Iehoram: for he was the eldest.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:4 @ Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and (note:)Because the wicked always live in fear, and also are ambitious, they become cruel and spare not to murder them, whom by nature they ought most to cherish and defend.(:note) slew all his brethren with the sword, and [divers] also of the princes of Meaning, of Judah and Benjamin. Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:5 @ Iehoram was two and thirtie yeere olde, when he began to reigne, and he reigned eyght yeere in Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:6 @ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to (note:)So that we see how it cannot be that we should join with the wicked and serve God.(:note) wife: and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:9 @ And Iehoram went forth with his princes, and all his charets with him: and hee rose vp by night, & smote Edom, which had compassed him in, and the captaines of the charets.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:11 @ Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit (note:)Meaning, idolatry because the idolater breaks promise with God as the adulteress does to her husband.(:note) fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].

geneva@2Chronicles:21:12 @ And there came a writing to him from (note:)Some think that this was Elisha so called because he had the Spirit in abundance, as had Elijah.(:note) Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

geneva@2Chronicles:21:13 @ But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, & hast made Iudah & the inhabitantes of Ierusalem to go a whoring, as the house of Ahab went a whoring, & hast also slaine thy brethre of thy fathers house, which were better then thou,

geneva@2Chronicles:21:15 @ And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until (note:)We see this example daily practised on them who fall away from God, and become idolaters and murderers of their brethren.(:note) thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:17 @ And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save (note:)Called also Ahaziah, as in (2Ch_22:1) or Azariah in (2Ch_22:6).(:note) Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:18 @ And after all this, the Lorde smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:19 @ And in processe of time, euen after the end of two yeeres, his guttes fell out with his disease: so he dyed of sore diseases: & his people made no burning for him like the burning of his fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:21:20 @ Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, (note:)That is, as some write, he was not regarded but deposed for his wickedness and idolatry so that his son reigned 22 years (his father yet living) without honour, and after his father's death he was confirmed to reign still, as in (2Ch_22:2).(:note) and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:4 @ Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his (note:)He shows that it follows that the rulers are as their counsellors are and that there cannot be a good king who allows wicked counsellors.(:note) counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:6 @ And he returned to be healed in Izreel, because of the woundes wherewith they had wounded him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael King of Aram. Nowe Azariah the sonne of Iehoram King of Iudah went downe to see Iehoram the sonne of Ahab at Izreel, because hee was diseased.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:7 @ And the destruction of Ahaziah (note:)By this we see that nothing can come to any but by God's providence and as he has appointed, and therefore he causes everything to serve his purposes.(:note) was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:9 @ And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of (note:)This was the just plague of God because he joined himself with God's enemies: yet God to declare the worthiness of Jehoshaphat his grandfather moved them to give him the honour of burial.(:note) Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:10 @ But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and (note:)So that there would be no one to claim the crown and so she might usurp the government.(:note) destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:11 @ But Iehoshabeath the daughter of ye King, tooke Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah, and stale him from among the Kings sonnes, that shoulde be slayne, & put him & his nource in the bed chamber: so Iehoshabeath the daughter of King Iehoram the wife of Iehoiada the Priest (for shee was the sister of Ahaziah) hid him from Athaliah: so she slew him not.

geneva@2Chronicles:22:12 @ And he was with them hid in the (note:)Meaning, in the chamber where the priests and Levites slept, who kept their courses weekly in the temple.(:note) house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the That is, of Judah. land.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:1 @ And (note:)Of the reign of Athaliah or after the death of Ahaziah.(:note) in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:3 @ And al the Congregation made a couenant with the King in the house of God: and he sayde vnto them, Behold, the Kings sonne must reigne, as the Lord hath sayd of the sonnes of Dauid.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:5 @ And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the (note:)Which was the chief gate of the temple toward the east.(:note) foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:7 @ And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else] cometh (note:)Meaning to make any tumult, or to hinder their enterprise.(:note) into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:11 @ Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and [gave him] the (note:)That is, the book of the law or as some read they put on him his royal apparel.(:note) testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:13 @ And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, (note:)Declaring her vile impudency who having unjustly and by murder usurped the crown would still have defeated the true possessor and therefore called true obedience treason.(:note) Treason, Treason.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:15 @ So they layde hands on her: and when she was come to the entring of the horsegate by the Kings house, they slew her there.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:17 @ Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and (note:)According to their covenant made to the Lord.(:note) brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew As the Lord commanded in his law both for the person and also the city, (Deu_13:9, Deu_13:15). Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:18 @ And Iehoiada appointed officers for the house of the Lorde, vnder the handes of the Priestes and Leuites, whome Dauid had distributed for the house of the Lorde, to offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with reioycing and singing by the appoyntment of Dauid.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:19 @ And he set porters by the gates of ye house of the Lord, that none that was vncleane in any thing, should enter in.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:20 @ And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the (note:)Which was the principal gate that the king might be seen by all the people.(:note) high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

geneva@2Chronicles:23:21 @ And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, (note:)For where a tyrant and an idolater reigns there can be no peace for the plagues of God are always among such people.(:note) after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:1 @ Ioash was seuen yere olde, when he began to reigne, & he reigned fourty yeere in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:2 @ And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all the days of (note:)Who was a faithful counsellor and governed him by the word of God.(:note) Jehoiada the priest.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:4 @ And afterward it came into Ioash mind, to renew the house of the Lord.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:5 @ And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all (note:)He does not mean the ten tribes but only the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin.(:note) Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened [it] not.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:6 @ And the king called for Jehoiada the (note:)For he was the high priest.(:note) chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

geneva@2Chronicles:24:7 @ For the sons of Athaliah, that (note:)The scriptures call her wicked because she was a cruel murderer and a blasphemous idolater.(:note) wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:10 @ And all the princes and all the people reioyced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, vntill they had finished.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:11 @ Now it came to pass, that at what time (note:)Such as were faithful men whom the king had appointed for that matter.(:note) the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that [there was] much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:12 @ And the king and (note:)Signifying that this was done by advise and counsel and not by any one man's desire.(:note) Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:15 @ But Iehoiada waxed olde, and was ful of dayes and dyed. An hundreth and thirtie yeere olde was he when he dyed.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:17 @ Now after the death of Jehoiada came the (note:)Who were liars and knew now that the king was destitute of him who watched over him as a father, and therefore brought him to most vile idolatry.(:note) princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:18 @ And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and serued groues and idoles: & wrath came vpon Iudah and Ierusalem, because of this their trespasse.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:21 @ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the (note:)There is no rage so cruel and beastly as of them whose hearts God has hardened, and who delight more in superstition and idolatry than in the true service of God and pure simplicity of his word.(:note) commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:22 @ Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD (note:)Avenge my death and require my blood at your hands: or he speaks this by prophecy because he knew that God would do it. This Zachariah is also called the son of Barachias, (Mat_23:35) because his progenitors were Iddo, Berachiah, Jehoiada.(:note) look upon [it], and require [it].

geneva@2Chronicles:24:23 @ And when the yeere was out, the host of Aram came vp against him, and they came against Iudah and Ierusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoyle of them vnto the King of Damascus.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:24 @ For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they (note:)That is, reproved and checked him, and handled him rigorously.(:note) executed judgment against Joash.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:25 @ And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the (note:)Meaning Zachariah, who was one of Jehoiada's sons and a prophet of the Lord.(:note) sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:1 @ Amaziah was fiue and twentie yere old when he began to reigne, and he reigned nine and twentie yeere in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Iehoaddan, of Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:2 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)Meaning, in respect to his predecessors, though he had his imperfections.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:3 @ And when the kingdome was established vnto him, he slewe his seruants, that had slaine the King his father.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:4 @ But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the (note:)That is, for the fault the child is punished for unless he is guilty of the same.(:note) children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:5 @ Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from (note:)So many as were able to bear weapons and go to war.(:note) twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:7 @ But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not (note:)Therefore to think to have help from them, whom the Lord does not favour, is to cast off the help of the Lord.(:note) with Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:8 @ But (note:)If you will not give credit to my words.(:note) if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:10 @ So Amaziah separated them, to wit, the armie that was come to him out of Ephraim, to returne to their place: wherefore their wrath was kindled greatly against Iudah, and they returned to their places with great anger.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:12 @ And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the (note:)In (2Ki_14:7) this rock is called the city Sela.(:note) rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:14 @ Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up [to be] his gods, and (note:)That where he should have praised God for his benefits and great victory, he fell from God and most vilely dishonoured him.(:note) bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:15 @ Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not (note:)He proves that whatever cannot save himself nor his worshipper is no god but an idol.(:note) deliver their own people out of thine hand?

geneva@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that (note:)Meaning the king.(:note) [the king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be So hard it is, for the carnal man to be admonished for his fault, that he condemns, mocks and threatens him who warns him: yea, imprisons him and puts him to death, (2Ch_16:10, 2Ch_18:26, 2Ch_24:21). smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:17 @ Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, (note:)That is, let us try the matter hand to hand: for he was offended, that the army of the Israelites whom he had in wages and dismissed by the counsel of the prophet, had destroyed certain of the cities of Judah.(:note) let us see one another in the face.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:18 @ But Ioash King of Israel sent to Amaziah King of Iudah, saying, The thistle that is in Lebanon, sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Giue thy daughter to my sonne to wife: and the wilde beast that was in Lebanon went and trode downe the thistle.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:19 @ Thou thinkest: lo, thou hast smitten Edom, and thine heart lifteth thee vp to bragge: abide now at home: why doest thou prouoke to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, and Iudah with thee?

geneva@2Chronicles:25:21 @ So Ioash the King of Israel went vp: and he, and Amaziah King of Iudah saw one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which is in Iudah.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:22 @ And Iudah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled euery man to his tents.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:23 @ But Ioash the King of Israel tooke Amaziah King of Iudah, the sonne of Ioash, the sonne of Iehoahaz in Bethshemesh, and brought him to Ierusalem, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, from the gate of Ephraim vnto the corner gate, foure hundreth cubites.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:24 @ And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with (note:)Meaning, the successors of Obededom: for the house bore the name of the chief father.(:note) Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:25 @ And Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah liued after the death of Ioash sonne of Iehoahaz King of Israel, fifteene yeere.

geneva@2Chronicles:25:26 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Amaziah first and last, are they not written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel?

geneva@2Chronicles:25:27 @ Nowe after the time that Amaziah did turne away from ye Lord, they wrought treason against him in Ierusalem: and when he was fled to Lachish, they sent to Lachish after him, and slewe him there.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:1 @ Then all the people of Judah took (note:)Called also Azariah.(:note) Uzziah, who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:2 @ He built (note:)He fortified it and made it strong: this city was also called Elath and Elanon near the Red sea.(:note) Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:3 @ Sixteene yeere olde was Vzziah, when he began to reigne, & he reigned two and fiftie yere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Iecoliah of Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:5 @ And he sought God in the days of (note:)This was not the Zechariah that was the son of Jehoiada, but some other prophet of that name.(:note) Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as For God never forsakes any who seek him, and therefore man is the cause of his own destruction. he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:6 @ For he went forth and fought against the Philistims & brake downe the wall of Gath, and the wall of Iabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod, and among the Philistims.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:10 @ Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in (note:)That is, in mount Carmel, or as the word signifies in the fruitful field, it is also taken for a green ear of corn when it is full, (Lev_2:14).(:note) Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:11 @ Vzziah had also an hoste of fighting men that went out to warre by bandes, according to the count of their nomber vnder the hande of Ieiel the Scribe, and Maaseiah the ruler, and vnder the hand of Hananiah, one of the Kings captaines.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:13 @ And vnder their hande was the armie for warre, three hundreth and seuen thousand, & fiue hundreth that fought valiantly to helpe the King against the enemie.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:15 @ He made also very artificial engins in Ierusalem, to be vpon the towres and vpon the corners, to shoote arrowes and great stones: and his name spred farre abroade, because God did helpe him marueilously, till he was mightie.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:16 @ But when he was strong, his heart (note:)Thus prosperity causes men to trust in themselves and by forgetting him who is the author of it, procure their own punishment.(:note) was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:18 @ And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, [It appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: (note:)Though his zeal seemed to be good and also his intention, yet because they were not governed by the word of God, he did wickedly and was therefore both justly resisted and also punished.(:note) go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither [shall it be] for thine honour from the LORD God.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:19 @ Then Vzziah was wroth, and had incense in his hand to burne it: and while he was wroth with the Priestes, the leprosie rose vp in his forehead before the Priestes in the house of the Lord beside the incense altar.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:20 @ And wen Azariah the chiefe Priest with al the Priestes looked vpon him, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, & they caused him hastily to depart thence: and he was euen compelled to go out, because the Lord had smitten him.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:21 @ And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a (note:)According to the commandment of the Lord, (Lev_13:46).(:note) several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:22 @ Concerning the rest of the acts of Vzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the Prophet the sonne of Amoz write.

geneva@2Chronicles:26:23 @ So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the kings; for they said, He (note:)Therefore was buried apart in the same field but not in the same sepulchre with his predecessors.(:note) [is] a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Chronicles:27:1 @ Iotham was fiue and twentie yere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Ierushah the daughter of Zadok.

geneva@2Chronicles:27:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the (note:)That is, to offer incense against the word of God, which is spoken of in the commendation of Jotham.(:note) temple of the LORD. And the people did yet They were not completely purged from idolatry. corruptly.

geneva@2Chronicles:27:3 @ He built the high (note:)Which was 60 cubits high and was for the height called Ophel: it was at the east gate and mention is made of it in (2Ch_3:4).(:note) gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

geneva@2Chronicles:27:5 @ And he fought with the King of the children of Ammon, & preuailed against them; the children of Ammon gaue him the same yere an hundreth talents of siluer, and ten thousande measures of wheate, & ten thousand of barley: this did the children of Ammon giue him both in the second yeere and the third.

geneva@2Chronicles:27:8 @ He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:1 @ Ahaz was twentie yeere old when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and did not vprightly in the sight of the Lord, like Dauid his father.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:2 @ For (note:)He was an idolater like them.(:note) he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for As the idolaters have certain chief idols, who are as patrons (as were these Baalim) so have they others who are inferior and represent the great idols. Baalim.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:3 @ Moreouer he burnt incense in the valley of Ben-hinnom, & burnt his sonnes with fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:5 @ Wherefore the Lorde his God deliuered him into the hand of the King of the Aramites, & they smote him, & tooke of his, many prisoners, and brought them to Damascus: and he was also deliuered into the hande of the King of Israel, which smote him with a great slaughter.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:6 @ For (note:)Who was king of Israel.(:note) Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:7 @ And Zichri a mighty man of Ephraim slew Maaseiah the Kings sonne, and Azrikam the gouernour of the house, and Elkanah the second after the King.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:9 @ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, (note:)For they thought they had overcome them by their own valiantness, and did not consider that God had delivered them into their hands, because Judah had offended him.(:note) because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:10 @ And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you, even with you, (note:)May not God also punish you for your sins as he has done these men for theirs, seeing that yours are greater?(:note) sins against the LORD your God?

geneva@2Chronicles:28:12 @ Then certain of the heads of the children of (note:)Which tribe was now greatest and had most authority.(:note) Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,

geneva@2Chronicles:28:13 @ And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have (note:)God will not allow this sin which we commit against him, to go unpunished.(:note) offended against the LORD [already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath against Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:15 @ And the men which were (note:)Whose name were rehearsed before, (2Ch_28:12).(:note) expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and Either for their wounds or weariness. anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their To them of the tribe of Judah. brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:16 @ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the (note:)To Tiglath Pileser and those kings who were under his dominion, (2Ki_16:7).(:note) kings of Assyria to help him.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:19 @ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of (note:)He means Judah, because Ahaz forsook the Lord and sought help from the infidels. {{See 2Ch_15:17}} for when Judah was called Israel.(:note) Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:20 @ And Tilgath Pilneeser king of Asshur came vnto him, who troubled him and did not strengthen him.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:21 @ For Ahaz tooke a portion out of the house of the Lord & out of the Kings house and of the Princes, and gaue vnto the king of Asshur: yet it helped him not.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:22 @ And in ye time of his tribulation did he yet trespasse more against ye Lord, (this is King Ahaz)

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 Thus the wicked measure God's favour by prosperity and adversity: for if idolaters prosper, they make their idols gods, not considering that God often punishes them whom he loves and gives his enemies good success for a time whom afterward he will destroy. help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:26 @ Concerning the rest of his actes, and all his wayes first and last, beholde, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah, and Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:1 @ Hezekiah began to reigne, when he was fiue and twentie yeere olde, and reigned nine and twentie yeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Abiiah the daughter of Zechariah.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:4 @ And he brought in the Priests and the Leuites, and gathered them into the East streete,

geneva@2Chronicles:29:5 @ And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth (note:)Meaning, all the idols, altar groves and whatever was occupied in their service and with which the temple was polluted.(:note) the filthiness out of the holy [place].

geneva@2Chronicles:29:6 @ For our fathers haue trespassed, and done euill in the eyes of the Lord our God, and haue forsaken him, & turned away their faces from the Tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backes.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:12 @ Then the Leuites arose, Mahath ye sonne of Amashai, and Ioel the sonne of Azariah of the sonnes of the Kohathites: & of the sonnes of Merari, Kish the sonne of Abdi, & Azariah the sonne of Iehalelel: and of the Gershonites, Ioah the sonne of Zimmah, and Eden the sonne of Ioah:

geneva@2Chronicles:29:13 @ And of the sonnes of Elizaphan, Shimri, and Iehiel: and of the sonnes of Asaph, Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

geneva@2Chronicles:29:19 @ And all the vessels which King Ahaz had cast aside when he reigned, and transgressed, haue we prepared and sanctified: and beholde, they are before the altar of the Lord.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:23 @ And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin offering before the king and the congregation; (note:)That is, the king and the elders, as in (Lev_4:15) for they who offered a sin offering must lay their hands on it, to signify that they had deserved that death, and also that they consecrated it to God to be sanctified by it, (Exo_29:10).(:note) and they laid their hands upon them:

geneva@2Chronicles:29:25 @ And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the (note:)This thing was not appointed by man, but it was the commandment of God.(:note) commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:28 @ And al the Congregation worshipped, singing a song, and they blew the trumpets: all this continued vntill the burnt offring was finished.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:30 @ Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the (note:)With the psalm mentioned in (1Ch_16:8).(:note) words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:31 @ And Hezekiah spake, and sayde, Now ye haue consecrate your selues to the Lord: come neere and bring the sacrifices and offerings of prayse into the house of the Lord; the Congregation brought sacrifices; and offrings of prayses, and euery man that was willing in heart, offred burnt offrings.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:32 @ And the nomber of the burnt offrings, which the Congregation brought, was seuentie bullockes, an hundreth rammes, and two hundreth lambes: all these were for a burnt offring to the Lord:

geneva@2Chronicles:29:34 @ But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the [other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites [were] (note:)Meaning, were more zealous to set forth the religion.(:note) more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:35 @ And also the burnt offerings were many with the fat of the peace offrings & the drinke offrings for the burnt offring. so the seruice of the house of the Lord was set in order.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:36 @ And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had (note:)He shows that religion cannot proceed unless God touches the heart of the people.(:note) prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:1 @ And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to (note:)Meaning, all Israel, whom Tiglath Pilesar had not taken away into captivity, (2Ki_15:29).(:note) Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:2 @ For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the (note:)Though they should have done it in the first month, as in (Exo_12:18; Num_9:3), yet if any were not clean or else had a long journey, they could delay it to the second month, as in (Num_9:10-11).(:note) second month.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:3 @ For they could not keepe it at this time, because there were not Priests enow sanctified, neither was the people gathered to Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:4 @ And the thing pleased the King, and all the Congregation.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:5 @ So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from (note:)From one end of the land to the other, north and south.(:note) Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] In such sort and perfection as God had appointed. as it was written.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:6 @ So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and (note:)He will have compassion on them and preserve them.(:note) he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:7 @ And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lorde God of their fathers: and therfore he made them desolate, as ye see.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:8 @ Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] (note:)Submit yourselves to the Lord, and rebel no more.(:note) yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:9 @ For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall (note:)God will not only preserve you, but through your repentance restore your brethren, who for their sins he gave into the hands of the enemies.(:note) come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:10 @ So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they (note:)Though the wicked mock the servants of God, by whom he calls them to repentance, as in (Gen_19:14), yet the word does not cease to ripen in the hearts of God's elect.(:note) laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:11 @ Neuerthelesse diuers of Asher, and Manasseh, and of Zebulun submitted themselues, and came to Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:12 @ Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one (note:)He shows the reason why some obey and some mock God's calling, that is, because his Spirit is with the one sort and moves in their heart, and the others are left to themselves.(:note) heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:13 @ And there assembled to Ierusalem much people, to keepe the feast of ye vnleauened bread in the second moneth, a very great assemblie.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:14 @ And they arose and took away the (note:)Which declares that we must put away those things with which God is offended, before we can serve him correctly.(:note) altars that [were] in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast [them] into the brook Kidron.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:15 @ Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were (note:)Seeing their own negligence (who should have been most prompt) and the readiness of the people, (2Ch_29:36).(:note) ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:16 @ And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the (note:)That is, of the lamb of the passover.(:note) blood, [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:17 @ Because there were many in the Congregation that were not sanctified, therefore the Leuites had the charge of the killing of ye Passeouer for all that were not cleane, to sanctifie it to the Lord.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:18 @ For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The (note:)He knew that faith and sincerity of heart were more agreeable to God than the observation of the ceremonies and therefore he prayed to God to pardon this fault to the people who did not offend out of malice, but out of ignorance.(:note) good LORD pardon every one

geneva@2Chronicles:30:20 @ And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and (note:)That is, accepted them as purified.(:note) healed the people.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:21 @ And the children of Israel that were present at Ierusalem, kept the feast of the vnleauened bread seuen dayes with great ioye, and the Leuites, and the Priestes praysed the Lorde, day by day, singing with loude instruments vnto the Lorde.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:22 @ And Hezekiah spake comfortably vnto all the Leuites that had good knowledge to sing vnto the Lorde: and they did eate in that feast seuen dayes, and offred peace offrings, and praysed the Lord God of their fathers.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:23 @ And the whole assembly tooke counsel to keepe it other seuen dayes. So they kept it seuen dayes with ioy.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:24 @ For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a (note:)This great liberality declares how kings, princes and all they to whom God has given, should be ready to bestow it in the setting forth of God's glory.(:note) thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:26 @ So there was great ioye in Ierusalem: for since the time of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel there was not the like thing in Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:30:27 @ Then the priests the Levites arose and (note:)According to that which is written in (Num_6:23) when they should dismiss the people.(:note) blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:1 @ Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and (note:)According to the commandment of the Lord, (Deu_7:25; Jos_7:12).(:note) brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the That is, all they who came to the passover. children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:2 @ And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the (note:)That is, in the temple where they assembled as in a tent.(:note) tents of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:3 @ (And the Kings portion was of his owne substance for the burnt offrings, euen for ye burnt offrings of the morning and of the euening, and the burnt offrings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moones, and for the solemne feastes, as it is written in the Law of the Lord)

geneva@2Chronicles:31:5 @ And when the commaundement was spread, the children of Israel brought abundance of first fruites, of corne, wine, and oyle, and honie, and of all the increase of the fielde, and the tithes of all things brought they abundantly.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:6 @ And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things (note:)Which they had dedicated to the Lord by a vow.(:note) which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid [them] by For the relief of the priests, Levites, widows, pupils, fatherless, strangers, and such as were in need. heaps.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:10 @ And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have (note:)He shows that this plenteous liberality is expedient for the maintenance of the ministers and that God therefore prospers his people and increases by his blessing that which is given.(:note) had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left [is] this great store.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:12 @ And caryed in the first fruites, and the tithes, and the dedicate things faithfully: and ouer them was Conaniah the Leuite, the chiefe, and Shimei his brother the seconde.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:13 @ And Iehiel, and Azariah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Ierimoth, and Iozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were ouerseers by the appointment of Conaniah, & Shimei his brother, and by the commandement of Hezekiah the King, and of Azariah the chiefe of the house of God.

geneva@2Chronicles:31:14 @ And Kore the sonne of Imnah the Leuite porter towarde the East, was ouer the things that were willingly offred vnto God, to distribute the oblations of the Lorde, and the holy things that were consecrate.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:1 @ After these things faithfully described, Saneherib King of Asshur came and entred into Iudah, and besieged the strong cities, & thought to winne them for him selfe.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:2 @ When Hezekiah sawe that Saneherib was come, and that his purpose was to fight against Ierusalem,

geneva@2Chronicles:32:4 @ So many of the people assembled themselues, and stopt all the fountaines, and the riuer that ranne through the middes of the countrey, saying, Why should the Kings of Asshur come, and finde much water?

geneva@2Chronicles:32:5 @ Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired (note:)He made a double wall.(:note) Millo [in] the Read (2Sa_5:9). city of David, and made Some read, swords or daggers. darts and shields in abundance.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:6 @ And he set captaines of warre ouer the people, and assembled them to him in the broade place of the gate of the citie, and spake comfortably vnto them, saying,

geneva@2Chronicles:32:7 @ Be strong and couragious: feare not, neither be afraide for the King of Asshur, neither for all the multitude that is with him: for there be mo with vs, then is with him.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:9 @ After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] (note:)While he besieged Lachish.(:note) against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying,

geneva@2Chronicles:32:10 @ Thus saith Saneherib the King of Asshur, Wherein doe ye trust, that ye will remaine in Ierusalem, during the siege?

geneva@2Chronicles:32:11 @ Doeth not Hezekiah entice you to giue ouer your selues vnto death by famine and by thirst, saying, The Lorde our God shall deliuer vs out of the hande of the King of Asshur?

geneva@2Chronicles:32:14 @ Who [was there] among all the (note:)This is his blasphemy that he will compare the living God to vile idols.(:note) gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

geneva@2Chronicles:32:15 @ Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of (note:)When man has prosperity, he swells in pride, and thinks himself able to resist and overcome even God himself.(:note) mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

geneva@2Chronicles:32:16 @ And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD God, and against his (note:)In this we see that when the wicked speak evil of the servants of God, they care not to blaspheme God himself for if they feared God, they would love his servants.(:note) servant Hezekiah.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:17 @ He wrote also letters, blaspheming the Lorde God of Israel and speaking against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other countreies could not deliuer their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliuer his people out of mine hande.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:19 @ And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the (note:)Which were invented, made and authorized by man.(:note) work of the hands of man.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:21 @ And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and (note:)To the number of 185,000 as in (2Ki_19:35-36).(:note) captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his Meaning, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons. own bowels slew him there with the sword.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:22 @ So the Lorde saued Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem from the hande of Saneherib King of Asshur, and from the hande of all other, and maintained them on euery side.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:23 @ And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was (note:)Thus after trouble God sends comfort to all them who patiently wait on him, and constantly put their trust in his mercies.(:note) magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:24 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him (note:)To confirm his faith in God's promise, who declared to him by his prophet that his life would be prolonged fifteen years.(:note) a sign.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:25 @ But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit [done] unto him; for his heart (note:)He was lifted up with the pride of his victory and treasures, and shows them for an ostentation to the ambassadors of Babylon.(:note) was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:26 @ Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled him selfe (after that his heart was lifted vp) he and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and the wrath of the Lorde came not vpon them in the dayes of Hezekiah.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:27 @ Hezekiah also had exceeding much riches and honour, and he gate him treasures of siluer, and of golde, and of precious stones, and of sweete odours, and of shieldes, and of all pleasant vessels:

geneva@2Chronicles:32:28 @ And of store houses for the increase of wheat and wine & oyle, and stalles for all beasts, and rowes for the stables.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:30 @ This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of (note:)Which also was called Shiloh, of which mention is made in (Isa_8:6; Joh_9:7).(:note) Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:31 @ Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God left him, to (note:)Here we see the reason why the faithful are tempted, which is to determine whether they have faith or not, and that they may feel the presence of God who does not allow them to be overcome by temptations, but in their weakness administers strength.(:note) try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart.

geneva@2Chronicles:32:33 @ So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in the highest sepulchre of the sonnes of Dauid: and all Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did him honour at his death: and Manasseh his sonne reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:1 @ Manasseh was twelue yeere olde, when he beganne to reigne, and he reigned fiue and fiftie yeere in Ierusalem:

geneva@2Chronicles:33:2 @ And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, like the abominations of the heathen, who the Lorde had cast out before the children of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:9 @ So Manasseh made Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem to erre, and to doe worse then the heathen, whome the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:10 @ And the LORD spake (note:)Meaning by his prophets, but their hearts were not touched to believe and repent, without which the preaching of the word has no effect.(:note) to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:11 @ Wherefore the Lorde brought vpon them the captaines of the hoste of the King of Asshur, which tooke Manasseh and put him in fetters, & bound him in chaines, & caryed him to Babel.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:12 @ And when he was in tribulation, he prayed to the Lorde his God, and humbled him selfe greatly before the God of his fathers,

geneva@2Chronicles:33:13 @ And prayed unto him: and he was (note:)Thus affliction gives understanding: for he that hated God in his prosperity now in his misery seeks him.(:note) intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:14 @ Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of (note:)Read (2Ch_32:30).(:note) Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Read (2Ch_27:3). Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:15 @ And he tooke away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, & all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lorde, and in Ierusalem, and cast them out of the citie.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:17 @ Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the (note:)Thus by ignorance they were deceived, thinking it nothing to keep the altars, so that they worshipped God: but it is idolatry to worship God any other way than he has appointed.(:note) LORD their God only.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:18 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his (note:)Which although it is not contained in the Hebrew, yet because it is here mentioned and is written in the Greek, we have placed it in the end of this book.(:note) prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written] in the book of the kings of Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:19 @ And his prayer and how God was intreated of him, and all his sinne, and his trespasse, and the places wherein he built hie places, and set groues and images (before he was humbled) behold, they are written in the booke of the Seers.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:20 @ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own (note:)Because he had so horribly offended against the Lord, they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings, but in the garden of the king's house.(:note) house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:21 @ Amon was two and twentie yeere olde, when he began to reigne, and reigned two yeere in Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:33:22 @ But he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the images, which Manasseh his father had made, and serued them,

geneva@2Chronicles:33:23 @ And he humbled not him selfe before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himselfe: but this Amon trespassed more and more.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:1 @ Iosiah was eight yeere olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem one and thirtie yeere.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of (note:)He followed David in all points that he followed the Lord.(:note) David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:3 @ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet (note:)When he was but sixteen years old he showed himself zealous of God's glory, and at twenty years old he abolished idolatry and restored the true religion.(:note) young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:6 @ And in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, euen vnto Naphtali, with their maules they brake all round about.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:7 @ And when he had (note:)This great zeal of this godly king the Holy Spirit sets forth as an example and pattern to other kings and rulers, to teach them what God requires of them.(:note) broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:8 @ Then in the eightenth yere of his reigne, when hee had purged the lande and the Temple, he sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the gouernour of the citie, & Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the Lord his God.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:9 @ And when they came to Hilkiah the hie Priest, they deliuered ye money that was brought into the house of God, which the Leuites that kept the doore, had gathered at the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and of all the residue of Israel, and of all Iudah and Beniamin, and of the inhabitantes of Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:14 @ And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a (note:)Read (2Ki_22:8).(:note) book of the law of the LORD [given] by Moses.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:16 @ And Shaphan carried the book to (note:)For the king was commanded to continually have a copy of this book and to read in it day and night, (Deu_17:18).(:note) the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do [it].

geneva@2Chronicles:34:17 @ For they haue gathered the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and haue deliuered it into the handes of the ouerseers, and to the handes of the workemen.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:19 @ And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he (note:)For sorrow that the word of God had been so long suppressed and the people kept in ignorance, considering also the curses contained in it against the transgressors.(:note) rent his clothes.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:20 @ And the King commanded Hilkiah, & Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, & Abdon the sonne of Micah, and Shaphan the chanceler, & Asaiah the Kings seruant, saying,

geneva@2Chronicles:34:22 @ And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the (note:)Meaning, either of the priests apparel or the kings.(:note) wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the Read (2Ki_22:15). college:) and they spake to her to that [effect].

geneva@2Chronicles:34:25 @ Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their (note:)This she speaks in contempt of the idolaters, who contrary to reason and nature call a god that which they have made and framed with their own hands.(:note) hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:26 @ But to the King of Iudah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shal ye say vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde God of Israel, The words which thou hast heard, shal come to passe.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:27 @ Because thine heart was (note:)This declares the end of God's threatenings, to call his to repentance, and to assure the unrepentant of their destruction.(:note) tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:34:30 @ And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and (note:)Though neither young nor old could be exempted from the curses contained in it, if they did transgress, he knew it pertained to all and was his duty to see it read to all sorts, that everyone might learn to avoid those punishments by serving God correctly.(:note) small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:1 @ Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the (note:)The scripture in various places calls the lamb the «passover» even though it is only the sign of the passover for in all sacraments the signs have the names of the things signified.(:note) passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:3 @ And said unto the Levites that (note:)So that the Levites charge was not only to minister in the temple, but also to instruct the people in the word of God.(:note) taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a As it was before the temple was built: therefore your office is to teach the people and to praise God. burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

geneva@2Chronicles:35:4 @ And prepare your selues by the houses of your fathers according to your courses, as Dauid the King of Israel hath written, and according to the writing of Salomon his sonne,

geneva@2Chronicles:35:6 @ So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and (note:)Exhort everyone to examine themselves to ensure that they are not unfit to eat the passover.(:note) prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:7 @ Iosiah also gaue to the people sheepe, lambs and kiddes, all for the Passeouer, euen to all that were present, to the nomber of thirtie thousand, and three thousande bullocks: these were of the Kings substance.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:8 @ And his princes offred willingly vnto the people, to the Priests and to the Leuites: Hilkiah, and Zechariah, and Iehiel, rulers of the house of God, gaue vnto the Priests for the Passeouer, euen two thousand and sixe hundreth sheepe, and three hundreth bullockes.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:10 @ Thus the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stoode in their places, also the Leuites in their orders, according to the Kings commandement:

geneva@2Chronicles:35:11 @ And they killed the passover, and the priests (note:)Meaning, of the lamb, which was called the passover, for only the priests could sprinkle, and in necessity the Levites could kill the sacrifice.(:note) sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].

geneva@2Chronicles:35:12 @ And they removed the (note:)They reserved for the people that which was not expedient to be offered, that every man might offer peace offerings, and so have his portion.(:note) burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses. And so [did they] with the oxen.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:13 @ And they rosted the Passeouer with fire, according to ye custome, but the sanctified things they sod in pots, pannes, and cauldrons, and distributed them quickely to all the people.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:15 @ And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's (note:)Meaning, by this his prophet, because he appointed the psalms and prophecies which were to be sung.(:note) seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:16 @ So all the seruice of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keepe the Passeouer, and to offer burnt offerings vpon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandement of King Iosiah.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:17 @ And the children of Israel that were present, kept the Passeouer the same time, and the feast of the vnleauened bread seuen dayes.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:18 @ And there was no Passeouer kept like that, in Israel, from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet: neyther did all the Kings of Israel keepe such a Passeouer as Iosiah kept, and the Priestes and the Leuites, and all Iudah, and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:19 @ In (note:)Which was in his 26th year.(:note) the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:20 @ After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against (note:)Which was a city of the Assyrians and Josiah fearing lest in passing through Judah he would have taken his kingdom, made war against him and did not consult the Lord.(:note) Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:21 @ But he sent messengers to him, saying, What haue I to doe with thee, thou King of Iudah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house of mine enemie, and God commanded me to make haste: leaue of to come against God, which is with me, least he destroy thee.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:24 @ His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem (note:)The people so lamented the loss of this good king that after when there was any great lamentation this was spoken of as a proverb, (Zec_12:11).(:note) mourned for Josiah.

geneva@2Chronicles:35:26 @ Concerning the rest of the actes of Iosiah and his goodnesse, doing as it was written in the Lawe of the Lorde,

geneva@2Chronicles:35:27 @ And his deedes, first and last, behold, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:2 @ Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three (note:)Three months after the death of Josiah, Necho came to Jerusalem, and so the plagues began, which Huldah and the prophets forewarned would come on Jerusalem.(:note) months in Jerusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:3 @ And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an (note:)To pay this as a yearly tribute.(:note) hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:5 @ Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] (note:)Because he and the people did not turn to God by his first plague, he brought a new one on him, and at length rooted them out.(:note) evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:8 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and (note:)He means superstitious marks which were found on his body when he was dead, which declared how deeply idolatry was rooted in his heart, seeing he bore the marks in his flesh.(:note) that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:9 @ Jehoiachin [was] (note:)That is, he began his reign at eight years old, and reigned ten years when his father was alive, and after his father's death, which was in his eighteenth year, he reigned alone three months and ten days.(:note) eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:10 @ And when the yeere was out, King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babel with the precious vessels of the house of the Lorde, and he made Zedekiah his brother King ouer Iudah and Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:11 @ Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde, when he beganne to reigne, and reigned eleuen yeere in Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:14 @ All the chiefe of the Priestes also and of the people trespassed wonderfully, according to all the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lorde which he had sanctified in Ierusalem.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:15 @ And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, (note:)By this phrase the scripture means often and diligently as in (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@2Chronicles:36:16 @ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no (note:)Till God could no longer allow their sins, but must punish them.(:note) remedy.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:17 @ Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword (note:)Where they fled, thinking to have been saved for the holiness of it.(:note) in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he Which is not because God approves him, who yet is the minister of his justice, but because God would by his just judgment punish this people: for this king was led with ambition and vain glory, to which were joined fury and cruelty: therefore his work was condemnable, even though it was just and holy on God's part, who used this wicked instrument to declare his justice. gave [them] all into his hand.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:18 @ And all the vessels of the house of God great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lorde, and the treasures of the King, and of his princes: all these caryed he to Babel.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:21 @ To fulfil the word of the LORD by the (note:)Who threatened the vengeance of God and 70 years captivity, which he called the sabbaths or rest of the land, (Jer_25:11).(:note) mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:23 @ Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath (note:)God had so forewarned by his prophet over 100 years before Cyrus was born, (Isa_44:28) that Jerusalem and the temple would be rebuilt by Cyrus his anointed: so called because God used his service for a time to deliver his Church.(:note) charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up.

geneva@Ezra:1:1 @ Now in the (note:)After he and Darius had won Babylon.(:note) first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the Who promised deliverance to them after 70 years were past, (Jer_25:12). mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the That is, moved him and gave him heart. spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying, The Argument - As the Lord is always merciful to his Church, and does not punish them, but so that they should see their own miseries, and be exercised under the cross, that they might contemn the world, and aspire to the heavens: so after he had visited the Jews, and kept them in bondage 70 years in a strange country among infidels and idolaters, he remembered his tender mercies and their infirmities, and therefore for his own sake raised up a deliverer, and moved both the heart of the chief ruler to pity them, and also by him punished those who had kept them in slavery. Nonetheless, lest they should grow into a contempt of God's great benefits, he keeps them still in exercise, and raises domestic enemies, who try as much as they can to hinder their worthy enterprises: yet by the exhortation of the prophet they went forward little by little till their work was finished. The author of this book was Ezra, who was a priest and scribe of the Law, as in (Ezr_7:6). He returned to Jerusalem the sixth year of Darius, who succeeded Cyrus, that is, about fifty years after the first return under Zerubbabel, when the temple was built. He brought with him a great company and much treasure, with letters to the king's officers for all things needed for the temple: and at his coming he fixed that which was amiss, and set things in order.

geneva@Ezra:1:2 @ Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me (note:)For he was chief monarch and had many nations under his dominion, which this heathen king confesses to have received from the living God.(:note) all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah.

geneva@Ezra:1:4 @ And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, (note:)If any through poverty were not able to return, the king's commission was that he should be furnished with all he needed.(:note) let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, Which they themselves should send for the repairing of the temple. beside the freewill offering for the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem.

geneva@Ezra:1:6 @ And all (note:)The Babylonians and Chaldeans gave them these presents: thus rather than have the children of God be in need, he would stir the heart of the infidels to help them.(:note) they that [were] about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all [that] was willingly offered.

geneva@Ezra:1:8 @ Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto (note:)So the Chaldeans called Zerubbabel who was the chief governor, so that the preeminence still remained in the house of David.(:note) Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

geneva@Ezra:1:9 @ And this [is] the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty (note:)Which served to kill the beasts that were offered in sacrifice.(:note) knives,

geneva@Ezra:2:1 @ Now these [are] the children (note:)Meaning Judea, which was a province that is, a country which was in subjection.(:note) of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

geneva@Ezra:2:2 @ Which came with (note:)Zerubbabel was chief captain and Joshua the high priest: but Nehemiah a man of great authority did not come now, but came after 64 years.(:note) Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, This was not the Mordecai who was Esther's kinsman. Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number Meaning, of the common people. of the men of the people of Israel:

geneva@Ezra:2:19 @ The sonnes of Hasshum, two hundreth and three and twentie:

geneva@Ezra:2:27 @ The men of Michmas, an hundreth & two and twentie:

geneva@Ezra:2:36 @ The (note:)Before he has declared the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and now comes to the tribe of Levi and begins at the priests.(:note) priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

geneva@Ezra:2:38 @ The sonnes of Pashur, a thousand, two hundreth and seuen and fourtie:

geneva@Ezra:2:41 @ The Singers: the sonnes of Asaph, an hundreth and eight and twentie.

geneva@Ezra:2:43 @ The (note:)So called because they were given to the temple, to cut wood and bear water for the use of the sacrifices and came of the Gibeonites who were appointed to this use by Joshua, (Jos_9:23).(:note) Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

geneva@Ezra:2:49 @ The sonnes of Vzza, the sonnes of Paseah, the sonnes of Besai,

geneva@Ezra:2:50 @ The sonnes of Asnah, the sonnes of Meunim, the sonnes of Nephusim,

geneva@Ezra:2:61 @ And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of (note:)He is mentioned in (2Sa_17:27, 2Sa_19:31) and because the priest's office was held in contempt these would have changed their estate by their name, and so by God's just judgment lost both the estimation of the world and the dignity of their office.(:note) Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:

geneva@Ezra:2:63 @ And the (note:)This is a Chaldee name, and signifies him who has authority over others.(:note) Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Read (Exo_28:30). Urim and with Thummim.

geneva@Ezra:2:64 @ The whole Congregation together was two and fourtie thousande, three hundreth and threescore,

geneva@Ezra:2:67 @ Their camels foure hundreth, and fiue and thirtie: their asses, sixe thousand, seuen hundreth and twentie.

geneva@Ezra:2:68 @ And certeine of the chiefe fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord, which was in Ierusalem, they offred willingly for the house of God, to set it vp vpon his fundation.

geneva@Ezra:2:69 @ They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand (note:)Which in our money amounts to 24,826 pounds, 13 shillings and 4 pence, valuing the french crown at 6 shillings and 4 pence for the dram is the eighth part of an ounce, and the ounce the eighth part of a mark.(:note) drams of gold, and five thousand Which are called «mina» and contain 2 marks apiece, so 50,000 minas make 55,000 franks which in our money amounts to 69,666 pounds, 13 shillings and 4 pence so that the whole sum was 94,493 pounds, 6 shillings, and 8 pence. pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.

geneva@Ezra:3:1 @ And when the (note:)Called Tishri which had part of September and part of October.(:note) seventh month was come, and the children of Israel [were] in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

geneva@Ezra:3:2 @ Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the (note:)Meaning nephew, for he was the son of Pedaiah, (1Ch_3:19).(:note) son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as [it is] written in the law of Moses the man of God.

geneva@Ezra:3:3 @ And they set the altar upon (note:)In the place where Solomon had placed it.(:note) his bases; for fear [was] upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, [even] burnt offerings morning and evening.

geneva@Ezra:3:4 @ They kept also the feast of the Tabernacles, as it is written, and the burnt offring dayly, by nomber according to the custome day by day,

geneva@Ezra:3:5 @ And afterward [offered] (note:)That is, after the feast of tabernacles.(:note) the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.

geneva@Ezra:3:6 @ From the first day of the seuenth moneth began they to offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord: but the foundation of the Temple of the Lorde was not layed.

geneva@Ezra:3:7 @ They gaue money also vnto the masons, and to the workemen, and meat and drinke, & oyle vnto them of Zidon and of Tyrus, to bring them cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea vnto Iapho, according to the graunt that they had of Cyrus King of Persia.

geneva@Ezra:3:8 @ Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the (note:)Which contains part of April and part of May, for in the mean season they had provided for things needed for the work.(:note) second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

geneva@Ezra:3:10 @ And when the builders layed the foundation of the Temple of the Lorde, they appoynted the Priestes in their apparel with trumpets, and the Leuites the sonnes of Asaph with cymbales, to prayse the Lord, after the ordinance of Dauid King of Israel.

geneva@Ezra:3:11 @ Thus they sang when they gaue prayse, and when they gaue thankes vnto the Lorde, For he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer toward Israel; all the people shouted with a great shoute, when they praysed the Lorde, because the foundation of the house of the Lorde was layed.

geneva@Ezra:3:12 @ But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, [who were] ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, (note:)Because they saw that it was not nearly as glorious as the temple Solomon had built, nonetheless Aggeus comforted them and prophesied that it would be more beautiful than the first, meaning the spiritual temple, they who are the members of Christ's body.(:note) wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

geneva@Ezra:3:13 @ So that the people coulde not discerne the sound of the shoute for ioy, from the noyse of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loude crie, & the noyse was heard farre off.

geneva@Ezra:4:1 @ Now when (note:)Meaning, the inhabitants of Samaria, whom the king of Assyria had placed in the place of the ten tribes, (2Ki_17:24, 2Ki_19:37). They professed God but worshipped idols and therefore were the greatest enemies to the true servants of God.(:note) the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

geneva@Ezra:4:2 @ And they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefe fathers, and sayd vnto them, We wil builde with you: for we seeke the Lord your God as ye do, and we haue sacrificed vnto him since the time of Esar Haddon king of Asshur, which brought vs vp hither.

geneva@Ezra:4:3 @ But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; (note:)For they knew their pretence, that is to erect idolatry instead of true religion.(:note) but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

geneva@Ezra:4:6 @ And in the reign of (note:)He was also called Artaxerxes which is a Persian name, some think it was Cambises Cyrus' son, or Darius, as in (Ezr_4:5).(:note) Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they [unto him] an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

geneva@Ezra:4:7 @ And in the days of (note:)Called Artaxerxes, which signifies in the Persian tongue an excellent warrior.(:note) Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter [was] written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

geneva@Ezra:4:8 @ Rehum the chancelour, and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Ierusalem to Artahshashte the King, in this sort.

geneva@Ezra:4:9 @ Then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the (note:)These were people whom the Assyrians placed in Samaria instead of the ten tribes.(:note) Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, [and] the Elamites,

geneva@Ezra:4:10 @ And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble (note:)Some think it was not Sennacherib, but rather Salmanasar.(:note) Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest [that are] on this side the That is, Euphrates, and he means in respect to Babel that they dwelt beyond it. river, and Or Cheeneth, who were a certain people who envied the Jews. at such a time.

geneva@Ezra:4:11 @ This is the copie of the letter that they sent vnto King Artahshashte, Thy servants the men beyond the Riuer & Cheeneth, salute thee.

geneva@Ezra:4:13 @ Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up [again, then] will they not pay toll, tribute, and (note:)Meaning, the gifts that are wont to be given to kings when they pass by any country.(:note) custom, and [so] thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.

geneva@Ezra:4:14 @ Nowe therefore because wee haue bene brought vp in the Kings palace, it was not meete for vs to see the Kings dishonour: for this cause haue we sent and certified the King,

geneva@Ezra:4:15 @ That one may searche in the booke of the Chronicles of thy fathers, and thou shalt finde in the booke of the Chronicles, & perceiue that this citie is rebellious & noysome vnto Kings & prouinces, & that they haue moued sedition of olde time, for the which cause this citie was destroyed.

geneva@Ezra:4:17 @ [Then] sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and [to] Shimshai the scribe, and [to] the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and [unto] the rest beyond the river, (note:)Or Shalom, salvation or greeting.(:note) Peace, and Or, Cheeth, also called Cheeneth as in (Ezr_4:10). at such a time.

geneva@Ezra:4:20 @ There haue bene mightie kings also ouer Ierusalem, which haue ruled ouer all beyonde the Riuer, and tolle, tribute, and custome was giuen vnto them.

geneva@Ezra:4:21 @ Make ye now a decree, that those men may cease, and that the citie be not buylt, till I haue giuen another commandement.

geneva@Ezra:4:23 @ When the copie of king Artahshashtes letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went vp in all the haste to Ierusalem vnto the Iewes, & caused them to cease by force and power.

geneva@Ezra:4:24 @ Then (note:)Not altogether for the prophets exhorted them to continue but they used less diligence because of the troubles.(:note) ceased the work of the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

geneva@Ezra:5:3 @ At the same time came to them Tatnai, which was captaine beyonde the Riuer, and Shether-boznai and their companions, and sayd thus vnto them, Who hath giuen you commaundement to buylde this house, and to lay the foundations of these walles?

geneva@Ezra:5:5 @ But the (note:)His favour and the spirit of strength.(:note) eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this [matter].

geneva@Ezra:5:7 @ They sent a letter vnto him, wherein it was written thus, Vnto Darivs the King, all peace.

geneva@Ezra:5:9 @ Then asked we those Elders, and sayd vnto them thus, Who hath giuen you commandement to buylde this house, and to lay the foundation of these walles?

geneva@Ezra:5:10 @ We asked their names also, that we might certifie thee, & that we might write the names of the men that were their rulers.

geneva@Ezra:5:11 @ And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a (note:)That is, Solomon.(:note) great king of Israel builded and set up.

geneva@Ezra:5:14 @ And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that [was] in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto [one], whose name [was] (note:)Read (Ezr_1:8).(:note) Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;

geneva@Ezra:5:17 @ Now therefore, if [it seem] good to the king, let there be search made in the king's (note:)Meaning in the library or places where lay the register or record of times.(:note) treasure house, which [is] there at Babylon, whether it be [so], that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

geneva@Ezra:6:1 @ Then King Darius gaue commandement, & they made search in the librarie of the treasures, which were there layd vp in Babel.

geneva@Ezra:6:2 @ And there was found at (note:)In which were the acts of the kings of the Medes and Persians.(:note) Achmetha, in the palace that [is] in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein [was] a record thus written:

geneva@Ezra:6:12 @ And the God that hath caused his name (note:)Who has appointed that place to have his Name called on there.(:note) to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter [and] to destroy this house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.

geneva@Ezra:6:14 @ And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of (note:)Whom God stirs up to assure them that he would give their work good success.(:note) Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished [it], according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

geneva@Ezra:6:15 @ And this house was finished on the third day of the month (note:)This is the twelfth month and contains part of February and part of March.(:note) Adar, which was in The 42nd year after their first return. the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

geneva@Ezra:6:18 @ And they set the Priests in their order, and the Leuites in their courses ouer the seruice of God in Ierusalem, as it is written in the booke of Moses.

geneva@Ezra:6:19 @ And the childre of the captiuitie kept the Passeouer on ye fourtenth day of the first moneth.

geneva@Ezra:6:20 @ (For the Priests and the Leuites were purified altogether) and they killed the Passeouer for all the children of the captiuitie, & for their brethren the Priests, and for themselues.

geneva@Ezra:6:21 @ And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had (note:)Who were of the heathen and forsook their idolatry to worship the true God.(:note) separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,

geneva@Ezra:6:22 @ And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of (note:)Meaning Darius who was king of the Medes, Persians and Assyrians.(:note) Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

geneva@Ezra:7:1 @ Now after these things, in the reign of (note:)The Hebrews write that many of the kings of Persia were called by this name, as Pharaoh was a common name to the kings of Egypt and Caesar to the Romans emperors.(:note) Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

geneva@Ezra:7:5 @ The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of (note:)Ezra traces his family till he comes to Aaron, to prove that he came from him.(:note) Aaron the chief priest:

geneva@Ezra:7:6 @ This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he [was] a ready (note:)He shows here what a scribe is, who had charge to write the law and to expound it. Whom Mark calls a scribe, (Mar_12:28), Matthew and Luke called a lawyer or doctor of the law, (Mat_22:35; Luk_10:25).(:note) scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

geneva@Ezra:7:7 @ And there went vp certaine of the children of Israel, and of the Priests, and the Leuites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims vnto Ierusalem, in the seuenth yere of King Artahshashte.

geneva@Ezra:7:8 @ And he came to Jerusalem in the (note:)That contained part of July and part of August.(:note) fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year Of king Darius. of the king.

geneva@Ezra:7:9 @ For vpon the first day of the first moneth began he to goe vp from Babel, and on the first day of the fift moneth came he to Ierusalem, according to the good hande of his God that was vpon him.

geneva@Ezra:7:11 @ And this is the copie of the letter that King Artahshashte gaue vnto Ezra the Priest & scribe, euen a writer of the words of the commadements of ye Lord, & of his statutes ouer Israel.

geneva@Ezra:7:14 @ Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to (note:)To examine who lived according to the law.(:note) enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which [is] in Of which you are an expert. thine hand;

geneva@Ezra:7:18 @ And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your (note:)As you know best may serve to God's glory.(:note) God.

geneva@Ezra:7:20 @ And the residue that shall be needeful for the house of thy God, which shall be meete for thee to bestowe, thou shalt bestowe it out of the Kings treasure house,

geneva@Ezra:7:21 @ And I, [even] I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which [are] beyond (note:)Which was the Euphrates river and they were beyond it in respect to Babylon.(:note) the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

geneva@Ezra:7:22 @ Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred (note:)Read (1Ki_7:26; 2Ch_2:10).(:note) baths of oil, and salt without prescribing [how much].

geneva@Ezra:7:25 @ And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that [is] in thine hand, (note:)He gave Ezra full authority to restore all things according to the word of God, and to punish them who resisted and would not obey.(:note) set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that [are] beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know [them] not.

geneva@Ezra:7:28 @ And hath enclined mercy toward me, before the King and his counsellers, and before all the Kings mightie Princes: and I was comforted by the hand of the Lord my God which was vpon me, and I gathered the chiefe of Israel to goe vp with me.

geneva@Ezra:8:2 @ Of the sonnes of Phinehas, Gershom: of the sonnes of Ithamar, Daniel: of the sonnes of Dauid, Hattush:

geneva@Ezra:8:13 @ And of the (note:)That came to go with Ezra.(:note) last sons of Adonikam, whose names [are] these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.

geneva@Ezra:8:17 @ And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the (note:)He was the chief teacher of the law to the Levites.(:note) chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, [and] to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

geneva@Ezra:8:18 @ So by the good hande of our God which was vpon vs, they brought vs a man of vnderstanding of the sonnes of Mahali the sonne of Leui the sonne of Israel, and Sherebiah with his sonnes and his brethren, euen eighteene.

geneva@Ezra:8:19 @ Also Hashabiah, and with him Ieshaiah of the sonnes of Merari, with his brethren, and their sonnes twentie.

geneva@Ezra:8:21 @ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict (note:)He shows that the purpose of fasting is to humble the body to the spirit, which must proceed from the heart that is touched, or else it is hypocrisy.(:note) ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

geneva@Ezra:8:22 @ For I was (note:)He thought it better to commit himself to the protection of God, than by seeking these ordinary means to give others a reason to think that he doubted God's power.(:note) ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them that forsake him.

geneva@Ezra:8:23 @ So we fasted, aud besought our God for this: and he was intreated of vs.

geneva@Ezra:8:24 @ Then I separated twelue of the chiefe of the Priests, Sherebiah, and Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

geneva@Ezra:8:27 @ Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand (note:)Read (Ezr_2:69).(:note) drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

geneva@Ezra:8:31 @ Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in (note:)This declared that their journey was full of danger and yet God delivered them according to their prayer.(:note) wait by the way.

geneva@Ezra:8:33 @ Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him [was] Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them [was] Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, (note:)This was a token of a good conscience and of his integrity that he would have witnesses of his fidelity.(:note) Levites;

geneva@Ezra:8:34 @ By number and by weight of euery one, and all the weight was written at the same time.

geneva@Ezra:8:35 @ Also the children of the captiuitie, which were come out of captiuitie, offred burnt offrings vnto the God of Israel, twelue bullockes for all Israel, ninetie and sixe rammes, seuentie and seuen lambes, and twelue hee goates for sinne: all was a burnt offring of the Lord.

geneva@Ezra:9:1 @ Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not (note:)From the time they came home under Zerubbabel until the coming of Ezra, they had degenerated contrary to the law of God, and married where it was not lawful, (Deu_7:3).(:note) separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

geneva@Ezra:9:2 @ For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of the (note:)That is, the governors are the chief beginners of it.(:note) princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

geneva@Ezra:9:3 @ And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down (note:)As one doubting whether God would continue his benefits toward us, or else destroy what he had begun.(:note) astonied.

geneva@Ezra:9:4 @ And there assembled vnto me all that feared the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of them of the captiuitie; I sate downe astonied vntil the euening sacrifice.

geneva@Ezra:9:6 @ And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased (note:)That is, we are drowned in sin.(:note) over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up unto the They so exceed that they cannot grow greater. heavens.

geneva@Ezra:9:7 @ From the dayes of our fathers haue we bin in a great trespasse vnto this day, and for our iniquities haue we, our Kings, & our Priestes bene deliuered into the hand of the kings of the lands, vnto the sword, into captiuitie, into a spoyle, and into confusion of face, as appeareth this day.

geneva@Ezra:9:11 @ Which thou hast commanded by thy seruants the Prophets, saying, The land whereunto ye go to possesse it, is an vncleane land, because of the filthines of the people of the lands, which by their abominations, & by their vncleannes haue filled it from corner to corner.

geneva@Ezra:9:13 @ And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our (note:)Has not utterly cast us down and destroyed us for our sins, (Deu_28:13).(:note) iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such] deliverance as this;

geneva@Ezra:9:15 @ O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we (note:)He shows that God is just in punishing his people, and yet merciful in preserving a residue in whom he shows favour.(:note) remain yet escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

geneva@Ezra:10:1 @ Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had (note:)He confessed his sins, and the sins of the people.(:note) confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.

geneva@Ezra:10:2 @ And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is (note:)Meaning, that God would receive them in mercy.(:note) hope in Israel concerning this thing.

geneva@Ezra:10:3 @ Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away (note:)Who are strangers and married contrary to the law of God.(:note) all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

geneva@Ezra:10:4 @ Arise; for [this] matter (note:)Because God has given you authority and learning to persuade the people in this and to command them.(:note) [belongeth] unto thee: we also [will be] with thee: be of good courage, and do [it].

geneva@Ezra:10:6 @ And Ezra rose vp from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib: he went euen thither, but he did eate neither bread, nor drunke water: for he mourned, because of the transgression of them of the captiuitie.

geneva@Ezra:10:7 @ And they caused a proclamation to goe throughout Iudah and Ierusalem, vnto all them of the captiuitie, that they should assemble themselues vnto Ierusalem.

geneva@Ezra:10:9 @ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It [was] the (note:)Which contained part of November and part of December.(:note) ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of [this] matter, and for the great For the season was given to rain and so the weather was more sharp and cold and also their conscience touched them. rain.

geneva@Ezra:10:10 @ And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to (note:)You have laid one sin on another.(:note) increase the trespass of Israel.

geneva@Ezra:10:11 @ Now therefore (note:)Read (Jos_7:19).(:note) make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

geneva@Ezra:10:15 @ Then were appoynted Ionathan the sonne of Asah-el, & Iahaziah the sonne of Tikuah ouer this matter, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Leuites helped them.

geneva@Ezra:10:18 @ And of the sonnes of the Priests there were men founde, that had taken strange wiues, to wit, of the sonnes of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, & of his brethren, Maaseiah, Aeliezer, and Iarib and Gedaliah.

geneva@Ezra:10:19 @ And they gave (note:)As a token that they would keep their promise and do it.(:note) their hands that they would put away their wives; and [being] guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their trespass.

geneva@Ezra:10:21 @ And of the sonnes of Harim, Maaseiah, & Eliiah, and Shemaiah, and Iehiel, and Vzziah.

geneva@Ezra:10:22 @ And of ye sonnes of Pashur, Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Iozabad, and Elasah.

geneva@Ezra:10:24 @ And of the singers, Eliashib; of the porters, Shallum, and Telem, and Vri.

geneva@Ezra:10:27 @ And of the sonnes of Zattu, Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Ierimoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

geneva@Ezra:10:29 @ And of the sonnes of Bani, Meshullam, Malluch, & Adaiah, Iashub, and Sheal, Ieramoth.

geneva@Ezra:10:30 @ And of the sonnes of Pahath Moab, Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

geneva@Ezra:10:33 @ Of the sonnes of Hashum, Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Ieremai, Manasseh, Shimei.

geneva@Ezra:10:36 @ Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

geneva@Ezra:10:37 @ Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Iaasau,

geneva@Ezra:10:40 @ Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

geneva@Ezra:10:44 @ All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had wives by whom they had (note:)Who also were made illegitimate because the marriage was unlawful.(:note) children.

geneva@Nehemiah:1:1 @ The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month (note:)Which contains part of November and part of December, and was their ninth month.(:note) Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, The Argument - God, in all ages and at all times, sets up worthy persons for the convenience and profit of his Church, as now within the compass of seventy years he raised up various excellent men for the preservation of his people after their return from Babylon. Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, of which the first was their captain to bring them home, and provided that the temple was built: the second reformed their manners and planted religion: and the third built up the walls, delivered the people from oppression and provided that the law of God was carried out among them. He was a godly man, and in great authority with the king, so that the king favoured him greatly and gave him letters to accomplish all the things he desired. This book is also called the second of Ezra by the Latins because he was the author of it.

geneva@Nehemiah:1:2 @ That Hanani, one of my (note:)A Jew as I was.(:note) brethren, came, he and [certain] men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

geneva@Nehemiah:1:4 @ And when I heard these wordes, I sate downe and wept, and mourned certeine dayes, & I fasted and prayed before the God of heauen,

geneva@Nehemiah:1:10 @ Now these are thy seruants and thy people, whome thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy mightie hand.

geneva@Nehemiah:1:11 @ O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to (note:)That is, to worship you.(:note) fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of That is, the king Artaxerxes. this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:1 @ And it came to pass in the month (note:)Which was the first month of the year, and contains part of March and part of April.(:note) Nisan, in the twentieth year of Who is also called Darius, (Ezr_7:1) and was the son of Hystaspis. Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was] before him: and I took up the wine, and gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:2 @ And the king said vnto me, Why is thy coutenance sad, seeing thou art not sicke? this is nothing, but sorow of heart. Then was I sore afrayd,

geneva@Nehemiah:2:3 @ And I said to the King, God saue the King for euer: why should not my countenance be sad, when the citie & house of the sepulchres of my fathers lieth waste, and the gates thereof are deuoured with fire?

geneva@Nehemiah:2:5 @ And sayde vnto the King, If it please the King, and if thy seruant haue found fauour in thy sight, I desire that thou wouldest send me to Iudah vnto the city of the sepulchres of my fathers, that I may buyld it.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:6 @ And the King sayd vnto me, (the Queene also sitting by him) How long shall thy iourney be? & when wilt thou come againe? So it pleased the King, and he sent me, and I set him a time.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:7 @ After I saide vnto the King, If it please the King, let them giue mee letters to the captaines beyond the Riuer, that they may conuay me ouer, till I come into Iudah,

geneva@Nehemiah:2:8 @ And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which [appertained] to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to (note:)As God moved me to ask, and as he gave me success in it.(:note) the good hand of my God upon me.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:10 @ When (note:)These were great enemies to the Jews, and laboured always both by force and subtilty to overcome them and Tobiah, because his wife was a Jewess, knew of their affairs and so brought them great trouble.(:note) Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:11 @ So I came to Ierusalem, & was there three dayes.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:12 @ And I rose in the night, I, and a fewe men with me: for I told no man, what God had put in mine heart to do at Ierusalem, & there was not a beast with me, saue the beast whereon I rode.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:14 @ Then I went foorth vnto the gate of the fountaine, and to the Kings fishpoole, and there was no rowme for the beast that was vnder me to passe.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:16 @ And the rulers knewe not whither I was gone, nor what I did, neither did I as yet tell it vnto the Iewes, nor to the Priestes, nor to the noble men, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that laboured in the worke.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:17 @ Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more (note:)That is, contemned by other nations as though God had forsaken us.(:note) a reproach.

geneva@Nehemiah:2:18 @ Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they (note:)They were encouraged and gave themselves to do well, and to travel in this worthy enterprise.(:note) strengthened their hands for [this] good [work].

geneva@Nehemiah:2:19 @ But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and (note:)These were three chief governors under the king of Persia beyond the Euphrates.(:note) Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What [is] this thing that ye do? will ye Thus the wicked when they will burden the children of God, always lay treason to their charge both because it makes them most odious to the world, and also stirs the hatred of princes against them. rebel against the king?

geneva@Nehemiah:2:20 @ Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor (note:)Neither are you of the number of the children of God (to whom he has appointed this city only) neither did any of your predecessors ever fear God.(:note) memorial, in Jerusalem.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:1 @ Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they (note:)In Hebrew they sanctified it, that is, they finished it, and so dedicated it to the Lord by prayer, in desiring him to maintain it.(:note) sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:6 @ And the gate of the olde fishpoole fortified Iehoiada the sonne of Paseah, and Meshullam the sonne of Besodaiah: they laid the beames thereof, and set on the doores thereof, and the lockes thereof, and the barres thereof.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:7 @ And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the (note:)To the place where the Duke was wont to sit in judgment, who governed the country in their absence.(:note) throne of the governor on this side the river.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:10 @ And next vnto him fortified Iedaiah the sonne of Harumaph, euen ouer against his house: and next vnto him fortified Hattush, the sonne of Hashabniah.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:11 @ Malchiiah the sonne of Harim, and Hashub the sonne of Pahath Moab fortified the seconde porcion, and the tower of the fornaces.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:16 @ After him fortified Nehemiah the sonne of Azbuk, the ruler of ye halfe part of Beth-zur, vntill the otherside ouer against the sepulchres of Dauid, and to the fishpoole that was repaired, and vnto the house of the mightie.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:17 @ After him fortified the Leuites, Rehum the sonne of Bani, and next vnto him fortified Hashabiah the ruler of the halfe part of Keilah in his quarter.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:20 @ After him was earnest Baruch the sonne of Zacchai, and fortified another portion from the corner vnto the doore of the house of Eliashib the hie Priest.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:21 @ After him fortified Merimoth, the sonne of Vriiah, the sonne of Hakkoz, another portion from the doore of the house of Eliashib, euen as long as the house of Eliashib extended.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:23 @ After them fortified Beniamin, and Hasshub ouer against their house: after him fortified Azariah, the sonne of Maaseiah, the sonne of Ananiah, by his house.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:26 @ Moreover the (note:)Read (Ezr_2:43).(:note) Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto [the place] over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:29 @ After them fortified Zadok the sonne of Immer ouer against his house: and after him fortified Shemaiah, the sonne of Shechadiah the keeper of the East gate.

geneva@Nehemiah:3:31 @ After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate (note:)Which was the place of judgment or execution.(:note) Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:1 @ Bvt when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, then was he wroth and sore grieued, and mocked the Iewes,

geneva@Nehemiah:4:2 @ And he spake before his (note:)Of his companions who dwelt in Samaria.(:note) brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these Thus the wicked who do not consider that God's power is always ready to defend his, mock them as thought they were weak and feeble. feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

geneva@Nehemiah:4:3 @ And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and said, Although they buylde, yet if a foxe goe vp, he shall euen breake downe their stonie wall.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:6 @ So we built the wall, and all the wall was ioyned vnto the halfe thereof, and the heart of the people was to worke.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:7 @ But when Sanballat, & Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodims heard that the walles of Ierusalem were repayred, (for the breaches began to be stopped) then they were very wroth,

geneva@Nehemiah:4:11 @ Also our aduersaries had sayde, They shall not knowe, neither see, till we come into the middes of them and slay them, and cause the worke to cease.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:12 @ And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us (note:)That is, often.(:note) ten times, They who brought the tidings said this, when you leave your work, and go either to eat or to rest, your enemies will assail you. From all places whence ye shall return unto us [they will be upon you].

geneva@Nehemiah:4:15 @ And when our enemies heard that it was knowen vnto vs, then God brought their counsell to nought, and we turned all againe to the wall, euery one vnto his worke.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:16 @ And it came to pass from that time forth, [that] the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers [were] (note:)To overcome them and encourage them in their work.(:note) behind all the house of Judah.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:18 @ For euery one of the buylders had his sworde girded on his loynes, and so buylded: and he that blewe the trumpet, was beside me.

geneva@Nehemiah:4:23 @ So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, [saving that] every one put them off (note:)That is, when they purified themselves or else when they washed their clothes.(:note) for washing.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:1 @ And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives (note:)Against the rich who oppressed them.(:note) against their brethren the Jews.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:4 @ There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's (note:)To pay our tribute to the king of the Persians, which was exacted yearly from us.(:note) tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards.

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:5:6 @ Then was I very angrie when I heard their crie and these wordes.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:7 @ Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye (note:)You press them with usury, and seek to bring all thing into your hands.(:note) exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great Both because they should be moved with pity seeing how many were oppressed by them, and also hear the judgment of others, who should be witnesses of their dealings with their brethren. assembly against them.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:8 @ And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be (note:)Seeing God has once delivered them from the bondage of the heathen, shall we make them our slaves?(:note) sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing [to answer].

geneva@Nehemiah:5:12 @ Then said they, We will restore it, and will not require it of them: we will doe as thou hast said. Then I called the Priestes, and caused them to sweare, that they shoulde doe according to this promes.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:14 @ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the (note:)I did not receive the portion and diet which the governors who were before me exacted, in which he declares that he rather sought the wealth of the people than his own convenience.(:note) bread of the governor.

geneva@Nehemiah:5:18 @ Now [that] which was prepared [for me] daily [was] one ox [and] six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of (note:)While at other times they had by measure, at this time they had most liberally.(:note) all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:1 @ Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and [that] there was no (note:)That is, that they were joined together, as in (Neh_4:6).(:note) breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

geneva@Nehemiah:6:3 @ And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I [am] doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: (note:)Meaning, that if he obeyed their request, the work God had appointed would cease: showing by this that we should not commit ourselves to the hands of the wicked.(:note) why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

geneva@Nehemiah:6:6 @ Wherein [was] written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith [it, that] thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these (note:)As the same goes.(:note) words.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:7 @ And thou hast also appointed (note:)You have bribed and set up false prophets, to make yourself king, and so to defraud the king of Persia of that subjection which you owe to him.(:note) prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, [There is] a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:10 @ Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who [was] (note:)As though he would be secret, to the intent that he might pray to God with greater liberty, and receive some revelation, which in him was only hypocrisy.(:note) shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:11 @ And I said, (note:)He did not doubt that God was able to preserve him and knew that if he had obeyed this counsel he would have discouraged all the people: thus God gives power to his to resist false prophecies, though they seem to have great probability.(:note) Should such a man as I flee? and who [is there], that, [being] as I [am], would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:13 @ Therefore was he hyred, that I might be afrayde, and doe thus, and sinne, and that they might haue an euill report that they might reproche me.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:14 @ My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the (note:)Grief caused him to pray against such, who under the pretence of being the ministers of God, were adversaries to his glory, and went about to overthrow his Church, declaring also by this that where there is one true minister of God, the devil has many hirelings.(:note) prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:15 @ So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] (note:)Which was the sixth month and contained part of August, and part of September.(:note) Elul, in After I had sent Sanballat his answer. fifty and two days.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:16 @ And when all our enemies heard thereof, euen all the heathen that were about vs, they were afraid, & their courage failed them: for they knew, that this worke was wrought by our God.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:17 @ Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many (note:)Thus the Church of God always has enemies within itself, which is more dangerous than outward and professed enemies.(:note) letters unto Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came unto them.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:18 @ For there were many in Iudah, that were sworne vnto him: for he was the sonne in lawe of Shechaniah, the sonne of Arah: and his sonne Iehonathan had the daughter of Meshullam, the sonne of Berechiah.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:1 @ Nowe when the wall was builded, and I had set vp the doores, and the porters, and the singers and the Leuites were appointed,

geneva@Nehemiah:7:2 @ Then I commanded my brother Hanani and Hananiah the prince of the palace in Ierusalem (for he was doubtlesse a faithfull man, and feared God aboue many)

geneva@Nehemiah:7:4 @ Nowe the citie was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not buylded.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:7 @ Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, (note:)Azariah in Ezra is called Seraiah, and Raamiah Reelaiah (Ezr_2:2).(:note) Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, [I say], of the men of the people of Israel [was this];

geneva@Nehemiah:7:22 @ The sonnes of Hashum, three hundreth & eight and twentie.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:31 @ The men of Michmas, an hundreth and two and twentie.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:41 @ The sonnes of Pashur, a thousande, two hundreth and seuen and fourtie.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:44 @ The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundreth, and eight and fourtie.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:46 @ The (note:)Read (Ezr_2:43).(:note) Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

geneva@Nehemiah:7:51 @ The sonnes of Gazzam, ye sonnes of Vzza, the sonnes of Paseah,

geneva@Nehemiah:7:63 @ And of the Priestes: the sonnes of Habaiah, the sonnes of Hakkoz, the sonnes of Barzillai, which tooke one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was named after their name.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:64 @ These sought their writing of the genealogies, but it was not founde: therefore they were put from the Priesthood.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:66 @ All the Congregation together was two & fourtie thousand, three hundreth and threescore,

geneva@Nehemiah:7:69 @ The camels foure hundreth and fiue and thirtie, and sixe thousande, seuen hundreth and twentie asses.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:70 @ And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand (note:)Read (Ezr_2:69).(:note) drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.

geneva@Nehemiah:7:71 @ And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand drams of golde, and two thousande and two hundreth pieces of siluer.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:1 @ And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that [was] before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the (note:)Read (Ezr_7:6).(:note) scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:3 @ And he read therein before the street that [was] before the water gate from the morning until (note:)This declares the great zeal that the people had to hear the word of God.(:note) midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people [were attentive] unto the book of the law.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:4 @ And Ezra the Scribe stoode vpon a pulpit of wood which he had made for the preaching, and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, & Ananiah, and Vriiah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hande, and on his left hand Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, & Hashum, & Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:5 @ And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was (note:)So that his voice might be heard the better.(:note) above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:

geneva@Nehemiah:8:7 @ Also Ieshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Iamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Leuites caused the people to vnderstand the lawe, and the people stood in their place.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:9 @ And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day [is] holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people (note:)In considering their offences against the Law, therefore the Levites do not reprove them for mourning, but assure them of God's mercies if they are repentant.(:note) wept, when they heard the words of the law.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:14 @ And they found written in the Law, (that the Lorde had commanded by Moses) that the children of Israel should dwel in boothes in the feast of the seuenth moneth,

geneva@Nehemiah:8:15 @ And that they shoulde cause it to bee declared and proclaimed in all their cities, and in Ierusalem, saying, Go forth vnto the mount, and bring oliue branches, and pine branches, & branches of myrtus, and palme branches, & branches of thicke trees, to make boothes, as it is written.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:17 @ And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the (note:)Which was almost a thousand years.(:note) days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.

geneva@Nehemiah:8:18 @ And he read in the booke of the Lawe of God euery day, from the first day vnto the last day; they kept the feast seuen dayes, and on the eight day a solemne assemblie, according vnto the maner.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:1 @ Now in the twenty and fourth day of this (note:)Meaning, the seventh.(:note) month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:5 @ And the Leuites said, euen Ieshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodiiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, Stande vp, and praise the Lorde your God for euer, and euer, and let them praise thy glorious Name, O God, which excelleth aboue all thankesgiuing and praise.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:6 @ Thou art Lorde alone: thou hast made heauen, and the heauen of all heauens, with all their hoste, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, & al that are in them, & thou preseruest them all, and the host of the heauen worshippeth thee.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:7 @ Thou art, O Lord, the God, that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of Vr in Caldea, and madest his name Abraham,

geneva@Nehemiah:9:8 @ And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede the lande of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Iebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy wordes, because thou art iust.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:9 @ Thou hast also considered the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the red Sea,

geneva@Nehemiah:9:10 @ And shewed tokens & wonders vpon Pharaoh, and on all his seruants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudely against them: therefore thou madest thee a Name, as appeareth this day.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:11 @ For thou didest breake vp the Sea before them, and they went through the middes of the Sea on dry lande: and those that pursued them, hast thou cast into the bottomes as a stone, in the mightie waters:

geneva@Nehemiah:9:17 @ But refused to obey, & would not remember thy marueilous works that thou haddest done for them, but hardened their neckes, and had in their heads to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: but thou, O God of mercies, gratious and full of compassion, of long suffring and of great mercie, yet forsookest them not.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:18 @ Moreouer, when they made them a molten calfe (and said, This is thy God that brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt) and committed great blasphemies,

geneva@Nehemiah:9:21 @ Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [so that] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet (note:)Though the way was tedious and long.(:note) swelled not.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:22 @ Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst (note:)Meaning, the heathen whom he drove out.(:note) divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:25 @ And they tooke their strong cities and the fat lande, and possessed houses, full of all goods, cisternes digged out, vineyardes, and oliues, and trees for foode in abundance, and they did eate, and were filled, and became fat, and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:26 @ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which (note:)Taking heaven and earth to witness that God would destroy them unless they returned, as in (2Ch_24:19).(:note) testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:31 @ Yet for thy great mercies thou hast not consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and mercifull God.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:32 @ Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the (note:)By whom we were led away into captivity and have been appointed to be slain, as in (Est_3:13).(:note) kings of Assyria unto this day.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:33 @ Howbeit thou [art] just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast (note:)He confesses that all these things came to them justly for their sins, but he appeals from God's justice to his mercies.(:note) done right, but we have done wickedly:

geneva@Nehemiah:9:34 @ Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst (note:)That you would destroy them, unless they would return to you, as in (Neh_9:26).(:note) testify against them.

geneva@Nehemiah:9:37 @ And it yeeldeth much fruit vnto the kings whom thou hast set ouer vs, because of our sinnes: and they haue dominion ouer our bodyes and ouer our cattell at their pleasure, and we are in great affliction.

geneva@Nehemiah:10:3 @ Pashur, Amariah, Malchiah,

geneva@Nehemiah:10:11 @ Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,

geneva@Nehemiah:10:18 @ Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,

geneva@Nehemiah:10:20 @ Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

geneva@Nehemiah:10:23 @ Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,

geneva@Nehemiah:10:25 @ Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

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

geneva@Nehemiah:10:33 @ For the (note:)This states why they gave this third part of the shekel which was beyond the half shekel that they were required to pay, (Exo_30:13).(:note) shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy [things], and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and [for] all the work of the house of our God.

geneva@Nehemiah:10:34 @ We cast also lottes for the offering of the wood, euen the Priestes, the Leuites and the people to bring it into the house of our God, by the house of our fathers, yeerely at the times appointed, to burne it vpon the altar of the Lorde our God, as it is written in the Lawe,

geneva@Nehemiah:10:36 @ Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as [it is] (note:)This rehearsal shows that there was no part or ceremony in the Law, to which they did not bind themselves by covenant.(:note) written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

geneva@Nehemiah:10:38 @ And the Priest, the sonne of Aaron shall be with the Leuites, when ye Leuites take tithes, and the Leuites shall bring vp the tenth parte of the tithes vnto the house of our God, vnto the chambers of the treasure house.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:1 @ And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, (note:)Because their enemies dwelt round about them, they provided that it might be replenished with men, and used this policy because there were few who offered themselves willingly.(:note) to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts [to dwell] in [other] cities.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:5 @ And Maaseiah the sonne of Baruch, the sonne of Col Hozeh, the sonne of Hazaiah, the sonne of Adaiah, the sonne of Ioiarib, the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Shiloni.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:7 @ These also are the sonnes of Beniamin, Sallu, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Ioed, the sonne of Pedaiah, the sonne of Kolaiah, the sonne of Maaseiah, the sonne of Ithiel, the sonne of Ieshaiah.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:9 @ And Ioel the sonne of Zichri was gouernour ouer them: and Iudah, the sonne of Senuah was the second ouer the citie:

geneva@Nehemiah:11:11 @ Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, (note:)That is, was the high priest.(:note) [was] the ruler of the house of God.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:12 @ And their brethren (note:)That served and ministered in the temple.(:note) that did the work of the house [were] eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,

geneva@Nehemiah:11:13 @ And his brethren, chiefe of the fathers, two hundreth and two and fourtie: and Amashsai the sonne of Azareel, the sonne of Ahazai, the sonne of Meshilemoth, the sonne of Immer:

geneva@Nehemiah:11:14 @ And their brethren valiant men, an hundreth and eight and twentie: & their ouerseer was Zabdiel the sonne of Hagedolim.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:15 @ And of the Leuites, Shemaiah, the sonne of Hashub, the sonne of Azrikam, the sonne of Hashabiah, the sonne of Bunni.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:17 @ And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, [was] the principal to (note:)That is, he began the psalm and was the chanter.(:note) begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:21 @ And the Nethinims dwelt in the fortres, & Ziha, and Gispa was ouer the Nethinims.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:22 @ And the ouerseer of the Leuites in Ierusalem was Vzzi the sonne of Bani, the sonne of Ashabiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Micha: of the sonnes of Asaph singers were ouer the worke of the house of God.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:23 @ For it was the Kings commandement cocerning them, that faithfull prouision shoulde bee for the singers euery day.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:24 @ And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, (note:)Was chief about the king for all high affairs.(:note) [was] at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.

geneva@Nehemiah:11:31 @ And the sonnes of Beniamin from Geba, in Michmash, and Aiia, and Beth-el, and in the villages thereof,

geneva@Nehemiah:12:8 @ Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, (note:)Had charge of them who sang the psalms.(:note) [which was] over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:10 @ And Ieshua begate Ioiakim: Ioiakim also begate Eliashib, and Eliashib begate Ioiada.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:12 @ And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of (note:)That is, next to Seraiah or rather of the order, who was called after the name of Seraiah.(:note) Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

geneva@Nehemiah:12:17 @ Of (note:)Of which was Zachariah, John the Baptist's father.(:note) Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

geneva@Nehemiah:12:21 @ Vnder Hilkiah, Hashabiah, vnder Iedaiah, Nethaneel.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:22 @ In the dayes of Eliashib, Ioiada, and Iohanan and Iaddua were the chiefe fathers of the Leuites written, and the Priests in the reigne of Darius the Persian.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:23 @ The sonnes of Leui, the chiefe fathers were written in the booke of the Chronicles euen vnto the dayes of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:24 @ And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise [and] to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over (note:)That is, one after another and every one in his course.(:note) against ward.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:35 @ And of the Priests sonnes with trumpets, Zechariah the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Michaiah, the sonne of Zaccur, ye sonne of Asaph.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:36 @ And (note:)That is, the brass throne of Zaccur.(:note) his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:37 @ And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the (note:)Which was going up to the mount Zion, which is called the city of David.(:note) stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:38 @ And the seconde companie of them that gaue thankes, went on the other side, and I after them, and the halfe of the people was vpon the wal, and vpon the towre of the furnaces euen vnto the broad wall.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:41 @ The Priests also, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, Hananiah, with trumpets,

geneva@Nehemiah:12:42 @ And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Vzzi, and Iehohanan, and Malchiiah, and Elam, and Ezer: and the singers sang loude, hauing Izrahiah which was the ouerseer.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:43 @ And the same day they offered great sacrifices and reioyced: for God had giuen them great ioy, so that both the women, and the children were ioyfull: and the ioy of Ierusalem was heard farre off.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:44 @ And at that time were some appointed (note:)Which were chambers appointed by Hezekiah to put in the tither, and such things, (2Ch_31:11) and now were repaired again for the same use.(:note) over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

geneva@Nehemiah:12:46 @ For in the dayes of Dauid and Asaph, of olde were chiefe singers, and songs of praise and thankesgiuing vnto God.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:1 @ And on that day did they reade in the booke of Moses, in the audience of the people, and it was found written therein, that the Ammonite, & the Moabite should not enter into the Congregation of God,

geneva@Nehemiah:13:3 @ Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel (note:)That is, all who had joined in unlawful marriage and also those with whom God had forbidden them to mingle with.(:note) all the mixed multitude.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:4 @ And before (note:)That the separation was made.(:note) this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, [was] He was united with Tobiah the Ammonite the enemy of the Jews. allied unto Tobiah:

geneva@Nehemiah:13:6 @ But in all this [time] was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of (note:)Called also Darius, (Ezr_6:1).(:note) Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:

geneva@Nehemiah:13:7 @ And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of (note:)Thus we see to what inconveniences the people fall into when they are destitute of one who fears God, seeing that their chief governor was absent only for a little while and yet they fell into such great absurdities: as appears in, (Exo_32:1).(:note) the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:8 @ And it grieued me sore: therefore I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah out of the chamber.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:10 @ And I perceiued that the portions of the Leuites had not bene giuen, and that euery one was fled to his lande, euen the Leuites and singers that executed the worke.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:11 @ Then reproued I the rulers and sayd, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I assembled them, and set them in their place.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:12 @ Then brought all Iudah the tithes of corne and of wine, and of oyle vnto the treasures.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:13 @ And I made treasurers ouer the treasures, Shelemiah the Priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Leuites, Pedaiah, and vnder their hande Hanan the sonne of Zaccur the sonne of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithfull, and their office was to distribute vnto their brethren.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:14 @ Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my (note:)He protests that he did his duty with a good conscience yet he does not justify himself in it, but desires God to favour him and to be merciful to him for his own goodness' sake, as in (Neh_13:22, Neh_13:31).(:note) good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:15 @ In those days saw I in Judah [some] treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all [manner of] burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and (note:)I declared to them that God would not allow such transgressors of his law to go unpunished.(:note) I testified [against them] in the day wherein they sold victuals.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:18 @ Did not your fathers (note:)Was this not the reason God plagued us in times past: meaning, that if they transgressed now in the same way, their plague would be greater.(:note) thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:19 @ And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be (note:)About the time that the sun went down, for the sabbath lasted from the sun setting one day, to the sun setting the next day.(:note) dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and [some] of my servants set I at the gates, [that] there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:22 @ And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and [that] they should come [and] (note:)Meaning, of the temple that none that was unclean should enter.(:note) keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, [concerning] this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:23 @ In those days also saw I Jews [that] had married wives of (note:)Which was a city of the Philistines and they had married wives from it and so had corrupted their speech and religion.(:note) Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:

geneva@Nehemiah:13:24 @ And their children spake halfe in ye speach of Ashdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, and according to the language of the one people, and of the other people.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:26 @ Did not Salomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? yet among many nations was there no King like him: for he was beloued of his God, and God had made him King ouer Israel: yet strange women caused him to sinne.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:28 @ And one of the sonnes of Ioiada the sonne of Eliashib the hie Priest was the sonne in law of Sanballat the Horonite: but I chased him fro me.

geneva@Esther:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the days of (note:)Also called Darius, who was now the favourite monarch and had the government of the Medes, Persians and Chaldeans. Some think he was Darius Hystaspis also called Artaxerxes.(:note) Ahasuerus, (this [is] Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, [over] an (Dan_6:1) makes mention of only 120 leaving out the number that are imperfect as the scripture uses in various places. hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) The Argument - Because of the variety of names, by which they used to call their kings, and the number of years in which the Hebrews and the Greeks vary, various authors write concerning that Ahasuerus but is seems in (Dan_6:1, Dan_9:1) that he was Darius king of the Medes and son of Astyages also called Ahasuerus which was a name of honour and signified great and chief as chief head. In this is declared the great mercies of God toward his church: who never fails them in their greatest dangers, but when all hope of worldly help fades, he stirs up some, by whom he sends comfort and deliverance. In this also is described the ambition, pride and cruelty of the wicked when they come to honour and their sudden fall when they are at their highest and how God preserves and prefers them who are zealous of his glory and have a care and love for their brethren.

geneva@Esther:1:2 @ [That] in those days, when the king Ahasuerus (note:)That is, had rest and quietness.(:note) sat on the throne of his kingdom, which [was] in Shushan the palace,

geneva@Esther:1:3 @ In the third yeere of his reigne, he made a feast vnto all his princes and his seruants, euen the power of Persia and Media, and to the captaines and gouernours of the prouinces which were before him,

geneva@Esther:1:5 @ And when these dayes were expired, the King made a feast to all the people that were founde in the palace of Shushan, both vnto great and small, seuen dayes, in the court of the garden of the Kings palace,

geneva@Esther:1:6 @ [Where were] white, green, and blue, [hangings], fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the (note:)Which they used in those countries instead of tables.(:note) beds [were of] gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

geneva@Esther:1:7 @ And they gave [them] drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the (note:)As was befitting for so magnificent a king.(:note) state of the king.

geneva@Esther:1:8 @ And the drinking [was] according to the law; none did (note:)No one was forced to drink more than it pleased him.(:note) compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

geneva@Esther:1:9 @ The Queene Vashti made a feast also for the women in the royall house of King Ahashuerosh.

geneva@Esther:1:10 @ On the (note:)Which was the last day of the feast that the king made for the people as in (Est_1:5).(:note) seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

geneva@Esther:1:11 @ To bring Queene Vashti before the King with the crowne royall, that he might shewe the people and the princes her beautie: for shee was fayre to looke vpon.

geneva@Esther:1:12 @ But the Queene Vashti refused to come at the Kings worde, which he had giuen in charge to the eunuches: therefore the King was very angry, and his wrath kindled in him.

geneva@Esther:1:13 @ Then the king said to the wise men, (note:)Who had experience in things as they had learned by diligent marking in continuance of time.(:note) which knew the times, (for so [was] the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:

geneva@Esther:1:14 @ And the next unto him [was] Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the (note:)Who were his chief counsellors that always had access to him.(:note) king's face, [and] which sat the first in the kingdom;)

geneva@Esther:1:15 @ What shal we do vnto the Queene Vashti according to the law, because she did not according to the worde of the King Ahashuerosh by the commission of the eunuches?

geneva@Esther:1:16 @ And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done (note:)By her disobedience she has given an example to all women to do the same to their husbands.(:note) wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that [are] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

geneva@Esther:1:17 @ For [this] (note:)That is, her disobedience.(:note) deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

geneva@Esther:1:19 @ If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come (note:)Let her be divorced and another made queen.(:note) no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

geneva@Esther:1:21 @ And this saying pleased the King and the princes, and the King did according to the worde of Memucan.

geneva@Esther:2:1 @ After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he (note:)That is, he brought the matter again into discussion.(:note) remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed By the seven wise men of his counsel. against her.

geneva@Esther:2:3 @ And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, (note:)The abuse of these countries was so great, that they invented many means to serve the lusts of princes and therefore they ordained wicked laws that the king might have whose daughters he would. They had many houses appointed, one for the virgins, another for the concubines and another for the queen.(:note) keeper of the women; and let their things Read what this purification was in (Est_2:12). for purification be given [them]:

geneva@Esther:2:4 @ And the mayde that shall please the King, let her reigne in the steade of Vashti; this pleased the King, and he did so.

geneva@Esther:2:5 @ In the citie of Shushan, there was a certaine Iewe, whose name was Mordecai the sonne of Iair, the sonne of Shimei, the sonne of Kish a man of Iemini,

geneva@Esther:2:6 @ Which had bene caryed away from Ierusalem with the captiuitie that was caryed away with Ieconiah King of Iudah (whom Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel had caryed away)

geneva@Esther:2:7 @ And he nourished Hadassah, that is Ester, his vncles daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, & the mayde was fayre, and beautifull to looke on: & after the death of her father, and her mother, Mordecai tooke her for his own daughter

geneva@Esther:2:8 @ And when the Kings commandement, and his decree was published, and many maydes were brought together to the palace of Shushan, vnder the hand of Hege, Ester was brought also vnto the Kings house vnder the hande of Hege the keeper of the women.

geneva@Esther:2:9 @ And the mayde pleased him, & she founde fauour in his sight: therefore he caused her things for purification to be giuen her speedily, and her state, and seuen comely maides to be giuer her out of the Kings house, and he gaue change to her and to her maydes of the best in the house of the women.

geneva@Esther:2:11 @ And Mordecai walked (note:)For though she was taken away by a cruel law, yet he did not cease to have a fatherly care for her, and therefore often sought to hear of her.(:note) every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

geneva@Esther:2:12 @ And when the course of euery mayd came, to go in to King Ahashuerosh, after that she had bene twelue moneths according to the maner of the women (for so were the dayes of their purifications accomplished, sixe moneths with oyle of myrrhe, and sixe moneths with sweete odours and in the purifying of the women:

geneva@Esther:2:13 @ Then thus came [every] maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was (note:)Whatever apparel she asked for, the eunuch was bound to give to her.(:note) given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

geneva@Esther:2:14 @ In the euening she went, & on the morow she returned into the second house of the women vnder the hand of Shaashgaz the Kings eunuche, which kept the concubines: shee came in to the King no more, except shee pleased the King, and that she were called by name.

geneva@Esther:2:15 @ Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, (note:)In which her modesty appeared because she did not seek to dress to command her beauty but sought the eunuch's appointment.(:note) appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

geneva@Esther:2:16 @ So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which [is] the (note:)Which contained part of December and part of January.(:note) month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

geneva@Esther:2:17 @ And the King loued Ester aboue all the women, and shee founde grace and fauour in his sight more then all the virgins: so that he set the crowne of the kingdome vpon her head, & made her Queene instead of Vashti.

geneva@Esther:2:18 @ Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, [even] Esther's (note:)That is, made for her sake.(:note) feast; and he made a release He released their tribute. to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the That is, great and magnificent. state of the king.

geneva@Esther:2:19 @ And when the virgins were gathered together the (note:)That is, at the marriage of Esther, which was the second marriage for the king.(:note) second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

geneva@Esther:2:20 @ Ester had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had charged her: for Ester did after the worde of Mordecai, as when she was nourished with him.

geneva@Esther:2:21 @ In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay (note:)Meaning, to kill him.(:note) hand on the king Ahasuerus.

geneva@Esther:2:22 @ And the thing was knowen to Mordecai, and he tolde it vnto Queene Ester, and Ester certified the King thereof in Mordecais name:

geneva@Esther:2:23 @ And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the (note:)In the chronicles of the Medes and Persians, (Est_10:2).(:note) chronicles before the king.

geneva@Esther:3:1 @ After these things did King Ahashuerosh promote Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite, and exalted him, and set his seate aboue all the princes that were with him.

geneva@Esther:3:2 @ And all the king's servants, that [were] in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai (note:)The Persians custom was to kneel down and reverence their kings, and such as he anointed in chief authority, which Mordecai would not do to this ambitious and proud man.(:note) bowed not, nor did [him] reverence.

geneva@Esther:3:4 @ Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they (note:)Thus we see that there is no one so wicked but they have their flatterers to accuse the godly.(:note) told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he [was] a Jew.

geneva@Esther:3:5 @ And when Haman sawe that Mordecai bowed not the knee vnto him, nor did reuerence vnto him, then Haman was full of wrath.

geneva@Esther:3:6 @ Now he thought it too litle to lay hands onely on Mordecai: & because they had shewed him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Iewes, that were throughout the whole kingdome of Ahashuerosh, euen the people of Mordecai.

geneva@Esther:3:7 @ In the first month, that [is], the month (note:)Which contains part of March and part of April.(:note) Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, To know what month and day would be good to attempt this thing, that it might be successful: but God disappointed their lots and expectations. before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Containing part of February and part of March. Adar.

geneva@Esther:3:8 @ And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from all people; neither keep they the (note:)These are the two arguments which commonly the worldlings and the wicked use toward princes against the godly, that is, the contempt of their laws and diminishing of their profit without concern as to whether God is pleased or displeased.(:note) king's laws: therefore it [is] not for the king's profit to suffer them.

geneva@Esther:3:9 @ If it please the King, let it be written that they may he destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of siluer by the handes of them that haue the charge of this businesse to bring it into the Kings treasurie.

geneva@Esther:3:11 @ And the King sayde vnto Haman, Let the siluer be thine, and the people to doe with them as it pleaseth thee.

geneva@Esther:3:12 @ Then were the Kings scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first moneth, and there was written (according to all that Haman commaunded) vnto the Kings officers, and to the captaines that were ouer euery prouince, and to the rulers of euery people, and to euery prouince, according to the writing thereof, and to euery people according to their language: in the name of King Ahashuerosh was it written, and sealed with the Kings ring.

geneva@Esther:3:13 @ And the letters were sent by postes into all the Kings prouinces, to roote out, to kill and to destroy all the Iewes, both yong & olde, children and women, in one day vpon the thirteenth day of the twelft moneth, (which is the moneth Adar) and to spoyle them as a pray. {\cf2 (13:1) The copie of the letters was this, The great King Artaxerxes writeth these thinges to the princes and gouernours that are vnder him from India vnto Ethiopia in an hundreth and seuen and twentie prouinces. (13:2) When I was made Lord ouer many people, and had subdued the whole earth vnto my dominion, I would not exalt my selfe by the reason of my power, but purposed with equitie alway and gentlenesse to gouerne my subiects, and wholy to set them in a peaceable life, and thereby to bring my kingdome vnto tranquilitie, that men might safely goe thorow on euery side, and to renewe peace againe, which all men desire. (13:3) Now when I asked my counsellers how these things might be brought to passe, one that was conuersant with vs, of excellent wisdome, and constant in good wil, and shewed him selfe to be of sure fidelitie, which had the second place in the kingdome, euen Aman, (13:4) Declared vnto vs, that in all nations there was scattered abroad a rebellious people, that had lawes contrary to all people, and haue alway despised the commandements of Kings, and so that this generall empire, that we haue begunne, cannot be gouerned without offence. (13:5) Seeing nowe wee perceiue, that this people alone are altogether contrary vnto euery man, vsing strange and other maner of lawes, and hauing an euill opinion of our doings, and goe about to stablish wicked matters, that our kingdome should not come to good estate, (13:6) Therefore haue we comaunded, that all they that are appointed in writing vnto you by Aman (which is ordeined ouer ye affaires, & is as our second father) shall all with their wiues and children be destroyed & rooted out with ye sword of their enemies without all mercy, and that none be spared the fourtenth day of the twelfth moneth Adar of this yeere, (13:7) That they which of olde, and nowe also haue euer bene rebellious, may in one day with violence be thrust downe into the hell, to the intent that after this time our affaires may bee without troubles, and well gouerned in all pointes.}

geneva@Esther:3:14 @ The contents of the writing was, that there shoulde be giuen a commandement in all prouinces, and published vnto all people, that they should be ready against the same day.

geneva@Esther:3:15 @ The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the (note:)That is, the Jews that were in Shushan.(:note) city Shushan was perplexed.

geneva@Esther:4:1 @ Now when Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth and ashes, and went out into the middes of the citie, and cryed with a great crye, and a bitter.

geneva@Esther:4:3 @ And in euery prouince, and place, whither the Kings charge and his commission came, there was great sorowe among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping and mourning, and many laye in sackecloth and in ashes.

geneva@Esther:4:4 @ Then Esters maydes and her eunuches came and tolde it her: therefore the Queene was very heauie, and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackecloth from him, but he receiued it not.

geneva@Esther:4:5 @ Then called Ester Hatach one of the Kings eunuches, whom he had appointed to serue her, and gaue him a commandement vnto Mordecai, to knowe what it was, and why it was.

geneva@Esther:4:6 @ So Hatach went foorth to Mordecai vnto the streete of the citie, which was before the Kings gate.

geneva@Esther:4:7 @ And Mordecai tolde him of all that which had come vnto him, and of the summe of the siluer that Haman had promised to pay vnto the Kings treasures, because of the Iewes, for to destroy them.

geneva@Esther:4:8 @ Also he gaue him the copy of the writing and commission that was giuen at Shushan, to destroy them, that he might shewe it vnto Ester and declare it vnto her, and to charge her that she should goe in to the King, and make petition and supplication before him for her people.

geneva@Esther:4:14 @ For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, [then] shall there enlargement and deliverance (note:)Thus Mordecai spoke in the confidence of that faith which all God's children should have; which is that God will deliver them, though all worldly means fail.(:note) arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for To deliver God's Church out of these present dangers. [such] a time as this?

geneva@Esther:4:16 @ Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to the law: and if I perish, (note:)I will put my life in danger and refer the success to God, seeing it is for his glory and the deliverance of his Church.(:note) I perish.

geneva@Esther:4:17 @ So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Ester had commaunded him. {\cf2 (13:8) Then Mardocheus thought vpon all ye workes and of the Lord, and made his prayer vnto him, (13:9) Saying, O Lord, Lord, the King Almighty (for all things are in thy power) & if thou hast appointed to saue Israel, there is no man that can withstand thee. (13:10) For thou hast made heauen and earth, and all the wonderous things vnder the heauen. (13:11) Thou art Lorde of all thinges, and there is no man that can resist thee, which art the Lord. (13:12) Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest, Lord, that it was neither of malice, nor presumption, nor for any desire of glory, that I did this, and not bowe downe to proude Aman. (13:13) For I woulde haue bene content with good will for the saluation of Israel, to haue kist the sole of his feete. (13:14) But I did it, because I would not preferre the honour of a man aboue the glory of God, & would not worship any but onely thee, my Lorde, and this haue I not done of pride. (13:15) And therefore, O Lord God and King, haue mercy vpon thy people: for they imagine how they may bring vs to naught, yea, they would destroy the inheritance, that hath bin thine from the beginning. (13:16) Despise not the portion, which thou hast deliuered out of Egypt for thine owne selfe. (13:17) Heare my prayer, and bee mercifull vnto thy portion: turne our sorow into ioy, that we may liue, O Lord, and praise thy Name: shut not the mouthes of them that praise thee. (13:18) All Israel in like maner cried most earnestly vnto the Lord, because that death was before their eyes. \par (14:1) Qveene Esther also, being in danger of death, resorted vnto the Lord, (14:2) And layd away her glorious apparell, and put on the garments of sighing, and mourning. In the stead of precious oyntment, she scattered ashes, and dongue vpon her head: and she humbled her body greatly with fasting, and all the places of her ioy filled she with the heare that she pluckt off. (14:3) And she prayed vnto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my Lorde, thou onely art our King: helpe me desolate woman, which haue no helper but thee. (14:4) For my danger is at hand. (14:5) From my youth vp I haue heard in the kinred of my father, that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from their predecessours for a perpetuall inheritance, and thou hast performed that which thou didest promise them. (14:6) Now Lord, we haue sinned before thee: therefore hast thou giuen vs into ye hands of our enemies. (14:7) Because we worshipped their gods, O Lorde, thou art righteous. (14:8) Neuerthelesse, it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captiuitie, but they haue stroken hands with their idoles, (14:9) That they wil abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordeined, & destroy thine inheritace, to shut vp the mouth of them that praise thee, and to quench the glory of thy Temple, and of thine altar, (14:10) And to open the mouths of the heathen, that they may praise the power of the idoles, and to magnifie a fleshly King for euer. (14:11) O Lord, giue not thy scepter vnto them that be nothing, lest they laugh vs to scorne in our miserie: but turne their deuise vpon theselues, and make him an example, that hath begunne the same against vs. (14:12) Thinke vpon vs, O Lord, and shewe thy selfe vnto vs in the time of our distresse, and strengthen me, O King of gods, and Lord of all power. (14:13) Giue me an eloquent speach in my mouth before the Lion: turne his heart to hate our enemie, to destroy him, and all such as consent vnto him. (14:14) But deliuer vs with thine hand, and helpe me that am solitary, which haue no defence but onely thee. (14:15) Thou knowest all things, O Lord: thou knowest, that I hate the glory of the vnrighteous, and that I abhorre the bed of the vncircumcised, and of all the heathen. (14:16) Thou knowest my necessitie: for I hate this token of my preeminence, which I beare vpon mine head, what time as I must shewe my selfe, and that I abhorre it as a menstruous cloth, and that I weare it not when I am alone by my selfe, (14:17) And that I thine handmayde haue not eaten at Amans table, and that I haue had no pleasure in the Kings feast, nor drunke the wine of the drinke offerings, (14:18) And that I thine handmayde haue no ioye since the day that I was brought hither, vntill this day, but in thee, O Lord God of Abraham. (14:19) O thou mighty God aboue al, heare the voyce of them, that haue none other hope, & deliuer vs out of the hand of ye wicked, & deliuer me out of my feare.}

geneva@Esther:5:1 @ Now it came to pass on the third (note:)That is, after the Jews had begun to fast.(:note) day, that Esther put on [her] royal [apparel], and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

geneva@Esther:5:2 @ And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, [that] she obtained favour in his sight: and the king (note:)Which was a sign that her coming was agreeable to him, (Est_4:11).(:note) held out to Esther the golden sceptre that [was] in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

geneva@Esther:5:3 @ Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request? it shall be even (note:)Meaning by this that whatever she asked would be granted as in (Mar_6:23).(:note) given thee to the half of the kingdom.

geneva@Esther:5:4 @ Then saide Ester, If it please the King, let the King & Haman come this day vnto the banket, that I haue prepared for him.

geneva@Esther:5:5 @ And the King sayd, Cause Haman to make haste that he may doe as Ester hath sayde. So the King and Haman came to the banket that Ester had prepared.

geneva@Esther:5:6 @ And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of (note:)Because they used to drink excessively in their banquets they called the banquet by that which was most in use or esteemed.(:note) wine, What [is] thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

geneva@Esther:5:8 @ If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath (note:)I will declare what I demand.(:note) said.

geneva@Esther:5:9 @ Then went Haman forth the same day ioyfull and with a glad heart. But when Haman sawe Mordecai in the Kings gate, that he stoode not vp, nor moued for him, then was Haman full of indignation at Mordecai.

geneva@Esther:5:13 @ But al this doth nothing auaile me, as long as I see Mordecai ye Iewe sitting at ye Kings gate.

geneva@Esther:5:14 @ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty (note:)Meaning, the highest that could be found.(:note) cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

geneva@Esther:6:2 @ Then it was found written that Mordecai had tolde of Bigtana, and Teresh two of the Kings eunuches, keepers of the dore, who sought to lay hands on the King Ahashuerosh.

geneva@Esther:6:4 @ And the king said, Who [is] in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to (note:)Thus while the wicked imagine the destruction of others, they themselves fall into the same pit.(:note) hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

geneva@Esther:6:8 @ Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [useth] to wear, and the (note:)Meaning by this that the king should make him next to himself as Joseph was known to be next to Pharaoh in (Gen_41:43).(:note) horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:

geneva@Esther:6:10 @ Then the King said to Haman, Make haste, take the rayment and the horse as thou hast said, and doe so vnto Mordecai the Iewe, that sitteth at the Kings gate: let nothing fayle of all that thou hast spoken.

geneva@Esther:6:12 @ And Mordecai came againe to the Kings gate, but Haman hasted home mourning and his head couered.

geneva@Esther:6:13 @ And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every [thing] that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai [be] of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, (note:)Thus God sometimes puts in the mouth of the very wicked to speak that thing which he has decreed shall come to pass.(:note) but shalt surely fall before him.

geneva@Esther:6:14 @ And while they were yet talking with him, came the Kings eunuches & hasted to bring Haman vnto the banket that Ester had prepared.

geneva@Esther:7:3 @ And Ester the Queene answered, and said, If I haue found fauour in thy sight, O King, and if it please the King, let my life be giuen me at my petition, and my people at my request.

geneva@Esther:7:4 @ For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not (note:)Haman could not profit the king by his malice as much he would hinder him by the loss of the Jews and the tribute which he had from them.(:note) countervail the king's damage.

geneva@Esther:7:5 @ Then King Ahashuerosh answered, and said vnto the Queene Ester, Who is he? and where is he that presumeth to doe thus?

geneva@Esther:7:6 @ And Ester said, The aduersarie and enemie is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afrayde before the King and the Queene.

geneva@Esther:7:7 @ And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath [went] into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was (note:)His conscience accused him that as he had conspired the death of innocents, so the vengeance of God would fall on him for the same.(:note) evil determined against him by the king.

geneva@Esther:7:8 @ Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was (note:)He fell down at the couch on which she sat and made request for his life.(:note) fallen upon the bed whereon Esther [was]. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they This was the manner of the Persians, when one was out of favour with the king. covered Haman's face.

geneva@Esther:7:10 @ So they hanged Haman on the tree, that he had prepared for Mordecai: then was the Kings wrath pacified.

geneva@Esther:8:1 @ On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai (note:)That is, was received into the king's favour and presence.(:note) came before the king; for Esther had told what he [was] That he was her uncle, and had brought her up. unto her.

geneva@Esther:8:5 @ And sayd, If it please the King, & if I haue found fauour in his sight, and the thing be acceptable before the King, and I please him, let it be written, that the letters of the deuice of Haman the sonne of Ammedatha the Agagite may be called againe, which he wrote to destroy the Iewes, that are in all the Kings prouinces.

geneva@Esther:8:7 @ And the King Ahashuerosh sayde vnto the Queene Ester, & to Mordecai the Iewe, Behold, I haue giuen Ester the house of Haman, whome they haue hanged vpon the tree, because he layd hand vpon the Iewes.

geneva@Esther:8:8 @ Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal [it] with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may (note:)This was the law of the Medes and Persians, as in (Dan_6:15) nonetheless the king revoked the former decree granted to Haman for Esther's sake.(:note) no man reverse.

geneva@Esther:8:9 @ Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that [is], the month (note:)Which contains part of May and part of June.(:note) Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which [are] from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the That is, in such letters and languages as was usual in every province. writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

geneva@Esther:8:10 @ And hee wrote in the King Ahashuerosh name, and sealed it with the Kings ring: and he sent letters by postes on horsebacke and that rode on beastes of price, as dromedaries and coltes of mares.

geneva@Esther:8:11 @ Wherein the king granted the Jews which [were] in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for (note:)That is, to defend themselves against all who would assail them.(:note) their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, [both] little ones and women, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey,

geneva@Esther:8:12 @ Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, [namely], upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which [is] the month (note:)Which has part of February and part of March.(:note) Adar.

geneva@Esther:8:13 @ The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province [was] published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to (note:)The king gave them permission to kill all who oppressed them.(:note) avenge themselves on their enemies.

geneva@Esther:8:14 @ So the postes rode vpon beasts of price, and dromedaries, & went forth with speede, to execute the Kings commaundement, and the decree was giuen at Shushan the palace.

geneva@Esther:8:15 @ And Mordecai went out from the King in royall apparell of blewe, and white, and with a great crowne of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple, and the citie of Shushan reioyced and was glad.

geneva@Esther:8:16 @ The Jews had light, and (note:)He showed by the words that follow, what this light was.(:note) gladness, and joy, and honour.

geneva@Esther:8:17 @ And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land (note:)Conformed themselves to the Jew's religion.(:note) became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

geneva@Esther:9:1 @ Now in the twelfth month, that [is], the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was (note:)This was by God's great providence, who turns the joy of the wicked into sorrow, and the tears of the godly into gladness.(:note) turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

geneva@Esther:9:2 @ The Iewes gathered themselues together into their cities throughout all the prouinces of the King Ahashuerosh, to lay hande on such as sought their hurt, and no man coulde withstande them: for the feare of them fel vpon al people.

geneva@Esther:9:4 @ For Mordecai was great in the kings house, and the report of him went through all the prouinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

geneva@Esther:9:7 @ And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

geneva@Esther:9:9 @ And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaiezatha,

geneva@Esther:9:10 @ The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but (note:)By which they declared that this was God's just judgment on the enemies of his Church as they fought not for their own gain, but to execute his vengeance.(:note) on the spoil laid they not their hand.

geneva@Esther:9:13 @ Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which [are] in Shushan to do to morrow also according (note:)This she requires not out of a desire for vengeance but with zeal to see God's judgment's executed against his enemies.(:note) unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

geneva@Esther:9:14 @ And the King charged to doe so, and the decree was giuen at Shushan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.

geneva@Esther:9:15 @ So the Iewes that were in Shushan, assembled themselues vpon the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, & slew three hundreth men in Shushan, but on the spoyle they layd not their hand.

geneva@Esther:9:16 @ But the other Jews that [were] in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for (note:)Read (Est_8:11).(:note) their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their Meaning, that they laid hands on no one that was not the enemy of God. foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

geneva@Esther:9:17 @ On the (note:)Meaning, in all places saving Shushan.(:note) thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

geneva@Esther:9:18 @ But the Iewes that were in Shushan assembled themselues on the thirteenth day, & on the fourteenth therof, & they rested on the fifteenth of the same, and kept it a day of feasting & ioy.

geneva@Esther:9:19 @ Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, (note:)As the Jews do even to this day, calling it in the Persian language Purim, that is, the day of lots.(:note) made the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

geneva@Esther:9:20 @ And Mordecai wrote (note:)The Jews gather from this that Mordecai wrote this book, but it seems that he wrote only these letters and decrees that follow.(:note) these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that [were] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, [both] nigh and far,

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@Esther:9:23 @ And the Iewes promised to do as they had begun, & as Mordecai had written vnto them,

geneva@Esther:9:24 @ Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had (note:)Read (Est_3:7).(:note) cast Pur, that [is], the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

geneva@Esther:9:27 @ The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two (note:)Meaning, the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar.(:note) days according to their writing, and according to their [appointed] time every year;

geneva@Esther:9:30 @ And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] (note:)Which were letters declaring to them quietness and assurance and putting them out of doubt and fear.(:note) words of peace and truth,

geneva@Esther:9:31 @ To confirm these days of Purim in their times [appointed], according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the (note:)That they would observe this feast with fasting and earnest prayer, which in Hebrew is signified by this word (they cry).(:note) fastings and their cry.

geneva@Esther:9:32 @ And the decree of Ester confirmed these words of Purim, and was written in the booke.

geneva@Esther:10:1 @ And the King Ahashuerosh layd a tribute vpon the land, and vpon the yles of the sea.

geneva@Esther:10:3 @ For Mordecai the Jew [was] next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and (note:)These three points are here set forth as commendable and necessary for him that is in authority to have the favour of the people, to procure their wealth, and to be gentle and loving to them.(:note) accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

geneva@Job:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of (note:)That is, of the country of Idumea, (Lam_4:21), or bordering on it: for the land was called by the name of Uz, the son of Dishan, the son of Seir (Gen_36:28).(:note) Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and Since he was a Gentile and not a Jew and yet is pronounced upright and without hypocrisy, it declares that among the heathen God revealed himself. upright, and By this it is declared what is meant by an upright and just man. one that feared God, and eschewed evil. The Argument - In this history the example of patience is set before our eyes. This holy man Job was not only extremely afflicted in outward things and in his body, but also in his mind and conscience, by the sharp temptation of his wife and friends: who by their vehement words and subtle disputations brought him almost to despair. They set forth God as a sincere judge, and mortal enemy to him who had cast him off, therefore in vain he should seek him for help. These friends came to him under pretence of consolation, and yet they tormented him more than all his afflictions did. Even so, he constantly resisted them, and eventually succeeded. In this story we must note that Job maintains a good cause, but handles it badly. His adversaries have an evil matter, but they defend it craftily. Job held that God did not always punish men according to their sins, but that he had secret judgments, of which man knew not the cause, and therefore man could not reason against God in it, but he should be convicted. Moreover, he was assured that God had not rejected him, yet through his great torments and afflictions he speaks many inconveniences and shows himself as a desperate man in many things, and as one that would resist God, and this is his good cause which he handles well. Again the adversaries maintain with many good arguments that God punishes continually according to the trespass, grounding on God's providence, his justice and man's sins, yet their intention is evil; for they labour to bring Job into despair, and so they maintain an evil cause. Ezekiel commends Job as a just man, (Eze_14:14) and James sets out his patience for an example, (Jam_5:11).

geneva@Job:1:3 @ His (note:)His children and riches are declared, to commend his virtue in his prosperity and his patience and constancy when God took them from him.(:note) substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of Meaning, the Arabians, Chaldeans, Idumeans etc. the east.

geneva@Job:1:5 @ And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and (note:)That is, commanded them to be sanctified: meaning, that they should consider the faults that they had committed, and reconcile themselves for the same.(:note) sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and That is, he offered for each of his children an offering of reconciliation, which declared his religion toward God, and the care that he had for his children. offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and In Hebrew it is, «blessed God», which is sometimes taken for blaspheming and cursing, as it is here and in (1Ki_21:10, 1Ki_21:13). cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job While the feast lasted. continually.

geneva@Job:1:6 @ Now there was a day when the (note:)Meaning the angels, who are called the sons of God because they are willing to execute his will.(:note) sons of God came to present themselves Because our infirmity cannot comprehend God in his majesty, he is set forth to us as a King, that our capacity may be able to understand that which is spoken of him. before the LORD, and Satan This declares that although Satan is an adversary to God, yet he is compelled to obey him, and do him all homage, without whose permission and appointment he can do nothing. came also among them.

geneva@Job:1:7 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence (note:)This question is asked for our infirmity: for God knew where he had come from.(:note) comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, In this is described the nature of Satan, which is always seeking his prey, (1Pe_5:8). From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

geneva@Job:1:8 @ And the Lord saide vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill?

geneva@Job:1:10 @ Hast not thou made (note:)Meaning, the grace of God, which served Job as a rampart against all temptations.(:note) an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

geneva@Job:1:12 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath [is] in (note:)God does not give Satan power over man to gratify him, but to declare that he has no power over man, but that which God gives him.(:note) thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the That is, went to execute that which God had permitted him to do for else he can never go out of God's presence. presence of the LORD.

geneva@Job:1:14 @ There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,

geneva@Job:1:16 @ While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The (note:)Which was also done by the craft of Satan, to tempt Job even more grievously, so he might see that not only men were his enemies, but that God made war against him.(:note) fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

geneva@Job:1:17 @ And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.

geneva@Job:1:18 @ While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy (note:)This last plague declares that when one plague is past which seems hard to bear, God can send us another far more grievous, to try his and teach them obedience.(:note) sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

geneva@Job:1:20 @ Then Job arose, and (note:)Which came not from impatience, but declares that the children of God are not insensible like blocks, but that in their patience they feel affliction and grief of mind: yet they do not rebel against God as the wicked do.(:note) rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

geneva@Job:2:1 @ Again there was a day when the (note:)That is, the angels, (Job_1:6).(:note) sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Read (Job_1:6). Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

geneva@Job:2:2 @ Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lorde, and sayd, From compassing the earth to and fro, and from walking in it.

geneva@Job:2:3 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, (note:)He proves Job's integrity by this that he ceased not to fear God when his plagues were grievously upon him.(:note) although thou movedst me against That is, when you had nothing against him, or when you were not able to bring your purpose to pass. him, to destroy him without cause.

geneva@Job:2:6 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine hand; but save (note:)Thus Satan can go no further in punishing than God has limited him.(:note) his life.

geneva@Job:2:7 @ So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore (note:)This sore was most vehement, with which God also plagued the Egyptians, (Exo_9:9) and threatened to punish rebellious people, (Deu_28:27) so that this temptation was most grievous: for if Job had measured God's favour by the vehemency of his disease, he might have thought that God had cast him off.(:note) boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

geneva@Job:2:8 @ And he took him a (note:)As destitute of all other help and means and wonderfully afflicted with the sorrow of his disease.(:note) potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

geneva@Job:2:9 @ Then said his (note:)Satan uses the same instrument against Job, as he did against Adam.(:note) wife unto him, Dost thou Meaning, what do you gain from serving God, seeing he thus plagues you, as though he were your enemy? This is the most grievous temptation for the faithful, when their faith is assailed, and when Satan goes about to persuade them that they trust in God in vain. still retain thine integrity? For death was appointed to the blasphemer and so she meant that he would quickly be rid of his pain. curse God, and die.

geneva@Job:2:10 @ But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not (note:)That is, to be patient in adversity as we rejoice when he sends prosperity, and so to acknowledge him to be both merciful and just.(:note) receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his He so bridled his desires that his tongue through impatience did not murmur against God. lips.

geneva@Job:2:11 @ Now when Job's three (note:)Who were men of authority, wise and learned, and as the Septuagint writes, kings, and came to comfort him, but when they saw how he was visited, they conceived an evil opinion of him, as though he was a hypocrite and so justly plagued by God for his sins.(:note) friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

geneva@Job:2:12 @ And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled (note:)This was also a ceremony which they used in those countries as the renting of their clothes in sign of sorrow etc.(:note) dust upon their heads toward heaven.

geneva@Job:2:13 @ So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very (note:)And therefore thought that he would not have listened to their counsel.(:note) great.

geneva@Job:3:1 @ After this opened (note:)The seven days ended, (Job_2:13).(:note) Job his mouth, and Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the flesh, (Rom_7:18) and after a manner yields yet in the end he gets victory though he was in the mean time greatly wounded. cursed his day.

geneva@Job:3:3 @ Let the day (note:)Men should not be weary of their life and curse it, because of the infinities that it is subject to, but because they are given to sin and rebellion against God.(:note) perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.

geneva@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

geneva@Job:3:13 @ For now should I have (note:)The vehemency of his afflictions made him utter these words as though death was the end of all miseries, and as if there were no life after this, which he speaks not as though it were so, but the infirmities of his flesh caused him to break out in this error of the wicked.(:note) lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

geneva@Job:3:14 @ With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built (note:)He notes the ambition of them who for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in most barren places, because they would by this make their names immortal.(:note) desolate places for themselves;

geneva@Job:3:16 @ Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

geneva@Job:3:17 @ There the wicked (note:)That is, by death the cruelty of the tyrants has ceased.(:note) cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

geneva@Job:3:19 @ There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

geneva@Job:3:21 @ Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

geneva@Job:3:25 @ For the thing which I greatly (note:)In my prosperity I looked for a fall, as it now has come to pass.(:note) feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

geneva@Job:3:26 @ I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; (note:)The fear of troubles that would ensue, caused my prosperity to seem to me as nothing, and yet I am not exempted from trouble.(:note) yet trouble came.

geneva@Job:4:2 @ [If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but (note:)Seeing your impatience.(:note) who can withhold himself from speaking?

geneva@Job:4:3 @ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou (note:)You have comforted others in their afflictions but you cannot now comfort yourself.(:note) hast strengthened the weak hands.

geneva@Job:4:4 @ Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.

geneva@Job:4:6 @ [Is] not [this] thy (note:)He concludes that Job was a hypocrite and had no true fear or trust in God.(:note) fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

geneva@Job:4:7 @ Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being (note:)He concludes that Job was reproved seeing that God handles him so extremely, which is the argument that the carnal men make against the children of God.(:note) innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

geneva@Job:4:8 @ Even as I have seen, they that (note:)They who do evil cannot but receive evil.(:note) plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

geneva@Job:4:9 @ By the (note:)He shows that God needs no great preparation to destroy his enemies: for he can do it with the blast of his mouth.(:note) blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

geneva@Job:4:12 @ Now a thing was (note:)A thing I did not know before was declared to me by vision, that is that whoever thinks himself just will be found a sinner when he comes before God.(:note) secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

geneva@Job:4:15 @ And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp.

geneva@Job:4:16 @ It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] (note:)When all things were quiet or when the fear was relieved as God appeared to Elijah, (1Ki_19:12).(:note) silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],

geneva@Job:4:17 @ Shall mortal man be more (note:)He proves that if God punished the innocent, the creature would be more just than the creator, which was blasphemy.(:note) just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

geneva@Job:4:19 @ How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of (note:)That is, in this mortal body, subject to corruption, as in (2Co_5:1).(:note) clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?

geneva@Job:4:21 @ Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without (note:)That is, before any of them were so wise, as to think of death.(:note) wisdom.

geneva@Job:5:1 @ Call now, if there be any that will (note:)He wills Job to consider the example of all who have lived or live godly, whether any of them are like him in raging against God as he does.(:note) answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

geneva@Job:5:2 @ For (note:)Murmuring against God in afflictions increases the pain, and uttered man's folly.(:note) wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

geneva@Job:5:3 @ I have seen the (note:)That is, the sinner that does not have the fear of God.(:note) foolish taking root: but suddenly I I was not moved by his prosperity but knew that God had cursed him and his. cursed his habitation.

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

geneva@Job:5:7 @ Yet man is born unto (note:)Which declares that sin is always in our corrupt nature: for before sin it was not subject to pain and affliction.(:note) trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

geneva@Job:5:8 @ I would seek unto (note:)If I suffered as you do, I would seek God.(:note) God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

geneva@Job:5:14 @ They meet with (note:)In things plain and evident they show themselves fools instead of wise men.(:note) darkness in the daytime, and This declares that God punishes the worldly wise as he threatened in (Deu_28:29). grope in the noonday as in the night.

geneva@Job:5:17 @ Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

geneva@Job:5:19 @ He shall deliver thee in (note:)He will send trouble after trouble that his children may not for one time, but continually trust in him: but they sill have a comfortable issue, even in the greatest and the last, which is here called the seventh.(:note) six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

geneva@Job:5:22 @ At destruction and famine thou shalt (note:)While the wicked lament in their troubles, you will have occasion to rejoice.(:note) laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

geneva@Job:5:23 @ For thou (note:)When we are in God's favour, all creatures will serve us.(:note) shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

geneva@Job:5:25 @ Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.

geneva@Job:5:26 @ Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in (note:)Though the children of God have not always carried out this promise, yet God recompenses it otherwise to their advantage.(:note) a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.

geneva@Job:6:4 @ For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do (note:)Which declares that he was not only afflicted in body, but wounded in conscience, which is the greatest battle that the faithful can have.(:note) set themselves in array against me.

geneva@Job:6:5 @ Doth the (note:)Do you think that I cry without cause, seeing the brute beasts do not complain when they have what they want.(:note) wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

geneva@Job:6:6 @ Can that which is (note:)Can a man's taste delight in that, which has no savour? meaning that no one takes pleasure in affliction seeing they cannot do away with things that are unsavoury to the mouth.(:note) unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

geneva@Job:6:7 @ Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.

geneva@Job:6:8 @ Oh that I might have my (note:)In this he sins double, both in wishing through impatience to die, and also in desiring of God a thing which was not agreeable to his will.(:note) request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

geneva@Job:6:12 @ Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse?

geneva@Job:6:13 @ [Is] not my (note:)Have I not sought to help myself as much as was possible?(:note) help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

geneva@Job:6:15 @ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a (note:)He compares friends who do not comfort us in our misery to a brook which in summer when we need water is dry, in winter is hard frozen and in the time of rain when we have no need overflows with water.(:note) brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away;

geneva@Job:6:19 @ The troops of Tema (note:)They who pass by it to go into the hot countries of Arabia, think to find water there to quench their thirst but they are deceived.(:note) looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

geneva@Job:6:20 @ But they were confounded: when they hoped, they came thither and were ashamed.

geneva@Job:6:21 @ For now ye are (note:)That is, like this brook which deceives them who think to have water there in their need, as I looked for consolation from you.(:note) nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.

geneva@Job:6:25 @ How (note:)He who has a good conscience does not shrink at the sharp words or reasonings of others, unless they are able to persuade him by reason.(:note) forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

geneva@Job:6:26 @ Do ye imagine to reprove (note:)Do you object to my words because I would be thought to speak foolishly, and am now in misery?(:note) words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

geneva@Job:6:28 @ Now therefore be content, (note:)Consider whether I speak as one who is driven to this impatience through sorrow, or as a hypocrite as you condemn me.(:note) look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.

geneva@Job:7:1 @ [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an (note:)Has not a hired servant some rest and ease? Then in this my continual torment I am worse than a hireling.(:note) hireling?

geneva@Job:7:2 @ As a seruant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling looketh for the ende of his worke,

geneva@Job:7:3 @ So am I made to possess (note:)My sorrow has continued from month to month, and I have looked for hope in vain.(:note) months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

geneva@Job:7:4 @ If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.

geneva@Job:7:5 @ My flesh is (note:)This signifies that his disease was rare and most horrible.(:note) clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

geneva@Job:7:6 @ My days are swifter than (note:)Thus he speaks in respect for the brevity of man's life, which passes without hope of returning: in consideration of which he desires God to have compassion on him.(:note) a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

geneva@Job:7:7 @ Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.

geneva@Job:7:11 @ Therefore I will not (note:)Seeing I can by no other means comfort myself I will declare my grief in words, and thus he speaks as one overcome with grief of mind.(:note) refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

geneva@Job:7:15 @ So that my soul (note:)He speaks as one overcome with sorrow, and not of judgment, or of the examination of his faith.(:note) chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.

geneva@Job:7:16 @ I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: (note:)Seeing my term of life is so short, let me have some rest and ease.(:note) let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

geneva@Job:7:17 @ What [is] man, that thou (note:)Seeing that man of himself is so vile, why do you give him that honour to contend against him? Job uses all kinds of persuasion with God, that he might stay his hand.(:note) shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

geneva@Job:7:20 @ I have (note:)After all temptations faith steps forth and leads Job to repentance: yet it was not in such perfection that he could bridle himself from reasoning with God, because he still tried his faith.(:note) sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

geneva@Job:8:2 @ How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth (note:)He declares that their words which would diminish anything from the justice of God, are but as a puff of wind that vanishes away.(:note) [be like] a strong wind?

geneva@Job:8:4 @ If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their (note:)That is, has rewarded them according to their iniquity, meaning that Job should be warned by the example of his children, that he not offend God.(:note) transgression;

geneva@Job:8:7 @ Though thy beginning (note:)Though the beginning is not as pleasant as you would like, yet in the end you will have sufficient opportunity to please yourself.(:note) was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

geneva@Job:8:11 @ Can the rush (note:)As a rush cannot grow without moisture, so the hypocrite because he does not have faith which is watered with God's Spirit.(:note) grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

geneva@Job:8:15 @ He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.

geneva@Job:8:19 @ Behold, this [is] the joy (note:)To be planted in another place, where it may grow as it pleases.(:note) of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

geneva@Job:8:20 @ Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand,

geneva@Job:8:21 @ Till he fill thy mouth with (note:)If you are godly, he will give you opportunity to rejoice and if not your affliction will increase.(:note) laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

geneva@Job:9:7 @ He commandeth the sunne, & it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.

geneva@Job:9:11 @ Lo, he goeth (note:)I am not able to comprehend his works, which are common and daily before my eyes, much less in those things, which are hid and secret.(:note) by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

geneva@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? (note:)He shows that when God executes his power, he does it justly, as no one can control him.(:note) who will say unto him, What doest thou?

geneva@Job:9:13 @ [If] God (note:)God will not be appeased for anything that man can say for himself for his justification.(:note) will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers That is, all the reasons that men can lay to approve their cause. do stoop under him.

geneva@Job:9:14 @ How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out (note:)How should I be able to answer him by eloquence? By which he notes his friends, who although they were eloquent in talk, did not believe in their hearts, that which they spoke.(:note) my words [to reason] with him?

geneva@Job:9:17 @ For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds (note:)I am not able to feel my sins so great, as I feel the weight of his plagues; and this he speaks to condemn his dullness and to justify God.(:note) without cause.

geneva@Job:9:19 @ If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] (note:)After he has accused his own weakness, he continues to justify God and his power.(:note) strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?

geneva@Job:9:22 @ This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the (note:)If God punishes according to his justice, he will destroy them who are counted perfect as well as them that are wicked.(:note) perfect and the wicked.

geneva@Job:9:23 @ If the scourge (note:)That is, the wicked.(:note) slay suddenly, he will This is spoken according to our apprehension, as though he would say, If God destroyed only the wicked, (Job_5:3), why would he allow the innocent to be so long tormented by them? laugh at the trial of the innocent.

geneva@Job:9:26 @ They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

geneva@Job:9:30 @ If I wash (note:)Though I seem pure in my own eyes, yet all is but corruption before God.(:note) myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

geneva@Job:9:32 @ For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement.

geneva@Job:9:34 @ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:

geneva@Job:10:3 @ [Is it] (note:)Is it agreeable to your justice to do me wrong?(:note) good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the Will you be without compassions? work of thine hands, and shine upon the Will you gratify the wicked and condemn me? counsel of the wicked?

geneva@Job:10:4 @ Hast thou eyes of (note:)Do you do this of ignorance.(:note) flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

geneva@Job:10:5 @ [Are] thy days as the (note:)Are you inconstant and changeable as the times, today a friend, tomorrow an enemy?(:note) days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,

geneva@Job:10:7 @ Thou knowest that I am not (note:)By affliction you keep me as in a prison, and restrain me from doing evil, neither can any set me free.(:note) wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand.

geneva@Job:10:8 @ Thine (note:)In these eight verses following he describes the mercy of God, in the wonderful creation of man: and on it grounds that God should not show himself rigorous against him.(:note) hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

geneva@Job:10:9 @ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as (note:)As brittle as a pot of clay.(:note) the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

geneva@Job:10:10 @ Hast thou not powred me out as milke? & turned me to cruds like cheese?

geneva@Job:10:11 @ Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.

geneva@Job:10:12 @ Thou hast granted me life and (note:)That is, reason and understanding, and many other gifts, by which man excels all earthly creatures.(:note) favour, and thy That is, the fatherly care and providence by which you preserved me, and without which I would perish immediately. visitation hath preserved my spirit.

geneva@Job:10:13 @ And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know (note:)Though I am not fully able to comprehend these things, yet I must confess that it is so.(:note) that this [is] with thee.

geneva@Job:10:16 @ For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself (note:)Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the spirit, breaks out into these affections, wishing rather for short days than long pain.(:note) marvellous upon me.

geneva@Job:10:17 @ Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; (note:)That is, diversity of diseases and in great abundance; showing that God has infinite means to punish man.(:note) changes and war [are] against me.

geneva@Job:10:18 @ Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

geneva@Job:10:19 @ And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!

geneva@Job:10:20 @ [Are] not my days few? (note:)He wishes that God would leave off his affliction, considering his great misery and the shortness of his life.(:note) cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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

geneva@Job:10:22 @ A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any (note:)No distinction between light and darkness but where there is very darkness itself.(:note) order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

geneva@Job:11:3 @ Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? & when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?

geneva@Job:11:4 @ For thou hast said, (note:)He charges Job with this, that he should say, that the thing which he spoke was true, and that he was without sin in the sight of God.(:note) My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

geneva@Job:11:6 @ And that he would shew thee the (note:)Which is not to stand in justifying of yourself: he signifies that man will never be overcome while he reasons with another, and therefore God must break off the controversy, and stop man's mouth.(:note) secrets of wisdom, that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee [less] than thine iniquity [deserveth].

geneva@Job:11:8 @ [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? (note:)That is, this perfection of God, and if man is not able to comprehend the height of the heavens, the depth of the earth, the breadth of the sea, which are but creatures, how can he attain to the perfection of the creator.(:note) deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

geneva@Job:11:9 @ The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.

geneva@Job:11:12 @ For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild (note:)That is, without understanding, so that whatever gifts he has afterward come from God, and not from nature.(:note) ass's colt.

geneva@Job:11:15 @ For then shalt thou lift up thy (note:)He declares the quietness of conscience and success in all things that they shall have who turn to God in true repentance.(:note) face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

geneva@Job:11:16 @ But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.

geneva@Job:11:17 @ Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.

geneva@Job:11:20 @ But the eyes (note:)He shows that contrary things will come to them who do not repent.(:note) of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.

geneva@Job:12:2 @ No doubt but ye [are] the people, and (note:)Because you do not feel what you speak, you think the whole stands in words, and so flatter yourselves as though no one else knew anything, or could know except you.(:note) wisdom shall die with you.

geneva@Job:12:3 @ But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?

geneva@Job:12:4 @ I am (note:)He reproves his friends for two faults: one, that they thought they had better knowledge than they did: and the other, that instead of true consolation, they derided and despised their friend in his adversity.(:note) [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he Who being a mocker and a wicked man, thinks that no man is in God's favour but he, because he has all things that he desires. answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.

geneva@Job:12:7 @ But ask now the beasts, (note:)He declares to them that disputed against him, that their wisdom is common to all, and such as the very brute beasts teach daily.(:note) and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

geneva@Job:12:11 @ Doth not the ear (note:)He exhorts them to be wise in judging, and as well to know the right use of their God-given ears, as well as their mouths.(:note) try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

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

geneva@Job:12:17 @ He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.

geneva@Job:12:19 @ He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.

geneva@Job:12:23 @ He (note:)In this discourse of God's wonderful works, Job shows that whatever is done in this world both in the order and change of things, is by God's will and appointment, in which he declares that he thinks well of God, and is able to set forth his power in words as they that reasoned against him were.(:note) increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again].

geneva@Job:13:2 @ I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.

geneva@Job:13:3 @ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire (note:)For although he knew that God was just, which was revealed in his ordinary working and another in his secret counsel, yet he uttered his affection to God, because he was not able to understand the reason he punished him.(:note) to reason with God.

geneva@Job:13:4 @ But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all (note:)You do not well apply your medicine to the disease.(:note) physicians of no value.

geneva@Job:13:7 @ Will ye speak (note:)He condemns their zeal, who did not have knowledge, nor regarded they to comfort him, but always granted on God's justice, as though it was not evidently seen in Job, unless they had undertaken the probation of it.(:note) wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

geneva@Job:13:9 @ Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?

geneva@Job:13:12 @ Your (note:)Your fame will come to nothing.(:note) remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

geneva@Job:13:14 @ Wherefore do I (note:)Is not this a revealed sign of my affliction and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented as though I should tear my own flesh, and put my life in danger?(:note) take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

geneva@Job:13:16 @ He also [shall be] my salvation: for an (note:)By which he declares that he is not a hypocrite as they charged him.(:note) hypocrite shall not come before him.

geneva@Job:13:18 @ Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be (note:)That is, cleared and not cut off for my sins, as you think.(:note) justified.

geneva@Job:13:23 @ How many [are] (note:)His pangs move him to reason with God, not denying that he had sinned: but he desired to understand what his great sins were that he deserved such rigor, in which he sinned by demanding a reason from God why he punished him.(:note) mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

geneva@Job:13:28 @ Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.

geneva@Job:14:2 @ He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

geneva@Job:14:5 @ Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.

geneva@Job:14:6 @ Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, (note:)Until the time you have appointed him to die, which he desires as the hireling waits for the end of his labour to receive his wages.(:note) as an hireling, his day.

geneva@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

geneva@Job:14:11 @ As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,

geneva@Job:14:13 @ O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy (note:)By this he declares that the fear of God's judgment was the reason why he desired to die.(:note) wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and That is, relieve my pain and take me to mercy. remember me!

geneva@Job:14:18 @ And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the (note:)He murmurs through the impatiency of the flesh against God, as though he used great severity against him as against the hard rocks, or waters that overflow, so that by this the opportunity of his hope is taken away.(:note) rock is removed out of his place.

geneva@Job:14:19 @ As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man.

geneva@Job:14:20 @ Thou preuailest alway against him, so that he passeth away: he changeth his face when thou castest him away.

geneva@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man utter (note:)That is, vain words, and without consolation?(:note) vain knowledge, and fill his belly Meaning, with matters that are of no importance, which are forgotten as soon as they are uttered, as the East wind dries up moisture as soon as it falls. with the east wind?

geneva@Job:15:4 @ Yea, thou castest off (note:)He charges Job as though his talk caused men to cast off the fear of God and prayer.(:note) fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

geneva@Job:15:5 @ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the (note:)You speak as the mockers and contemners of God do.(:note) tongue of the crafty.

geneva@Job:15:7 @ [Art] thou the (note:)That is, the most ancient and so by reason the most wise?(:note) first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

geneva@Job:15:8 @ Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom (note:)Are you only wise?(:note) to thyself?

geneva@Job:15:13 @ That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?

geneva@Job:15:14 @ What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should (note:)His purpose is to prove that Job, as an unjust man and a hypocrite, is punished for his sins, as he did before, (Job_4:8).(:note) be righteous?

geneva@Job:15:15 @ Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.

geneva@Job:15:16 @ How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which (note:)Who has a desire to sin, as he who is thirsty to drink.(:note) drinketh iniquity like water?

geneva@Job:15:18 @ Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:

geneva@Job:15:19 @ Unto whom alone the earth was (note:)Who by their wisdom so governed, that no stranger invaded them, and so the land seemed to be given to them alone.(:note) given, and no stranger passed among them.

geneva@Job:15:23 @ He wandereth (note:)God not only impoverishes the wicked often, but even in their prosperity he punishes them with a greediness to gain even more: which is as a beggary.(:note) abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

geneva@Job:15:24 @ Trouble and (note:)He shows the weapons God uses against the wicked, who lift up themselves against him, that is, terror of conscience and outward afflictions.(:note) anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

geneva@Job:15:27 @ Because he covereth his face with (note:)That is, he was so puffed up with prosperity and abundance for all things, that he forgave God: noting that Job in his happiness did not have the true fear of God.(:note) his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.

geneva@Job:15:33 @ He shall shake off his unripe (note:)As one who gathers grapes before they are ripe.(:note) grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

geneva@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as ye [do]: if your (note:)I would that you felt what I do.(:note) soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and That is, mock at your misery, as you do at mine. shake mine head at you.

geneva@Job:16:5 @ [But] I would strengthen you (note:)If this were in my power, yet I would comfort you and not do as you do to me.(:note) with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].

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

geneva@Job:16:7 @ But now (note:)Meaning, God.(:note) he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my That is, destroyed most of my family. company.

geneva@Job:16:8 @ And thou hast filled me with (note:)In token of sorrow and grief.(:note) wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

geneva@Job:16:10 @ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the (note:)That is, has handled me contemptuously: for so slapping the cheek signified, (1Ki_22:24; Mar_14:65)(:note) cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

geneva@Job:16:12 @ I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.

geneva@Job:16:13 @ His (note:)His manifold afflictions.(:note) archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall I am wounded to the heart. upon the ground.

geneva@Job:16:15 @ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my (note:)Meaning, his glory was brought low.(:note) horn in the dust.

geneva@Job:16:18 @ O earth, cover not thou my (note:)Let my sin be known if I am such a sinner as my adversaries accuse me, and let me find no favour.(:note) blood, and let my cry have no place.

geneva@Job:16:21 @ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man (note:)Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaks out into passions, and speaks unadvisedly, as though God would intreat man more gently, seeing he has only a short time here to live.(:note) [pleadeth] for his neighbour!

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

geneva@Job:17:6 @ He hath made me also a (note:)God has made all the world speak of me, because of my afflictions.(:note) byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

geneva@Job:17:8 @ Upright [men] shall be astonied at (note:)That is, when they see the godly punished: but in the end they will come to understanding and know what will be the reward of the hypocrite.(:note) this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

geneva@Job:17:9 @ The righteous also shall hold on his (note:)That is, will not be discouraged, considering that the godly are punished as well as the wicked.(:note) way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

geneva@Job:17:10 @ But as for (note:)Job speaks to the three who came to comfort him.(:note) you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.

geneva@Job:17:11 @ My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart

geneva@Job:17:13 @ If I wait, (note:)Though I should hope to come from adversity to prosperity, as your discourse pretends.(:note) the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

geneva@Job:18:2 @ How long [will it be ere] (note:)Who count yourselves just as (Job_12:4).(:note) ye make an end of words? Whom you take to be only beasts, as in (Job_12:7). mark, and afterwards we will speak.

geneva@Job:18:3 @ Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?

geneva@Job:18:7 @ The steps of his strength shalbe restrained, and his owne counsell shall cast him downe.

geneva@Job:18:8 @ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he (note:)Meaning, that the wicked are in continual danger.(:note) walketh upon a snare.

geneva@Job:18:13 @ It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the (note:)That is, some strong and violent death will consume his strength: or as the Hebrew word signifies his members or parts.(:note) firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

geneva@Job:18:18 @ He shall be driven from (note:)He will fall from prosperity to adversity.(:note) light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

geneva@Job:18:20 @ They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his (note:)When they will see what came to him.(:note) day, as they that went before were affrighted.

geneva@Job:19:3 @ These (note:)That is, many times, as in (Neh_4:12).(:note) ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.

geneva@Job:19:6 @ Know now that God hath (note:)He breaks out again into his passions and declares still that his affliction comes from God though he is not able to feel the cause in himself.(:note) overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

geneva@Job:19:8 @ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot (note:)Meaning, out of his afflictions.(:note) pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

geneva@Job:19:9 @ He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the (note:)Meaning, his children, and whatever was dear to him in this world.(:note) crown [from] my head.

geneva@Job:19:10 @ He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like (note:)Which is plucked up, and has no more hope to grow.(:note) a tree.

geneva@Job:19:11 @ And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.

geneva@Job:19:20 @ My bone (note:)Besides these great losses and most cruel unkindness, he was touched in his own person as follows.(:note) cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

geneva@Job:19:21 @ Have pity upon me, have (note:)Seeing I have these just causes to complain, condemn me not as a hypocrite, especially you who should comfort me.(:note) pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

geneva@Job:19:22 @ Why do ye persecute me as (note:)Is it not enough that God punishes me, unless you by reproaching increase my sorrow?(:note) God, and are not satisfied with my To see my body punished, unless you trouble my mind? flesh?

geneva@Job:19:24 @ That they were graven with (note:)He protests that despite his sore passions his religion is perfect and that he in not a blasphemer as they judged him.(:note) an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

geneva@Job:19:26 @ And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet (note:)In this Job declares plainly that he had a full hope, that both the soul and body would enjoy the presence of God in the last resurrection.(:note) in my flesh shall I see God:

geneva@Job:19:28 @ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the (note:)Though his friends thought that he was only persecuted by God for his sins, yet he declares that there was a deeper consideration that is, the trial of his faith and patience, and so to be an example for others.(:note) matter is found in me?

geneva@Job:20:2 @ Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

geneva@Job:20:8 @ He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

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:20:12 @ Though wickedness be (note:)As poison that is sweet in the mouth brings destruction when it comes into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but God later turns it to destruction.(:note) sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

geneva@Job:20:14 @ Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

geneva@Job:20:16 @ He shall suck the (note:)He compares ill-gotten goods to the venom of asps, which is a dangerous serpent, noting that Jobs great riches were not truly come by and therefore God plagues him justly for the same.(:note) poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

geneva@Job:20:23 @ [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, (note:)Some read, upon his flesh, alluding to Job, whose flesh was smitten with a scab.(:note) and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.

geneva@Job:20:28 @ The (note:)Meaning, the children of the wicked will flow away like rivers and be dispersed in various places.(:note) increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

geneva@Job:21:4 @ As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it (note:)As though he would say, I do not talk with man but with God, who will not answer me, and therefore my mind must be troubled.(:note) were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

geneva@Job:21:5 @ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] (note:)He charges them as though they were not able to comprehend his feeling of God's judgment, and exhorts them therefore to silence.(:note) mouth.

geneva@Job:21:10 @ Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

geneva@Job:21:14 @ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the (note:)They desire nothing more than to be exempt from all subjection that they should bear to God, thus Job shows his adversaries, that if they reason only by that which is seen by common experience the wicked who hate God are better dealt withal than they who love him.(:note) knowledge of thy ways.

geneva@Job:21:18 @ They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

geneva@Job:21:21 @ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

geneva@Job:21:23 @ One (note:)Meaning, the wicked.(:note) dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

geneva@Job:21:24 @ His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

geneva@Job:21:25 @ And another (note:)That is, the godly.(:note) dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

geneva@Job:21:26 @ They shall lie down alike in (note:)As concerning their bodies: and this he speaks according to the common judgment.(:note) the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

geneva@Job:21:28 @ For ye say, Where [is] the (note:)Thus they called Job's house in derision concluding that it was destroyed because he was wicked.(:note) house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?

geneva@Job:21:29 @ Have ye (note:)Who through long travailing have experience and tokens of it, that is, that the wicked prosper, and the godly live in affliction.(:note) not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

geneva@Job:21:30 @ That the wicked is reserved to the day of (note:)Though the wicked flourish here, yet God will punish him in the last day.(:note) destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

geneva@Job:21:33 @ The (note:)He will be glad to lie in a slimy pit, who before could not be content with a royal palace.(:note) clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.

geneva@Job:22:2 @ Can a man be (note:)Though man was just, yet God could not profit from this his justice; and therefore when he punished him, he had no regard to his justice, but to his sin.(:note) profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

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:22:7 @ To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

geneva@Job:22:8 @ But [as for] the mighty man, he (note:)When you were in power and authority you did not do justice but wrong.(:note) had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

geneva@Job:22:9 @ Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the (note:)You have not only not shown pity, but oppressed them.(:note) fatherless have been broken.

geneva@Job:22:12 @ [Is] not God in the (note:)He accuses Job of impiety and contempt of God, as thought he would say, If you pass not for men, yet consider the height of God's majesty.(:note) height of heaven? and behold the height of the That so much the more by that excellent work you may fear God, and reverence him. stars, how high they are!

geneva@Job:22:13 @ And thou sayest, How doth God (note:)He reproves Job, as though he denied God's providence and that he could not see the things that were done in this world.(:note) know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

geneva@Job:22:15 @ Hast thou marked the old way (note:)How God has punished them from the beginning?(:note) which wicked men have trodden?

geneva@Job:22:16 @ Which were (note:)He proves God's providence by the punishment of the wicked, whom he takes away before they can bring their wicked purposes to pass.(:note) cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

geneva@Job:22:17 @ Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.

geneva@Job:22:19 @ The righteous see [it], and are glad: (note:)The just rejoice at the destruction of the wicked for two reasons, first because God shows himself judge of the world and by this means continues his honour and glory: secondly because God shows that he had care over his in that he punished their enemies.(:note) and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

geneva@Job:22:20 @ Whereas (note:)That is, the state and preservation of the godly, is hid under God's wings.(:note) our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of Meaning of the wicked. them the fire consumeth.

geneva@Job:22:24 @ Then shalt thou lay up gold as (note:)Which will be in abundance like dust.(:note) dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

geneva@Job:23:10 @ But he knoweth the (note:)God has this preeminence about me, that he knows my way: that is, that I am not able to judge his work, he shows also his confidence, that God uses him for his profit.(:note) way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

geneva@Job:23:13 @ But he [is] in one [mind], and who can (note:)Job confesses that at the present he did not feel God's favour and yet was assured that God had appointed him to a good end.(:note) turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.

geneva@Job:23:17 @ Because I was not cut off before the (note:)He shows the cause for his fear, which is, that he being in trouble sees no end, nor yet knows the cause.(:note) darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.

geneva@Job:24:1 @ Why, seeing times (note:)Thus Job speaks in his passions, and after the judgment of the flesh: that is, that he does not see the things that are done at times, nor yet has a peculiar care over all, because he does not punish the wicked or avenge the godly.(:note) are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his When he punishes the wicked and rewards the good. days?

geneva@Job:24:3 @ They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

geneva@Job:24:5 @ Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; (note:)That is, spares diligence.(:note) rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness He and his live by robbing and murdering. [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

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:24:17 @ But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

geneva@Job:24:18 @ He [is] swift as the (note:)He flees to the waters for his succour.(:note) waters; their They think that all the world is bent against them and dare not go by the highway. portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

geneva@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] (note:)As the dry ground is never full with waters, so will they never cease sinning till they come to the grave.(:note) have sinned.

geneva@Job:24:23 @ Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.

geneva@Job:24:24 @ They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.

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

geneva@Job:26:3 @ Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou shewest right well as the thing is.

geneva@Job:26:4 @ To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit (note:)That is, moves you to speak this?(:note) came from thee?

geneva@Job:26:10 @ He hath (note:)That is, he hid the heavens which are called his throne.(:note) compassed the waters with bounds, until the So long as this world endures. day and night come to an end.

geneva@Job:26:11 @ The (note:)Not that heaven has pillars to uphold it, but he speaks by a similitude as though he would say heaven itself is not able to abide his reproach.(:note) pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

geneva@Job:27:2 @ [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my (note:)He has so sore afflicted me that men cannot judge my uprightness; for they judge only by outward signs.(:note) judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;

geneva@Job:27:3 @ Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,

geneva@Job:27:5 @ God forbid that I should (note:)Which condemns me as a wicked man, because the hand of God is on me.(:note) justify you: till I die I will not remove mine I will not confess that God does thus punish me for my sins. integrity from me.

geneva@Job:27:6 @ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I (note:)Of my life past.(:note) live.

geneva@Job:27:7 @ Mine enemie shal be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.

geneva@Job:27:8 @ For what [is] the (note:)What advantage has the dissembler to gain, seeing he will lose his own soul?(:note) hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

geneva@Job:27:16 @ Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,

geneva@Job:27:18 @ He buildeth his house as a (note:)Which breeds in another man's possessions or garment, but is soon shaken out.(:note) moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.

geneva@Job:27:20 @ Terrours shal take him as waters, & a tempest shall cary him away by night.

geneva@Job:27:21 @ The East winde shall take him away, & he shal depart: & it shal hurle him out of his place.

geneva@Job:27:22 @ And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

geneva@Job:28:2 @ Yron is taken out of the dust, and brasse is molten out of the stone.

geneva@Job:28:3 @ He setteth an end to darkness, (note:)There is nothing but it is compassed within certain limits, and has an end, but God's wisdom.(:note) and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

geneva@Job:28:5 @ [As for] the earth, out of it cometh (note:)That is, come and underneath is brimstone or coal, which easily conceives fire.(:note) bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

geneva@Job:28:6 @ The stones of it [are] the place (note:)He alludes to the mines and secrets of nature, which are under the earth, into which neither souls nor beasts can enter.(:note) of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

geneva@Job:28:8 @ The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.

geneva@Job:28:9 @ He putteth forth his hand upon the (note:)After he has declared the wisdom of God in the secrets of nature he describes his power.(:note) rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

geneva@Job:28:18 @ No mention shall be made of coral, or of (note:)Which was thought to be a king of precious stone.(:note) pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.

geneva@Job:28:25 @ To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.

geneva@Job:28:28 @ And unto man he said, Behold, the (note:)He declares that man has as much of this heavenly wisdom as he shows by fearing God and departing from evil.(:note) fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.

geneva@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!

geneva@Job:29:3 @ When his (note:)When I felt his favour.(:note) candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] I was free from affliction. darkness;

geneva@Job:29:4 @ As I was in the days of my youth, when the (note:)That is, seemed by evident tokens to be more present with me.(:note) secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;

geneva@Job:29:5 @ When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.

geneva@Job:29:6 @ When I washed my steps (note:)By these comparisons he declares the great prosperity that he was in, so that he had no opportunity to be such a sinner as they accused him.(:note) with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

geneva@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me, and (note:)Being ashamed of their lightness and afraid of my gravity.(:note) hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.

geneva@Job:29:10 @ The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

geneva@Job:29:14 @ I put on (note:)I delighted to do justice, as others did to wear costly apparel.(:note) righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.

geneva@Job:29:15 @ I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.

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:29:18 @ Then I said, I shall die in my (note:)That is, at home in my bed without all trouble and unquietness.(:note) nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.

geneva@Job:29:19 @ My root [was] (note:)My happiness increases.(:note) spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

geneva@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spake not again; and my speech (note:)That is, was pleasant to them.(:note) dropped upon them.

geneva@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide (note:)As the dry ground thirsts for the rain.(:note) [as] for the latter rain.

geneva@Job:29:24 @ [If] I (note:)That is, they thought it not to be a rest, or they did not think that I would condescend to them.(:note) laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they They were afraid to offend me and cause me to be angry. cast not down.

geneva@Job:29:25 @ I chose out (note:)I had them at commandment.(:note) their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.

geneva@Job:30:2 @ Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was (note:)That is, their fathers died of hunger before they came to age.(:note) perished?

geneva@Job:30:3 @ For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

geneva@Job:30:4 @ They cut vp nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate.

geneva@Job:30:5 @ They were (note:)Job shows that those who mocked him in his affliction were like their fathers, wicked and lewd fellows, such as he here describes.(:note) driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

geneva@Job:30:11 @ Because he hath loosed my (note:)God has taken from me the force, credit, and authority with which I kept them in subjection.(:note) cord, and afflicted me, He said that the young men when they saw him, hid themselves as in (Job_29:8), and now in his misery they were impudent and licentious. they have also let loose the bridle before me.

geneva@Job:30:14 @ They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the (note:)By my calamity they took an opportunity against me.(:note) desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

geneva@Job:30:15 @ Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.

geneva@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul is (note:)My life fails me, and I am as half dead.(:note) poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

geneva@Job:30:18 @ For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.

geneva@Job:30:21 @ Thou art become (note:)He does not speak this way to accuse God, but to declare the vehemency of his affliction, by which he was carried beside himself.(:note) cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

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:30:28 @ I went mourning (note:)Not delighting in any worldly thing, no not so much as in the use of the sun.(:note) without the sun: I stood up, Lamenting them that were in affliction and moving others to pity them. [and] I cried in the congregation.

geneva@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother to (note:)I am like the wild beasts that desire solitary places.(:note) dragons, and a companion to owls.

geneva@Job:31:3 @ [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to (note:)Job declares that the fear of God was a bridle to stay him from all wickedness.(:note) the workers of iniquity?

geneva@Job:31:5 @ If I haue walked in vanitie, or if my foote hath made haste to deceite,

geneva@Job:31:6 @ Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine (note:)He shows what his uprightness stands in, in as much as he was blameless before men and did not sin against the second table.(:note) integrity.

geneva@Job:31:7 @ If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart (note:)That is, has accomplished the lust of my eyes.(:note) walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

geneva@Job:31:12 @ For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth (note:)He shows that although man neglects the punishment of adultery, yet the wrath of God will never cease till such are destroyed.(:note) to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

geneva@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me in the womb make (note:)He was moved to show pity to servants, because they were God's creatures as he was.(:note) him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

geneva@Job:31:18 @ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, (note:)He nourished the fatherless, and maintained the widows cause.(:note) as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

geneva@Job:31:20 @ If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

geneva@Job:31:23 @ For destruction [from] God [was] a (note:)I did not refrain from sin for fear of men, but because I feared God.(:note) terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

geneva@Job:31:25 @ If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,

geneva@Job:31:26 @ If I beheld the (note:)If I was proud of my worldly prosperity and happiness, which is meant by the shining of the sun, and brightness of the moon.(:note) sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;

geneva@Job:31:29 @ If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

geneva@Job:31:33 @ If I covered (note:)Not confessed it freely, by which it is evident that he justified himself before men, and not before God.(:note) my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

geneva@Job:31:34 @ Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families (note:)That is, I reverenced the most weak and contemned and was afraid to offend them.(:note) terrify me, that I kept I suffered them to speak evil of me, and went not out of my house to avenge it. silence, [and] went not out of the door?

geneva@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a (note:)Should not this book of his accusations be a praise and commendation to me?(:note) crown to me.

geneva@Job:31:37 @ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a (note:)I will make him account of all my life, without fear.(:note) prince would I go near unto him.

geneva@Job:31:38 @ If my land (note:)As though I had withheld their wages that laboured in it.(:note) cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

geneva@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused (note:)Meaning, that he was not a briber or extortioner.(:note) the owners thereof to lose their life:

geneva@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he esteemed himselfe iust.

geneva@Job:32:2 @ Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the (note:)Which came from Buz, the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother.(:note) Buzite, of the kindred of Or, as the Chaldee translation reads, Abram. Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself By making himself innocent, and by charging God of rigour. rather than God.

geneva@Job:32:3 @ Also his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they could not finde an answere, and yet condemned Iob.

geneva@Job:32:5 @ So when Elihu saw, that there was none answere in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled.

geneva@Job:32:6 @ Therefore Elihu the sonne of Barachel, the Buzite answered, & sayd, I am yong in yeres, and ye are ancient: therefore I doubted, and was afraide to shewe you mine opinion.

geneva@Job:32:8 @ But [there is] a spirit in man: (note:)It is a special gift of God that man has understanding and comes neither from nature nor by age.(:note) and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

geneva@Job:32:11 @ Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out (note:)To prove that Job's affliction came for his sins.(:note) what to say.

geneva@Job:32:12 @ Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes:

geneva@Job:32:13 @ Lest ye should say, We have (note:)Flatter yourselves as though you had overcome him.(:note) found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

geneva@Job:32:18 @ For I am full of (note:)I have conceived in my mind a great store of reasons.(:note) matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

geneva@Job:32:19 @ Beholde, my belly is as the wine, which hath no vent, and like the new bottels that brast.

geneva@Job:32:22 @ For I know not to give flattering (note:)The Hebrew word signifies to change the name as to call a fool a wise man: meaning, that he would not cloak the truth to flatter men.(:note) titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon take me away.

geneva@Job:33:6 @ Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in (note:)Because Job had wished to dispute his cause with God, (Job_16:21) so that he might do it without fear, Elihu says, he will reason in God's stead, whom he does not need to fear.(:note) God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

geneva@Job:33:7 @ Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand (note:)I will not handle you so roughly as these others have done.(:note) be heavy upon thee.

geneva@Job:33:8 @ Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes.

geneva@Job:33:10 @ Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.

geneva@Job:33:12 @ Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.

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

geneva@Job:33:18 @ And keepe backe his soule from the pit, & that his life should not passe by the sword.

geneva@Job:33:23 @ If there be a (note:)A man sent from God to declare his will.(:note) messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, A singular man, and as one chosen out of a thousand, who is able to declare the great mercies of God to sinners: and in which man's righteousness stands, which is through the justice of Jesus Christ. to shew unto man his uprightness:

geneva@Job:33:26 @ He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his (note:)God will forgive his sins, and accept him as just.(:note) righteousness.

geneva@Job:33:27 @ He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and (note:)That is, done wickedly.(:note) perverted [that which was] right, and it profited But my sins have been the cause of God's wrath toward me. me not;

geneva@Job:33:29 @ Lo, all these [things] worketh God (note:)Meaning, as often as a sinner repents.(:note) oftentimes with man,

geneva@Job:33:32 @ If thou hast any (note:)If you doubt anything, or see opportunity to speak against it.(:note) thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to That is, to show you, in which mans justification consists. justify thee.

geneva@Job:33:33 @ If thou hast not, heare me: holde thy tongue, and I will teach thee wisedome.

geneva@Job:34:3 @ For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate.

geneva@Job:34:5 @ For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken (note:)That is, has afflicted me without measure.(:note) away my judgment.

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

geneva@Job:34:16 @ And if thou hast vnderstanding, heare this and hearken to the voyce of my wordes.

geneva@Job:34:18 @ [Is it fit] to say to a king, [Thou art] (note:)If man by nature fears to speak evil of such as have power, then they should be much more afraid to speak evil of God.(:note) wicked? [and] to princes, [Ye are] ungodly?

geneva@Job:34:20 @ In a moment shall they die, (note:)When they look not for it.(:note) and the people shall be troubled at midnight, The messengers of visitation that God will send. and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

geneva@Job:34:23 @ For he will not lay upon man more [than right]; that he should (note:)God does not afflict man above measure so that he should have opportunity to contend with him.(:note) enter into judgment with God.

geneva@Job:34:26 @ He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of (note:)Meaning, openly in the sight of all men.(:note) others;

geneva@Job:34:30 @ That the (note:)When tyrants sit in the throne of justice which under pretence of executing justice are hypocrites and oppress the people, it is a sign that God has drawn back his countenance of favour from that place.(:note) hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

geneva@Job:34:31 @ Surely it is meet (note:)It only belongs to God to moderate his corrections, and not to man.(:note) to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]:

geneva@Job:34:33 @ [Should it be] according to (note:)Will God use your counsel in doing his works?(:note) thy mind? he will recompense Thus he speaks in the person of God, as though Job should chose and refuse affliction at his pleasure. it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

geneva@Job:34:36 @ My desire [is that] Job may be (note:)That he may speak as much as he can, that we may answer him and all the wicked that will use such arguments.(:note) tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.

geneva@Job:35:2 @ Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My (note:)Job never spoke these words: but because he maintained his innocency, it seemed as though he would say, that God tormented him without just cause.(:note) righteousness [is] more than God's?

geneva@Job:35:3 @ For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fro my sinne?

geneva@Job:35:4 @ I will answer thee, and thy (note:)Such as are in the same error.(:note) companions with thee.

geneva@Job:35:8 @ Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.

geneva@Job:35:9 @ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] (note:)The wicked may hurt man and cause him to cry, who if he sought God who lends comfort would be delivered.(:note) to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

geneva@Job:35:11 @ Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.

geneva@Job:35:12 @ There they cry, (note:)Because they pray not in faith, as feeling God's mercies.(:note) but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

geneva@Job:35:16 @ Therefore doth Job (note:)For if he punished you as you deserved, you would not be able to open your mouth.(:note) open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

geneva@Job:36:3 @ I will fetch (note:)He shows that when we speak of God, we must lift our spirits higher than our natural sense is able to reach.(:note) my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

geneva@Job:36:5 @ Behold, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not [any: he is] (note:)Strong and constant, and of understanding: for these are the gifts of God, and he loves them in man: but as much as God punished Job now, it is a sign that these are not in him.(:note) mighty in strength [and] wisdom.

geneva@Job:36:9 @ Then he sheweth them their (note:)He will move their hearts to feel their sins that they may come to him by repentance as he did Manasseh.(:note) work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

geneva@Job:36:11 @ If they obey and serue him, they shal end their dayes in prosperity, & their yeres in pleasures.

geneva@Job:36:13 @ But the hypocrites (note:)Which are maliciously bent against God, and flatter themselves in their vices.(:note) in heart heap up wrath: they When they are in affliction they do not seek God for help, as Asa in (2Ch_16:12). cry not when he bindeth them.

geneva@Job:36:17 @ But thou hast fulfilled the (note:)You are altogether after the manner of the wicked: for you murmur against the justice of God.(:note) judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

geneva@Job:36:21 @ Take heed, regard not (note:)And so murmur against God through impatiency.(:note) iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

geneva@Job:36:23 @ Who hath appointed to him his way? or who can say, Thou hast done wickedly?

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

geneva@Job:36:32 @ With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh (note:)That is, one cloud to dash against another.(:note) betwixt.

geneva@Job:37:8 @ Then the beastes go into the denne, and remaine in their places.

geneva@Job:37:11 @ Also by watering he (note:)Gather the vapours and move to and fro to water the earth.(:note) wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his That is, the cloud that has lightning in it. bright cloud:

geneva@Job:37:13 @ He causeth it to come, whether for (note:)Rain, cold, heat, tempests and such like are sent from God, either to punish man, or to profit the earth, or to declare his favour toward man, as in (Job_36:31).(:note) correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

geneva@Job:37:18 @ Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking (note:)For the clearness.(:note) glass?

geneva@Job:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of (note:)That is, our ignorance: signifying that Job was so presumptuous, that he would control the works of God.(:note) darkness.

geneva@Job:37:20 @ Shall it be (note:)Has God need that any should tell him when man murmurs against him?(:note) told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

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

geneva@Job:38:2 @ Who [is] this that (note:)Which by seeking out the secret counsel of God by man's reason, makes it more obscure, and shows his own folly.(:note) darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

geneva@Job:38:3 @ Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I (note:)Because he wished to dispute with God, (Job_23:3), God reasons with him, to declare his rashness.(:note) will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

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

geneva@Job:38:5 @ Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

geneva@Job:38:8 @ Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:

geneva@Job:38:9 @ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a (note:)As though the great sea was but as a little baby in the hands of God to turn to and fro.(:note) swaddlingband for it,

geneva@Job:38:11 @ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be (note:)That is, God's decree and commandment as in (Job_38:10).(:note) stayed?

geneva@Job:38:12 @ Hast thou commanded the (note:)That is, to rise, since you were born?(:note) morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;

geneva@Job:38:14 @ It is turned as clay [to] the seal; (note:)The earth which seemed in the night to have no form by the rising of the sun, is as it were created anew, and all things in it clad with new beauty.(:note) and they stand as a garment.

geneva@Job:38:16 @ Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the (note:)If you are not able to seek out the depth of the sea, how much less are you able to comprehend the counsel of God?(:note) depth?

geneva@Job:38:17 @ Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?

geneva@Job:38:18 @ Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Tell if thou knowest all this.

geneva@Job:38:21 @ Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?

geneva@Job:38:22 @ Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,

geneva@Job:38:24 @ By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

geneva@Job:38:27 @ To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?

geneva@Job:38:30 @ The waters are hid (note:)The ice covers it, as though it were paved with stone.(:note) as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

geneva@Job:38:32 @ Canst thou bring forth (note:)Certain stars so called, some think they were the twelve signs.(:note) Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide The north star with those that are about him. Arcturus with his sons?

geneva@Job:38:37 @ Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the (note:)That is, the clouds in which the water is contained as in bottles.(:note) bottles of heaven,

geneva@Job:38:38 @ When the dust groweth into hardness, (note:)For when God does not open these bottles, the earth comes to this inconvenience.(:note) and the clods cleave fast together?

geneva@Job:38:39 @ Wilt (note:)After he had declared God's works in the heavens, he shows his marvellous providence in earth, even toward the brute beasts.(:note) thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

geneva@Job:39:3 @ They bow themselves, they (note:)They bring forth with great difficulty.(:note) bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

geneva@Job:39:5 @ {\cf2 (39:8)} Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?

geneva@Job:39:8 @ {\cf2 (39:11)} He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.

geneva@Job:39:11 @ {\cf2 (39:14)} Wilt thou trust in him, because his stregth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?

geneva@Job:39:13 @ {\cf2 (39:16)} Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?

geneva@Job:39:15 @ {\cf2 (39:18)} And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.

geneva@Job:39:16 @ She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is (note:)If he should take care of them.(:note) in vain without fear;

geneva@Job:39:19 @ Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with (note:)That is, given him courage? which is meant by neighing and shaking his neck.(:note) thunder?

geneva@Job:39:20 @ {\cf2 (39:23)} Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.

geneva@Job:40:8 @ Wilt thou also disannul (note:)Signifying that they who justify themselves condemn God as unjust.(:note) my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

geneva@Job:40:9 @ {\cf2 (40:4)} Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?

geneva@Job:40:11 @ {\cf2 (40:6)} Cast abroad the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him.

geneva@Job:40:15 @ Behold now (note:)This beast is thought to be the elephant, or some other, which is unknown.(:note) behemoth, which I made Whom I made as well as you. with thee; he eateth This commends the providence of God toward man: for if he were given to devour as a lion, nothing would be able to resist him, or content him. grass as an ox.

geneva@Job:40:17 @ {\cf2 (40:12)} When hee taketh pleasure, his taile is like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapt together.

geneva@Job:40:18 @ {\cf2 (40:13)} His bones are like staues of brasse, and his small bones like staues of yron.

geneva@Job:40:20 @ {\cf2 (40:15)} Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.

geneva@Job:40:22 @ {\cf2 (40:17)} Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?

geneva@Job:40:23 @ Behold, he drinketh up a river, (note:)He drinks at leisure, and fears nobody.(:note) [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

geneva@Job:41:5 @ {\cf2 (40:24)} Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?

geneva@Job:41:7 @ {\cf2 (40:26)} Canst thou fill the basket with his skinne? or the fishpanier with his head?

geneva@Job:41:9 @ Behold, (note:)That is, that trusts to take him.(:note) the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?

geneva@Job:41:11 @ Who hath prevented me, that I should (note:)Who has taught me to accomplish my work?(:note) repay [him? whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine.

geneva@Job:41:18 @ By his neesings (note:)That is, casts out flames of fire.(:note) a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.

geneva@Job:41:20 @ {\cf2 (41:11)} Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron.

geneva@Job:41:24 @ {\cf2 (41:15)} His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone.

geneva@Job:41:27 @ {\cf2 (41:18)} He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.

geneva@Job:41:29 @ {\cf2 (41:20)} The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.

geneva@Job:41:30 @ Sharp stones (note:)His skin is so hard that he lies with a great ease on the stones as in the mud.(:note) [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

geneva@Job:41:31 @ He maketh the deep to (note:)Either he makes the sea to seem like it is boiling by his wallowing, or else he spouts water in such abundance as it would seem that the sea boiled.(:note) boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

geneva@Job:41:34 @ He beholdeth (note:)He despises all other beasts and monsters, and is the proudest of all others.(:note) all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride.

geneva@Job:42:2 @ I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no (note:)No thought so secret but you see it, nor anything that you think but that you can bring it to pass.(:note) thought can be withholden from thee.

geneva@Job:42:6 @ Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

geneva@Job:42:7 @ And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] (note:)You took in hand an evil cause, in that you condemned him by his outward afflictions, and not comforted him with my mercies.(:note) right, as my servant Who had a good cause, but handled it evil. Job [hath].

geneva@Job:42:9 @ So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lorde had saide vnto them, and the Lord accepted Iob.

geneva@Job:42:10 @ And the LORD turned the (note:)He delivered him out of the affliction he was in.(:note) captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

geneva@Job:42:12 @ So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had (note:)God made him twice as rich in cattle as he was before, and gave him as many children as he had taken from him.(:note) fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

geneva@Job:42:14 @ And he called the name of the first, (note:)That is, of long life, or beautiful as the day.(:note) Jemima; and the name of the second, As pleasant as cassia or sweet spice. Kezia; and the name of the third, That is, the horn of beauty. Kerenhappuch.

geneva@Job:42:15 @ In all the lande were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob, & their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.

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:1:3 @ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and (note:)God's children are so moistened with his grace, that whatever comes to them, tends to their salvation.(:note) whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

geneva@Psalms:2:2 @ The Kings of the earth band themselues, and the princes are assembled together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

geneva@Psalms:2:7 @ I will declare the (note:)To show that my calling to the kingdom is from God.(:note) decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this That is to say, concerning man's knowledge, because it was the first time that David appeared to be elected by God. So it is applied to Christ in his first coming and manifestation to the world. day have I begotten thee.

geneva@Psalms:2:8 @ Ask of me, and I shall give [thee] the heathen [for] thine inheritance, and the (note:)Not only the Jews but the Gentiles also.(:note) uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.

geneva@Psalms:3:1 @ «A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.» LORD, how are they (note:)This was a token of his stable faith, that for all his troubles he turned to God.(:note) increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me.

geneva@Psalms:3:2 @ Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. (note:)Selah here signifies a lifting up of the voice, to cause us to consider the sentence as a thing of great importance.(:note) Selah.

geneva@Psalms:3:6 @ I will not be afraid of (note:)When he considered the truth of God's promise, and tried the same, his faith increased marvellously.(:note) ten thousands of people, that have set [themselves] against me round about.

geneva@Psalms:3:7 @ O Lord, arise: helpe me, my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:4:1 @ «(note:)Among those who were appointed to sing the psalms and to play on instruments, one was appointed chief to set the tune, and to begin: who had the charge because he was most excellent and he began this psalm on the instrument called Neginoth or in a tune so called.(:note) To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.» Hear me when I call, You who are the defender of my just cause. O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me [when I was] in Both of mind and body. distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

geneva@Psalms:4:2 @ O ye (note:)You who think yourselves noble in this world.(:note) sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye Though your enterprises please you, yet God will bring them to nothing. love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.

geneva@Psalms:4:7 @ Thou hast giuen mee more ioye of heart, then they haue had, when their wheate and their wine did abound.

geneva@Psalms:4:8 @ I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, (note:)This word in Hebrew may be referred to God, as it is here translated, or to David, signifying that he should dwell as joyfully alone, as if he had many about him, because the Lord is with him.(:note) only makest me dwell in safety.

geneva@Psalms:5:4 @ For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in (note:)Seeing that God of nature hates wickedness, he must punish the wicked and save the godly.(:note) wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

geneva@Psalms:5:7 @ But as for me, I (note:)In the deepest of his temptations he puts his full confidence in God.(:note) will come [into] thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

geneva@Psalms:5:10 @ Destroy thou them, O God; let them (note:)Let their devices come to nothing.(:note) fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

geneva@Psalms:5:12 @ For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour (note:)So that he will be safe from all dangers.(:note) wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.

geneva@Psalms:6:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.» O LORD, (note:)Though I deserve destruction, yet let your mercy pity my frailty.(:note) rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

geneva@Psalms:6:10 @ Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return [and] be ashamed (note:)When the wicked think the godly will perish, God delivers them suddenly, and destroys their enemies.(:note) suddenly.

geneva@Psalms:7:6 @ Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me [to] the (note:)In promising me the kingdom.(:note) judgment [that] thou hast commanded.

geneva@Psalms:7:7 @ So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore (note:)Not only for mine, but for your Church's sake declare your power.(:note) return thou on high.

geneva@Psalms:7:8 @ The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my (note:)As concerning my behaviour towards Saul and my enemies.(:note) righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me.

geneva@Psalms:7:12 @ If (note:)Unless Saul changes his mind, I will die, for he has both the men and weapons to destroy me. Thus considering his great danger, he magnifies God's grace.(:note) he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

geneva@Psalms:8:1 @ To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid. O lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.

geneva@Psalms:8:2 @ Out of the mouth (note:)Though the wicked would hide God's praises, yet the very babes are sufficient witnesses of the same.(:note) of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

geneva@Psalms:8:3 @ When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

geneva@Psalms:8:4 @ What is (note:)It was sufficient for him to have set forth his glory by the heavens, though he had not come so low as to man who is but dust.(:note) man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

geneva@Psalms:8:5 @ For thou hast made him a little lower than the (note:)Concerning his first creation.(:note) angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

geneva@Psalms:8:6 @ Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete:

geneva@Psalms:8:7 @ All (note:)By the temporal gifts of man's creation, he is led to consider the benefits which he has by his regeneration through Christ.(:note) sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

geneva@Psalms:8:8 @ The foules of the ayre, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas.

geneva@Psalms:9:4 @ For (note:)However the enemy seems for a time to prevail yet God preserves the just.(:note) thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

geneva@Psalms:9:5 @ Thou hast rebuked the heathen: thou hast destroyed the wicked: thou hast put out their name for euer and euer.

geneva@Psalms:9:10 @ And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lorde, hast not failed them that seeke thee.

geneva@Psalms:9:14 @ That I may shew forth all thy praise in the (note:)In the open assembly of the Church.(:note) gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

geneva@Psalms:10:1 @ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in (note:)As soon as we enter into affliction, we think God should help us, but that is not always his due time.(:note) times of trouble?

geneva@Psalms:10:3 @ For the wicked (note:)The wicked man rejoices in his own lust he boasts when he has that he would; he brags of his wit and wealth and blesses himself and thus blasphemes the Lord.(:note) boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

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:10:13 @ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not (note:)Therefore you must punish their blasphemy.(:note) require [it].

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:10:16 @ The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the (note:)The hypocrites or such as live not after God's law, will be destroyed.(:note) heathen are perished out of his land.

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:11:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David.» In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, (note:)This is the wicked counsel of his enemies to him and his companions to drive him from the hope of God's promise.(:note) Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?

geneva@Psalms:11:6 @ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, (note:)As in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.(:note) fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the Which they will drink even to the dregs, (Eze_23:34). portion of their cup.

geneva@Psalms:12:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.» Help, LORD; for the (note:)Who dare defend the truth and show mercy to the oppressed.(:note) godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

geneva@Psalms:12:6 @ The wordes of the Lorde are pure wordes, as the siluer, tried in a fornace of earth, fined seuen folde.

geneva@Psalms:12:7 @ Thou shalt keep (note:)That is, yours though was only one man.(:note) them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

geneva@Psalms:13:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? (note:)He declares that his afflictions lasted a long time, and that his faith did not waver.(:note) for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

geneva@Psalms:13:2 @ How long shall I take (note:)Changing my purposes as the sick man does his place.(:note) counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

geneva@Psalms:13:6 @ I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath (note:)Both by the benefits past and by others to come.(:note) dealt bountifully with me.

geneva@Psalms:14:3 @ They are (note:)David here makes comparisons between the faithful and the reprobate, but Paul speaks the same of all men naturally, (Rom_3:10).(:note) all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.

geneva@Psalms:14:4 @ Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? They call not vpon the Lord.

geneva@Psalms:14:7 @ Oh that the salvation of (note:)He prays for the whole Church whom he is assured God will deliver: for no one else but he can do it.(:note) Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.

geneva@Psalms:15:5 @ [He that] (note:)To the hinderance of his neighbour.(:note) putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] That is, will not be cast from the Church as a hypocrite. shall never be moved.

geneva@Psalms:16:2 @ [O my soul], thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord: my (note:)Though we cannot enrich God, yet we must bestow God's gifts for the use of his children.(:note) goodness [extendeth] not to thee;

geneva@Psalms:16:4 @ Their (note:)As grief of conscience and miserable destruction.(:note) sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another [god]: He would neither by outward profession nor in heart, nor in mouth consent to their idolatries. their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

geneva@Psalms:16:6 @ The (note:)With which my portion is measured.(:note) lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places]; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

geneva@Psalms:16:11 @ Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy (note:)Where God favours there is perfect happiness.(:note) presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:17:3 @ Thou hast (note:)When your Spirit examined my conscience.(:note) proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my I was innocent toward my enemy both in deed and thought. mouth shall not transgress.

geneva@Psalms:17:6 @ I have called upon thee, (note:)He was assured that God would not refuse his request.(:note) for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, [and hear] my speech.

geneva@Psalms:17:8 @ Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide me vnder the shadowe of thy wings,

geneva@Psalms:17:9 @ From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass (note:)For their cruelty cannot be satisfied but with my death.(:note) me about.

geneva@Psalms:17:10 @ They are inclosed in their own (note:)They are puffed up with pride, as the stomach that is choked with fat.(:note) fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

geneva@Psalms:17:11 @ They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

geneva@Psalms:17:12 @ Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

geneva@Psalms:17:13 @ Arise, O LORD, (note:)Stop his rage.(:note) disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:

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 And not feel the 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:17:15 @ As for me, I will behold thy face (note:)This is the full happiness, comforting against all assaults to have the face of God and favourable countenance opened to us.(:note) in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I And am delivered out of my great troubles. awake, with thy likeness.

geneva@Psalms:18:5 @ The sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me.

geneva@Psalms:18:9 @ He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and (note:)Darkness signifies the wrath of God as the clear light signifies God's favour.(:note) darkness [was] under his feet.

geneva@Psalms:18:11 @ He made darkness his (note:)As a king angry with the people, will not show himself to them.(:note) secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.

geneva@Psalms:18:12 @ At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire.

geneva@Psalms:18:15 @ Then the channels of waters were seen, and the (note:)That is, the deep bottoms were seen when the Red sea was divided.(:note) foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

geneva@Psalms:18:18 @ They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.

geneva@Psalms:18:20 @ The LORD rewarded me according to my (note:)David was sure of his righteous cause and good behaviour toward Saul and his enemies and therefore was assured of God's favour and deliverance.(:note) righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

geneva@Psalms:18:23 @ I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine (note:)I neither gave place to their wicked temptations nor to my own desires.(:note) iniquity.

geneva@Psalms:18:25 @ With the (note:)Here he speaks of God according to our capacity, who shows mercy to his and punishes the wicked, as is also said in (Lev_26:21, Lev_26:24).(:note) merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

geneva@Psalms:18:27 @ For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt (note:)When their sin is come to the full measure.(:note) bring down high looks.

geneva@Psalms:18:30 @ [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the (note:)No matter how great or many the dangers may be, yet God's promise must take effect.(:note) word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.

geneva@Psalms:18:33 @ He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my (note:)As towers and forts, which he took out of the hands of God's enemies.(:note) high places.

geneva@Psalms:18:34 @ He teacheth mine hands to fight: so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.

geneva@Psalms:18:35 @ Thou hast also given me the (note:)To defend me from dangers.(:note) shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy He attributed the beginning, continuance and increase in well doing only to God's favour. gentleness hath made me great.

geneva@Psalms:18:36 @ Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder mee, and mine heeles haue not slid.

geneva@Psalms:18:39 @ For thou hast girded me with strength to battell: them, that rose against me, thou hast subdued vnder me.

geneva@Psalms:18:40 @ Thou hast also (note:)You have given them to my hands to be slain.(:note) given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

geneva@Psalms:18:41 @ They (note:)They who reject the cry of the afflicted, God will also reject them when they cry for help, for either pain or fear causes those hypocrites to cry.(:note) cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

geneva@Psalms:18:42 @ Then I did beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did treade them flat as the clay in the streetes.

geneva@Psalms:18:43 @ Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and] thou hast made me the head of the (note:)Who dwell round about me.(:note) heathen: a people [whom] I have not The kingdom of Christ is prefigured in David's kingdom, who by the preaching of his word brings all to his subjection. known shall serve me.

geneva@Psalms:18:44 @ As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall (note:)Or lie: signifying a subjection constrained and not voluntary.(:note) submit themselves unto me.

geneva@Psalms:18:48 @ He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the (note:)That is, Saul who out of malice persecuted him.(:note) violent man.

geneva@Psalms:18:49 @ Therefore will (note:)This prophecy belongs to the kingdom of Christ and calling of the Gentiles, as in (Rom_15:9).(:note) I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

geneva@Psalms:19:3 @ [There is] no speech nor (note:)The heavens are a schoolmaster to all nations, no matter how barbarous.(:note) language, [where] their voice is not heard.

geneva@Psalms:19:4 @ Their (note:)The heavens are as a line of great capital letters to show God's glory to us.(:note) line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

geneva@Psalms:19:5 @ Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his (note:)Or vail. The custom was that the bride and bridegroom would stand under a vail together, and after come forward with great solemnity and rejoicing of the assembly.(:note) chamber, [and] rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

geneva@Psalms:19:6 @ His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of ye same, and none is hid from the heate thereof.

geneva@Psalms:20:6 @ Now (note:)The Church feels that God had heard their petition.(:note) know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his As by the visible sanctuary God's familiarity appeared toward his people, so by the heavenly is meant his power and majesty. holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

geneva@Psalms:21:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» The king shall (note:)When he will overcome his enemies, and so be assured of his calling.(:note) joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

geneva@Psalms:21:2 @ Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire, and hast not denyed him the request of his lips. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:21:5 @ His glory is great in thy saluation: dignitie and honour hast thou laid vpon him.

geneva@Psalms:21:6 @ For thou hast made him most (note:)You have made him your blessings to others, and a perpetual example of your favour forever.(:note) blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

geneva@Psalms:21:9 @ Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his (note:)This teaches us patiently to endure the cross till God destroys the adversary.(:note) wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

geneva@Psalms:21:11 @ For they (note:)They laid as it were their nets to make God's power bend to their wicked enterprises.(:note) intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

geneva@Psalms:21:12 @ Therefore shalt thou make them (note:)As a mark to shoot at.(:note) turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.

geneva@Psalms:22:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.» My (note:)Here appears that horrible conflict, which he sustained between faith and desperation.(:note) God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my Being tormented with extreme anguish. roaring?

geneva@Psalms:22:6 @ But I [am] a (note:)And seeming most miserable of all creatures, which referred to Christ, and in this appears the unspeakable love of God for man, that he would thus abase his son for our sakes.(:note) worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

geneva@Psalms:22:9 @ But thou [art] he that took me out of the (note:)Even from my birth you have given me opportunity to trust in you.(:note) womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

geneva@Psalms:22:10 @ I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother's (note:)For unless God's providence preserves the infants, they would perish a thousand times in the mother's womb.(:note) belly.

geneva@Psalms:22:12 @ Many bulls have compassed me: strong (note:)He means that his enemies were so fat, proud and cruel that they were more like beasts than men.(:note) [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.

geneva@Psalms:22:13 @ They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

geneva@Psalms:22:14 @ I am poured out like (note:)Before he spoke of the cruelty of his enemies, and now he declares the inward grief of the mind, so that Christ was tormented both in soul and body.(:note) water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

geneva@Psalms:22:15 @ My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou (note:)You permitted me to be without all hope of life.(:note) hast brought me into the dust of death.

geneva@Psalms:22:16 @ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they (note:)Thus David complained as though he were nailed by his enemies in both hands and feet, but this was accomplished in Christ.(:note) pierced my hands and my feet.

geneva@Psalms:22:18 @ They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture.

geneva@Psalms:22:19 @ But be thou not farre off, O Lorde, my strength: hasten to helpe me.

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:22:31 @ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath (note:)That is, God has fulfilled his promise.(:note) done [this].

geneva@Psalms:23:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» The LORD [is] my shepherd; (note:)He has care over me and ministers all things to me.(:note) I shall not want.

geneva@Psalms:23:2 @ He maketh me to rest in greene pasture, and leadeth me by the still waters.

geneva@Psalms:23:4 @ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the (note:)Though he was in danger of death, as the sheep that wanders in the dark valley without his shepherd.(:note) shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

geneva@Psalms:23:5 @ Thou preparest a (note:)Even though his enemies sought to destroy him, yet God delivers him, and deals most liberally with him in spite of them.(:note) table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou As was the manner of great feasts. anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

geneva@Psalms:23:6 @ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the (note:)He does not set his happiness in the pleasures of this world, but in the fear and service of God.(:note) house of the LORD for ever.

geneva@Psalms:24:2 @ For he hath founded it upon the (note:)He notes two things: the one, that the earth to man's judgment seems above the waters: and next, that God miraculously preserves the earth, that it is not drowned with the waters, which naturally are above it.(:note) seas, and established it upon the floods.

geneva@Psalms:24:3 @ Who shall ascende into the mountaine of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place?

geneva@Psalms:24:9 @ Lift vp your heads, ye gates, and lift vp your selues, ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glorie shall come in.

geneva@Psalms:25:2 @ O my God, I (note:)That you will take away my enemies, which are your rods.(:note) trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

geneva@Psalms:25:3 @ So all that hope in thee, shall not be ashamed: but let them be confounded, that transgresse without cause.

geneva@Psalms:25:7 @ Remember not the (note:)He confesses that his many sins were the reason that his enemies persecuted him, desiring that the cause of the evil may be taken away, so that the effect may cease.(:note) sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:25:10 @ All the pathes of the Lorde are mercie and trueth vnto such as keepe his couenant and his testimonies.

geneva@Psalms:25:13 @ His soul shall dwell at (note:)He will prosper both in spiritual and corporal things.(:note) ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

geneva@Psalms:25:17 @ The troubles of my heart (note:)My grief is increased because of my enemies cruelty.(:note) are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses.

geneva@Psalms:25:19 @ Consider mine (note:)The greater that his afflictions were and the more that his enemies increased, the more near he felt God's help.(:note) enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

geneva@Psalms:25:21 @ Let (note:)As I have behaved myself uprightly toward my enemies, let them know that you are the defender of my just cause.(:note) integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

geneva@Psalms:26:5 @ I haue hated the assemblie of the euill, and haue not companied with the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:26:6 @ I will (note:)I will serve you with a pure affection, and with the godly that sacrifice to you.(:note) wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

geneva@Psalms:27:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» The LORD [is] my (note:)Because he was assured of good success in all his dangers and that his salvation was surely laid up in God, he did not fear the tyranny of his enemies.(:note) light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

geneva@Psalms:27:9 @ Hide not therefore thy face from mee, nor cast thy seruat away in displeasure: thou hast bene my succour: leaue me not, neither forsake mee, O God of my saluation.

geneva@Psalms:27:12 @ Deliver me not over unto the (note:)But either pacify their wrath, or bridle their rage.(:note) will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

geneva@Psalms:27:13 @ [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD (note:)In this present life before I die, as in (Isa_38:11).(:note) in the land of the living.

geneva@Psalms:28:2 @ Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy (note:)He counts himself as a dead man, till God shows his favour toward him, and grants him his petition.(:note) holy oracle.

geneva@Psalms:28:5 @ Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall (note:)Let them be utterly destroyed as in (Mal_1:4).(:note) destroy them, and not build them up.

geneva@Psalms:28:7 @ The Lorde is my strength and my shielde: mine heart trusted in him, and I was helped: therfore mine heart shall reioyce, and with my song will I praise him.

geneva@Psalms:29:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» Give unto the LORD, O ye (note:)He exhorts the proud tyrants to humble themselves under God's hand, and not to be inferior to brute beasts and dumb creatures.(:note) mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

geneva@Psalms:30:1 @ «A Psalm [and] Song [at] the dedication of the (note:)After Absalom had polluted it with most filthy fornication.(:note) house of David.» I will extol thee, O LORD; He condemns them for great ingratitude who do not praise God for his benefits. for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

geneva@Psalms:30:2 @ O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast (note:)Restored from the rebellion of Absalom.(:note) healed me.

geneva@Psalms:30:3 @ O LORD, thou hast brought up my (note:)Meaning, that he escaped death most narrowly.(:note) soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

geneva@Psalms:30:6 @ And in my (note:)I put too much confidence in my quiet state as in (Jer_31:18; 2Ch_32:24-25).(:note) prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

geneva@Psalms:30:7 @ LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my (note:)I thought you had established me in Zion most surely.(:note) mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I After you had withdrawn your help, I felt my misery. was troubled.

geneva@Psalms:30:11 @ Thou hast turned my mourning into ioy: thou hast loosed my sacke and girded mee with gladnesse.

geneva@Psalms:31:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy (note:)For then God declares himself just, when he preserves his as he has promised.(:note) righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:31:2 @ Bowe downe thine eare to me: make haste to deliuer mee: be vnto me a stronge rocke, and an house of defence to saue me.

geneva@Psalms:31:5 @ Into thine (note:)He desires God not only to take care of him in this life, but that his soul may be saved after this life.(:note) hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

geneva@Psalms:31:6 @ I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I (note:)This affection should be in all God's children to hate whatever is not grounded on a sure trust in God, as deceitful and vain.(:note) trust in the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:31:7 @ I wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,

geneva@Psalms:31:8 @ And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a (note:)Largeness signifies comfort, as straitness, sorrow and peril.(:note) large room.

geneva@Psalms:31:10 @ For my life is wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.

geneva@Psalms:31:11 @ I was a (note:)My enemies had drawn all men to their part against me, even my chief friends.(:note) reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

geneva@Psalms:31:12 @ I am forgotten, as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.

geneva@Psalms:31:13 @ For I have heard the slander of (note:)They who were in authority condemned me as a wicked doer.(:note) many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

geneva@Psalms:31:17 @ Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be (note:)Let death destroy them to the intent that they may hurt no more.(:note) silent in the grave.

geneva@Psalms:31:19 @ [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou (note:)The treasures of God's mercy are always laid up in store for his children, even at all times they do not enjoy them.(:note) hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

geneva@Psalms:31:21 @ Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a (note:)Meaning, there was no city strong enough to preserve him, as the defence of God's favour.(:note) strong city.

geneva@Psalms:31:22 @ For I said in my (note:)And so by my rashness and infidelity deserved to have been forsaken.(:note) haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:32:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David, (note:)Concerning the free remission of sins, which is the chief point of our faith.(:note) Maschil.» Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] To be justified by faith, is to have our sins freely remitted, and to be declared just, (Rom_4:6). forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.

geneva@Psalms:32:3 @ When I kept (note:)Between hope and despair.(:note) silence, my bones waxed old through my Was not eased by silence nor crying, signifying that before the sinner is reconciled to God, he feels a perpetual torment. roaring all the day long.

geneva@Psalms:32:5 @ I (note:)He shows that as God's mercy is the only cause of forgiveness of sins, so the means of it are repentance and confession which proceed from faith.(:note) acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:32:7 @ Thou art my secret place: thou preseruest me from trouble: thou compassest me about with ioyfull deliuerance. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:32:9 @ Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose (note:)If men can rule brute beasts, do they think that God will not bridle and tame their rage?(:note) mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:32:10 @ Many sorowes shall come to the wicked: but he, that trusteth in the Lorde, mercie shall compasse him.

geneva@Psalms:33:2 @ Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an (note:)To sing on instruments, was a part of the ceremonial service of the temple, which does not belong to us any more than the sacrifices, censors and light.(:note) instrument of ten strings.

geneva@Psalms:33:7 @ He (note:)By the creation of the heavens and beautiful ornament with the gathering also of the waters, he sets forth the power of God, that all creatures might fear him.(:note) gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

geneva@Psalms:33:9 @ For he spake, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood.

geneva@Psalms:33:15 @ He (note:)Therefore he knows their wicked enterprises.(:note) fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

geneva@Psalms:33:18 @ Behold, (note:)God shows his mercy toward his, which man by no means is able to compass.(:note) the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

geneva@Psalms:33:22 @ Let thy mercie, O Lord, be vpon vs, as we trust in thee.

geneva@Psalms:34:2 @ My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the (note:)They who are beaten down with the experience of their own evils.(:note) humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad.

geneva@Psalms:34:4 @ I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my (note:)Which I conceived for the danger I was in.(:note) fears.

geneva@Psalms:34:5 @ They (note:)They will be bold to flee to you for help, when they see your mercies toward me.(:note) looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

geneva@Psalms:34:8 @ Taste ye and see, howe gratious the Lorde is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

geneva@Psalms:34:10 @ The young (note:)The godly by their patient obedience profit more than they who ravage and spoil.(:note) lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not If they abide the last trial. want any good [thing].

geneva@Psalms:34:12 @ What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may (note:)Seeing all men naturally desire happiness, he wonders why they cast themselves willingly into misery.(:note) see good?

geneva@Psalms:34:18 @ The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a (note:)When they seem to be swallowed up with afflictions, then God is at hand to deliver them.(:note) broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

geneva@Psalms:34:22 @ The LORD (note:)For when they seem to be overcome with great dangers and death itself, then God shows himself as their redeemer.(:note) redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

geneva@Psalms:35:3 @ Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say unto my (note:)Assure me against these temptations, that you are the author of my salvation.(:note) soul, I [am] thy salvation.

geneva@Psalms:35:5 @ Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD (note:)Smite them with the spirit of giddiness that their enterprises may be foolish, and they received just reward.(:note) chase [them].

geneva@Psalms:35:13 @ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and (note:)I prayed for them with inward affection, as I would have done for myself: or, I declared my affection with bowing down my head.(:note) my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

geneva@Psalms:35:14 @ I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.

geneva@Psalms:35:15 @ But in mine (note:)When they thought me ready to slip and as one that limped for infirmity.(:note) adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear With their railing words. [me], and ceased not:

geneva@Psalms:35:16 @ With hypocritical mockers in (note:)The word signifies cakes: meaning that the proud courtiers at their dainty feasts scoff, rail, and conspire his death.(:note) feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

geneva@Psalms:35:20 @ For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

geneva@Psalms:35:21 @ Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, (note:)They rejoiced as though they had now seen David overthrown.(:note) our eye hath seen [it].

geneva@Psalms:35:22 @ Thou hast seene it, O Lorde: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.

geneva@Psalms:35:26 @ Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion (note:)That is, at once, were they never so many or mighty.(:note) together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed This prayer will always be verified against them who persecute the faithful. with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.

geneva@Psalms:35:27 @ Let them shout for joy, and be glad, (note:)That at least favour my right, though they are not able to help me.(:note) that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the He exhorts the Church to praise God for the deliverance of his servants, and for the destruction of his adversaries. prosperity of his servant.

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

geneva@Psalms:36:8 @ They shall be abundantly (note:)Only God's children have enough of all things both concerning this life and the life to come.(:note) satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

geneva@Psalms:37:2 @ For they shall soon be (note:)For God's judgment cuts down their state in a moment.(:note) cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

geneva@Psalms:37:6 @ And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy (note:)As the hope of daylight causes us not to be offended with the darkness of the night so ought we patiently to trust that God will clear our cause and restore us to our right.(:note) judgment as the noonday.

geneva@Psalms:37:7 @ Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him (note:)When God allows the wicked to prosper, it seems to the flesh that he favours their doings, (Job_21:7).(:note) who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

geneva@Psalms:37:8 @ Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: (note:)Meaning, unless he moderates his affection, he will be led to do as they do.(:note) fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

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:37:19 @ They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall (note:)For God will give them contented minds, and that which will be necessary.(:note) be satisfied.

geneva@Psalms:37:20 @ But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the (note:)They will vanish away suddenly for they are fed for the day of slaughter.(:note) fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

geneva@Psalms:37:22 @ For such as be blessed of God, shall inherite the lande, and they that be cursed of him, shalbe cut off.

geneva@Psalms:37:24 @ Though he (note:)When God exercises his faith with various temptations.(:note) fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.

geneva@Psalms:37:25 @ I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his (note:)Though the just man die, yet God's blessings are extended to his posterity and though God suffer some just man to lack temporal benefits, yet he recompenses him with spiritual treasures.(:note) seed begging bread.

geneva@Psalms:37:29 @ The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein (note:)They will continually be preserved under God's wings, and have at least inward rest.(:note) for ever.

geneva@Psalms:37:36 @ Yet he (note:)So that the prosperity of the wicked is but as a cloud, which vanishes away in a moment.(:note) passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

geneva@Psalms:37:39 @ But the (note:)He shows that the patient hope of the godly is never in vain, but in the end has good success, though for a time God proves them by various temptations.(:note) salvation of the righteous [is] of the LORD: [he is] their strength in the time of trouble.

geneva@Psalms:38:1 @ «A Psalm of David, to bring to (note:)To put himself and others in mind of God's chastisement for sin.(:note) remembrance.» O LORD, rebuke me not in thy He desires not to be exempted from God's rod, but that he would so moderate his hand, that he might be able to bear it. wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

geneva@Psalms:38:2 @ For thine (note:)Your sickness, with which you have visited me.(:note) arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

geneva@Psalms:38:4 @ For mine (note:)He confesses his sins, God's justice, and makes prayer his refuge.(:note) iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

geneva@Psalms:38:8 @ I am feeble and sore broken: I (note:)This example warns us never to despair, no matter how great the torment: but always to cry to God with sure trust for deliverance.(:note) have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

geneva@Psalms:38:10 @ My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, (note:)My sight fails me for sorrow.(:note) it also is gone from me.

geneva@Psalms:38:13 @ But I, as a (note:)For I can have no audience before men, and therefore patiently wait for the help of God.(:note) deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth.

geneva@Psalms:38:14 @ Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

geneva@Psalms:38:16 @ For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: (note:)That is, if they see that you do not help me in time, they will mock and triumph as though you had forsaken me.(:note) when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.

geneva@Psalms:38:22 @ Make haste to help me, O Lord my (note:)Who is the author of my salvation: and this declares that he prayed with sure hope of deliverance.(:note) salvation.

geneva@Psalms:39:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [even] to (note:)This was one of the chief singers, (1Ch_16:41).(:note) Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.» I said, Although he had appointed with himself patiently to have wait for God's timing, yet the vehemency of his pain caused him to break his purpose. I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

geneva@Psalms:39:2 @ I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; (note:)Though when the wicked ruled he thought to have kept silence, yet his zeal caused him to change his mind.(:note) and my sorrow was stirred.

geneva@Psalms:39:3 @ My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] (note:)He confesses that he grudged against God, considering the greatness of his sorrows, and the shortness of his life.(:note) spake I with my tongue,

geneva@Psalms:39:4 @ Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

geneva@Psalms:39:5 @ Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether (note:)Yet David offended in that he reasoned with God as though he were too severe toward his weak creature.(:note) vanity. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:39:9 @ I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because (note:)Seeing my troubles came from your providence, I ought to have endured them patiently.(:note) thou didst [it].

geneva@Psalms:39:11 @ When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou (note:)Though your open plagues do not light on them forever, yet your secret curse continually frets them.(:note) makest his The word signifies all that he desires, as health, force, strength, beauty, and in whatever he has delight, so that the rod of God takes away all that is desired in this world. beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:39:12 @ Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.

geneva@Psalms:39:13 @ O spare me, that I may recover strength, (note:)For his sorrow caused him to think that God would destroy him completely, by which we see how hard it is for the saints to keep a measure in their words, when death and despair assails them.(:note) before I go hence, and be no more.

geneva@Psalms:40:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» I waited (note:)Though God deferred his help, yet he patiently abode till he was heard.(:note) patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

geneva@Psalms:40:2 @ He brought me up also out of an (note:)He has delivered me from great dangers.(:note) horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.

geneva@Psalms:40:4 @ Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth (note:)To follow their example, which he must do who trusts not only in the Lord.(:note) not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

geneva@Psalms:40:5 @ Many, (note:)David goes from one king of God's favour to the contemplation of his providence over all, and confesses that his counsels toward us are far above our capacities, we cannot so much as tell them in order.(:note) O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.

geneva@Psalms:40:6 @ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; (note:)You have opened my ears to understand the spiritual meaning of the sacrifices: and here David esteems the ceremonies of the law as nothing in respect to the spiritual service.(:note) mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

geneva@Psalms:40:9 @ I have preached righteousness in the (note:)In the Church assembled in the sanctuary.(:note) great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

geneva@Psalms:40:12 @ For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart (note:)Concerning the judgment of the flesh, I was utterly destitute of all counsel, yet faith inwardly moved my heart to pray.(:note) faileth me.

geneva@Psalms:40:13 @ Let it please thee, O Lorde, to deliuer mee: make haste, O Lord, to helpe me.

geneva@Psalms:40:14 @ Let them be (note:)He desires that God's mercy may contend for him against the rage of his enemies.(:note) ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

geneva@Psalms:40:16 @ Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, (note:)As the faithful always praise God for his benefits, so the wicked mocked God's children in their afflictions.(:note) The LORD be magnified.

geneva@Psalms: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:41:9 @ Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, (note:)As David felt this falsehood, and as it was chiefly accomplished in Christ, (Joh_13:18) so shall his members continually prove the same.(:note) hath lifted up [his] heel against me.

geneva@Psalms:41:12 @ And as for me, thou upholdest me (note:)Meaning, either in prosperity of life or in the true fear of God against all temptation.(:note) in mine integrity, and settest me before thy Showing me evident signs of your fatherly providence. face for ever.

geneva@Psalms:41:13 @ Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. (note:)By this repetition he stirs up the faithful to praise God.(:note) Amen, and Amen.

geneva@Psalms:42:1 @ «To the chief Musician, Maschil, (note:)As a treasure to be kept by them, who were of the number of the Levites.(:note) for the sons of Korah.» As the hart By these comparisons of the thirst and panting, he shows his fervent desire to serve God in his temple. panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

geneva@Psalms:42:5 @ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? (note:)Though he sustained grievous assaults of the flesh to cast him into despair, yet his faith grounded on God's accustomed mercies gets the victory.(:note) hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.

geneva@Psalms:42:6 @ O my God, my soul is cast down within me: (note:)That is, when I remember you in this land of my banishment among the mountains.(:note) therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

geneva@Psalms:42:8 @ [Yet] the LORD (note:)He assures himself of God's help in time to come.(:note) will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.

geneva@Psalms:42:9 @ I wil say vnto God, which is my rocke, Why hast thou forgotten mee? why goe I mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?

geneva@Psalms:42:10 @ [As] with a sword in my (note:)That is, I am most grievously tormented.(:note) bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?

geneva@Psalms:43:2 @ For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou put me away? why goe I so mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?

geneva@Psalms:43:5 @ Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? (note:)By which he admonishes the faithful not to relent but constantly to wait on the Lord, though their troubles are long and great.(:note) hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

geneva@Psalms:44:1 @ «To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.» We have heard with our (note:)This psalm seems to have been made by some excellent prophet for the use of the people when the Church was in extreme misery, either at their return from Babylon or under Antiochus or in similar afflictions.(:note) ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

geneva@Psalms:44:2 @ [How] thou didst drive out the (note:)That is, the Canaanites.(:note) heathen with thy hand, and plantedst That is, our fathers. them; [how] thou didst afflict the Of Canaan. people, and That is, our fathers. cast them out.

geneva@Psalms:44:7 @ But thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries, and hast put them to confusion that hate vs.

geneva@Psalms:44:9 @ But thou hast cast off, and put us to (note:)As they confessed before that their strength came from God, so now they acknowledge that this affliction came by his just judgment.(:note) shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

geneva@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou hast given us (note:)Knowing God to be author of this calamity, they murmur not, but seek remedy at his hands who wounded them.(:note) like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

geneva@Psalms:44:12 @ Thou sellest thy people (note:)As slaves who are sold for a low price, you do not look for him who offers the most, but take the first offer.(:note) for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.

geneva@Psalms:44:16 @ For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and (note:)Meaning, the proud and cruel tyrant.(:note) avenger.

geneva@Psalms:44:17 @ All this is come upon us; yet have we not (note:)They boast not of their virtues, but declare that they rest on God in the midst of their affliction: who did not punished their sins now, but by hard afflictions called them to the consideration of the heavenly joys.(:note) forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

geneva@Psalms:44:19 @ Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.

geneva@Psalms:44:22 @ Yea, for thy sake (note:)The faithful take comfort in this, that the wicked punish them not for their sins, but for because of God, (Mat_5:10; 1Pe_4:14).(:note) are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

geneva@Psalms:45:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)This was a certain tune of an instrument.(:note) Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of Of that perfect love that ought to be between the husband and the wife. loves.» My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

geneva@Psalms:45:6 @ Thy (note:)Under this figure of this kingdom of justice is set forth the everlasting kingdom of Christ.(:note) throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom [is] a right sceptre.

geneva@Psalms:45:7 @ Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath (note:)Has established your kingdom as the figure of Christ, which is the peace and joy of the Church.(:note) anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

geneva@Psalms:45:8 @ All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, (note:)In which the people made you joyful to see them give thanks and rejoice for you.(:note) whereby they have made thee glad.

geneva@Psalms:45:11 @ So shal the King haue pleasure in thy beautie: for he is thy Lord, and reuerence thou him.

geneva@Psalms:45:13 @ The king's daughter [is] all glorious (note:)There is nothing feigned or hypocritical but she is glorious both within and without: and even though the Church has not always had this outward glory, the fault is to be imputed only to their own ingratitude.(:note) within: her clothing [is] of wrought gold.

geneva@Psalms:45:16 @ Instead of thy fathers shall be thy (note:)They will have greater graces than their fathers.(:note) children, whom thou mayest make princes He signifies the great compass of Christ's kingdom, which will be sufficient to enrich all his members. in all the earth.

geneva@Psalms:46:1 @ «To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon (note:)Which was either a musical instrument or a solemn tune, to which this psalm was sung.(:note) Alamoth.» God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in In all manner of troubles God shows his speedy mercy and power in defending his. trouble.

geneva@Psalms:46:4 @ [There is] a (note:)The river of Shiloh, which passed through Jerusalem: meaning, though the defence seems small, yet if God has appointed it, it is sufficient.(:note) river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most High.

geneva@Psalms:46:7 @ The LORD of hosts [is] (note:)They are assured that God can and will defend his Church from all dangers and enemies.(:note) with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.

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:46:9 @ He maketh warres to cease vnto the endes of the world: he breaketh the bowe and cutteth the speare, and burneth the chariots with fire.

geneva@Psalms:46:10 @ Be (note:)He warns them who persecute the Church to cease their cruelty: for also they will feel that God is too strong for them against whom they fight.(:note) still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

geneva@Psalms:47:3 @ He shall (note:)He has made the Jews who were the keepers of the law and prophets, schoolmasters to the Gentiles, that they would with gladness obey them.(:note) subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

geneva@Psalms:47:4 @ He shall choose (note:)God has chosen us above all other nations, to enjoy a most glorious inheritance.(:note) our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:47:5 @ God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the (note:)He alludes to the trumpets that were blown at solemn feasts: but he further signifies the triumph of Christ and his glorious ascension into the heavens.(:note) sound of a trumpet.

geneva@Psalms:48:4 @ For, lo, the kings were (note:)They conspired and went against God's people.(:note) assembled, they passed by together.

geneva@Psalms:48:5 @ They saw [(note:)The enemies were afraid at the sight of the city.(:note) it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away.

geneva@Psalms:48:6 @ Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.

geneva@Psalms:48:7 @ Thou breakest the ships (note:)That is, of Cilicia or of the Mediterranean sea.(:note) of Tarshish with an east wind.

geneva@Psalms:48:8 @ As we have (note:)That is, of our fathers: so have we proved: or God has performed his promise.(:note) heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

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

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

geneva@Psalms:49:6 @ They that trust in their (note:)To trust in riches is madness, seeing they can neither restore life, nor prolong it.(:note) wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

geneva@Psalms:49:8 @ (For the redemption of their soul [is] (note:)That is, so rare or not to be found, as prophecy was precious in the days of Eli, (1Sa_3:1).(:note) precious, Meaning it is impossible to live for ever: also that life and death are only in God's hands. and it ceaseth for ever:)

geneva@Psalms:49:12 @ Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the (note:)Concerning the death of the body.(:note) beasts [that] perish.

geneva@Psalms:49:16 @ Be not thou afrayd when one is made rich, and when the glory of his house is increased.

geneva@Psalms:49:18 @ Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and (note:)The flatterers praise them who live in delight and pleasures.(:note) [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

geneva@Psalms:49:20 @ Man [that is] in honour, and (note:)He condemns man's ingratitude, who having received excellent gifts from God, abuses them like a beast to his own condemnation.(:note) understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.

geneva@Psalms:50:1 @ «A Psalm of (note:)Who was either the author, or a chief singer, to whom it was committed.(:note) Asaph.» The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the To plead against his deceitful people before heaven and earth. earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

geneva@Psalms:50:3 @ Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a (note:)As when God gave his law in mount Sinai he appeared terrible with thunder and tempest, so will he appear terrible to take account for the keeping of it.(:note) fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

geneva@Psalms:50:4 @ He shall call to the heavens from above, and to (note:)As witnessing against the hypocrites.(:note) the earth, that he may judge his people.

geneva@Psalms:50:8 @ I will not (note:)For I pass not for sacrifices unless the true use is there, which is to confirm your faith.(:note) reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me.

geneva@Psalms:50:11 @ I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

geneva@Psalms:50:16 @ But unto the wicked God saith, (note:)Why do you pretend to be of my people and talk of my covenant, seeing that you are a hypocrite?(:note) What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

geneva@Psalms:50:17 @ Seeing thou hatest (note:)To live according to my word.(:note) instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

geneva@Psalms:50:18 @ When thou sawest a thief, then (note:)He shows what the fruits of them who contemn God's word are.(:note) thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

geneva@Psalms:50:21 @ These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and (note:)I will write all your wicked deeds in a roll, and make you read and acknowledge them, whether you will or not.(:note) set [them] in order before thine eyes.

geneva@Psalms:50:22 @ Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, & there be none that can deliuer you.

geneva@Psalms:50:23 @ Whoso offereth (note:)Under which is contained faith and invocation.(:note) praise glorifieth me: and to him that As God has appointed. ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I That is, declare myself to be his Saviour. shew the salvation of God.

geneva@Psalms:51:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet (note:)To reprove him, because he had committed horrible sins, and lain in the same without repentance more then a whole year.(:note) came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.» Have mercy upon me, O God, As his sins were many and great, so he requires that God would give him the feeling of his excellent and abundant mercies. according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

geneva@Psalms:51:2 @ Wash me (note:)My sins strike so fast in me, that I have need of some singular kind of washing.(:note) throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

geneva@Psalms:51:5 @ Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.

geneva@Psalms:51:7 @ Purge me with hyssope, & I shalbe cleane: wash me, and I shalbe whiter then snowe.

geneva@Psalms:51:8 @ Make me to hear (note:)He means God's comfortable mercies toward repentant sinners.(:note) joy and gladness; [that] the By the bones he understands all strength of soul and body, which by cares and mourning are consumed. bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice.

geneva@Psalms:51:11 @ Cast mee not away from thy presence, and take not thine holy Spirit from me.

geneva@Psalms:51:12 @ Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] (note:)Which may assure me that I am drawn out of the slavery of sin.(:note) free spirit.

geneva@Psalms:51:18 @ Do good in thy good pleasure unto (note:)He prays for the whole Church, because through his sin it was in danger of God's judgment.(:note) Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

geneva@Psalms:51:19 @ Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of (note:)That is, just and lawful, applied to the right end, which is the exercise of faith and repentance.(:note) righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

geneva@Psalms:52:1 @ «To the chief Musician, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.» Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O (note:)O Doeg, who half consider to be the tyrant Saul, and had the power to murder the saints of God.(:note) mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth] continually.

geneva@Psalms:52:9 @ I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done (note:)Executed his vengeance.(:note) [it]: and I will wait on thy name; for [it is] good before thy saints.

geneva@Psalms:53:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)Which was an instrument or king of note.(:note) Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David.» The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] Whereas no regard is had for honesty or dishonesty, for virtue nor for vice, there the prophet pronounces that the people have no God. no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.

geneva@Psalms:53:4 @ Have the (note:)David pronounces God's vengeance against cruel governors who having charge to defend and preserve God's people, cruelly devour them.(:note) workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

geneva@Psalms:53:5 @ There were they in great fear, [where] no (note:)When they thought there was no opportunity to fear, the sudden vengeance of God lighted on them.(:note) fear was: for God hath scattered the No matter how great the enemies power is, or fearful the danger, yet God delivers his in due time. bones of him that encampeth [against] thee: thou hast put [them] to shame, because God hath despised them.

geneva@Psalms:54:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?» Save me, O God, (note:)He declares that when all means fail, God will deliver even by miracle, they who call to him with an upright conscience.(:note) by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

geneva@Psalms:54:3 @ For (note:)That is, the Ziphims.(:note) strangers are risen up against me, and Saul and his army who were like cruel beasts, could not be satisfied except by his death. oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:54:4 @ Behold, God [is] mine helper: the Lord [is] with (note:)No matter how few, as he was with Jonathan.(:note) them that uphold my soul.

geneva@Psalms:55:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David.» Give ear to (note:)The earnestness of his prayer declares the vehemency of his grief in so much as he is compelled to burst out into cries.(:note) my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

geneva@Psalms:55:3 @ Because of the (note:)For the threatenings of Saul and his adherents.(:note) voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for They have defamed me as a wicked person, or they have imagined my destruction. they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

geneva@Psalms:55:5 @ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath (note:)There was no part of him that was not astonished with extreme fear.(:note) overwhelmed me.

geneva@Psalms:55:8 @ I would hasten my escape (note:)From the cruel rage and tyranny of Saul.(:note) from the windy storm [and] tempest.

geneva@Psalms:55:9 @ Destroy, O Lord, [and] (note:)As in the confusion of Babylon when the wicked conspired against God.(:note) divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

geneva@Psalms:55:12 @ For [it was] not an (note:)If my open enemy had sought by hurt, I could better have avoided him.(:note) enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

geneva@Psalms:55:13 @ But [it was] thou, a man mine (note:)Who was not only joined to me in friendship and counsel in worldly matters, but also in religion.(:note) equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

geneva@Psalms:55:14 @ Which delited in consulting together, and went into the House of God as companions.

geneva@Psalms:55:15 @ Let death seize upon them, [and] let them (note:)As Korah, Dathan and Abiram.(:note) go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

geneva@Psalms:55:18 @ He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was] against me: for there were (note:)Even the angels of God fought on my side against my enemies, (2Ki_6:16).(:note) many with me.

geneva@Psalms:55:20 @ He (note:)I did not provoke him but was as at peace with him, yet he made war against me.(:note) hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

geneva@Psalms:55:21 @ The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

geneva@Psalms:55:22 @ Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall (note:)Though for their bettering and trial, he permits them to slip for a time.(:note) never suffer the righteous to be moved.

geneva@Psalms:56:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, (note:)Being chased by the fury of his enemies into a strange country, he was a dumb dove not seeking vengeance.(:note) when the Philistines took him in Gath.» Be merciful unto me, O God: for He shows that if God will help him, it must be now or never for all the world is against him and ready to devour him. man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

geneva@Psalms:56:3 @ When I was afrayd, I trusted in thee.

geneva@Psalms:56:7 @ Shall (note:)They not only think to escape punishment, but the more wicked they are, the more impudent they grow.(:note) they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the people, O God.

geneva@Psalms:56:13 @ For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou deliver] my feet from falling, that I may (note:)As mindful of his great mercies, and giving thanks for the same.(:note) walk before God in the That is, in the life and light of the sun. light of the living?

geneva@Psalms:57:1 @ «(note:)This was either the beginning of a certain song, or the words which David uttered when he stayed his affection.(:note) To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.» Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] He compares the afflictions which God lays on his children, to a storm that comes and goes. calamities be overpast.

geneva@Psalms:58:1 @ «To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.» Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O (note:)You counsellors of Saul, who under pretence of consulting for the common wealth, conspire my death being an innocent.(:note) congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

geneva@Psalms:58:2 @ Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of (note:)You are not ashamed to execute that cruelty publicly, which you have imagined in your hearts.(:note) your hands in the earth.

geneva@Psalms:58:3 @ The wicked (note:)That is, enemies to the people of God even from their birth.(:note) are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

geneva@Psalms:58:4 @ Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf (note:)They pass in malice and subtilty the crafty serpent who could preserve himself by stopping his ears from the enchanter.(:note) adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

geneva@Psalms:58:7 @ Let them (note:)Considering God's divine power, he shows that God in a moment can destroy their force of which they brag.(:note) melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

geneva@Psalms:58:10 @ The righteous shall (note:)With a pure affection.(:note) rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the Their punishment and slaughter will be so great. blood of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:59:1 @ «To the chief Musician, Altaschith, (note:)Or, a certain tune.(:note) Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.» Though his enemies were even at hand to destroy him, yet he assures himself that God had ways to deliver him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

geneva@Psalms:59:4 @ They runne and prepare themselues without a fault on my part: arise therefore to assist me, and beholde.

geneva@Psalms:59:7 @ Behold, they (note:)They boast openly in their wicked devises, and every word is as a sword: for they neither fear God nor are ashamed of men.(:note) belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?

geneva@Psalms:59:12 @ [For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be (note:)That in their misery and shame they may be as glasses and examples of God's vengeance.(:note) taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

geneva@Psalms:59:14 @ And at evening let them (note:)He mocks their vain enterprises, being assured that they will not bring their purpose to pass.(:note) return; [and] let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

geneva@Psalms:59:16 @ But I will sing of thy (note:)Who used the policy of a weak woman to confound the enemies strength, (1Sa_19:12).(:note) power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

geneva@Psalms:60:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)These were certain songs after the note of which this psalm was sung.(:note) Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Also called Sophene, which stands by Euphrates. Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.» O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast For when Saul was not able to resist the enemy, the people fled here and there: for they were not safe in their own homes. scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

geneva@Psalms:60:2 @ Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast (note:)As split with an earthquake.(:note) broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

geneva@Psalms:60:3 @ Thou hast (note:)You have handled your people sharply, in asking from them sense and judgment in that they aided Saul the wicked King, and punished him to whom God had given the just title of the realm.(:note) shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

geneva@Psalms:60:4 @ Thou hast given (note:)In making me king, you have performed your promise, which seemed to have lost the force.(:note) a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:60:6 @ God hath spoken in his (note:)It is as certain as if it were spoken by an oracle, that I will possess those places which Saul has left to his children.(:note) holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

geneva@Psalms:60:7 @ Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the (note:)For it was strong and well peopled.(:note) strength of mine head; David means that in this tribe his kingdom will be established, (Gen_49:10). Judah [is] my lawgiver;

geneva@Psalms:60:8 @ Moab [is] my (note:)In most vile subjection.(:note) washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: For you will lie and pretend you were glad. Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

geneva@Psalms:60:9 @ Who will bring me [into] the (note:)He was assured that God would give him the strong cities of his enemies, in which they thought themselves sure.(:note) strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

geneva@Psalms:60:10 @ Wilt not thou, O God, which hadest cast vs off, & didest not go forth, O God, with our armies?

geneva@Psalms:61:2 @ From (note:)From the place where I was banished, being driven out of the city and temple by my son Absalom.(:note) the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is To which without your help I cannot attain. higher than I.

geneva@Psalms:61:3 @ For thou hast bene mine hope, and a strong tower against the enemie.

geneva@Psalms:61:5 @ For thou, O God, (note:)There is nothing that strengthens our faith more than the memory of God's help in times past.(:note) hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me] the heritage of those that fear thy name.

geneva@Psalms:61:6 @ Thou wilt prolong the king's (note:)This chiefly refers to Christ, who lives eternally not only in himself but also in his members.(:note) life: [and] his years as many generations.

geneva@Psalms:62:3 @ How long will ye imagine mischief against a (note:)He means himself, being the man whom God had appointed to the kingdom.(:note) man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a Though you seem to be in honour, yet God will suddenly destroy you. bowing wall [shall ye be, and as] a tottering fence.

geneva@Psalms:62:4 @ Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

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:62:10 @ Trust not in oppression, and (note:)Give yourselves wholly to God by putting away all things that are contrary to his law.(:note) become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].

geneva@Psalms:62:11 @ God hath spoken (note:)He has plainly born witness to his power, so that no one needs to doubt it.(:note) once; twice have I heard this; that power [belongeth] unto God.

geneva@Psalms:63:1 @ «A Psalm of David, when he was in the (note:)That is, of Ziph (1Sa_23:14).(:note) wilderness of Judah.» O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul Though he was both hungry and in great distress, yet he made God above all meat and drink. thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

geneva@Psalms:63:2 @ To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] (note:)In this misery I exercise myself in the contemplation of your power and glory, as if I were in the sanctuary.(:note) I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

geneva@Psalms:63:5 @ My soul shall be satisfied as [with] (note:)The remembrance of your favour is more sweet to me than all the pleasures and dainties of the world.(:note) marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:

geneva@Psalms:63:7 @ Because thou hast bene mine helper, therefore vnder the shadow of thy wings wil I reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:63:8 @ My soul (note:)He assures himself by the Spirit of God to have the gift of constancy.(:note) followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

geneva@Psalms:64:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» Hear my (note:)In that he calls to God with his voice, it is a sign that his prayer was vehement, and that his life was in danger.(:note) voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

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

geneva@Psalms:64:10 @ The righteous (note:)When they will consider that he will be favourable to them as he was to his servant David.(:note) shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

geneva@Psalms:65:3 @ Iniquities (note:)He imputes it to his sins and to the sins of the people that God who was accustomed to afflict them withdraws his help from them.(:note) prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

geneva@Psalms:65:4 @ Blessed is he, whom thou chusest and causest to come to thee: he shall dwell in thy courtes, and we shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thine House, euen of thine holy Temple.

geneva@Psalms:65:5 @ [By] terrible things in righteousness wilt thou (note:)You will declare yourself to be the preserver of your Church in destroying your enemies, as you did in the Red Sea.(:note) answer us, O God of our salvation; [who art] the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off [upon] the As of all barbarous nations, and far off. sea:

geneva@Psalms:65:7 @ Which stilleth the (note:)He shows that there is no part or creature in the world which is not governed by God's power and providence.(:note) noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

geneva@Psalms:65:8 @ They also, that dwell in the vttermost parts of the earth, shalbe afraide of thy signes: thou shalt make the East and the West to reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:65:9 @ Thou (note:)That is, with rain.(:note) visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the That is, Shiloh or the rain. river of God, [which] is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for You have appointed the earth to bring forth food to man's use. it.

geneva@Psalms:65:12 @ They drop vpon the pastures of the wildernesse: and the hils shalbe compassed with gladnes.

geneva@Psalms:65:13 @ The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, (note:)That is, the dumb creatures will not only rejoice for a time for God's benefits, but will continually sing.(:note) they also sing.

geneva@Psalms:66:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Song [or] Psalm.» Make a joyful noise unto God, (note:)He prophecies that all nations will come to the knowledge of God, who then was only known in Judea.(:note) all ye lands:

geneva@Psalms:66:3 @ Say unto God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies (note:)As the faithful obey God willingly, so the infidels disguise themselves as obedient out of fear.(:note) submit themselves unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:66:6 @ He hath turned the Sea into drie land: they passe through the riuer on foote: there did we reioyce in him.

geneva@Psalms:66:7 @ He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious (note:)He proves that God will extend his grace also to the Gentiles, because he punishes among them such as will not obey his calling.(:note) exalt themselves. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:66:10 @ For thou, O God, hast proued vs, thou hast tryed vs as siluer is tryed.

geneva@Psalms:66:12 @ Thou hast caused men to ryde ouer our heads: we went into fire and into water, but thou broughtest vs out into a welthie place.

geneva@Psalms:66:17 @ I called vnto him with my mouth, and he was exalted with my tongue.

geneva@Psalms:67:6 @ [Then] shall (note:)He shows that where God favours there will be abundance of all other things.(:note) the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our own God, shall bless us.

geneva@Psalms:68:2 @ As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.

geneva@Psalms:68:6 @ God (note:)He gives children to those who are childless, and increases their families.(:note) setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a Which is devoid of God's blessings, which before they had abused. dry [land].

geneva@Psalms:68:8 @ The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of this God: euen Sinai was moued at the presence of God, euen the God of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:68:9 @ Thou, O God, sendest a gracious raine vpon thine inheritance, and thou didest refresh it when it was wearie.

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:68:11 @ The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of (note:)The fashion then was that women sang songs after the victory, as did Miriam, Deborah, Judith and others.(:note) those that published [it].

geneva@Psalms:68:12 @ Kings of armies did flee apace: and (note:)The prayer was so great, that not only the soldiers, but the women also had part of it.(:note) she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

geneva@Psalms:68:13 @ Though ye have lien among the (note:)Though God permits his Church for a time to lie in black darkness, yet he will restore it, and make it most shining and white.(:note) pots, [yet shall ye be as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

geneva@Psalms:68:14 @ When the Almighty scattered kings (note:)In the land of Canaan, where his Church was.(:note) in it, it was [white] as snow in Salmon.

geneva@Psalms:68:17 @ The charets of God are twentie thousande thousand Angels, and the Lord is among them, as in the Sanctuarie of Sinai.

geneva@Psalms:68:18 @ Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast (note:)As God overcame the enemy of his Church, took them prisoners, and made them tributaries: so Christ, which is God manifested in the flesh, subdued Satan and sin under us, and gave to his Church most liberal gifts of his Spirit, (Eph_4:8).(:note) led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell [among them].

geneva@Psalms:68:20 @ [He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord [belong] the (note:)Even in most extreme dangers, God has infinite ways to deliver his.(:note) issues from death.

geneva@Psalms:68:22 @ The Lord said, I will bring again from (note:)As he delivered his Church once from Og of Bashan and other tyrants and from the danger of the Red Sea, so will he still do as often as it is necessary.(:note) Bashan, I will bring [my people] again from the depths of the sea:

geneva@Psalms:68:27 @ There [is] (note:)Benjamin is called little, because he was the youngest son of Jacob.(:note) little Benjamin [with] their Who was some chief ruler of the tribe. ruler, the princes of Judah [and] their council, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the princes of Naphtali.

geneva@Psalms:68:28 @ Thy God hath appointed thy strength: stablish, O God, that, which thou hast wrought in vs,

geneva@Psalms:68:33 @ To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, [which were] of old; lo, he doth send out his (note:)By his terrible thunders he will make himself be known as the God of all the world.(:note) voice, [and that] a mighty voice.

geneva@Psalms:68:34 @ Ascribe the power to God: for his maiestie is vpon Israel, and his strength is in the cloudes.

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

geneva@Psalms:69:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)Of Shoshannim, read (Psa_45:1).(:note) Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David.» Save me, O God; for the David shows by the waters the great dangers he was in, out of which God delivered him. waters are come in unto [my] soul.

geneva@Psalms:69:3 @ I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine (note:)Though his senses failed him, yet his faith was constant and encouraged him still to pray.(:note) eyes fail while I wait for my God.

geneva@Psalms:69:4 @ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies (note:)Condemning me as guilty.(:note) wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I They judged me a thief, though innocent, and gave my goods to others, as though I had stolen them. took not away.

geneva@Psalms:69:6 @ Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for (note:)Do not let my evil entreaty of the enemy be an opportunity for the faithful to fall from you.(:note) my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:69:10 @ When I (note:)My zeal moved me to lament and pray for my salvation.(:note) wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

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:69:13 @ But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an (note:)Knowing that even though I endure trouble now, yet you have a time in which you have appointed my deliverance.(:note) acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

geneva@Psalms:69:19 @ Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine (note:)You see that I am beset as a sheep among many wolves.(:note) adversaries [are] all before thee.

geneva@Psalms:69:20 @ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and (note:)He shows men that it is vain to put our trust in men in our great necessity, but that our comfort only depends on God: for man increases our sorrows, then diminishes them, (Joh_19:29).(:note) I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.

geneva@Psalms:69:24 @ Powre out thine anger vpon them, and let thy wrathfull displeasure take them.

geneva@Psalms:69:26 @ For they persecute him, whome thou hast smitten: and they adde vnto the sorrowe of them, whome thou hast wounded.

geneva@Psalms:69:27 @ Add (note:)By their continuance and increasing in their sins, let it be known that they are of the reprobate.(:note) iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:69:28 @ Let them be blotted out of the (note:)They who seemed by their profession to have been written in your book, yet by their fruits prove the contrary, let them be known as reprobates.(:note) book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

geneva@Psalms:69:31 @ [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] (note:)There is no sacrifice which God values more than thanksgiving for his benefits.(:note) bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

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:69:34 @ Let heauen and earth praise him: the seas and all that moueth in them.

geneva@Psalms:69:36 @ The (note:)Under the temporal promise of the land of Canaan, he comprehends the promise of everlasting life to the faithful and their posterity.(:note) seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

geneva@Psalms:70:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, to bring (note:)Which might put him in remembrance of his deliverance.(:note) to remembrance.» [Make He teaches us to be earnest in prayer even though God seems to delay: for at his time he will hear us. haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:70:2 @ Let them be ashamed and (note:)He was assured that the more they raged, the nearer they were to destruction, and he the nearer to his deliverance.(:note) confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

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

geneva@Psalms:71:1 @ In (note:)He prays to God with full assurance of faith, that he will deliver him from his adversaries.(:note) thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

geneva@Psalms:71:3 @ Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou (note:)You have infinite means and all creatures are at your commandment; therefore show some sign by which I will be delivered.(:note) hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my rock and my fortress.

geneva@Psalms:71:5 @ For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my (note:)He strengthens his faith by the experience of God's benefits, who not only preserved him in his mother's womb, but took him from there, and ever since has preserved him.(:note) trust from my youth.

geneva@Psalms:71:7 @ I am as a (note:)All the world wonders at me because of my miseries: both those in authority and the common people, yet being assured of your favour, I remain steadfast.(:note) wonder unto many; but thou [art] my strong refuge.

geneva@Psalms:71:9 @ Cast me not off in the time of (note:)You who helped me in my youth when I had more strength, help me now even more in my old age and weakness.(:note) old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

geneva@Psalms:71:11 @ Saying, (note:)Thus the wicked both blaspheme God and triumph against his saints, as though he had forsaken them if he permits them to fall into their hands.(:note) God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for [there is] none to deliver [him].

geneva@Psalms:71:12 @ O God, be not far from me: O (note:)In calling him his God, he puts back the false reports of the adversaries who said God had forsaken him.(:note) my God, make haste for my help.

geneva@Psalms:71:16 @ I will (note:)I will remain steadfast, being upheld by the power of God.(:note) go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.

geneva@Psalms:71:17 @ O God, thou hast taught me fro my youth euen vntill nowe: therefore will I tell of thy wonderous workes,

geneva@Psalms:71:19 @ Thy (note:)Your just performance of your promise.(:note) righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee!

geneva@Psalms:71:20 @ [Thou], which hast shewed me great and (note:)As he confesses that God is the only author of his deliverance, so he acknowledges that these evils were sent to him by God's providence.(:note) sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:71:21 @ Thou wilt increase mine honour, & returne and comfort me.

geneva@Psalms:71:22 @ I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [even] thy (note:)He confesses that his long delay was well recompensed, when God performed his promise.(:note) truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:71:23 @ My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my (note:)For there is no true praising of God, unless it comes from the heart: and therefore he promises to delight in nothing, except that in which God is glorified.(:note) soul, which thou hast redeemed.

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

geneva@Psalms:72:5 @ They shall (note:)The people will embrace your true religion, when you give a king who rules according to your word.(:note) fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

geneva@Psalms:72:6 @ He shall come (note:)As this is true in all godly kings, so it is chiefly verified in Christ, who with his heavenly dew, makes his Church ever to flourish.(:note) down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers [that] water the earth.

geneva@Psalms:72:7 @ In his dayes shall the righteous florish, and abundance of peace shalbe so long as the moone endureth.

geneva@Psalms:72:10 @ The kings of (note:)Of Cilicia, and of all other countries beyond the sea, which he means by the isles.(:note) Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings That is, of Arabia that rich country, of which Sheba was a part bordering on Ethiopia. of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

geneva@Psalms:72:16 @ There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the (note:)Under such a king will be great plenty, both of fruit and also of the increase of mankind.(:note) fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and [they] of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:72:17 @ His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and [men] shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call (note:)They will pray to God for his continuance and know that God prospers them for his sake.(:note) him blessed.

geneva@Psalms:73:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» Truly (note:)As it were between hope and despair he bursts forth into this affection, being assured that God would continue his favour toward such as were godly indeed, and not hypocrites.(:note) God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.

geneva@Psalms:73:2 @ As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had welneere slipt.

geneva@Psalms:73:4 @ For [there are] (note:)The wicked in this life live at pleasure and are not drawn to death like prisoners: that is, by sickness which is death's messenger.(:note) no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.

geneva@Psalms:73:5 @ They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

geneva@Psalms:73:9 @ They (note:)They blaspheme God, and do not fear his power and rail upon men, because they esteem themselves above all others.(:note) set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

geneva@Psalms:73:12 @ Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

geneva@Psalms:73:13 @ Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

geneva@Psalms:73:14 @ For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

geneva@Psalms:73:16 @ Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

geneva@Psalms:73:18 @ Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

geneva@Psalms:73:19 @ How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are (note:)By your fearful judgment.(:note) utterly consumed with terrors.

geneva@Psalms:73:20 @ As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when (note:)When you open our eyes to consider your heavenly happiness, we contemn all their vain pomp.(:note) thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

geneva@Psalms:73:21 @ Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

geneva@Psalms:73:22 @ So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a (note:)For the more that man goes about by his own reason to seek out God's judgments, the more he declares himself a beast.(:note) beast before thee.

geneva@Psalms:73:23 @ Nevertheless I [am] continually (note:)By faith I was assured that your providence always watched over me to preserve me.(:note) with thee: thou hast holden [me] by my right hand.

geneva@Psalms:73:27 @ For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that (note:)That is, forsake you to seek others.(:note) go a whoring from thee.

geneva@Psalms:74:1 @ «Maschil of Asaph.» O God, (note:)The Church of God is oppressed by the tyranny, either of the Babylonians or of Antiochus, and prays to God by whose hand the yoke was laid on them for their sins.(:note) why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

geneva@Psalms:74:2 @ Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the (note:)Which inheritance you have measured out for yourself as with a line or rod.(:note) rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

geneva@Psalms:74:5 @ [A man] was famous according as he had (note:)He commends the temple for the costly matter, the excellent workmanship and beauty of it, which nonetheless the enemies destroyed.(:note) lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

geneva@Psalms:74:7 @ They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.

geneva@Psalms:74:9 @ We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth (note:)They lamented that they had no prophet among them to show them how long their misery would last.(:note) how long.

geneva@Psalms:74:10 @ O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?

geneva@Psalms:74:14 @ Thou brakest the heads of (note:)Which was a great monster of the sea, or whale, meaning Pharaoh.(:note) leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] His destruction rejoiced them as meat refreshes the body. meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

geneva@Psalms:74:16 @ The (note:)Seeing that God by his providence governs and disposes all things, he gathers that he will take care chiefly for his children.(:note) day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

geneva@Psalms:74:17 @ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

geneva@Psalms:74:18 @ Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lorde, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.

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:74:23 @ Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.

geneva@Psalms:75:1 @ «To the chief Musician, (note:)Read (Psa_57:1).(:note) Altaschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.» Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, [unto thee] do we give thanks: for [that] thy name is near He declares how the faithful will always have opportunity to praise God, as in their need they will feel his power at hand to help them. thy wondrous works declare.

geneva@Psalms:75:6 @ For to come to preferment is neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South,

geneva@Psalms:76:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.» In Judah [is] God (note:)He declares that God's power is evidently seen in preserving his people and destroying his enemies.(:note) known: his name [is] great in Israel.

geneva@Psalms:76:2 @ In (note:)Which later was called Jerusalem.(:note) Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

geneva@Psalms:76:4 @ Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than (note:)He compares the kingdom full of extortion and rapine to the mountains that are full of ravening beasts.(:note) the mountains of prey.

geneva@Psalms:76:5 @ The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have (note:)God has taken their spirits and strength from them as though their hands were cut off.(:note) found their hands.

geneva@Psalms:76:6 @ At thy rebuke, O God of Iaakob, both the chariot and horse are cast a sleepe.

geneva@Psalms:76:8 @ Thou didest cause thy iudgement to bee heard from heauen: therefore the earth feared and was still,

geneva@Psalms:76:10 @ Surely the (note:)For the end will show that the enemy was able to bring nothing to pass: also you will bridle their rage that they will not accomplish their purpose.(:note) wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

geneva@Psalms:77:1 @ «To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.» I cried unto God with my (note:)The prophet teaches us by his example to flee to God for help in our necessities.(:note) voice, [even] unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

geneva@Psalms:77:2 @ In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort.

geneva@Psalms:77:3 @ I remembered God, and was (note:)He shows that we must patiently abide though God does not deliver us from our troubles at the first cry.(:note) troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:77:4 @ Thou holdest mine eyes (note:)Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping.(:note) waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

geneva@Psalms:77:6 @ I call to remembrance my (note:)Of thanksgiving, which I was accustomed to sing in my prosperity.(:note) song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made Both the reasons why I was chastened, and when my sorrows would end. diligent search.

geneva@Psalms:77:8 @ Is his (note:)As if he would say, It is impossible: by which he exhorts himself to patience.(:note) mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?

geneva@Psalms:77:9 @ Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah.

geneva@Psalms:77:10 @ And I said, This [is] my (note:)Though I first doubted of my life, yet considering that God had his years, that is, change of times, and was accustomed also to lift up them whom he had beaten, I took heart again.(:note) infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High.

geneva@Psalms:77:13 @ Thy way, O God, [is] (note:)That is in heaven, to which we must ascend by faith, if we will know the ways of God.(:note) in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a He condemns all who worship anything save the only true God, whose glory appears through the world. God as [our] God?

geneva@Psalms:77:14 @ Thou art ye God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy power among the people.

geneva@Psalms:77:15 @ Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arme, euen the sonnes of Iaakob & Ioseph. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:77:16 @ The (note:)He declares how the power of God was declared when he delivered the Israelites through the Red Sea.(:note) waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

geneva@Psalms:77:18 @ The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and shooke.

geneva@Psalms:77:19 @ Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not (note:)For when you had brought over your people, the water returned to her course, and the enemies who thought to have followed them, could not pass through, (Exo_14:28-29).(:note) known.

geneva@Psalms:78:1 @ «(note:)Read (Psa_32:1).(:note) Maschil of Asaph.» Give ear, O my people, [to] my The prophet under the name of a teacher calls the people his, and the doctrine his, as Paul calls the gospel his, of which he was but the preacher, as in (Rom_2:16, Rom_16:25). law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

geneva@Psalms:78:8 @ And might not be as their (note:)Though these fathers were the seed of Abraham and the chosen people, yet he shows by their rebellion, provocation, falsehood, and hypocrisy, that the children should not follow their examples.(:note) fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

geneva@Psalms:78:13 @ He deuided the Sea, & led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.

geneva@Psalms:78:15 @ He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.

geneva@Psalms:78:18 @ And they tempted God in their heart by (note:)Then to require more than is necessary, and to separate God's power from his will, is to tempt God.(:note) asking meat for their lust.

geneva@Psalms:78:21 @ Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, & also wrath came vpon Israel,

geneva@Psalms:78:23 @ Though he had commanded the (note:)So that they had that which was necessary and sufficient: but their lust made them cover that which they knew God had denied them.(:note) clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

geneva@Psalms:78:26 @ He caused an (note:)God used the wind to show them that all the elements were at his command, and that no distance could restrain his working.(:note) east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

geneva@Psalms:78:27 @ Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.

geneva@Psalms:78:30 @ They were not estranged from their (note:)Such is the nature of concupiscence, that the more it has the more it lusts.(:note) lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,

geneva@Psalms:78:33 @ Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.

geneva@Psalms:78:34 @ When he (note:)Such was their hypocrisy, that they sought God out of fear of punishment, though in their heart they did not love him.(:note) slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

geneva@Psalms:78:35 @ And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.

geneva@Psalms:78:37 @ For their (note:)Whatever does not come from the pure fountain of the heart is hypocrisy.(:note) heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

geneva@Psalms:78:38 @ But he, [being] full of compassion, (note:)Because he would always have some remnant of a Church to praise his Name in earth, he did not permit their sins to overcome his mercy.(:note) forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

geneva@Psalms:78:39 @ For he remebred that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

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:78:45 @ He sent (note:)This word signifies a confused mixture of flies and venomous worms. Some take it for all sorts of serpents: some for all wild beasts.(:note) divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

geneva@Psalms:78:46 @ He (note:)He does not repeat here all the miracles that God did in Egypt, but certain which might be sufficient to convince the people of malice and ingratitude.(:note) gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

geneva@Psalms:78:49 @ He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending (note:)So called either for the effect, that is, of punishing the wicked: or else because they were wicked spirits, whom God permitted to vex men.(:note) evil angels [among them].

geneva@Psalms:78:51 @ And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the (note:)The firstborn are so called, as in (Gen_49:3).(:note) chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of That is, Egypt: for it was called Mizraim, or Egypt of Mizraim that was the son of Ham. Ham:

geneva@Psalms:78:53 @ And he led them on safely, so that they (note:)That is, they had no opportunity to fear, even as God destroyed their enemies and delivered them falsely.(:note) feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

geneva@Psalms:78:54 @ And he brought them to the border of his (note:)Meaning, Canaan, which God had consecrated to himself and appointed to his people.(:note) sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.

geneva@Psalms:78:55 @ He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

geneva@Psalms:78:57 @ But turned back, and dealt (note:)Nothing more displeases God in the children, than when they continue in that wickedness, which their fathers had begun.(:note) unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

geneva@Psalms:78:59 @ God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

geneva@Psalms:78:60 @ So that he (note:)For their ingratitude he permitted the Philistines to take the Ark which was the sign of his presence, from among them.(:note) forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;

geneva@Psalms:78:62 @ And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.

geneva@Psalms:78:65 @ Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that (note:)Because they were drunk in their sins, they judged God's patience to be slumbering, as though he were drunk, therefore he answering their beastly judgment, says, he will awake and take sudden vengeance.(:note) shouteth by reason of wine.

geneva@Psalms:79:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» O God, (note:)The people cry to God against the barbarous tyranny of the Babylonians who spoiled God's inheritance, polluted his temple, destroyed his religion, and murdered his people.(:note) the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

geneva@Psalms:79:2 @ The (note:)The prophets show to what extremities God sometimes allows his Church to fall to exercise their faith, before he sets his hand to deliver them.(:note) dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:79:3 @ Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to (note:)Their friends and relatives did not dare to bury them for fear of the enemies.(:note) bury [them].

geneva@Psalms:79:13 @ So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: (note:)We ought to desire no benefit from God, but on this condition to praise his name, (Isa_43:21).(:note) we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

geneva@Psalms:80:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.» Give ear, (note:)This Psalm was made as a prayer to desire God to be merciful to the ten tribes.(:note) O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the Move their hearts, that they may return to worship God properly, that is, in the place you have appointed. cherubims, shine forth.

geneva@Psalms:80:2 @ Before Ephraim and Beniamin and Manasseh stirre vp thy strength, and come to helpe vs.

geneva@Psalms:80:5 @ Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.

geneva@Psalms:80:8 @ Thou hast brought a (note:)Seeing that from your mercy you have made us a most dear possession to you, and we through our sins are made open for wild beasts to devour us, declare again my love and finish the work that you have begun.(:note) vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

geneva@Psalms:80:12 @ Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?

geneva@Psalms:80:13 @ The (note:)That is, they who hate our religion, as well as they who hate our persons.(:note) boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

geneva@Psalms:80:14 @ Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down (note:)They gave no place to temptation, knowing that even though there was no help in earth, yet God was able to help them from heaven.(:note) from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

geneva@Psalms:80:15 @ And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch [that] thou madest (note:)So that no power can prevail against it, and which as a young bud you raised up again as out of the burnt ashes.(:note) strong for thyself.

geneva@Psalms:80:17 @ Let thy hand be upon the (note:)That is, on this vine or people, whom you have planted with your right hand, that they should be as one man or one body(:note) man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.

geneva@Psalms:80:18 @ So will not we go back from thee: (note:)For no one can call on God but such as are raised up as it were from death to life, and regenerate by the Holy Spirit.(:note) quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

geneva@Psalms:81:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)An instrument of music brought from Geth.(:note) Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph.» Sing It seems that this psalm was appointed for solemn feasts and assemblies of the people to whom for a time these ceremonies were ordained, but now under the gospel are abolished. aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

geneva@Psalms:81:2 @ Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harpe with the viole.

geneva@Psalms:81:3 @ Blow up the trumpet in the (note:)Under this feast he comprehends all other solemn days.(:note) new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

geneva@Psalms:81:5 @ This he ordained in (note:)That is, in Israel for Joseph's family was counted the chief while before, Judah was preferred.(:note) Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] God speaks in the person of the people because he was their leader. I understood not.

geneva@Psalms:81:7 @ Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I (note:)By a strange and wonderful fashion.(:note) answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:81:10 @ I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: (note:)God accuses their incredulity, because they did not open their mouths to receive God's benefits in such abundance as he pours them out.(:note) open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

geneva@Psalms:82:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» God standeth in the congregation of the (note:)The prophet shows that if princes and judges do not do their duty, God whose authority is above them will take vengeance on them.(:note) mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

geneva@Psalms:83:1 @ «A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph.» Keep (note:)This psalm seems to have been composed as a form of prayer against the dangers that the Church was in, in the days of Jehoshaphat.(:note) not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

geneva@Psalms:83:4 @ They have said, Come, and let us (note:)They were not content to take the Church as prisoner: but sought to utterly destroy it.(:note) cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

geneva@Psalms:83:5 @ For they have consulted together (note:)By all secret means.(:note) with one consent: they are confederate They thought to have subverted your counsel in which the constancy of the Church was established. against thee:

geneva@Psalms:83:8 @ Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children (note:)The wickedness of the Ammonites and Moabites is described in that they provoked these other nations to fight against the Israelites.(:note) of Lot. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:83:9 @ Do unto them as [unto] the (note:)By these examples they were confirmed that God would not permit his people to be completely destroyed, (Jdg_7:21, Jdg_4:15).(:note) Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

geneva@Psalms:83:10 @ [Which] perished at Endor: they became [as] (note:)Trodden under foot as mire.(:note) dung for the earth.

geneva@Psalms:83:13 @ O my God, make them like a (note:)Because the reprobate could by no means be amended, he prays that they may utterly be destroyed, be unstable and led by all winds.(:note) wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

geneva@Psalms:83:14 @ As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

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:84:7 @ They go from (note:)They are never weary but increase in strength and courage till they come to God's house.(:note) strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.

geneva@Psalms:84:11 @ For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no (note:)But will from time to time increase his blessings toward his more and more.(:note) good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

geneva@Psalms:85:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.» LORD, thou hast been (note:)They confess that God's free mercy was the cause of their deliverance because he loved the land which he had chosen.(:note) favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

geneva@Psalms:85:2 @ Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast (note:)You have buried them that they will not come into judgment.(:note) covered all their sin. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:85:3 @ Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned [thyself] from the (note:)Not only in withdrawing your rod, but in forgiving sins, and in touching our hearts to confess them.(:note) fierceness of thine anger.

geneva@Psalms:85:4 @ Turne vs, O God of our saluation, and release thine anger toward vs.

geneva@Psalms:85:5 @ Wilt thou be angry with us (note:)As in times past they had felt God's mercies, so now being oppressed by the long continuance of evil, they pray to God that according to his nature he would be merciful to them.(:note) for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

geneva@Psalms:85:8 @ I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak (note:)He will send all prosperity to his Church, when he has sufficiently corrected them, also by his punishments the faithful will learn to beware that they not return the same offences.(:note) peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

geneva@Psalms:85:12 @ Yea, the Lord shall giue good things, and our land shall giue her increase.

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:86:3 @ Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I (note:)Which was a fair token that he believed that God would deliver him.(:note) cry unto thee daily.

geneva@Psalms:86:8 @ Among the gods [there is] none like unto thee, O Lord; neither (note:)He condemns all idols as they can do nothing to declare that they are gods.(:note) [are there any works] like unto thy works.

geneva@Psalms:86:9 @ All nations whom thou hast made shall come and (note:)This proves that David prayed in the Name of Christ the Messiah of whose kingdom he here prophecies.(:note) worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

geneva@Psalms:86:13 @ For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from (note:)That is, from most great danger of death: out of which none but the almighty hand of God could deliver him.(:note) the lowest hell.

geneva@Psalms:86:14 @ O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have (note:)He shows that there can be no moderation or equity where proud tyrants reign, and that the lack of God's fear is as a privilege to all vice and cruelty.(:note) sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

geneva@Psalms:86:16 @ O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the (note:)He boasts not of his own virtues, but confesses that God of his free goodness has always been merciful to him, and given him power against his enemies, as to one of his own household.(:note) son of thine handmaid.

geneva@Psalms:86:17 @ Shew a token of thy goodnes towarde me, that they which hate me, may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, O Lord, hast holpen me and comforted me.

geneva@Psalms:87:4 @ I will make mention of (note:)That is, Egypt and these other countries will come to the knowledge of God.(:note) Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; It will be said of him who is regenerate and come to the Church, that he is as one who was born in the Church. this [man] was born there.

geneva@Psalms:87:5 @ And of Zion it shall be said, (note:)Out of all quarters they will come to the Church, and be counted as citizens.(:note) This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

geneva@Psalms:87:6 @ The LORD shall count, when he (note:)When he calls them by his word into the Church, whom he had elected and written in the book.(:note) writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:87:7 @ As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my (note:)The prophet sets his whole affections and comfort in the church.(:note) springs [are] in thee.

geneva@Psalms:88:1 @ «A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath (note:)That is, to humble. It was the beginning of a song by which tune this psalm was sung.(:note) Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.» O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night Though many cry in their sorrows, yet they cry not earnestly to God for remedy as he did whom he confessed to be the author of his salvation. before thee:

geneva@Psalms:88:4 @ I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:

geneva@Psalms:88:6 @ Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit, in darkenes, and in the deepe.

geneva@Psalms:88:7 @ Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy (note:)The storms of your wrath have overwhelmed me.(:note) waves. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:88:8 @ Thou hast put away mine (note:)He attributes the loss and displeasure of his friends to God's providence by which he partly punishes and partly tries his.(:note) acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I see no end to my sorrows. [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

geneva@Psalms:88:15 @ I [am] afflicted and ready to die (note:)I am always in great dangers and sorrows as though my life would utterly be cut off every moment.(:note) from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

geneva@Psalms:88:17 @ They came round about me dayly like water, and compassed me together.

geneva@Psalms:88:18 @ My louers and friends hast thou put away from me, and mine acquaintance hid themselues.

geneva@Psalms:89:1 @ «Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.» I will (note:)Though the horrible confusion of things might cause them to despair of God's favour, yet the manifold examples of his mercies cause them to trust in God though to man's judgment they saw no reason to.(:note) sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

geneva@Psalms:89:2 @ For I have (note:)As he who surely believed in heart.(:note) said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou As your invisible heaven is not subject to any alteration and change: so shall the truth of your promise be unchangeable. establish in the very heavens.

geneva@Psalms:89:7 @ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the (note:)If the angels tremble before God's majesty and infinite justice, what earthly creature by oppressing the Church dares to set himself against God?(:note) saints, and to be had in reverence of all [them that are] about him.

geneva@Psalms:89:10 @ Thou hast beaten downe Rahab as a man slaine: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mightie arme.

geneva@Psalms:89:11 @ The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.

geneva@Psalms:89:12 @ The north and the south thou hast created them: (note:)Tabor is a mountain west from Jerusalem, and Hermon to the East, so the prophet signifies that all parts and places of the world will obey God's power for the deliverance of his Church.(:note) Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

geneva@Psalms:89:13 @ Thou hast a mightie arme: strong is thine hand, and high is thy right hand.

geneva@Psalms:89:18 @ For the LORD [is] our (note:)In that our King has power to defend us, it is the gift of God.(:note) defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king.

geneva@Psalms:89:19 @ Then thou spakest in vision to (note:)To Samuel and to others, to assure that David was the chosen one.(:note) thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon [one that is] Whom I have both chosen and given strength to execute his office, as in (Psa_89:21). mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.

geneva@Psalms:89:28 @ My mercie will I keepe for him for euermore, and my couenant shall stande fast with him.

geneva@Psalms:89:29 @ His seed also will I make [to endure] (note:)Though for the sins of the people the state of the kingdom decayed, yet God reserved still a root till he had accomplished this promise in Christ.(:note) for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

geneva@Psalms:89:34 @ My covenant will I not break, nor (note:)For God in promising has respect to his mercy, and not to man's power in performing.(:note) alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

geneva@Psalms:89:36 @ His seede shall endure for euer, and his throne shalbe as the sunne before me.

geneva@Psalms:89:37 @ It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a faithful (note:)As long as the Sun and Moon endure, they will be witnesses to me of this promise.(:note) witness in heaven. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:89:38 @ But thou hast reiected and abhorred, thou hast bene angry with thine Anoynted.

geneva@Psalms:89:39 @ Thou hast (note:)Because of the horrible confusion of things, the prophet complains to God, as though he did not see the performance of his promise and thus discharging his cares on God, he resists doubt and impatience.(:note) made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his By this he means the horrible dissipation and tearing of the kingdom which was under Jeroboam, or else by the Spirit of prophecy Ethan speaks of those great miseries which came to pass soon after at the captivity of Babylon. crown [by casting it] to the ground.

geneva@Psalms:89:40 @ Thou hast broken downe all his walles: thou hast layd his fortresses in ruine.

geneva@Psalms:89:42 @ Thou hast set vp the right hand of his enemies, and made all his aduersaries to reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:89:43 @ Thou hast also turned the edge of his sworde, and hast not made him to stand in the battell.

geneva@Psalms:89:44 @ Thou hast caused his dignitie to decay, and cast his throne to the ground.

geneva@Psalms:89:45 @ The days of his (note:)He shows that the kingdom fell before it came to perfection or was ripe.(:note) youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:89:47 @ Remember (note:)Seeing man's life is short, and you have created man to bestow your benefits on him, unless you hasten to help, death will prevent you.(:note) how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

geneva@Psalms:89:50 @ Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my (note:)He means that God's enemies not only slandered him behind his back, but also mocked him to his face and as it were cast their injuries in his bosom.(:note) bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;

geneva@Psalms:90:1 @ «A Prayer of Moses (note:)Thus the Scripture refers to the prophets.(:note) the man of God.» Lord, thou hast been our You have been as a house and defence to us in all our troubles and travels now this four hundred years. dwelling place in all generations.

geneva@Psalms:90:2 @ Before the (note:)You have chosen us to be your people before the foundations of the world were laid.(:note) mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.

geneva@Psalms:90:5 @ Thou (note:)You take them away suddenly as with a flood.(:note) carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.

geneva@Psalms:90:8 @ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance.

geneva@Psalms:90:9 @ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we (note:)Our days are not only short but miserable as our sins daily provoke your wrath.(:note) spend our years as a tale [that is told].

geneva@Psalms:90:10 @ The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] (note:)Meaning according to the common state of life.(:note) fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

geneva@Psalms:90:15 @ Comfort vs according to the dayes that thou hast afflicted vs, and according to the yeeres that we haue seene euill.

geneva@Psalms:90:17 @ And let the (note:)Meaning, that is was obscured when he ceases to do good to his Church.(:note) beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and For unless you guide us with your Holy Spirit, our enterprises cannot succeed. establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

geneva@Psalms:91:3 @ Surely he shall deliver thee from the (note:)That is, God's help is most ready for us, whether Satan assails us secretly which he calls a snare, or openly which is here meant by the pestilence.(:note) snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.

geneva@Psalms:91:9 @ For thou hast said, The Lord is mine hope: thou hast set the most High for thy refuge.

geneva@Psalms:92:1 @ «A Psalm [or] Song for the (note:)Which teaches that the use of the Sabbath stands in praising God, and not only in ceasing from work.(:note) sabbath day.» [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

geneva@Psalms:92:3 @ Upon an (note:)These instruments were then permitted in the Church as also they are now. (Ed.)(:note) instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

geneva@Psalms:92:4 @ For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy (note:)He shows the use of the Sabbath day: that is, to meditate God's works.(:note) work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

geneva@Psalms:92:7 @ (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.

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

geneva@Psalms:92:12 @ The righteous shall (note:)Though the faithful seem to whither and be cut down by the wicked, yet they will grow again and flourish in the Church of God as the cedars do in mount Lebanon.(:note) flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

geneva@Psalms:92:13 @ Such as bee planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courtes of our God.

geneva@Psalms:93:1 @ The LORD (note:)As God by his power and wisdom has made and governed the world, so must the same be our defence against all enemies and dangers.(:note) reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, [wherewith] he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

geneva@Psalms:93:2 @ Thy (note:)In which you sit and govern the world.(:note) throne [is] established of old: thou [art] from everlasting.

geneva@Psalms:93:5 @ Thy (note:)Besides God's power and wisdom in creating and governing his great mercy also appears in that he has given his people his word and covenant.(:note) testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

geneva@Psalms:94:5 @ They (note:)Seeing the Church was then so sore oppressed, it ought not to seem strange to us, if we see it so now, and therefore we must call to God, to take our cause in hand.(:note) break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

geneva@Psalms:94:10 @ He that chastiseth the (note:)If God punishes whole nations for their sins, it is mere folly for any one man or else a few to think that God will spare them.(:note) heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, [shall not he know]?

geneva@Psalms:94:12 @ Blessed [is] the man whom thou (note:)God has care over his, and chastised them for their own good, that they should not perish for ever with the wicked.(:note) chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

geneva@Psalms:94:17 @ Unless the LORD [had been] my (note:)He complains of them who would not help him to resist the enemies, yet was assured that God's help would not fail.(:note) help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

geneva@Psalms:94:18 @ When I said, (note:)When I thought there was no way but death.(:note) My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

geneva@Psalms:95:3 @ For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all (note:)Even the angels (who in respect to men are thought as gods) are nothing in his sight, much less the idols, which man's brain invents.(:note) gods.

geneva@Psalms:95:7 @ For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his (note:)That is, the flock whom he governs with his own hand. He shows how they are God's flock, that is, if they hear his voice.(:note) hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

geneva@Psalms:95:10 @ Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do (note:)They were without judgment and reason.(:note) err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

geneva@Psalms:96:4 @ For the LORD [is] (note:)Seeing he will reveal himself to all nations contrary to their own expectation, they should all worship him contrary to their own imaginations, and only as he has appointed.(:note) great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to be feared above all gods.

geneva@Psalms:96:7 @ Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and (note:)As by experience you see that it is only due to him.(:note) strength.

geneva@Psalms:96:12 @ Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall all the (note:)If the insensible creatures will have reason to rejoice when God appears, much more we, from whom he has taken malediction and sin.(:note) trees of the wood rejoice

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

geneva@Psalms:98:3 @ He hath (note:)God was moved by no other means to gather his Church from the Jews and Gentiles, but because he would perform his promise.(:note) remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

geneva@Psalms:99:1 @ The LORD reigneth; let the (note:)When God delivers his Church all the enemies will have reason to tremble.(:note) people tremble: he sitteth [between] the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

geneva@Psalms:99:4 @ And the Kings power, that loueth iudgement: for thou hast prepared equitie: thou hast executed iudgement and iustice in Iaakob.

geneva@Psalms:99:5 @ Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his (note:)That is, before his temple or ark, where he promised to hear when they worshipped him, as now he promises his spiritual presence, wherever his Church is assembled.(:note) footstool; [for] he [is] holy.

geneva@Psalms:99:8 @ Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of (note:)The more liberally God deals with his people, the more he punishes them who abuse his benefits.(:note) their inventions.

geneva@Psalms:100:3 @ Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath (note:)He chiefly means concerning spiritual regeneration, by which we are his sheep and people.(:note) made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

geneva@Psalms:100:5 @ For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] (note:)He declares that we should never be weary in praising him, seeing his mercies toward us last forever.(:note) everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations.

geneva@Psalms:101:2 @ I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. (note:)Though as yet you deferred to place me in the kingly dignity, yet I will give myself to wisdom and uprightness being a private man.(:note) O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

geneva@Psalms:101:3 @ I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate (note:)He shows that magistrates do not do their duties, unless they are enemies to all vice.(:note) the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.

geneva@Psalms:102:1 @ «A Prayer (note:)By which is signified, that even though we are in great misery, yet there is always room for prayer.(:note) of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my He declares that in our prayer we must lively feel that which we desire, and steadfastly believe to obtain. cry come unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:102:2 @ Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine eares vnto me: when I call, make haste to heare me.

geneva@Psalms:102:3 @ For my days are (note:)These excessive kinds of speech show how much the affliction of the Church should wound the hearts of the godly.(:note) consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

geneva@Psalms:102:4 @ My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget (note:)My sorrows were so great that I did not eat.(:note) to eat my bread.

geneva@Psalms:102:6 @ I am like a (note:)Always mourning in solitude and casting out fearful cries.(:note) pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

geneva@Psalms:102:7 @ I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.

geneva@Psalms:102:9 @ For I have (note:)I have not risen out of my mourning to take my refreshment.(:note) eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

geneva@Psalms:102:10 @ Because of thine (note:)He shows that not only the afflictions moved him, but chiefly the feeling of God's displeasure.(:note) indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

geneva@Psalms:102:11 @ My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.

geneva@Psalms:102:14 @ For thy servants take pleasure in her (note:)The more the Church is in misery and desolation, the more the faithful should love and pity it.(:note) stones, and favour the dust thereof.

geneva@Psalms:102:18 @ This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be (note:)The deliverance of the Church is an excellent benefit, and therefore he compares it to a new creation for in their banishment the body of the Church seemed to have been dead, which by deliverance was as it were created anew.(:note) created shall praise the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:102:22 @ When the people are gathered (note:)He shows that Gad's name is never more praised, than when religion flourishes and the church increases: which is chiefly accomplished under the kingdom of Christ.(:note) together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:102:23 @ He (note:)The church lament that they see not the time of Christ, which was promised, but have but few years and short days.(:note) weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

geneva@Psalms:102:25 @ Thou hast aforetime layde the foundation of the earth, and the heauens are the worke of thine hands.

geneva@Psalms:102:28 @ The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall (note:)Seeing you have chosen your Church out of the world, and joined it to you, it cannot but continue forever: for you are everlasting.(:note) be established before thee.

geneva@Psalms:103:3 @ Who (note:)That is, the beginning and chiefest of all benefits, remission of sin.(:note) forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

geneva@Psalms:103:4 @ Who redeemeth thy life from (note:)For before we have remission of our sins, we are as dead men in the grave.(:note) destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

geneva@Psalms:103:5 @ Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things; so that] thy (note:)As the eagle, when her beak overgrows, sucks blood and so is renewed in strength, even so God miraculously gives strength to his Church above all man's expectations.(:note) youth is renewed like the eagle's.

geneva@Psalms:103:7 @ He made known his ways unto (note:)As to his chief minister, and next to his people.(:note) Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:103:8 @ The Lord is full of compassion and mercie, slowe to anger and of great kindnesse.

geneva@Psalms:103:9 @ He will not always (note:)He shows first his severe judgment, but as soon as the sinner is humbled, he receives him to mercy.(:note) chide: neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:103:10 @ He hath not (note:)Who have proved by continual experience that his mercy has always prevailed against our offences.(:note) dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

geneva@Psalms:103:11 @ For as high as the heauen is aboue ye earth, so great is his mercie toward them that feare him.

geneva@Psalms:103:12 @ As far as (note:)As great as the world is, so full is it of signs of God's mercies toward his faithful when he has removed their sins.(:note) the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

geneva@Psalms:103:13 @ As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him.

geneva@Psalms:103:15 @ [As for] (note:)He declares that man has nothing in himself to move God to mercy, but only the confession of his infirmity and misery.(:note) man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

geneva@Psalms:103:17 @ But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his (note:)His just and faithful keeping of his promise.(:note) righteousness unto children's children;

geneva@Psalms:103:18 @ To such as keep his (note:)To whom he gives grace to fear him, and to obey his word.(:note) covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

geneva@Psalms:103:21 @ Prayse the Lord, all ye his hostes, ye his seruants that doe his pleasure.

geneva@Psalms:104:1 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art (note:)The prophet shows that we do not need to enter into the heavens to seek God, for as much as all the order of nature, with the propriety and placing of the elements, are living mirrors to see his majesty in.(:note) clothed with honour and majesty.

geneva@Psalms:104:2 @ Which couereth himselfe with light as with a garment, and spreadeth the heauens like a curtaine.

geneva@Psalms:104:4 @ Who (note:)As the prophet here shows that all visible powers are ready to serve God: so in (Heb_1:7) the angels also, are obedient to his commandment.(:note) maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

geneva@Psalms:104:6 @ Thou coveredst it with the (note:)You make the sea to be an ornament to the earth.(:note) deep as [with] a garment: the If by your power you did not bridle the rage of the waters, the whole world would be destroyed. waters stood above the mountains.

geneva@Psalms:104:7 @ But at thy rebuke they flee: at the voyce of thy thunder they haste away.

geneva@Psalms:104:8 @ And the mountaines ascend, and the valleis descend to the place which thou hast established for them.

geneva@Psalms:104:9 @ But thou hast set them a bounde, which they shall not passe: they shall not returne to couer the earth.

geneva@Psalms:104:11 @ They give drink to every (note:)If God provides for the beasts, much more will he extend his provident care to man.(:note) beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

geneva@Psalms:104:14 @ He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of (note:)He describes God's providential care over man, who not only provides necessary things for him such as herbs and other meat: but also things to rejoice and comfort him such as wine and oil or ointments.(:note) man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

geneva@Psalms:104:19 @ He appointed (note:)As to separate the night from the day, and to note days, months and years.(:note) the moon for seasons: That is, by his course, either far or near, it notes summer, winter and other seasons. the sun knoweth his going down.

geneva@Psalms:104:20 @ Thou makest darkenesse, and it is night, wherein all the beastes of the forest creepe forth.

geneva@Psalms:104:21 @ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat (note:)That is, they only find meat according to God's providence, who cares even for the brute beasts.(:note) from God.

geneva@Psalms:104:24 @ O LORD, how (note:)He confesses that no tongue is able to express God's works nor mind to comprehend them.(:note) manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

geneva@Psalms:104:25 @ So is this sea great and wide: for therein are things creeping innumerable, both small beastes and great.

geneva@Psalms:104:26 @ There goe the shippes, yea, that Liuiathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

geneva@Psalms:104:29 @ Thou (note:)As by your presence all things have life; so if you withdraw your blessings they all perish.(:note) hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

geneva@Psalms:104:30 @ Thou (note:)As the death of creatures shows that we are nothing of ourselves: so their generation declares that we receive all things from our Creator.(:note) sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:105:1 @ O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: (note:)For as much as the Israelites were exempted from the common condemnation of the world, and were elected to be God's people, the prophet wills them to show themselves mindful by thanksgiving.(:note) make known his deeds among the people.

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

geneva@Psalms:105:10 @ And since hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,

geneva@Psalms:105:11 @ Saying, (note:)He shows that they would not enjoy the land of Canaan by any other means, but by reason of his covenant made with their fathers.(:note) Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

geneva@Psalms:105:17 @ But he sent a man before them: Ioseph was solde for a slaue.

geneva@Psalms:105:18 @ They helde his feete in the stockes, and he was laide in yrons,

geneva@Psalms:105:19 @ Until (note:)So long he suffered adversity as God had appointed, and till he had sufficiently tried his patience.(:note) the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

geneva@Psalms:105:22 @ To bind his (note:)That the very princes of the countries would be at Joseph's commandment, and learn wisdom from him.(:note) princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

geneva@Psalms:105:23 @ Then Israel came to Egypt, and Iaakob was a stranger in the land of Ham.

geneva@Psalms:105:24 @ And he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger then their oppressours.

geneva@Psalms:105:31 @ He (note:)So that this vermin did not come by chance, but as God had appointed, and his prophet Moses spoke.(:note) spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their coasts.

geneva@Psalms:105:32 @ He gave them (note:)It was strange to see rain in Egypt, much more it was fearful to see hail.(:note) hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land.

geneva@Psalms:105:33 @ He smote their vines also and their figge trees, and brake downe the trees in their coastes.

geneva@Psalms:105:35 @ And did eate vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured the fruite of their ground.

geneva@Psalms:105:37 @ He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and [there was] (note:)When their enemies felt God's plagues his children by his providence were exempted.(:note) not one feeble [person] among their tribes.

geneva@Psalms:105:38 @ Egypt was (note:)For God's plagues caused them to prefer to depart with the Israelites rather than with their lives.(:note) glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

geneva@Psalms:105:40 @ [The people] (note:)Not for necessity but for satisfying of their lust.(:note) asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

geneva@Psalms:105:45 @ That they might (note:)This is the reason why God preserves his Church, because they should worship and call on him in this world.(:note) observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:106:1 @ Praise (note:)The prophet exhorts the people to praise God for his past benefits, that by this their minds may be strengthened against all present troubles and despair.(:note) ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:106:9 @ And he rebuked the red Sea, and it was dryed vp, and he led them in the deepe, as in the wildernesse.

geneva@Psalms:106:11 @ And the waters couered their oppressours: not one of them was left.

geneva@Psalms:106:18 @ And the fire was kindled in their assembly: the flame burnt vp the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:106:20 @ Thus they changed their (note:)He shows that all idolaters renounce God to be their glory when instead of him, they worship any creature much more wood, stone, metal or calves.(:note) glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

geneva@Psalms:106:24 @ Yea, they despised (note:)That is Canaan, which acted as a promise of the heavenly inheritance to come, though it was only worth a penny in comparison to the value of the inheritance itself.(:note) the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

geneva@Psalms:106:28 @ They joined themselves also unto (note:)Which was the idol of the Moabites.(:note) Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the Sacrifices offered to the dead idols. dead.

geneva@Psalms:106:30 @ Then stood up (note:)When all others neglected God's glory, he in his zeal killed the adulterers and prevented God's wrath.(:note) Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed.

geneva@Psalms:106:31 @ And that was (note:)This act declared his living faith, and for his faith's sake was accepted.(:note) counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:106:34 @ Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commaunded them,

geneva@Psalms:106:38 @ And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, & of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.

geneva@Psalms:106:39 @ Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went (note:)Then true chastity is to cleave wholly and only to God.(:note) a whoring with their own inventions.

geneva@Psalms:106:40 @ Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.

geneva@Psalms:107:1 @ O give thanks unto (note:)This notable sentence was in the beginning used as the foot or tenor of the song, which was often repeated.(:note) the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:107:2 @ Let the (note:)As was true in the Jews, so there is not one of God's elect who does not feel his help in their necessity.(:note) redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

geneva@Psalms:107:3 @ And gathered them out of the lands, from the East and from the West, from the North and from the South.

geneva@Psalms:107:11 @ Because they (note:)Then the true way to obey God is to follow his express commandment: also by this all are exhorted to descend into themselves as none are punished but for their sins.(:note) rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

geneva@Psalms:107:12 @ When he humbled their heart with heauines, then they fell downe and there was no helper.

geneva@Psalms:107:13 @ Then they (note:)He shows that the reason God punishes us extremely is because we can be brought to him by no other means.(:note) cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses.

geneva@Psalms:107:14 @ He brought them out of darkenes, and out of the shadowe of death, and brake their bandes asunder.

geneva@Psalms:107:16 @ For he hath broken the (note:)When there seems to man's judgment no recovery, but all things are brought to despair, then God chiefly shows his mighty power.(:note) gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

geneva@Psalms:107:23 @ They that go down to the (note:)He shows by the sea what care God has over man, for when he delivers them from the great danger of the sea, he delivers them as it were from a thousand deaths.(:note) sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

geneva@Psalms:107:30 @ Then are they glad because they be (note:)Though before every drop seemed to fight one against the other, yet at his command they are as still as if they were frozen.(:note) quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

geneva@Psalms:107:32 @ Let them exalt him also in the (note:)This great benefit should not only be considered particularly, but magnified in all places and assemblies.(:note) congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

geneva@Psalms:107:37 @ And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of (note:)Continual increase and yearly.(:note) increase.

geneva@Psalms:108:7 @ God hath spoken in his (note:)As he has spoken to Samuel concerning me, so will he show himself constant and holy in his promise, so that these nations following will be subject to me.(:note) holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

geneva@Psalms:108:8 @ Gilead shalbe mine, and Manasseh shalbe mine: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of mine head: Iuda is my lawgiuer.

geneva@Psalms:108:9 @ Moab shalbe my washpot: ouer Edom wil I cast out my shoe: vpon Palestina wil I triumph.

geneva@Psalms:109:3 @ They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

geneva@Psalms:109:4 @ For my love they are my adversaries: (note:)To declare that I had no other refuge, but you, in whom my conscience was at rest.(:note) but I [give myself unto] prayer.

geneva@Psalms:109:7 @ When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his (note:)As to the elect all things turn to their profit, so to the reprobate, even those things that are good, turn to their damnation.(:note) prayer become sin.

geneva@Psalms:109:8 @ Let his days be few; [and] let another take his (note:)This was chiefly accomplished in Judas, (Act_1:20).(:note) office.

geneva@Psalms:109:17 @ As he loved cursing, (note:)Thus the Lord gives to every man the thing in which he delights so that the reprobate cannot accuse God of wrong, when they are given up to their lusts and reprobate minds.(:note) so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

geneva@Psalms:109:18 @ As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.

geneva@Psalms:109:19 @ Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.

geneva@Psalms:109:21 @ But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy (note:)As you are named merciful, gracious and long suffering, so show yourself in effect.(:note) name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.

geneva@Psalms:109:23 @ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the (note:)Meaning that he has no stay or assurance in this world.(:note) locust.

geneva@Psalms:109:24 @ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh (note:)For hunger that came from sorrow, he was lean and his natural moisture failed him.(:note) faileth of fatness.

geneva@Psalms:109:26 @ Help me, O LORD my God: O (note:)The more grievously Satan assailed him, the more earnest and instant was he in prayer.(:note) save me according to thy mercy:

geneva@Psalms:109:27 @ And they shal know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.

geneva@Psalms:109:28 @ Let them (note:)They will gain nothing by cursing me.(:note) curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

geneva@Psalms:109:29 @ Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.

geneva@Psalms:110:3 @ Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of (note:)By the word your people will be assembled into your Church...increase will be...anointed wonderful... drops of the...(:note) thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

geneva@Psalms:110:4 @ The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of (note:)As Melchizedek the figure of Christ was both a King and Priest, so this effect cannot be accomplished on any king save only Christ.(:note) Melchizedek.

geneva@Psalms:111:2 @ The works of the LORD [are] (note:)He shows that God's works are a sufficient reason for us to praise him, but chiefly his benefits toward his Church.(:note) great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

geneva@Psalms:111:4 @ He hath made his wonderfull workes to be had in remembrance: the Lord is mercifull and full of compassion.

geneva@Psalms:111:5 @ He hath given (note:)God has given to his people all that was necessary for them and will do so even for his covenant's sake, and in this sense the Hebrew word is taken in (Pro_30:8, Pro_31:15).(:note) meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

geneva@Psalms:111:7 @ The (note:)As God proposed to take care of his Church so in effect does he declare himself just and true in the government of the same.(:note) works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his commandments [are] sure.

geneva@Psalms:112:4 @ Unto the (note:)The faithful in all their adversities know that all will go well with them for God will be merciful and just.(:note) upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [he is] gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

geneva@Psalms:112:5 @ A good man sheweth favour, and (note:)He shows what the fruit of mercy is, to lend freely and not for gain, and so to measure his doings that he may be able to help where need requires and not to bestow all on himself.(:note) lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

geneva@Psalms:112:6 @ Surely he shall neuer be moued: but the righteous shalbe had in euerlasting remembrance.

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:112:10 @ The wicked shall see [it], and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and (note:)The blessings of God on his children will cause the wicked to die for envy.(:note) melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

geneva@Psalms:113:6 @ Who abaseth himselfe to beholde things in the heauen and in the earth!

geneva@Psalms:114:2 @ Judah was his (note:)The whole people were witnesses to his holy majesty in adopting them, and of his mighty power in delivering them.(:note) sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.

geneva@Psalms:114:3 @ The Sea sawe it and fled: Iorden was turned backe.

geneva@Psalms:114:5 @ What ailed thee, O Sea, that thou fleddest? O Iorden, why wast thou turned backe?

geneva@Psalms:114:6 @ Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, and ye hils as lambes?

geneva@Psalms:115:2 @ Wherefore should the heathen say, (note:)When the wicked see that God does not always accomplish his promise as they imagined, they think there is no God.(:note) Where [is] now their God?

geneva@Psalms:115:3 @ But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath (note:)No impediments can slow his work, but he uses even the impediments to serve his will.(:note) pleased.

geneva@Psalms:115:4 @ Their idols [are] (note:)Seeing that neither the matter nor the form can commend their idols it follows that there is no reason that they should be esteemed.(:note) silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

geneva@Psalms:115:7 @ They have (note:)He shows what great vanity it is to ask help from them who not only have no help in them, but lack sense and reason.(:note) hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

geneva@Psalms:115:8 @ They that make them are (note:)As much without sense as blocks and stones.(:note) like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

geneva@Psalms:115:14 @ The Lord will increase his graces towarde you, euen toward you and toward your children.

geneva@Psalms:116:1 @ I (note:)He grants that no pleasure is so great as to feel God's help in our need, neither that anything more stirs up our love toward him.(:note) love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications.

geneva@Psalms:116:2 @ Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon [him] (note:)That is in convenient time to seek help, which was when he was in distress.(:note) as long as I live.

geneva@Psalms:116:3 @ When the snares of death copassed me, and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I founde trouble and sorowe.

geneva@Psalms:116:6 @ The Lorde preserueth the simple: I was in miserie and he saued me.

geneva@Psalms:116:7 @ Return unto thy rest, O (note:)Which was disturbed before, now rest on the Lord, for he has been beneficial towards you.(:note) my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

geneva@Psalms:116:8 @ Because thou hast deliuered my soule from death, mine eyes from teares, and my feete from falling.

geneva@Psalms:116:11 @ I said in my (note:)In my great distress I thought God would not regard man, who is but lies and vanity, yet I overcame this temptation and felt the contrary.(:note) haste, All men [are] liars.

geneva@Psalms:116:15 @ Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the (note:)I perceive that God has a care over his, so that he both disposes their death, and takes an account.(:note) death of his saints.

geneva@Psalms:116:16 @ Beholde, Lord: for I am thy seruant, I am thy seruant, and the sonne of thine handmaide: thou hast broken my bondes.

geneva@Psalms:118:6 @ The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can (note:)Being exalted to this estate, he assured himself to have man ever to be his enemy. Yet he did not doubt that God would maintain him, because he had placed him.(:note) man do unto me?

geneva@Psalms:118:10 @ All nations haue compassed me: but in the Name of the Lord shall I destroy them.

geneva@Psalms:118:11 @ They haue compassed mee, yea, they haue compassed mee: but in the Name of the Lorde I shall destroy them.

geneva@Psalms:118:12 @ They came about mee like bees, but they were quenched as a fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them.

geneva@Psalms:118:14 @ The LORD [is] my strength and (note:)In that he was delivered, it came not from himself, not from the power of man, but only from God's favour, therefore he will praise him.(:note) song, and is become my salvation.

geneva@Psalms:118:15 @ The (note:)He promises both to render graces himself, and to cause others to do the same, because in his person the Church was restored.(:note) voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

geneva@Psalms:118:18 @ The Lorde hath chastened me sore, but he hath not deliuered me to death.

geneva@Psalms:118:21 @ I will praise thee: for thou hast heard mee, and hast beene my deliuerance.

geneva@Psalms:118:22 @ The stone [which] the builders (note:)Though Saul and the chief powers refused me to be king, yet God has preferred me above them all.(:note) refused is become the head [stone] of the corner.

geneva@Psalms:118:23 @ This was the Lordes doing, and it is marueilous in our eyes.

geneva@Psalms:118:24 @ This [is] the (note:)In which God has shown chiefly his mercy, by appointing me king and delivering his Church.(:note) day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

geneva@Psalms:118:25 @ Save now, I beseech thee, (note:)The people pray for the prosperity of David's kingdom, who was the figure of Christ.(:note) O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

geneva@Psalms:118:26 @ Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: (note:)Who are the priests, and have the charge of it, as in (Num_6:23).(:note) we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:118:27 @ God [is] the LORD, which hath shewed us (note:)Because he has restored us from darkness to light, we will offer sacrifices and praises to him.(:note) light: bind the sacrifice with cords, [even] unto the horns of the altar.

geneva@Psalms:119:4 @ Thou hast commaunded to keepe thy precepts diligently.

geneva@Psalms:119:11 @ Thy word have I (note:)If God's word is carved in our hearts, we will be more able to resist the assaults of Satan: and therefore the prophet desires God to instruct him daily more and more in it.(:note) hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

geneva@Psalms:119:14 @ I have (note:)The prophet does not boast of his virtues, but sets forth an example for others to follow God's word, and leave worldly vanities.(:note) rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.

geneva@Psalms:119:19 @ I [am] a (note:)Seeing man's life in this world is only a passage, what should become of him, if your word were not his guide?(:note) stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

geneva@Psalms:119:21 @ Thou (note:)In all ages you have plagued all such who maliciously and contemptuously depart from your truth.(:note) hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

geneva@Psalms:119:41 @ VAU. Let thy (note:)He shows that God's mercy and love is the first reason for our salvation.(:note) mercies come also unto me, O LORD, [even] thy salvation, according to thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:42 @ So shall I (note:)By trusting in God's word he assures himself to be able to confute the slanders of his adversaries.(:note) have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:46 @ I will speak of thy testimonies also before (note:)He shows that the children of God should not permit their fathers glory to be obscured by the vain pomp of princes.(:note) kings, and will not be ashamed.

geneva@Psalms:119:49 @ ZAIN. Remember (note:)Though he feels God's hand still lies on him, yet he rests on his promise, and comforts himself in it.(:note) the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

geneva@Psalms:119:60 @ I made haste and delaied not to keepe thy commandements.

geneva@Psalms:119:65 @ TETH. Thou hast dealt (note:)Having proved by experience that God was true in his promise, he desires that he would increase in him knowledge and judgment.(:note) well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:67 @ Before I was (note:)So Jeremiah says, that before the Lord touched him, he was like a calf untamed so that the use of God's rod is to call us home to God.(:note) afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:71 @ [It is] (note:)He confesses that before he was chastened he was rebellious as man by nature is.(:note) good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

geneva@Psalms:119:73 @ JOD. Thy hands have (note:)Because God does not leave his work that he has begun, he desires a new grace: that is, that he would continue his mercies.(:note) made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

geneva@Psalms:119:75 @ I knowe, O Lorde, that thy iudgements are right, and that thou hast afflicted me iustly.

geneva@Psalms:119:77 @ Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may (note:)He declares that when he did not feel God's mercies, he was as dead.(:note) live: for thy law [is] my delight.

geneva@Psalms:119:78 @ Let the proude be ashamed: for they haue dealt wickedly and falsely with me: but I meditate in thy precepts.

geneva@Psalms:119:80 @ Let mine heart bee vpright in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.

geneva@Psalms:119:86 @ All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; (note:)He assures himself that God will deliver his and destroy such as unjustly persecute them.(:note) help thou me.

geneva@Psalms:119:90 @ Thy trueth is from generation to generation: thou hast layed the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.

geneva@Psalms:119:93 @ I wil neuer forget thy precepts: for by them thou hast quickened me.

geneva@Psalms:119:96 @ I (note:)There is nothing so perfect in earth, but it has an end, only God's word lasts forever.(:note) have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.

geneva@Psalms:119:98 @ By thy commaundements thou hast made mee wiser then mine enemies: for they are euer with mee.

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

geneva@Psalms:119:111 @ Thy testimonies have I taken as an (note:)I esteemed no worldly things, but made your word my inheritance.(:note) heritage for ever: for they [are] the rejoicing of my heart.

geneva@Psalms:119:113 @ SAMECH. I hate (note:)Whoever will embrace God's word correctly must abhor all fantasies and imaginations both of himself and others.(:note) [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.

geneva@Psalms:119:118 @ Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their (note:)The crafty practises of them who contemn your law will be brought to nothing.(:note) deceit [is] falsehood.

geneva@Psalms:119:119 @ Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] (note:)Which infected your people, as dross does metal.(:note) dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

geneva@Psalms:119:124 @ Deal with thy (note:)He does not boast that he is God's servant, but by this reminds God that as he made him his by his grace, so he would continue his favour toward him.(:note) servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

geneva@Psalms:119:130 @ The entrance of thy (note:)The simple idiots that submit themselves to God have their eyes opened and their minds illuminated, as soon as they begin to read God's word.(:note) words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

geneva@Psalms:119:131 @ I opened my mouth, and (note:)My zeal toward your word was so great.(:note) panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

geneva@Psalms:119:132 @ Looke vpon mee and bee mercifull vnto me, as thou vsest to doe vnto those that loue thy Name.

geneva@Psalms:119:138 @ Thy testimonies [that] thou hast commanded [are] (note:)We cannot confess God to be righteous, unless we live uprightly and truly as he has commanded.(:note) righteous and very faithful.

geneva@Psalms:119:142 @ Thy righteousnesse is an euerlasting righteousnes, and thy Lawe is trueth.

geneva@Psalms:119:144 @ The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall (note:)So that the life of man without the knowledge of God is death.(:note) live.

geneva@Psalms:119:148 @ Mine eyes (note:)He was more earnest in the study of God's word, than they who kept the watch were in their charge.(:note) prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:158 @ I beheld the transgressors, and was (note:)My zeal consumed me when I saw their malice and contempt for your glory.(:note) grieved; because they kept not thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:161 @ SCHIN. Princes have (note:)The threatenings and persecutions of princes could not cause me to cease to confess you whom I fear more than men.(:note) persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:162 @ I reioyce at thy worde, as one that findeth a great spoyle.

geneva@Psalms:119:165 @ Great peace have they which (note:)For their conscience assures them that they please you, whereas they who do not love you have the contrary.(:note) love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

geneva@Psalms:119:166 @ LORD, I have (note:)He shows that we must first have faith before we can work and please God.(:note) hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

geneva@Psalms:119:168 @ I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: (note:)I had no respect for men, but set you always before my eyes as the judge of my doings.(:note) for all my ways [are] before thee.

geneva@Psalms:119:169 @ TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding (note:)As you have promised to be the schoolmaster to all who depend on you.(:note) according to thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:171 @ My lips shall (note:)The word means to pour forth continually.(:note) utter praise, when thou hast All his prayer and desire is to profit in the word of God. taught me thy statutes.

geneva@Psalms:119:176 @ I have (note:)Being chased to and fro by my enemies, and having no place to rest in.(:note) gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

geneva@Psalms:120:3 @ What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou (note:)He assured himself that God would turn their craft to their own destruction.(:note) false tongue?

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

geneva@Psalms:122:2 @ Our (note:)Which were wont to wander to and fro, as the ark moved.(:note) feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

geneva@Psalms:122:3 @ Jerusalem is builded as a city that is (note:)By the artificial joining and beauty of the houses, he means the peace and love that was between the citizens.(:note) compact together:

geneva@Psalms:123:2 @ Behold, as the eyes of (note:)He compares the condition of the godly, to servants who are destitute of all help, assuring that when all other help fails, God is always at hand and like himself.(:note) servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

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

geneva@Psalms:124:3 @ Then they had swallowed us up (note:)So unable were we to resist.(:note) quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

geneva@Psalms:124:4 @ Then the (note:)He uses proper similitudes to express the great danger that the Church was in, and out of which God miraculously delivered them.(:note) waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

geneva@Psalms:124:6 @ Praysed be the Lord, which hath not giuen vs as a praye vnto their teeth.

geneva@Psalms:124:7 @ Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the (note:)For the wicked not only furiously rage against the faithful, but craftily imagined to destroy them.(:note) snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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

geneva@Psalms:125:2 @ As the mountaines are about Ierusalem: so is the Lord about his people from henceforth and for euer.

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

geneva@Psalms:126:2 @ Then was our mouth (note:)He shows how the godly should rejoice when God gathers his Church or delivers it.(:note) filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the If the infidels confess God's wonderful work, the faithful can never show themselves sufficiently thankful. heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

geneva@Psalms:126:4 @ Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the (note:)It is no more impossible for God to deliver his people than to cause the rivers to run in the wilderness and barren places.(:note) streams in the south.

geneva@Psalms:126:6 @ He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing (note:)That is, seed which was scarce and dear: meaning, that they who trusted in God's promise to return had their desire.(:note) precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].

geneva@Psalms:127:2 @ [It is] vain for (note:)Who watch and ward and are also magistrates and rulers of the city.(:note) you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread Either that which is gained by hard labour, or eaten with grief of mind. of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved Not exempting them from labour, but making their labours comfortable and as it were a rest. sleep.

geneva@Psalms:127:4 @ As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] (note:)That is, endued with strength and virtues from God: for these are signs of God's blessings, and not the number.(:note) children of the youth.

geneva@Psalms:127:5 @ Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they (note:)Such children will be able to stop their adversaries mouths, when their godly life is maliciously accused before judges.(:note) shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

geneva@Psalms:128:3 @ Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy (note:)Because God's favour appears in no outward thing more than in the increase of children, he promises to enrich the faithful with this gift.(:note) children like olive plants round about thy table.

geneva@Psalms:128:5 @ The LORD shall (note:)Because of the spiritual blessing which God has made to his Church, these temporal things will be granted.(:note) bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of For unless God blessed his Church publicly, this private blessing was nothing. Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

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

geneva@Psalms:129:4 @ The LORD [is] (note:)Because God is righteous, he cannot but plague his adversary, and deliver his as oxen out of the plough.(:note) righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:129:5 @ They that hate Zion, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.

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

geneva@Psalms:131:2 @ Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a (note:)He was void of ambition and wicked desires.(:note) weaned child.

geneva@Psalms:132:3 @ Surely I (note:)Because the chief charge of the king was to set forth God's glory, he shows that he would take no rest, neither would he go about any worldly thing, were it never so necessary before he had executed his office.(:note) will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

geneva@Psalms:132:5 @ Until I find out a place for the (note:)That is, the ark, which was a sign of God's presence.(:note) LORD, an habitation for the mighty [God] of Jacob.

geneva@Psalms:132:6 @ Lo, we heard of it at (note:)The common instinct was that the ark should remain in Ephratah, that is, in Bethlehem a plentiful place: but later we perceived that you would place it in Jerusalem, which was barren as a forest and compassed about only with hills.(:note) Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

geneva@Psalms:132:10 @ For thy (note:)As you first made promise to David, so continue it to his posterity that whatever they ask for their people, it may be granted.(:note) servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

geneva@Psalms:132:12 @ If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for (note:)Because this cannot be accomplished but in Christ, it follows that the promise was spiritual.(:note) evermore.

geneva@Psalms:132:14 @ This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have (note:)Meaning, for his own sake and not for the plentifulness of the place: for he promises to bless it, declaring before that it was barren.(:note) desired it.

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

geneva@Psalms:133:2 @ [It is] like the precious (note:)The ointment was a figure of the graces which come from Christ the head of his Church.(:note) ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, [even] Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

geneva@Psalms:133:3 @ As the dew of (note:)By Hermon and Zion he means the plentiful country about Jerusalem.(:note) Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for Where there is such concord. there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:134:2 @ Lift up your (note:)For their charge was not only to keep the temple, but to pray there and to give God thanks.(:note) hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:134:3 @ The LORD that (note:)And therefore has all power, bless you with his fatherly love declared in Zion. Thus the Levites used to praise the Lord, and bless the people.(:note) made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

geneva@Psalms:135:4 @ For the LORD hath (note:)That is, has freely loved the posterity of Abraham.(:note) chosen Jacob unto himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar treasure.

geneva@Psalms:135:6 @ Whatsoever the LORD pleased, [that] (note:)He joined God's power with his will, to the intent that we should not separate them and by this he wills God's people to depend on his power which he confirms by examples.(:note) did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

geneva@Psalms:135:7 @ He bringeth vp the cloudes fro the ends of the earth, & maketh the lightnings with ye raine: he draweth foorth the winde out of his treasures.

geneva@Psalms:135:8 @ He smote the first borne of Egypt both of man and beast.

geneva@Psalms:135:11 @ As Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og King of Bashan, & all the kingdomes of Canaan:

geneva@Psalms:136:1 @ O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his (note:)By this repetition he shows that the least of God's benefits bind us to thanksgiving: but chiefly his mercy, which is principally declared towards his Church.(:note) mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:136:6 @ To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his (note:)This was a common kind of thanksgiving, which the whole people used, when they had received any benefit from God, as in (2Ch_7:6, 2Ch_20:21), meaning that God was not only merciful to their fathers, but also continued the same to their posterity.(:note) mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:136:8 @ As the sunne to rule the day: for his mercie endureth for euer:

geneva@Psalms:136:12 @ With a strong hand, and with a (note:)In doing such a work as was never done before, nor that any other could do.(:note) stretched out arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:136:14 @ And made Israel to passe through the mids of it: for his mercie endureth for euer:

geneva@Psalms:136:18 @ And slew (note:)Declaring by it that no power or authority was so dear to him as the love of his Church.(:note) famous kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

geneva@Psalms:136:19 @ As Sihon King of the Amorites: for his mercie endureth for euer:

geneva@Psalms:136:20 @ And Og the King of Bashan: for his mercie endureth for euer:

geneva@Psalms:136:25 @ Who giveth food to all (note:)Seeing that God provides even for the beasts much more has he care over his.(:note) flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:137:1 @ By the rivers of Babylon, there we (note:)That is, we abode a long time, and even though the country was pleasant, yet it could not stay our tears, nor turn us from the true service of our God.(:note) sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

geneva@Psalms:137:3 @ For there they that carried us away captive (note:)The Babylonians speak thus in mocking us, as though by our silence we should signify that we hoped no more in God.(:note) required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

geneva@Psalms:137:6 @ If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my (note:)The decay of God's religion in their country was so grievous that no joy could make them glad, unless it was restored.(:note) chief joy.

geneva@Psalms:137:7 @ Remember, O LORD, the children of (note:)As was prophesied in (Eze_25:13, Jer_49:7, Oba_1:10), showing that the Edomites who came from Esau, conspired with the Babylonians against their brethren and kinsfolk.(:note) Edom in the When you visited Jerusalem. day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.

geneva@Psalms:137:8 @ O daughter of Babel, worthy to be destroyed, blessed shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.

geneva@Psalms:138:2 @ I will worship toward thy holy (note:)Both the temple and ceremonial service at Christ's coming were abolished: so that now God will be worshipped only in spirit and truth, (Joh_4:23).(:note) temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

geneva@Psalms:138:8 @ The LORD will (note:)Though my enemies rage, yet the Lord, who has begun his work in me, will continue his grace to the end.(:note) perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

geneva@Psalms:139:1 @ To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me.

geneva@Psalms:139:3 @ Thou (note:)So that they are evidently known to you.(:note) compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

geneva@Psalms:139:5 @ Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine (note:)You so guide me with your hand, that I can turn no way, but where you appoint me.(:note) hand upon me.

geneva@Psalms:139:8 @ If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there.

geneva@Psalms:139:10 @ Even there shall thy hand (note:)Your power holds me so fast that there is no way I can escape from you.(:note) lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

geneva@Psalms:139:11 @ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be (note:)Though darkness is a hinderance to man's sight, yet is serves your eyes as well as the light.(:note) light about me.

geneva@Psalms:139:12 @ Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.

geneva@Psalms:139:13 @ For thou hast (note:)You have made me in all parts and therefore must know me.(:note) possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

geneva@Psalms:139:15 @ My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought (note:)That is, in my mother's womb: which he compares to the inward parts of the earth.(:note) in the lowest parts of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:139:16 @ Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; (note:)Seeing that you knew me before I was composed of either flesh or bone, much more now must you know me when you have fashioned me.(:note) and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.

geneva@Psalms:139:22 @ I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.

geneva@Psalms:139:24 @ And see if [there be any] (note:)Or any heinous or rebellious way: meaning that though he was subject to sin, yet he was not given to wickedness, and to provoke God by rebellion.(:note) wicked way in me, and lead me in the That is, continue your favour toward me to the end. way everlasting.

geneva@Psalms:140:7 @ O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou (note:)He calls to God with lively faith, being assured of his mercies, because he had before time proved, that God helped him ever in his dangers.(:note) hast covered my head in the day of battle.

geneva@Psalms:140:9 @ [As for] (note:)It seems that he alludes to Saul.(:note) the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

geneva@Psalms:140:10 @ Let burning coals fall upon them: (note:)That is by God, for David saw that they were reprobate and that there was no hope of repentance in them.(:note) let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

geneva@Psalms:141:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» LORD, I (note:)He shows that there is no other refuge in our necessity but only to flee to God for comfort of soul.(:note) cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:141:2 @ Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the (note:)He means his earnest zeal and gesture, which he used in prayer: alluding to the sacrifices which were by God's commandment offered in the old law.(:note) lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.

geneva@Psalms:141:4 @ Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their (note:)Let not their prosperity lure me to be wicked as they are.(:note) dainties.

geneva@Psalms:141:7 @ Our bones are scattered at the (note:)Here it appears that David was miraculously delivered out of many deaths as in (2Co_1:9-10).(:note) grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

geneva@Psalms:142:1 @ «Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.» I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I (note:)David's patience and constant prayer to God condemns their wicked rage, who in their troubles either despair and murmur against God, or else seek other than God, to have relief in their miseries.(:note) make my supplication.

geneva@Psalms:142:3 @ Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.

geneva@Psalms:142:4 @ I looked vpon my right hand, and beheld, but there was none that would knowe me: all refuge failed me, and none cared for my soule.

geneva@Psalms:142:7 @ Bring my soul out of (note:)For he was on all sides beset with his enemies as though he had been in a severe prison.(:note) prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall Either to rejoice at my wonderful deliverer, or to set a crown on my head. compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

geneva@Psalms:143:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: (note:)That is, as you have promised to be faithful in your promise to all who trust in you.(:note) in thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy That is, according to your free goodness, by which you defend your own. righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:143:2 @ And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy (note:)He know that his afflictions were God's messengers to call him to repentance for his sins, though toward his enemies he was innocent, and in God's sight all men are sinners.(:note) sight shall no man living be justified.

geneva@Psalms:143:3 @ For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been (note:)He acknowledges that God is the only and true physician and heal him: and that he is able to raise him to life, though he were dead long ago, and turned to ashes.(:note) long dead.

geneva@Psalms:143:4 @ Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my (note:)So that only by faith and by the grace of God's Spirit was he upheld.(:note) heart within me is desolate.

geneva@Psalms:143:6 @ I stretch forth mine hands vnto thee: my soule desireth after thee, as the thirstie land. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:143:8 @ Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the (note:)That is, speedily and in due season.(:note) morning; for in thee do I trust: Let your Holy Spirit counsel me how to come forth from these great cares and troubles. cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

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@Psalms:144:2 @ My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who (note:)He confesses that neither by his own authority, power or policy was his kingdom quiet, but by the secret grace of God.(:note) subdueth my people under me.

geneva@Psalms:144:7 @ Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great (note:)That is, deliver me from the tumults of they who should be my people but are corrupt in their judgment and enterprises, as though they were strangers.(:note) waters, from the hand of strange children;

geneva@Psalms:144:9 @ I will sing a (note:)That is, a rare and excellent song, as your great benefits deserve.(:note) new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

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

geneva@Psalms:144:14 @ [That] our (note:)He attributes not only the great conveniences, but even the least also to God's favour.(:note) oxen [may be] strong to labour; [that there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.

geneva@Psalms:144:15 @ Happy [is that] people, that is (note:)And if God does not give to all his children all these blessings, yet he replaces them with better things.(:note) in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:145:1 @ «David's [Psalm] of praise.» (note:)He shows which sacrifices are pleasant and acceptable to God, even praise and thanksgiving and seeing that God still continues his benefits toward us, we ought never to be weary in praising him for the same.(:note) I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

geneva@Psalms:145:4 @ One generation shall praise thy works to (note:)Even as the reason for man's creation and his preservation in this life is to praise God, therefore he requires that not only we ourselves do this, but cause all others to do the same.(:note) another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

geneva@Psalms:145:8 @ The LORD [is] gracious, and full of (note:)He describes after what sort God shows himself to all his creatures though our sins have provoked his vengeance against all: that is, merciful not only in pardoning the sins of his elect, but in doing good even to the reprobate, although they cannot feel the sweet comfort of the same.(:note) compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

geneva@Psalms:145:13 @ Thy kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages.

geneva@Psalms:145:15 @ The eyes of (note:)That is, as well of man as of beast.(:note) all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

geneva@Psalms:145:16 @ Thou openest thine hand, and fillest all things liuing of thy good pleasure.

geneva@Psalms:145:19 @ He will fulfil the (note:)For they will ask or wish for nothing, but according to his will, (1Jo_5:14).(:note) desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

geneva@Psalms:146:2 @ I will prayse the Lorde during my life: as long as I haue any being, I wil sing vnto my God.

geneva@Psalms:146:4 @ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his (note:)As their vain opinions, by which they flattered themselves and so imagined wicked enterprises.(:note) thoughts perish.

geneva@Psalms:146:6 @ Which made (note:)He encourages the godly to trust only in the Lord, both in his power's ability to deliver them from all danger, and for his promise sake, as his will is most ready to do it.(:note) heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever:

geneva@Psalms:146:10 @ The LORD shall (note:)He assures the Church that God reigns forever for the preservation of the same.(:note) reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:147:1 @ Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our God; for [it is] (note:)He shows in which we ought to exercise ourselves continually, and to take our pastime: that is, in praising God.(:note) pleasant; [and] praise is comely.

geneva@Psalms:147:2 @ The LORD doth build up (note:)Because the Lord is the founder of the Church, it cannot be destroyed, though the members of it are dispersed and seem as it were for a time to be cut off.(:note) Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:147:4 @ He (note:)Though it seems incredible to man, that God should assemble his Church, being so dispersed, yet nothing can be too hard to him that can number and name all the stars.(:note) telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names.

geneva@Psalms:147:6 @ The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the (note:)For the more high that the wicked climb the greater is their fall in the end.(:note) ground.

geneva@Psalms:147:8 @ Who (note:)He shows by the example of God's mighty power, goodness, and wisdom, that he can never lack just opportunity to praise God.(:note) covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

geneva@Psalms:147:9 @ He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which (note:)For their crying is as it were a confession of their need, which cannot be relieved, but by God alone, then if God show himself mindful of the most contemptible souls, can he suffer them to die with famine, whom he has assured of life everlasting?(:note) cry.

geneva@Psalms:147:10 @ He delighteth not in the (note:)Though to use lawful means is both profitable and pleases God, yet to put our trust in them is to defraud God of his honour.(:note) strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

geneva@Psalms:147:15 @ He sendeth forth his (note:)His secret working in all creatures is as a command to keep them in order and to give them moving and force.(:note) commandment [upon] earth: his word runneth very For immediately and without resisting all things obey him. swiftly.

geneva@Psalms:147:16 @ He giueth snowe like wooll, and scattereth the hoare frost like ashes.

geneva@Psalms:147:17 @ He casteth foorth his yce like morsels: who can abide the colde thereof?

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

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

geneva@Psalms:148:3 @ Praise ye him, (note:)In that God's glory shines in these insensible creatures, this their beauty is as a continual praising of God.(:note) sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

geneva@Psalms:148:6 @ And he hath established them for euer and euer: he hath made an ordinance, which shall not passe.

geneva@Psalms:148:7 @ Praise the LORD from the earth, ye (note:)Meaning the great and monstrous fishes, as whales and such like.(:note) dragons, and all deeps:

geneva@Psalms:148:10 @ Beasts and all cattell, creeping things and fethered foules:

geneva@Psalms:148:14 @ He also exalteth the (note:)That is, the dignity, power and glory of his Church.(:note) horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; [even] of the By reason of his covenant made with Abraham. children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:149:2 @ Let Israel rejoice in him that (note:)In that they were preferred before all other nations, it was a new creation, and therefore (Psa_95:7) they were called the sheep of God's hands.(:note) made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their For God as he is the creator of the soul and body, so will he that both two serve him, and that his people be continually subject to him, as to their most lawful king. King.

geneva@Psalms:149:4 @ For the Lorde hath pleasure in his people: he will make the meeke glorious by deliuerance.

geneva@Psalms:150:6 @ Let every thing that hath (note:)He shows that all the order of nature is bound to this duty, and much more God's children, who ought never to cease to praise him, till they are gathered into that kingdom, which he has prepared for his, where they will sing everlasting praise.(:note) breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:1:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; (note:)The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is declared in this book: for as much as the sum and effect of the whole Scriptures is here set forth in these brief sentences, which partly contain doctrine, and partly manners, and also exhortations to both: of which the first nine Chapters are as a preface full of grave sentences and deep mysteries, to assure the hearts of men to the diligent reading of the parables that follow: which are left as a precious jewel to the Church, of those three thousand parables mentioned in (1Ki_4:32) and were gathered and committed to writing by Solomon's servants and incited by him.(:note)

geneva@Proverbs:1:4 @ To give subtilty to the (note:)To such as have no discretion to rule themselves.(:note) simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

geneva@Proverbs:1:5 @ A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of (note:)As he shows that these parables containing the effect of religion concerning manners and doctrine, belong to the simple people: so he declares that the same is also necessary for them who are wise and learned.(:note) understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

geneva@Proverbs:1:8 @ My son, hear the instruction of thy (note:)He speaks this in the Name of God, who is the universal Father of all creatures, or in the name of the pastor of the Church, who is as a father.(:note) father, and forsake not the law of thy That is, of the Church, in which the faithful are begotten by the incorruptible seed of God's word. mother:

geneva@Proverbs:1:9 @ For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.

geneva@Proverbs:1:12 @ Let us swallow them up alive as the (note:)As the grave is never satisfied, so the malice of the wicked and their cruelty has no end.(:note) grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

geneva@Proverbs:1:14 @ Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one (note:)He shows how the wicked are allured to join together, because they have everyone part of the spoil of the innocent.(:note) purse:

geneva@Proverbs:1:16 @ For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

geneva@Proverbs:1:17 @ Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

geneva@Proverbs:1:18 @ And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for (note:)He shows that there is no reason to move these wicked to spoil the innocent, aside from their malice and cruelty.(:note) their [own] lives.

geneva@Proverbs:1:21 @ She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,

geneva@Proverbs:1:27 @ When (note:)That is, your destruction, which you feared.(:note) your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

geneva@Proverbs:1:28 @ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not (note:)Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief.(:note) find me:

geneva@Proverbs:2:4 @ If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid (note:)Showing that no labour must be spared.(:note) treasures;

geneva@Proverbs:2:13 @ Who leave the (note:)That is, the word of God, which is the only light, to follow their own fantasies which are darkness.(:note) paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

geneva@Proverbs:2:14 @ Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight (note:)When they see any given to evil as they are.(:note) in the frowardness of the wicked;

geneva@Proverbs:2:21 @ For the upright shall dwell in the (note:)They will enjoy the temporal and spiritual promises of God, as the wicked will be void of them.(:note) land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

geneva@Proverbs:3:2 @ For length of (note:)Long life is the blessing of God which he gives to his, so far as it is expedient for them.(:note) days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

geneva@Proverbs:3:3 @ Let not (note:)By mercy and truth he means the commandments of the first and second table, or else the mercy and faithfulness that we ought to use toward our neighbours.(:note) mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy Keep them as a precious jewel. neck; write them upon the table of thine Have them ever in remembrance. heart:

geneva@Proverbs:3:8 @ It shall be health to thy (note:)By this part he comprehends the whole body, as by health he means all the benefits promised in the law both corporal and spiritual.(:note) navel, and marrow to thy bones.

geneva@Proverbs:3:11 @ My sonne, refuse not the chastening of the Lord, neither be grieued with his correction.

geneva@Proverbs:3:12 @ For the Lord correcteth him, whome he loueth, euen as the father doeth the childe in whom he deliteth.

geneva@Proverbs:3:17 @ Her wayes are wayes of pleasure, and all her pathes prosperitie.

geneva@Proverbs:3:19 @ The LORD by wisdom hath (note:)By this he shows that this wisdom of which he speaks is everlasting, because it was before all creatures and that all things even the whole world were made by it.(:note) founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

geneva@Proverbs:3:26 @ For the Lorde shall be for thine assurance, and shall preserue thy foote from taking.

geneva@Proverbs:4:1 @ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a (note:)He speaks this as a preacher and minister which is as a father to the people, (Pro_2:8).(:note) father, and attend to know understanding.

geneva@Proverbs:4:3 @ For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

geneva@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have (note:)Solomon declares what care his father had to bring him up in the true fear of God: for this was David's protest.(:note) taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

geneva@Proverbs:4:15 @ Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

geneva@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that (note:)Signifying that the godly increase daily in knowledge and perfection, till they come to full persecution, which is when the are joined to their head in the heavens.(:note) shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

geneva@Proverbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

geneva@Proverbs:4:23 @ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of (note:)For as the heart is either pure or corrupt, so is the whole course of man's life.(:note) life.

geneva@Proverbs:5:3 @ For the lips (note:)That is, a harlot who gives herself to someone other than her husband.(:note) of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than By oil and honey he means flattering and crafty enticements. oil:

geneva@Proverbs:5:4 @ But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

geneva@Proverbs:5:6 @ Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are (note:)She has always new means to allure to wickedness.(:note) moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

geneva@Proverbs:5:9 @ Lest thou give thine (note:)That is, your strength and goods to her who will have no pity on you as is read of Samson and the prodigal son.(:note) honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

geneva@Proverbs:5:11 @ And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

geneva@Proverbs:5:14 @ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and (note:)Although I was faithfully instructed in the truth, yet I almost fell to utter shame and destruction nonetheless, by good bringing up in the assembly of the godly.(:note) assembly.

geneva@Proverbs:5:19 @ Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

geneva@Proverbs:5:23 @ He shall (note:)Because he will not give ear to God's word and be admonished.(:note) die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

geneva@Proverbs:6:1 @ My sonne, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, and hast striken hands with the stranger,

geneva@Proverbs:6:5 @ Deliuer thy selfe as a doe from the hande of the hunter, and as a birde from the hande of the fouler.

geneva@Proverbs:6:11 @ So shall thy poverty come as one that (note:)That is, suddenly, and when you do not look for it.(:note) travelleth, and thy want as It will come in such sort, as you are not able to resist it. an armed man.

geneva@Proverbs:6:30 @ [Men] do not (note:)He does not reprove theft, showing that it is not as abominable as whoredom, for theft can be restored, but adultery is permanent, and death by the law of God.(:note) despise a thief, if he stealeth to satisfy his Meaning, for necessity. soul when he is hungry;

geneva@Proverbs:6:34 @ For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not (note:)He shows that man by nature seeks the death of he that has abused his wife, and so concludes that neither God's law nor the law of nature admits any ransom for the adultery.(:note) spare in the day of vengeance.

geneva@Proverbs:7:2 @ Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the (note:)By this diversity of words, he means that nothing should be so dear to us as the word of God, nor that we look on anything more nor mind anything so much.(:note) apple of thy eye.

geneva@Proverbs:7:8 @ Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

geneva@Proverbs:7:9 @ In the twilight, in the evening, in the (note:)He shows that there was almost no one so impudent that they were not afraid to be seen, their consciences accusing them and causing them to seek the night to cover their filthiness.(:note) black and dark night:

geneva@Proverbs:7:14 @ [I have] (note:)Because in peace offerings a portion is returned to them that offered, she shows him that she has meat at home to make good cheer with or else she would use some cloak of holiness till she had gotten him in her snares.(:note) peace offerings with me; this Which declares that harlots outwardly will seem holy and religious: both because they may better deceive others, and also thinking to observe ceremonies and offerings to make satisfaction for their sins. day have I paid my vows.

geneva@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.

geneva@Proverbs:7:22 @ He goeth after her quickly, as an (note:)Which thinking he goes to the pasture goes willingly to his own destruction.(:note) ox goeth to the slaughter, or Who goes cheerfully, not knowing that he will be chastised. as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

geneva@Proverbs:7:23 @ Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.

geneva@Proverbs:7:26 @ For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many (note:)Neither wit nor strength can deliver them who fall into the hands of the harlot.(:note) strong [men] have been slain by her.

geneva@Proverbs:8:3 @ She crieth at (note:)Where the people resorted most and which was the place of justice.(:note) the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors.

geneva@Proverbs:8:9 @ They [are] all (note:)Meaning that the word of God is easy to all that have a desire for it and are not blinded by the prince of this world.(:note) plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

geneva@Proverbs:8:11 @ For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.

geneva@Proverbs:8:12 @ I wisdom dwell with (note:)That is, unless a man has wisdom, which is the true knowledge of God, he can be neither a prudent nor good counsellor.(:note) prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion.

geneva@Proverbs:8:18 @ Riches and honour [are] with me; (note:)Signifying that he chiefly means the spiritual treasures and heavenly riches.(:note) durable riches and righteousness.

geneva@Proverbs:8:21 @ That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.

geneva@Proverbs:8:22 @ The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, (note:)He declares by this the divinity and eternity of this wisdom, which he magnifies and praises through this book: meaning by this the eternal Son of God, Jesus Christ our Saviour, whom John calls the Word that was in the beginning (Joh_1:1).(:note) before his works of old.

geneva@Proverbs:8:24 @ When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

geneva@Proverbs:8:25 @ Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.

geneva@Proverbs:8:27 @ When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.

geneva@Proverbs:8:29 @ When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commaundement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,

geneva@Proverbs:8:30 @ Then I was by him, (note:)Some read, a chief worker signifying that this wisdom, Christ Jesus, was equal with God his father, and created, preserves and still works with him, as in (Joh_5:17).(:note) [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;

geneva@Proverbs:9:1 @ Wisdom hath built her (note:)Christ has prepared him a Church.(:note) house, she hath hewn out her That is, many chief supports and principal parts of his Church, as were the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, pastors and teachers. seven pillars:

geneva@Proverbs:9:2 @ She hath killed her beasts; she hath mixed her wine; she hath also (note:)He compares wisdom with great princes who keep open house for all who come.(:note) furnished her table.

geneva@Proverbs:9:4 @ Whoever [is] (note:)He who knows his own ignorance, and is void of malice.(:note) simple, let him turn in here: [as for] him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him,

geneva@Proverbs:9:9 @ Giue admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teache a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

geneva@Proverbs:9:13 @ A (note:)By the foolish woman, some understand the wicked preachers, who counterfeit the word of God: as appears in (Pro_9:16) which were the words of the true preachers as in (Pro_9:4) but their doctrine is as stolen waters: meaning that they are men's traditions, which are more pleasant to the flesh than the word of God, and therefore they themselves boast of it.(:note) foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

geneva@Proverbs:9:15 @ To call them that passe by the way, that go right on their way, saying,

geneva@Proverbs:9:17 @ Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.

geneva@Proverbs:10:2 @ Treasures of (note:)That is, wickedly gotten.(:note) wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

geneva@Proverbs:10:3 @ The LORD will (note:)Though he permits the just to want for a time, yet he will send him comfort in due season.(:note) not allow the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

geneva@Proverbs:10:6 @ Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of (note:)When their wickedness is discovered, they will be as dumb and not know what to say.(:note) the wicked.

geneva@Proverbs:10:10 @ He that (note:)That bears a fair countenance and imagines mischief in his heart, as in (Pro_6:13).(:note) winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a For the corruption of his heart is known by his talk. prating fool shall fall.

geneva@Proverbs:10:12 @ Hatred stirreth vp contentions: but loue couereth all trespasses.

geneva@Proverbs:10:20 @ The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth.

geneva@Proverbs:10:22 @ The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth (note:)Meaning that all worldly things bring care and sorrow, where as they who feel the blessings of God have none.(:note) no sorrow with it.

geneva@Proverbs:10:23 @ It is as a pastime to a foole to doe wickedly: but wisedome is vnderstanding to a man.

geneva@Proverbs:10:25 @ As the whirlewinde passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is as an euerlasting foundation.

geneva@Proverbs:10:26 @ As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so [is] the sluggard to them that (note:)He is trouble and grief to him about any business.(:note) send him.

geneva@Proverbs:10:30 @ The righteous shall (note:)They enjoy in this life by faith and hope, their everlasting life.(:note) never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

geneva@Proverbs:11:1 @ A false (note:)Under this word he condemns all false weights, measures and deceit.(:note) balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.

geneva@Proverbs:11:13 @ Hee that goeth about as a slanderer, discouereth a secret: but hee that is of a faithfull heart concealeth a matter.

geneva@Proverbs:11:15 @ He that is surety for a (note:)He who does not without judgment and consideration of the circumstances put himself in danger, as in (Pro_6:1).(:note) stranger shall smart [for it]: and he He who does not co-sign loans for others is very wise. that hateth suretiship is secure.

geneva@Proverbs:11:19 @ As righteousnes leadeth to life: so hee that followeth euill, seeketh his owne death.

geneva@Proverbs:11:22 @ As a iewell of golde in a swines snoute: so is a faire woman, which lacketh discretion.

geneva@Proverbs:11:24 @ There is that scattereth, (note:)Meaning they who give liberally, whom God blesses.(:note) and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more That is, the miser. than is right, but [it tendeth] to poverty.

geneva@Proverbs:11:28 @ He that trusteth in his riches, shall fall: but the righteous shall florish as a leafe.

geneva@Proverbs:11:31 @ Behold, the righteous shall be (note:)Will be punished as he deserves, (1Pe_4:18).(:note) recompensed upon the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

geneva@Proverbs:12:4 @ A vertuous woman is the crowne of her husband: but she that maketh him ashamed, is as corruption in his bones.

geneva@Proverbs:12:6 @ The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall (note:)As their conscience is upright, so will they be able to speak for themselves against their accusers.(:note) deliver them.

geneva@Proverbs:12:10 @ A righteous [man] (note:)Is merciful, even to the very beast who does him service.(:note) regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.

geneva@Proverbs:12:25 @ Heaviness in the heart of man weigheth it down: but a (note:)That is, words of comfort, or a cheerful mind which is declared by his words, rejoices a man, as a covetous mind kills him.(:note) good word maketh it glad.

geneva@Proverbs:12:27 @ The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he (note:)Although he gets much by unlawful means, yet he will not spend it on himself.(:note) took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious.

geneva@Proverbs:13:10 @ Only by pride (note:)When as every man contends to have preeminence, and will not give place to another.(:note) cometh contention: but with the well advised [is] wisdom.

geneva@Proverbs:13:12 @ The hope that is deferred, is the fainting of the heart: but when the desire commeth, it is as a tree of life.

geneva@Proverbs:13:14 @ The instruction of a wise man is as the welspring of life, to turne away from the snares of death.

geneva@Proverbs:13:17 @ A wicked messenger falleth (note:)Brings many inconveniences both to himself and to others.(:note) into mischief: but a faithful ambassador [is] health.

geneva@Proverbs:13:20 @ He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be (note:)As he is partaker of their wickedness, and bears with their vices, so will he be punished alike as they are.(:note) destroyed.

geneva@Proverbs:13:24 @ He that spareth his rodde, hateth his sonne: but he that loueth him, chasteneth him betime.

geneva@Proverbs:14:4 @ Where no (note:)By the ox is meant labour, and by the crib the barn, meaning, without labour there is no profit.(:note) oxen [are], the crib [is] clean: but much increase [is] by the strength of the ox.

geneva@Proverbs:14:5 @ A faithful witness will not lie: but (note:)For the maintenance of his own ambition, and not for God's glory, as Simon Magus.(:note) a false witness will utter lies.

geneva@Proverbs:14:6 @ A scorner seeketh wisdome, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easie to him that will vnderstande.

geneva@Proverbs:14:10 @ The heart knoweth its own (note:)As a man's conscience is witness to his own grief, so another cannot feel the joy and comfort which a man feels in himself.(:note) bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

geneva@Proverbs:14:17 @ He that is hastie to anger, committeth follie, and a busie body is hated.

geneva@Proverbs:14:19 @ The evil bow before the good; and the wicked (note:)If this come not daily to pass, we must consider that it is because of our sins, which hinder God's workings.(:note) at the gates of the righteous.

geneva@Proverbs:14:26 @ In the feare of the Lorde is an assured strength, and his children shall haue hope.

geneva@Proverbs:14:27 @ The feare of the Lorde is as a welspring of life, to auoyde the snares of death.

geneva@Proverbs:14:29 @ He that is slowe to wrath, is of great wisdome: but he that is of an hastie minde, exalteth follie.

geneva@Proverbs:14:32 @ The wicked shall be cast away for his malice: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

geneva@Proverbs:14:33 @ Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] (note:)Forasmuch as they are convicted by it, and silenced.(:note) in the midst of fools is made known.

geneva@Proverbs:14:35 @ The pleasure of a King is in a wise seruant: but his wrath shalbe toward him that is lewde.

geneva@Proverbs:15:4 @ A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

geneva@Proverbs:15:6 @ In the house of the righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is (note:)For though they have much yet it is full of trouble and care.(:note) trouble.

geneva@Proverbs:15:15 @ All the dayes of the afflicted are euill: but a good conscience is a continuall feast.

geneva@Proverbs:15:16 @ Better is a litle with the feare of the Lord, then great treasure, and trouble therewith.

geneva@Proverbs:15:18 @ An angrie man stirreth vp strife: but hee that is slowe to wrath, appeaseth strife.

geneva@Proverbs:15:19 @ The way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of (note:)That is, he always finds some hinderance or stay, and dares not go forward.(:note) thorns: but the way of the righteous [is] made plain.

geneva@Proverbs:15:23 @ A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] (note:)If we will that our talk be comfortable, we must wait for time and season.(:note) in due season, how good [it is]!

geneva@Proverbs:15:26 @ The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] (note:)That is, wholesome and profitable to the hearers.(:note) pleasant words.

geneva@Proverbs:16:1 @ The (note:)He derides the presumption of man, who dares to attribute anything to himself, as to prepare his heart or such like, seeing that he is not able to speak a word unless God gives it to him.(:note) preparations of the heart belong to man, and the answer of the tongue, [are] from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:16:7 @ When the wayes of a man please the Lord, he will make also his enemies at peace with him.

geneva@Proverbs:16:10 @ A diuine sentence shalbe in the lips of the King: his mouth shall not trasgresse in iudgement.

geneva@Proverbs:16:14 @ The wrath of a king [is as] (note:)That is, he finds many ways to execute his wrath.(:note) messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

geneva@Proverbs:16:15 @ In the light of a king's countenance [is] life; and his favour [is] (note:)Which is most comfortable to the dry ground.(:note) as a cloud of the latter rain.

geneva@Proverbs:16:21 @ The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the (note:)The sweet words of consolation which come from a godly heart.(:note) sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

geneva@Proverbs:16:24 @ Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.

geneva@Proverbs:16:27 @ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a (note:)For he consumes himself and others.(:note) burning fire.

geneva@Proverbs:16:33 @ The lot is cast into the lap; but its whole disposing [is] (note:)So that there is nothing that ought to be attributed to fortune: for all things are determined in the counsel of God which will come to pass.(:note) from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:17:1 @ Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than an house full of (note:)For where there were many sacrifices, there were many portions given to the people, with which they feasted.(:note) sacrifices [with] strife.

geneva@Proverbs:17:3 @ As is the fining pot for siluer, and the fornace for golde, so the Lord trieth the heartes.

geneva@Proverbs:17:8 @ A bribe [is as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: wherever it (note:)The reward has great force to gain the hearts of men.(:note) turneth, it prospereth.

geneva@Proverbs:17:11 @ An evil [man] seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel (note:)By the messenger is meant such means as God uses to punish the rebels.(:note) messenger shall be sent against him.

geneva@Proverbs:17:12 @ Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than (note:)By which he means the wicked in his rage, who has no fear of God.(:note) a fool in his folly.

geneva@Proverbs:17:14 @ The beginning of strife is as one that openeth the waters: therefore or the contention be medled with, leaue off.

geneva@Proverbs:18:3 @ When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also (note:)Meaning, such a one as condemns all others.(:note) contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

geneva@Proverbs:18:4 @ The words of a man's mouth [are as] deep (note:)Which can never be drawn empty, but always bring profit.(:note) waters, [and] the wellspring of wisdom [as] a flowing brook.

geneva@Proverbs:18:8 @ The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the (note:)They are soon believed and enter most deeply.(:note) innermost parts of the belly.

geneva@Proverbs:18:9 @ He also that is slouthfull in his worke, is euen the brother of him that is a great waster.

geneva@Proverbs:18:11 @ The rich mans riches are his strong citie: and as an hie wall in his imagination.

geneva@Proverbs:18:18 @ The lot (note:)If a controversy cannot otherwise be decided, it is best to cast lots to know whose the thing will be.(:note) causeth contentions to cease, and Appeases their controversy, who are so stout that they cannot otherwise be pacified. parteth between the mighty.

geneva@Proverbs:18:19 @ A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city: and [their] contentions [are] like the (note:)Which for the strength of it will not bow or yield.(:note) bars of a castle.

geneva@Proverbs:18:20 @ With the fruite of a mans mouth shall his belly be satisfied, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

geneva@Proverbs:18:22 @ [Whoever] findeth a (note:)He who is joined with a virtuous woman in marriage is blessed by the Lord, as in (Pro_19:14).(:note) wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour from the LORD.

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:19:2 @ For without knowledge the minde is not good, and he that hasteth with his feete, sinneth.

geneva@Proverbs:19:11 @ The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory (note:)That is, to cover it by charity, and to do in it as may most serve to God's glory.(:note) to pass over a transgression.

geneva@Proverbs:19:12 @ The Kings wrath is like the roaring of a lyon: but his fauour is like the dewe vpon ye grasse.

geneva@Proverbs:19:13 @ A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual (note:)As rain that drops and rots the house.(:note) dropping.

geneva@Proverbs:19:15 @ Slouthfulnes causeth to fall asleepe, and a deceitfull person shall be affamished.

geneva@Proverbs:19:18 @ Chasten thy sonne while there is hope, and let not thy soule spare for his murmuring.

geneva@Proverbs:19:26 @ He that destroyeth his father, or chaseth away his mother, is a lewde and shamefull childe.

geneva@Proverbs:19:28 @ An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked (note:)Takes a pleasure and delight in it, as gluttons and drunkards in delicate meats and drinks.(:note) devoureth iniquity.

geneva@Proverbs:20:2 @ The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoever] provoketh him to anger (note:)Puts his life in danger.(:note) sinneth [against] his own soul.

geneva@Proverbs:20:3 @ It is a mans honour to cease from strife: but euery foole will be medling.

geneva@Proverbs:20:5 @ Counsel in the heart of (note:)It is hard to find out: for it is as deep waters, whose bottom cannot be found: yet the wise man will know a man either by his words or manners.(:note) man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

geneva@Proverbs:20:6 @ Many men wil boast, euery one of his owne goodnes: but who can finde a faithfull man?

geneva@Proverbs:20:8 @ A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment (note:)Where righteous judgment is executed, there sin ceases, and vice dare not appear.(:note) scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

geneva@Proverbs:20:10 @ Differing weights, [and] differing measures, both of (note:)Read (Pro_16:11).(:note) them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:20:13 @ Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

geneva@Proverbs:20:14 @ It is naught, it is naught, sayth the buyer: but when he is gone apart, he boasteth.

geneva@Proverbs:20:16 @ Take his (note:)Teach him wit, that he cast not himself rashly into danger.(:note) garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

geneva@Proverbs:20:19 @ He that goeth about as a slanderer, discouereth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

geneva@Proverbs:20:21 @ An heritage is hastely gotten at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

geneva@Proverbs:20:25 @ [It is] a snare to the man [who] (note:)That is, to apply or take for his own use, that which was appointed to God's and then ask how he may be exempted from the fault.(:note) devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

geneva@Proverbs:20:26 @ A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the (note:)Which was a kind of punishment then used.(:note) wheel over them.

geneva@Proverbs:21:1 @ The (note:)Though kings seem to have all things at commandment, they are not able to bring their own purposes to pass unless God has appointed: much less are the inferiors able.(:note) king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it wherever he will.

geneva@Proverbs:21:4 @ An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the (note:)That is, the thing by which he is guided or which he brings forth as the fruit of his work.(:note) plowing of the wicked, [is] sin.

geneva@Proverbs:21:5 @ The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of (note:)He who goes rashly about his business and without counsel.(:note) every one [that is] hasty only to want.

geneva@Proverbs:21:6 @ The gathering of treasures by a deceitfull tongue is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.

geneva@Proverbs:21:7 @ The (note:)He means this chiefly of judges and princes who leave that calling, to which God has called them, and impoverish their subjects to maintain their lusts.(:note) robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

geneva@Proverbs:21:14 @ A (note:)To do a pleasure to the angry man pacifies him.(:note) gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

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:21:20 @ [There is] a treasure to be desired and (note:)Meaning, abundance of all things.(:note) oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

geneva@Proverbs:21:22 @ A (note:)Wisdom overcomes strength and confidence in worldly things.(:note) wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of its confidence.

geneva@Proverbs:21:28 @ A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth (note:)He may boldly testify the truth that he has heard.(:note) speaketh constantly.

geneva@Proverbs:22:3 @ A prudent [man] (note:)That is, the punishment, which is prepared for the wicked and flees to God for help.(:note) foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

geneva@Proverbs:22:10 @ Cast out the scorner, and strife shal go out: so contention and reproche shall cease.

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:22:18 @ For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

geneva@Proverbs:22:21 @ That I might shewe thee the assurance of the wordes of trueth to answere the wordes of trueth to them that sende to thee?

geneva@Proverbs:22:25 @ Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.

geneva@Proverbs:22:26 @ Be not thou [one] of them that (note:)Who rashly put themselves in danger for others, as in (Pro_6:2).(:note) strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.

geneva@Proverbs:22:27 @ If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?

geneva@Proverbs:22:29 @ Thou seest that a diligent man in his businesse standeth before Kings, and standeth not before the base sort.

geneva@Proverbs:23:4 @ Labour not to be rich: cease from thy own (note:)Bestow not the gifts that God has given you, to get worldly riches.(:note) wisdom.

geneva@Proverbs:23:5 @ Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? For riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.

geneva@Proverbs:23:6 @ Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an (note:)That is, covetous, as contrary a good eye is taken for liberal as in (Pro_22:9).(:note) evil eye, neither desire thou his delicacies:

geneva@Proverbs:23:7 @ For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.

geneva@Proverbs:23:8 @ The (note:)He will not cease till he has done you some harm, and his flattering words will come to no use.(:note) morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

geneva@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.

geneva@Proverbs:23:28 @ She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, (note:)She seduces many and causes them to offend God.(:note) and increaseth the transgressors among men.

geneva@Proverbs:23:30 @ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go (note:)Who by art make wine stronger and more pleasant.(:note) to seek mixed wine.

geneva@Proverbs:23:31 @ Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.

geneva@Proverbs:23:34 @ And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the (note:)In such great danger will you be.(:note) sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

geneva@Proverbs:23:35 @ They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will (note:)Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then beasts, yet they can not refrain.(:note) seek it yet again.

geneva@Proverbs:24:4 @ And by knowledge shall the chambers bee filled with all precious, and pleasant riches.

geneva@Proverbs:24:5 @ A wise man is strong: for a man of vnderstanding encreaseth his strength.

geneva@Proverbs:24:10 @ [If] thou (note:)Man has no trial of his strength till he is in trouble.(:note) faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.

geneva@Proverbs:24:13 @ My son, eat thou (note:)As honey is sweet and pleasant to the taste, so wisdom is to the soul.(:note) honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:

geneva@Proverbs:24:18 @ Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath (note:)To be avenged on you.(:note) from him.

geneva@Proverbs:24:22 @ For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them (note:)Meaning, either of the wicked and seditious, as in (Pro_24:19, Pro_24:21) or of them who do not fear God or obey their king.(:note) both?

geneva@Proverbs:24:25 @ But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and vpon them shall come the blessing of goodnesse.

geneva@Proverbs:24:27 @ Prepare thy work outside, and make it fit for thyself in the field; (note:)Be sure of the means how to compass it, before you take any enterprise in hand.(:note) and afterwards build thy house.

geneva@Proverbs:24:29 @ Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I (note:)He shows what is the nature of the wicked, to revenge wrong for wrong.(:note) will render to the man according to his work.

geneva@Proverbs:24:30 @ I passed by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the man destitute of vnderstanding.

geneva@Proverbs:24:31 @ And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.

geneva@Proverbs:24:34 @ So thy pouertie commeth as one that traueileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.

geneva@Proverbs:25:3 @ The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of (note:)He shows that it is too hard for man to attain the reason of all the secret doings of the king, even when he is upright and does his duty.(:note) kings [is] unsearchable.

geneva@Proverbs:25:6 @ Boast not thy selfe before the King, and stand not in the place of great men.

geneva@Proverbs:25:8 @ Goe not foorth hastily to strife, least thou know not what to doe in the ende thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

geneva@Proverbs:25:12 @ He that reprooueth the wise, and the obedient eare, is as a golden earering and an ornament of fine golde.

geneva@Proverbs:25:13 @ As the cold of snow (note:)In the time of great heat, when men desire cold.(:note) in the time of harvest, [so is] a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

geneva@Proverbs:25:14 @ Whoever boasteth himself of a false gift [is like] (note:)Which have an outward appearance, and are nothing within.(:note) clouds and wind without rain.

geneva@Proverbs:25:15 @ By long (note:)By not creating opportunity to provoke him further.(:note) forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the That is, the heart that is bent to anger, as in (Pro_15:1). bone.

geneva@Proverbs:25:16 @ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is (note:)Use moderately the pleasures of this world.(:note) sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

geneva@Proverbs:25:17 @ Withdrawe thy foote from thy neighbours house, least he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

geneva@Proverbs:25:20 @ [As] he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon (note:)Which melts it, and consumes it.(:note) soda, so [is] he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

geneva@Proverbs:25:22 @ For thou shalt heap (note:)You will, as if by force, overcome him, in so much that his own conscience will move him to acknowledge the benefits, and his heart will be inflamed.(:note) coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

geneva@Proverbs:25:23 @ As the Northwinde driueth away the raine, so doeth an angry countenance the slandering tongue.

geneva@Proverbs:25:25 @ As are the colde waters to a weary soule, so is good newes from a farre countery.

geneva@Proverbs:26:1 @ As the snowe in the sommer, and as the raine in the haruest are not meete, so is honour vnseemely for a foole.

geneva@Proverbs:26:2 @ As the sparowe by flying, and the swallow by flying escape, so the curse that is causeles, shall not come.

geneva@Proverbs:26:3 @ Vnto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a bridle, and a rod to the fooles backe.

geneva@Proverbs:26:5 @ Answer a fool (note:)Reprove him as the matter requires.(:note) according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

geneva@Proverbs:26:7 @ As they that lift vp the legs of the lame, so is a parable in a fooles mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:26:8 @ As the closing vp of a precious stone in an heape of stones, so is he that giueth glory to a foole.

geneva@Proverbs:26:9 @ [As] a thorn goeth (note:)By which he hurts both himself and others.(:note) up into the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools.

geneva@Proverbs:26:11 @ As a dog turneth againe to his owne vomit, so a foole turneth to his foolishnes.

geneva@Proverbs:26:14 @ As the doore turneth vpon his hinges, so doeth the slouthfull man vpon his bed.

geneva@Proverbs:26:16 @ The sluggard is wiser in his owne conceite, then seuen men that can render a reason.

geneva@Proverbs:26:17 @ He that passeth by and medleth with the strife that belongeth not vnto him, is as one that taketh a dog by the eares.

geneva@Proverbs:26:18 @ As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,

geneva@Proverbs:26:20 @ Without wood the fire is quenched, and without a talebearer strife ceaseth.

geneva@Proverbs:26:21 @ As ye cole maketh burning coles, & wood a fire, so the contentious man is apt to kindle strife.

geneva@Proverbs:26:22 @ The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.

geneva@Proverbs:26:26 @ [Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be revealed before the [whole] (note:)In the assembly of the godly.(:note) congregation.

geneva@Proverbs:27:1 @ Boast not thyself of to (note:)Do not delay the time, but take the opportunity when it is offered.(:note) morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

geneva@Proverbs:27:8 @ As a bird that wandreth from her nest, so is a man that wandreth from his owne place.

geneva@Proverbs:27:9 @ As oyntment and perfume reioyce the heart, so doeth the sweetenes of a mans friend by hearty counsell.

geneva@Proverbs:27:14 @ He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising (note:)Hastily and without cause.(:note) early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

geneva@Proverbs:27:16 @ He that hideth her, hideth the winde, & she is as ye oyle in his right hand, that vttereth it selfe.

geneva@Proverbs:27:17 @ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a (note:)One hasty man provokes another to anger.(:note) man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

geneva@Proverbs:27:18 @ He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eate the fruite thereof: so he that waiteth vpon his master, shall come to honour.

geneva@Proverbs:27:19 @ As in water face [answereth] to face, (note:)There is no difference between men by nature, only the grace of God makes the difference.(:note) so the heart of man to man.

geneva@Proverbs:27:21 @ [As] the refining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his (note:)That is, he is either known to be ambitious and glorious, or humble and modest.(:note) praise.

geneva@Proverbs:27:25 @ The hey discouereth it selfe, and the grasse appeareth, and the herbes of the mountaines are gathered.

geneva@Proverbs:28:1 @ The wicked (note:)Because their own conscience accuses them.(:note) flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

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:28:10 @ He that causeth the righteous to go astray by an euill way, shal fall into his owne pit, and the vpright shall inherite good things.

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:28:20 @ A faythfull man shall abound in blessings, and he that maketh haste to be riche, shall not be innocent.

geneva@Proverbs:28:22 @ He that hasteneth to be rich [hath] an evil (note:)Meaning, he that is covetous.(:note) eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

geneva@Proverbs:28:28 @ When the wicked rise vp, men hide them selues: but when they perish, ye righteous increase.

geneva@Proverbs:29:3 @ A man that loueth wisdome, reioyceth his father: but he that feedeth harlots, wasteth his substance.

geneva@Proverbs:29:5 @ A man that flattereth his neighbour (note:)He who gives ear to the flatterer is in danger as the bird is before the fowler.(:note) spreadeth a net for his feet.

geneva@Proverbs:29:15 @ The rodde and correction giue wisdome: but a childe set a libertie, maketh his mother ashamed.

geneva@Proverbs:29:16 @ When the wicked are increased, transgression increaseth: but ye righteous shall see their fall.

geneva@Proverbs:29:17 @ Correct thy sonne & he will giue thee rest, and will giue pleasures to thy soule.

geneva@Proverbs:29:20 @ Seest thou a man hastie in his matters? there is more hope of a foole, then of him.

geneva@Proverbs:29:21 @ He that delicately bringeth vp his seruant from youth, at length he will be euen as his sone.

geneva@Proverbs:29:26 @ Many seek the ruler's favour; but [every] man's (note:)He does not need to flatter the ruler, for what God has appointed will come to him.(:note) judgment [cometh] from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:30:1 @ The words of (note:)Who was an excellent man in virtue and knowledge in the time of Solomon.(:note) Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the man spoke to Ithiel, even to Who were Agur's scholars or friends. Ithiel and Ucal,

geneva@Proverbs:30:4 @ Who hath ascended into (note:)Meaning, to know the secrets of God, as though he would say, «None».(:note) heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?

geneva@Proverbs:30:6 @ Put nothing vnto his wordes, least he reproue thee, and thou be found a lyar.

geneva@Proverbs:30:10 @ Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, (note:)In accusing him without cause.(:note) and thou be found guilty.

geneva@Proverbs:30:12 @ There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceite, and yet are not washed from their filthinesse.

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:30:15 @ The horseleach hath two (note:)The leach has two forks in her tongue, which here he calls her two daughters, by which she sucks the blood, and is never satisfied: even so, the covetous extortioners are insatiable.(:note) daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:

geneva@Proverbs:30:20 @ Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and (note:)She has her desires, and later counterfeits as though she were an honest woman.(:note) wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

geneva@Proverbs:30:23 @ For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is (note:)Who is married to her master after the death of her mistress.(:note) heir to her mistress.

geneva@Proverbs:30:27 @ The grashopper hath no King, yet goe they forth all by bandes:

geneva@Proverbs:30:28 @ The spider taketh hold (note:)If man is not able to compass these common things by his wisdom, we cannot attribute wisdom to man, but folly.(:note) with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

geneva@Proverbs:30:30 @ A lyon which is strong among beastes, and turneth not at the sight of any:

geneva@Proverbs:30:32 @ If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thy hand (note:)Make a stay and continue not in doing evil.(:note) upon thy mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:31:1 @ The words of king (note:)That is, of Solomon who was called Lemuel, that is, of God, because God had ordained him to be king over Israel.(:note) Lemuel, the The doctrine which his mother Bathsheba taught him. prophecy that his mother taught him.

geneva@Proverbs:31:7 @ Let him drink, and forget (note:)For wine comforts the heart as in (Psa_104:15).(:note) his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

geneva@Proverbs:31:8 @ Open thy mouth for the (note:)Defend their cause that are not able to help themselves.(:note) dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

geneva@Proverbs:31:16 @ She considereth a field, and (note:)She purchases it with the gains of her travail.(:note) buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

geneva@Proverbs:31:23 @ Her husband is known in the (note:)In the assemblies and places of judgment.(:note) gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

geneva@Proverbs:31:31 @ Give (note:)Confess her diligent labours, and commend her therefore.(:note) her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the Forasmuch as the most honourable are clad in the apparel that she made. gates.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the (note:)Solomon is here called a preacher, or one who assembles the people, because he teaches the true knowledge of God, and how men ought to pass their life in this transitory world.(:note) Preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. The Argument - Solomon as a preacher and one that desired to instruct all in the way of salvation, describes the deceivable vanities of this world: that man should not be addicted to anything under the sun, but rather inflamed with the desire of the heavenly life: therefore he confutes their opinions, which set their happiness either in knowledge or in pleasures, or in dignity and riches, wishing that man's true happiness consists in that he is united with God and will enjoy his presence: so that all other things must be rejected, save in as much as they further us to attain to this heavenly treasure, which is sure and permanent, and cannot be found in any other save in God alone.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:2 @

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What profit hath a man of all his (note:)Solomon does not condemn man's labour or diligence, but shows that there is no full contentment in anything under the heavens, nor in any creature, as all things are transitory.(:note) labour which he taketh under the sun?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for (note:)One man dies after another, and the earth remains longest, even to the last day, which yet is subject to corruption.(:note) ever.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @ The (note:)By the sun, wind and rivers, he shows that the greatest labour and longest has an end, and therefore there can be no happiness in this world.(:note) wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; to the place from (note:)The sea which compasses all the earth, fills the veins of it which pour out springs and rivers into the sea again.(:note) which the rivers come, there they return again.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:8 @ All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is there any thing, whereof one may say, Beholde this, it is newe? It hath bene already in the olde time that was before vs.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ There is no memorie of the former, neither shall there be a remembrance of the latter that shalbe, with them that shall come after.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @ And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this grievous labour hath God given to the sons of man (note:)Man by nature has a desire to know, and yet is not able to come to the perfection of knowledge, which is the punishment of sin, to humble man, and to teach him to depend only on God.(:note) to be exercised with it.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:14 @ I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:15 @ [That which is] (note:)Man is not able by all his diligence to cause things to go other than they do: neither can he number the faults that are committed, much less remedy them.(:note) crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @ I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know (note:)That is, vain things, which served to pleasure, in which was no convenience, but grief and trouble of conscience.(:note) madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:18 @ For in much wisdom [is] much (note:)Wisdom and knowledge cannot be come by without great pain of body and mind: for when a man has attained the highest, yet is his mind never fully content: therefore in this world is no true happiness.(:note) grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (note:)Solomon makes this discourse with himself, as though he would try whether there was contentment in ease and pleasures.(:note) thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with (note:)Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.(:note) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I haue made me cisternes of water, to water therewith the woods that growe with trees.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I procured [me] male and female servants, and had servants born in my (note:)Meaning, of the servants or slaves which he had bought, so the children born in their servitude, were the masters.(:note) house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces: I procured me male and female singers, and the (note:)That is, whatever men take pleasure in.(:note) delights of the sons of men, Or, the most beautiful of the women that were taken in war, as in (Jdg_5:30). [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom (note:)For all this God did not take his gift of wisdom from me.(:note) remained with me.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my (note:)This was the fruit of all my labour, a certain pleasure mixed with care, which he calls vanity in the next verse.(:note) portion of all my labour.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ And I turned myself to behold (note:)I thought to myself whether it was better to follow wisdom, or my own affections and pleasures, which he calls madness.(:note) wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @ Then I saw that there is profite in wisdome, more then in follie: as the light is more excellent then darkenes.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man's (note:)Meaning, in this world.(:note) eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one For both die and are forgotten as in (Ecc_2:16) or they both alike have prosperity or adversity. event happeneth to them all.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool (note:)Meaning, in this world.(:note) for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And He wonders that men forget a wise man, being dead, as soon as they do a fool. how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @ I hated also all my labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne, which I shall leaue to the man that shalbe after me.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ Therefore I went about to cause my heart (note:)That I might seek the true happiness which is in God.(:note) to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured in it shall he (note:)Among other griefs that was not the least, to leave that which he had gotten by great travail, to one who had taken no pain therefore and whom he know not whether he were a wise man or a fool.(:note) leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:23 @ For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should (note:)When man has all laboured, he can get no more than food and refreshing, yet he confesses also that this comes from God's blessing, as in (Ecc_3:13).(:note) make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ For who can eat, or who else can hasten (note:)Meaning, to pleasures.(:note) [to it], more than I?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @ To every [thing there is] a (note:)He speaks of this diversity of time for two causes first to declare that there is nothing in this world perpetual: next to teach us not to be grieved, if we have not all things at once according to our desires, neither enjoy them so long as we would wish.(:note) season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:2 @ A time to bee borne, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to plucke vp that which is planted.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:3 @ A time to slay, and a time to heale: a time to breake downe, and a time to builde.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:4 @ A time to weepe, and a time to laugh: a time to mourne, and a time to dance.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:5 @ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones: a time to embrace, and a time to be farre from embracing.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:6 @ A time to seeke, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:7 @ A time to rent, and a time to sowe: a time to keepe silence, and a time to speake.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:8 @ A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:10 @ I have seen the labour, which God hath given to the sons of men (note:)Read (Ecc_1:13).(:note) to be exercised in it.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @ He hath made every [thing] beautiful in its time: also he hath set the (note:)God has given man a desire and affection to seek out the things of this world, and to labour in it.(:note) world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @ I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the (note:)Read (Ecc_2:24) and these places declare that we should do all things with sobriety and in the fear of God, as he gives not his gifts to the intent that they should be abused.(:note) gift of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ I know that, whatever God doeth, it shall be for (note:)That is, man will never be able to prevent God's work, but as he has determined so it will come to pass.(:note) ever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:15 @ That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God (note:)God only causes what which is past, to return.(:note) requireth that which is past.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ And moreouer I haue seene vnder the sunne the place of iudgement, where was wickednesse, and the place of iustice where was iniquitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time (note:)Meaning, with God, however man neglects his duty.(:note) there for every purpose and for every work.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might (note:)And made them pure in their first creation.(:note) tempt them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing (note:)Man is not able by his reason and judgment to put differences between man and beast, as concerning those things to which both are subject: for the eye cannot judge any otherwise of a man being dead than of a beast, which is dead: yet by the word of God and faith we easily know the diversity as in (Ecc_3:21).(:note) befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:20 @ All goe to one place, & all was of the dust, and all shall returne to the dust.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:21 @ Who (note:)Meaning, that reason cannot comprehend that which faith believes in.(:note) knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

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: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:4:2 @ Wherefore I praised the (note:)Because they are no longer subject to these oppressions.(:note) dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @ Yea, (note:)He speaks according to the judgment of the flesh which cannot abide to feel or see troubles.(:note) better [is he] than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:4 @ Again, I considered all labour, and every (note:)The more perfect that the work is, the more it is envied by the wicked.(:note) right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:5 @ The fool foldeth his hands together, and (note:)For idleness he is compelled to destroy himself.(:note) eateth his own flesh.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @ Better is an handfull with quietnesse, then two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:7 @ Againe I returned, and sawe vanitie vnder the sunne.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ There is one alone, & there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:10 @ For if they fal, the one wil lift vp his felow: but wo vnto him that is alone: for he falleth, and there is not a second to lift him vp.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:11 @ Also if two sleepe together, then shall they haue heate: but to one how should there be heate?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:12 @ And if one prevaileth against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold (note:)By this proverb he declares how necessary it is, that men should live in society.(:note) cord is not quickly broken.

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:4:15 @ I considered all the living who walk under the sun, (note:)Who follow and flatter the king's son, or him that will succeed to enter into credit with them in hope of gain.(:note) with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ [There is] no (note:)They never cease by all means to creep into favour, but when they do not obtain their greedy desires they think themselves abused, as others have been in times past, and so care no more for him.(:note) end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Keep thy (note:)That is, with what affection you come to hear the word of God.(:note) foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of Meaning, of the wicked, who think to please God with common uses, and have neither faith nor repentance. fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

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 He hears you not for the sake of your many words or often repetitions, but considers your faith and servant's mind. few.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:3 @ {\cf2 (5:2)} For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:4 @ When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast (note:)He speaks of vows which are approved by God's word and serve to his glory.(:note) vowed.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ {\cf2 (5:4)} It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Allow not thy mouth to cause thy (note:)Do not cause yourself to sin by vowing rashly as they do who make a vow to live unmarried and such like.(:note) flesh to sin; neither say thou before the That is, before God's messenger when he will examine your doing, as though your ignorance should be a just excuse. angel, that it [was] an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ {\cf2 (5:6)} For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.

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:5:9 @ Moreover the (note:)The earth is to be preferred above all things which belong to this life.(:note) profit of the earth is for all: the king Kings and princes cannot maintain their estate without tillage, which commends the excellency of tillage. [himself] is served by the field.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ {\cf2 (5:9)} He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ {\cf2 (5:10)} When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:12 @ The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the (note:)That is, his great abundance of riches, or the surfeiting, which comes by his great feeding.(:note) abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ There is a grievous evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches (note:)When covetous men heap up riches, which turn to their destruction.(:note) kept for the owners of them to their hurt.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:14 @ But those riches perish by evil labour: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his (note:)He does not enjoy his father's riches.(:note) hand.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ {\cf2 (5:14)} As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shal beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ And this also [is] a grievous evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the (note:)Meaning, in vain and without profit.(:note) wind?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:17 @ All his days also he eateth in (note:)In affliction and grief of mind.(:note) darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:18 @ Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and proper [for one] to (note:){{See Ecc_3:22}}(:note) eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ {\cf2 (5:18)} Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:20 @ For he shall not much remember the days of his (note:)He will take no great thought for the pains that he has endured in times past.(:note) life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:1 @ There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet (note:)He shows that it is the plague of God when the rich man does not have a liberal heart to use his riches.(:note) God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

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:6:4 @ For (note:)Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt any.(:note) he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @ Also he hath not seene ye sunne, nor knowen it: therefore this hath more rest then the other.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:6 @ And if he had liued a thousand yeeres twise tolde, and had seene no good, shall not all goe to one place?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:7 @ All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the (note:)His desire and affection.(:note) appetite is not filled.

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:6:9 @ Better [is] the (note:)To be content with that which God has given is better than to follow the desires that can never be satisfied.(:note) sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:10 @ That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is (note:)Meaning, God who will make him feel that he is mortal.(:note) mightier than he.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ {\cf2 (7:1)} Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ For who knoweth what [is] (note:)There is no state in which man can live to have perfect quietness in this life.(:note) good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @ A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of (note:)He speaks thus after the judgment of the flesh, which thinks death is the end of all evils, or else because this corporal death is the entering into everlasting life.(:note) death than the day of one's birth.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @ [It is] better to go to the house of (note:)Where we may see the hand of God and learn to examine our lives.(:note) mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ {\cf2 (7:5)} Anger is better then laughter: for by a sad looke the heart is made better.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:4 @ {\cf2 (7:6)} The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @ {\cf2 (7:7)} Better it is to heare ye rebuke of a wise man, then that a man should heare the song of fooles.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ For as the crackling of (note:)Which crackle for a while and profit nothing.(:note) thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:7 @ Surely oppression maketh a wise man (note:)A man that is esteemed wise, when he falls to oppression, becomes like a beast.(:note) mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @ Better [is] the (note:)He notes their lightness who attempt a thing and suddenly leave it off again.(:note) end of a thing than its beginning: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ {\cf2 (7:11)} Be not thou of an hastie spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire (note:)Murmur not against God when he sends adversities for man's sins.(:note) wisely concerning this.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom [is] good with an (note:)He answers to them who do not value wisdom unless riches are joined with it, showing that both are the gifts of God, but that wisdom is far more excellent and may be without riches.(:note) inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:12 @ {\cf2 (7:14)} For man shall rest in the shadowe of wisedome, and in the shadowe of siluer: but the excellencie of the knowledge of wisedome giueth life to the possessers thereof.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:13 @ {\cf2 (7:15)} Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:14 @ In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity (note:)Consider why God sends it and what may comfort you.(:note) consider: God also hath appointed the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find That man should be able to control nothing in his works. nothing after him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his (note:)Meaning that cruel tyrants put the godly to death and let the wicked go free.(:note) righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ Be not righteous (note:)Do not boast too much of your own justice and wisdom.(:note) over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Be not (note:)Do not tarry long when you are admonished to come out of the way of wickedness.(:note) over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:18 @ [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of (note:)That is, on these admonitions that go before.(:note) this; yea, also from Consider what desolation and destruction will come, if you do not obey them. this withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall escape from them all.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @ {\cf2 (7:21)} Wisedome shall strengthen the wise man more then ten mightie princes that are in ye citie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:20 @ {\cf2 (7:22)} Surely there is no man iust in the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:21 @ Also take no (note:)Credit them not, neither care for them.(:note) heed to all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:22 @ {\cf2 (7:24)} For often times also thine heart knoweth that thou likewise hast cursed others.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ {\cf2 (7:2)} All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:24 @ That which is far off, (note:)Meaning wisdom.(:note) and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:25 @ {\cf2 (7:27)} I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:26 @ {\cf2 (7:28)} And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:27 @ Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to (note:)That is, to come to a conclusion.(:note) find out the account:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:28 @ {\cf2 (7:30)} And yet my soule seeketh, but I finde it not: I haue found one man of a thousand: but a woman among them all haue I not founde.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:29 @ Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many (note:)And so are cause for their own destruction.(:note) devices.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:1 @ Who [is] as the wise [man]? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face (note:)That is, gets him favour and prosperity.(:note) to shine, and While before he was proud and arrogant, he will become humble and meek. the boldness of his face shall be changed.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:2 @ I [counsel thee] to keep the king's (note:)That is, that you obey the king and keep the oath that you have made for the same cause.(:note) commandment, and [that] in regard of the oath of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ Where the word of ye King is, there is power, and who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:5 @ He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both (note:)That is, when time is to obey, and how far he should obey.(:note) time and judgment.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the (note:)Man by himself is miserable, and therefore should do nothing to increase the same, but to work all things by wisdom and counsel.(:note) misery of man [is] great upon him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:7 @ For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ [There is] no man that hath power (note:)Man has no power to save his own life and therefore must not rashly cast himself into danger.(:note) over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

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@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and (note:)That is, others as wicked as they.(:note) gone from the They who feared God and worshipped him as he had appointed. place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because sentence against an evil work is not (note:)Where justice is delayed, there sin reigns.(:note) executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ Though a sinner doe euill an hundreth times, and God prolongeth his dayes, yet I knowe that it shalbe well with them that feare the Lord, and doe reuerence before him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just [men], to whom it happeneth according to the (note:)Who are punished as though they were wicked, as in (Ecc_7:17)(:note) work of the wicked; again, there are wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @ Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than (note:){{See Ecc_3:22}}(:note) to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:16 @ When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or (note:)Meaning, what things he ought to chose or refuse: or man knows not by these outward things that is, by prosperity or adversity, whom God favours or hates, for he sends them as well to the wicked as to the godly.(:note) hatred [by] all [that is] before them.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:2 @ All things come alike to all: and the same condition is to the iust and to the wicked, to the good and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an othe.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one (note:)In outward things, as riches and poverty, sickness and health, there is no difference between the godly and the wicked but the difference is that the godly are assured by faith of God's favour and assistance.(:note) event to all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a (note:)He notes the Epicurean and carnal men, who made their body their god, and had no pleasure in this life, wishing rather to be an abased and vile person in this life, then a man of authority and so to die, which is meant by the dog and lion.(:note) living dog is better than a dead lion.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:5 @ For the liuing knowe that they shall dye, but the dead knowe nothing at all: neither haue they any more a rewarde: for their remembrance is forgotten.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:6 @ Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuie is now perished, and they haue no more portion for euer, in all that is done vnder the sunne.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:7 @ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now (note:)They flatter themselves to be in God's favour, because they have all things in abundance.(:note) accepteth thy works.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:8 @ Let thy garments be always (note:)Rejoice, be merry and spare for no cost, thus speak the wicked belly-gods.(:note) white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:9 @ Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which God hath giuen thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy trauaile wherein thou labourest vnder the sunne.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:10 @ All that thine hand shall finde to doe, doe it with all thy power: for there is neither worke nor inuention, nor knowledge, nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:11 @ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and (note:)Thus the worldlings say to prove that all things are lawful for them and attribute that to chance and fortune which is done by the providence of God.(:note) chance happeneth to them all.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:12 @ For man also knoweth not his (note:)That is, he does not foresee what will come.(:note) time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:13 @ I haue also seene this wisedome vnder the sunne, and it is great vnto me.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:14 @ A litle citie and fewe men in it, and a great King came against it, and compassed it about, and builded fortes against it.

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:9:17 @ The wordes of the wise are more heard in quietnes, then the crye of him that ruleth among fooles.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @ Better is wisedome then weapons of warre: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:1 @ Dead flies cause to stinke, & putrifie the ointment of the apoticarie: so doeth a litle follie him that is in estimation for wisedome, and for glorie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:2 @ A (note:)So that he does all things well and justly, where as the fool does the contrary.(:note) wise man's heart [is] at his right hand; but a fool's heart [is] at his left.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ Also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth [him], and he (note:)By his doings he betrays himself.(:note) saith to every one [that] he [is] a fool.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:4 @ If the (note:)If your superior is angry with you, be discrete and not moved.(:note) spirit of the ruler riseth against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:5 @ There is an evil [which] I have seen under the sun, as an (note:)Meaning that it is an evil thing when they who are in authority fail and do not do their duty.(:note) error [which] proceedeth from the ruler:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:6 @ Folly is set in great dignity, and the (note:)They who are rich in wisdom and virtue.(:note) rich sit in low place.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:7 @ I haue seene seruants on horses, and princes walking as seruants on the ground.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:8 @ He that diggeth a pit, shall fal into it, and he that breaketh the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:9 @ He that remooueth stones, shall hurt himselfe thereby, and hee that cutteth wood, shall be in danger thereby.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:10 @ If the iron is blunt, and he doth not whet the edge, then must he use more (note:)Without wisdom, whatever a man takes in hand, turns to his own hurt.(:note) strength: but wisdom [is] profitable to direct.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:11 @ If the serpent bite, when he is not charmed: no better is a babbler.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:12 @ The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:13 @ The beginning of the wordes of his mouth is foolishnesse, and the latter ende of his mouth is wicked madnesse.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:14 @ For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:15 @ The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the (note:)The ignorance and beastliness of the wicked is such that they know not common things, and yet will discuss high matters.(:note) city.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:16 @ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a (note:)That is, without wisdom and counsel.(:note) child, and thy princes Are given to their lusts and pleasures. eat in the morning!

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:17 @ Blessed [art] thou, O land, when thy king [is] the son (note:)Meaning, when he is noble for virtue and wisdom and with the gifts of God.(:note) of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:18 @ By slouthfulnes the roofe of the house goeth to decaie, and by the ydlenesse of the handes the house droppeth through.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:19 @ They prepare bread for laughter, and wine comforteth the liuing, but siluer answereth to all.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:20 @ Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a (note:)You cannot work evil so secretly that it will not be known.(:note) bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

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@Ecclesiastes:11:2 @ Giue a portion to seuen, & also to eight: for thou knowest not what euill shalbe vpon ye earth.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @ If the (note:)As the clouds that are full pour out rain, so the rich that have abundance must distribute it liberally.(:note) clouds are full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the He exhorts to be liberal while we live: for after, there is no power. tree falleth toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:4 @ He that observeth the (note:)He who fears inconveniences when need requires will never do his duty.(:note) wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:5 @ As thou knowest not which is ye way of the spirit, nor how the bones doe growe in the wombe of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the worke of God that worketh all.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:6 @ In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening (note:)Be not weary of well doing.(:note) withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not which shall prosper, either this or That is, which of your works are most agreeable to God. that, or whether they both [shall be] alike good.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:7 @ Surely the light is a pleasant thing: and it is a good thing to the eyes to see the sunne.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:8 @ But if a man shall live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of (note:)That is, of affliction and trouble.(:note) darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:9 @

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Therefore remove (note:)That is, anger and envy.(:note) sorrow from thy heart, and Meaning, carnal lusts to which youth is given. put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:1 @ Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:2 @ While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not darkened, nor the (note:)Before you come to a continual misery: for when the clouds remain after the rain, man's grief is increased.(:note) clouds return after the rain:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ In the day when the (note:)The hands which keep the body.(:note) keepers of the house shall tremble, and the The legs. strong men shall bow themselves, and the The teeth. grinders cease because they are few, and those that The eyes. look out of the windows shall be darkened,

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:4 @ And the (note:)The lips or mouth.(:note) doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the When the jaws will scarce open and not be able to chew any more. grinding shall be low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the He will not be able to sleep. bird, and all the That is the wind pipes or the ears will be deaf and not able to hear singing. daughters of music shall be brought low;

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] (note:)To climb high because of their weakness, or they stoop down as though they were afraid lest anything should hide them.(:note) high, and fears [shall be] in the They will tremble as they go, as though they were afraid. way, and the almond tree shall Their head will be as white as the blossoms of an almond tree. flourish, and the They will be able to bear nothing. grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:6 @ Or ever the (note:)Meaning, the marrow of the backbone and the sinews.(:note) silver cord shall be loosed, or the golden The little skin that covers the brain, which is in colour like gold. bowl be broken, or the That is, the veins. pitcher be broken at the Meaning the liver. fountain, or the Which is the head. wheel broken at the That is, the heart out of which the head draws the powers of life. cistern.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:7 @ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the (note:)The soul unconsciously goes either to joy or torment, and sleeps not as the wicked imagine.(:note) spirit shall return to God who gave it.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:8 @ Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:9 @ And the more wise the Preacher was, the more he taught the people knowledge, and caused them to heare, and searched foorth, and prepared many parables.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:10 @ The Preacher sought to finde out pleasant wordes, and an vpright writing, euen the wordes of trueth.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:11 @ The words of the wise [are] as goads, and as nails (note:)Which are well applied by the ministers, whom he calls masters.(:note) fastened [by] the masters of assemblies, [which] are given from one That is by God. shepherd.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:12 @ And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many (note:)These things cannot be comprehended in books or learned by study, but God must instruct your heart that you may only know that wisdom is the true happiness and the way to it is to fear God.(:note) books [there is] no end; and much study [is] a weariness of the flesh.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:13 @ Let vs heare the end of all: feare God and keepe his commandements: for this is the whole duetie of man.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:14 @ For God will bring euery worke vnto iudgement, with euery secret thing, whether it be good or euill.

geneva@Songs:1:1 @ An excellent song which was Salomons.

geneva@Songs:1:3 @ Because of the (note:)The feeling of your great benefits.(:note) savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the They that are pure in heart and conversation. virgins love thee.

geneva@Songs:1:5 @ I [am] (note:)The Church confesses her spots and sin, but has confidence in the favour of Christ.(:note) black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar was Ishmael's son, of whom came the Arabians that dwelt in tents. Kedar, as the Which within were all set with precious stones and jewels. curtains of Solomon.

geneva@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, (note:)The spouse feeling her fault flees to her husband only for comfort.(:note) O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of Whom you have called to the dignity of pastors, and they set forth their own dreams instead of your doctrine. thy companions?

geneva@Songs:1:9 @ I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's (note:)For your spiritual beauty and excellency there was no worldly treasure to be compared to you.(:note) chariots.

geneva@Songs:1:13 @ A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved to me; he shall lie all night between my (note:)He will be most dear to me.(:note) breasts.

geneva@Songs:1:14 @ My welbeloued is as a cluster of camphire vnto me in the vines of Engedi.

geneva@Songs:1:16 @ Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our (note:)That is, the heart of the faithful, in which Christ dwells by his Spirit.(:note) bed [is] green.

geneva@Songs:2:2 @ As the lily among thorns, so [is] my (note:)Thus Christ prefers his Church above all other things.(:note) love among the daughters.

geneva@Songs:2:4 @ Hee brought mee into the wine cellar, and loue was his banner ouer me.

geneva@Songs:2:9 @ My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he (note:)For as his divinity was hidden under the cloak of our flesh.(:note) standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, gazing himself through the So that we cannot have full knowledge of him in this life. lattice.

geneva@Songs:2:11 @ For, lo, the (note:)That is, sin and error is driven back by the coming of Christ, who is here described by the springtime, when all things flourish.(:note) winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone;

geneva@Songs:2:13 @ The figtree hath brought foorth her yong figges: and the vines with their small grapes haue cast a sauour: arise my loue, my faire one, and come away.

geneva@Songs:2:14 @ O my dove, [that art] in the (note:)You who are ashamed of your sins, come and show yourself to me.(:note) clefts of the rock, in the secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] comely.

geneva@Songs:3:4 @ When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued me.

geneva@Songs:3:6 @ Who [is] this that cometh out of the (note:)This refers to the Church of Israel which was led in the wilderness for forty years.(:note) wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

geneva@Songs:3:10 @ Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem.

geneva@Songs:3:11 @ Go forth, O ye (note:)All you that are of the number of the faithful.(:note) daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the Christ became man, was crowned by the love of God with the glorious crown of his divinity. crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

geneva@Songs:4:1 @ Behold, thou [art] (note:)Because Christ delights in his Church, he commends all that is in her.(:note) fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a He has respect for the multitude of the faithful, which are many in number. flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

geneva@Songs:4:2 @ Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe in good order, which go vp from the washing: which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.

geneva@Songs:4:3 @ Thy lippes are like a threede of scarlet, and thy talke is comely: thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.

geneva@Songs:4:4 @ Thy necke is as the tower of Dauid builte for defence: a thousand shieldes hang therein, and all the targates of the strong men.

geneva@Songs:4:5 @ Thy two (note:)In which are knowledge and zeal two precious jewels.(:note) breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

geneva@Songs:4:9 @ Thou hast ravished my heart, my (note:)Christ calls his Church sister in respect that he had taken the flesh of man.(:note) sister, [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy In that he made his Church beautiful and rich, he loved his gifts in her. eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

geneva@Songs:4:11 @ Thy (note:)Because of your confession and thanksgiving.(:note) lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the scent of thy garments [is] like the fragrance of Lebanon.

geneva@Songs:4:12 @ My sister my spouse is as a garden inclosed, as a spring shut vp, and a fountaine sealed vp.

geneva@Songs:4:13 @ Thy plantes are as an orchard of pomegranates with sweete fruites, as camphire, spikenarde,

geneva@Songs:4:16 @ Awake, O (note:)She desires Christ to comfort her and to pour the graces of his Spirit on her, which is meant by the North and South wind.(:note) north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

geneva@Songs:5:3 @ I have put off my (note:)The spouse confesses her nakedness, and that of herself she has nothing, or seeing that she is once made clean she promises not to defile herself again.(:note) coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

geneva@Songs:5:4 @ My welbeloued put in his hand by the hole of the doore, and mine heart was affectioned toward him.

geneva@Songs:5:6 @ I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.

geneva@Songs:5:8 @ I charge you, (note:)She asks of them who are godly (as the law and salvation should come out of Zion and Jerusalem) that they would direct her to Christ.(:note) O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick with love.

geneva@Songs:5:11 @ His (note:)She describes Christ to be of perfect beauty and comeliness.(:note) head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven.

geneva@Songs:5:12 @ His eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters, which are washt with milke, and remaine by the full vessels.

geneva@Songs:5:13 @ His cheekes are as a bedde of spices, and as sweete flowres, and his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe.

geneva@Songs:5:14 @ His hands as rings of gold set with the chrysolite, his belly like white yuorie couered with saphirs.

geneva@Songs:5:15 @ His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine golde: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

geneva@Songs:5:16 @ His mouth is as sweete thinges, and hee is wholy delectable: this is my welbeloued, and this is my louer, O daughters of Ierusalem.

geneva@Songs:6:1 @ Where is thy beloved gone, (note:)Hearing of the excellency of Christ, the faithful desire to know how to find him.(:note) O thou fairest among women? where is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

geneva@Songs:6:4 @ Thou [art] beautiful, O my love, as (note:)Which was a fair and strong city, (1Ki_14:17).(:note) Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as [an army] with banners.

geneva@Songs:6:6 @ Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe, which goe vp from the washing, which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.

geneva@Songs:6:7 @ Thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.

geneva@Songs:6:13 @ Return, return, O (note:)O ye people of Jerusalem, for Jerusalem was called Shalem which signifies peace.(:note) Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

geneva@Songs:7:2 @ Thy nauel is as a round cuppe that wanteth not licour: thy belly is as an heape of wheat compassed about with lilies.

geneva@Songs:7:4 @ Thy necke is like a towre of yuorie: thine eyes are like the fishe pooles in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, that looketh toward Damascus.

geneva@Songs:7:6 @ Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!

geneva@Songs:7:8 @ I saide, I will goe vp into the palme tree, I will take holde of her boughes: thy breastes shall nowe be like the clusters of the vine: and the sauour of thy nose like apples,

geneva@Songs:8:1 @ O (note:)The Church called of the Gentiles speaks thus to the Church of Jerusalem.(:note) that thou [wert] as my brother, that was nourished at the breasts of my mother! [when] I should find thee outside, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

geneva@Isaiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, a revelation or prophecy, which was one of the two means by which God declared himself to his servants in old times, as in (Num_12:6) and therefore the prophets were called seers, (1Sa_9:9).(:note) vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw Isaiah was chiefly sent to Judah and Jerusalem, but not only: for in this book are prophecies concerning other nations also. concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Called also Azariah, (2Ki_15:1) of these kings read (2Ki. strkjv@14:1-21:1; 2Ch. strkjv@25:1-33:1). Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Argument - God, according to his promise in (Deu_18:15) that he would never leave his Church destitute of a prophet, has from time to time accomplished the same: whose office was not only to declare to the people the things to come, of which they had a special revelation, but also to interpret and declare the law, and to apply particularly the doctrine contained briefly in it, for the use and profit of those to whom they thought it chiefly to belong, and as the time and state of things required. Principally in the declaration of the law, they had respect to three things which were the ground of their doctrine: first, to the doctrine contained briefly in the two tables: secondly to the promises and threatenings of the law: and thirdly to the covenant of grace and reconciliation grounded on our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law. To which they neither added nor diminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and meaning of it. As God gave them understanding of things, they applied the promises particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members of it, and also denounced the menaces against the enemies of the same: not for any care or regard to the enemies, but to assure the Church of their safeguard by the destruction of their enemies. Concerning the doctrine of reconciliation, they have more clearly entreated it than Moses, and set forth more lively Jesus Christ, in whom this covenant of reconciliation was made. In all these things Isaiah surpassed all the prophets, and was diligent to set out the same, with vehement admonitions, reprehensions, and consolations: ever applying the doctrine as he saw that the disease of the people required. He declares also many notable prophecies which he had received from God, concerning the promise of the Messiah, his office and kingdom, the favour of God toward his Church, the calling of the Gentiles and their union with the Jews. Which are principal points contained in this book, and a gathering of his sermons that he preached. Which after certain days that they had stood upon the temple door (for the manner of the prophets was to post the sum of their doctrine for certain days, that the people might the better mark it as in (Isa_8:1; Hab_2:2)) the priests took it down and reserved it among their registers. By God's providence these books were preserved as a monument to the Church forever. Concerning his person and time he was of the king's stock (for Amos his father was brother to Azariah king of Judah, as the best writers agree) and prophesied more than 64 years, from the time of Uzziah to the reign of Manasseh who was his son-in-law (as the Hebrews write) and by whom he was put to death. In reading of the prophets, this one thing among others is to be observed, that they speak of things to come as though they were now past because of the certainty of it, and that they could not but come to pass, because God had ordained them in his secret counsel and so revealed them to his prophets.

geneva@Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O (note:)Because men were obstinate and insensible, he calls to the dumb creatures, who were more prompt to obey God's word, as in (Deu_32:1).(:note) heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up He declares his great mercy toward the Jews as he chose them above all other nations to be his people and children as in (Deu_10:15). children, and they have rebelled against me.

geneva@Isaiah:1:3 @ The (note:)The most dull and brute beasts acknowledge their duty more toward their masters, than my people do toward me, of whom they have received benefits without comparison.(:note) ox knoweth his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

geneva@Isaiah:1:4 @ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a (note:)They were not only wicked as were their fathers, but utterly corrupt and by their evil example infected others.(:note) seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the That is, him that sanctifies Israel. Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward.

geneva@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why should ye be (note:)What good is it to seek to mend you by punishment, seeing that the more I correct you, the more you rebel?(:note) stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole By naming the chief parts of the body, he signifies that there was no part of the whole body of the Jews free from his rods. head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

geneva@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the (note:)Every part of the body, the least as well as the chiefest was plagued.(:note) sole of the foot even to the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, Their plagues were so grievous that they were incurable, and yet they would not repent. neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

geneva@Isaiah:1:7 @ Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, foreigners devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by (note:)Meaning, of them who dwell far off, who because they look for no advantage of that which remains destroy all before them.(:note) foreigners.

geneva@Isaiah:1:8 @ And the daughter of (note:)That is, Jerusalem.(:note) Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

geneva@Isaiah:1:9 @ Except the LORD of hosts (note:)Because he will always have a Church to call on his Name.(:note) had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been That is, all destroyed. as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah.

geneva@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye (note:)You who for your vices deserved to be destroyed, as they of Sodom, save that God from his mercy reserved a little number, (Lam_3:22).(:note) rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

geneva@Isaiah:1:11 @ To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I (note:)Although God commanded these sacrifices for a time, as aids and exercises of their faith, yet because the people did not have faith or repentance, God detests them, (Psa_50:13; Jer_6:20; Amo_5:22; Mic_6:7).(:note) delight not in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

geneva@Isaiah:1:14 @ Your (note:)Your sacrifices offered in the new moons and feasts: he condemns by this hypocrites who think to please God with ceremonies and they themselves are void of faith and mercy.(:note) new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary of bearing [them].

geneva@Isaiah:1:15 @ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full (note:)He shows that where men are given to evil, deceit, cruelty and extortion, which is meant by blood, there God will show his anger and not accept them though they seem holy, as in (Isa_59:3).(:note) of blood.

geneva@Isaiah:1:17 @ Learn to (note:)This kind of reasoning by the second table, the scriptures use in many places against the hypocrites who pretend holiness and religion in word, but when charity and love for their brethren should appear they declare that they have neither faith nor religion.(:note) do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

geneva@Isaiah:1:18 @ Come now, (note:)To know if I accuse you without cause.(:note) and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be Lest sinners should pretend any rigour on God's part, he only wills them to be pure in heart, and he will forgive all their sins, no matter how many or great. white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

geneva@Isaiah:1:21 @ How is the (note:)That is, Jerusalem, which had promised happiness to me, as a wife to her husband.(:note) faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now Given to covetousness and extortion, which he signified before by blood, (Isa_1:15). murderers.

geneva@Isaiah:1:22 @ Thy (note:)Whatever was pure in you before, is now corrupt, though you have an outward show.(:note) silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

geneva@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the (note:)When God will show himself merciful to his Church, he calls himself the Holy one of Israel, but when he has to do with his enemies, he is called Mighty, as against whom no power is able to resist.(:note) mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will I will take vengeance of my adversaries the Jews and so satisfy my desire by punishing them. rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:

geneva@Isaiah:1:27 @ Zion shall be redeemed with (note:)By justice is meant God's faithful promise, which is the reason for the deliverance of his Church.(:note) judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:1:29 @ For they shall be ashamed of the (note:)That is, the trees and pleasant places where you commit idolatry which was forbidden (Deu_16:22).(:note) oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

geneva@Isaiah:1:30 @ For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.

geneva@Isaiah:1:31 @ And the strong shall be as a (note:)The false god's in which you put your confidence will be consumed as easily as a piece of wick.(:note) wick, and its maker as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].

geneva@Isaiah:2:2 @ And it (note:)The decree and ordinance of God, concerning the restoration of the Church, which is chiefly meant by the time of Christ.(:note) shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mount of the LORD'S house In an evident place to be seen and discerned. shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall When the kingdom of Christ will be enlarged by the preaching of the doctrine. Here also is declared the zeal of the children of God when they are called. flow to it.

geneva@Isaiah:2:3 @ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to (note:)Alluding to mount Zion, where the visible Church then was.(:note) the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Meaning, the whole doctrine of salvation. law, and the word of the LORD from This was accomplished when the gospel was first preached in Jerusalem, and from there went through all the world. Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:2:5 @ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us (note:)Seeing the Gentiles will be ready, make haste, and show them the way to worship God.(:note) walk in the light of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:2:6 @ Therefore thou (note:)The prophet seeing the small hope that the Jews would convert, complains to God as though he had utterly forsaken them for their sins.(:note) hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are Full of the corruptions that reigned chiefly in the east parts. filled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, They altogether gave themselves to the fashions of other nations. and they please themselves in the children of foreigners.

geneva@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land also is full of (note:)The prophet first condemned their superstition and idolatry next their covetousness and thirdly their vain trust in worldly means.(:note) silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:

geneva@Isaiah:2:8 @ Their land also was full of idols: they worshipped the worke of their owne hands, which their owne fingers haue made.

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

geneva@Isaiah:2:13 @ Euen vpon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are hie & exalted, & vpon all the okes of Bashan,

geneva@Isaiah:2:16 @ And upon (note:)He condemns their vain confidence which they had in strongholds and in their rich merchandise which brought in vain pleasures with which men's minds became effeminate.(:note) all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

geneva@Isaiah:2:17 @ And the hautinesse of men shalbe brought low, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day.

geneva@Isaiah:2:20 @ In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, (note:)They will cast them into vile and filthy places when they perceive that they are not able to help them.(:note) to the moles and to the bats;

geneva@Isaiah:2:22 @ Cease ye from man, whose (note:)Cast off your vain confidence in man, whose life is so frail that if his nose is stopped he is dead and consider that you are dealing with God.(:note) breath [is] in his nostrils: for why is he to be esteemed?

geneva@Isaiah:3:3 @ The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the skilful craftsman, and the (note:)By these he means that God would take away everything that was of any value, and which they had any opportunity to want in themselves.(:note) eloquent orator.

geneva@Isaiah:3:5 @ And the people shall be (note:)For lack of good regiment and order.(:note) oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honourable.

geneva@Isaiah:3:6 @ When a man shall (note:)He shows that this plague will be so horrible that contrary to the common manner of men, who by nature are ambitious, no one will be found able or willing to be their governor.(:note) take hold of his brother of the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:

geneva@Isaiah:3:9 @ The (note:)When God examines their deed on which they now set an impudent face, he will find the mark of their impiety in their forehead.(:note) show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.

geneva@Isaiah:3:12 @ [As for] my people, (note:)Because the wicked people were more addicted to their princes than to the commandments of God, he shows that he would give them such princes, by whom they would have no help, but that they would be manifest tokens of his wrath, because they would be fools and effeminate.(:note) children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

geneva@Isaiah:3:16 @ Moreover the LORD saith, (note:)He means the people because of the arrogancy and pride of their women who gave themselves to all wantonness and dissolution.(:note) Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with Which declared their pride. extended necks and As a sign that they were not chaste. wanton eyes, walking and Which showed their wantonness. mincing [as] they go, and making a They delighted then in slippers that creaked or had little plates sewn on them which tinkled as they went. tinkling with their feet:

geneva@Isaiah:3:19 @ The sweete balles, and the brasselets, and the bonnets,

geneva@Isaiah:3:23 @ The mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the (note:)In rehearsing all these things particularly he shows the lightness and vanity of such as cannot be content with comely apparel according to their degree.(:note) veils.

geneva@Isaiah:3:25 @ Thy men shall fall by the (note:)Meaning that God will not only punish the women but their husbands who have permitted this dissoluteness and also the commonwealth which has not remedied it.(:note) sword, and thy mighty in the war.

geneva@Isaiah:4:2 @ In that day shall the (note:)He comforts the Church in this desolation which will spring up like a bud signifying that God's graces should be as plentiful toward the faithful as though they sprang out of the earth, as in (Isa_45:8). Some by the bud of the Lord mean Christ.(:note) branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] the pride and glory of them that have escaped of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:4:3 @ And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, [even] every one that is (note:)He alludes to the book of life, of which read (Exo_32:32) meaning God's secret counsel, in which his elect are predestinated to life everlasting.(:note) written among the living in Jerusalem:

geneva@Isaiah:4:4 @ When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the (note:)That is, the cruelty, extortion, malice and all wickedness.(:note) blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit of When things will be addressed that were amiss. judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

geneva@Isaiah:4:5 @ And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, (note:)He alludes to the pillar of the cloud, (Exo_13:21), meaning that God's favour and protection should appear in every place.(:note) a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the The faithful are called the glory of God because his image and tokens of his grace shine in them. glory [shall be] a defence.

geneva@Isaiah:5:3 @ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, (note:)He makes them judges in their own cause, for as much as it was evident that they were the cause of their own ruin.(:note) between me and my vineyard.

geneva@Isaiah:5:6 @ And I will laye it waste: it shall not be cut, nor digged, but briers, and thornes shall growe vp: I will also commande the cloudes that they raine no raine vpon it.

geneva@Isaiah:5:7 @ For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for (note:)Judgment and righteousness are true fruit of the fear of God and therefore in the cruel oppression there is no religion.(:note) judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold Of them who are oppressed. a cry.

geneva@Isaiah:5:10 @ Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one (note:)Which contains about 5 gallons, so that every acre would yield only half a gallon.(:note) bath, and the seed of an Which contains 50 gallons. homer shall yield an An ephah contains 5 gallons and is in dry things as much as a bath is in liquids. ephah.

geneva@Isaiah:5:11 @ Woe to them that (note:)Who spare no pain nor diligence to follow their lusts.(:note) rise early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until Who are never weary of their rioting and excessive pleasures but use all means to provoke to the same. night, [till] wine inflames them!

geneva@Isaiah:5:12 @ And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the (note:)They do not regard the provident care of God over them, nor for what end he has created them.(:note) work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

geneva@Isaiah:5:13 @ Therefore my people (note:)That is, will certainly go: for so the prophets use to speak as though the thing which will come to pass were done already.(:note) have gone into captivity, because [they have] Because they would not obey the word of God. no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

geneva@Isaiah:5:14 @ Therefore (note:)Meaning, the grave will swallow up them who will die for hunger and thirst, and yet for all this great destruction it will never be satisfied.(:note) hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

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:5:18 @ Woe to them that draw iniquity with (note:)Who use all allurements, opportunities and excuses to harden their conscience in sin.(:note) cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

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

geneva@Isaiah:5:20 @ Woe to them that call evil good, (note:)Who are not ashamed of sin, nor care for honesty but are grown to a desperate impiety.(:note) and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

geneva@Isaiah:5:24 @ Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their (note:)Both they and their posterity so that nothing will be left.(:note) root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:5:25 @ Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his (note:)He shows that God had so sore punished this people, that the dumb creatures if they had been so plagued would have been more sensible, and therefore his plagues must continue, till they begin to seal them.(:note) hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.

geneva@Isaiah:6:1 @ In the year that king Uzziah died (note:)God does not show himself to man in his majesty but according as man's capacity to comprehend him, that is, by visible signs as John the Baptist saw the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.(:note) I saw also the Lord sitting upon a As a judge ready to give sentence. throne, high and lifted up, and his Of his garment, or of his throne. train filled the temple.

geneva@Isaiah:6:2 @ Above it stood the (note:)They were angels so called because they were of a fiery colour, to signify that they burnt in the love of God, or were light as fire to execute his will.(:note) seraphims: each one had six wings; with two he covered his Signifying that they were not able to endure the brightness of God's glory. face, and with two he covered his By which it was declared that man was not able to see the brightness of God in them. feet, and with two he Which declares the prompt obedience of the angels to execute God's commandment. flew.

geneva@Isaiah:6:4 @ And the posts of the door (note:)Which was to confirm the prophet, that it was not the voice of man: and by the smoke was signified the blindness that would come on the Jews.(:note) moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

geneva@Isaiah:6:5 @ Then said I, (note:)He speaks this for two reasons, the one because he who was a mortal creature and therefore had more need to glorify God than the angels, did not do it, and the other because the nearer that man approaches to God, the more he knows his own sin and corruption.(:note) Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:6:7 @ And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy (note:)This declares that man cannot render due obedience to God, till he has purged us.(:note) sin purged.

geneva@Isaiah:6:9 @ And he said, Go, and tell this people, (note:)By which is declared that for the malice of man God will not immediately take away his word, but he will cause it to be preached to their condemnation, when as they will not learn by it to obey his will, and be saved: by this he exhorts the ministers to do their duty, and answers to the wicked murmurers, that through their own malice their heart is hardened, (Mat_13:14; Act_28:26; Rom_11:8).(:note) Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

geneva@Isaiah:6:11 @ Then said I, Lord, (note:)As he was moved with the zeal of God's glory, so was he touched with a charitable affection toward the people.(:note) how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

geneva@Isaiah:6:13 @ But yet in it [shall be] (note:)Meaning, the tenth part: or as some write, it was revealed to Isaiah for the confirmation of his prophecy that ten kings would come before their captivity, as were from Uzziah to Zedekiah.(:note) a tenth, and [it] shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, For the fewness of them they will seem to be eaten up: yet they will later flourish as a tree, which in winter loses leaves, and seems to be dead, yet in summer is fresh and green. and as an oak, whose substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the holy seed [shall be] the substance of it.

geneva@Isaiah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, (note:)That is, the second time: for in the first battle Ahaz was overcome.(:note) went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

geneva@Isaiah:7:2 @ And it was told the house of (note:)Meaning, the kings house.(:note) David, saying, Syria is confederate with That is, Israel, because that tribe was the greatest, (Gen_48:19). Ephraim. And his heart was For fear. moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.

geneva@Isaiah:7:3 @ Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and (note:)That is to say, the rest will return which name Isaiah gave his son, to signify that the rest of the people would return out of their captivity.(:note) Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

geneva@Isaiah:7:6 @ Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us conquer it for ourselves and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of (note:)Who was an Israelite, and as it seems, enemy to the house of David.(:note) Tabeal:

geneva@Isaiah:7:8 @ For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within (note:)Counting from the 25 years of the reign of Uzziah, at which time Amos prophesied this thing, and now Isaiah confirms that the Israelites would be led into perpetual captivity, which came to pass 20 years after Isaiah gave this message.(:note) sixty five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

geneva@Isaiah:7:11 @ Ask thee (note:)For the confirmation of this thing that your enemies will be destroyed and you preserved.(:note) a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

geneva@Isaiah:7:12 @ But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I (note:)Not to believe God's word without a sign, is to tempt God, but to refuse a sign when God offers it for the aid and help of our infirmity is to rebel against him.(:note) tempt the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:7:14 @ Therefore the Lord (note:)Forasmuch as you are unworthy, the Lord for his own promise sake will give a sign which will be that Christ the Saviour of his Church and the effect of all signs and miracles will be revealed.(:note) himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

geneva@Isaiah:7:17 @ The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that (note:)Since the time that the twelve tribes rebelled under Rehoboam.(:note) Ephraim departed from Judah; [even] the king of In whom you have put your trust. Assyria.

geneva@Isaiah:7:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall hiss for the (note:)Meaning, the Egyptians: for since the country is hot and moist, it is full of flies, as Assyria is full of bees.(:note) fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.

geneva@Isaiah:7:20 @ In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, [namely], by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the (note:)That is, that which is from the belly downward meaning that he would destroy both great and small.(:note) feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

geneva@Isaiah:7:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall (note:)He who before had a great number of cattle will be content with one cow and two sheep.(:note) nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

geneva@Isaiah:7:22 @ And it shall come to pass, for the (note:)The number of men will be so small that a few beasts will be able to nourish all abundantly.(:note) abundance of milk [that] they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

geneva@Isaiah:7:24 @ With arrows and with (note:)As they who go to seek wild beasts among the bushes.(:note) bows shall [men] come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

geneva@Isaiah:7:25 @ And [on] (note:)The mountains contrary to their will, will be tilled by such as shall flee to them for comfort.(:note) all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come there the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

geneva@Isaiah:8:1 @ Moreover the LORD said to me, Take thee a (note:)That you may write in great letters to the intent that it may be more easily read.(:note) great roll, and write in it Meaning, after the common fashion, because all men might read it. with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

geneva@Isaiah:8:2 @ And I took to me (note:)Because the thing was of great importance, he took these two witnesses, who were of credit with the people, when he set this up upon the door of the temple, even though Uriah was a flattering hypocrite, (2Ki_16:11).(:note) faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

geneva@Isaiah:8:3 @ And I went to the (note:)Meaning, to his wife and this was done in a vision.(:note) prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

geneva@Isaiah:8:4 @ For before the (note:)Before any child is able to speak.(:note) child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the That is, the army of Assyria. king of Assyria.

geneva@Isaiah:8:6 @ Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of (note:)Which was a fountain at the foot of mount Zion, out of which ran a small river through the city: meaning, that they of Judah distrusting their own power which was small desired such power and riches as they saw in Syria and Israel.(:note) Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

geneva@Isaiah:8:7 @ Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of (note:)That is, the Assyrians who dwell beyond Euphrates.(:note) the river, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks:

geneva@Isaiah:8:8 @ And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach [even] to the (note:)It will be ready to drown them.(:note) neck; and the spread of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O He speaks this to Messiah, or Christ, in whom the faithful were comforted and who would not suffer his Church to be destroyed utterly. Immanuel.

geneva@Isaiah:8:9 @ Associate yourselves, O ye (note:)That is, you who are enemies to the Church, as the Assyrians, Egyptians, Syrians etc.(:note) people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

geneva@Isaiah:8:18 @ Behold, I and the (note:)Meaning, them who were willing to hear and obey the word of God whom the world hated, as though they were monsters and not worthy to live.(:note) children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel This was a consolation in their troubles, knowing that nothing could come to them, but by the will of the Lord. from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

geneva@Isaiah:8:21 @ And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to (note:)That is, in Judah, where they would have had rest, if they had not thus grievously offended God.(:note) pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, In whom before they put their trust. and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

geneva@Isaiah:9:1 @ Nevertheless (note:)He comforts the Church again after these great threatenings promising to restore them to great glory in Messiah.(:note) the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her distress, With which Israel was punished, first by Tiglath-pilesar, which was a light scourge in respect to that which they suffered afterward by Shalmaneser, who carried the Israelites away captive. when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of While the Jews and Gentiles dwelt together by reason of those twenty cites, which Solomon gave to Hiram. the nations.

geneva@Isaiah:9:2 @ The people that (note:)Which were in captivity in Babylon and the prophets speaks of that thing which would come to pass 60 years later as though it were now done.(:note) walked in darkness have seen a great Meaning, the comfort of their deliverance. light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the This captivity and deliverance were figures of our captivity by sin and of our deliverance by Christ through the preaching of the Gospel, (Mat_4:15-16). light shined.

geneva@Isaiah:9:3 @ Thou hast (note:)Their number was greater when they went into captivity then when they returned but their joy was greater at their return, (Hag_2:9).(:note) multiplied the nation, [and] increased the joy: they rejoice before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.

geneva@Isaiah:9:4 @ For thou hast broken the (note:)You gave them perfect joy by delivering them, and by destroying the tyrants, that had kept them in cruel bondage, as you delivered them by Gideon from the Midianites, (Jdg_7:21).(:note) yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

geneva@Isaiah:9:5 @ For every battle of the warrior [is] with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be (note:)He speaks of the deliverance of his Church, which he has delivered miraculously from his enemies, but especially by the coming of Christ of whom he prophecies in the next verse.(:note) with burning [and] fuel of fire.

geneva@Isaiah:9:6 @ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting (note:)The author of eternity, and by whom the Church and every member of it will be preserved forever, and have immortal life.(:note) Father, The Prince of Peace.

geneva@Isaiah:9:7 @ Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. (note:)His singular love and care for his elect.(:note) The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

geneva@Isaiah:9:11 @ Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of (note:)Rezin king of Syria, who was in league with Israel, was slain by the Assyrians, after whose death, Aram that is, the Syrians were against Israel, who on the other side were assailed by the Philistines.(:note) Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

geneva@Isaiah:9:17 @ Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their yong men, neither will he haue compassion of their fatherlesse and of their widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh follie: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out stil.

geneva@Isaiah:9:18 @ For wickedness (note:)Wickedness as a bellows kindles the fire of God's wrath which consumes all his obstinate enemies.(:note) burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the rising of smoke.

geneva@Isaiah:9:19 @ Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall (note:)Though there was no foreign enemy, yet they will destroy one another.(:note) spare his brother.

geneva@Isaiah:9:20 @ And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the (note:)Their greediness will be insatiable, so that one brother will eat up another, as though he should eat his own flesh.(:note) flesh of his own arm:

geneva@Isaiah:9:21 @ Manasseh, Ephraim: and Ephraim Manasseh, and they both shall be against Iudah yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

geneva@Isaiah:10:3 @ And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation [which] shall come from (note:)That is, from Assyria.(:note) far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your Your riches and authority, that they may be safe and that you may receive them again. glory?

geneva@Isaiah:10:5 @ O (note:)God calls for the Assyrians to be the executioners of his vengeance.(:note) Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.

geneva@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send (note:)That is, the Assyrians against the Jews who are hypocrites. In the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act: for God's intention is to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves. Thus in respect to God's justice, it is God's work, but in respect to their own malice, it is the work of the devil.(:note) him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I command him, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

geneva@Isaiah:10:9 @ [Is] not Calno as (note:)Seeing that I have overcome one city as well as another, so that none could resist, shall Jerusalem be able to escape my hands?(:note) Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?

geneva@Isaiah:10:10 @ Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles, seeing their idoles were aboue Ierusalem, and aboue Samaria:

geneva@Isaiah:10:11 @ Shall not I, as I haue done to Samaria, and to the idoles thereof, so doe to Ierusalem and to the idoles thereof?

geneva@Isaiah:10:12 @ Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed (note:)When he has sufficiently chastised his people (for he begins at his own house) then will he burn the rods.(:note) his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart Meaning of Sennacherib. of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

geneva@Isaiah:10:13 @ Because he said, By ye power of mine owne hand haue I done it, and by my wisdome, because I am wise: therefore I haue remooued the borders of the people, and haue spoyled their treasures, and haue pulled downe the inhabitants like a valiant man.

geneva@Isaiah:10:14 @ And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one gathereth egges that are left, so haue I gathered all the earth: and there was none to mooue the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.

geneva@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the (note:)Here we see that no creature is able to do anything, but as God appoints him, and that they are all his instruments to do his work though the intentions are diverse, as in (Isa_10:6).(:note) axe boast itself against him that heweth with it? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it, [or] as if the staff should lift [itself, as if it were] no wood.

geneva@Isaiah:10:17 @ And the light of Israel shall be for a (note:)Meaning that God is a light to comfort his people and a fire to burn his enemies.(:note) fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour That is, the Assyrians. his thorns and his briers in one day;

geneva@Isaiah:10:18 @ And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul (note:)That is, body and soul utterly.(:note) and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer When the battle is lost and the standard taken. fainteth.

geneva@Isaiah:10:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall (note:)This is the end of God's plagues toward his, to bring them to him, and to forsake all trust in others.(:note) lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

geneva@Isaiah:10:22 @ For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the full end (note:)This small number which seemed to be consumed and yet according to God's decree is saved, will be sufficient to fill all the world with righteousness.(:note) decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:10:23 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a full end, even (note:)God will destroy this land as he has determined and later save a small portion.(:note) determined, in the midst of all the land.

geneva@Isaiah:10:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of (note:)As the Egyptians punished you.(:note) Egypt.

geneva@Isaiah:10:26 @ And the LORD of hosts shall raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of (note:)Read (Isa_9:4).(:note) Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the When the Israelites passed through by the lifting up of Moses' rod, and the enemies were drowned, (Exo_14:28). sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

geneva@Isaiah:10:27 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of (note:)Because of the promise made to that kingdom, by which Christ's kingdom was prefigured.(:note) the anointing.

geneva@Isaiah:10:28 @ He is come to (note:)He describes by what way the Assyrians would come against Jerusalem, to confirm the faithful, when it would come to pass, that as their plague was come, so should they be delivered.(:note) Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath attended to his carriages:

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:11:6 @ The (note:)Men because of their wicked affections are named by the names of beasts, in which the same affections reign: but Christ by his Spirit will reform them, and work in them such mutual charity, that they will be like lambs, favouring and loving one another and cast off all their cruel affections, (Isa_65:25).(:note) wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

geneva@Isaiah:11:8 @ And the sucking childe shall play vpon the hole of the aspe, and the wained childe shall put his hand vpon the cockatrice hole.

geneva@Isaiah:11:9 @ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as (note:)It will be in as great abundance as the waters in the sea.(:note) the waters cover the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:11:11 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand (note:)For God first delivered his people out of Egypt and now promises to deliver them out of their enemies hands as from the Parthians, Persians, Chaldeans and them of Antioch among whom they were dispersed and this is chiefly meant of Christ, who calls his people being dispersed through all the world.(:note) again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the isles of the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:11:12 @ And he shall set vp a signe to the nations, and assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather the scattered of Iudah from the foure corners of the worlde.

geneva@Isaiah:11:14 @ But they shall flee vpon the shoulders of the Philistims toward the West: they shall spoyle them of the East together: Edom and Moab shall be the stretching out of their hands, and the children of Ammon in their obedience.

geneva@Isaiah:11:15 @ And the LORD shall utterly destroy the (note:)Meaning a corner of the sea that enters into the land and has the form of a tongue.(:note) tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand That is, Nile, the great river of Egypt which enters into the sea with seven streams. over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod.

geneva@Isaiah:11:16 @ And there shalbe a path to the remnant of his people, which are left of Asshur, like as it was vnto Israel in the day that he came vp out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Isaiah:12:1 @ And in that day thou (note:)He shows how the Church will praise God, when they are delivered from their captivity.(:note) shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away, and thou didst comfort me.

geneva@Isaiah:12:2 @ Behold, God [is] my (note:)Our salvation stands only in God, who gives us an assured confidence, constancy and opportunity to praise him for the same.(:note) salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.

geneva@Isaiah:12:3 @ Therefore with joy shall ye (note:)The graces of God will be so abundant that you may receive them in as great plenty as waters out of a fountain that is full.(:note) draw water out of the wells of salvation.

geneva@Isaiah:13:1 @ The (note:)That is, the great calamity which was prophesied to come on Babel, a grievous burden which they were not able to bear. In these twelve chapters following he speaks of the plagues with which God would smite the strange nations (whom they knew) to declare that God chastised the Israelites as his children and these others as his enemies: and also that if God does not spare these who are ignorant, they must not think strange if he punishes them who have knowledge of his Law, and do not keep it.(:note) burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

geneva@Isaiah:13:6 @ Wail (note:)You Babylonians.(:note) ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

geneva@Isaiah:13:8 @ And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] (note:)The Babylonians anger and grief will be so much that their faces will burn as fire.(:note) flames.

geneva@Isaiah:13:9 @ Beholde, the day of the Lorde commeth, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land wast: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.

geneva@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will punish the (note:)He compares Babylon to the whole world because they so esteemed themselves by reason of their great empire.(:note) world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the He notes the principal vice, to which they are most given as are all that abound in wealth. proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

geneva@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make a (note:)He notes the great slaughter that will be, seeing the enemy will neither for gold or silver spare a man's life as in (Isa_13:17).(:note) man more rare than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

geneva@Isaiah:13:14 @ And (note:)Meaning the power of Babylon with their hired soldiers.(:note) it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one to his own land.

geneva@Isaiah:13:16 @ Their (note:)This was not accomplished when Cyrus took Babylon, but after the death of Alexander the great.(:note) children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

geneva@Isaiah:13:18 @ With bowes also shall they destroy ye children, and shall haue no compassion vpon the fruit of the wombe, and their eies shall not spare the children.

geneva@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babel the glorie of kingdomes, the beautie and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorah.

geneva@Isaiah:13:20 @ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the (note:)Who used to go from country to country to find pasture for their beasts, but they will find none.(:note) Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

geneva@Isaiah:13:21 @ But (note:)Who were either wild beasts or fools, or wicked spirits, by which Satan deluded man, as by the fairies, goblins, and such like fantasies.(:note) wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

geneva@Isaiah:13:22 @ And Iim shall crie in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and the time thereof is readie to come, and the daies thereof shall not be prolonged.

geneva@Isaiah:14:1 @ For (note:)He shows why God will haste to destroy his enemies, that is, because he will deliver his Church.(:note) the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers Meaning that the Gentiles will be joined with the Church and worship God. shall be joined with them, and they shall unite with the house of Jacob.

geneva@Isaiah:14:4 @ Then shalt thou take vp this prouerbe against the King of Babel, and say, Howe hath the oppressor ceased? & the gold thirsty Babel rested?

geneva@Isaiah:14:9 @ Hell from beneath is moved for thee to (note:)As though they feared, lest you should trouble the dead, as you did the living and here he derides the proud tyranny of the wicked, who know not that all creatures wish their destruction, that they may rejoice.(:note) meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

geneva@Isaiah:14:10 @ All they shall crie, and saie vnto thee, Art thou become weake also as we? Art thou become like vnto vs?

geneva@Isaiah:14:12 @ How art thou fallen from heaven, O (note:)You who thought yourself most glorious and as it were placed in the heaven for the morning star that goes before the sun, is called Lucifer, to whom Nebuchadnezzar is compared.(:note) Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

geneva@Isaiah:14:13 @ For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the (note:)Meaning, Jerusalem of which the temple was of the north side, (Psa_48:2).(:note) north:

geneva@Isaiah:14:14 @ I wil ascend aboue ye height of the cloudes, and I will be like the most high.

geneva@Isaiah:14:17 @ [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; [that] opened not (note:)To set them free, noting his cruelty.(:note) the house of his prisoners?

geneva@Isaiah:14:19 @ But thou art (note:)You were not buried in the sepulchre of your fathers, your tyranny was so abhorred.(:note) cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

geneva@Isaiah:14:20 @ Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in the graue, because thou hast destroied thine owne lande, and slaine thy people: the seede of the wicked shall not be renoumed for euer.

geneva@Isaiah:14:24 @ The Lorde of hostes hath sworne, saying, Surely like as I haue purposed, so shall it come to passe, and as I haue consulted, it shall stand:

geneva@Isaiah:14:28 @ In the year that king Ahaz died was this (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden.

geneva@Isaiah:14:29 @ Rejoice not thou, all (note:)He wills the Philistines not to rejoice because the Jews are diminished in their power, for their strength will be greater than it ever was.(:note) Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.

geneva@Isaiah:14:31 @ Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, all Palestina, [art] dissolved: for there shall come from the (note:)That is, from the Jews or Assyrians: for they were brought to extreme misery.(:note) north a smoke, and none [shall be] But they shall all be ready and join together. alone in his appointed times.

geneva@Isaiah:15:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of Moab. Because in the night The chief city by which the whole country was meant. Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;

geneva@Isaiah:15:5 @ My (note:)The prophet speaks this in the person of the Moabites: or as one who felt the great judgment of God that God would come on them.(:note) heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] to Zoar, Meaning that it was a city that always lived in pleasure and never felt sorrow. an heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping for in the way of Horonaim they He describes the miserable dissipation and flight of the Moabites. shall raise a cry of destruction.

geneva@Isaiah:15:6 @ For the waters of Nimrim shal be dried vp: therefore the grasse is withered, the herbes consumed, and there was no greene herbe.

geneva@Isaiah:16:2 @ For it shall be, [that], as a (note:)There is no remedy but that you must flee.(:note) wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

geneva@Isaiah:16:3 @ Take counsel, execute judgment; (note:)He shows what Moab would have done, when Israel their neighbour was in affliction, to whom because they would give no shadow or comfort, they are now left comfortless.(:note) make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.

geneva@Isaiah:16:4 @ Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner (note:)The Assyrians will oppress the Israelites but for a while.(:note) is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

geneva@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: (note:)That is, the Assyrians and other enemies.(:note) the lords of the nations have broken down her principal plants, they have come [even] to Meaning that the country of Moab was now destroyed, and all the precious things of it were carried into the borders yea into other countries and over the sea. Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:16:9 @ Therefore I will (note:)He shows that their plague was so great that it would have moved any man to lament with them, as in (Psa_141:5).(:note) bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy The enemies are come upon you, and shout for joy when they carry your conveniences from you as in (Jer_48:33). harvest is fallen.

geneva@Isaiah:16:10 @ And gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to cease.

geneva@Isaiah:16:11 @ Wherefore my (note:)For sorrow and compassion.(:note) heart shall sound like an harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

geneva@Isaiah:16:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his (note:)They will use all means to seek help for their idols, and all in vain: for Chemosh their great god will not be able to help them.(:note) sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

geneva@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, (note:)He appointed a certain time to punish the enemies in.(:note) Within three years, as the years of an Who will observe justly the time for which he is hired and serve no longer but will ever long for it. hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble.

geneva@Isaiah:17:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of The chief city of Syria. Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

geneva@Isaiah:17:2 @ The cities of (note:)It was a country of Syria by the river Arnon.(:note) Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.

geneva@Isaiah:17:3 @ The fortress also shall cease from (note:)It seems that the prophet would comfort the Church in declaring the destruction of these two kings of Syria and Israel, when as they had conspired the overthrow of Judah.(:note) Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the The ten tribes gloried in their multitude and alliance with other nations: therefore he says that they will be brought down and the Syrians also. glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Isaiah:17:4 @ And in that day it shall come to pass, [that] the glory of (note:)Meaning, of the ten tribes who boasted themselves of their nobility, prosperity, strength and multitude.(:note) Jacob shall be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

geneva@Isaiah:17:5 @ And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth (note:)As the abundance of corn does not fear the harvest men that would cut it down: no more will the multitude of Israel make the enemies shrink, whom God will appoint to destroy them.(:note) the grain, and reapeth the heads with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth heads in the valley of A valley which was plentiful and fertile. Rephaim.

geneva@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes shall (note:)Because God would have his covenant stable, he promises to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance.(:note) be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:17:8 @ And hee shall not looke to the altars, the workes of his owne hands, neither shall he looke to those thinges, which his owne fingers haue made, as groues and images.

geneva@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which (note:)As the Canaanites left their cities when God placed the Israelites there, so the cities of Israel will not be able to defend their inhabitants any more than bushes, when God will send the enemy to plague them.(:note) they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

geneva@Isaiah:17:10 @ Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign (note:)Which are excellent and brought out of other countries.(:note) slips:

geneva@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day (note:)As the Lord threatens the wicked in his law, (Lev_26:16).(:note) of grief and of desperate sorrow.

geneva@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall (note:)He adds this for the consolation of the faithful who were in Israel.(:note) rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

geneva@Isaiah:17:14 @ And behold at the time of evening (note:)He compares the Assyrians to a tempest which rises overnight and in the morning is gone.(:note) trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that plunder us, and the lot of them that rob us.

geneva@Isaiah:18:1 @ Woe to the (note:)He means that part of Ethiopia which lies toward the sea, which was so full of ships that the sails (which he compares to wings) seemed to shadow the sea.(:note) land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the rivers of Cush:

geneva@Isaiah:18:2 @ That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of (note:)Which is those countries were great, so much so that they made ships from them for swiftness.(:note) bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], This may be taken that they sent others to comfort the Jews and to promise them help against their enemies, and so the Lord threatened to take away their strength, that the Jews should not trust in it: or that they solicited the Egyptians and promised them aid to go against Judah. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a That is, the Jews who because of God's plague made all other nations afraid of the same, as God threatened in (Deu_28:37). people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the Meaning the Assyrians, (Isa_8:7). rivers have laid waste!

geneva@Isaiah:18:4 @ For so the LORD said to me, I will take my (note:)I will stay a while from punishing the wicked.(:note) rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a Which two seasons are profitable for the ripening of fruit, by which he means that he will seem to favour them and give them abundance for a time, but he will suddenly cut them off. clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

geneva@Isaiah:18:6 @ They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the (note:)Not only men will contemn them, but the brute beast.(:note) beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

geneva@Isaiah:18:7 @ In that time shall the (note:)Meaning that God will pity his Church, and receive that little remnant as an offering to himself.(:note) present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and stripped, and from a people terrible from their beginning to this time; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

geneva@Isaiah:19:2 @ And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall (note:)As he caused the Ammonites, Moabites and Idumeans to kill one another, when they came to destroy the Church of God, (2Ch_20:22; Isa_49:26).(:note) fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.

geneva@Isaiah:19:5 @ And the waters shall (note:)He shows that the sea and their great river Nile by which they thought themselves most sure, would not be able to defend them but that he would send the Assyrians among them, that would keep them under as slaves.(:note) fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.

geneva@Isaiah:19:6 @ And they shall turn the (note:)For the Nile ran into the sea by seven streams, as though they were many rivers.(:note) rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

geneva@Isaiah:19:7 @ The paper reeds by the brooks, by the (note:)The Hebrew word is mouth, by which they mean the spring out of which the water gushes as out of a mouth.(:note) mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no [more].

geneva@Isaiah:19:8 @ The fishermen also shall (note:)The Scriptures describe the destruction of a country by the taking away of the conveniences of it, as by vines, flesh, fish and such other things by which countries are enriched.(:note) mourn, and all they that cast hook into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

geneva@Isaiah:19:11 @ Surely the princes of (note:)Called also Tanes, a famous city on the Nile.(:note) Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become senseless: how say ye to Pharaoh, I He notes the flatterers of Pharaoh: who persuaded the king that he was wise and noble, and that his house was ancient and so he flatters himself, saying I am wise. [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

geneva@Isaiah:19:14 @ The LORD hath mingled a (note:)For the spirit of wisdom he has made them drunken and giddy with the spirit of error.(:note) perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.

geneva@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah shall be a terror (note:)Considering that through their opportunity the Jews did not make God their defence but put their trust in them, and were therefore now punished, they will fear least the same light on them.(:note) to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

geneva@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt (note:)Will make one confession of faith with the people of God, by the speech of Canaan, meaning the language in which God was then served.(:note) speak the language of Canaan, and Will renounce their superstitions and protest to serve God correctly. swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of Meaning of six cities, five would serve God, and the sixth would remain in their wickedness: and so there would be but one lost. destruction.

geneva@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and (note:)There will be evident signs and tokens, that God's religion is there: which manner of speech is taken of the patriarchs and ancient time, when God has not as yet appointed the place, and full manner how he would be worshipped.(:note) a pillar at its border to the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:19:23 @ In that day shall there be a highway from (note:)By these two nations, which were then chief enemies of the Church, he shows that the Gentiles and the Jews would be joined together in one faith and religion, and would all be one fold under Christ their shepherd.(:note) Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

geneva@Isaiah:19:24 @ In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and Asshur, euen a blessing in the middes of the land.

geneva@Isaiah:19:25 @ For the Lorde of hostes shall blesse it, saying, Blessed be my people Egypt and Asshur, the worke of mine hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

geneva@Isaiah:20:1 @ In the year that (note:)Who was captain of Sennacherib, (2Ki_18:17).(:note) Tartan came to A city of the Philistines. Ashdod, (when The Hebrews write that Sennacherib was so called. Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

geneva@Isaiah:20:3 @ And the Lord said, Like as my seruant Isaiah hath walked naked, & barefoote three yeeres, as a signe and wonder vpon Egypt, and Ethiopia,

geneva@Isaiah:20:4 @ So shall the King of Asshur take away the captiuitie of Egypt, and the captiuitie of Ethiopia, both yong men and olde men, naked and barefoote, with their buttockes vncouered, to the shame of Egypt.

geneva@Isaiah:20:5 @ And they shall be afraid and ashamed of (note:)In whose aid they trusted.(:note) Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their Of whom they boasted and gloried. glory.

geneva@Isaiah:20:6 @ And the inhabitant of this (note:)Meaning Judea which was encompassed by their enemies as an isle with waters.(:note) isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

geneva@Isaiah:21:1 @ The burden of the (note:)On the seaside between Judea and Caldea was a wilderness, by which he means Caldea.(:note) desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, That is, the ruin of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. from a terrible land.

geneva@Isaiah:21:2 @ A grievous vision is declared to me; the (note:)The Assyrians and Chaldeans who had destroyed other nations will be overcome by the Medes and Persians: and this he prophesied a hundred years before it came to pass.(:note) treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O By Elam he means the Persians. Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made Because they will find no comfort, they will mourn no more, or I have caused them to cease mourning, whom Babylon had afflicted. to cease.

geneva@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore are my (note:)This the prophet speaks in the person of the Babylonians.(:note) loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].

geneva@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart panted, fearfulness terrified me: the night (note:)He prophecies the death of Belshazzar as in (Dan_5:30) who in the midst of his pleasures was destroyed.(:note) of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me.

geneva@Isaiah:21:9 @ And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And (note:)The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who came toward Babylon, and the angel declared that it would be destroyed: all this was done in a vision.(:note) he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken to the ground.

geneva@Isaiah:21:11 @ The burden of (note:)Which was a city of the Ishmaelites and was so named by Dumah, (Gen_25:14).(:note) Dumah. He calleth to me out of A mountain of the Idumeans. Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

geneva@Isaiah:21:14 @ The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought (note:)Signifying that for fear they will not tarry to eat or drink.(:note) water to him that was thirsty, they met with their bread him that fled.

geneva@Isaiah:21:17 @ And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of (note:)Which was the name of a people of Arabia: and by the horrible destruction of all these nations, he teaches the Jews that there is no place for refuge or to escape God's wrath, but only to remain in his Church, and to live in his fear.(:note) Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it].

geneva@Isaiah:22:1 @ The burden of the (note:)Meaning, Judea, which was compassed about with mountains, and was called the valley of visions, because of the prophets, who were always there, whom they named Seers.(:note) valley of vision. What He speaks to Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled up to the housetops for fear of their enemies. aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the housetops?

geneva@Isaiah:22:2 @ Thou that art full of (note:)Which was wont to be full of people and joy.(:note) shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are] not slain But for hunger. with the sword, nor dead in battle.

geneva@Isaiah:22:8 @ And he uncovered the (note:)The secret place where the armour was: that is, in the house of the forest, (1Ki_7:2).(:note) coverings of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

geneva@Isaiah:22:9 @ Ye have seen also (note:)You forfeited the ruinous places which were neglected in times of peace: meaning, the whole City, and the City of David, which was within the compass of the other.(:note) the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

geneva@Isaiah:22:10 @ And ye have numbered the houses (note:)Either to pull down such as might hurt, or else to know what men they were able to make.(:note) of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

geneva@Isaiah:22:11 @ Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the (note:)To provide if need should be of water.(:note) water of the old pool: but ye have not looked to To God who made Jerusalem: that is, they trusted more in these worldly means than in God. its maker, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.

geneva@Isaiah:22:14 @ And it was declared in ye eares of the Lorde of hostes. Surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.

geneva@Isaiah:22:15 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, repair to this (note:)Because the Hebrew word also signifies one who nourishes and cherishes, there are those of the scholars who think that this wicked man nourished a secret friendship with the Assyrians and Egyptians to betray the Church and to provide for himself against all dangers: in the mean season he packed craftily, and got of the best offices into his hand under Hezekiah, ever aspiring to the highest.(:note) treasurer, [even] to Shebna, who [is] over the house, [and say],

geneva@Isaiah:22:16 @ What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre (note:)Meaning, that he was a stranger, and came up of nothing.(:note) here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that cut out an habitation While he thought to make his name immortal by his famous sepulchre, he died most miserably among the Assyrians. for himself in a rock?

geneva@Isaiah:22:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will (note:)To be steward again, out of which office he had been put, by the craft of Shebna.(:note) call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

geneva@Isaiah:22:23 @ And I will fasten him [as] a (note:)I will establish him, and confirm him in his office, of this phrase read (Ezr_9:9).(:note) nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

geneva@Isaiah:22:25 @ In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the (note:)He means Shebna, who in man's judgment should never have fallen.(:note) nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

geneva@Isaiah:23:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of You of Cilicia that come here for merchandise. Tarshish; for Tyrus is destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of By Chittim they meant all the isles and countries west of Palestine. Chittim it is All men know of this destruction. revealed to them.

geneva@Isaiah:23:2 @ Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have (note:)Have hunted and enriched you.(:note) replenished.

geneva@Isaiah:23:3 @ And by great waters the (note:)Meaning, the corn of Egypt which was fed by the overflowing of the Nile.(:note) seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, [is] her revenue; and she is a merchandise of nations.

geneva@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the (note:)That is, Tyrus, which was the chief part of the sea.(:note) sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of the sea, saying, I I have no people left in me, and am as a barren woman, that never had children. travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish young men, [nor] bring up virgins.

geneva@Isaiah:23:5 @ As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be (note:)Because these two countries were joined in league together.(:note) greatly pained at the report of Tyre.

geneva@Isaiah:23:6 @ Pass ye over to (note:)Tyrus wills other merchants to go to Cilicia, and to come no more there.(:note) Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the isle.

geneva@Isaiah:23:10 @ Pass through thy land as a river, O (note:)Your strength will no more serve you: therefore flee to other countries for comfort.(:note) daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no more strength.

geneva@Isaiah:23:12 @ And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed (note:)For Tyre was never touched nor afflicted before.(:note) virgin, Because Tyrus was built by them of Zidon. daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

geneva@Isaiah:23:13 @ Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, [till] the (note:)The Chaldeans who dwelt in tents in the wilderness were gathered by the Assyrians into cities.(:note) Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up its towers, they raised up its palaces; [and] he The people of the Chaldeans destroyed the Assyrians: by which the prophet means that seeing the Chaldaeans were able to overcome the Assyrians who were so great a nation, much more will these two nations of Chaldea and Assyria be able to overthrow Tyrus. brought it to ruin.

geneva@Isaiah:23:14 @ Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your (note:)That is, Tyrus by whom you are enriched.(:note) strength is laid waste.

geneva@Isaiah:23:15 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of (note:)Tyrus will lie destroyed seventy years which he calls the reign of one king, or a man's age.(:note) seventy years shall Tyre Will use all craft and subtilty to entice men again to her. sing as an harlot.

geneva@Isaiah:23:16 @ Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; (note:)She will labour by all means to recover her first credit, as a harlot when she is long forgotten, seeks by all means to entertain her lovers.(:note) make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

geneva@Isaiah:23:17 @ And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her (note:)Though she has been chastised by the Lord, yet she will return to her old wicked practises and for gain will give herself to all men's lusts like a harlot.(:note) hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:23:18 @ And her merchandise and her hire shall be (note:)He shows that God yet by the preaching of the gospel will call Tyre to repentance and turn her heart from evil and filthy gain, to the true worshipping of God, and liberality toward his saints.(:note) holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food and for durable clothing.

geneva@Isaiah:24:1 @ Behold, the LORD maketh the (note:)This prophecy is as a conclusion of that which has been threatened to the Jews and other nations from the 13th chapter and therefore by the earth he means those lands which were named before.(:note) earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

geneva@Isaiah:24:2 @ And it shall be, as with the people, so with the (note:)Because this was a name of dignity it was also applied to them who were not of Aaron's family, and so signifies also a man of dignity, as in (2Sa_8:18; 2Sa_20:25; 1Ch_18:17) and by these words the prophet signifies a horrible confusion, where there will be neither religion, order nor policy, (Hos_4:9).(:note) priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

geneva@Isaiah:24:5 @ The earth (note:)That is, does not give her fruit for the sin of the people, whom the earth deceived of their nourishment because they deceived God of his honour.(:note) also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

geneva@Isaiah:24:6 @ Therefore hath the (note:)Written in the law, as in (Lev_26:14; Deu_28:16) thus the prophets used to apply particularly the menaces and promises which are general in the law.(:note) curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are With heat and drought, or else that they were consumed with the fire of God's wrath. burned, and few men left.

geneva@Isaiah:24:8 @ The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.

geneva@Isaiah:24:10 @ The city of (note:)Which as it was without order so now should it be brought to desolation and confusion: and this was not only meant of Jerusalem, but of all the other wicked cities.(:note) confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.

geneva@Isaiah:24:11 @ [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the (note:)Because they did not use God's benefits correctly their pleasures would fail, and they would fall to mourning.(:note) mirth of the land is gone.

geneva@Isaiah:24:13 @ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, [there shall be] (note:)He comforts the faithful, declaring that in this great desolation the Lord will assemble his Church which will praise his Name, as in (Isa_10:22).(:note) as the shaking of an olive tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

geneva@Isaiah:24:14 @ They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from (note:)From the utmost coasts of the world, where the gospel will be preached as in (Isa_24:16).(:note) the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the (note:)Meaning to God, who will publish his gospel through all the world.(:note) righteous. But I said, I am consumed with care, considering the affliction of the Church, both by foreign enemies and domestic. Some read, My secret, my secret: that is, it was revealed to the prophet, that the good would be preserved and the wicked destroyed. My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

geneva@Isaiah:24:18 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the (note:)Meaning that God's wrath and vengeance would be over and under them, so that they would not escape no more than they did at Noah's flood.(:note) windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

geneva@Isaiah:24:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall (note:)There is no power so high or mighty, but God will visit him with his rods.(:note) punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:24:22 @ And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be (note:)Not with his rods as in (Isa_24:21) but will be comforted.(:note) visited.

geneva@Isaiah:25:1 @ O LORD, thou (note:)Thus the prophet gives thanks to God because he will bring under subjection these nations by his corrections, and make them of his Church, who before were his enemies.(:note) [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.

geneva@Isaiah:25:2 @ For thou hast made of a (note:)Not only of Jerusalem, but also of these other cities which have been your enemies.(:note) city an heap; [of] a fortified city a ruin: a palace That is, a place where all vagabonds may live without danger and as it were at ease as in a palace. of foreigners to be no city; it shall never be built.

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:25:5 @ Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the (note:)Meaning, that as the heat is abated by the rain, so shall God bring down the rage of the wicked.(:note) heat in a dry place; As a cloud shades from the heat of the sun, so God will assuage the rejoicing of the wicked against the godly. [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

geneva@Isaiah:25:6 @ And on this (note:)That is, in Zion, by which he means his Church, which would under Christ be assembled of the Jews and the Gentiles, and is here described under the figure of a costly banquet, as in (Mat_22:2).(:note) mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

geneva@Isaiah:25:7 @ And he will destroy on this mountain (note:)Meaning, that ignorance and blindness, by which we are kept back from Christ.(:note) the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

geneva@Isaiah:25:10 @ For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and (note:)By Moab are meant all the enemies of his Church.(:note) Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the There were two cities by this name: one in Judah, (1Ch_6:81) and another in the land of Moab, (Jer_48:2) which seems to have been a plentiful place of corn, (Isa_36:17). dunghill.

geneva@Isaiah:25:11 @ And he shall stretche out his hande in the middes of them (as he that swimmeth, stretcheth them out to swimme) and with the strength of his handes shall he bring downe their pride.

geneva@Isaiah:25:12 @ The defence also of the height of thy walles shall he bring downe and lay lowe, and cast them to the ground, euen vnto the dust.

geneva@Isaiah:26:1 @ In that day shall (note:)This song was made to comfort the faithful when their captivity would come, assuring them also of their deliverance, for which they should sing this song.(:note) this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; God's protection and defence will be sufficient for us. salvation will [God] appoint [for] walls and bulwarks.

geneva@Isaiah:26:11 @ LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] (note:)Through envy and indignation against your people.(:note) envy at the people; yea, the fire of thy The fire and vengeance with which you destroy your enemies. enemies shall devour them.

geneva@Isaiah:26:12 @ Lord, vnto vs thou wilt ordeine peace: for thou also hast wrought all our workes for vs.

geneva@Isaiah:26:14 @ [They are] (note:)Meaning that the reprobate even in this life will have the beginning of everlasting death.(:note) dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

geneva@Isaiah:26:15 @ Thou hast increased (note:)That is, the company of the faithful by the calling of the Gentiles.(:note) the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed [it] far [to] all the ends of the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:26:16 @ LORD, in trouble have they (note:)That is, the faithful by the rods were moved to pray to you for deliverance.(:note) visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.

geneva@Isaiah:26:17 @ As a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy (note:)That is, in extreme sorrow.(:note) sight, O LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:26:18 @ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth (note:)Our sorrows had no end, neither did we enjoy the comfort that we looked for.(:note) wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of The wicked and men without religion were not destroyed. the world fallen.

geneva@Isaiah:26:20 @ Come, my people, (note:)He exhorts the faithful to be patient in their afflictions and to wait on God's work.(:note) enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation shall be past.

geneva@Isaiah:26:21 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her (note:)The earth will vomit and cast out the innocent blood, which it has drunk, that it may care for vengeance against the wicked.(:note) blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

geneva@Isaiah:27:1 @ In that (note:)At the time appointed.(:note) day the LORD with his severe and great and strong That is, by his mighty power, and by his word. He prophecies here of the destruction of Satan and his kingdom under the name of Liviashan, Assur, and Egypt. sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:27:2 @ In that day sing ye to her, A vineyard (note:)Meaning, of the best wine, which this vineyard, that is, the Church would bring forth, as most agreeable to the Lord.(:note) of red wine.

geneva@Isaiah:27:3 @ I the Lorde doe keepe it: I will water it euery moment: least any assaile it, I will keepe it night and day.

geneva@Isaiah:27:7 @ Hath he smitten (note:)He shows that God punishes his in mercy, and his enemies in justice.(:note) him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

geneva@Isaiah:27:8 @ In (note:)That is, you will not destroy the root of your Church, though the branches of it seem to perish by the sharp wind of affliction.(:note) measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

geneva@Isaiah:27:9 @ By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the (note:)He shows that there is no true repentance nor full reconciliation to God, till the heart is purged from all idolatry and the monuments of it are destroyed.(:note) fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten asunder, the idols and images shall not stand up.

geneva@Isaiah:27:10 @ Yet the (note:)Not withstanding his favour that he will show them later, yet Jerusalem will be destroyed, and grass for cattle will grow in it.(:note) fortified city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its branches.

geneva@Isaiah:27:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall gather from the channel of the (note:)He will destroy all from the Euphrates to the Nile: for some fled toward Egypt, thinking to have escaped.(:note) river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:27:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be (note:)In the time of Cyrus, by whom they would be delivered: but this was chiefly accomplished under Christ.(:note) blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD on the holy mount at Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:28:1 @ Woe to the (note:)Meaning, the proud kingdom of the Israelites, who were drunk with worldly prosperity.(:note) crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, who [are] on the head of the rich Because the Israelites for the most part dwelt in plentiful valleys, he means by this the valley of them who had abundance of worldly prosperity and were as it were crowned with garlands. valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

geneva@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and (note:)He seems to mean the Assyrians, by whom the ten tribes were carried away.(:note) strong one, [which] as a tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

geneva@Isaiah:28:4 @ And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the rich valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as (note:)Which is not of long continuance, but is soon ripe and first eaten.(:note) the early fruit before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

geneva@Isaiah:28:13 @ But the word of the (note:)Because they will not receive the word of God, when it is offered, it comes of their own malice, if after their hearts are so hardened, that they care not for it, as before, (Isa_6:9).(:note) LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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

geneva@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a (note:)That is, Christ, by whom all the building must be tried and upheld, (Psa_118:22; Mat_21:42; Act_4:11; Rom_9:33; 1Pe_2:6).(:note) tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth He will be quiet, and seek no other remedies, but be content with Christ. shall not make haste.

geneva@Isaiah:28:18 @ And your couenant with death shalbe disanulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall runne ouer and passe through, then shall ye be trode downe by it.

geneva@Isaiah:28:19 @ From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a (note:)Terror and destruction will make you learn that which exhortations and gentleness could not bring you to.(:note) vexation only [to] understand the report.

geneva@Isaiah:28:21 @ For the LORD shall rise as [on] mount (note:)When David overcame the Philistines, (2Sa_5:20; 1Ch_14:11).(:note) Perazim, he shall be angry as [in] the valley Where Joshua discomfited five kings of the Amorites, (Jos_10:12). of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

geneva@Isaiah:28:22 @ Nowe therefore be no mockers, least your bondes increase: for I haue heard of the Lorde of hostes a consumption, euen determined vpon the whole earth.

geneva@Isaiah:28:25 @ When he hath made (note:)As the plowman has his appointed time, and various instruments for his labour, so has the Lord for his vengeance: for he punishes some at one time, and some at another, some after one sort, and some after another, so that his chosen seed is beaten and tried, but not broken as are the wicked.(:note) even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the wheat in rows and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?

geneva@Isaiah:29:1 @ Woe to (note:)Or Ariel: the Hebrew word Ariel signifies the Lion of God, and signifies the Altar, because the altar seemed to devour the sacrifice that was offered to God, as in (Eze_43:16).(:note) Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; Your vain confidence in your sacrifices will not last long. let them kill sacrifices.

geneva@Isaiah:29:2 @ Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be to me (note:)Your city will be full of blood as an altar on which they sacrifice.(:note) as Ariel.

geneva@Isaiah:29:3 @ And I wil besiege thee as a circle, and fight against thee on a mount, and will cast vp ramparts against thee.

geneva@Isaiah:29:4 @ And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of the (note:)Your speech will be no longer be so lofty but abased and low as the very charmers who are in low places and whisper, so that their voice can scarcely by heard.(:note) ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, like a medium, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

geneva@Isaiah:29:5 @ Moreover the multitude of thy (note:)Your hired soldiers in whom you trusted, will be destroyed as dust or chaff in a whirlwind.(:note) strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

geneva@Isaiah:29:7 @ And the (note:)The enemies that I will bring to destroy you, and that which you place your vain trust in will come at unawares even as a dream in the night. Some read as if this was a comfort to the Church for the destruction of their enemies.(:note) multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her strong hold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

geneva@Isaiah:29:8 @ It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and, behold, (note:)That is, he thinks that he eats.(:note) he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

geneva@Isaiah:29:11 @ And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I (note:)Meaning, that it is all alike, either to read, or not to read, unless God open the heart to understand.(:note) cannot; for it [is] sealed:

geneva@Isaiah:29:13 @ Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people (note:)Because they are hypocrites and not sincere in heart, as in (Mat_15:7-8).(:note) draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their That is, their religion was learned by man's doctrine, and not by my word. fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

geneva@Isaiah:29:16 @ Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed (note:)For all your craft says the Lord, you are not able to escape my hands any more than the clay that is in the potter's hands has power to deliver itself.(:note) as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing formed say of him that formed it, He had no understanding?

geneva@Isaiah:29:17 @ [Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be (note:)Will there not be a change of all things? Carmel is a plentiful place in respect to what it will be then and may be taken for a forest, as in (Isa_32:15) and thus he speaks to comfort the faithful.(:note) turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

geneva@Isaiah:29:20 @ For the cruel man shal cease, & the scornefull shalbe consumed: and all that hasted to iniquitie, shalbe cut off:

geneva@Isaiah:29:21 @ That make a man an offender for a (note:)They who went about to find fault with the prophets words, and would not abide admonitions, but would entangle them and bring them into danger.(:note) word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

geneva@Isaiah:30:2 @ Which walke forth to goe downe into Egypt (and haue not asked at my mouth) to strengthen them selues with the strength of Pharaoh, and trust in the shadowe of Egypt.

geneva@Isaiah:30:4 @ For his (note:)The chief of Israel went into Egypt as an ambassador to seek help and abode at these cities.(:note) princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

geneva@Isaiah:30:5 @ They shalbe all ashamed of the people that cannot profite them, nor helpe nor doe them good, but shalbe a shame and also a reproche.

geneva@Isaiah:30:6 @ The (note:)That is, a heavy sentence or prophecy against the beasts that carried their treasures into Egypt, by the wilderness, which was south from Judah, signifying that if the beasts would not be spared, the men would be punished much more grievously.(:note) burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from which [come] the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them].

geneva@Isaiah:30:9 @ That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not (note:)He shows what was the cause of their destruction and brings also all misery to man: that is, because they would not hear the word of God, but delighted to be flattered and led in error.(:note) hear the law of the LORD:

geneva@Isaiah:30:10 @ Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy (note:)Threaten us not by the word of God, neither be so rigorous, nor talk to us in the Name of the Lord, as in (Jer_11:21).(:note) deceits:

geneva@Isaiah:30:11 @ Depart out of the way: go aside out of the path: cause the holy one of Israel to cease fro vs.

geneva@Isaiah:30:13 @ Therefore this iniquitie shalbe vnto you as a breach that falleth, or a swelling in an hie wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly in a moment.

geneva@Isaiah:30:14 @ And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it (note:)Signifying that the destruction of the wicked will be without recovery.(:note) a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.

geneva@Isaiah:30:17 @ One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the (note:)Whereas all the trees are cut down save two or three to make masts.(:note) top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

geneva@Isaiah:30:18 @ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be (note:)He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance.(:note) gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of Not only in punishing but in using moderation in the same, as in (Jer_10:24, Jer_30:11). judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.

geneva@Isaiah:30:22 @ Ye shall (note:)You will cast away your idols which you have made of gold and silver with all that belongs to them, as a most filthy thing and polluted.(:note) defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it, Showing that there can be no true repentance, unless both in heart and deed we show ourselves enemies to idolatry. Be gone from me.

geneva@Isaiah:30:23 @ Then shall hee giue raine vnto thy seede, when thou shalt sowe the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shalbe fat and as oyle: in that day shall thy cattell be fed in large pastures.

geneva@Isaiah:30:24 @ The oxen also and the yong asses, that till the ground, shall eate cleane prouender, which is winowed with the shoouel and with the fanne.

geneva@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the (note:)When the Church is restored, the glory of it will pass seven times the brightness of the sun: for by the sun and moon which are two excellent creations, he shows what will be the glory of the children of God in the kingdom of Christ.(:note) sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

geneva@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, (note:)This threatening is against the Assyrians the chief enemies of the people of God.(:note) the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [of it is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

geneva@Isaiah:30:28 @ And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of (note:)To drive you to nothing: and thus God consumes the wicked by that means, by which he cleanses his.(:note) vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.

geneva@Isaiah:30:29 @ Ye shall have a song, as in the (note:)You will rejoice at the destruction of your enemies, as they who sang for joy at the solemn feast, which began in the evening.(:note) night [when] a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come upon the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:30:31 @ For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [who] smote with a (note:)God's plague.(:note) rod.

geneva@Isaiah:30:32 @ And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass, (note:)It will destroy.(:note) which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with With joy and assurance of the victory. tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight Against Babel, meaning the Assyrians and Babylonians. with it.

geneva@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that (note:)There were two special reasons why the Israelites should not join with the Egyptians: first, because the Lord had commanded them never to return there, (Deu_17:16, Deu_28:68) lest they should forget the benefit of their redemption: and secondly, lest they should be corrupted with the superstition and idolatry of the Egyptians, and so forsake God, (Jer_2:18).(:note) go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither Meaning, that they forsake the Lord, if they put their trust in worldly things: for they cannot trust in both. seek the LORD!

geneva@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come (note:)He shows the Jews that if they would put their trust in him, he is so able, that no one can resist his power and so care over them, as a bird over her young, which ever flies about them for their defence: which similitude the scripture uses in various places, as in (Deu_32:11; Mat_23:37).(:note) down to fight for mount Zion, and for its hill.

geneva@Isaiah:31:5 @ As birds that flie, so shal the Lord of hostes defend Ierusalem by defending and deliuering, by passing through and preseruing it.

geneva@Isaiah:31:6 @ Turn ye to [him from] whom the children of Israel have (note:)He touches their conscience that they might earnestly feel their grievous sins, and so truly repent, for as much as now they are almost drowned and past recovery.(:note) deeply revolted.

geneva@Isaiah:31:7 @ For in that day every man shall (note:)By these fruits your repentance will be known, as in (Isa_2:20).(:note) cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you [for] a sin.

geneva@Isaiah:31:9 @ And he shall pass over to his (note:)This was accomplished soon after when Sennacherib's army was discomfited, and he fled to his castle in Nineveh for comfort.(:note) strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose To destroy his enemies. fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:32:1 @ Behold, (note:)This prophecy is of Hezekiah, who was a figure of Christ, and therefore it should chiefly be referred to him.(:note) a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall By judgment and justice is meant an upright government, both in policy and religion. rule in judgment.

geneva@Isaiah:32:2 @ And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as streams of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in (note:)Where men are weary with travelling for lack of water.(:note) a weary land.

geneva@Isaiah:32:9 @ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye (note:)He prophecies of such calamity to come that they will not spare the women and children, and therefore wills them to take heed and provide.(:note) careless daughters; give ear to my speech.

geneva@Isaiah:32:10 @ Many days and years shall ye be troubled, (note:)Meaning that the affliction would continue long and when one year was past, yet they should look for new plagues.(:note) ye careless women: God will take from you the means and opportunities, which made you contemn him: that is, abundance of worldly goods. for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

geneva@Isaiah:32:11 @ Yee women, that are at ease, be astonied: feare, O yee carelesse women: put off the clothes: make bare, and girde sackcloth vpon the loynes.

geneva@Isaiah:32:12 @ They shall lament for the (note:)By the breasts he means the plentiful fields, by which men are nourished as children with the breast: or, the mothers for sorrow and heaviness will lack milk.(:note) breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

geneva@Isaiah:32:14 @ Because the palace shalbe forsaken, and the noise of the citie shalbe left: the towre and fortresse shalbe dennes for euer, & the delite of wilde asses, and a pasture for flockes,

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

geneva@Isaiah:32:17 @ And the worke of iustice shall bee peace, euen the worke of iustice and quietnesse, and assurance for euer.

geneva@Isaiah:33:1 @ Woe to thee that (note:)Meaning, the enemies of the Church, as were the Chaldeans and Assyrians, but chiefly of Sennacherib, but not only.(:note) layest waste, and thou [wast] not laid waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt When your appointed time will come that God will take away your power: and that which you have wrongfully gained, will be given to others, as in (Amo_5:11). cease to lay waste, thou shalt be wasted; [and] when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, The Chaldeans will do the same to the Assyrians, as the Assyrians did to Israel, and the Medes and Persians will do the same to the Chaldeans. they shall deal treacherously with thee.

geneva@Isaiah:33:3 @ At the noise of the tumult the (note:)That is, the Assyrians fled before the army of the Chaldeans, or the Chaldeans for fear of the Medes and Persians.(:note) people fled; at the When you, O Lord, lifted up your arm to punish your enemies. lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

geneva@Isaiah:33:4 @ And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the (note:)You who as caterpillars destroyed with your number the whole world, will have no strength to resist your enemies the Chaldeans: but will be gathered on a heap and destroyed.(:note) caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall Meaning, the Medes and Persians against the Chaldeans. he run upon them.

geneva@Isaiah:33:6 @ And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of (note:)That is, in the days of Hezekiah.(:note) thy times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure.

geneva@Isaiah:33:7 @ Behold, (note:)Sent from Sennacherib.(:note) their valiant ones shall cry outside: the Whom they of Jerusalem sent to intreat of peace. ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

geneva@Isaiah:33:8 @ The (note:)These are the words of the ambassadors, when they returned from Sennacherib.(:note) highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

geneva@Isaiah:33:9 @ The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: (note:)Which was a plentiful country, meaning, that Sennacherib would destroy all.(:note) Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits].

geneva@Isaiah:33:12 @ And the people shall be as the burning of lime: and as the thornes cut vp, shall they be burnt in the fire.

geneva@Isaiah:33:14 @ The (note:)Which do not believe the words of the prophet, and the assurance of their deliverance.(:note) sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

geneva@Isaiah:33:17 @ Thy eyes shall (note:)They will see Hezekiah delivered from his enemies and restored to honour and glory.(:note) see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the They will be no more shut in as they were by Sennacherib, but go where it pleases them. land that is very far off.

geneva@Isaiah:33:18 @ Thy heart (note:)Before this liberty comes you will think that you are in great danger: for the enemy will so sharply assail you that one will cry «Where is the clerk that writes the names of them who are taxed?» another, «Where is the receiver?» another will cry for him that values the rich houses, but God will deliver you from this fear.(:note) shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?

geneva@Isaiah:33:20 @ Looke vpon Zion the citie of our solemne feastes: thine eyes shall see Ierusalem a quiet habitation, a Tabernacle that can not be remooued: and the stakes thereof can neuer be taken away, neither shall any of the cordes thereof be broken.

geneva@Isaiah:33:21 @ But there the glorious LORD [will be] to us a place (note:)Let us be content with this small river of Shiloah and not desire the great streams and rivers, by which the enemies may bring in ships and destroy us.(:note) of broad rivers [and] streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it.

geneva@Isaiah:33:23 @ Thy (note:)He derides the Assyrians and enemies of the Church, declaring their destruction as they who perish by shipwreck.(:note) tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the He comforts the Church, and shows that they will be enriched with all benefits both of body and soul. prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

geneva@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly (note:)God has determined in his counsel and has given sentence for their destruction.(:note) destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

geneva@Isaiah:34:3 @ And their slaine shalbe cast out, and their stincke shall come vp out of their bodies, and the mountaines shalbe melted with their blood.

geneva@Isaiah:34:4 @ And all the host of heaven (note:)He speaks this in respect to man's judgment, who in great fear and horrible troubles, think that heaven and earth perishes.(:note) shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their hosts shall fall down, as the leaf falleth from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.

geneva@Isaiah:34:5 @ For my sword shall be (note:)I have determined in my secret counsel and in the heavens to destroy them till my sword is weary with shedding blood.(:note) bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of They had an opinion of holiness, because they came from the patriarch Isaac, but in effect were cursed by God, and enemies to his Church as the papists are. my curse, to judgment.

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:34:7 @ And the (note:)The mighty and rich will be as well destroyed as the inferiors.(:note) unicorns shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

geneva@Isaiah:34:10 @ It shal not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall goe vp euermore: it shall be desolate from generation to generation: none shall passe through it for euer.

geneva@Isaiah:34:14 @ The wild beasts of the desert shall also (note:)Read (Isa_13:21).(:note) meet with the wild beasts of the isle, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

geneva@Isaiah:34:16 @ Seek ye out of the (note:)That is, in the law where such curses are threatened against the wicked.(:note) book of the LORD, and read: no one of That is, beasts and souls. these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my That is, the mouth of the Lord. mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

geneva@Isaiah:34:17 @ And he hath cast the (note:)He has given the beasts and souls Idumea for an inheritance.(:note) lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell in it.

geneva@Isaiah:35:1 @ The (note:)He prophecies of the full restoration of the Church both of the Jews and Gentiles under Christ, which will be fully accomplished at the last day: although as yet it is compared to a desert and wilderness.(:note) wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

geneva@Isaiah:35:2 @ It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of (note:)The Church which was before compared to a barren wilderness will by Christ be made most plenteous and beautiful.(:note) Carmel and Sharon, they shall He shows that the presence of God is the reason that the Church brings forth fruit and flourishes. see the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellence of our God.

geneva@Isaiah:35:6 @ Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the (note:)They who were barren and destitute of the graces of God, will have them given by Christ.(:note) wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

geneva@Isaiah:35:7 @ And the dry ground shalbe as a poole, and the thirstie (as springs of water in the habitation of dragons: where they lay) shall be a place for reedes and rushes.

geneva@Isaiah:35:8 @ And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of (note:)It will be for the saints of God and not for the wicked.(:note) holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it God will lead and guide them, alluding to the bringing forth of Egypt. [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [in it].

geneva@Isaiah:35:9 @ No lion shall be there, nor [any] (note:)As he threatens the wicked with destruction by this, (Isa_30:6).(:note) ravenous beast shall go up on it, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:

geneva@Isaiah:35:10 @ And the (note:)Whom the Lord will deliver from the captivity of Babylon.(:note) ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

geneva@Isaiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass (note:)This history is rehearsed because it is as a seal and confirmation of the doctrine before, both for the threatenings and promises: that is, that God would permit his Church to be afflicted, but at length would send deliverance.(:note) in the When he had abolished superstition, and idolatry, and restored religion, yet God would exercise his Church to try their faith and patience. fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

geneva@Isaiah:36:2 @ And the King of Asshur sent Rabshakeh from Lachish toward Ierusalem vnto King Hezekiah, with a great hoste, & he stood by ye conduite of the vpper poole in the path of the fullers fielde.

geneva@Isaiah:36:3 @ Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was (note:)For he was now restored to his office, as Isaiah had prophesied in (Isa_22:20).(:note) over the house, and Shebna This declares that there were few godly to be found in the king's house, when he was driven to end this wicked man in such a weighty matter. the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

geneva@Isaiah:36:4 @ And (note:)Sennacherib's chief captain.(:note) Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this in which thou trustest?

geneva@Isaiah:36:5 @ I say, (note:)He speaks this in the person of Hezekiah, falsely charging him that he put his trust in his wit and eloquence, while his only confidence was in the Lord.(:note) [sayest thou], (but [they are but] vain words) [I have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

geneva@Isaiah:36:6 @ Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and pierce it: so [is] (note:)Satan laboured to pull the godly king from one vain confidence to another: that is, from trust in the Egyptians, whose power was weak and would deceive them, to yield himself to the Assyrians, and so not to hope for any help from God.(:note) Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

geneva@Isaiah:36:8 @ Nowe therefore giue hostages to my lorde the King of Asshur, and I wil giue thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders vpon them.

geneva@Isaiah:36:9 @ How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the (note:)He reproaches Hezekiah's small power, which is not able to resist one of Sennacherib's least captains.(:note) least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

geneva@Isaiah:36:12 @ Then said Rabshakeh, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee to speake these wordes, and not to the men that sit on the wall? that they may eate their owne doung, and drinke their owne pisse with you?

geneva@Isaiah:36:13 @ So Rabshakeh stood, & cryed with a loude voyce in the Iewes language, and sayd, Heare the wordes of the great King, of the King of Asshur.

geneva@Isaiah:36:15 @ Neither let Hezekiah make you to trust in the Lord, saying, The Lorde will surely deliuer vs: this citie shal not be giuen ouer into the hand of the King of Asshur.

geneva@Isaiah:36:16 @ Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make (note:)The Hebrew word signifies blessing, by which this wicked captain would have persuaded the people, that their condition would be better under Sennacherib than under Hezekiah.(:note) [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

geneva@Isaiah:36:18 @ Least Hezekiah deceiue you, saying, The Lord wil deliuer vs. Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered his land out of the hand of the King of Asshur?

geneva@Isaiah:36:21 @ But they (note:)Not that they did not show by evident signs that they detested his blasphemy: or they had now rent their clothes, but they knew it was in vain to use long reasoning with this infidel, whose reign they would have so much more provoked.(:note) held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

geneva@Isaiah:36:22 @ Then came Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah the steward of the house, and Shebna the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder, vnto Hezekiah with rent clothes, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.

geneva@Isaiah:37:1 @ And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he (note:)In sign of grief and repentance.(:note) tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to (note:)To have comfort from him by the word of God, that his faith might be confirmed and so his prayer be more earnest: teaching by it that in all dangers these two are the only remedies to seek to God and his ministers.(:note) Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

geneva@Isaiah:37:3 @ And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the (note:)We are in as great sorrow as a woman in labour who cannot be delivered.(:note) birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.

geneva@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be the LORD thy God will (note:)That is, will declare by effect that he has heard it: for when God defers to punish, it seems to the flesh, that he knows not the sin, or hears not the cause.(:note) hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore Declaring that the ministers office stands not only in comforting by the word, but also in praying for the people. lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left.

geneva@Isaiah:37:6 @ And Isaiah sayde vnto them, Thus say vnto your master, Thus saith the Lorde, Be not afrayd of the wordes that thou hast heard, wherewith the seruants of the king of Asshur haue blasphemed me.

geneva@Isaiah:37:8 @ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against (note:)Which was a city toward Egypt, thinking by it to have stayed the force of his enemies.(:note) Libnah: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

geneva@Isaiah:37:10 @ Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, (note:)Thus God would have him utter a most horrible blasphemy before his destruction: as to call the author of all truth a deceiver: some gather by this that Shebna had disclosed to Sennacherib the answer that Isaiah sent to the king.(:note) deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

geneva@Isaiah:37:11 @ Beholde, thou hast heard what the Kings of Asshur haue done to all lands in destroying them, and shalt thou be deliuered?

geneva@Isaiah:37:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] (note:)Which was a city of the Medes.(:note) Gozan, and Called also Charre a city in Mesopotamia, from which Abraham came after his fathers death. Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who [were] in Telassar?

geneva@Isaiah:37:16 @ O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that (note:)He grounds his prayer on God's promise, who promised to hear them from between the Cherubims.(:note) dwellest [between] the cherubim, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

geneva@Isaiah:37:17 @ Encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare: open thine eyes, O Lorde, and see, and heare all the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.

geneva@Isaiah:37:18 @ Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and (note:)Meaning, the ten tribes.(:note) their countries,

geneva@Isaiah:37:19 @ And haue cast their gods in ye fire: for they were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen wood or stone: therefore they destroyed them.

geneva@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent vnto Hezekiah, saying, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, Because thou hast prayed vnto me, concerning Saneherib king of Asshur,

geneva@Isaiah:37:22 @ This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The (note:)Whom God had chosen to himself as a chaste virgin, and over whom he had care to preserve her from the lusts of the tyrant, as a father would have over his daughter.(:note) virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised, [and] derided thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

geneva@Isaiah:37:23 @ Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? [even] against the (note:)Declaring by this that they who are enemies to God's Church fight against him whose quarrel his Church only maintains.(:note) Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:37:24 @ By thy seruants hast thou railed on the Lord, and sayd, By the multitude of my charets I am come vp to the top of the mountaines to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut downe the hie cedars thereof, and the faire firre trees thereof, and I will goe vp to the heightes of his top and to the forest of his fruitfull places.

geneva@Isaiah:37:25 @ I have dug, (note:)He boasts of his policy in that he can find means to nourish his army: and of his power in that his army is so great, that it is able to dry up whole rivers, and to destroy the waters which the Jews had closed in.(:note) and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

geneva@Isaiah:37:26 @ Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, (note:)Signifying that God did not make his Church to destroy it, but to preserve it: and therefore he says that he formed it of old, even in his eternal counsel which cannot be changed.(:note) that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.

geneva@Isaiah:37:27 @ Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as grain] blighted (note:)He shows that the state and power of most flourishing cities endures but a moment in respect to the Church, which will remain forever, because God is the maintainer of it.(:note) before it is grown up.

geneva@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my (note:)Because Sennacherib showed himself as a devouring fish and furious beast, he uses these similarities to teach how he will take him and guide him.(:note) hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou You will lose your labour. camest.

geneva@Isaiah:37:30 @ And this [shall be] a (note:)God gives signs after two sorts: some go before the thing as the signs that Moses worked in Egypt, which were for the confirmation of their faith, and some go after the thing, as the sacrifice, which they were commanded to make three days after their departure: and these latter are to keep the blessings of God in our remembrance, of which sort this here is.(:note) sign to thee, Ye shall eat [this] year such as groweth of itself; and the He promises that for two years the ground would feed them of itself. second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

geneva@Isaiah:37:31 @ And (note:)They whom God has delivered out of the hands of the Assyrians will prosper: and this properly belongs to the Church.(:note) the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

geneva@Isaiah:37:33 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lord, concerning the King of Asshur, He shall not enter into this citie, nor shoote an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a mount against it.

geneva@Isaiah:37:36 @ Then the Angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the campe of Asshur an hundreth, fourescore, and fiue thousand: so when they arose early in the morning, beholde, they were all dead corpses.

geneva@Isaiah:37:37 @ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at (note:)Which was the chiefest city of the Assyrians.(:note) Nineveh.

geneva@Isaiah:37:38 @ And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and (note:)Who was also called Sardanapalus, in whose days ten years after Sennacherib's death the Chaldeans overcame the Assyrians by Merodach their king.(:note) Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

geneva@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those (note:)Soon after that the Assyrians were slain: so that God will have the exercise of his children continually, that they may learn only to depend on God and aspire to the heavens.(:note) days was Hezekiah sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

geneva@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezekiah (note:)For his heart was touched with fear of God's judgment, seeing he had appointed him to die so quickly after his deliverance from so great calamity, as one unworthy to remain in that estate, and also foreseeing the great change that would come in the Church, as he left no son to reign after him: for as yet Manasseh was not born, and when he reigned, we see what a tyrant he was.(:note) turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,

geneva@Isaiah:38:6 @ And I will deliver thee and this city (note:)He not only promises to prolong his life, but to give him rest and quietness from the Assyrians, who might have renewed their army to revenge their former defeat.(:note) from the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

geneva@Isaiah:38:7 @ And (note:)For Hezekiah had asked for a sign for the confirmation of his faith, as in (Isa_38:22; 2Ki_20:8), to which he was moved by the singular motion of God's spirit.(:note) this [shall be] a sign to thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

geneva@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said in the (note:)At which time it was told to me, that I would die.(:note) cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

geneva@Isaiah:38:12 @ My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I (note:)By my sin I have provoked God to take my life from me.(:note) have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] That is, in one day, or shortly. to night wilt thou make an end of me.

geneva@Isaiah:38:13 @ I reckoned (note:)Overnight I thought that I would live till morning, but my pangs in the night persuaded me the contrary: he shows the horror that the faithful have when they apprehend God's judgment against their sin.(:note) till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

geneva@Isaiah:38:14 @ Like a crane [or] a swallow, so I (note:)I was so oppressed with sorrow, that I was not able to utter my words, but only to groan and sigh.(:note) chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

geneva@Isaiah:38:15 @ What shall I say? (note:)God has declared by his prophet that I will die and therefore I will yield to him.(:note) he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go I will have no release, but continual sorrows while I live. softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

geneva@Isaiah:38:17 @ Behold, for (note:)While I thought to have lived in rest and ease being delivered from my enemy, I had grief upon grief.(:note) peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my He values more the remission of his sins, and God's favour than a thousand lives. sins behind thy back.

geneva@Isaiah:38:18 @ For (note:)For as much as God has placed man in this world to glorify him, the godly take it as a sign of his wrath, when their days were shortened, either because they seemed unworthy for their sins to live longer in his service, or for their zeal to God's glory, seeing that there are so few in earth who regard it as in (Psa_6:5, Psa_115:17).(:note) the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

geneva@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the (note:)All posterity will acknowledge and the fathers according to their duty toward their children will instruct them in your graces and mercies toward me.(:note) children shall make known thy truth.

geneva@Isaiah:38:20 @ The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of (note:)He shows what is the use of the Congregation and Church, that is, to give the Lord thanks for his benefits.(:note) our life in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:38:21 @ For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and (note:)Read (2Ki_20:7).(:note) lay [it] for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

geneva@Isaiah:38:22 @ Hezekiah also (note:)As in (Isa_38:7).(:note) had said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

geneva@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time (note:)This was the first king of Babylon, who overcame the Assyrians in the tenth year of his reign.(:note) Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent Partly moved with the greatness of this miracle, partly because he showed himself an enemy to their enemies, but chiefly bacause he would join with them whom God favoured and have their help if needed. letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

geneva@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezekiah was (note:)Read (2Ki_20:13; 2Ch_32:25, 2Ch_32:31).(:note) glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasuries: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not show them.

geneva@Isaiah:39:4 @ Then said he, What have (note:)He asks him of the particulars, to make him understand the craft of the wicked, which he before being overcome with their flattery and blinded with ambition, could not see.(:note) they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

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:40:2 @ Speak ye kindly to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her (note:)The time of her affliction.(:note) warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand Meaning, sufficient as in (Isa_61:7) and full correction, or double grace, while she deserved double punishment. double for all her sins.

geneva@Isaiah:40:6 @ The (note:)The voice of God which spoke to the prophet Isaiah.(:note) voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all its Meaning, all man's wisdom and natural powers, (Jam_1:10; 1Pe_1:24). beauty [is] as the flower of the field:

geneva@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the (note:)The spirit of God will discover the vanity in all that seems to have any excellency of themselves.(:note) breath of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

geneva@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the (note:)Though considering the frailty of man's nature many of the Jews would perish, and so not be partakers of this deliverance, yet God's promise would be fulfilled, and they who remained, would feel the fruit of it.(:note) word of our God shall stand for ever.

geneva@Isaiah:40:10 @ Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and (note:)His power will be sufficient without help of any other, and will have all means in himself to bring his will to pass.(:note) his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.

geneva@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who hath comprehended the waters in the hollow of his (note:)Declaring that as only God has all power, so does he use the same for the defence and maintenance of his Church.(:note) hand, and measured heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

geneva@Isaiah:40:15 @ Beholde, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the dust of the balance: beholde, he taketh away the yles as a litle dust.

geneva@Isaiah:40:16 @ And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor the beastes thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

geneva@Isaiah:40:17 @ All nations before him [are] as (note:)He speaks all this to the intent that they would neither fear man nor put their trust in any, save only in God.(:note) nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

geneva@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have ye not known? have ye not (note:)Do you not have the word of God, which plainly condemns idolatry?(:note) heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the Can you not learn by the visible creatures whom God has made for your use, that you should not serve them or worship them? foundations of the earth?

geneva@Isaiah:40:22 @ He sitteth vpon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers, hee stretcheth out ye heauens, as a curtaine, and spreadeth them out, as a tent to dwell in.

geneva@Isaiah:40:23 @ He bringeth the princes to nothing, and maketh the iudges of the earth, as vanitie,

geneva@Isaiah:40:24 @ Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also (note:)So that his power appears in every place we turn our eyes.(:note) blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

geneva@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth (note:)Who has set in order the infinite number of the stars.(:note) out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth.

geneva@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, (note:)He rebukes the Jews because they did not rest on the providence of God, but thought that he had forsaken them in their troubles.(:note) My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?

geneva@Isaiah:40:28 @ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the (note:)And therefore all power is in his hand to deliver when his time comes.(:note) ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his Showing that men must patiently abide, and not curiously seek out the cause of God's delay in our affliction. understanding.

geneva@Isaiah:40:29 @ But he giueth strength vnto him that fainteth, and vnto him that hath no strength, he encreaseth power.

geneva@Isaiah:40:31 @ But they that waite vpon the Lord, shall renue their strength: they shall lift vp the wings as the eagles: they shall runne, and not be wearie, and they shall walke and not faint.

geneva@Isaiah:41:1 @ Keep (note:)God as though he pleaded his cause with all nations requires silence, that he may be heard in his right.(:note) silence before me, O isles; and let the people That is, gather all their power and supports. renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

geneva@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who raised up the (note:)Who called Abraham (who was the pattern of God's justice in delivering his Church) from the idolatry of the Chaldeans to go to and fro at his commandment and placed him in the land of Canaan.(:note) righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow.

geneva@Isaiah:41:3 @ He pursued them, and passed safely by the way that he had not gone with his feete.

geneva@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the (note:)Who has created man and maintained his succession.(:note) generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the Though the world set up many gods, yet they diminish nothing of my glory: for I am all one, unchangeable, which have ever been and will be for ever. first, and with the last; I [am] he.

geneva@Isaiah:41:5 @ The isles saw [it], and (note:)Considering my excellent works among my people.(:note) feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and They assembled themselves and conspired against me to maintain their idolatry. came.

geneva@Isaiah:41:7 @ So the workeman comforted the founder, and he that smote with ye hammer, him that smote by course, saying, It is ready for the sodering, and he fastened it with nayles that it shoulde not be mooued.

geneva@Isaiah:41:9 @ For I haue taken thee from the endes of the earth, and called thee before the chiefe thereof, and saide vnto thee, Thou art my seruant: I haue chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

geneva@Isaiah:41:11 @ Beholde, all they that prouoke thee, shalbe ashamed, and confounded: they shalbe as nothing, and they that striue with thee, shall perish.

geneva@Isaiah:41:12 @ Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not (note:)Because they will be destroyed.(:note) find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.

geneva@Isaiah:41:15 @ Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the (note:)I will make you able to destroy all your enemies no matter how mighty, and this chiefly is referred to the kingdom of Christ.(:note) mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

geneva@Isaiah:41:20 @ That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel (note:)That is, has appointed and determined that it will come to pass.(:note) hath created it.

geneva@Isaiah:41:25 @ I have raised up [one] from the north, (note:)Meaning, the Chaldeans.(:note) and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he That is, Cyrus, who will do all things in my name and by my direction: by which he means that both their captivity and deliverance will be ordered by God's providence and appointment. call upon my name: and he shall come upon Both of the Chaldeans and others. princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

geneva@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and in times past, that we may say, [He is] righteous? verily, [there is] none that sheweth, verily, [there is] none that declareth, verily, [there is] none that heareth (note:)Meaning, that none of the Gentile gods can work any of these things.(:note) your words.

geneva@Isaiah:41:28 @ For (note:)When I looked whether the idols could do these things, I found that they had neither wisdom nor power to do anything: therefore he concludes that all are wicked that trust in such vanities.(:note) I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

geneva@Isaiah:42:1 @ Behold (note:)That is, Christ, who in respect to his manhood is called here servant. The prophets used to make mention of Christ after they declared any great promise, because he is the foundation on which all the promises are made and ratified.(:note) my servant, For I have committed all my power to him, as to a most faithful steward: some read, I will establish him: that is, in his office by giving him the fulness of my Spirit. whom I uphold; my elect, [in whom] my soul Only he is acceptable to me and they that come to me by him: for there is no other means of reconciliation, (Mat_12:18; Eph_4:1) delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth He will declare himself governor over the Gentiles and call them by his word, and rule them by his Spirit. judgment to the Gentiles.

geneva@Isaiah:42:2 @ He shall not (note:)His coming will not be with pomp and noise, as earthly princes.(:note) cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

geneva@Isaiah:42:4 @ He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he hath (note:)Till he has set all things in good order.(:note) set judgment in the earth: and the The Gentiles will desire to receive his doctrine. isles shall wait for his law.

geneva@Isaiah:42:6 @ I the LORD have called thee in (note:)Meaning, to a lawful and just calling.(:note) righteousness, and will hold To assist and guide you. thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a As him, by whom the promise made to all nations in Abraham will be fulfilled. covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

geneva@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the former things have (note:)As in time past I have been true in my promises, so will I be in time to come.(:note) come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

geneva@Isaiah:42:11 @ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice], the villages [that] (note:)Meaning, the Arabians, under whom he comprehends all the people of the East.(:note) Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

geneva@Isaiah:42:13 @ The LORD shall go forth as a (note:)He shows the zeal of the Lord, and his power in the conservation of his Church.(:note) mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

geneva@Isaiah:42:14 @ I have long time held my peace; I have been still, [and] restrained myself: [now] will I cry like a (note:)I will haste to execute my vengeance, which I have so long deferred as a woman that desires to be delivered, when she is in labour.(:note) travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

geneva@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will make waste mountaines, and hilles, and drie vp all their herbes, and I will make the floods ylands, and I will drie vp the pooles.

geneva@Isaiah:42:17 @ They shall be turned backe: they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in grauen images, and say to the molten images, Yee are our gods.

geneva@Isaiah:42:19 @ Who [is] blind, but my (note:)That is, Israel, which would have most light because of my Law.(:note) servant? or deaf, as my The priest to whom my word is committed, who would not only hear it himself but cause others to hear it. messenger [that] I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] As the priests and prophets that would be lights to others? perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?

geneva@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this [is] a people (note:)Because they will not acknowledge this blessing from the Lord, who is ready to deliver them, he permits them to be spoiled by their enemies through their own fault and incredulity.(:note) robbed and plundered; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, There will be no one to comfort them, or to will the enemy to restore that which he has spoiled. Restore.

geneva@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now thus saith the LORD (note:)After these threatenings he promises deliverance to his Church, because he has regenerated them, adopted them, and called them.(:note) that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, When you see dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of your God, and it will encourage you. Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.

geneva@Isaiah:43:2 @ When thou passest through the (note:)By water and fire he means all kinds of trouble and peril.(:note) waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

geneva@Isaiah:43:3 @ For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave (note:)I turned Sennacherib's power against these countries, and made them suffer the affliction which you would have done, and so were as the payment of our ransom, (Isa_37:9).(:note) Egypt [for] thy ransom, Cush and Seba for thee.

geneva@Isaiah:43:4 @ Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give (note:)I will not spare any man, rather than you should perish, for God values one of his faithful more than all the wicked in the world.(:note) men for thee, and people for thy life.

geneva@Isaiah:43:5 @ Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from the (note:)He prophecies of their deliverance from the captivity of Babylon, and so of the calling of the universal Church, alluding to that which is written in (Deu_30:3).(:note) east, and gather thee from the west;

geneva@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be gathered (note:)Signifying that no power can resist him in doing this miraculous work, nor are all their idols able to do the same, as in (Isa_41:22).(:note) together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their To prove that the things which are spoken of them are true. witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them Showing that the malice of the wicked hinders them in the knowledge of the truth, because they will not hear when God speaks by his word. hear, and say, [It is] truth.

geneva@Isaiah:43:10 @ Ye (note:)The prophets and people to whom I have given my law.(:note) [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my Meaning especially Christ, and by him all the faithful. servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after me.

geneva@Isaiah:43:12 @ I haue declared, and I haue saued, and I haue shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, sayeth the Lord, that I am God.

geneva@Isaiah:43:13 @ Yea, before the day was, I am, and there is none that can deliuer out of mine hand: I will doe it, and who shall let it?

geneva@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus saith the LORD, who maketh a way in (note:)When he delivered Israel from Pharaoh, (Exo_14:22).(:note) the sea, and a path in the mighty When the Israelites passed through Jordan, (Jos_3:17). waters;

geneva@Isaiah:43:17 @ Who bringeth (note:)When he delivered his people out of Egypt.(:note) forth the Pharaoh and his mighty army. chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick.

geneva@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the (note:)Meaning, that their deliverance out of Babylon would be more famous than that from Egypt was, (Jer_23:7; Hag_2:10; 2Co_5:17; Rev_21:5, Rev_21:7).(:note) wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.

geneva@Isaiah:43:20 @ The (note:)They will have such abundance of all things as they return home, even in the dry and barren places, that the very beasts will feel my blessings and will acknowledge them: much more men ought to be thankful for the same.(:note) beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

geneva@Isaiah:43:22 @ But thou hast not (note:)You have not worshipped me as you ought to have done.(:note) called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been Because you have not willingly received that which I commanded you, you grieved me. By which he shows that his mercies were the only reason for their deliverance, as they had deserved the contrary. weary of me, O Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:43:23 @ Thou (note:)Meaning, in true faith and obedience.(:note) hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

geneva@Isaiah:43:24 @ Thou hast bought me no sweet (note:)Either for the composition of the sweet ointment (Exo_30:34), or for the sweet incense (Exo_30:7).(:note) cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast Whom God accept it as righteous or which at occasion because of the law and of thine holy calling. burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.

geneva@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed (note:)He treated and chose you from the beginning of his own mercy, and before you could merit anything.(:note) thee from the womb, [who] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, Whom God accepts as righteous: or who had opportunity to it because of the law, and your holy calling. whom I have chosen.

geneva@Isaiah:44:3 @ For I will pour water upon him that is (note:)Because man of himself is as the dry and barren land, he promises to moisten him with the waters of his Holy Spirit, (Joe_2:28; Joh_7:38; Act_2:17).(:note) thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy offspring:

geneva@Isaiah:44:4 @ And they (note:)That is, your children and posterity will increase wonderfully after their deliverance from Babylon.(:note) shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

geneva@Isaiah:44:5 @ One shall say, I [am] the LORD'S; and another (note:)By this diversity of speech he means one thing, that is, that the people will be holy, and receive the true religion from God, as in (Psa_87:5).(:note) shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall write [with] his hand to the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:44:6 @ Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; (note:)I am always like myself, that is, merciful toward my Church, and most able to maintain it, as in (Isa_41:4, Isa_48:12; Rev_1:17, Rev_22:13).(:note) I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides me [there is] no God.

geneva@Isaiah:44:7 @ And who, as I, shall (note:)And appoint them that will deliver the Church.(:note) call, and shall declare it, and set That is, tell me how I should proceed in this. it in order for me, since I appointed the God calls the Israelites ancient, because he preferred them to all others in his eternal election. ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let Meaning, their idols. them show to them.

geneva@Isaiah:44:9 @ They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and (note:)Whatever they bestow on their idols, to make them seem glorious.(:note) their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; That is, the idolaters seeing that their idols are blind, are witnesses of their own blindness, and feeling that they are not able to help them, must confess that they have no power. they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:44:10 @ Who hath formed a (note:)Meaning that whatever is made by the hand of man, if it is valued as a god, is most detestable.(:note) god, or cast a graven image [that] is By which appears their blasphemy, who call images the books of the laity, seeing that they are not only here called unprofitable, but in (Isa_41:24) abominable. Jeremiah calls them the work of errors, (Jer_10:15), Habakkuk, a lying teacher (Hab_2:18). profitable for nothing?

geneva@Isaiah:44:11 @ Behold, all his (note:)That is, who in any way consent either to the making or worshipping.(:note) fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them Signifying, that the multitude will not then save the idolaters, when God will take vengeance, although they excuse themselves by it among men. stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together.

geneva@Isaiah:44:12 @ The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is (note:)He describes the raging affection of the idolaters, who forget their own necessities to set forth their devotion toward their idols.(:note) hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

geneva@Isaiah:44:13 @ The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in (note:)To place it in some Temple.(:note) the house.

geneva@Isaiah:44:15 @ Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and (note:)He sets forth the obstinacy and malice of the idolaters who though they see by daily experience that their idols are no better than the rest of the matter of which they are made, yet they refuse the one part, and make a god of the other, as the papists make their cake god, and the rest of their idols.(:note) warm himself; indeed, he kindleth [it], and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth [it]; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down to it.

geneva@Isaiah:44:16 @ He burneth part of it in the fire; with part of it he (note:)That is, he either makes a table or trenchers.(:note) eateth flesh; he roasteth meat, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth [himself], and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

geneva@Isaiah:44:18 @ They have not known nor understood: (note:)The prophet gives here an answer to all them who wonder how it is possible that any would be so blind as to commit such abomination, saying that God has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts.(:note) for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.

geneva@Isaiah:44:20 @ He feedeth (note:)He is abused as one that would eat ashes, thinking to satisfy his hunger.(:note) on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?

geneva@Isaiah:44:22 @ I haue put away thy transgressions like a cloude, and thy sinnes, as a mist: turne vnto me, for I haue redeemed thee.

geneva@Isaiah:44:26 @ That confirmeth the word of his (note:)Of Isaiah and the rest of his prophets, who assured the Church of God's favour and deliverance.(:note) servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up her decayed places:

geneva@Isaiah:44:28 @ That saith of (note:)To assure them of their deliverance he names the person by whom it would be, more than a hundred years before he was born.(:note) Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

geneva@Isaiah:45:1 @ Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to (note:)To assure the Jews of their deliverance against the great temptations that they would abide, he names the person and the means.(:note) Cyrus, whose Because Cyrus would execute the office of a deliverer, God called him his anointed for a time, but after another sort than he called David. right hand I have held, to To guide him in the deliverance of my people. subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

geneva@Isaiah:45:2 @ I will go before thee, and make the (note:)I will take away all impediments and hindrances.(:note) crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut asunder the bars of iron:

geneva@Isaiah:45:3 @ And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest (note:)Not that Cyrus knew God to worship him correctly, but he had a certain particular knowledge as profane men may have of his power, and so was compelled to deliver God's people.(:note) know that I, the LORD, who call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel.

geneva@Isaiah:45:4 @ For Jacob my servant's (note:)Not for anything that is in you, or for your worthiness.(:note) sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

geneva@Isaiah:45:5 @ I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God besides me: I (note:)I have given you strength, power and authority.(:note) girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

geneva@Isaiah:45:7 @ I form the (note:)I send peace and war, prosperity and adversity, as in (Amo_3:6).(:note) light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

geneva@Isaiah:45:8 @ Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down (note:)He comforts the Jews as if he would say, «Though when you look to the heavens and earth for comfort you see nothing now but signs of God's wrath, yet will cause them to bring forth certain tokens of your deliverance, and of the performance of my promise»: which is meant by righteousness.(:note) righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have I have appointed Cyrus to this use and purpose. created it.

geneva@Isaiah:45:10 @ Woe vnto him that sayeth to his father, What hast thou begotten? or to his mother, What hast thou brought foorth?

geneva@Isaiah:45:11 @ Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me (note:)Instead of murmuring, humble yourselves and ask what you will for the consolation of my children, and you will be sure of it as you are of these things which are at your command. Some read it with an interrogation, and make it the application of the comparison.(:note) of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

geneva@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus saith the LORD, The labour (note:)These people were tributaries to the Persians, and so king Artahshashte gave this money toward the building of the temple, (Ezr_7:27).(:note) of Egypt, and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be While they were your enemies, they will now honour you and you will rule them: which was accomplished in the time of Christ. thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, [saying], Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] none else, [there is] no God.

geneva@Isaiah:45:16 @ All they shalbe ashamed and also confounded: they shall goe to confusion together, that are the makers of images.

geneva@Isaiah:45:17 @ But Israel shall be saued in the Lorde, with an euerlasting saluation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded worlde without ende.

geneva@Isaiah:45:19 @ I have not spoken in secret, (note:)As do the false gods, who give uncertain answers.(:note) in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

geneva@Isaiah:45:20 @ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, (note:)All you idolaters who though you seem to have worldly dignity yet in God's sight you are vile and abject.(:note) ye [that have] escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god [that] cannot save.

geneva@Isaiah:45:24 @ Surely, (note:)Meaning the faithful will feel and confess this.(:note) shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are All the contemners of God. incensed against him shall be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:46:1 @ Bel boweth down, (note:)These were the chief idols of Babylon.(:note) Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the Because they were of gold and silver, the Medes and Persians carried them away. beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] heavily loaded; [they were] a burden to the weary [beast].

geneva@Isaiah:46:3 @ Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are (note:)He shows the difference between the idols and the true God; for they must be carried by others, but God himself carries his, as in (Deu_32:11).(:note) borne [by me] from the birth, which are carried from the womb:

geneva@Isaiah:46:5 @ To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and (note:)The people of God setting their own calamity, and the flourishing estate of the Babylonians, would be tempted to think that their God was not so mighty as the idols of their enemies: therefore he describes the original of all the idols to make them to be abhorred by all men: showing that the most that can be spoken in their commendation, is but to prove them vile.(:note) compare me, that we may be like?

geneva@Isaiah:46:10 @ Which declare the last thing from the beginning: and from of olde, the things that were not done, saying, My counsell shall stand, and I will doe whatsoeuer I will.

geneva@Isaiah:46:11 @ Calling a ravenous (note:)That is, Cyrus, who will come as swift as a bird and fight against Babylon.(:note) bird from the east, the man that executeth my Him by whom I have appointed to execute that which I have determined. counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also perform it.

geneva@Isaiah:47:1 @ Come down, and sit in the dust, O (note:)Which has lived in wealth and wantonness and has not yet been overcome by any enemies.(:note) virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no Your government will be taken from you. throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

geneva@Isaiah:47:2 @ Take the millstones, and (note:)You will be brought to most vile servitude: for to turn the mill was the office of slaves.(:note) grind meal: uncover thy locks, The things in which she sets her greatest pride, will be made vile, even from the head to the foot. make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

geneva@Isaiah:47:3 @ Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a (note:)I will use no humanity nor pity toward you.(:note) man.

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

geneva@Isaiah:47:8 @ Therefore nowe heare, thou that art giuen to pleasures, and dwellest carelesse, Shee sayeth in her heart, I am and none els: I shall not sit as a widowe, neither shall knowe the losse of children.

geneva@Isaiah:47:9 @ But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their (note:)So that your punishment will be so great, as is possible to be imagined.(:note) perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of thy enchantments.

geneva@Isaiah:47:10 @ For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy (note:)You thought that your own wisdom and policy would have saved you.(:note) wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, I [am], and none else besides me.

geneva@Isaiah:47:12 @ Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast (note:)He derides their vain confidence, who put their trust in anything but in God, condemning also such vain sciences, which serve no use, but to delude the people, and to bring them from depending only on God.(:note) laboured from thy youth; if thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail.

geneva@Isaiah:47:13 @ Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the starre gasers, and prognosticatours stand vp, & saue thee from these things, that shall come vpon thee.

geneva@Isaiah:47:14 @ Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall] not [be] a coal (note:)They will utterly perish, and no part of them remain.(:note) to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it.

geneva@Isaiah:47:15 @ Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his (note:)They will flee everyone to that place, which he thought by his speculations to be most sure: but that will deceive them.(:note) quarter; none shall save thee.

geneva@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves (note:)They make a show, as though they would have no other God.(:note) upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his name.

geneva@Isaiah:48:3 @ I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth from my mouth, and I showed (note:)He shows that they could not accuse him in anything, as he had performed whatever he had promised.(:note) them; I did [them] suddenly, and they came to pass.

geneva@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I knew that (note:)I have done for you more than I promised, that your stubbornness and impudency might have been overcome.(:note) thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

geneva@Isaiah:48:5 @ I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee; before it came to pass I showed (note:)How you should be delivered out of Babylon.(:note) [it] thee: lest thou shouldest say, My idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

geneva@Isaiah:48:6 @ Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye (note:)Will you not acknowledge my blessing, and declare it to others?(:note) declare [it]? I have showed ye new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

geneva@Isaiah:48:7 @ They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I (note:)Showing that man's arrogancy is the reason God does not declare all things at once, lest they should attribute this knowledge to their own wisdom.(:note) knew them.

geneva@Isaiah:48:8 @ Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time [that] thy ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the (note:)From the time that I brought you of Egypt: for that deliverance was as the birth of the Church.(:note) womb.

geneva@Isaiah:48:9 @ For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, (note:)As it was my free mercy that I chose you: so it is my free mercy that must save you.(:note) that I cut thee not off.

geneva@Isaiah:48:11 @ For my own sake, [even] for my own sake, will I do [it]: for how should [my name] (note:)God joins the salvation of his with his own honour: so that they cannot perish, but his glory would be diminished, as in (Deu_32:27).(:note) be profaned? Read (Isa_42:8). and I will not give my glory to another.

geneva@Isaiah:48:12 @ Hearken to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; (note:)Read (Isa_41:4).(:note) I [am] he; I [am] the first, I also [am] the last.

geneva@Isaiah:48:14 @ All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them hath declared these [things]? The LORD hath loved (note:)Meaning, Cyrus, whom he had chosen to destroy Babylon.(:note) him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.

geneva@Isaiah:48:16 @ Come ye near to me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the (note:)Since the time that I declared myself to your fathers.(:note) beginning; from the time that it was, there [am] I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath Thus the Prophet speaks for himself, and to assure them of these things. sent me.

geneva@Isaiah:48:18 @ Oh that thou haddest hearkened to my commaundements! then had thy prosperitie bene as the floude, and thy righteousnesse as the waues of the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:48:19 @ Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy body like its gravel; his (note:)That is, the prosperous estate of Israel.(:note) name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

geneva@Isaiah:48:21 @ And they (note:)He shows that it will be as easy to deliver them, as he did their fathers out of Egypt.(:note) thirsted not [when] he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he broke the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

geneva@Isaiah:48:22 @ [There is] no (note:)Thus he speaks that the wicked hypocrites should not abuse God's promise, in whom was neither faith nor repentance, as in (Isa_57:21)(:note) peace, saith the LORD, to the wicked.

geneva@Isaiah:49:1 @ Listen, to me O isles; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called (note:)This is spoken in the person of Christ, to assure the faithful that these promises should come to pass: for they were all made in him and in him would be performed.(:note) me from This is meant of the time that Christ would be manifested to the world, as in (Psa_2:7). the womb; from the body of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

geneva@Isaiah:49:2 @ And he hath made my mouth like a sharp (note:)By the sword and shaft, he signifies the virtue and efficacy of Christ's doctrine.(:note) sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he God has taken me to his protection and defence: this chiefly is meant of Christ, and may also be applied to the ministers of his word. hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

geneva@Isaiah:49:3 @ And said to me, Thou [art] my servant, O (note:)By Israel is meant Christ, and all the body of the faithful, as the members and their head.(:note) Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

geneva@Isaiah:49:6 @ And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give (note:)To declare my gospel to the Gentiles, as in (Isa_42:6; Act_13:47; Luk_2:32).(:note) thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:49:9 @ That thou mayest say to the (note:)To them who are in the prison of sin and death.(:note) prisoners, Go forth; to them that [are] in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their Being in Christ's protection, they will be safe against all dangers, and free from fear of the enemies. pastures [shall be] in all high places.

geneva@Isaiah:49:11 @ And I will make all my mountaines, as a way, and my paths shalbe exalted.

geneva@Isaiah:49:15 @ Can a woman forget her childe, & not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe? Though they should forget, yet wil I not forget thee.

geneva@Isaiah:49:17 @ Thy children shall make (note:)I have continual care to build you up again and to destroy your enemies.(:note) haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

geneva@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up thy eyes around, and behold: all these gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. [As] I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely (note:)He shows what are the ornaments of the Church: to have many children, who are assembled by the word of God, and governed by his Spirit.(:note) clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them [on thee], as a bride [doeth].

geneva@Isaiah:49:19 @ For thy desolations, and thy waste places, and thy land destroied, shall surely be now narow for them that shall dwell in it, and they that did deuoure thee, shalbe farre away.

geneva@Isaiah:49:21 @ Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten mee these, seeing I am baren and desolate, a captiue and a wanderer to and fro? And who hath nourished them? Beholde, I was left alone: whence are these?

geneva@Isaiah:49:23 @ And kings (note:)Meaning, that kings will be converted to the gospel, and bestow their power and authority for the preservation of the Church.(:note) shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with [their] face toward the earth, and lick up the Being joined with the Church, they will humble themselves to Christ their head, and give him all honour. dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

geneva@Isaiah:49:24 @ Shall the prey be (note:)He makes this as an objection as though the Chaldeans were strong, and had them in just possession.(:note) taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

geneva@Isaiah:49:25 @ But thus saith the LORD, (note:)This is the answer to their objection, that no one is stronger than the Lord, neither has a more just title to them.(:note) Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

geneva@Isaiah:49:26 @ And I will feed them that oppress thee with (note:)I will cause them to destroy one another as in (Jdg_7:22; 2Ch_20:22; Isa_19:2).(:note) their own flesh; and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

geneva@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the (note:)Meaning, that he has not forsaken her, but through her own opportunity as in (Hos_2:2).(:note) bill of your mother's divorcement, Who would declare that I have cut her off: meaning, that they could show no one. whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] Signifying, that he sold them not for any debt or poverty, but that they sold themselves to sins to buy their own lusts and pleasures. to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

geneva@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make (note:)As I did in Egypt in token of my displeasure, (Exo_10:21).(:note) sackcloth their covering.

geneva@Isaiah:50:4 @ The Lord GOD hath given (note:)The prophet represents here the person and charge of them that are justly called to the ministry by God's word.(:note) me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] To him that is oppressed by affliction and misery. weary: he awakeneth morning by morning, he awakeneth my ear to hear As they who are taught, and made meet by him. as the learned.

geneva@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe.

geneva@Isaiah:50:7 @ For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not bee confounded: therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I knowe that I shall not be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:50:9 @ Beholde, the Lord God will helpe me: who is he that can condemne me? loe, they shall waxe olde as a garment: the mothe shall eate them vp.

geneva@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, all ye that kindle (note:)You have sought consolation by your own devises, and have refused the light and consolation which God has offered: therefore you will remain in sorrow and not be comforted.(:note) a fire, that surround [yourselves] with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

geneva@Isaiah:51:2 @ Consider Abraham your father, and Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

geneva@Isaiah:51:3 @ For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness (note:)As plentiful as paradise, (Gen_2:8,9).(:note) like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

geneva@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, (note:)He puts them in remembrance of his great benefit for their deliverance out of Egypt, that by it they might learn to trust in him constantly.(:note) in the generations of old. [Art] thou not that which hath cut Meaning, Egypt, (Psa_87:4). Rahab, [and] wounded the That is, Pharaoh, (Eze_29:3). dragon?

geneva@Isaiah:51:10 @ Art not thou the same, which hath dried the Sea, euen the waters of the great deepe, making the depth of the Sea a way for the redeemed to passe ouer?

geneva@Isaiah:51:11 @ Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall (note:)From Babylon.(:note) return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

geneva@Isaiah:51:12 @ I, euen I am he, that comfort you. Who art thou, that thou shouldest feare a mortall man, and the sonne of man, which shalbe made as grasse?

geneva@Isaiah:51:13 @ And forgettest the Lorde thy maker, that hath spred out the heauens, and layde the foundations of the earth? and hast feared continually all the day, because of the rage of the oppressour, which is readie to destroy? Where is now the rage of the oppressour?

geneva@Isaiah:51:14 @ The captive exile (note:)He comforts them by the short time of their banishment: for in seventy years they were restored and the greatest empire of the world destroyed.(:note) hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

geneva@Isaiah:51:17 @ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drank at the hand of the LORD the (note:)You have been justly punished and sufficiently as (Isa_40:2) and this punishment in the elect is by measure, and according as God gives grace to hear it: but in the reprobate it is the just vengeance of God to drive them to an insensibleness and madness, as (Jer_25:15-16).(:note) cup of his fury; thou hast drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.

geneva@Isaiah:51:19 @ These two (note:)Of which the one is outward as of the things that come to the body, as war, and famine and the other is inward, and belongs to the mind: that is, to be without comfort: therefore he says «How will you be comforted?»(:note) [things] have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

geneva@Isaiah:51:20 @ Thy sonnes haue fainted, and lye at the head of all the streetes as a wilde bull in a nette, and are full of the wrath of the Lorde, and rebuke of thy God.

geneva@Isaiah:51:23 @ But I will put it into their hande that spoile thee: which haue said to thy soule, Bowe downe, that wee may goe ouer, and thou hast layde thy bodie as the grounde, and as the streete to them that went ouer.

geneva@Isaiah:52:4 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went (note:)When Jacob went there in times of famine.(:note) down in times past into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian The Egyptians might pretend some reason to oppress my people because they went there and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by, and therefore I will punish them more than I did the Egyptians. oppressed them without cause.

geneva@Isaiah:52:5 @ Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nothing? they that rule over them make them to wail, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] (note:)That is, by the wicked, who think that I have no power to deliver them.(:note) blasphemed.

geneva@Isaiah:52:7 @ How (note:)Signifying that the joy and good tidings of their deliverance would make their affliction in the mean time more easy: but this is chiefly meant of the spiritual joy, as in (Nah_1:15; Rom_10:15).(:note) beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that proclaimeth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that proclaimeth salvation; that saith to Zion, Thy God reigneth!

geneva@Isaiah:52:10 @ The LORD hath made (note:)As ready to smite his enemies and to deliver his people.(:note) bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

geneva@Isaiah:52:12 @ For ye shall not go out (note:)As your fathers did out of Egypt.(:note) with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel [will be] your rear guard.

geneva@Isaiah:52:13 @ Behold, my (note:)Meaning Christ, by whom our spiritual deliverance would be wrought of which this was a sign.(:note) servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

geneva@Isaiah:52:14 @ As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so (note:)In the corrupt judgment of man, Christ in his person was not valued.(:note) marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

geneva@Isaiah:52:15 @ So (note:)He will spread his word through many nations.(:note) shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their In sign of reverence, and as being astonished at his excellency. mouths at him: for [that] which had not been told them shall they see; and [that] which they had not heard shall they By the preaching of the gospel. consider.

geneva@Isaiah:53:2 @ For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a (note:)The beginning of Christ's kingdom will be small and contemptible in the sight of man, but it will grow wonderfully and flourish before God.(:note) root out of a dry Read (Isa_11:1). ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.

geneva@Isaiah:53:3 @ He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with (note:)Which was by God's singular providence for the comfort of sinners, (Heb_4:15).(:note) grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

geneva@Isaiah:53:4 @ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried (note:)That is, the punishment due to our sins, for which he has both suffered and made satisfaction, (Mat_8:17; 1Pe_2:24).(:note) our sorrows: yet we did esteem him We judge evil, thinking that he was punished for his own sins, and not for ours. stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

geneva@Isaiah:53:5 @ But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the (note:)He was chastised for our reconciliation, (1Co_15:3).(:note) chastisement for our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

geneva@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the (note:)Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the fault itself.(:note) iniquity of us all.

geneva@Isaiah:53:7 @ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he (note:)But willingly and patiently obeyed his father's appointment, (Mat_26:63; Act_8:32).(:note) opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

geneva@Isaiah:53:8 @ He was taken from (note:)From the cross and grave, after that he was condemned.(:note) prison and from judgment: Though he died for sin, yet after his resurrection he will live forever and this his death is to restore life to his members, (Rom_6:9). and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

geneva@Isaiah:53:10 @ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when (note:)Christ by offering up himself will give life to his Church, and so cause them to live with him forever.(:note) thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

geneva@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore I will divide to him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because (note:)Because he humbled himself, therefore he will be extolled to glory, (Phi_2:7-12).(:note) he hath poured out his soul to death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin That is, of all that believe in him. of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

geneva@Isaiah:54:1 @ Sing, O (note:)After he has declared the death of Christ, he speaks to the Church, because it would feel the fruit of the same, and calls her barren, because in the captivity she was a widow without hope to have any children.(:note) barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the The Church in this her affliction and captivity will bring forth more children, than when she was free, or this may be spoken by admiration, considering the great number that would come from her. Her deliverance under Cyrus was as her childhood, and therefore this was accomplished when she came of age, which was under the gospel. desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:54:3 @ For thou shalt increase on the right hande and on the left, and thy seede shall possesse the Gentiles, and dwell in the desolate cities.

geneva@Isaiah:54:4 @ Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy (note:)The afflictions which you suffered at the beginning.(:note) youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy When you were refused for your sins, (Isa_50:1). widowhood any more.

geneva@Isaiah:54:6 @ For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a (note:)As a wife who was forsaken in your youth.(:note) wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

geneva@Isaiah:54:7 @ For a litle while haue I forsaken thee, but with great compassion will I gather thee.

geneva@Isaiah:54:8 @ For a moment, in mine anger, I hid my face from thee for a litle season, but with euerlasting mercy haue I had compassion on thee, sayth the Lord thy redeemer.

geneva@Isaiah:54:9 @ For this [is as] the (note:)As sure as the promise that I made to Noah, that the waters would no longer overflow the earth.(:note) waters of Noah to me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more overflow the earth; so have I sworn that I will not be angry with thee, nor rebuke thee.

geneva@Isaiah:54:10 @ For the mountaines shall remoue and the hilles shall fall downe: but my mercy shall not depart from thee, neither shall the couenant of my peace fall away, saith the Lord, that hath compassion on thee.

geneva@Isaiah:54:12 @ And I will make thy windowes of emeraudes, and thy gates shining stones, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

geneva@Isaiah:54:15 @ Behold, they shall surely assemble, [but] not by (note:)And therefore will not prevail.(:note) me: whoever shall assemble Meaning, the domestic enemies of the Church, as are the hypocrites. against thee shall fall for thy sake.

geneva@Isaiah:54:16 @ Behold, I have created the (note:)Signifying by this that man can do nothing, but so far as God gives power: for seeing that all are his creatures, he must govern and guide them.(:note) smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

geneva@Isaiah:55:1 @ Ho, every one that (note:)Christ by proposing his graces and gifts to his Church, exempts the hypocrites who are full with their imagined works, and the Epicureans who are full with their worldly lusts, and so do not thirst after these waters.(:note) thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath Signifying that God's benefits cannot be bought for money. no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy By waters, wine, milk and bread, he means all things necessary to the spiritual life, as these are necessary to this corporal life. wine and milk without money and without price.

geneva@Isaiah:55:3 @ Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the (note:)The same covenant which through my mercy I ratified and confirmed to David, that it would be eternal, (2Sa_7:13; Act_13:34).(:note) sure mercies of David.

geneva@Isaiah:55:4 @ Behold, I have given (note:)Meaning Christ, of whom David was a figure.(:note) him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

geneva@Isaiah:55:8 @ For my (note:)Although you are not soon reconciled one to another and judge me by yourselves, yet I am easy to be reconciled, yea, I offer my mercies to you.(:note) thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:55:9 @ For as ye heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your wayes, and my thoughtes aboue your thoughts.

geneva@Isaiah:55:10 @ Surely as the raine commeth downe and the snow from heauen, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth and maketh it to bring forth and bud, that it may giue seede to the sower, and bread vnto him that eateth,

geneva@Isaiah:55:11 @ So shall my (note:)If these small things have their effect, as daily experience shows much more will my promise which I have made and confirmed, bring to pass the things which I have spoken for your deliverance.(:note) word be that proceedeth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] for which I sent it.

geneva@Isaiah:55:13 @ Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD (note:)To set forth his glory.(:note) for a name, for an everlasting Of God's deliverance, and that he will never forsake his Church. sign [that] shall not be cut off.

geneva@Isaiah:56:1 @ Thus saith the LORD, (note:)God shows what he requires of them after he has delivered them: that is, the works of charity by which true faith is declared.(:note) Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation [is] near to come, and my Which I will declare toward you, and pour into your hearts by my Spirit. righteousness to be revealed.

geneva@Isaiah:56:4 @ For thus saith the Lord vnto the Eunuches, that keepe my Sabbaths, and chuse the thing that pleaseth me, and take holde of my couenant,

geneva@Isaiah:56:5 @ Even to them will I give in my (note:)Meaning, in his Church.(:note) house and within my walls a place and a They will be called after my people, and be of the same religion: yea, under Christ the dignity of the faithful will be greater than the Jews were at that time. name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

geneva@Isaiah:56:7 @ Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt (note:)By this he means the spiritual service of God, to whom the faithful offer continual thanksgiving, yea themselves and all that they have, as a lively and acceptable sacrifice.(:note) offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called an house of prayer for Not only for the Jews, but for all others, (Mat_21:13). all people.

geneva@Isaiah:56:9 @ All ye (note:)Meaning, the enemies of the Church, as the Babylonians, Assyrians, etc thus he speaks to scare the hypocrites and to assure the faithful that when this comes they may know it was told to them before.(:note) beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.

geneva@Isaiah:56:10 @ His (note:)He shows that this affliction will come through the fault of the governors, prophets and pastors, whose ignorance, negligence, greed and obstinacy provoked God's wrath against them.(:note) watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

geneva@Isaiah:56:12 @ Come ye, [say they], I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to (note:)We are well yet, and to morrow will be better: therefore let us not fear the plagues before they come: thus the wicked contemned the admonition and exhortations which were made to them in the Name of God.(:note) morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.

geneva@Isaiah:57:3 @ But draw near here, ye (note:)He threatens the wicked hypocrites, who under the pretence of the name of God's people, derided God's word and his promises: boasting openly that they were the children of Abraham, but because they were not faithful and obedient as Abraham was, he calls them bastards and the children of sorcerers, who forsook God, and fled to wicked means for comfort.(:note) sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

geneva@Isaiah:57:6 @ Among the smooth [stones] (note:)Meaning every place was polluted with their idolatry: or every fair stone they found they made into an idol.(:note) of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in In the sacrifices which you offering before these idols thought you served God. these?

geneva@Isaiah:57:7 @ Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy (note:)That is, your altars in an open place, like an impudent harlot, that cares not for the sight of her husband.(:note) bed: even there thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.

geneva@Isaiah:57:8 @ Behind the (note:)Instead of setting up the word of God in the open places on the posts and doors to have it in remembrance, (Deu_6:9, Deu_27:1) you have set up signs and marks of your idolatry in every place.(:note) doors also and the door posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast uncovered [thyself to another] than me, and hast gone up; thou hast That is, increased your idolatry more and more. enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou didst love their bed where thou sawest [it].

geneva@Isaiah:57:9 @ And thou wentest (note:)You sought the favour of the Assyrians by gifts and presents to help you against the Egyptians and when they failed you sought the Babylonians, and more and more tormented yourself.(:note) to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] to hell.

geneva@Isaiah:57:10 @ Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst thou not, (note:)Although you saw all your labours to be in vain, yet would you never acknowledge your fault and leave off.(:note) There is no hope: thou He derides their unprofitable diligence, who thought to have made all sure, and yet were deceived. hast found the life of thy hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

geneva@Isaiah:57:11 @ And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast (note:)Broken promises with me.(:note) lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of Meaning, that the wicked abuse God's leniency, and grow to further wickedness. old, and thou fearest me not?

geneva@Isaiah:57:13 @ When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind (note:)Meaning, the Assyrians and others, whose help they looked for.(:note) shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

geneva@Isaiah:57:16 @ For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always angry: (note:)I will not use my power against frail man, whose life is but a blast.(:note) for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.

geneva@Isaiah:57:17 @ For the (note:)That is, for the vices and faults of the people, which is here meant by covetousness.(:note) iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and smote him: I hid myself, and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

geneva@Isaiah:57:19 @ I create the (note:)That is, I frame the speech and words of my messengers who will bring peace.(:note) fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] As well to him that is in captivity as to him that remains at home. far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

geneva@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it (note:)Their evil conscience always torments them and therefore they can never have rest, (Isa_48:22).(:note) cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

geneva@Isaiah:58:2 @ Yet they (note:)They will seem to worship me and have outward holiness.(:note) seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

geneva@Isaiah:58:4 @ Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be (note:)So long as you use contention and oppression, your fasting and prayers will not be heard.(:note) heard on high.

geneva@Isaiah:58:5 @ Is it such a fast that I haue chosen, that a man should afflict his soule for a day, and to bowe downe his head, as a bull rush, and to lie downe in sackecloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fasting, or an acceptable day to the Lord?

geneva@Isaiah:58:6 @ [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every (note:)That you leave off all your extortions.(:note) yoke?

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:58:8 @ Then shall thy (note:)That is, the prosperous estate with which God will bless you.(:note) light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy The testimony of your goodness will appear before God and man. righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear guard.

geneva@Isaiah:58:10 @ And [if] thou shalt (note:)That is, have compassion on their miseries.(:note) draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in Your adversity will be turned into prosperity. obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:

geneva@Isaiah:58:12 @ And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old (note:)Signifying that of the Jews would come such as would build again the ruins of Jerusalem and Judea: but chiefly this is meant of the spiritual Jerusalem, whose builders were the Apostles.(:note) waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

geneva@Isaiah:58:13 @ If thou shalt (note:)If you refrain yourself from your wicked works.(:note) turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking [thy own] words:

geneva@Isaiah:59:7 @ Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.

geneva@Isaiah:59:10 @ We grope for the wall like the (note:)We are altogether destitute of counsel, and can find no end to our miseries.(:note) blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men].

geneva@Isaiah:59:12 @ For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our (note:)This confession is general to the Church to obtain remission of sins, and the prophets did not exempt themselves from the same.(:note) sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them;

geneva@Isaiah:59:15 @ Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself (note:)The wicked will destroy him.(:note) a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.

geneva@Isaiah:59:16 @ And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: (note:)Meaning, to do justice, and to remedy the things that were so far out of order.(:note) therefore his arm brought That is, his Church or his arm helped itself and did not seek aid from any other. salvation to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

geneva@Isaiah:59:17 @ For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an (note:)Signifying that God has all means at hand to deliver his Church and to punish their enemies.(:note) helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

geneva@Isaiah:59:21 @ As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, (note:)Because the doctrine is made profitable by the virtue of the Spirit, he joins the one with the other, and promises to give them both to his Church for ever.(:note) shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

geneva@Isaiah:60:3 @ And the Gentiles shall come to (note:)Meaning, that Judea would be as the morning star, and that the Gentiles would receive light from her.(:note) thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

geneva@Isaiah:60:4 @ Lift up thy eyes around, and see: all (note:)An infinite number from all countries as in (Isa_49:18).(:note) they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.

geneva@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thy heart shall fear, (note:)For joy, as the heart is drawn in for sorrow.(:note) and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come to thee.

geneva@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of (note:)That is the Arabians, that have great abundance of cattle.(:note) Kedar shall be gathered together to thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee: they shall come up with acceptance on my Because the altar was a figure of Christ, (Heb_13:10), he shows that nothing can be acceptable to him, which is not offered to him by this altar, who was both the offering and the altar itself. altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

geneva@Isaiah:60:8 @ Who [are] these (note:)Showing what great number will come to the Church, and with what great diligence and zeal.(:note) [that] fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?

geneva@Isaiah:60:12 @ For the nation and (note:)He shows that God has given all power and authority here in earth for the use of his Church, and that they who will not serve and profit the same will be destroyed.(:note) kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted.

geneva@Isaiah:60:15 @ Where as thou hast bene forsaken and hated: so that no man went by thee, I will make thee an eternall glorie, and a ioye from generation to generation.

geneva@Isaiah:60:16 @ Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the (note:)Both high and low will be ready to help and comfort you.(:note) breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

geneva@Isaiah:60:17 @ For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers (note:)Your governors will love you, and seek your wealth and prosperity.(:note) peace, and thy exactors righteousness.

geneva@Isaiah:60:18 @ Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt (note:)Meaning not an earthly happiness, but spiritual, which is fulfilled in Christ's kingdom.(:note) call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

geneva@Isaiah:60:19 @ The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the (note:)Signifying that all worldly means will cease, and that Christ will be all in all, as in (Rev_21:23, Rev_22:5).(:note) moon give light to thee: but the LORD shall be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

geneva@Isaiah:60:20 @ Thy sunne shall neuer goe downe, neither shall thy moone be hid: for the Lord shalbe thine euerlasting light, and the dayes of thy sorowe shalbe ended.

geneva@Isaiah:60:22 @ A little one shall become a (note:)Meaning, that the Church would be miraculously multiplied.(:note) thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.

geneva@Isaiah:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] (note:)Thus belongs to all the prophets and ministers of God, but chiefly to Christ, of whose abundant graces everyone receives according as it pleases him to distribute.(:note) upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the To them that are lively touched with the feeling of their sins. brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the Who are in the bondage of sin. captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;

geneva@Isaiah:61:2 @ To proclaim the (note:)The time when it pleased God to show his good favour to man, which Paul calls the fulness of time, (Gal_4:4).(:note) acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of For when God delivers his Church, he punishes his enemies. vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

geneva@Isaiah:61:3 @ To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for (note:)Which was the sign of mourning.(:note) ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called Trees that bring forth good fruits, as in (Mat_3:8). trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

geneva@Isaiah:61:4 @ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many (note:)That is, for a long time.(:note) generations.

geneva@Isaiah:61:6 @ But ye shall be named the (note:)This is accomplished in the time of Christ, by whom all the faithful are made priests and kings, (1Pe_2:9; Rev_1:6, Rev_5:10).(:note) Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the Read (Isa_60:11, Isa_60:16). riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

geneva@Isaiah:61:7 @ For your shame [ye shall have] (note:)Abundant recompence as this word is used, (Isa_40:2).(:note) double; and [for] confusion That is, the Jews. they shall rejoice in That is, of the Gentiles. their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the While the Gentiles had dominion over the Jews in times past, now they will have double authority over them and possess twice as much. double: everlasting joy shall be to them.

geneva@Isaiah:61:8 @ For I the LORD love judgment, I hate (note:)I will not receive their offerings who are extortioners, deceivers, hypocrites or that deprive me of my glory.(:note) robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

geneva@Isaiah:61:11 @ For as the earth bringeth foorth her bud, and as the garden causeth to growe that which is sowen in it: so the Lord God will cause righteousnesse to grow and praise before all the heathen.

geneva@Isaiah:62:1 @ For Zion's sake I will not (note:)The prophet says that he will never cease to declare to the people the good tidings of their deliverance.(:note) hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness shall go forth as Till they have full deliverance: and this the prophet speaks to encourage all other ministers to the setting forth of God's mercies toward his Church. brightness, and its salvation as a lamp [that] burneth.

geneva@Isaiah:62:3 @ Thou shalt also be a (note:)He will value you as dear and precious as a king does his crown.(:note) crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

geneva@Isaiah:62:4 @ Thou shalt no more be termed (note:)You will no longer be contemned as a woman forsaken by her husband.(:note) Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be That it may be replenished with children. married.

geneva@Isaiah:62:5 @ For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall thy sons (note:)As they confess one faith and religion with you, they are in the same bond of marriage with you, and they are called the children of the Church, as Christ makes her plentiful to bring forth children to him.(:note) marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.

geneva@Isaiah:62:6 @ I have set (note:)Prophets, pastors and ministers.(:note) watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: He exhorts the ministers never to cease to call on God by prayer for the deliverance of his Church and to teach others to do the same. ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

geneva@Isaiah:62:8 @ The Lorde hath sworne by his right hand and by his strong arme, Surely I wil no more giue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies, & surely the sonnes of the strangers shall not drinke thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured.

geneva@Isaiah:62:11 @ Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed to the end of the world, (note:)You prophets and ministers show the people of this their deliverance: which was chiefly meant of our salvation by Christ, (Zec_9:9; Mat_21:5).(:note) Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and He will have all power to bring his purpose to pass, as in (Isa_40:10). his work before him.

geneva@Isaiah:62:12 @ And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A (note:)That is, one over whom God has had a singular care to recover her when she was lost.(:note) city not forsaken.

geneva@Isaiah:63:1 @ Who [is] this that cometh (note:)This prophecy is against the Idumeans and enemies who persecuted the Church, on whom God will take vengeance, and is here set forth all bloody after he has destroyed them in Bozrah, the chief city of the Idumeans: for these were their greatest enemies,and under the title of circumcision and the kindred of Abraham.(:note) from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? God answers them that asked this question, «Who is this?» etc. and says «You see now performed in deed the vengeance which my prophets threatened.» I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

geneva@Isaiah:63:3 @ I haue troden the wine presse alone, and of all people there was none with mee: for I will treade them in mine anger, and tread them vnder foote in my wrath, and their blood shalbe sprinkled vpon my garments, and I will staine all my raiment.

geneva@Isaiah:63:5 @ And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore my own (note:)God shows that he has no need of man's help for the deliverance of his, and though men refuse to do their duty through negligence and ingratitude, yet he himself will deliver his Church, and punish the enemies, (Isa_59:16).(:note) arm brought salvation to me; and my fury, it upheld me.

geneva@Isaiah:63:6 @ And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them (note:)I will so astonish them and make them so giddy that they will not know which way to go.(:note) drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:63:7 @ I will (note:)The prophet speaks this to move the people to remember God's benefits in times past, that they may be confirmed in their troubles.(:note) mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

geneva@Isaiah:63:8 @ For he said, Surely they [are] my (note:)For I chose them to be mine, that they should be holy, and not deceive my expectation.(:note) people, children [that] will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

geneva@Isaiah:63:9 @ In all their affliction he was (note:)He bore their afflictions and griefs as though they had been his own.(:note) afflicted, and the angel Which was a witness of God's presence, and this may be referred to Christ, to whom belongs the office of salvation. of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

geneva@Isaiah:63:10 @ But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore was hee turned to be their enemie and he fought against them.

geneva@Isaiah:63:11 @ Then he (note:)That is, the people of Israel being afflicted, called to mind God's benefits, which he had bestowed on their fathers in times past.(:note) remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them out of the sea with the Meaning, Moses. shepherd of his flock? where [is] he that put his Holy Spirit within That is, in Moses that he might well govern the people: some refer this giving of the spirit to the people. him?

geneva@Isaiah:63:12 @ He led them by the right hand of Moses with his owne glorious arme, deuiding the water before them, to make himselfe an euerlasting Name.

geneva@Isaiah:63:13 @ That led them through the deep, as an (note:)Peaceably and gentle, as a horse is led to his pasture.(:note) horse in the wilderness, [that] they should not stumble?

geneva@Isaiah:63:14 @ As the beast goeth downe into the valley, the Spirite of the Lorde gaue them rest: so diddest thou leade thy people, to make thy selfe a glorious Name.

geneva@Isaiah:63:16 @ Doubtless thou [art] our father, though (note:)Though Abraham would refuse us to be his children, yet you will not refuse to be our father.(:note) Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.

geneva@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why hast (note:)By taking away the Holy Spirit from us, by whom we were governed, and so for our ingratitude delivered us up to our own concupiscence, and punished sin by sin according to your just judgment.(:note) thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy Meaning, for the covenant's sake made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob his servants. servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.

geneva@Isaiah:63:19 @ We haue bene as they, ouer whome thou neuer barest rule, and vpon whom thy Name was not called.

geneva@Isaiah:64:1 @ O that thou wouldest (note:)The prophet continues his prayer, desiring God to declare his love toward his Church by miracles and mighty power, as he did in mount Sinai.(:note) rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

geneva@Isaiah:64:2 @ As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth (note:)Meaning, the rain, hail, fire, thunder and lightning.(:note) the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thy adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!

geneva@Isaiah:64:6 @ But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our (note:)We are justly punished and brought into captivity, because we have provoked you to anger, and though we would excuse ourselves, yet our righteousness, and best virtues are before you as vile cloths, or (as some read) like the menstruous cloths of a woman.(:note) righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

geneva@Isaiah:64:7 @ And there is none that calleth vpon thy Name, neither that stirreth vp himselfe to take holde of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast consumed vs because of our iniquities.

geneva@Isaiah:64:8 @ But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the (note:)Even though O Lord by your just judgment you may utterly destroy us as the potter may his pot, yet we appeal to your mercies, by which it has pleased you to adopt us to be your children.(:note) clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.

geneva@Isaiah:64:11 @ Our holy and our beautiful house, (note:)In which we rejoiced and worshipped you.(:note) where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

geneva@Isaiah:65:1 @ I am sought by [them that] (note:)Meaning, the Gentiles who know not God, would seek him, when he had moved their heart with his Holy Spirit, (Rom_10:20).(:note) asked not [for me]; I am found by [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation [that] was not called by my name.

geneva@Isaiah:65:2 @ I have (note:)He shows the reason for the rejection of the Jews, because they would not obey him or any admonition of his prophets, by whom he called them continually and stretch out his hand to draw them.(:note) spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that is] not good, after their own He shows that to delight in our own fantasies is the declining from God and the beginning of all superstitions and idolatry. thoughts;

geneva@Isaiah:65:4 @ Which remain among the (note:)To consult with spirits, and to conjure devils, which was forbidden.(:note) graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat Which was contrary to God's commandment, (Lev_11:7; Deu_14:8). swine's flesh, and broth of abominable [things is in] their vessels;

geneva@Isaiah:65:7 @ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers (note:)Will be both punished together: and this declares how the children are punished for their fathers faults, that is, when the same faults or like are found in them.(:note) together, saith the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

geneva@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a (note:)That is, it is profitable: meaning that God will not destroy the faithful branches of his vineyard, when he destroys the rotten stocks, that is, the hypocrites.(:note) blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

geneva@Isaiah:65:10 @ And (note:)Which was a plentiful place in Judea to feed sheep, as Achor was for cattle.(:note) Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

geneva@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall (note:)By these words, eat and drink, he means the blessed life of the faithful, who have always had consolation and full contentment of all things in their God, though sometimes they lack these corporal things.(:note) eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

geneva@Isaiah:65:16 @ That he who blesseth himself in the (note:)By blessing, and by swearing is meant the praising of God for his benefits, and the true worshipping of him, who will not be only in Judea, but through all the world.(:note) earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former I will no longer permit my Church to be desolate as in times past. troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

geneva@Isaiah:65:18 @ But be you glad and reioyce for euer in the things that I shall create: for beholde, I will create Ierusalem, as a reioycing and her people as a ioye,

geneva@Isaiah:65:20 @ There shall be no more from there an infant of days, nor an old man that hath (note:)Meaning, in this wonderful restoration of the Church there would be no weakness of youth, nor infirmities of age, but all would be fresh and flourishing: and this is accomplished in the heavenly Jerusalem, when all sins will cease, and the tears will be wiped away.(:note) not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] By which he shows that the infidels and unrepentant sinners have no part of this benediction. an hundred years old shall be accursed.

geneva@Isaiah:65:22 @ They shall not build, and another inhabite: they shall not plant, and another eate: for as the dayes of the tree are the dayes of my people, and mine elect shall inioye in olde age the worke of their handes.

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@Isaiah:66:3 @ He that killeth an ox [is as if] he (note:)Because the Jews thought themselves holy by offering their sacrifices, and in the mean season had neither faith or repentance, God shows that he no less detests these ceremonies than he does the sacrifices of the heathen, who offered men, dogs and swine to their idols, which things were expressly forbidden in the law.(:note) slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] swine's blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

geneva@Isaiah:66:5 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his (note:)He encourages the faithful by promising to destroy their enemies, who pretended to be as brethren, but were hypocrites, and hated them that feared God.(:note) word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:66:7 @ Before (note:)Meaning, that the restoration of the church would be so sudden and contrary to all men's opinions as when a woman is delivered before she looked for it, and without pain in travail.(:note) she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child.

geneva@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one (note:)This will pass the capacity of man to see such a multitude that will come up at once, meaning under the preaching of the gospel of which they who came out of Babylon were a sign.(:note) day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

geneva@Isaiah:66:9 @ Shall I (note:)Declaring by this that as by his power and providence women travailed and delivered so he gives power to bring forth the Church at his appointed time.(:note) bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God.

geneva@Isaiah:66:11 @ That ye may nurse, (note:)That is may rejoice for all the blessings that God bestows on his Church.(:note) and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may draw milk, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

geneva@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend (note:)I will give her happiness and prosperity in great abundance.(:note) peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Read (Isa_60:16). Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye be nursed, ye shall be You will be cherished as her dearly beloved children. borne upon [her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees.

geneva@Isaiah:66:13 @ As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Ierusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:66:15 @ For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to (note:)This vengeance God began to execute at the destruction of Babylon and has always continued it against the enemies of his Church, and will do till the last day, which will be the accomplishment of it.(:note) render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

geneva@Isaiah:66:17 @ They that sanctify (note:)Meaning, the hypocrites.(:note) themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating By which are meant them that maliciously transgressed the law, by eating beasts forbidden, even to the mouse which nature abhors. swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:66:19 @ And I will set a (note:)I will make these that I chose, that they perish not with the rest of the infidels: by which he alludes to the marking of the posts of his people, whom he preserved, (Exo_12:7).(:note) sign among them, and I will send those that I will scatter the rest of the Jews, who escaped destruction, into various nations. escape of them to the nations, [to] That is, Cecilia. Tarshish, Meaning Africa. Pul, and That is Lydia, or Asia minor. Lud, that draw the Signifying the Parthians. bow, [to] Italy. Tubal, and Greece. Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and Meaning, the apostles, disciples and others who he first chose of the Jews to preach to the Gentiles. they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

geneva@Isaiah:66:20 @ And they shall bring all your (note:)That is the Gentiles, who by faith will be made the children of Abraham as you are.(:note) brethren [for] an offering to the LORD out of all nations upon By which he means that no necessary means will want, when God will call the Gentiles to the knowledge of the gospel. horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:66:21 @ And I will also take of them for (note:)That is, of the Gentiles, as he did Luke, Timothy and Titus first, and others after to preach his word.(:note) priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:66:22 @ For as the new (note:)By this he signifies the kingdom of Christ in which his Church will be renewed, and where before there were appointed seasons to sacrifice in this there will be one continual Sabbath, so that all times and seasons will be meet.(:note) heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, the sermons and prophecies.(:note) words of Jeremiah the son of Who is thought to be he that found the book of the law under king Josiah, (2Ki_22:8). Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in This was a city about three miles from Jerusalem and belonged to the priests, the sons of Aaron, (Jos_21:18). Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: The Argument - The prophet Jeremiah born in the city of Anathoth in the country of Benjamin, was the son of Hilkiah, whom some think to be he that found the book of the law and gave it to Josiah. This prophet had excellent gifts from God, and most evident revelations of prophecy, so that by the commandment of the Lord he began very young to prophecy, that is, in the thirteenth year of Josiah, and continued eighteen years under the king, three months under Jehoahaz and under Jehoiakim eleven years, three months under Jehoiachin, and under Zedekiah eleven years to the time that they were carried away into Babylon. So that this time amounts to above forty years, besides the time that he prophesied after the captivity. In this book he declares with tears and lamentations, the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the people, for their idolatry, covetousness, deceit, cruelty, excess, rebellion and contempt of God's word, and for the consolation of the Church reveals the just time of their deliverance. Here chiefly are to be considered three things. First the rebellion of the wicked, who wax more stubborn and obstinate, when the prophets admonish them most plainly of their destruction. Next how the prophets and ministers of God should not be discouraged in their vocation, though they are persecuted and rigorously handled by the wicked, for God's cause. Thirdly though God shows his just judgment against the wicked, yet will he ever show himself a preserver of his Church, and when all means seem to men's judgment to be abolished, then will he declare himself victorious in preserving his.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:2 @ To whom the (note:)This is spoken to confirm his calling and office, as he did not presume of himself to preach and prophecy, but was called to it by God.(:note) word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:3 @ It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the (note:)Meaning the nephew of Josiah: for Jehoahaz was his father, who reigned but three months, and therefore is not mentioned, nor is Jehoiakim that reigned no longer.(:note) son of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth Of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, who was also called Mattaniah, and at this time the Jews were carried away into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. month.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:5 @ Before I (note:)The scripture uses this manner of speech to declare that God has appointed his minsters to their offices before they were born, as in (Isa_49:1; Gal_1:15).(:note) formed thee in the womb I knew thee; and before thou wast born I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet to the For Jeremiah did not only prophecy against the Jews, but also against the Egyptians, Babylonians, Moabites and other nations. nations.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:1:9 @ Then the LORD put forth his hand, and (note:)Which declares that God makes them meet and assures them, whom he calls to set forth his glory, giving them all means necessary for the same, (Exo_4:12; Isa_6:7).(:note) touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:10 @ See, I have this day set thee over the (note:)He shows what is the authority of God's true ministers, who by his word have power to bear down whatever lifts itself up against God: and to plant and assure the humble and such as give themselves to the obedience of God's word, (2Co_10:4-5; Heb_4:12), and these are the keys which Christ has left to loose and bind, (Mat_18:18).(:note) nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a (note:)He joins the sign with the word, for a more ample confirmation: signifying by the rod of the almond tree, which first buds, the hasty coming of the Babylonians against the Jews.(:note) rod of an almond tree.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:12 @ Then saide the Lorde vnto me, Thou hast seene aright: for I will hasten my worde to performe it.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:13 @ And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling (note:)Signifying that the Chaldeans and Assyrians would be as a pot to seethe the Jews who boiled in their pleasures and lust.(:note) pot; and its face [is] toward the north.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said to me, Out of the (note:)Syria and Assyria were northward in respect to Jerusalem, which was the Chaldeans dominion.(:note) north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:17 @ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I (note:)Which declares that God's vengeance is prepared against them who do not execute their duty faithfully, either for fear of man, or for any other reason, (1Co_9:16).(:note) confound thee before them.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:18 @ For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an (note:)Signifying on the one hand that the more that Satan and the world rage against God's ministers, the more present will he be to help them, (Jos_1:5; Heb_13:5) and on the other hand, that they are utterly unfit to serve God in his Church, who are afraid and do not resist wickedness, whatever danger depend on it, (Isa_50:7; Eze_3:8).(:note) iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against her princes, against her priests, and against the people of the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:2 @ Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the (note:)According to that grace and favour which I showed you from the beginning, when I first chose you to be my people, and married you to myself, (Eze_16:8).(:note) kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, When I had delivered you out of Egypt. in a land [that was] not sown.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel [was] (note:)Chosen above all others to serve the Lord only and the first offered to the Lord of all other nations.(:note) holiness to the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all Whoever challenged this people, or else annoyed them, was punished. that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone (note:)That is, fallen to vile idolatry.(:note) far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become Altogether given to vanity, and are become blind and insensible as the idols that they serve. vain?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:6 @ Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of (note:)Where for lack of all things needed for life, you could look for nothing every hour but present death.(:note) the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not, (note:)They did not teach the people to seek after God.(:note) Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the As the scribes, who would have expounded the law to the people. law knew me not: the Meaning, the princes and ministers: signifying, that all estates were corrupt. rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by That is, spoke vain things, and brought the people from the true worship of God to serve idols: for by Baal, which was the chief idol of the Moabites, are meant all idols. Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:9 @ Wherefore I will yet (note:)Signifying that he would not as he might, straightway condemn them, but shows them by evident examples their great ingratitude that they might be ashamed and repent.(:note) plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:10 @ For pass over the isles of (note:)Meaning, the Grecians and Italians.(:note) Chittim, and see; and send to To Arabia. Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there is such a thing.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:2:14 @ [Is] Israel a (note:)Have I ordered them like servants and not like dearly beloved children? (Exo_4:22) therefore it is their fault only, if the enemy spoil them.(:note) servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he laid waste?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:15 @ The young (note:)The Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.(:note) lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without Not one will be left to dwell there. inhabitant.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:17 @ Hast thou not procured this to thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he (note:)Showing that God would have still led them correctly, if they would have followed him.(:note) led thee by the way?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now what hast thou to do in the way of (note:)To seek help from man, as though God was not able enough to defend you, which is to drink from the puddles and to leave the fountain, (Isa_31:1).(:note) Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the That is, Euphrates. river?

geneva@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Thy own wickedness shall (note:)Meaning, that the wicked are insensible, till the punishment for their sin waken them as in (Jer_2:26; Isa_3:9).(:note) correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:22 @ For though thou shalt wash thee with (note:)Though you use all the purifications and ceremonies of the law, you cannot escape punishment.(:note) lye, and take thee much soap, [yet] thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:23 @ How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not (note:)Meaning that hypocrites deny that they worship the idols, but that they honour God in them, and therefore they call their doings God's service.(:note) gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift He compares the idolaters to these beasts, because they never cease running to and fro: for both valleys and hills are full of their idolatry. dromedary traversing her ways;

geneva@Jeremiah:2:24 @ A wild (note:)He compares the idolaters to a wild ass: for she can never be tamed nor yet wearied: for as she runs she can take her wind at every opportunity.(:note) donkey used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her That is, when she is with foal, and therefore the hunters wait their time: so though you cannot be turned back now from your idolatry, yet when your iniquity will be at the fall, God will meet with you. month they shall find her.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:26 @ As the (note:)As a thief will not acknowledge his fault, till he is taken with the deed, and ready to be punished, so they will not confess their idolatry, till the plagues due to the same light on them.(:note) thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

geneva@Jeremiah:2:27 @ Saying to a tree, Thou [art] my (note:)Meaning, that idolaters rob God of his honour: and where as he has taught to call him the father of all flesh, they attribute this title to their idols.(:note) father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back to me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:28 @ But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according (note:)You thought that your gods of blocks and stones could have helped you, because they were many in number and present in every place: but now let us see whether either the multitude or their presence can deliver you from my plague, (Jer_11:13).(:note) to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:29 @ Why will (note:)As though I did you injury in punishing you, seeing that your faults are so evident.(:note) ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:30 @ In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your (note:)That is, you have killed your prophets, that exhorted you to repentance, as Zechariah, Isaiah, etc.(:note) own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:33 @ Why trimmest thou thy way to (note:)With strangers.(:note) seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:36 @ Why dost thou go about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, (note:)For the Assyrians had taken away the ten tribes out of Israel and destroyed Judah even to Jerusalem: and the Egyptians slew Josiah, and vexed the Jews in various ways.(:note) as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:37 @ Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thy hands upon (note:)In sign of lamentation, as in (2Sa_13:19).(:note) thy head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:1 @ They (note:)According as it is written, (Deu_24:4).(:note) say, If a man shall put away his wife, and she shall go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her again? shall not that land If he take such a one to wife again. be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many That is, with idols, and with them whom you have put your confidence in. lovers; yet And I will not cast you off, but receive you, according to my mercy. return again to me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:2 @ Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the (note:)Who dwells in tent and waits for them that pass by to rob them.(:note) Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotry and with thy wickedness.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:3 @ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no (note:)As God threatened by his law, (Deu_28:24).(:note) latter rain; and thou hadst an You would never be ashamed of your acts and repent: and this impudency is common to idolaters, who will not cease, though they are openly convicted. harlot's forehead, thou didst refuse to be ashamed.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:4 @ Wilt thou not from this time cry (note:)He shows that the wicked in their miseries will cry to God and use outward prayer as the godly do, but because they do not turn from their evil, they are not heard, (Isa_58:3-4).(:note) to me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?

geneva@Jeremiah:3:5 @ Wil he keepe his anger for euer? Will he reserue it to the ende? Thus hast thou spoken, but thou doest euill, euen more and more.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding (note:)Meaning the ten tribes.(:note) Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:7 @ And I sayde, when shee had done all this, Turne thou vnto me: but she returned not, as her rebellious sister Iudah sawe.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:8 @ And I saw, when for all the causes by which backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put (note:)And gave her into the hands of the Assyrians.(:note) her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:9 @ And it came to pass through the (note:)The Hebrew word may either signify lightness and wantonness, or noise and brute.(:note) lightness of her harlotry, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with trees.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:10 @ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned to me with (note:)Judah pretended for a time that she returned, as under Josiah and other good kings, but she was never truly touched, or wholly reformed, as appeared when opportunity was offered by any wicked prince.(:note) her whole heart, but deceitfully, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:11 @ And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath (note:)Israel has not declared herself as wicked as Judah, who yet has had more admonitions and examples to call her to repentance.(:note) justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go and proclaim these words toward (note:)While the Israelites were now kept in captivity by the Assyrians, to whom he promises mercy, if they will repent.(:note) the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast (note:)There was no way which you did not hunt to seek after the idols, and to go on a pilgrimage.(:note) scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:15 @ And I will giue you pastours according to mine heart, which shal feede you with knowledge and vnderstanding.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:16 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The (note:)This is to be understood of the coming of Christ: for then they will not seek the Lord by ceremonies, and all figures will cease.(:note) ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:19 @ But I sayde, Howe did I take thee for children and giue thee a pleasant lande, euen the glorious heritage of the armies of the heathen, and saide, Thou shalt call mee, saying, My father, and shalt not turne from me?

geneva@Jeremiah:3:20 @ Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her (note:)The Hebrew word signifies a friend or companion, and here may be taken for a husband, as it is used also in (Hos_3:1).(:note) husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:24 @ For shame hath devoured the labour of our (note:)For their idolatry God's vengeance has light on them and theirs.(:note) fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

geneva@Jeremiah:3:25 @ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: (note:)They justify not themselves, or say that they would follow their fathers, but condemn their wicked doings and desire forgiveness for the same, as in (Ezr_9:7; Psa_106:6; Isa_64:6).(:note) for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:1 @ If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, (note:)That is, wholly and without hypocrisy, not dissembling to turn and serve God as they do who serve him by halves, (Hos_7:16).(:note) return to me: and if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be removed.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:7 @ The (note:)Meaning Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, (2Ki_24:1).(:note) lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:9 @ And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the (note:)That is, the false prophets who still prophesied peace and security.(:note) prophets shall wonder.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:10 @ Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly (note:)By the false prophets who promised peace and tranquillity: and thus you have punished their rebellious stubbornness by causing them to hearken to lies who would not believe your truth, (1Ki_22:23; Eze_14:9; 2Th_2:11).(:note) deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; though the sword reacheth to the soul.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:13 @ Behold, he shall come up as (note:)Meaning that Nebuchadnezzar would come as suddenly as a cloud that is carried with the wind.(:note) clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. This is spoken in the person of all the people, who in their affliction would cry thus. Woe to us! for we are laid waste.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:14 @ O Ierusalem, wash thine heart from wickednes, that thou maiest be saued: how long shall thy wicked thoughtes remaine within thee?

geneva@Jeremiah:4:15 @ For a voice declareth from (note:)Which was a city in the utmost border of Israel north toward Babylon.(:note) Dan, and proclaimeth affliction from mount Which was in the middle between Dan and Jerusalem. Ephraim.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a (note:)Who keep the fruits so straitly, that nothing can come in or out so would the Babylonians compass Judah.,(:note) field, they are against her on all sides; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:4:20 @ Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my (note:)Meaning, the cities which were as easily cast down as a tent.(:note) tents ruined, [and] my curtains in a moment.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:23 @ I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and (note:)By this manner of speech he shows the horrible destruction that would come on the land and also condemns the obstinacy of the people who do not repent at the fear of these terrible kings, seeing that the insensible creatures are moved therewith, as if the order of nature would be changed, (Isa_13:10, Isa_24:23; Eze_32:7; Joe_2:31, Joe_3:15).(:note) void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:25 @ I behelde, and loe, there was no man, and all the birdes of the heauen were departed.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:26 @ I behelde, and loe, the fruitfull place was a wildernesse, and all the cities thereof were broken downe at the presence of the Lorde, and by his fierce wrath.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:30 @ And [when] thou [art] laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou (note:)Neither your ceremonies nor rich gifts will deliver you.(:note) clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlarge thy eyes with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:31 @ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her hands, [saying], (note:)As the prophets were moved to pity the destruction of their people, so they declared it to the people to move them to repentance, (Isa_22:4; Jer_9:1).(:note) Woe [is] me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

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:5:6 @ Wherefore a (note:)Meaning, Nebuchadnezzar and his army.(:note) lion from the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:7 @ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and (note:)He shows that to swear by anything other than by God is to forsake him.(:note) sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, then they committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not visite for these things, saith the Lorde? Shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?

geneva@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue grieuously trespassed against me, saith the Lord.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have (note:)Because they gave no credit to the words of his prophets, as in (Isa_28:15).(:note) lied about the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

geneva@Jeremiah:5:16 @ Their quiver [is] as an (note:)Who will kill many with their arrows.(:note) open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:18 @ Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with (note:)Here the Lord declares his unspeakable favour toward his Church, as in (Jer_4:27).(:note) you.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why doeth the LORD our God all these [things] to us? then shalt (note:)Meaning, the prophet Jeremiah.(:note) thou answer them, As ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:22 @ Feare ye not me, saith the Lord? Or will ye not be afraide at my presence, which haue placed the sand for the bounds of the sea by the perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it, and though the waues thereof rage, yet can they not preuaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe ouer it?

geneva@Jeremiah:5:24 @ For they say not in their heart, Let vs nowe feare the Lorde our God, that giueth raine both early and late in due season: hee reserueth vnto vs the appointed weekes of the haruest.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:26 @ For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:27 @ As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.

geneva@Jeremiah:5:29 @ Shall I not visite for these things, sayth the Lord? or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?

geneva@Jeremiah:6:1 @ O ye children of (note:)He speaks to them chiefly because they should take heed by the example of their brethren the other half of their tribe, who were now carried away prisoners.(:note) Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Which was a city in Judah, six miles from Bethlehem, (2Ch_11:6). Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Read (Neh_3:14). Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus hath the Lord of hostes said, Hewe downe wood, and cast a mounte against Ierusalem: this citie must be visited: all oppression is in the middes of it.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: (note:)He shows the reason why it would be destroyed, and how it comes from themselves.(:note) violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually [are] grief and wounds.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn (note:)He exhorts the Babylonians to be diligent to search out all and to leave none.(:note) back thy hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: (note:)As the Lord had given him his word to be as a fire of his indignation to burn the wicked, (Jer_5:14) so he kindles it now when he sees that all remedies are past.(:note) I will pour it out upon the No one will be spared. children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with [him that is] full of days.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:13 @ For from the least of them, euen vnto the greatest of them, euery one is giuen vnto couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, they all deale falsely.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:15 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not ashamed, no neither coulde they haue any shame: therefore they shall fall among the slaine: when I shall visite them, they shall be cast downe, sayth the Lorde.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the (note:)In which the patriarchs and prophets walked, directed by the word of God: signifying that there is no true way, but that which God prescribes.(:note) old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in it].

geneva@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Heare, O earth, beholde, I will cause a plague to come vpon this people, euen the fruite of their owne imaginations: because they haue not taken heede vnto my woordes, nor to my Lawe, but cast it off.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the (note:)From Babylon by Dan, which was north of Jerusalem.(:note) north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:23 @ With bowe and shield shal they be weaponed: they are cruell and will haue no compassion: their voyce roareth like the sea, and they ride vpon horses, well appointed, like men of warre against thee, O daughter Zion.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the report of it: our hands become (note:)For fear of the enemy: he speaks this in the person of the Jews.(:note) feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:26 @ O daughter of my people, girde thee with sackecloth, and wallowe thy selfe in the ashes: make lamentation, and bitter mourning as for thine onely sonne: for the destroier shall suddenly come vpon vs.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have set (note:)Meaning, Jeremiah, whom God had appointed to try out the godly from the wicked, as a founder does the pure metal from the dross.(:note) thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They are all rebellious traitours, walking craftily: they are brasse, and yron, they all are destroyers.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The (note:)All the pain and labour that has been taken with them is lost.(:note) bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:7 @ Then (note:)God shows on what condition he made his promise to this temple that they would be a holy people to him, as he would be a faithful God to them.(:note) will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Is this house, which is called by my name, become (note:)As thieves hidden in holes and dens think themselves safe, so when you are in my temple, you think to be covered with the holiness of it, and that I cannot see your wickedness, (Mat_21:13).(:note) a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke to you, (note:)That is, I never ceased to warn you, as in (Isa_65:2; Pro_1:23).(:note) rising early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but He shows the only remedy to redress our faults: to allow God to lead us in the way, and to obey his calling, (Isa_66:4). ye answered not;

geneva@Jeremiah:7:14 @ Therefore will I do vnto this House, wherupon my Name is called, wherein also yee trust, euen vnto the place that I gaue to you & to your fathers, as I haue done vnto Shilo.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast (note:)I will send you into captivity as I have done Ephraim, that is, the ten tribes.(:note) you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:16 @ Therefore (note:)To assure them that God had determined with himself to punish their wickedness, he shows the prayer of the godly cannot help them, while they remain in their obstinacy against God, and will not use the means that he uses to call them to repentance, (Jer_11:14, Jer_14:11).(:note) pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, mine anger and my wrath shall be powred vpon this place, vpon man and vpon beast, and vpon the tree of the fielde, and vpon the fruite of the grounde, and it shall burne and not bee quenched.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For (note:)Showing that it was not his chief purpose and intent, that they should offer sacrifices, but that they should regard, why they were ordained: that is, to be joined to the word as seals and confirmations of remissions of sins in Christ: for without the word they were vain and unprofitable.(:note) I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

geneva@Jeremiah:7:25 @ Since the day that your fathers came forth from the land of Egypt to (note:)Which was about fourteen hundred years.(:note) this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily Read (Jer_7:13). rising early and sending [them]:

geneva@Jeremiah:7:27 @ Therefore thou shalt speak all these words to them; but they (note:)By which he shows that the pastors should not leave their flocks in their obstinacy, for the Lord will use the means of his servants to make the wicked more faulty and to prove his.(:note) will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call to them; but they will not answer thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off thy (note:)In sign of mourning, as in (Job_1:20).(:note) hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his Against whom he had just opportunity to pour out his wrath (Mic_1:6). wrath.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the high places of (note:)Of Topheth, read (2Ki_23:10).(:note) Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I But commanded the opposite, as in (Lev_18:21, Lev_20:3; Deu_18:10). commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:33 @ And ye carkeises of this people shalbe meat for the foules of the heauen and for the beastes of the earth, and none shall fraie them away.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:34 @ Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Iudah and from the streetes of Ierusalem the voice of mirth & the voice of gladnesse, the voice of the bridegrom & the voice of the bride: for the lande shalbe desolate.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:2 @ And they shal spread them before the sunne and the moone, and all the host of heauen, whom they haue loued, and whome they haue serued, and whome they haue followed, and whome they haue sought, and whome they haue worshipped: they shall not be gathered nor be buried, but shall be as doung vpon the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I hearkened and heard, [but] they spoke not aright: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every (note:)They are full of hypocrisy, and everyone follows his own fantasy without any consideration.(:note) one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The (note:)They who seem wise may be ashamed of their ignorance for all wisdom consists in God's word.(:note) wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

geneva@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore will I giue their wiues vnto others, and their fieldes to them that shall possesse them: for euery one from the least euen vnto the greatest is giuen to couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, euery one dealeth falsely.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:12 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not ashamed, neither coulde they haue any shame: therefore shall they fall among the slaine: when I shall visite them, they shall be cast downe, sayeth the Lorde.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? (note:)He speaks in the person of the people, who when the enemy comes will turn about to hide themselves and acknowledge that it is God's hand.(:note) assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of That is, has brought us into extreme affliction, and thus they will not attribute this plague to fortune, but to God's just judgment, (Jer_9:15, Jer_23:15). gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:16 @ The snorting of his horses was heard from (note:){{See Jer_4:15}}(:note) Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell in it.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For, behold, I will (note:)God threatens to send the Babylonians among them who will utterly destroy them in such sort, as by no means they will escape.(:note) send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:20 @ The (note:)The people wonder that they have for so long a time looked for comfort in vain.(:note) harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I (note:)The prophet speaks this.(:note) hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:22 @ [Is there] no balm (note:)Meaning,that no man's help or means could save them: for in Gilead was precious balm, (Jer_46:11) or else deriding the vain confidence of the people, who looked to their priests for help, who would have been the physicians of their soul, and dwelt at Gilead, (Hos_6:8).(:note) in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

geneva@Jeremiah:9:1 @ O that my head were (note:)The prophet shows the great compassion that he had toward this people, seeing that he could never sufficiently lament the destruction that he saw to hang over them, which is a special note to discern the true pastors from the hirelings. {{See Jer_4:19}}(:note) waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

geneva@Jeremiah:9:2 @ O that I had in the wilderness a (note:)He shows that there was more peace and greater safety for him to dwell among the wild beasts than among this wicked people except that God has given him this charge.(:note) lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [are] all Utterly turned from God. adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shal I not visit them for these things, saith the Lorde? Or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?

geneva@Jeremiah:9:10 @ For the (note:)Signifying that all the places about Jerusalem would be destroyed.(:note) mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:11 @ And I wil make Ierusalem an heape, and a den of dragons, & I will make the cities of Iudah waste, without an inhabitant.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who [is] the (note:)Meaning that they are all without sense and understanding and that God has taken his spirit from them.(:note) wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

geneva@Jeremiah:9:18 @ And let them make haste, & let them take vp a lamentation for vs, that our eyes may cast out teares & our eye liddes gush out of water.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we laid waste! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings (note:)As though they were weary of us, because of our iniquities, (Lev_18:28, Lev_20:22).(:note) have cast [us] out.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:22 @ Speake, thus sayth the Lorde, The carkeises of men shall lye, euen as the doung vpon the fielde, and as the handfull after the mower, and none shal gather them.

geneva@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the (note:)As none can save himself by his own labour, or any worldly means, he shows that it is vain to put our trust in it, but that we trust in the Lord, and rejoice in him, who only can deliver.(:note) wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches:

geneva@Jeremiah:9:25 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them who are] (note:)Meaning, both Jews and Gentiles, as in this next verse he shows the cause, (Jer_4:4).(:note) circumcised with the uncircumcised;

geneva@Jeremiah:10:4 @ They deck it (note:)The prophets use thus plainly and simply to set forth the vile absurdity of the idolaters that men might learn to be ashamed of that to which their corrupt nature is most subject, (Isa_44:12).(:note) with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it may not move.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:5 @ The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:6 @ Forasmuch as [there is] none like thee, O LORD; (note:)He teaches the people to lift up their eyes to God, who has all power and therefore ought only to be feared: and in this he shows them not only the evil that they ought to hate: but the good which they ought to follow, (Rev_15:4).(:note) thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:8 @ But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the stock [is] a (note:)Because the people thought that to have images was a means to serve God, and to bring them to the knowledge of him, he shows that nothing more displeases God, nor brings man into greater errors and ignorance of God: and therefore he calls them the doctrine of vanity, the work of errors, (Jer_10:15). (Hab_2:18) calls them the teachers of lies: contrary to that wicked opinion, that they are the books of the lay people.(:note) doctrine of vanities.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:9 @ Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold (note:)Where they found the best gold; showing that they thought nothing too dear for their idols, some read Ophir as in (1Ki_9:28).(:note) from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of skilful [men].

geneva@Jeremiah:10:10 @ But the Lord is the God of trueth: he is the liuing God, and an euerlasting King: at his anger the earth shal tremble, and the nations cannot abide his wrath.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus shall ye say to them, The gods (note:)This declares that all that has been spoken of idols in this chapter, was to arm the Jews when they would be in Chaldea among the idolaters, and now with one sentence he instructs them both how to protest their own religion against the idolaters and how to answer them to their shame who would exhort them to idolatry, and therefore he writes this sentence in the Chaldean tongue for a memorial while all the rest of his writing is in Hebrew.(:note) that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:13 @ Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to rayne, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Every man is (note:)The more man thinks to do anything well by his own wisdom, and not as God instructs him, the more he proves himself to be a vile beast.(:note) senseless in [his] knowledge: every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:16 @ The (note:)By these words, portion and rod, he signifies their inheritance, meaning that God would be all sufficient for them: and that their happiness consisted in him alone, and therefore they ought to renounce all other help and comfort as of idols, etc. (Deu_32:9; Psa_16:5).(:note) portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:18 @ For thus sayth the Lorde, Beholde, at this time I will throwe as with a sling the inhabitants of the lande, and will trouble them, and they shal finde it so.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:23 @ O LORD, I know that (note:)He speaks this because Nebuchadnezzar purposed to have made war against the Moabites and Ammonites, but hearing of Zedekiah's rebellion he turned his power to go against Jerusalem, (Eze_21:21) therefore the prophet says that this was the Lord's direction.(:note) the way of man [is] not in himself: [it is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:24 @ O LORD, correct me, but with (note:)Considering that God had revealed to him the certainty of their captivity (Jer_7:16) he only prays that he would punish them with mercy which Isaiah calls in measure, (Isa_27:8) measuring his rods by their infirmity (1Co_10:13) for here by judgment is meant not only the punishment but also the merciful moderation of the same as in (Jer_30:11).(:note) judgment; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

geneva@Jeremiah:10:25 @ Pour out (note:)As God cannot only be known and glorified by his mercy that he uses toward his Church, but also by his justice in punishing his enemies, he prays that this glory may fully appear both in the one and the other, (Psa_79:6).(:note) thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:5 @ That I may perform the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then answered (note:)Thus he speaks in the person of the people, who agreed to the covenant.(:note) I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:8 @ Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their (note:)According to his own fantasy, and not as my word appointed him.(:note) evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the Meaning, the menaces and curses contained in the law, (Lev_26:14; Deu_28:16). words of this covenant, which I commanded [them] to do; but they did [them] not.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:15 @ What hath my (note:)My people of Israel whom I have greatly loved till now.(:note) beloved to do in my house, [seeing] she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh Meaning, that they offer not in the temple to God, but on the altars of Baal and the idols and so rejoiced in their wickedness. is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:19 @ But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised plots against me, [saying], Let us (note:)Let us destroy the prophet and his doctrine. Some read «Let us corrupt his meat with wood», meaning poison.(:note) destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

geneva@Jeremiah:11:21 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the men of (note:)That is, both the priests and the rest of the people: for this town was the priests, and they dwelt in it, (Jer_1:1).(:note) Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Not that they could not abide to hear God named; (for in this they would show themselves most holy) but because they could not abide to be sharply reproved, and therefore desired to be flattered (Isa_30:10), to be maintained in their pleasures (Mic_2:11) and not to hear vice condemned (Amo_7:12). Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

geneva@Jeremiah:12:2 @ Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their mouth, and far from their (note:)They profess God in mouth, but deny him in heart, which is here meant by the reins, (Isa_29:13; Mat_15:8).(:note) reins.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:3 @ But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and (note:)The Hebrew word is «sanctify them», meaning that God would be sanctified in the destruction of the wicked to whom God for a while gives prosperity, that afterward they would the more feel his heavy judgment when they lack their riches which were a sign of his mercy.(:note) prepare them for the day of slaughter.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:4 @ How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, (note:)Abusing God's leniency and his promises, they flattered themselves as though God would ever be merciful and not utterly destroy them therefore they hardened themselves in sin, till at length the beasts and insensible creatures felt the punishment of their stubborn rebellion against God.(:note) He shall not see our last end.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:5 @ If thou hast run with the (note:)Some think that God reproves Jeremiah, in that he would reason with him, saying that if he was not able to march with men, then he was far unable to dispute with God. Others, by the footmen mean them of Anathoth: and by the horsemen, them of Jerusalem who would trouble the prophet worse than his own countrymen did.(:note) footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and [if] in the land of peace, [in which] thou didst trust, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

geneva@Jeremiah:12:8 @ My heritage is to me as a (note:)Ever ranting and raging against me and my prophets.(:note) lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:9 @ My heritage [is] to me [as] a (note:)Instead of bearing my livery and wearing only my colours, they have change and diversity of colours of their idols and superstitions therefore their enemies as thick as the fowls of the air will come about them to destroy them.(:note) speckled bird, the birds around [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:10 @ Many shepherds have destroyed my (note:)He prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem, by the captain of Nebuchadnezzar, whom he calls pastors.(:note) vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:14 @ Thus saith the LORD against all my evil (note:)Meaning the wicked enemies of his Church who blasphemed his Name, and whom he would punish after he had delivered his people.(:note) neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:15 @ And it shall come to pass, after I have plucked them out I (note:)After I have punished the Gentiles I will have mercy on them.(:note) will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

geneva@Jeremiah:12:16 @ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the (note:)The true doctrine and manner to serve God.(:note) ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Read (Jer_4:2). LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built They will be of the number of the faithful, and have a place in my Church. in the midst of my people.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:4 @ Take the sash that thou hast bought, which [is] upon thy loins, and arise, go to (note:)Because this river was far from Jerusalem, it is evident that this was a vision, by which it was signified that the Jews would pass over the Euphrates to be captives in Babylon, and there for length of time would seem to be rotten, although they were joined to the Lord before as a girdle about a man.(:note) Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:5 @ So I went, and hid it by Perath, as the Lord had commanded me.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:7 @ Then went I to Perath, and digged, & tooke the girdle from the place where I had hid it, and behold, the girdle was corrupt, and was profitable for nothing.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:10 @ This wicked people haue refused to heare my word, and walke after ye stubbernesse of their owne heart, and walke after other gods to serue them, and to worship them: therefore they shalbe as this girdle, which is profitable to nothing.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:11 @ For as the girdle cleaueth to the loynes of a man, so haue I tied to me the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Iudah, saith the Lorde, that they might bee my people: that they might haue a name and prayse, and glory, but they would not heare.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:14 @ And I will (note:)It will be as easy for me to destroy the greatest and the strongest as it is for a man to break earthen bottles.(:note) dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:20 @ Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where [is] the (note:)He asks the king, where his people is become.(:note) flock [that] was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

geneva@Jeremiah:13:21 @ What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast (note:)By seeking to strangers for help, you have made them skilful to fight against you.(:note) taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?

geneva@Jeremiah:13:24 @ Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that is taken away with the South winde.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:25 @ This is thy portion, and ye part of thy measures from me, sayth the Lorde, because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in lyes.

geneva@Jeremiah:13:26 @ Therefore will I uncover thy skirts upon thy face, (note:)As your iniquities have been revealed to all the world, so shall your shame and punishment.(:note) that thy shame may appear.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the (note:)Which came for lack of rain as in (Jer_14:4).(:note) dearth.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:3 @ And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and (note:)That is, with ashes in token of sorrow.(:note) covered their heads.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:4 @ For the grounde was destroyed, because there was no rayne in the earth: the plowmen were ashamed, and couered their heads.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook (note:)Meaning, that the brute beasts for drought were compelled to forsake their young, contrary to nature, and to go seek water which they could not find.(:note) [it], because there was no grass.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:6 @ And the wild donkeys stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like (note:)Who are so hot by nature, that they cannot be cooled by drinking water, but still gasp for the air to refresh them.(:note) dragons; their eyes failed, because [there was] no grass.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O the hope of Israel, his saviour in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a (note:)That takes no care for us.(:note) stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man [that] turneth aside to tarry for a night?

geneva@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why shouldest thou be as a man astonished, as (note:)That takes no care for us.(:note) a mighty man [that] cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:12 @ When they fast, I will not heare their cry, and when they offer burnt offering, and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sworde, and by the famine and by the pestilence.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the (note:)He pities the people, and accuses the false prophets who deceived them: but the Lord answered that both the prophets who deceived and the people who permitted themselves to be seduced, will perish, (Jer_23:15, Jer_27:8-9, Jer_29:8).(:note) prophets say to them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:16 @ And the people to whome these prophets doe prophecie, shalbe cast out in the streetes of Ierusalem, because of the famine, & the sword, & there shall be none to bury them, both they, and their wiues, and their sonnes, and their daughters: for I wil powre their wickednes vpon them.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:17 @ Therefore thou shalt say this word to them; Let my eyes run down with (note:)The false prophets promised peace and assurance, but Jeremiah calls to tears, and repentance for their affliction, which is at hand, as in (Jer_9:1; Lam_1:16, Lam_2:18).(:note) tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast thou utterly rejected (note:)Though the prophet knew that God had cast off the multitude, who were hypocrites and bastard children, yet he was assured that for his promise sake he would still have a Church, for which he prays.(:note) Judah? hath thy soul abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

geneva@Jeremiah:14:20 @ We (note:)He teaches the Church a form of prayer to humble themselves to God by true repentance, which is the only way to avoid this famine, which was the beginning of God's plagues.(:note) acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:21 @ Doe not abhorre vs: for thy Names sake cast not downe the throne of thy glory: remember and breake not thy couenant with vs.

geneva@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Are there [any] among the (note:)Meaning their idols, read (Jer_10:15).(:note) vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].

geneva@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then said the LORD to me, (note:)Meaning that if there were any man living moved with so great zeal toward the people as were these two, yet he would not grant this request, as he had determined the contrary, (Eze_14:14).(:note) Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And if they say vnto thee, Whither shal we depart? Then tell them, Thus saith the Lord, Such as are appointed to death, vnto death: and such as are for the sworde, to the sworde: and such as are for the famine, to the famine: and such as are for the captiuitie, to the captiuitie.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:3 @ And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the (note:)The dogs, birds and beasts would devour them that were slain.(:note) dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will (note:)The word signifies to run to and fro for fear and unquietness of conscience as Cain did.(:note) cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, Not that the people were punished for the king's sin only, but for their own sins also, because they consented to his wickedness. because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:6 @ Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am (note:)That is, I will not call back my plagues or spare you any more.(:note) weary with repenting.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:8 @ Their widows (note:)Because I had slain their husbands.(:note) are multiplied to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She that hath borne (note:)She who had many lost all her children.(:note) seven languisheth: she hath breathed her last; her sun is She was destroyed in the midst of her prosperity. gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the remnant of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:11 @ The LORD said, (note:)In this perplexity the Lord comforted me, and said that my last days would be quiet: and by the enemy he means here Nebuzaradan the captain of Nebuchadnezzar, who gave Jeremiah the choice either to remain in his country or to go where he would; or by the enemy he means the Jews, who would later know Jeremiah's faithfulness, and therefore favour him.(:note) Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:12 @ Shall (note:)As for the people, though they seemed strong as iron, yet they would not be able to resist the hard iron of Babylon, but would be led captives.(:note) iron break the northern iron and the steel?

geneva@Jeremiah:15:13 @ Thy substance and thy treasures wil I giue to be spoyled without gaine, and that for all thy sinnes euen in all thy borders.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:16 @ Thy words were found, and I (note:)I received them with a great joy, as he that is famished eats meat.(:note) ate them; and thy word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone (note:)I had nothing to do with the wicked contemners of your word, but lamented bitterly for your plagues: showing what the faithful should do when they see tokens of God's anger.(:note) because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

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:)And have not assisted me according to the promise? In which it appears that in the saints of God is imperfection of faith, which through impatience is often assailed as in (Jer_20:7).(:note) as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?

geneva@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou shalt (note:)If you forget these carnal considerations and faithfully execute your charge.(:note) return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou shalt separate the That is, seek to win the good from the bad. precious from the vile, thou shalt be That is, as my mouth has pronounced, (Jer_1:18) and as here follows in (Jer_15:20). as my mouth: let them return Do not conform yourself to their wickedness, but let them follow your godly example. to thee; but return not thou to them.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make thee to this people a fortified brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not (note:)I will teach you with an invincible strength and constancy, so that all the powers of the world will not overcome you.(:note) prevail against thee: for I [am] with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:2 @ Thou shalt not take (note:)Meaning that the affliction would be so horrible in Jerusalem that a wife and children would only increase his sorrow.(:note) thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:4 @ They shal die of deathes and diseases: they shal not be lamented, neither shal they be buried, but they shalbe as dung vpon the earth, and they shalbe consumed by the sword, & by famine, and their carkeises shall be meate for the foules of the heauen, and for the beasts of the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:8 @ Thou shalt not also goe into the house of feasting to sit with them to eate and to drinke.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Beholde, I wil cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, euen in your dayes the voyce of myrth, and the voyce of gladnes, the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:16:15 @ But, The LORD liveth, that brought the children of Israel from the land of the north, and (note:)Signifying that the blessing of their deliverance out of Babylon would be so great that it would abolish the remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt: but he has here chiefly respect to the spiritual deliverance under Christ.(:note) from all the lands where he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my inheritance with the (note:)That is, their sons and daughters, who they offered to Molech.(:note) carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my (note:)He wonders at the great mercy of God in this deliverance which will not only extend to the Jews but also to the Gentiles.(:note) strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited Our fathers were most vile idolaters therefore it comes only of God's mercy that he performs his promise and has not utterly cast us off. lies, vanity, and [things] in which [there is] no profit.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:1 @ The sin of Judah [is] (note:)The remembrance of their contempt of God cannot pass, although for a time he defers the punishment, for it will be revealed to men and angels.(:note) written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the Instead of the law of God, they have written idolatry and all abomination in their heart. tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your Your sins appear in all the altars that you have erected to idols. altars;

geneva@Jeremiah:17:4 @ And thou, even (note:)Because you would not give the land rest, at such times, days and years as I appointed, you will after this be carried away and it will rest for lack of labourers.(:note) thyself, shall discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thy enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in my anger, [which] shall burn for ever.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:12 @ A glorious (note:)Showing that the godly ought to glory in nothing, but in God who exalts his, and has left a sign of his favour in his temple.(:note) high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written (note:)Their names will not be registered in the book of life.(:note) in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, (note:)The wicked say that my prophecy will not come to pass, because you deferred the time of your vengeance.(:note) they say to me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it come now.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:16 @ As for me, (note:)I am assured of my calling, and therefore know that the thing which you speak by me will come to pass, and that I speak not of any worldly affection.(:note) I have not hastened from [being] a shepherd to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which was uttered by my lips was [right] before thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:17:21 @ Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the (note:)By naming the Sabbath day, he comprehends the thing that is signified by it, for if they transgressed in the ceremony, they must be guilty of the rest, read (Exo_20:8) and by the breaking of this one commandment, he makes them transgressors of the whole law, as the first and second table are contained in it.(:note) sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;

geneva@Jeremiah:17:22 @ Neither cary foorth burdens out of your houses in the Sabbath day: neither doe yee any worke, but sanctifie the Sabbath, as I commanded your fathers.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:4 @ And the vessel that he made of (note:)As the potter has power over the clay to make what pot he will, or to break them, when he has made them: so have I power over you to do with you as seems good to me, (Isa_45:9; Rom_9:20-21).(:note) clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make [it].

geneva@Jeremiah:18:6 @ O house of Israel, cannot I doe with you as this potter, sayth the Lord? beholde, as the clay is in the potters hande, so are you in mine hande, O house of Israel.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:8 @ If that nation, against which I have pronounced, shall turn from their evil, I will (note:)When the Scripture attributes repentance to God, it is not that he does contrary to that which he has ordained in his secret counsel: but when he threatens it is a calling to repentance, and when he gives man grace to repent, the threatening (which ever contains a condition in it) takes no place: and this the scripture calls repentance in God, because it so appears to man's judgment.(:note) repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:12 @ And they said, (note:)As men who had no remorse but were altogether bent to rebellion and to their own selfwill.(:note) There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plots, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Aske now among the heathen, who hath heard such thinges? the virgin of Israel hath done very filthily.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:14 @ Will [a man] leave the snow of Lebanon [which cometh] from the rock of the field? (note:)As no man that has thirst refuses fresh waters which he has at home, to go and seek waters abroad to quench his thirst: so they should not seek help and comfort from strangers and leave God who was present with them.(:note) [or] shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

geneva@Jeremiah:18:15 @ Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the (note:)That is, the way of truth which God had taught by his law, (Jer_6:16).(:note) ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;

geneva@Jeremiah:18:16 @ To make their land desolate and a perpetual derision, so that euery one that passeth thereby, shalbe astonished and wagge his head,

geneva@Jeremiah:18:17 @ I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and (note:)I will show my anger and not my favour toward them.(:note) not the face, in the day of their calamity.

geneva@Jeremiah:19:2 @ And goe forth vnto the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrie of the East gate: and thou shalt preache there the wordes, that I shall tell thee,

geneva@Jeremiah:19:3 @ And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O (note:)By kings here and in other places are meant counsellors and governors of the people; who he calls the ancients, (Jer_19:1).(:note) kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever heareth, his ears shall Read of this phrase in (1Sa_3:11). tingle.

geneva@Jeremiah:19:7 @ And I will bring the counsell of Iudah and Ierusalem to nought in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, & by the hand of them that seeke their liues: and their carkeises will I giue to be meate for ye foules of the heauen, and to the beastes of the fielde.

geneva@Jeremiah:19:8 @ And I will make this citie desolate and an hissing, so that euery one that passeth thereby, shalbe astonished & hisse because of all ye plagues thereof.

geneva@Jeremiah:19:11 @ And shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a (note:)This visible sign was to confirm them concerning the assurance of this plague, which the Lord threatened by his prophet.(:note) potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.

geneva@Jeremiah:19:13 @ And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the (note:)He notes the great rage of the idolaters who left no place free from their abominations, in that they polluted their own houses with it, as we see yet among the papists.(:note) houses upon whose Read (Deu_22:8). roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:1 @ When Pashur, the sonne of Immer, the Priest, which was appointed gouernour in the house of the Lorde, heard that Ieremiah prophecied these things,

geneva@Jeremiah:20:2 @ Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the (note:)Thus we see that the thing which neither the king nor the princes nor the people dared to undertake against the prophet of God, this priest as a chief instrument of Satan first attempted, read (Jer_18:18).(:note) stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the house of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:3 @ And on the morning, Pashur brought Ieremiah out of the stockes. Then said Ieremiah vnto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:5 @ Moreouer, I will deliuer all the substance of this citie, and all the labours thereof, and al the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the Kings of Iudah will I giue into the hande of their enemies, which shall spoyle them, and take them away and cary them to Babel.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:6 @ And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy (note:)Who have allowed themselves to be abused by your false prophecies.(:note) friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was (note:)In this appears the impatiency which often overcomes the servants of God when they do not see their labours profit, and also feel their own weakness. {{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@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and (note:)He shows that he did his office in that he reproved the people of their vices and threatened them with God's judgments: but because he was derided and persecuted for this, he was discouraged, and would have stopped preaching, except that God's spirit forced him to it.(:note) spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:9 @ Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speake any more in his Name. But his worde was in mine heart as a burning fire shut vp in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

geneva@Jeremiah:20:16 @ And let that man be as the (note:)Alluding to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, (Gen_19:25).(:note) cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon;

geneva@Jeremiah:21:1 @ The worde which came vnto Ieremiah from the Lord, when king Zedekiah sent vnto him Pashur, the sonne of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the sonne of Maaseiah the Priest, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:21:4 @ Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will (note:)That is, from your enemies to destroy yourselves.(:note) turn back the weapons of war that [are] in your hands, with which ye fight against the king of Babylon, and [against] the Chaldeans, who besiege you outside the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

geneva@Jeremiah:21:6 @ And I will smite the inhabitants of this citie, both man, and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

geneva@Jeremiah:21:7 @ And after this, sayeth the Lorde, I will deliuer Zedekiah the King of Iudah, and his seruants, and the people, and such as are left in this citie, from the pestilence, from the sworde and from the famine into the hande of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel, and into the hande of their enemies, and into the hande of those that seeke their liues, and he shall smite them with the edge of the sworde: he shall not spare them, neither haue pitie nor compassion.

geneva@Jeremiah:21:9 @ He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a (note:)As a thing recovered from extreme danger, (Jer_37:2, Jer_39:18, Jer_45:5).(:note) prize.

geneva@Jeremiah:21:13 @ Behold, I [am] against thee, (note:)Meaning, Jerusalem which was built part on the hill and part in the valley and was compassed about with mountains.(:note) O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; who say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

geneva@Jeremiah:21:14 @ But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire (note:)That is, in the houses of it, which stood as thick as trees in the forest.(:note) in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:3 @ Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and (note:)This was his ordinary manner of preaching before the kings from Josiah to Zedekiah which was about forty years.(:note) righteousness, and deliver him that is laid waste out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:6 @ For thus saith the LORD to the king's house of Judah; Thou [art] (note:)He compares Jerusalem to Gilead which was beyond Jordan and the beauty of Judea to Lebanon.(:note) Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:7 @ And I will (note:)The Hebrew word signifies to sanctify because the Lord dedicates to his use and purpose such as he prepares to execute his work, (Isa_13:3; Jer_6:4, Jer_12:3).(:note) prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice Your buildings made from cedar trees. cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:10 @ Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: [but] weep bitterly for him (note:)Signifying that they would lose their king: for Jehoiachin went forth to meet Nebuchadnezzar and yielded himself, and was carried into Babylon, (2Ki_24:12).(:note) that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:11 @ For thus saith the LORD concerning (note:)Whom some think to be Jehoiachin and that Josiah was his grandfather: but it seems this was Jehoiakim, as in (Jer_22:18).(:note) Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place; He shall not return there any more:

geneva@Jeremiah:22:15 @ Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [thyself] in cedar? did not thy (note:)Meaning Josiah, who was not given to ambition and superfluity, but was content with mediocrity, and only delighted in setting forth God's glory, and to do justice to all.(:note) father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, [and] then [it was] well with him?

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:22:19 @ He shall be (note:)Not honourably among his fathers, but as carrion are cast in a hole, because their stink should not infect, read (1Ki_14:10). Josephus writes that the enemy slew him in the city and commanded him to be cast before the walls unburied, see (Jer_36:30).(:note) buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:20 @ Go up to (note:)To call to the Assyrians for help.(:note) Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in For this was the way out of India to Assyria, by which is meant that all help would fail: for the Chaldeans have subdued both them and the Egyptians. Bashan, and cry from the passes: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:21 @ I spake vnto thee when thou wast in prosperitie: but thou saidest, I will not heare: this hath bene thy maner from thy youth, that thou wouldest not obey my voyce.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:22 @ The wind shall eat up all thy shepherds, (note:)Both your governors and they that would help you will vanish away as wind.(:note) and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:23 @ O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the (note:)You that are built of the fair cedar trees of Lebanon.(:note) cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

geneva@Jeremiah:22:24 @ [As] I live, saith the LORD, though (note:)Who was called Jehoiachin or Jeconiah, whom he calls here Coniah in contempt who thought his kingdom could never depart from him, because he came of the stock of David, and therefore for the promise sake could not be taken from his house, but he abused God's promise and therefore was justly deprived of the kingdom.(:note) Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee from there;

geneva@Jeremiah:22:28 @ Is not this man Coniah as a despised and broken idole? or as a vessell, wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they caryed away, hee and his seede, and cast out into a lande that they knowe not?

geneva@Jeremiah:22:29 @ O (note:)He shows that all posterity will be witnesses of his just plague, as though it were registered for perpetual memory.(:note) earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:22:30 @ Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this (note:)Not that he had no children (for later he begat Salathiel in the captivity, (Mat_1:12)) but that none would reign after him as king.(:note) man childless, a man [that] shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:1 @ Woe be to (note:)Meaning the prince's governors and false prophets as in (Eze_34:2).(:note) the shepherds that destroy and scatter the For which I have special care, and have prepared good pastures for them. sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:3 @ And I will gather the (note:)Thus the prophets always used to mix the promises with the threatenings lest the godly should be too much beaten down and therefore he shows how God will gather his Church after this dispersion.(:note) remnant of my flock from all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their (note:)They run headlong to wickedness and seek vain help.(:note) course is evil, and their force [is] not right.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:12 @ Wherefore their way shalbe vnto them as slipperie wayes in the darknesse: they shalbe driuen foorth and fall therein: for I will bring a plague vpon them, euen the yeere of their visitation, saith the Lorde.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:14 @ I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem (note:)They who should have profited by my rods against Samaria, are become worse than they.(:note) an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them Though to the world they seem holy fathers, yet I detest them as I did these abominable cities. to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For (note:)Thus they derided Jeremiah as though the word of God was not revealed to him, so also spoke Zedekiah to Micaiah, (1Ki_22:24).(:note) who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]?

geneva@Jeremiah:23:20 @ The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he shall have executed, and till he shall have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye (note:)Both that God has sent me, and that my words will be true.(:note) shall consider it perfectly.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:25 @ I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I (note:)I have a prophecy revealed to me as in (Num_12:6).(:note) have dreamed, I have dreamed.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:27 @ Who think to cause (note:)He shows that Satan raises up false prophets to bring the people from God.(:note) my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:28 @ The prophet that hath a dream, let him (note:)Let the false prophet declare that it is his own fantasy, and not slander my word as though it were a cloak to cover his lies.(:note) tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. Meaning, that it is not enough for God's ministers to abstain from lies and to speak the word of God but that there is judgment in alleging it, and that it may appear to be applied to the same purpose that it was spoken, (Eze_3:27; 1Co_2:13, 1Co_4:2; 2Ti_2:25). What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:33 @ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the (note:)The prophets called their threatenings God's burden, which the sinners were not able to sustain, therefore the wicked in deriding the word, would ask of the prophets, what was the burden as though they would say, «You seek nothing else, but to lay burdens on our shoulders» and thus they rejected the word of God as a grievous burden.(:note) burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:34 @ And [as for] the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The (note:)Because this word was brought to contempt and derision, he will teach them another manner of speech, and will cause this word burden to cease and teach them to ask with reverence, «What says the Lord?»(:note) burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.

geneva@Jeremiah:23:39 @ Therefore beholde, I, euen I will vtterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the citie that I gaue you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence,

geneva@Jeremiah:23:40 @ And will bring an euerlasting reproche vpon you, and a perpetual shame which shall neuer be forgotten.

geneva@Jeremiah:24:1 @ The LORD showed me, and, behold, two (note:)The good figs signified them that were gone into captivity and so saved their life, as in (Jer_21:8), and the bad figs them that remained, who were yet subject to the sword, famine and pestilence.(:note) baskets of figs [were] set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

geneva@Jeremiah:24:2 @ One basket had verie good figges, euen like the figges that are first ripe: and the other basket had verie naughtie figges, which could not be eaten, they were so euill.

geneva@Jeremiah:24:8 @ And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell (note:)Who fled there for comfort.(:note) in the land of Egypt:

geneva@Jeremiah:24:9 @ I will euen giue them for a terrible plague to all the kingdomes of the earth, and for a reproche, and for a prouerbe, for a common talke, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the (note:)That is, in the third year accomplished and in the beginning of the fourth: for though Nebuchadnezzar began to reign in the end of the third year of Jehoiakim's reign yet that year is not counted here because it was almost over, (Dan_1:1).(:note) fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;

geneva@Jeremiah:25:3 @ From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to (note:)Which was the fifth year and the ninth month of Jehoiakim's reign.(:note) this day, that [is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, That is, I have spared no diligence or labour, (Jer_7:13). rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:9 @ Behold, I will send and take all the (note:)The Chaldeans and all their power.(:note) families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my So the wicked and Satan himself are God's servants, because he makes them serve him by constraint and turns that which they do out of malice to his honour and glory. servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations As the Philistines, Ammonites, Egyptians and others. around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an horror, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:10 @ Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the (note:)Meaning that bread and all things that would serve to their feasts would be taken away.(:note) millstones, and the light of the candle.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:11 @ And this whole land shalbe desolate, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serue the King of Babel seuentie yeeres.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when (note:)This revelation was for the confirmation of his prophecy because he told them of the time that they would enter and remain in captivity, (2Ch_36:22; Ezr_1:1; Jer_29:10; Dan_9:2).(:note) seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish For seeing the judgment began at his own house, the enemies must be punished most grievously, (Eze_9:6; 1Pe_4:17). the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:14 @ For many nations and great kings shall be (note:)That is of the Babylonians as in (Jer_27:7).(:note) served by them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:15 @ For thus saith the LORD God of Israel to me; (note:)Signifying the extreme affliction that God had appointed for everyone, (Psa_75:8; Isa_51:17) and this cup which the wicked drink, is more bitter than that which he gives to his children, for he measures the one by mercy, and the other by justice.(:note) Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:18 @ [That is], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and her kings, and her princes, to make them a desolation, an horror, an hissing, and a curse; (note:)For now it begins and will so continue till it is accomplished.(:note) as [it is] this day;

geneva@Jeremiah:25:20 @ And all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land (note:)Read (Job_1:1).(:note) of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Which were cities of the Philistines. Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

geneva@Jeremiah:25:22 @ And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the (note:)As Greece, Italy and the rest of those countries.(:note) isles which [are] beyond the sea,

geneva@Jeremiah:25:26 @ And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the king of (note:)That is of Babylon, as in (Jer_51:41).(:note) Sheshach shall drink after them.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:30 @ Therefore prophecie thou against them al these words, and say vnto them, The Lord shall roare from aboue, and thrust out his voyce from his holy habitation: he shall roare vpon his habitation, and crie aloude, as they that presse the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:32 @ Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, Behold, a plague shall goe foorth from nation to nation, and a great whirlewinde shalbe raised vp from the coastes of the earth,

geneva@Jeremiah:25:34 @ Howl, (note:)You that are chief rulers, and governors.(:note) ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the ashes], ye chief of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a Which are most easily broken. pleasant vessel.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:36 @ A voyce of the crye of the shepherdes, and an howling of the principall of the flocke shalbe heard: for the Lord hath destroyed their pasture.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:37 @ And the best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the Lorde.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:38 @ He hath forsaken his couert, as the lyon: for their land is waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, & because of ye wrath of his indignatio.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:2 @ Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the (note:)That is, in that place of the temple to which the people resort out of all Judah to sacrifice.(:note) court of the LORD'S house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak to them; diminish not a word: To the intent that they should pretend no ignorance, as in (Act_20:27).

geneva@Jeremiah:26:6 @ Then will I make this house like (note:){{See Jer_7:12}}(:note) Shiloh, and will make this city So that when they would curse any, they will say, «God do to you as to Jerusalem.» a curse to all the nations of the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:9 @ Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, (note:)Because of God's promises to the temple, (Psa_132:14) that he would forever remain there, hypocrites thought this temple could never perish and therefore thought it blasphemy to speak against it, (Mat_26:61; Act_6:13) not considering that this was meant of the Church where God will remain forever.(:note) This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:10 @ When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entrance of the (note:)So called, because it was repaired by Jotham, (2Ki_15:35).(:note) new gate of the LORD'S [house].

geneva@Jeremiah:26:11 @ Then spake the Priestes, and the prophets vnto the princes, and to all the people, saying, This man is worthie to die: for he hath prophecied against this citie, as ye haue heard with your eares.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:14 @ As for me, beholde, I am in your hands: do with me as ye thinke good and right.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:17 @ Then rose vp certaine of the Elders of the lande, and spake to all the assemblie of the people, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:26:18 @ Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the (note:)That is, of the House of the Lord, that is, Zion, and these examples the godly alleged to deliver Jeremiah out of the priests hands, whose rage else would not have been satisfied but by his death.(:note) house as the high places of the forest.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:19 @ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear the LORD, and beseech the LORD, and the LORD repented of the (note:)So that the city was not destroyed, but by a miracle was delivered out of the hands of Sennacherib.(:note) evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:20 @ And there was also a man that prophecied in the Name of the Lord, one Vriiah the sonne of Shemaiah, of Kiriath-iarem, who prophecied against this citie, and against this lande, according to all the wordes of Ieremiah.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:21 @ Nowe when Iehoiakim the King with all his men of power, and all the princes heard his wordes, the King sought to slay him. But when Vriiah heard it, he was afraide and fled, and went into Egypt.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:23 @ And they brought forth Urijah from Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and (note:)As in the first Hezekiah's example is to be followed, so in this other Jehoiakim's act it to be abhorred: for God's plague descended on him and his household.(:note) cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

geneva@Jeremiah:26:24 @ Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam (note:)Which declares that nothing could have appeased their fury if God had not moved this noble man to stand valiantly in his defense.(:note) the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of (note:)Concerning the disposition of these prophecies, they who gathered them into a book, did not altogether observe the order of times, but saw some before, which should be after, and contrary wise which if the reader mark well it will avoid many doubts and make the reading much easier.(:note) Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:27:2 @ Thus saith the LORD to me; Make for thee (note:)By such signs the prophets used sometimes to confirm their prophecies which they could not do of themselves but in as much as they had a revelation for the same, (Isa_20:2) and therefore the false prophets to get more credit, used also such visible signs but they had no revelation, (1Ki_22:12).(:note) bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

geneva@Jeremiah:27:4 @ And commande them to saye vnto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say vnto your masters,

geneva@Jeremiah:27:5 @ I haue made the earth, the ma, and the beast that are vpon the groud, by my great power, and by my outstreched arme, and haue giuen it vnto whom it pleased me.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:6 @ And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my (note:)Read (Jer_25:9).(:note) servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:7 @ And all nations shall serve him, and his (note:)Meaning, Evilmerodach and his son Belshazzar.(:note) son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land shall come: and then many nations and great kings shall They will bring him and his kingdom in subjection as in (Jer_25:14). bring him into subjection.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:10 @ For they prophecie a lie vnto you to cause you to goe farre from your lande, and that I should cast you out, and you should perish.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:13 @ Why will ye dye, thou, and thy people by the sworde, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lorde hath spoken against the nation, that will not serue the King of Babel?

geneva@Jeremiah:27:15 @ For I haue not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they prophecie a lie in my name, that I might cast you out, and that ye might perish, both you, and the prophets that prophecie vnto you.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:16 @ Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be (note:)Which were taken when Jeconiah was led captive into Babel.(:note) brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:18 @ But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now (note:)For it was not only the prophet's office to show the word of God, but also to pray for the sins of the people, (Gen_20:7) which these could not do because they had no express word: for God had pronounced the contrary.(:note) make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

geneva@Jeremiah:27:19 @ For thus saith the Lord of hostes, concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remaine in this citie,

geneva@Jeremiah:28:1 @ And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the (note:)When Jeremiah began to bear these bonds and yokes.(:note) reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the After the land had rested, as in (Lev_25:2). fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who [was] of This was a city in Benjamin belonging to the sons of Aaron, (Jos_21:17). Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:28:5 @ Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the (note:)He was so esteemed though he was a false prophet.(:note) prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,

geneva@Jeremiah:28:6 @ Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the (note:)That is, I would wish the same for God's honour and wealth of my people but he has appointed the contrary.(:note) LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:8 @ The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old (note:)Meaning, that the prophets that denounced war or peace were tried either true or false by the success of their prophecies, even though God makes to come to pass sometimes that which the false prophet speaks to try the faith of his, (Deu_13:3).(:note) prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:9 @ And the Prophet which prophecieth of peace, when the word of the Prophet shall come to passe, then shall the Prophet be knowen that the Lorde hath truely sent him.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:10 @ Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and (note:)This declares the impudency of the wicked hirelings who have no zeal to the truth but are led with ambition to get the favour of men and therefore cannot abide any that might discredit them but burst forth into rages and contrary to their own conscience, pass not what lies they report or how wickedly they do so that they may maintain their estimation.(:note) broke it.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:13 @ Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus sayth the Lord, Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, but thou shalt make for them yokes of yron.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:14 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a (note:)That is, a hard and cruel servitude.(:note) yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the Signifying that all would be his as in (Dan_2:38). beasts of the field also.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lorde, Beholde, I will cast thee from of the earth: this yeere thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken rebelliously against the Lord.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:17 @ So Hananiah the prophet (note:)Seeing this thing was evident in the eyes of the people and yet they returned not to the Lord, it is manifest that miracles cannot move us, neither the word itself, unless God touch the heart.(:note) died the same year in the seventh month.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:3 @ By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah (note:)To entreat of some equal condition.(:note) sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:29:4 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all that are carried away captives, whom I have (note:)That is, the Lord whose work this was.(:note) caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon;

geneva@Jeremiah:29:6 @ Take you wiues, and beget sonnes and daughters, and take wiues for your sonnes, and giue your daughters to husbands, that they may beare sonnes and daughters, that ye may bee increased there, and not diminished.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:7 @ And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives, and (note:)The prophet does not speak this for the affection that he bore to the tyrant, but that they should pray for the common rest and quietness that their troubles might not be increased, and that they might with more patience and less grief wait for the time of their deliverance, which God had appointed most certain: for not only the Israelites but all the world yea and the insensible creatures would rejoice when these tyrants would be destroyed, as in (Isa_24:4).(:note) pray to the LORD for it: for in the peace of it ye shall have peace.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:14 @ And I wil be found of you, saith the Lord, and I will turne away your captiuitie, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places, whither I haue cast you, saith the Lord, and will bring you againe vnto the place, whence I caused you to be caryed away captiue.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:15 @ Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us (note:)As Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah.(:note) prophets in Babylon;

geneva@Jeremiah:29:17 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the (note:)By which he assures them that there will be no hope of returning before the appointed time.(:note) sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile According to the comparison, (Jer_24:1-2). figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:21 @ Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, of Ahab the sonne of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the sonne of Maaseiah, which prophecie lyes vnto you in my Name, Beholde, I will deliuer them into the hande of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:22 @ And concerning them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah who [are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted (note:)Because they gave the people hope of speedy returning.(:note) in the fire;

geneva@Jeremiah:29:23 @ Because they have committed (note:)Which was adultery and falsifying the word of God.(:note) villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbour's wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:25 @ Thus speaketh the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy Name vnto all the people, that are at Ierusalem, and to Zephaniah the sonne of Maaseiah the Priest, and to all the Priests, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:29:26 @ The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of (note:)Shemaiah the false prophet flatters Zephaniah the chief priest as though God had given him the spirit and zeal of Jehoiada to punish whoever trespassed against the word of God, of that he would have made Jeremiah one, calling him a raver and a false prophet.(:note) Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

geneva@Jeremiah:29:27 @ Nowe therefore why hast not thou reproued Ieremiah of Anathoth, which prophecieth vnto you?

geneva@Jeremiah:30:2 @ Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write for thee all the words that I have spoken to thee in a (note:)Because they would be assured and their posterity confirmed in the hope of this deliverance promised.(:note) book.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:5 @ For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a (note:)He shows that before this deliverance will come, the Chaldeans would be extremely afflicted by their enemies, and that they would be in such perplexity and sorrow as a woman in her travail as (Isa_13:8).(:note) voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:6 @ Demand now and beholde, if man trauayle with childe? wherefore doe I beholde euery man with his hands on his loynes as a woman in trauaile, and all faces are turned into a palenesse?

geneva@Jeremiah:30:7 @ Alas! for that (note:)Meaning that the time of their captivity would be grievous.(:note) day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:9 @ But they shall serve the LORD their God, and (note:)That is, Messiah who would come of the stock of David according to the flesh and would be the true pastor, (Eze_34:23) who is set forth and his kingdom would be everlasting in the person of David, (Hos_3:5).(:note) David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:11 @ For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not (note:)In this is commanded God's great mercy toward his, who does not destroy them for their sins, but corrects and chastises them till he has purged and pardoned them and so burns the rods by which he punished them, (Isa_33:1).(:note) leave thee altogether unpunished.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:14 @ All thy louers haue forgotten thee: they seeke thee not: for I haue striken thee with the wound of an enemie, and with a sharpe chastisement for ye multitude of thine iniquities, because thy sinnes were increased.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:15 @ Why cryest thou for thine affliction? thy sorowe is incurable, for the multitude of thine iniquities: because thy sinnes were increased, I haue done these things vnto thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:17 @ For I will restore health vnto thee, and I will heale thee of thy woundes, saith the Lord, because they called thee, The cast away, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:20 @ Their children also shall be as afore time, and their congregation shall be established before me: and I will visite all that vexe them.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:21 @ And their (note:)Meaning, Zerubbabel, who was the figure of Christ in whom this was accomplished.(:note) nobles shall be from themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who [is] this that engaged his Signifying that Christ willingly submits himself to the obedience of God his father. heart to approach to me? saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:3 @ The LORD appeared (note:)The people thus reason as though he were not so beneficial to them now as he had been of old.(:note) of old to me, [saying], Thus the Lord answers that his love is not changeable. I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:4 @ Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again (note:)You will still have opportunity to rejoice which is meant by tabrets and dancing as their custom was after notable victories, (Exo_15:20; Jdg_11:34).(:note) be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:5 @ Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of (note:)Because the Israelites who were the ten tribes never returned to Samaria, therefore this must be spiritually understood under the kingdom of Christ, which was the restoration of the true Israel.(:note) Samaria: the planters shall plant, and That is, will eat the fruit of it, as in (Lev_19:23-25; Deu_20:6). shall eat [them] as common things.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:6 @ For there shall be a day, [that] the (note:)The ministers of the word.(:note) watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to They will exhort all to the embracing of the gospel, as in (Isa_2:3). Zion to the LORD our God.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:8 @ Beholde, I will bring them from the North countrey, and gather them from the coastes of the world, with the blinde & the lame among them, with the woman with childe, and her that is deliuered also: a great companie shall returne hither.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:9 @ They shall come with (note:)That is, lamenting their sins which had not given ear to the prophets and therefore it follows that God received them to mercy, (Jer_50:4). Some take it that they should weep for joy.(:note) weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of Where they found no impediments, but abundance of all things. waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] That is, my dearly beloved as the first child is to the father. my firstborn.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:10 @ Heare the worde of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, and declare in the yles afarre off, and say, Hee that scattered Israel, wil gather him and wil keepe him, as a shepheard doeth his flocke.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:11 @ For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand (note:)That is, from the Babylonians and other enemies.(:note) of [him that was] stronger than he.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:12 @ Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for (note:)By these temporal benefits he means the spiritual graces which are in the Church, and of which there would ever be plenty, (Isa_58:11-12).(:note) grain, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:15 @ Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; (note:)To declare the greatness of God's mercy in delivering the Jews, he shows them that they were like the Benjamites of the Israelites, that is, utterly destroyed and carried away, so much so that if Rachel the mother of Benjamin could have risen again to seek her children she would have found none remaining.(:note) Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] not.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:18 @ I have surely heard (note:)That is, the people who were led captive.(:note) Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a Which was wanton and could not be subject to the yoke. bull unaccustomed [to the yoke]: He shows how the faithful used to pray, that is, desire God to tame them as they cannot turn of themselves. turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:19 @ Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon [my] (note:)In sign of repentance and detestation of my sin.(:note) thigh: I was ashamed, and even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:20 @ [Is] Ephraim (note:)As though he would say no for by his iniquity he did what lay in him to cast me off.(:note) my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly That is, in piety of him for my promise’s sake. remember him still: therefore my heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:22 @ How long wilt thou wander about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created (note:)Because their deliverance from Babylon was a figure of their deliverance from sin, he shows how this would be procured that is, by Jesus Christ, whom a woman would conceive and bear in her womb. Which is a strange thing in earth, because he would be born of a virgin without man or he means that Jerusalem which was like a barren woman in her captivity would be fruitful as she that is joined in marriage and whom God blesses with children.(:note) a new thing in the earth, A woman shall encompass a man.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:26 @ Upon this I awoke, and beheld; and my sleep (note:)Having understood this vision of the Messiah to come, in whom the two houses of Israel and Judah would be joined, I rejoiced.(:note) was sweet to me.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:27 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah (note:)I will multiply and enrich them with people and cattle.(:note) with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:28 @ And like as I haue watched vpon them, to plucke vp and to roote out, and to throw downe, and to destroy, and to plague them, so wil I watch ouer them, to build & to plant them, saith ye Lord.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:31 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a (note:)Though the covenant of redemption made to the fathers and this which was given later seemed varied, yet they are all one and grounded on Jesus Christ, save that this is called new, because of the manifestation of Christ and the abundant graces of the Holy Spirit given to his Church under the gospel.(:note) new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

geneva@Jeremiah:31:32 @ Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they (note:)And so were the opportunity of their own divorcement through their infidelity, (Isa_50:1).(:note) broke, although I was an husband to them, saith the LORD:

geneva@Jeremiah:31:34 @ And they shall (note:)Under the kingdom of Christ there will be no one blinded with ignorance, but I will give them faith, and acknowledge God for remission of their sins and daily increase the same: so that it will not seem to come so much by the preaching of my ministers as by the instruction of my Holy Spirit, (Isa_54:13) but the full accomplishing of it is referred to the kingdom of Christ, when we will be joined with our head.(:note) teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:35 @ Thus saith the LORD, who giveth (note:)If the sun, moon and stars cannot but glue light according to my ordinance, so long as this world lasts, so shall my church never fail, neither shall anything hinder it: and as sure as I will have a people, so certain is it, that I will leave them my word forever to govern them with.(:note) the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divideth the sea when its waves roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:

geneva@Jeremiah:31:36 @ If these ordinances depart out of my sight, saith the Lorde, then shall the seede of Israel cease from being a nation before me, for euer.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:37 @ Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, (note:)The one and the other is impossible.(:note) and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:38 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the (note:)As it was performed, (Neh_3:1). By this description he shows that the city would be as ample and beautiful as it ever was: but he alludes to the spiritual Jerusalem whose beauty would be incomparable.(:note) city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the corner.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:39 @ And the line of the measure shal go foorth in his presence vpon the hil Gareb, and shall compasse about to Goath.

geneva@Jeremiah:31:40 @ And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, & all the fields vnto the brooke of Kidron, and vnto the corner of the horsegate toward the East, shalbe holy vnto the Lorde, neither shal it be plucked vp nor destroyed any more for euer.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the (note:)So that Jeremiah had now prophesied from the thirteenth year of Josiah to the last year save one of Zedekiah's reign, which was almost forty years.(:note) tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:2 @ For then the King of Babels hoste besieged Ierusalem: And Ieremiah the Prophet was shutte vp in the court of the prison, which was in the King of Iudahs house.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:5 @ And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until (note:)Till I take Zedekiah away by death: for he will not die by the sword as in (Jer_34:4).(:note) I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:7 @ Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thy uncle shall come to thee, saying, (note:)By which was meant that the people would return again out of captivity and enjoy their possessions and vineyards as in (Jer_32:15, Jer_32:44).(:note) Buy for thee my field that [is] in Anathoth: for the right of redemption [is] thine Because he was next of the kindred, as in (Rth_4:4). to buy [it].

geneva@Jeremiah:32:8 @ So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said to me, Buy my (note:)Of the possession of the Levites, read (Lev_25:32).(:note) field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:9 @ And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that [was] in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, [even] seventeen (note:)Which amounts to about ten shillings six pence in our money if this shekel were the common shekel, {{See Gen_23:15}}, for the shekel of the temple was of double value, and ten pieces of silver were half a shekel, for twenty made the shekel.(:note) shekels of silver.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:11 @ So I took the deed of the purchase, [both] that which was sealed (note:)According to the custom the instrument or evidence was sealed up with the common seal and a copy of it remained which contained the same in effect but was left open to be seen if anything should be called into doubt.(:note) [according] to the law and custom, and that which was open:

geneva@Jeremiah:32:12 @ And I gaue the booke of the possession vnto Baruch the sonne of Neriah, the sonne of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine vncles sonne, and in the presence of the witnesses, written in the booke of the possession, before al the Iewes that sate in the court of the prison.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:14 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase, both that which is sealed, and this deed which is open; and put them in an earthen (note:)And so to hide them in the ground, that they might be reserved as a token of their deliverance.(:note) vessel, that they may continue many days.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:17 @ Ah Lord God, beholde, thou hast made the heauen and the earth by thy great power, and by thy stretched out arme, & there is nothing hard vnto thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:21 @ And hast brought thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signes, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, with a stretched out arme, and with great terrour,

geneva@Jeremiah:32:22 @ And hast giuen them this land, which thou diddest sweare to their fathers to giue them, euen a land, that floweth with milke and hony,

geneva@Jeremiah:32:23 @ And they came in, and possessed it, but they obeyed not thy voyce, neither walked in thy Law: all that thou commaundedst them to doe, they haue not done: therefore thou hast caused this whole plague to come vpon them.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:24 @ Behold the (note:)The word signifies anything that is cast up, as a mount or rampart, and is also used for engines of war, which were laid on a high place to shoot into a city before guns were in use.(:note) mounts, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest [it].

geneva@Jeremiah:32:25 @ And thou hast sayd vnto me, O Lord God, Bye vnto thee the fielde for siluer, and take witnesses: for the citie shall be giuen into the hand of the Caldeans.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:27 @ Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all (note:)That is, of every creature: who as they are his work, so does he govern and guide them as pleases him, by which he shows that as he is the author of their captivity for their sins, so will he for his mercies be their redeemer to restore them again to liberty.(:note) flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

geneva@Jeremiah:32:31 @ Therefore this citie hath bene vnto me as a prouocation of mine anger, and of my wrath, from the day, that they built it, euen vnto this day, that I should remoue it out of my sight,

geneva@Jeremiah:32:34 @ But they set their abominations in ye house (whereupon my Name was called) to defile it,

geneva@Jeremiah:32:35 @ And they built the high (note:)That is, the altars which were made to offer sacrifices to their idols on.(:note) places of Baal, which [are] in the valley of the Read (Jer_7:31; 2Ki_21:4, 2Ki_21:6). son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to Read (2Ki_16:3). pass through [the fire] to Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:39 @ And I will give them (note:)One consent and one religion, as in (Eze_11:19, Eze_36:26).(:note) one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

geneva@Jeremiah:32:40 @ And I will make an everlasting (note:)Read (Jeremiah strkjv@31:1-33:26).(:note) covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:41 @ Yea, I wil delite in them to do them good, and I wil plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart, and with all my soule.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:42 @ For thus sayth the Lorde, Like as I haue brought all this great plague vpon this people, so wil I bring vpon them all the good that I haue promised them.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:43 @ And the fields shalbe possessed in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without ma or beast, and shalbe giuen into the hand of the Caldeans.

geneva@Jeremiah:32:44 @ Men shall buy (note:)This is the declaration of that which was spoken of in (Jer_32:8).(:note) fields for money, and signed deeds, and seal [them], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captives to return, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the (note:)Which was in the king's house at Jerusalem, as in (Jer_32:1-2).(:note) court of the prison, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:33:2 @ Thus saith the LORD the (note:)That is, of Jerusalem, who as he made it, so will he preserve it, read (Isa_37:26).(:note) maker of this, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD [is] his name;

geneva@Jeremiah:33:5 @ They come to (note:)The Jews think to overcome the Chaldeans, but they seek their own destruction.(:note) fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my He shows that God's favour is cause of all prosperity, as his anger is of all adversity. face from this city.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:7 @ And I wil cause the captiuitie of Iudah and the captiuitie of Israel to returne, and will build them as at the first.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:10 @ Thus sayth the Lord, Againe there shalbe heard in this place (which ye say shalbe desolate, without man, and without beast, euen in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem, that are desolate without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast)

geneva@Jeremiah:33:11 @ The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, (note:)Which was a song appointed for the Levites to praise God by, (1Ch_16:8; Psa_105:1; Psa_106:1; Psa_107:1; Psa_118:1; Psa_136:1; Isa_12:4)(:note) Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captives of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:12 @ Thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, Againe in this place, which is desolate, without man, & without beast, and in all the cities thereof there shall be dwelling for shepheards to rest their flockes.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:13 @ In the cities of the (note:)Meaning that all the country of Judah will be inhabited again.(:note) mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that counteth [them], saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:15 @ In those days, and at that time, will I cause (note:)That is, I will send the Messiah, who will come of the house of David, of whom this prophecy is meant, as testify all the Jews and that which is written, (Jer_23:5).(:note) the Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:18 @ Neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer (note:)That is, chiefly meant of the spiritual sacrifice of thanksgiving which is left to the Church in the time of Christ, who was the everlasting priest and the everlasting sacrifice figured by the sacrifices of the law.(:note) burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:20 @ Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the (note:)Read (Jer_31:35).(:note) day, and my covenant of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season;

geneva@Jeremiah:33:22 @ As the army of heauen can not be nombred, neither the sand of the sea measured: so wil I multiplie the seede of Dauid my seruant, and the Leuites, that minister vnto me.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:24 @ Considerest thou not what (note:)Meaning, the Chaldeans and other infidels who thought God had utterly cast off Judah and Israel or Benjamin, because he corrected them for a time for their amendment.(:note) this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

geneva@Jeremiah:33:26 @ Then will I cast away the seede of Iaakob and Dauid my seruant, and not take of his seede to be rulers ouer the seede of Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob: for I wil cause their captiuitie to returne, and haue compassion on them.

geneva@Jeremiah:34:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when (note:)Who commonly by Jeremiah was called Nebuchadrezzar and by others Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all its cities, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:34:8 @ [This is] the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who [were] at Jerusalem, (note:)When the enemy was at hand and they saw themselves in danger, they would seem holy, and so began some kind of reformation: but soon after they uttered their hypocrisy.(:note) to proclaim liberty to them;

geneva@Jeremiah:34:9 @ That every man should release his male (note:)According to the law, (Exo_21:2; Deu_15:12).(:note) servant, and every man his female servant, [being] a Hebrew man or woman; that none should retain them in service, [that is], a Jew his brother.

geneva@Jeremiah:34:11 @ But afterwarde they repented and caused the seruants and the handmayds, whom they had let go free, to returne, and helde them in subiection as seruants and handmayds.

geneva@Jeremiah:34:15 @ And ye had now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in (note:)Meaning in the temple to declare that it was a most solemn and straight covenant made in the name of the Lord.(:note) the house which is called by my name:

geneva@Jeremiah:34:16 @ But ye repented, and polluted my Name: for ye haue caused euery man his seruant, and euery man his handmayde, whom ye had set at libertie at their pleasure, to returne, and holde them in subiection to bee vnto you as seruantes and as handmaydes.

geneva@Jeremiah:34:18 @ And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they (note:)Concerning the manner of solemn covenant which the ancients used by passing between the two parts of a beast, to signify that the transgressor of the same covenant should be so divided in pieces, read (Gen_15:10).(:note) cut the calf in two, and passed between the parts of it,

geneva@Jeremiah:34:19 @ The princes of Iudah, and the princes of Ierusalem, the Eunuches, and the Priestes, and all the people of the lande, which passed betweene the partes of the calfe,

geneva@Jeremiah:34:20 @ I wil euen giue them into the hand of their enemies, and into the handes of them that seeke their life: and their dead bodies shalbe for meate vnto the foules of the heauen, and to the beastes of the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:34:21 @ And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which (note:)To fight against the Egyptians, as in (Jer_37:11).(:note) are gone up from you.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:2 @ Go to the house of the (note:)They came from Hobab, Moses father-in-law, who was no Israelite, but later joined with them in the service of God.(:note) Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:4 @ And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man (note:)That is, a prophet.(:note) of God, who [was] by the chamber of the princes, which [was] above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:

geneva@Jeremiah:35:10 @ But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to (note:)Which was now for the span of three hundred years from Jehu to Jehoiakim.(:note) all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:11 @ But it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we (note:)Which declares that they were not so bound to their vow that it could not be broken for any need, for where they were commanded to dwell in tents, they dwell now at Jerusalem for fear of the wars.(:note) dwell at Jerusalem.

geneva@Jeremiah:35:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have (note:)That is, by his prophets and ministers which shows that it is as much, as though he would speak to us himself when he sends his ministers to speak in his Name.(:note) spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:1 @ And it came to pass in the fourth (note:){{See Jer_25:1}}(:note) year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:36:2 @ Take thee a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to thee, (note:)Which were twenty and three years, as in (Jer_25:3) counting from the thirteenth year of Josiah's reign.(:note) from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:4 @ Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote (note:)As he indicted.(:note) from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken to him, upon a roll of a book.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:6 @ Therefore go thou, and read in the scroll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the (note:)Which was proclaimed for fear of the Babylonians, as their custom was when they feared war, or any great plague of God.(:note) day of fasting: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:7 @ It may be they will (note:)He shows that fasting without prayer and repentance does nothing but is mere hypocrisy.(:note) present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:9 @ And it came to pass in the fifth (note:)The fast was then proclaimed and Baruch read this rule which was a little before Jerusalem was first taken, and then Jehoiakim and Daniel and his companions were led away captive.(:note) year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:10 @ Then Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entrance of the (note:)Which is the East gate of the temple.(:note) new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:14 @ Therefore all the princes sent Iehudi the sonne of Nethaniah, the sonne of Shelemiah, the sonne of Chushi, vnto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hande the roule, wherein thou hast read in the audience of the people, and come. So Baruch the sonne of Neriah, tooke the roule in his hand, and came vnto them.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:16 @ Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were (note:)The godly were afraid, seeing God so offended, and the wicked were astonished for the horror of the punishment.(:note) afraid both one and another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:19 @ Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, (note:)They who were godly among the princes gave this counsel by whose means it is like that Jeremiah was delivered for they knew the rage of the king and of the wicked to be such that they could not escape without danger of their lives.(:note) hide thyself, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:22 @ Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the (note:)Which contained part of November and part of December.(:note) ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:23 @ And when Iehudi had read three, or foure sides, hee cut it with the penknife and cast it into the fire, that was on the hearth vntil all the roule was consumed in the fire, that was on the hearth.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:26 @ But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD (note:)Thus we see the continual care that God has over his to preserve them from the rage of the wicked.(:note) hid them.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:28 @ Take thee again (note:)Though the wicked think to have abolished the word of God when they have burnt the book of it, yet this declares that God will not only raise it up again but also increase it in greater abundance to their condemnation as in (Jer_36:32).(:note) another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah hath burned.

geneva@Jeremiah:36:29 @ And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this scroll, saying, (note:)These are Jehoiakim's words.(:note) Why hast thou written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and beast?

geneva@Jeremiah:36:30 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have (note:)Though Jehoiachin his son succeeded him, yet because he reigned but three months, it was esteemed as no reign.(:note) none to sit upon the throne of David: and his {{See Jer_22:19}} dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:1 @ And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of (note:)Who was called Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah.(:note) Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon And called him Zedekiah, while before his name was Mattaniah, (2Ki_24:17). made king in the land of Judah.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:3 @ And Zedekiah the king (note:)Because he was afraid of the Chaldeans who came against him.(:note) sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to the LORD our God for us.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:4 @ Now Jeremiah came (note:)That is, was out of prison and free.(:note) in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:11 @ When the hoste of the Caldeans was broken vp from Ierusalem, because of Pharaohs armie,

geneva@Jeremiah:37:12 @ Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the (note:)As some think, to go to Anathoth his own town.(:note) land of Benjamin, to separate himself from there in the midst of the people.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:13 @ And when he was in the (note:)By which men went into the country of Benjamin.(:note) gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:15 @ Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and beat him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the (note:)Because it was a vile and straight prison.(:note) prison.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:16 @ When Ieremiah was entred into the dungeon, and into the prisons, & had remained there a long time,

geneva@Jeremiah:37:17 @ Then Zedekiah the King sent, and tooke him out, and the King asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any worde from the Lord? And Ieremiah sayd, Yea: for, sayd he, thou shalt be deliuered into the hand of the King of Babel.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:20 @ Therefore heare nowe, I pray thee, O my lorde the King: let my prayer be accepted before thee, that thou cause mee not to returne to the house of Iehonathan the scribe, least I die there.

geneva@Jeremiah:37:21 @ Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker's street, until all the (note:)That is, so long as there was any bread in the city: thus God provides for his, that he will cause their enemies to preserve them to that end to which he has appointed them.(:note) bread in the city should be consumed. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:1 @ Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of (note:)For Zedekiah had sent these to Jeremiah to enquire at the Lord for the state of the country how when Nebuchadnezzar came, as in (Jer_21:1).(:note) Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:38:4 @ Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war (note:)Thus we see how the wicked when they cannot abide to hear the truth of God's word, seek to put the ministers to death, as transgressors of policies.(:note) that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the harm.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:6 @ Then tooke they Ieremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the sonne of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let downe Ieremiah with coards: and in the dungeon there was no water but myre: so Ieremiah stacke fast in the myre.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:7 @ Now when Ebedmelech the Cushite, one of the eunuchs who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the (note:)To hear matters and give sentence.(:note) gate of Benjamin;

geneva@Jeremiah:38:9 @ My lord the king, (note:)By this is declared that the prophet found more favour at this strangers hands, than he did by all them of his country, which was to their great condemnation.(:note) these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is certain to die from hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:11 @ So Ebed-melech tooke the men with him and went to the house of the King vnder the treasurie, and tooke there olde rotten ragges, and olde worne cloutes, and let them downe by coards into the dungeon to Ieremiah.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:13 @ So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the (note:)Where the king had set him before to be at more liberty, as in (Jer_37:21).(:note) court of the prison.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:14 @ Then Zedekiah the King sent, and tooke Ieremiah the Prophet vnto him, into the thirde entrie that is in the House of the Lorde, and the King sayd vnto Ieremiah, I wil aske thee a thing: hide nothing from me.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:16 @ So the King sware secretly vnto Ieremiah, saying, As the Lorde liueth that made vs these soules, I will not slay thee, nor giue thee into the hands of those men that seeke thy life.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth to the king of Babylon's (note:)And yield yourself to them.(:note) princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house:

geneva@Jeremiah:38:22 @ And, behold, all the women that are (note:)When Jeconiah and his mother with others were carried away, these women of the king's house were left: who will be taken, says the prophet and tell the king of Babel how Zedekiah has been seduced by his familiar friends and false prophets who have left him in the mire.(:note) left in the king of Judah's house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those [women] shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:25 @ But if ye princes vnderstand that I haue talked with thee, & they come vnto thee, & say vnto thee, Declare vnto vs nowe, what thou hast sayde vnto the King, hide it not from vs, & we will not slay thee: also what the King sayd vnto thee,

geneva@Jeremiah:38:26 @ Then thou shalt say to them, I (note:)In this appears the infirmity of the prophet, who dissembled to save his life even though it was not to the denial of his doctrine or to the hurt of any.(:note) presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:27 @ Then came all the princes vnto Ieremiah and asked him; he tolde them according to all these wordes that the King had commaunded: so they left off speaking with him, for the matter was not perceiued.

geneva@Jeremiah:38:28 @ So Ieremiah abode still in the court of the prison, vntill the day that Ierusalem was taken: and he was there, when Ierusalem was taken.

geneva@Jeremiah:39:2 @ [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken (note:)The gates and walls were broken down.(:note) up.

geneva@Jeremiah:39:4 @ And it came to pass, when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the (note:)Which was a postern door, read (2Ki_25:4).(:note) gate between the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

geneva@Jeremiah:39:12 @ Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him (note:)Thus God preserved his prophet by his means, whom he made the scourge to punish the king, and them that were his enemies.(:note) even as he shall say to thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:39:15 @ Now the worde of the Lord came vnto Ieremiah, while he was shut vp in the court of the prison, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:39:18 @ For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prize to thee: because thou (note:)Thus God recompensed his zeal and favour which he showed to his prophet in his troubles.(:note) hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:3 @ Now the LORD hath brought [it], and done according as he hath said: because ye have (note:)God moved this infidel to speak this to declare the great blindness and obstinacy of the Jews who could not feel that which this heathen man confessed.(:note) sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:4 @ And nowe beholde, I loose thee this day from the chaines which were on thine handes, if it please thee to come with me into Babel, come, and I will looke well vnto thee: but if it please thee not to come with mee into Babel, tarie still: beholde, all the lande is before thee: whither it seemeth good, and conuenient for thee to goe, thither goe.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:5 @ For yet he was not returned: therefore he said, Returne to Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan, whom the King of Babel hath made gouernour ouer all the cities of Iudah, and dwell with him among the people, or goe wheresoeuer it pleaseth thee to goe. So the chiefe stewarde gaue him vitailes and a rewarde, and let him goe.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:6 @ Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to (note:)Which was a city of Judah.(:note) Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:8 @ Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even (note:)Who was of the king's blood and later slew him, (Jer_41:2).(:note) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:10 @ As for me, Beholde, I will dwell at Mizpah to serue the Caldeans, which will come vnto vs: but you, gather you wine, and sommer fruites, and oyle, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities, that ye haue taken.

geneva@Jeremiah:40:16 @ But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt (note:)Thus the godly who think no harm to others are soonest deceived and never lack such as conspire their destruction.(:note) not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:1 @ Now it came to pass in the (note:)The city was destroyed in the fourth month and in the seventh month, which contained part of September and part of October, the governor Gedaliah was slain.(:note) seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the Meaning, Zedekiah. king, even ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they They ate together as familiar friends. ate bread together in Mizpah.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:5 @ That there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even] eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with (note:)For they thought that the temple had not been destroyed and therefore came up to the feast of tabernacles but hearing of the burning of it in the way, they showed these signs of sorrow.(:note) offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:6 @ And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said to them, Come (note:)For his death was kept secret, and he pretended that he lamented for the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple but later slew them when they seemed to favour Gedaliah.(:note) to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:7 @ And when they came into the middes of the citie, Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah slewe them, and cast them into the middes of the pit, he and the men that were with him.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:8 @ But tenne men were founde among them, that saide vnto Ishmael, Slay vs not: for we haue treasures in the fielde, of wheate, and of barley, and of oyle, and of honie: so he stayed, and slew them not among their brethren.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:9 @ Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] that which Asa the king had (note:)Asa fortified Mizpah for fear of the enemy, and dug ditches and trenches, (1Ki_15:22).(:note) made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that were] slain.

geneva@Jeremiah:41:15 @ But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the (note:)For Baalis the king of the Ammonites was the cause of this murder.(:note) Ammonites.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:1 @ Then all the captaines of the hoste, and Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and Iezaniah the sonne of Hoshaaiah, and all the people from the least vnto the most came,

geneva@Jeremiah:42:2 @ And saide vnto Ieremiah the Prophete, Heare our prayer, we beseeche thee, and pray for vs vnto the Lorde thy God, euen for all this remnant (for we are left, but a fewe of many, as thine eyes doe beholde)

geneva@Jeremiah:42:5 @ Then they said to Jeremiah, (note:)There are as ready to abuse the Name of God and take it in vain as the hypocrites who colour their falsehood, use it without all reverence and make it a means for them to deceive the simple and the godly.(:note) The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:8 @ Then called he Iohanan the sonne of Kareah, and all the captaines of the hoste, which were with him, & all ye people from ye least to the most,

geneva@Jeremiah:42:11 @ Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I [am] with you to save you, and to deliver you (note:)Because all king's hearts and ways are in his hands, he can turn them and dispose them as it pleases him, and therefore they need not fear man, but only obey God, (Pro_21:1).(:note) from his hand.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:12 @ And I will graunt you mercie that he may haue compassion vpon you, and he shall cause you to dwell in your owne land.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:16 @ Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye feared, (note:)Thus God turns the policy of the wicked to their own destruction: for they thought themselves sure in Egypt, and there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed them and the Egyptians, (Jer_46:25).(:note) shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:18 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an horror, and a (note:)Read (Jer_26:6) showing that this would come on them for their infidelity and stubbornness.(:note) curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

geneva@Jeremiah:43:2 @ Then spoke (note:)Who was also called Jezaniah, (Jer_42:1).(:note) Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the This declares that pride is the cause of rebellion and contempt of God's ministers. proud men, saying to Jeremiah, When the hypocrisy of the wicked is discovered, they burst forth into open rage: for they can abide nothing but flattery, read (Isa_30:10). Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath He shows what is the nature of the hypocrites: that is, to pretend that they would obey God and embrace his word, if they were assured that his messenger spoke the truth: though indeed they are most far from all obedience. not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

geneva@Jeremiah:43:5 @ But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that had returned from all (note:)As from the Moabites, Ammonites and Edomites, (Jer_40:11).(:note) nations, where they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

geneva@Jeremiah:43:11 @ And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, [and deliver] (note:)Everyone will be slain by the means that God has appointed, (Jer_15:2).(:note) such [as are] for death to death; and such [as are] for captivity to captivity; and such [as are] for the sword to the sword.

geneva@Jeremiah:43:12 @ And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a (note:)Meaning most easily and suddenly will he carry the Egyptians away.(:note) shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.

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

geneva@Jeremiah:44:12 @ And I will take the remnant of Judah, that (note:)Which have fully set their minds and are gone there on purpose. By which he excepts the innocents as Jeremiah and Baruch that were forces: therefore the Lord shows that he will set his face against them: that is, purposely destroy them.(:note) have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt; they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine: they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an horror, and a Read (Jer_26:6, Jer_41:18). curse, and a reproach.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:13 @ For I will visite them that dwel in the land of Egypt, as I haue visited Ierusalem, by ye sworde, by the famine, and by the pestilence,

geneva@Jeremiah:44:14 @ So that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but (note:)Meaning but a few.(:note) such as shall escape.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:16 @ [As for] the word that thou hast spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will (note:)This declares how dangerous a thing it is to decline once from God and to follow our own fantasies: for Satan ever solicits such and does not leave them till he has brought them to extreme impudency and madness, even to justify their wickedness against God and his prophets.(:note) not hearken to thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:17 @ But we will certainly do whatever thing proceedeth from our own mouth, to burn incense to (note:)Read (Jer_7:18) it seems that the papists gathered of this place «Salbe Regina» and «Regina caeli latare» calling the virgin Mary Queen of heaven and so out of the blessed virgin and mother of our saviour Christ, made an idol; for here the prophet condemns their idolatry.(:note) the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then] we had This is still the argument of idolaters who esteem religion by the belly and instead of acknowledging God's works who sends both plenty and famine, health and sickness. They attribute it to their idols and so dishonour God. plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:19 @ And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make for her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without (note:)This teaches us what a great danger it is for the husbands to permit their wives anything of which they are not assured by God's word: for by it they take an opportunity to justify their doings and their husbands will give an account of it before God.(:note) our husbands?

geneva@Jeremiah:44:22 @ So that the Lord could no longer forbeare, because of the wickednes of your inuentions, and because of the abominations, which ye haue committed: therefore is your lande desolate and an astonishment, and a curse and without inhabitant, as appeareth this day.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:23 @ Because ye haue burnt incense and because ye haue sinned against the Lorde, and haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lorde, nor walked in his Lawe, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies, therefore this plague is come vpon you, as appeareth this day.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:26 @ Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name (note:)This declares a horrible plague toward idolaters, seeing that God will not vouchsafe to have his Name mentioned by such as have polluted it.(:note) shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:28 @ Yet a small number that escape the sword (note:)We see therefore that God has a perpetual care over his, wherever they are scattered: for though they are but two or three, yet he will deliver them when he destroys his enemies.(:note) shall return from the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

geneva@Jeremiah:44:30 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will (note:)He shows the means by which they would be destroyed to assure them of the certainty of the plague and yet they remain still in their obstinacy till they perish: for Josephus writes that five years after the taking of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar the younger having overcome the Moabites and the Ammonites went against Egypt and slew the king and so brought these Jews and others into Babylon.(:note) give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

geneva@Jeremiah:45:1 @ The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to (note:)Who was Jeremiah's disciple, and wrote his prophecies under him.(:note) Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these Of which read (Jer_36:9-10). words in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

geneva@Jeremiah:45:3 @ Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I (note:)Baruch moved with an inconsiderate zeal for Jeremiah's imprisonment, but chiefly for the destruction of the people and the temple makes this lamentation, as in (Psa_6:6).(:note) fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:2 @ Against Egypt, against the army of (note:)Read (2Ki_23:29, 2Ki_24:7; 2Ch_35:20).(:note) Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:7 @ Who [is] this [that] cometh up as (note:)He derides the boastings of the Egyptians, who thought by their riches and power to have overcome all the world, alluding to the Nile river, which at certain times overflows the country of Egypt.(:note) a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

geneva@Jeremiah:46:10 @ For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satisfied and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath (note:)He calls the slaughter of God's enemies a sacrifice, because it is a thing that pleases him, (Isa_34:6).(:note) a sacrifice in the north country That is, at Carchemish. by the river Euphrates.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:16 @ He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our (note:)As they who would repent that they helped the Egyptians.(:note) own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:17 @ They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he (note:)He derides them who blame their overthrow on lack of counsel and policy, or to fortune and not observing of time: not considering that it is God's just judgment.(:note) hath passed the time appointed.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:18 @ [As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall (note:)That is, that the Egyptians will be destroyed.(:note) he come.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:19 @ O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, make thee geare to goe into captiuitie: for Noph shall be waste and desolate, without an inhabitant.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:21 @ Also her hired men (note:)As in (Jer_46:9).(:note) [are] in the midst of her like fatted bulls; for they also have turned back, [and] have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come upon them, [and] the time of their judgment.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:22 @ Its voice shall go like a (note:)They will be scarcely able to speak for fear of the Chaldeans.(:note) serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against Meaning Egypt. her with axes, as hewers of wood.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:23 @ They shall cut down (note:)That is, they will slay the great and mighty men of power.(:note) her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the That is, Nebuchadnezzar's army. grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:26 @ And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as (note:)Meaning, that after forty years Egypt would be restored, (Isa_19:23; Eze_29:13).(:note) in the days of old, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:28 @ Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct (note:){{See Jer_20:14}}(:note) thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

geneva@Jeremiah:47:4 @ Because of the day that cometh to lay waste all the Philistines, [and] to cut off from Tyre and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will lay waste the Philistines, the remnant of the country of (note:)For the Caphtorims had destroyed in old time the Philistines, and dwelt in their land even to Gaza, (Deu_2:23).(:note) Caphtor.

geneva@Jeremiah:47:6 @ O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be or thou cease! turne againe into thy scaberd, rest and be still.

geneva@Jeremiah:47:7 @ How can it be (note:)Meaning, that it is not profitable that the wicked should by any means escape or hinder the Lord when he will take vengeance.(:note) quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:1 @ Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe to (note:)These were cities of the Moabites, which Nebuchadnezzar took before he went to fight against Nebo King of Egypt.(:note) Nebo! for it is laid waste: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:5 @ For in the ascent of (note:)Horonaim and Luhith were two places by which the Moabites would flee, (Isa_15:5).(:note) Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the descent of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:7 @ For because thou hast trusted in thy (note:)That is, the idols which are the works your hands. Some read, in your possessions, for so the word may signify as in (1Sa_25:2).(:note) works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Both your great idol and his maintainers will be led away captives so that they will then know that it is in vain to look for help at idols, (Isa_15:2). Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:8 @ And the destroyer shall come vpon all cities, and no citie shall escape: the valley also shall perish and the plaine shalbe destroyed as the Lord hath spoken.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:11 @ Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been (note:)Has not been removed as the Jews have, but have lived at ease, and as a wine that feeds itself on his lees.(:note) emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:12 @ Therefore beholde, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will send vnto him such as shall carie him away, and shall emptie his vessels, and breake their bottels.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:13 @ And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of (note:)As the calf of Bethel was not able to deliver the Israelites no more will Chemosh deliver the Moabites.(:note) Bethel their confidence.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:16 @ The destruction of Moab is ready to come, and his plague hasteth fast.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:19 @ Thou that dwellest in Aroer, stand by the way, and beholde: aske him that fleeth and that escapeth, and say, What is done?

geneva@Jeremiah:48:27 @ For was not Israel a derision to thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou hast spoken of him, thou didst (note:)You rejoiced to hear of his misery, (Isa_16:6).(:note) leap for joy.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:32 @ O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants have gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea (note:)Which city was in the utmost border of Moab: and by this he signifies that the whole land would be destroyed and the people carried away.(:note) of Jazer: the spoiler hath fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:34 @ From the cry of Heshbon [even] to Elealeh, [and even] to Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [even] to Horonaim, [as] an (note:){{See Isa_15:5}}(:note) heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:35 @ Moreouer, I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Lord, him that offered in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:36 @ Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like (note:)Their custom was to play on flutes or instruments, heavy and grave tunes at burials and in the time of mourning, as in (Mat_9:23).(:note) pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches [that] he hath gotten have perished.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:38 @ And mourning shall be vpon all the house toppes of Moab and in all the streetes thereof: for I haue broken Moab like a vessell wherein is no pleasure, sayeth the Lord.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:40 @ For thus saith the LORD; Behold, (note:)That is, Nebuchadnezzar, as in (Jer_49:22).(:note) he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:41 @ The cities are taken, and the strong holdes are wonne, and ye mightie mens hearts in Moab at that day shalbe as ye heart of a woman in trauaile.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:45 @ They that fled stood under the shadow (note:)They fled there thinking to have comfort from the Amorites.(:note) of Heshbon because of the force: but The Amorites had destroyed the Moabites in times past, and now because of their power the Moabites will seek them for help. a fire shall come out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:46 @ Woe be to thee, O Moab! the people of (note:)Who vaunted themselves of their idol as though he could have defended them.(:note) Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:2 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in (note:)Which was one of the chief cities of the Ammonites, as were Heshbon and Ai: there was also a city called Heshbon among the Moabites.(:note) Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir to them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:3 @ Howle, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted: crie ye daughters of Rabbah: girde you with sackecloth: mourne and runne to and fro by the hedges: for their King shall goe into captiuitie; and his Priestes, and his princes likewise.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:4 @ Why gloriest thou in the (note:)In your plentiful country.(:note) valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?

geneva@Jeremiah:49:7 @ Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in (note:)Which was a city of Edom, called by the name of Teman Eliphaz's son, who came from Esau.(:note) Teman? hath counsel perished from the prudent? hath their wisdom vanished?

geneva@Jeremiah:49:10 @ For I haue discouered Esau: I haue vncouered his secrets, and he shall not be able to hide himselfe: his seede is wasted, and his brethren and his neighbours, and there shall be none to say,

geneva@Jeremiah:49:12 @ For thus saith the LORD; (note:)I have not spared my own people and how should I pity you?(:note) Behold, they whose judgment [was] not to drink of the cup have assuredly drank; and [art] thou he [that] shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink [of it].

geneva@Jeremiah:49:13 @ For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that (note:)Which was a chief city of Edom.(:note) Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:14 @ I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent to the nations, [saying], Gather ye together, and come against (note:)That is, Bozrah.(:note) her, and rise up to the battle.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:16 @ Thy feare, and ye pride of thine heart hath deceiued thee, thou that dwellest in the cleftes of the rocke, and keepest the height of ye hil: though thou shouldest make thy nest as hie as the egle, I wil bring thee downe from thece, sayth the Lord.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:17 @ Also Edom shall be desolate: euery one that goeth by it, shall be astonished, and shal hisse at all the plagues thereof,

geneva@Jeremiah:49:18 @ As in the ouerthrowe of Sodom, and of Gomorah, and the places thereof neere about, saieth the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the sonnes of men remaine in it.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:19 @ Behold, (note:)That is, Nebuchadnezzar after he has overcome Judah, which is meant by the swelling of Jordan, will come against mount Seir and Edom.(:note) he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make That is, the Israelites whom the Edomites kept as prisoners to hast away from there. him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that The captain and governor of the army meaning Nebuchadnezzar. shepherd that will stand before me?

geneva@Jeremiah:49:20 @ Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least (note:)They will not be able to resist his petty captains.(:note) of the flock shall draw them out: surely To visit the enemy. he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:22 @ Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, (note:)As (Jer_48:40) was said of Moab.(:note) and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:23 @ Concerning (note:)Which was the chief city of Syria, by which he means the whole country.(:note) Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:24 @ Damascus hath become feeble, [and] turneth herself to flee, (note:)When she heard the sudden coming of the enemy.(:note) and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:25 @ How is the (note:)He speaks this in the person of the king and of them of the country who will wonder to see Damascus the chief city destroyed.(:note) city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

geneva@Jeremiah:49:27 @ And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of (note:)Who was king of Syria, (1Ki_20:26) and had built these palaces which were still called the palaces of Benhadad.(:note) Benhadad.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:28 @ Concerning (note:)Meaning the Arabians, and their borders.(:note) Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and lay waste the men of the east.

geneva@Jeremiah:49:39 @ But it shall come to pass (note:)This may be referred to the empire of the Persians and Medes after the Chaldeans or to the time of Christ, as in (Jer_48:47).(:note) in the latter days, [that] I will bring again the captives of Elam, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:3 @ For out of the north (note:)That is, the Medes and the Persians.(:note) there cometh a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell in it: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:5 @ They shal aske the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let vs cleaue to the Lorde in a perpetuall couenant that shall not be forgotten.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:6 @ My people have been lost sheep: their (note:)Their governors and ministers by their examples have provoked them to idolatry.(:note) shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from They have committed idolatry in every place. mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:9 @ For loe, I will raise, and cause to come vp against Babel a multitude of mightie natios from the North countrey, and they shall set themselues in aray against her, whereby shee shall be taken: their arrowes shall be as of a strong man, which is expert, for none shall returne in vaine.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:11 @ Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of my heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, (note:)For joy of the victory that you had against my people.(:note) and bellow as bulls;

geneva@Jeremiah:50:12 @ Therefore your mother shall bee sore confounded, and she that bare you, shall be ashamed: beholde, the vttermost of the nations shalbe a desert, a drie land, and a wildernes.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, (note:)In sign of contempt and disdain.(:note) and hiss at all her plagues.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:15 @ Crie against her round about: she hath giuen her hand: her foundations are fallen, and her walles are destroyed: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance vpon her: as she hath done, doe vnto her.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:17 @ Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of (note:)Meaning Tiglath-pilesar who carried away the ten tribes.(:note) Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his He carried away the rest, that is Judah and Benjamin. bones.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:18 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Behold, I wil visit ye King of Babel, and his land, as I haue visited the King of Asshur.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:19 @ And I will bring Israel againe to his habitation: hee shall feede on Carmel and Bashan, and his soule shall be satisfied vpon the mount Ephraim and Gilead.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:21 @ Go up against the land of (note:)That is, Babylon: thus the Lord raised up Cyrus.(:note) Merathaim, [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:23 @ How is the (note:)Nebuchadnezzar, who had smitten down all the princes and people of the world.(:note) hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

geneva@Jeremiah:50:24 @ I haue snared thee, and thou art taken, O Babel, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striuen against the Lorde.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:25 @ The Lord hath opened his treasure, & hath brought foorth the weapons of his wrath: for this is the woorke of the Lorde God of hostes in the lande of the Caldeans.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:26 @ Come against her from the vtmost border: open her store houses: treade on her as on sheaues, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:37 @ A sworde is vpon their horses & vpon their charets, and vpon all the multitude that are in the middes of her, and they shall be like women: a sworde is vpon her treasures, and they shall be spoyled.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:38 @ A (note:)For Cyrus cut the river Euphrates and divided the course of it into many streams, so that it might be passed over as though there had been no water: which he did by the counsel of two of Belshazzar's captains, who conspired against their king, because he had gelded one of them in spite and slain the son of the other.(:note) drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad over [their] idols.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:39 @ Therefore the (note:)Read (Isa_13:21).(:note) wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the isles shall dwell [there], and the owls shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:40 @ As God destroied Sodom and Gomorah with the places thereof neere about, sayeth the Lord: so shal no man dwell theere, neither shal the sonne of man remaine therein.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:43 @ The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands (note:)Which is meant of Belshazzar, (Dan_5:6).(:note) became feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

geneva@Jeremiah:50:45 @ Therefore heare the counsell of the Lorde that hee hath deuised against Babel, and his purpose that hee hath conceiued against the lande of the Caldeans: surely the least of the flocke shall drawe them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:1 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise against me, a destroying (note:)The Medes and Persians who will destroy them as the wind does the chaff.(:note) wind;

geneva@Jeremiah:51:5 @ For Israel [hath] not [been] (note:)Though they were forsaken for a time, yet they were not utterly cast off as though their husbands were dead.(:note) forsaken, nor Judah by his God, by the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:7 @ Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the (note:)By whom the Lord poured out the drink of his vengeance, to whom it pleased him.(:note) LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are For the great afflictions that they have felt by the Babylonians. mad.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:13 @ O thou that dwellest upon many (note:)For the land of Chaldea was full of rivers which ran into the Euphrates.(:note) waters, abundant in treasures, thy end is come, [and] the measure of thy covetousness.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:14 @ The Lord of hostes hath sworne by him selfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers, and they shall cry and shoute against thee.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:16 @ Hee giueth by his voyce the multitude of waters in the heauen, and he causeth the cloudes to ascend from the endes of the earth: he turneth lightnings to raine, and bringeth forth the winde out of his treasures.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:20 @ Thou [art] my (note:)He means the Medes and Persians, as before he called the Babylonians his hammer, (Jer_50:23).(:note) battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

geneva@Jeremiah:51:25 @ Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying (note:)Not that Babylon stood on a mountain but because it was strong and seemed invincible.(:note) mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the From your strongholds and fortresses. rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:27 @ Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of (note:)By these three nations he means Armenia the higher, Armenia the lower and Scythia; for Cyrus had gathered an army of various nations.(:note) Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:29 @ And the land shall tremble and sorow: for the deuise of the Lorde shalbe performed against Babel, to make the lande of Babel waste without an inhabitant.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:30 @ The strong men of Babel haue ceased to fight: they haue remayned in their holdes: their strength hath fayled, and they were like women: they haue burnt her dwelling places, and her barres are broken.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:31 @ One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at (note:)By turning the course of the river one side was made open and the reeds that grew in the water were destroyed which Cyrus did by the counsel of Gobria and Gabatha Belshazzar's captains.(:note) [one] end,

geneva@Jeremiah:51:32 @ And that the passages are stopped, and the reedes burnt with fire, & the me of war troubled.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:34 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath (note:)This is spoken in the person of the Jews bewailing their state and the cruelty of the Babylonians.(:note) devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicacies, he hath cast me out.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:35 @ The spoyle of me, and that which was left of me, is brought vnto Babel, shall the inhabitant of Zion say: and my blood vnto the inhabitantes of Caldea, shal Ierusalem say.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:36 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy (note:)Thus the Lord esteemed the injury done to his Church as done to himself because their cause is his.(:note) cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:37 @ And Babel shall be as heapes, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, & an hissing, without an inhabitant.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:38 @ They shal rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:39 @ In their (note:)When they are inflamed with surfeiting and drinking, I will feast with them, alluding to Belshazzar's banquet, (Dan_5:2).(:note) heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:41 @ How is (note:)Meaning Babel as in (Jer_25:26).(:note) Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an horror among the nations!

geneva@Jeremiah:51:43 @ Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the sonne of man passe thereby.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:44 @ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which (note:)That is, his gifts and presents which he had received as part of the spoil of other nations, and which the idolaters brought to him from all countries.(:note) he hath swallowed: and the nations shall not flow together any more to him: even the wall of Babylon shall fall.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:46 @ And lest your heart should faint, and ye should fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come [one] (note:)Meaning that Babylon would not be destroyed all at once but little by little would be brought to nothing for the first year came the tidings, the next year the siege and in the third year it was taken: yet this is not that horrible destruction which the prophets threatened in many places: for that was after this when they rebelled and Darius over came them by the policy of Zopyrus, and hanged three thousand gentlemen beside the common people.(:note) year, and after that in [another] year [shall come] a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:49 @ As Babylon [hath caused] the (note:)Babylon not only destroyed Israel, but many other nations.(:note) slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:55 @ Because the Lorde hath layde Babel waste and destroyed from her the great voyce, and her waues shall roare like great waters, and a sounde was made by their noyse:

geneva@Jeremiah:51:57 @ And I will (note:)I will so astonish them by affliction that they will not know which way to turn themselves.(:note) make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:58 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The (note:)The thickness of the wall was fifty feet.(:note) broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the people in the fire, and they shall be weary.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:59 @ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the (note:)This was not in the time of his captivity but seven years before, when he went either to congratulate Nebuchadnezzar or to intreat of some matters.(:note) fourth year of his reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:62 @ Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none should remaine in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate for euer.

geneva@Jeremiah:51:63 @ And it shall be, when thou hast finished reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a (note:)John in his Revelation alludes to this place when he says that the angel took a millstone and cast it into the sea: signifying by it the destruction of Babylon, (Rev_18:21).(:note) stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

geneva@Jeremiah:52:1 @ Zedekiah was one and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and he reigned eleuen yeeres in Ierusalem, & his mothers name was Hamutal, the daughter of Ieremiah of Libnah.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:5 @ So the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yeere of the King Zedekiah.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:6 @ Now in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, the famine was sore in ye citie, so that there was no more bread for ye people of the land.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:7 @ Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth from the city by night by the (note:)Read (Jer_39:4).(:note) way of the gate between the two walls, which [was] by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans [were] by the city on all sides:) and they went by the way of the plain.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:8 @ But the army of the Caldeans pursued after the king, and tooke Zedekiah in the desert of Iericho, and all his host was scattered from him.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:12 @ Now in the fifth month, in the (note:)In (2Ki_25:8) is it called the seventh day, because the fire began then and so continued to the tenth.(:note) tenth [day] of the month, which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, [who] That is, who was his servant, as in (2Ki_25:8). served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

geneva@Jeremiah:52:17 @ Also the (note:)Of these pillars read (1Ki_7:15).(:note) pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that [was] in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:18 @ The caldrons also, and the (note:)Which were also made of brass, as in (1Ki_7:45).(:note) shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, they took away.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:19 @ And the bowles, and the ashpannes, and the basins, and the pots, and the candlestickes, and the incense dishes, and the cuppes, and all that was of golde, and that was of siluer, tooke the chiefe steward away,

geneva@Jeremiah:52:20 @ The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without (note:)It was so much in quantity.(:note) weight.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:21 @ And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteene cubites, and a threede of twelue cubites did compasse it, and the thickenes thereof was foure fingers: it was holowe.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:22 @ And a chapiter of brasse was vpon it, and the height of one chapiter was fiue cubites with networke, and pomegranates vpon the chapiters round about, all of brasse: the seconde pillar also, and the pomegranates were like vnto these.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:27 @ And the king of Babel smote them, and slewe them in Riblah, in the lande of Hamath: thus Iudah was caried away captiue out of his owne land.

geneva@Jeremiah:52:28 @ This [is] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the (note:)Which was the latter end of the seventh year of his reign and the beginning of the eighth.(:note) seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

geneva@Jeremiah:52:31 @ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the [first] year of his reign (note:)That is, restored him to liberty and honour.(:note) lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,

geneva@Jeremiah:52:34 @ And [for] his food, there was a (note:)That is he had allowance in the court, and thus at length he had rest and quietness because he obeyed Jeremiah the Prophet, while the others were cruelly ordered that would not obey him.(:note) continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

geneva@Lamentations:1:1 @ How doth (note:)The prophet wonders at the great judgment of God, seeing Jerusalem, which was so strong and so full of people, to be now destroyed and desolate.(:note) the city sit desolate, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, Who had chief rule over many provinces and countries. [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become a slave!

geneva@Lamentations:1:2 @ She weepeth bitterly in the (note:)So that she takes no rest.(:note) night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her Meaning the Egyptians and Assyrians who promised help. lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

geneva@Lamentations:1:4 @ The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come (note:)As they used to come up with mirth and joy, (Psa_42:4).(:note) to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.

geneva@Lamentations:1:6 @ And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty hath departed: her princes are become (note:)As men pined away with sorrow and that have no courage.(:note) like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

geneva@Lamentations:1:7 @ Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people (note:)In her misery she considered the great benefits and commodities that she had lost.(:note) fell into the hand of the enemy, and none helped her: the adversaries saw her, [and] mocked at her At her religion and serving of God, which was the greatest grief to the godly. sabbaths.

geneva@Lamentations:1:10 @ The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the nations entered into her sanctuary, whom (note:)God forbids the Ammonites and Moabites to enter into the congregation of the Lord, and under them he comprehends all enemies, (Deu_23:3).(:note) thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.

geneva@Lamentations:1:11 @ All her people sigh and seeke their bread: they haue giuen their pleasant thinges for meate to refresh the soule: see, O Lorde, and consider: for I am become vile.

geneva@Lamentations:1:12 @ [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is any (note:)Thus Jerusalem laments moving others to pity her and to learn by her example.(:note) sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

geneva@Lamentations:1:14 @ The (note:)My heavy sins are continually before his eyes as he that ties a thing to his hand for a reminder.(:note) yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are knit together, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise.

geneva@Lamentations:1:15 @ The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a (note:)He has trodden them underfoot as they tread grapes in the winepress.(:note) winepress.

geneva@Lamentations:1:16 @ For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

geneva@Lamentations:1:17 @ Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] around him: Jerusalem is (note:)Who because of her pollution was separate from her husband, (Lev_15:19) and was abhorred for the time.(:note) as a menstruous woman among them.

geneva@Lamentations:1:20 @ Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

geneva@Lamentations:1:21 @ They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

geneva@Lamentations:2:1 @ How hath the Lord (note:)That is, brought her from prosperity to adversity.(:note) covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from Has given her a most sore fall. heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his Alluding to the temple, or to the ark of the covenant, which was called the footstool of the Lord, because they would not set their minds so low, but lift up their heart toward the heavens. footstool in the day of his anger!

geneva@Lamentations:2:2 @ The Lord hath destroyed al the habitations of Iaakob, & not spared: he hath throwen downe in his wrath ye strong holds of the daughter of Iudah: he hath cast the downe to ye ground: he hath polluted the kingdome and the princes thereof.

geneva@Lamentations:2:3 @ He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the (note:)Meaning the glory and strength, as in (1Sa_2:1).(:note) horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his That is, his comfort which he was wont to send us, when our enemies oppressed us. right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth on every side.

geneva@Lamentations:2:4 @ He (note:)Showing that there is no remedy but destruction where God is the enemy.(:note) hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

geneva@Lamentations:2:5 @ The Lord was as an enemie: he hath deuoured Israel, and consumed all his palaces: hee hath destroyed his strong holdes, and hath increased in the daughter of Iudah lamentation and mourning.

geneva@Lamentations:2:6 @ For hee hath destroyed his Tabernacle, as a garden, hee hath destroyed his Congregation: the Lorde hath caused the feastes and Sabbathes to bee forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his wrath the King and the Priest.

geneva@Lamentations:2:7 @ The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a (note:)As the people were accustomed to praising God to the solemn feasts with a loud voice, so now the enemies blaspheme him with shouting and cry.(:note) noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

geneva@Lamentations:2:8 @ The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart (note:)This is a figurative speech as that was, when he said the ways lamented, (Lam_1:4) meaning that this sorrow was so great that the insensible things had their part of it.(:note) and the wall to lament; they languished together.

geneva@Lamentations:2:10 @ The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the grounde, and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heades: they haue girded them selues with sackecloth: the virgines of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.

geneva@Lamentations:2:12 @ They haue sayd to their mothers, Where is bread and drinke? when they swooned as the wounded in the streetes of the citie, and whe they gaue vp the ghost in their mothers bosome.

geneva@Lamentations:2:14 @ Thy prophets have (note:)Because the false prophets called themselves seers, as the others were called, therefore he shows that they saw amiss because they did not reprove the people's faults, but flattered them in their sins, which was the cause of their destruction.(:note) seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not revealed thy iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

geneva@Lamentations:2:15 @ All that passe by the way, clap their hands at thee: they hisse and wagge their head vpon the daughter Ierusalem, saying, Is this the citie that men call, The perfection of beautie, and the ioye of the whole earth?

geneva@Lamentations:2:16 @ All thine enemies haue opened their mouth against thee: they hisse and gnashe the teeth, saying, Let vs deuoure it: certainely this is the day that we looked for: we haue founde and seene it.

geneva@Lamentations:2:18 @ Their heart cryed vnto the Lord, O wall of the daughter Zion, let teares runne downe like a riuer, day and night: take thee no rest, neither let the apple of thine eye cease.

geneva@Lamentations:2:20 @ Beholde, O Lord, and consider to whome thou hast done thus: shall the women eate their fruite, and children of a spanne long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord?

geneva@Lamentations:2:21 @ The yong and the olde lie on the ground in the streetes: my virgins and my yong men are fallen by the sworde: thou hast slaine them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed and not spared.

geneva@Lamentations:2:22 @ Thou hast called as in a solemne daye my terrours rounde about, so that in the day of the Lordes wrath none escaped nor remained: those that I haue nourished and brought vp, hath mine enemie consumed.

geneva@Lamentations:3:1 @ I [am] the man [that] hath seen (note:)The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he endured by the false prophets and hypocrites when he declared the destruction of Jerusalem, as in (Jer_20:1-2).(:note) affliction by the rod of his wrath.

geneva@Lamentations:3:5 @ He hath (note:)He speaks this as one that felt God's heavy judgment, which he greatly feared, and therefore sets them out with this diversity of words.(:note) built against me, and surrounded [me] with gall and labour.

geneva@Lamentations:3:6 @ He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.

geneva@Lamentations:3:9 @ He hath (note:)And keeps me in hold as a prisoner.(:note) inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

geneva@Lamentations:3:14 @ I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

geneva@Lamentations:3:15 @ He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with (note:)With great anguish and sorrow he has made me lose my sense.(:note) wormwood.

geneva@Lamentations:3:16 @ He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.

geneva@Lamentations:3:17 @ Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,

geneva@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said, My strength and my (note:)Thus with pain he was driven to and fro between hope and despair, as the godly often are, yet in the end the spirit gets the victory.(:note) hope hath perished from the LORD:

geneva@Lamentations:3:22 @ [It is of] the LORD'S (note:)Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his own mercies sake and for his promise will ever have his Church remain, though they are never so few in number, (Isa_1:9).(:note) mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

geneva@Lamentations:3:24 @ The LORD [is] my (note:)The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for no other inheritance, as (Psa_16:5).(:note) portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

geneva@Lamentations:3:29 @ He putteth his (note:)He humbles himself as they who fall down with their face to the ground, and so with patience waits for comfort.(:note) mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.

geneva@Lamentations:3:32 @ But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

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:3:37 @ Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord (note:)He shows that nothing is done without God's providence.(:note) commandeth [it] not?

geneva@Lamentations:3:42 @ We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.

geneva@Lamentations:3:43 @ Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.

geneva@Lamentations:3:44 @ Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.

geneva@Lamentations:3:45 @ Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.

geneva@Lamentations:3:48 @ Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

geneva@Lamentations:3:49 @ Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,

geneva@Lamentations:3:52 @ Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.

geneva@Lamentations:3:53 @ They have cut off my life (note:)Read (Jer_37:16) how he was in the miry dungeon.(:note) in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

geneva@Lamentations:3:56 @ Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.

geneva@Lamentations:3:58 @ O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my (note:)Meaning, the reason his life was in danger.(:note) soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

geneva@Lamentations:3:59 @ O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.

geneva@Lamentations:3:60 @ Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.

geneva@Lamentations:3:61 @ Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:

geneva@Lamentations:4:1 @ How is the (note:)By the gold he means the princes, as by the stones he understands the priests.(:note) gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

geneva@Lamentations:4:2 @ The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen (note:)Which are of small value and have no honour.(:note) pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

geneva@Lamentations:4:3 @ Even the sea monsters (note:)Though the dragons are cruel, yet they pity their young, and nourish them, which Jerusalem does not do.(:note) draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the The women forsake their children as the ostrich does her eggs, (Job_39:17). ostriches in the wilderness.

geneva@Lamentations:4:4 @ The tongue of the sucking childe cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the yong children aske bread, but no man breaketh it vnto them.

geneva@Lamentations:4:6 @ For the iniquitie of the daughter of my people is become greater then the sinne of Sodom, that was destroyed as in a moment, & none pitched campes against her.

geneva@Lamentations:4:13 @ For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of (note:)He means that these things are come to pass therefore, contrary to all men's expectations.(:note) her,

geneva@Lamentations:4:14 @ They have wandered [as] blind [men] (note:)Some refer this to the blind men who as they went, stumbled on the blood, of which the city was full.(:note) in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that Meaning the heathen who came to destroy them could not abide them. men could not touch their garments.

geneva@Lamentations:4:17 @ As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for (note:)He shows two principal causes for their destruction: their cruelty and their vain confidence in man: for they trusted in the help of the Egyptians.(:note) a nation [that] could not save [us].

geneva@Lamentations:4:20 @ The (note:)Our king Josiah, in whom stood our hope of God's favour and on whom depended our state and life was slain, whom he calls anointed, because he was a figure of Christ.(:note) breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

geneva@Lamentations:4:21 @ Rejoice and be glad, (note:)This is spoken by derision.(:note) O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunk, and shalt make thyself naked.

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@Lamentations:5:3 @ We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

geneva@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given the (note:)We are joined in league and amity with them, or have submitted ourselves to them.(:note) hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

geneva@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne (note:)As our fathers have been punished for their sins: so we that are guilty of the same sins are punished.(:note) their iniquities.

geneva@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.

geneva@Lamentations:5:13 @ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under (note:)Their slavery was so great, that they were not able to abide it.(:note) the wood.

geneva@Lamentations:5:14 @ The elders have ceased from the (note:)There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth.(:note) gate, the young men from their music.

geneva@Lamentations:5:22 @ But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the (note:)After that the book of the Law as found, which was the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, so that twenty-five years after this book was found, Jeconiah was led away captive with Ezekiel and many of the people, who the first year later saw these visions.(:note) thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the captives by the river of Which was a part of Euphrates so called. Chebar, [that] the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of That is, notable and excellent visions, so that it might be known, it was no natural dream but came from God. God. The Argument - After Jehoiachin by the counsel of Jeremiah and Ezekiel had yielded himself to Nebuchadnezzar, and so went into captivity with his mother and various of his princes and of the people, some began to repent and murmur that they had obeyed the prophet's counsel, as though the things which they had prophesied would not come to pass, and therefore their estate would still be miserable under the Chaldeans. By reason of which he confirms his former prophecies, declaring by new visions and revelations shown to him, that the city would most certainly be destroyed, and the people grievously tormented by God's plagues, in so much that they who remained would be brought into cruel bondage. Lest the godly despair in these great troubles, he assures them that God will deliver his church at his appointed time and also destroy their enemies, who either afflicted them, or rejoiced in their miseries. The effect of the one and the other would be chiefly performed under Christ, of whom in this book are many notable promises, and in whom the glory of the new temple would perfectly be restored. He prophesied these things in Chaldea, at the same time that Jeremiah prophesied in Judah, and there began in the fifth year of Jehoiachin's captivity.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:2 @ In the fift day of the moneth (which was the fift yere of King Ioiachins captiuitie)

geneva@Ezekiel:1:3 @ The word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the (note:)That is, the spirit of prophecy, as in (Eze_3:22, Eze_37:1).(:note) hand of the LORD was there upon him.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:4 @ And I looked, and, behold, a (note:)By this diversity of words he signifies the fearful judgment of God and the great afflictions that would come on Jerusalem.(:note) whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness [was] about it, and from the midst of it as the colour of amber, from the midst of the fire.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:5 @ Also from the midst of it [came] the likeness of (note:)Which were the four Cherubims that represented the glory of God, as in (Eze_11:22).(:note) four living beings. And this [was] their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:7 @ And their feete were streight feete, and the sole of their feete was like the sole of a calues foote, and they sparkled like the appearance of bright brasse.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:10 @ As for the likeness of their faces, they four had (note:)Every cherubim had four faces, the face of a man, and of a lion on the right side, and the face of a bullock and of an eagle on the left side.(:note) the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:13 @ The similitude also of the beasts, and their appearance was like burning coles of fire, & like the appearance of lampes: for the fire ran among the beastes, and the fire gaue a glister, and out of the fire there went lightning.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:14 @ And the living beings ran and (note:)That is, when they had executed God's will: for before they returned not till God had changed the state of things.(:note) returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:15 @ Nowe as I behelde the beastes, beholde, a wheele appeared vpon the earth by the beastes, hauing foure faces.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:16 @ The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like the colour of a (note:)The Hebrew word is tarshish meaning that the colour was like the Cilician Sea, or a precious stone so called.(:note) beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:19 @ And when the beastes went, the wheeles went with them: and when the beasts were lift vp from the earth, the wheeles were lift vp.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:20 @ Whither the spirit led them, they went, & thither did the spirite of the wheeles leade them, and the wheeles were lifted vp besides them: for the spirit of the beastes was in the wheeles.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:21 @ When the beastes went, they went, & when they stoode, they stoode, and when they were lifted vp from the earth, the wheeles were lifted vp besides them: for the spirite of the beastes was in the wheeles.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:22 @ And the similitude of the firmament vpon the heads of the beasts was wonderfull, like vnto chrystall, spred ouer their heads aboue.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:1:25 @ And there was a voyce fro the firmament, that was ouer their heads, when they stoode, and had let downe their wings.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:26 @ And aboue the firmament that was ouer their heads, was the facion of a throne like vnto a saphir stone, and vpon the similitude of the throne was by appearance, as the similitude of a man aboue vpon it.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:27 @ And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire (note:)By which was signified a terrible judgment toward the earth.(:note) around within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness on all sides.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:28 @ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness around. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw [it], I fell (note:)Considering the majesty of God, and the weakness of flesh.(:note) upon my face, and I heard a voice of one speaking.

geneva@Ezekiel:2:1 @ And (note:)That is, the Lord.(:note) he said to me, Meaning, man who is but earth and ashes, which was to humble him, and cause him to consider his own state, and God's grace. Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:2:5 @ And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they [are] a rebellious house,) yet shall know that (note:)This declares on the one part God's great affection toward his people, that despite their rebellion, yet he will send his prophets among them, and admonishes his ministers on the other part that they cease not to do their duty, though the people are never so obstinate: for the word of God will be either to their salvation or greater condemnation.(:note) there hath been a prophet among them.

geneva@Ezekiel:2:6 @ And thou, son of man, (note:)Read (Jer_1:17). He shows that for no afflictions they would cease to do their duties.(:note) be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns [are] with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they [are] a rebellious house.

geneva@Ezekiel:2:7 @ Therefore thou shalt speake my words vnto them: but surely they will not heare, neither will they in deede cease: for they are rebellious.

geneva@Ezekiel:2:9 @ And when I looked vp, beholde, an hande was sent vnto me, and loe, a roule of a booke was therein.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:3:1 @ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat what thou findest; (note:)By which is meant that no one is fit to be God's messenger before he has received the word of God in his heart, as in (Eze_3:10) and has a zeal to it, and delight in it, as in (Jer_15:16; Rev_10:10).(:note) eat this scroll, and go speak to the house of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:3 @ And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, cause thy belly to eate, and fill thy bowels with this roule that I giue thee. Then did I eate it, and it was in my mouth as sweete as honie.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:8 @ Behold, I have made thy (note:)God promises his assistance to his ministers, and that he will give them boldness and constancy in their calling, (Isa_50:7; Jer_1:18; Mic_3:8).(:note) face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:9 @ I haue made thy forehead as the adamant, and harder then the flint: feare them not therefore, neither be afraid at their lookes: for they are a rebellious house.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:11 @ And goe and enter to them that are led away captiues vnto the children of thy people, and speake vnto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God: but surely they will not heare, neither will they in deede cease.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:13 @ I heard also the noyse of the wings of the beasts, that touched one another, and the ratling of the wheeles that were by them, euen a noyse of a great russhing.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:14 @ So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I (note:)This shows that there is always an infirmity of the flesh which can never be ready to render full obedience to God, and also God's grace who ever assists his, and overcomes their rebellious affections.(:note) went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:3:19 @ Yet if thou warne the wicked, and he turne not from his wickednesse, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:20 @ Again, When a (note:)If he that has been instructed in the right way turn back.(:note) righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a I will give him up to a reprobate mind, (Rom_1:28). stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his Which seemed to have been done in faith, and was not. righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:21 @ Neuerthelesse, if thou admonish that righteous man, that the righteous sinne not, and that he doeth not sinne, he shall liue because he is admonished: also thou hast deliuered thy soule.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:22 @ And the (note:)That is, the Spirit of prophecy.(:note) hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:3:23 @ Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the (note:)Meaning, the vision of the cherubims and the wheels.(:note) glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:2 @ And lay siege against it, and builde a fort against it, and cast a mount against it: set the campe also against it, and lay engins of warre against it rounde about.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:4 @ Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the (note:)By this he represented the idolatry and sin of the ten tribes (for Samaria was on his left hand from Babylon) and how they had remained in it three hundred and ninety years.(:note) house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:6 @ And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy (note:)Which declared Judah, who had now from the time of Josiah slept in their sins forty years.(:note) right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:8 @ And, behold, I will lay (note:)The people would so straightly be besieged that they would not be able to turn them.(:note) cords upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:9 @ Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, (note:)Meaning that the famine would be so great that they would be glad to eat whatever they could get.(:note) and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread of them, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, Which were fourteen months that the city was besieged and this was as many days as Israel sinned years. three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat of it.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:11 @ Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of (note:){{See Exo_29:40}}(:note) an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:12 @ And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it (note:)Signifying by this the great scarcity of fuel and matter to burn.(:note) with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:13 @ And the Lord said, So shall the children of Israel eate their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will cast them.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:15 @ Then he said to me, Lo, I have given thee cow's (note:)To be as fire to bake your bread with.(:note) dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with them.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:16 @ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break (note:)That is, the force and strength with which it would nourish, (Isa_3:1; Eze_14:13).(:note) the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and in horror:

geneva@Ezekiel:4:17 @ Because that bread and water shall faile, they shalbe astonied one with another, and shall consume away for their iniquitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:1 @ And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause [it] (note:)To shave your head and your beard.(:note) to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take to thee balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].

geneva@Ezekiel:5:2 @ Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the (note:)That is, of that city which he had portrayed on the brick, (Eze_4:1). By the fire and pestilence he means the famine, with which one part perished during the siege of Nebuchadnezzar. By the sword, those that were slain when Zedekiah fled and those that were carried away captive and by the scattering into the wind, those that fled into Egypt, and into other parts after the city was taken.(:note) city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a sword: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:4 @ Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; (note:)Out of the fire which you kindled will come a fire which will signify the destruction of Israel.(:note) from which a fire shall come forth into all the house of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Wherefore, as I liue, saith the Lorde God, Surely because thou hast defiled my Sanctuarie with all thy filthinesse, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also destroy thee, neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I haue any pitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:12 @ The third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they bee consumed in the middes of thee: and another third part shall fall by the sword round about thee: and I will scatter the last third part into all windes, and I will drawe out a sword after them.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:14 @ Moreouer, I will make thee waste, and abhorred among the nations, that are round about thee, and in the sight of all that passe by.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:15 @ So thou shalt bee a reproche and shame, a chastisement and an astonishment vnto the nations, that are rounde about thee, when I shall execute iudgements in thee, in anger and in wrath, and in sharpe rebukes: I the Lorde haue spoken it.

geneva@Ezekiel:5:16 @ When I shall send upon them the evil (note:)Which were the grasshoppers, mildew and whatever were opportunities for famine.(:note) arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

geneva@Ezekiel:5:17 @ So will I send vpon you famine, and euill beastes, and they shall spoyle thee, and pestilence and blood shall passe through thee, and I will bring the sworde vpon thee: I the Lorde haue spoken it.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:4 @ And your altars shall be desolate, and your (note:)Read (2Ki_23:14).(:note) images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:5 @ And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their (note:)In contempt of their power and force, which will neither be able to deliver you or themselves.(:note) idols; and I will scatter your bones about your altars.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:6 @ In all your dwelling places the cities shalbe desolate, and the hie places shalbe laide waste, so that your altars shalbe made waste and desolate, and your idoles shalbe broken, and cease, & your images of the sunne shalbe cut in pieces, & your workes shalbe abolished.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:8 @ Yet will I leave a remnant, (note:)He shows that in all dangers God will preserve a few, which will be as the seed of his Church and call on his Name.(:note) that ye may have [some] that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:9 @ And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations to which they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their adulterous heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot with their idols: and they (note:)They will be ashamed to see that their hope in idols was in vain, and so will repent.(:note) shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:11 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; (note:)By these signs he would that the prophet would signify the great destruction to come.(:note) Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:14 @ So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, even, more desolate (note:)Which was in Syria and bordered on Israel, or from the wilderness which was south, to Diblath which was north: meaning the while country.(:note) than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:3 @ Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all (note:)I will punish you as you have deserved for your idolatry.(:note) thy abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:7 @ The (note:)The beginning of his punishments is already come.(:note) morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble [is] near, and not the joyful Which was a voice of joy and mirth. shouting upon the mountains.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:10 @ Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the (note:)The scourge is ready.(:note) rod hath blossomed, That is, the proud tyrant Nebuchadnezzar has gathered his force and is ready. pride hath budded.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:17 @ All handes shalbe weake, and all knees shall fall away as water.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:19 @ They shall cast their siluer in the streetes, and their golde shalbe cast farre off: their siluer and their gold can not deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels: for this ruine is for their iniquitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:20 @ As for the beauty of his (note:)Meaning, the sanctuary.(:note) ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things in it: therefore have I set it far from them.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:24 @ Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their (note:)Which was the temple that was divided into three parts.(:note) holy places shall be defiled.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Of the captivity of Jeconiah.(:note) sixth year, in the Which contained part of August and part of September. sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:2 @ Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of (note:)As in (Eze_1:27).(:note) fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:3 @ And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the (note:)Meaning that he was thus carried in spirit, and not in body.(:note) visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner Which was the porch or the court where the people assembled. gate that looketh toward the north; where [was] the seat of the image of So called, because it provoked God's indignation, which was the idol of Baal. jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:4 @ And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw (note:)Read (Eze_3:22).(:note) in the plain.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:7 @ And he caused me to enter at the gate of the court: and when I looked, beholde, an hole was in the wall.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:8 @ Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, digge nowe in the wall; when I had digged in the wall, beholde, there was a doore.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:10 @ So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping animals, and (note:)Which were forbidden in the law, (Lev_11:4).(:note) abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around upon the wall.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:11 @ And there stood before them seventy (note:)Thus they who would have kept all the rest in the fear and true service of God were the ringleaders of all abomination, and by their example pulled others from God.(:note) men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and It was in such abundance. a thick cloud of incense went up.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:12 @ Then said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel (note:)For besides their common idolatry they had particular service, which they had in secret chambers.(:note) do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:14 @ Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for (note:)The Jews write, that this was a prophet of the idols, who after his death was once a year mourned for in the night.(:note) Tammuz.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:15 @ Then saide hee vnto me, Hast thou seene this, O sonne of man? Turne thee againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations then these.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:16 @ And he caused me to enter into the inner court of the Lordes house, and beholde, at the doore of the Temple of the Lord, betweene the porche and the altar were about fiue and twentie men with their backs toward the Temple of the Lord, and their faces towarde the East, and they worshipped the sunne, towarde the East.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:17 @ Then he said to me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the (note:)Declaring that the censings and service of the idolaters are but infections and villany before God.(:note) branch to their nose.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:2 @ And, behold, six (note:)Which were angels in the appearance of men.(:note) men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the Signifying that the Babylonians would come from the north to destroy the city and the temple. north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen, with a writer's To mark them that would be saved. inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:3 @ And the glory of the God of Israel had (note:)Which declared that he was not bound to it, neither would remain any longer than there was hope that they would return from their wickedness and worship him correctly.(:note) gone up from the cherub, on which he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, who [had] the writer's inkhorn by his side;

geneva@Ezekiel:9:6 @ Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the (note:)Thus in all his plagues the Lord preserves his small number, which he marks as in (Exo_12:12; Rev_7:3) but the chief mark is the spirit of adoption, with which the heart is sealed up to life everlasting.(:note) mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the Which was the chief opportunity for all these evils, as in (Eze_8:11). elders who [were] before the house.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:9:10 @ As touching me also, mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue pitie, but will recompence their wayes vpon their heades.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:11 @ And beholde, the man clothed with linen which had the ynkhorne by his side, made report, and saide, Lorde, I haue done as thou hast commanded me.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:1 @ Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the (note:)Which in (Eze_1:5) he called the four beasts.(:note) cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:4 @ Then the glory of the LORD (note:)Meaning that the glory of God would depart from the temple.(:note) went up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:5 @ And the (note:)Read (Eze_1:24).(:note) sound of the cherubim's wings was heard [even] to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:7 @ And one Cherub stretched forth his hand from betweene the Cherubims vnto the fire, that was betweene the Cherubims, and tooke thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linnen: who tooke it and went out.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:9 @ And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels [was] as the colour of a (note:)Read (Eze_1:16).(:note) beryl stone.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:10 @ And their appearance (for they were all foure of one facion) was as if one wheele had bene in another wheele.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:10:14 @ And euery beast had foure faces: the first face was the face of a Cherub, & the second face was the face of a man, and the thirde the face of a lyon, and the fourth the face of an Egle.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:15 @ And the Cherubims were lifted vp: this is the beast that I sawe at the riuer Chebar.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:17 @ When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also]: for the (note:)There was one consent between the cherubims and the wheels.(:note) spirit of the living being [was] in them.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:19 @ And the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and mounted vp from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheeles also were besides them: and euery one stoode at the entrie of the gate of the Lordes House at the East side, and the glorie of the God of Israel was vpo them on hie.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:20 @ This [is] the (note:)That is, the whole body of the four beasts or cherubims.(:note) living being that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubim.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:21 @ Euery one had foure faces, and euery one foure wings, and the likenesse of mans hands was vnder their wings.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:22 @ And the likenes of their faces was the selfe same faces, which I sawe by the riuer Chebar, and the appearance of the Cherubims was ye selfe same, and they went euery one straight forwarde.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:1 @ Moreouer, the Spirite lift me vp, and brought me vnto the East gate of the Lordes house, which lyeth Eastwarde, and beholde, at the entrie of the gate were fiue and twentie men: among whome I sawe Iaazaniah the sonne of Azur, and Pelatiah the sonne of Benaiah, the princes of the people.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:3 @ Who say, (note:)Thus the wicked derided the prophets as though they preached only errors, and therefore gave themselves still to their pleasures.(:note) [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the We will not be pulled out of Jerusalem, till the hour of our death comes, as the flesh is not taken out of the caldron until it is boiled. caldron, and we [are] the flesh.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:7 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they [are] (note:)Contrary to their vain confidence he shows in what sense the city is the caldron: that is, because of the dead bodies that have been murdered in it, and so lit as flesh in the caldron.(:note) the flesh, and this [city is] the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:13 @ And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of (note:)It seems that this noble man died of some terrible death, and therefore the prophet feared some strange judgment of God toward the rest of the people.(:note) Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

geneva@Ezekiel:11:15 @ Son of man, thy (note:)They that remained at Jerusalem thus reproached them that were gone into captivity as though they were cast off and forsaken by God.(:note) brethren, [even] thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, [are] they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Retire far from the LORD: to us is this land given in possession.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:16 @ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little (note:)They will be yet a little church: showing that the Lord will ever have some to call on his Name, whom he will preserve and restore, though they are for a time afflicted.(:note) sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:17 @ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, I will gather you againe from the people, and assemble you out of the countreis where ye haue bene scattered, & I will giue you ye land of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:22 @ Then did the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and the wheeles besides them, and the glorie of the God of Israel was vpon them on hie.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:23 @ And the glorie of the Lord went vp from the middes of the citie, & stoode vpon the moutaine which is towarde the East side of the citie.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:25 @ Then I spoke to them of the (note:)When Jeconiah was led away captive.(:note) captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:3 @ Therefore thou sonne of man, prepare thy stuffe to goe into captiuitie, and goe foorth by day in their sight: and thou shalt passe from thy place to another place in their sight, if it be possible that they may consider it: for they are a rebellious house.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:4 @ Then shalt thou bring foorth thy stuffe by day in their sight as the stuffe of him that goeth into captiuitie: and thou shalt go forth at euen in their sight, as they that go foorth into captiuitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:6 @ In their sight shalt thou bear [it] upon [thy] shoulders, [and] carry [it] forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou mayest not see the ground: for I have set thee [for] a (note:)That as you do, so shall they do, and therefore in you they will see their own plague and punishment.(:note) sign to the house of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:7 @ And as I was commaunded, so I brought forth my stuffe by day, as ye stuffe of one that goeth into captiuitie: and by night I digged through the wall with mine hand, & brought it forth in ye darke, & I bare it vpo my shoulder in their sight.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:11 @ Say, I am your signe: like as I haue done, so shall it be done vnto them: they shall goe into bondage and captiuitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:13 @ My net also will I spread upon (note:)When the king will think to escape by fleeing, I will take him into my net, as in (Eze_32:3).(:note) him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon [to] the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:22 @ Son of man, what [is] that proverb [that] ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days (note:)Because they did not immediately see the prophecies accomplished, they contemned them as though they would never be fulfilled.(:note) are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

geneva@Ezekiel:12:23 @ Tell them therefore, Thus sayeth the Lord God, I wil make this prouerbe to cease, and they shall no more vse it as a prouerbe in Israel: but say vnto them, The daies are at hand and the effect of euery vision.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:25 @ For I am the Lorde: I wil speake, and that thing that I shall speake, shall come to passe: it shall be no more prolonged: for in your dayes, O rebellious house, will I saye the thing, and will performe it, sayeth the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:12:27 @ Son of man, behold, [they of] the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth [is] for (note:)That is, it will not come to pass in our days, and therefore we care not for it: thus the wicked ever abuse God's patience and benignity.(:note) many days [to come], and he prophesieth of the times [that are] distant.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:2 @ Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou to them that prophesy out of their (note:)After their own fantasy and not as having the revelation of the Lord, (Jer_23:16).(:note) own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

geneva@Ezekiel:13:9 @ And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the (note:)That is in the book of life, in which the true Israelites are written.(:note) writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:10 @ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, (note:){{See Jer_6:14}}(:note) Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up a While the true prophets prophesied the destruction of the city to bring the people to repentance, the false prophets spoke the contrary, and flattered them in their vanities, so that what one false prophet said (which is here called the building of the wall) another false prophet would affirm, though he had neither opportunity nor good ground to hear him. wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered [mortar]:

geneva@Ezekiel:13:19 @ And will ye profane me among my people for handfuls of (note:)Will you make my word serve your bellies?(:note) barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and These sorcerers made the people believe that they could preserve life or destroy it and that it would come to everyone according as they prophesied. to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?

geneva@Ezekiel:14:4 @ Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the (note:)To inquire of things which the Lord has appointed to come to pass.(:note) prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude As his abomination has deserved: that is, he will be led with lies according as he delighted in it, (2Th_2:10). of his idols;

geneva@Ezekiel:14:9 @ And if the prophet be (note:)The prophet declares that God for man's ingratitude raises up false prophets to seduce them that delight in lies rather than in the truth of God, and thus he punishes sin with sin, (1Ki_22:20, 1Ki_22:22) and destroys those prophets as well as the people.(:note) deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:10 @ And they shall beare their punishment: the punishment of the Prophet shall bee euen as the punishment of him that asketh,

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

geneva@Ezekiel:14:13 @ Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, (note:)Read (Eze_4:16, Eze_5:17; Isa_3:1).(:note) and will break the staff of its bread, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

geneva@Ezekiel:14:14 @ Though these three men, (note:)Though Noah and Job were now alive, which in their time were most godly men (for at this time Daniel was in captivity with Ezekiel) and so these three together would pray for this wicked people, yet I would not hear them, read (Jer_15:1).(:note) Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver their own souls only by their Meaning, that a very few (which he calls the remnant, (Eze_14:22)) would escape these plagues, whom God has sanctified and made righteous, so that this righteousness is a sign that they are the Church of God, whom he would preserve for his own sake. righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:15 @ If I bring noysome beastes into the lande and they spoyle it, so that it bee desolate, that no man may passe through, because of beastes,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:16 @ Though these three men were in the mids thereof, As I liue, sayth the Lord God, they shall saue neither sonnes nor daughters: they onely shalbe deliuered, but the land shall be waste.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:17 @ Or if I bring a sworde vpon this land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I destroy man and beast out of it,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:18 @ Though these three men were in the mids thereof, As I liue, sayth the Lorde God, they shal deliuer neither sonnes nor daughters, but they onely shall be deliuered themselues.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:19 @ Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and powre out my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:20 @ And though Noah, Daniel and Iob were in the middes of it, As I liue, sayth the Lorde God, they shal deliuer neither sonne nor daughter: they shall but deliuer their owne soules by their righteousnes.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:21 @ For thus saith the Lord God, Howe much more when I sende my foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem, euen the sworde, and famine, and the noysome beast & pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?

geneva@Ezekiel:15:4 @ Behold, it is cast in the fire to be consumed: the fire consumeth both the endes of it, and the middes of it is burnt. Is it meete for any worke?

geneva@Ezekiel:15:5 @ Behold, when it was whole, it was meete for no worke: how much lesse shall it bee meete for any worke, when the fire hath consumed it, and it is burnt?

geneva@Ezekiel:15:6 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, As the vine tree, that is among the trees of the forest, which I haue giuen to the fire to be consumed, so will I giue the inhabitants of Ierusalem.

geneva@Ezekiel:15:8 @ And when I make the lande waste, because they haue greatly offended, saith the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:3 @ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the land (note:)You boast to be of the seed of Abraham, but you are degenerate and follow the abominations of the wicked Canaanites as children do the manners of their fathers, (Isa_1:4, Isa_57:3).(:note) of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:4 @ And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast (note:)When I first brought you out of Egypt and planted you in this land to be my Church.(:note) born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse [thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:5 @ None eye pitied thee to do any of these vnto thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open fielde to the contempt of thy person in ye day that thou wast borne.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:6 @ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy (note:)Being thus in your filthiness and forsaken by all men, I took you and gave you life: by which is meant that before God wash his Church and give life, there is nothing but filthiness and death.(:note) own blood, I said to thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said to thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:7 @ I haue caused thee to multiplie as the bud of the fielde, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou hast gotten excellent ornaments: thy breastes are facioned, thine heare is growen, where as thou wast naked and bare.

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:)These words as blood, pollution, nakedness and filthiness are often repeated to beat down their pride, and to cause them to consider what they were before God received them to mercy, favoured them and covered their shame.(: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:16:9 @ Then I washed thee with (note:)I washed away your sins.(:note) water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I I sanctified you with my Holy Spirit. anointed thee with oil.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:13 @ Thus wast thou deckt with gold and siluer, and thy rayment was of fine linen, and silke, and broydred worke: thou didest eate fine floure, and honie and oyle, and thou wast very beautifull, and thou didest grow vp into a kingdome.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:14 @ And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for it [was] perfect through my (note:)He declares where the dignity of Jerusalem stood: that is, in that the Lord gave them of his beauty and excellency.(:note) comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:15 @ But thou didst (note:)In abusing my gifts and in putting your confidence in your own wisdom and dignity, which were the opportunities of your idolatry.(:note) trust in thy own beauty, and didst play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst pour out There was no idolatry with which you did not pollute yourself. thy harlotries on every one that passed by; his it was.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:16 @ And of thy garments thou didst take, and didst deck thy high places with various colours, (note:)This declares how the idolaters put their chief delight in those things which please the eyes and outward senses.(:note) and didst play the harlot upon them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].

geneva@Ezekiel:16:17 @ Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and hast (note:)You have converted my vessels and instruments which I gave you to serve me with to the use of your idols.(:note) made to thyself images of men, and hast committed harlotry with them,

geneva@Ezekiel:16:18 @ And tookest thy broydred garments, and coueredst them: and thou hast set mine oyle and my perfume before them.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:19 @ My meate also, which I gaue thee, as fine floure, oyle, and honie, wherewith I fedde thee, thou hast euen set it before them for a sweete sauour: thus it was, saith the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:20 @ Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me, and these hast thou sacrificed to them to (note:)Meaning by fire, read (Lev_18:21; 2Ki_23:10).(:note) be devoured. [Is this] of thy harlotries a small matter,

geneva@Ezekiel:16:21 @ That thou hast slaine my children, and deliuered them to cause them to passe through fire for them?

geneva@Ezekiel:16:22 @ And in all thine abominations and whoredomes thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:24 @ Thou hast also built vnto thee an hie place, and hast made thee an hie place in euery streete.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:25 @ Thou hast built thine hie place at euery corner of the way, and hast made thy beautie to be abhorred: thou hast opened thy feete to euery one that passed by, & multiplied thy whoredome.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:26 @ Thou hast also committed harlotry with the (note:)He notes the great impiety of this people, who first falling from God to seek help at strange nations also at length embraced their idolatry thinking by it to make their amity more strong.(:note) Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy harlotry, to provoke me to anger.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:27 @ Beholde, therefore I did stretche out mine hand ouer thee, and will diminish thine ordinarie, and deliuer thee vnto the will of them that hate thee, euen to the daughters of the Philistims, which are ashamed of thy wicked way.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:28 @ Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insaciable: yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:29 @ Thou hast moreouer multiplied thy fornication from the land of Canaan vnto Caldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:31 @ In that thou buildest thy eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, (note:)Meaning that some harlots contemn small rewards but no lovers gave a reward to Israel, but they gave to all others signifying that the idolaters bestow all their substance which they receive from God for his glory to serve their vile abominations.(:note) in that thou scornest hire;

geneva@Ezekiel:16:32 @ But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

geneva@Ezekiel:16:36 @ Thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because thy shame was powred out, and thy filthinesse discouered through thy fornications with thy louers, and with all the idoles of thine abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didest offer vnto them,

geneva@Ezekiel:16:37 @ Behold, therefore I will gather all (note:)Egyptians, Assyrians and Chaldeans whom you took to be your lovers will come and destroy you, (Eze_23:9).(:note) thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:38 @ And I will judge thee, as women that (note:)I will judge you to death as the adulterers and murderers.(:note) break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:41 @ And they shall burne vp thine houses with fire, and execute iudgements vpon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt giue no reward any more.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:42 @ So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my (note:)I will utterly destroy you and so my jealousy will cease.(:note) jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will (note:)I have punished your faults but you would not repent.(:note) recompense thy way upon [thy] head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thy abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:44 @ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, (note:)As the Canaanites, the Hittites and others were your predecessors, so are you their successors.(:note) [so is] her daughter.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:45 @ Thou [art] thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thy (note:)That is, of Samaria and Sodom.(:note) sisters, who lothed their husbands and their children: your mother [was] an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:47 @ Yet hast thou (note:)But done far worse.(:note) not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:48 @ As I liue, saith the Lorde God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, neither shee nor her daughters, as thou hast done and thy daughters.

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:16:50 @ But they were hautie, and committed abomination before mee: therefore I tooke them away, as pleased me.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:51 @ Neither (note:)Which worshipped the calves in Bethel and Daniel.(:note) hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thy abominations more than they, and hast You are so wicked that in respect to you Sodom and Samaria were just. justified thy sisters in all thy abominations which thou hast done.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:52 @ Therefore thou which hast iustified thy sisters, beare thine owne shame for thy sinnes, that thou hast committed more abominable then they which are more righteous then thou art: be thou therefore confounded also, and beare thy shame, seeing that thou hast iustified thy sisters.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:54 @ That thou mayest bear thy own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a (note:)In that you have shown yourself worse than they and yet thought to escape punishment.(:note) comfort to them.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:55 @ When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, (note:)Meaning that it would never come to pass.(:note) then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former state.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:16:57 @ Before thy wickedness was (note:)That is, till you were brought under by the Syrians and Philistines, (2Ch_28:19).(:note) uncovered, as at the time of [thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are] around Which joined with the Syrians, or compassed about Jerusalem. her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise thee on every side.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:58 @ Thou hast borne therefore thy wickednesse and thine abomination, saith the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:59 @ For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the (note:)When you broke the covenant which was made between you and me, as in (Eze_16:8).(:note) oath in breaking the covenant.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:60 @ Nevertheless I will (note:)That is, out of mercy and love I will pity you and so stand by my covenant though you have deserved the contrary.(:note) remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:61 @ Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive (note:)By which he shows that among the most wicked, he always had some seed of his Church, which he would cause to bear fruit in due time: and here he declares how he will call the Gentiles.(:note) thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not But of my free mercy. by thy covenant.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:63 @ That thou mayest remember, and be (note:)This declares what fruits God's mercies work in his, that is, sorrow and repentance for their former life.(:note) confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:3 @ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great (note:)That is, Nebuchadnezzar who had great power, riches and many countries under him, will come to Jerusalem and take away Jeconiah the king, as in (Eze_17:12).(:note) eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had various colours, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

geneva@Ezekiel:17:5 @ He took also of the (note:)That is, Zedekiah who was of the king's blood and was left at Jerusalem and made king instead of Jeconiah, (2Ki_24:17; Jer_37:1).(:note) seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed [it] by great waters, [and] set it [as] a willow tree.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:6 @ And it grew, and became (note:)This was Zedekiah's kingdom.(:note) a spreading vine of That is, might not have power to rebel against Babylon, as in (Eze_17:14). low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:7 @ There was also (note:)Meaning, the king of Egypt from whom Zedekiah sought comfort against Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:8 @ It was planted in a good soil by great (note:)They thought to be moistened by the waters of the Nile.(:note) waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a well favoured vine.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:10 @ Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, (note:)By this dry wind he means the Babylonians.(:note) when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:15 @ But he rebelled against him, and sent his ambassadours into Egypt, that they might giue him horses, and much people: shall hee prosper? shall he escape, that doeth such things? or shal he breake the couenant, and be deliuered?

geneva@Ezekiel:17:16 @ As I liue, saith the Lord God, he shall die in the middes of Babel, in the place of the King, that had made him King, whose othe he despised, and whose couenant made with him, he brake.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:17 @ Neither shall Pharaoh with his mightie hoste, and great multitude of people, mainteine him in the warre, when they haue cast vp mounts, and builded ramparts to destroy many persons.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:19 @ Therefore, thus sayth the Lord God, As I liue, I wil surely bring mine othe that he hath despised, and my couenant that he hath broken vpon his owne head.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:20 @ And I wil spread my net vpon him, & he shalbe taken in my net, & I wil bring him to Babel, and will enter into iudgement with him there for his trespas that he hath committed against me.

geneva@Ezekiel:17:22 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch (note:)This promise is made to the Church which will be as a small remnant, and as the top of a tree.(:note) of the high cedar, and will set [it]; I will crop off from the I will trim it, and dress it. top of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant [it] upon an high mountain and eminent:

geneva@Ezekiel:17:24 @ And all the (note:)All the world will know that I have plucked down the proud enemies, and set up my Church which was low and contemned.(:note) trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done [it].

geneva@Ezekiel:18:2 @ What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, (note:)The people murmured at the chastising of the Lord, and therefore used this proverb meaning that their fathers had sinned and their children were punished for their transgressions. {{See Jer_31:29}}(:note) The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

geneva@Ezekiel:18:3 @ As I liue, sayth the Lord God, ye shall vse this prouerbe no more in Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:18:6 @ [And] hath not eaten (note:)If he has not eaten flesh that has been offered up to idols, to honour them by it.(:note) upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a polluted woman,

geneva@Ezekiel:18:8 @ And hath not giuen foorth vpon vsurie, neither hath taken any increase, but hath withdrawen his hand from iniquitie, and hath executed true iudgement betweene man and man,

geneva@Ezekiel:18:13 @ Hath given forth upon interest, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; (note:)He shows how the son is punished for his father's sin: that is, if he is wicked as his father was and does not repent, he will be punished as his father was, or else not.(:note) he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

geneva@Ezekiel:18:17 @ Neither hath withdrawen his hand from the afflicted, nor receiued vsurie nor increase, but hath executed my iudgements, and hath walked in my statutes, he shall not die in the iniquitie of his father, but he shal surely liue.

geneva@Ezekiel:18:24 @ But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his (note:)That is, the false opinion that the hypocrites have of their righteousness.(:note) righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

geneva@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed; and make (note:)He shows that man cannot forsake his wickedness, till his heart is changed which is only the work of God.(:note) you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

geneva@Ezekiel:19:4 @ The (note:)By Pharaoh Nebo king of Egypt, (2Ki_23:33).(:note) nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.

geneva@Ezekiel:19:5 @ Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her (note:)Which was Jehoiakim.(:note) whelps, [and] made him a young lion.

geneva@Ezekiel:19:7 @ And he knew their widowes, & he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring.

geneva@Ezekiel:19:8 @ Then the (note:)Nebuchadnezzar with his great army which was gathered from various nations.(:note) nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

geneva@Ezekiel:19:10 @ Thy (note:)He speaks this in the reproach of this wicked king, in whose blood, that is in the race of his predecessors, Jerusalem would have been blessed according to God's promise and flourished as a fruitful vine.(:note) mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

geneva@Ezekiel:19:11 @ And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

geneva@Ezekiel:19:12 @ But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the (note:)Meaning, that the Chaldeans would destroy them as the east wind does the fruit of the vine.(:note) east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

geneva@Ezekiel:19:14 @ And fire hath gone out (note:)Destruction is come by Zedekiah, who was the opportunity for this rebellion.(:note) of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be] a sceptre to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Of the captivity of Jeconiah.(:note) seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:3 @ Sonne of man, speake vnto the Elders of Israel, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Are ye come to enquire of me? As I liue, sayth the Lord God, when I am asked, I wil not answer you.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:5 @ And say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and (note:)I swore that I would be their God, which manner of oath was observed from all antiquity, where they used to lift up their hands toward the heavens, acknowledging God to be the author of truth and the defender of it, and also the judge of the heart, wishing that he would take vengeance, if they concealed anything which they knew to be truth.(:note) lifted up my hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand to them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God;

geneva@Ezekiel:20:6 @ In the day that I lift vp mine hand vnto them to bring them forth of the land of Egypt, into a land that I had prouided for them, flowing with milke & hony which is pleasant among all lands,

geneva@Ezekiel:20:7 @ Then said I to them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, (note:)God had forbidden them to make mention of the idols, (Exo_23:13; Psa_16:4).(:note) and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:8 @ But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of (note:)Which declares the wickedness of man's heart, who judge God's service by their eyes and outward senses.(:note) their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:9 @ But I wrought for my (note:)God had ever this respect to his glory, that he would not have evil spoken of his Name among the Gentiles for the punishment that his people deserved, in confidence of which the godly ever prayed, as in (Exo_32:12; Num_14:13).(:note) name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the nations, among whom they [were], in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth from the land of Egypt.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:13 @ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wildernes: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall liue in them, and my Sabbaths haue they greatly polluted: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpon them in the wildernes to consume them,

geneva@Ezekiel:20:14 @ But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the (note:)Who might by it take an opportunity to blaspheme my Name and to accuse me of lack of ability, or else that I had sought a means to destroy them more conveniently.(:note) nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:15 @ Yet neuerthelesse, I lift vp mine hande vnto them in the wildernes that I would not bring them into the lande, which I had giuen them, flowing with milke and hony, which was pleasant aboue all landes,

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

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

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

geneva@Ezekiel:20:26 @ And I polluted them in their own (note:)I condemned those things, and counted them as abominable, which they thought had been excellent and to have declared most zeal, (Luk_16:15) for that which God required as most excellent they gave to their idols.(:note) gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the fire] all the firstborn, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:27 @ Therefore, sonne of man, speake vnto the house of Israel, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, Yet in this your fathers haue blasphemed me, though they had before grieuously transgressed against me.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:29 @ Then I said to them, What [is] the high place to which ye go? And its name is called (note:)Which signifies a high place, declaring that they vaunted themselves of their idolatry and were not ashamed of it, though God had commanded them expressly that they should have no altar lifted on high by stairs, (Exo_20:26).(:note) Bamah to this day.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:31 @ For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, (note:)He shows that the ingratitude of the people deserves that God should cut them off, and that they should not have the comfort of his word.(:note) I will not be enquired of by you.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:32 @ And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and (note:)He declares that man by nature is wholly enemy to God, and to his own salvation, and therefore God calls him to the right way, partly by chastising but chiefly by his mercy in forgiving his rebellion and wickedness.(:note) stone.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:33 @ As I liue, saith the Lorde God, I will surely rule you with a mightie hand, and with a stretched out arme, and in my wrath powred out,

geneva@Ezekiel:20:35 @ And I will bring you into the (note:)I will bring you among strange nations as into a wilderness and there will visit you, and so call you to repentance and then bring the godly home again, (Isa_65:9).(:note) wilderness of the people, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:36 @ Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wildernes of the lande of Egypt, so will I pleade with you, saith the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:37 @ And I wil cause you to passe vnder the rod, and wil bring you into the bond of the couenant.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:39 @ As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; (note:)This is spoken to the hypocrites.(:note) Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and after this [also], if ye will not hearken to me: but profane ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:6 @ Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with breaking (note:)As though you were in extreme anguish.(:note) heart; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:7 @ And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, (note:)Because of the great noise of the army of the Chaldeans.(:note) For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak [as] water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:10 @ It is sharpened to make a grievous slaughter; it is polished that it may (note:)And so cause fear.(:note) glitter: should we then make mirth? it despiseth the Meaning, the sceptre showing that it will not spare the king, who would be as the son of God, and in his place. rod of my son, That is, the rest of the people. [as] every tree.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:12 @ Cry and wail, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: (note:)Read (Eze_6:11).(:note) smite therefore upon [thy] thigh.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:13 @ Because [it is] a trial, (note:)Ezekiel moved with compassion thus complains fearing the destruction of the kingdom which God had confirmed to David and his posterity by promise, which promise God performed although here it seemed to man's eye that it would utterly perish.(:note) and what if [the sword] despise even the rod? it shall be no [more], saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:17 @ I wil also smite mine hands together, & wil cause my wrath to cease. I the Lord haue said it.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:19 @ Also, thou son of man, mark (note:)This was spoken because when Nebuchadnezzar came against Judah his purpose was also to go against the Ammonites, but doubting in the way which enterprise to undertake first he consulted with his soothsayers and so went against Judah.(:note) two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both [ways] shall come forth from one land: and choose thou a place, choose [it] at the head of the way to the city.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:22 @ At his right hand was the diuination for Ierusalem to appoint captaines, to open their mouth in the slaughter, and to lift vp their voyce with shouting, to laye engines of warre against the gates, to cast a mount, and to builde a fortresse.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:23 @ And it shall be to them (note:)Because there was a league between the Jews and the Babylonians, they of Jerusalem will think nothing less than that this thing would come to pass.(:note) as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: That is, Nebuchadnezzar will remember the rebellion of Zedekiah, and so come on them. but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:26 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the (note:)Some refer this to the priest's attire: for Jehozadak the priest went into captivity with the king.(:note) diadem, and take off the crown: this [shall] not [be] the same: exalt [him that is] low, and abase [him that is] high.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:27 @ I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no [more], until he (note:)That is, to the coming of Messiah: for though the Jews had some sign of government later under the Persians, Greeks and Romans, yet this restitution was not till Christ's coming and at length would be accomplished as was promised, (Gen_49:10).(:note) cometh whose right it is; and I will give it [him].

geneva@Ezekiel:21:28 @ And thou, sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lorde God to the children of Ammon, and to their blasphemie: say thou, I say, The sword, the sword is drawen foorth, and fourbished to the slaughter, to consume, because of the glittering:

geneva@Ezekiel:21:29 @ While they see (note:)Though the Jews and Ammonites would not believe that you, that is the sword, would come upon them, and said that the prophets who threatened spoke lies, yet you will as surely come as though you were already on their necks.(:note) vanity to thee, while they divine a lie to thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:30 @ Shall I cause it to returne into his sheath? I will iudge thee in the place where thou wast created, euen in the land of thine habitation.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:31 @ And I wil powre out mine indignation vpon thee, and will blowe against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliuer thee into the hand of beastly men, and skilfull to destroy.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:4 @ Thou hast offended in thy blood, that thou hast shed, & hast polluted thy selfe in thine idols, which thou hast made, and thou hast caused thy dayes to draw neere, & art come vnto thy terme: therefore haue I made thee a reproch to the heathen, and a mocking to all countreys.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:6 @ Beholde, the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:7 @ In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee (note:)He means by this that there was no kind of wickedness which was not committed in Jerusalem and therefore the plagues of God would speedily come on her.(:note) have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they oppressed the fatherless and the widow.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:8 @ Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast polluted my Sabbaths.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:10 @ In thee haue they discouered their fathers shame: in thee haue they vexed her that was polluted in her floures.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:12 @ In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, & hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:13 @ Behold, therefore I have (note:)In token of my wrath and vengeance.(:note) smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:15 @ And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy (note:)I will thus take away the occasion of your wickedness.(:note) filthiness out of thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:18 @ Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become (note:)Which before was most precious.(:note) dross: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:19 @ Therefore, thus sayth the Lorde God, Because ye are all as drosse, beholde, therefore I will gather you in the middes of Ierusalem.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:20 @ [As] they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt [it]; so will I gather [you] in my anger and in my fury, and I will leave [you there], (note:)Meaning by this that the godly would be tried and the wicked destroyed.(:note) and melt you.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:22 @ As siluer is melted in the mids of the fornace, so shal ye be melted in the mids thereof, and ye shall knowe, that I the Lord haue powred out my wrath vpon you.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:25 @ [There is] a conspiracy (note:)The false prophets have conspired together to make their doctrine more probable.(:note) of her prophets in the midst of her, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst of her.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:3 @ And they committed harlotries in (note:)They became idolaters after the manner of the Egyptians.(:note) Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:4 @ And the names of (note:)Aholah signifies a mansion or dwelling in herself, meaning Samaria, which was the royal city of Israel and Aholibah signifies my mansion in her, by which is meant Jerusalem, where God's temple was.(:note) them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names; Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:5 @ And Aholah played the harlot when (note:)When the Israelites were named the people of God, they became idolaters and forsook God, and put their trust in the Assyrians.(:note) she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,

geneva@Ezekiel:23:6 @ Which were clothed with blewe silke, both captaines and princes: they were all pleasant yong men, and horsemen riding vpon horses.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:7 @ Thus she committed her whoredome with them, euen with all them that were the chosen men of Asshur, and with all on whome she doted, and defiled her selfe with all their idoles.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:8 @ Neither left she her harlotries [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they (note:)The Holy Spirit uses these terms which seem strange to chaste ears, to cause this wicked vice of idolatry to be so abhorred that no one could stand to hear the name of it.(:note) lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their immorality upon her.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:9 @ Wherefore I deliuered her into the hands of her louers, euen into the hands of the Assyrians, vpon whome she doted.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:10 @ These uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for (note:)Meaning the Assyrians.(:note) they had executed judgment upon her.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:12 @ She doted vpon the Assyrians her neighbours, both captaines and princes clothed with diuers sutes, horsemen ryding vpon horses: they were all pleasant yong men.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:13 @ Then I sawe that she was defiled, and that they were both after one sort,

geneva@Ezekiel:23:14 @ And [that] she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men (note:)This declares that no words are able to sufficiently express the rage of idolaters and therefore the Holy Spirit here compares them to those who in their raging love and filthy lusts dote on the images and paintings of them after whom they lust.(:note) portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

geneva@Ezekiel:23:16 @ Assoone, I say, as she sawe them, she doted vpon them, and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:17 @ Nowe when the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, they defiled her with their fornication, and she was polluted with them, and her lust departed from them.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:18 @ So she discouered her fornication, and disclosed her shame: then mine heart forsooke her, like as mine heart had forsaken her sister.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:19 @ Yet she encreased her whoredome more, and called to remembrance ye dayes of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:20 @ For she doted vpon their seruants whose members are as the members of asses, and whose yssue is like the yssue of horses.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:23 @ The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, (note:)These were the names of certain princes and captains under Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:27 @ Thus wil I make thy wickednes to cease from thee and thy fornication out of the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift vp thine eyes vnto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:29 @ And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy (note:)All your treasures and riches which you have gotten by labour.(:note) labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy harlotries All the world will see your shameful forsaking of God to serve idols. shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy harlotries.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:30 @ I wil doe these things vnto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idoles.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:23:33 @ Thou shalt be filled with (note:)Meaning that it's afflictions would be so great that they would cause them to lose their senses and reason.(:note) drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of horror and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:34 @ Thou shalt euen drinke it, and wring it out to the dregges, and thou shalt breake the sheards thereof, and teare thine owne breasts: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:35 @ Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behinde thy backe, therefore thou shalt also beare thy wickednes and thy whoredome.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:37 @ That they have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass for them through [the fire], to (note:)That is, to be sacrifices to their idols, read (Eze_16:20).(:note) devour [them].

geneva@Ezekiel:23:40 @ And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from (note:)They sent into other countries to have such as would teach the service of their idols.(:note) far, to whom a messenger [was] sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, didst paint thy eyes, and didst deck thyself with ornaments,

geneva@Ezekiel:23:41 @ And satest (note:)He means the altar that was prepared for the idols.(:note) upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, upon which thou hast set my incense and my oil.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:42 @ And a voice of a multitude being at ease [was] with her: and with the men of the common sort [were] brought (note:)Who would teach the manner of worshipping their gods.(:note) Sabeans from the wilderness, who put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:43 @ Then I sayd vnto her, that was olde in adulteries, Now shall she and her fornications come to an end.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:44 @ And they went in vnto her as they goe to a common harlot: so went they to Aholah and Aholibah the wicked women.

geneva@Ezekiel:23:48 @ Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all (note:)Meaning, all other cities and countries.(:note) women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:3 @ And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a (note:)By which was meant Jerusalem.(:note) pot, set [it] on, and also pour water into it:

geneva@Ezekiel:24:7 @ For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a (note:)The city showed her cruelty to all the world, and was not ashamed of it, neither yet hid it.(:note) rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

geneva@Ezekiel:24:11 @ Then set it emptie vpon the coles thereof, that the brasse of it may be hot, and may burne, and that the filthinesse of it may be molten in it, and that the skomme of it may be consumed.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:13 @ In thy filthiness [is] lewdness: because I (note:)I laboured by sending my prophets to call you to repentance but you would not.(:note) have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:14 @ I the LORD have spoken [it]: it shall come to pass, and I will do [it]; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall (note:)That is, the Babylonians.(:note) they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:16 @ Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the (note:)Meaning his wife in whom he delighted, as in (Eze_24:18).(:note) desire of thy eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:18 @ So I spoke to the people in the morning: and at evening my wife died; and I did (note:)Meaning the morning following.(:note) in the morning as I was commanded.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:21 @ Speak to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will (note:)By sending the Chaldeans to destroy it, as in {{See Eze_7:22}}.(:note) profane my sanctuary, the In which you boast and delight. excellence of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:22 @ And ye shall doe as I haue done: ye shall not couer your lippes, neither shall ye eate the bread of men.

geneva@Ezekiel:24:25 @ Also, thou sonne of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their power, ye ioy of their honor, ye pleasure of their eyes, & the desire of their heart, their sonnes & their daughters?

geneva@Ezekiel:25:3 @ And say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, (note:)Because you rejoiced when the enemy destroyed my city and temple.(:note) Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

geneva@Ezekiel:25:4 @ Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the (note:)That is, to the Babylonians.(:note) men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their They will chase you away, and take your gorgeous houses to dwell in. palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:5 @ And I will make (note:)Called also Philadelphin, which was the chief city of the Ammonites and full of conveniences, (2Sa_12:27).(:note) Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:25:6 @ For thus saith the Lord God, Because thou hast clapped the hands, and stamped with the feete, and reioyced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:10 @ I will call the men of the East against the Ammonites, and will giue them in possession, so that the Ammonites shal no more be remembred among the nations,

geneva@Ezekiel:25:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, I will also stretch out mine hand vpon Edom, and destroy man and beast out of it, and I will make it desolate from Teman, and they of Dedan shall fall by the sworde.

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:)Which were certain garrisons of Philistines by which they often molested the Jews, of the Cherethims David also had a guard, (2Sa_8:18).(:note) Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Either of the captivity of Jeconiah or of the reign of Zedekiah.(:note) eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:26:2 @ Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken [that was] the (note:)That is, the famous city Jerusalem to which all people resorted.(:note) gates of the people: she is turned to me: I shall be My riches and fame will increase: thus the wicked rejoice at their fall by whom they may have any profit or advantage. replenished, [now] she is laid waste:

geneva@Ezekiel:26:3 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, Beholde, I come against thee, O Tyrus, and I will bring vp many nations against thee, as the sea mounteth vp with his waues.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:8 @ He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the fielde, and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift vp the buckler against thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:10 @ The dust of his horses shall couer thee, for their multitude: thy walles shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheeles, and of the charets, when he shall enter into thy gates as into the entrie of a citie that is broken downe.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:11 @ With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong (note:)For Tyre was built by art and by labour of men was won out of the sea. Some refer this to the image of the noble men which they had erected for their glory and renown.(:note) garrisons shall go down to the ground.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:12 @ And they shall robbe thy riches, and spoyle thy marchandise, and they shall breake downe thy walles, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the middes of the water.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:13 @ Thus will I cause the sounde of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thine harpes shall be no more heard.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:16 @ Then all the princes of the (note:)The governors and rulers of other countries that dwell by the sea: by which he signifies that her destruction would be so horrible that all the world would hear of it and be afraid.(:note) sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at [every] moment, and be astonished at thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:26:17 @ And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, [that wast] inhabited (note:)Meaning, merchants who by their traffic enriched her wonderfully and increased her power.(:note) by seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who cause their terror [to be] on all that dwelt in it!

geneva@Ezekiel:26:18 @ Nowe shall the yles be astonished in the day of thy fall: yea, the yles that are in the sea, shall be troubled at thy departure.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:3 @ And say to Tyre, O thou that dwelleth at the entrance of the sea, [which art] a merchant (note:)Which serves all the world with your merchandise.(:note) of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyre, thou hast said, I [am] of perfect beauty.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:5 @ They have made all thy [ship] planks of fir trees of (note:)This mountain was called Hermon but the Amorites called it Shenir, (Deu_3:9).(:note) Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:6 @ [Of] the oaks of Bashan have they made thy oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles of (note:)Which is taken for Greece and Italy.(:note) Chittim.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:7 @ Fine linen with broydered woorke, brought from Egypt, was spread ouer thee to be thy sayle, blue silke and purple, brought from the yles of Elishah, was thy couering.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:14 @ They of the house of (note:)Which are taken for a people of Asia minor.(:note) Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:18 @ They of Damascus were thy marchants in ye multitude of thy wares, for the multitude of all riches, as in the wine of Helbon and white wooll.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:19 @ They of Dan also and of Iauan, going to and fro, occupied in thy faires: yron woorke, cassia and calamus were among thy marchandise.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:23 @ They of Haram and Canneh and Eden, the marchants of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad were thy marchants.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:25 @ The shippes of Tarshish were thy chiefe in thy marchandise, and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the middes of the sea.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:26 @ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the (note:)That is, Nebuchadnezzar.(:note) east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:28 @ The (note:)That is, the cities near you, as Zidon, Arund and others.(:note) common lands shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:30 @ And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:33 @ When thy wares went foorth of the seas, thou filledst many people, & thou diddest enrich the Kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy marchandise.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:34 @ When thou shalt be broken by ye seas in the depths of the waters, thy marchandise and all thy multitude, which was in the mids of thee, shal fal.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:35 @ All the inhabitantes of the yles shall be astonished at thee, and all their Kings shall be sore afraide and troubled in their countenance.

geneva@Ezekiel:27:36 @ The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt be] (note:)By which is meant a long time: for it was prophesied to be destroyed but seventy years, (Isa_23:15).(:note) any more.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:2 @ Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast said, (note:)I am safe as God is safe in the heavens and no one can hurt me.(:note) I [am] a god, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou settest thy heart as the heart of God:

geneva@Ezekiel:28:4 @ With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into thy treasures.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:5 @ By thy great wisedome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:6 @ Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God,

geneva@Ezekiel:28:8 @ They shall cast thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slaine in the middes of the sea.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:12 @ Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of (note:)He derides the vain opinion and confidence that the Tyrians had in their riches, strength and pleasures.(:note) wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:13 @ Thou hast ben in Eden the garden of God: euery precious stone was in thy garment, the rubie, the topaze and the diamonde, the chrysolite, the onix, and the iasper, the saphir, emeraude, and the carbuncle and golde: the woorkemanship of thy timbrels, & of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:14 @ Thou [art] (note:)He means the royal state of Tyre, which for the excellency and glory of it he compares to the cherubim which covered the Ark, and by «anointed» he signifies the same.(:note) the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee I did you this honour to make you one of the builders of my temple, which was when Hiram sent to Solomon things necessary for the work. [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the That is, among my people Israel, which shined as precious stones. stones of fire.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:15 @ Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast (note:)Which was when I first called you to this dignity.(:note) created, till iniquity was found in thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:16 @ By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the (note:)You will have no part among my people.(:note) mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:17 @ Thine heart was lifted vp because of thy beautie, and thou hast corrupted thy wisedome by reason of thy brightnes: I wil cast thee to ye grounde: I will lay thee before Kinges that they may beholde thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:18 @ Thou hast defiled thy (note:)That is, the honour to which I called them.(:note) sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, by the iniquity of thy merchandise; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:19 @ All they that knowe thee among the people, shalbe astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terrour, and neuer shalt thou be any more.

geneva@Ezekiel:28:25 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be (note:)He shows why God will assemble his Church and preserve it, though he destroy his enemies: that is, that they should praise him, and give thanks for his great mercies.(:note) sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:3 @ Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great (note:)He compares Pharaoh to a dragon which hides himself in the Nile river, as in (Isa_51:9).(:note) dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river [is] my own, and I have made [it] for myself.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:5 @ And I will leaue thee in the wildernes, both thee & al the fish of thy riuers: thou shalt fal vpon ye open field: thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: for I haue giue thee for meat to the beasts of the field, and to the foules of heauen.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:8 @ Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will bring a sworde vpon thee, and destroy man and beast out of thee,

geneva@Ezekiel:29:9 @ And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD: because he hath said, (note:)Thus God cannot permit man to attribute anything to himself or put his trust in anything save in him alone.(:note) The river [is] mine, and I have made [it].

geneva@Ezekiel:29:10 @ Behold, therefore I come vpon thee, and vpon thy riuers, & I will make the land of Egypt vtterly waste and desolate from the towre of Seueneh, euen vnto the borders of the blacke Mores.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:11 @ No foote of man shall passe by it, nor foote of beast shall passe by it, neither shall it be inhabited fourtie yeeres.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:14 @ And I will bring again the captives of Egypt, and will cause them to return [into] the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a (note:)Meaning, that they would not have full dominion but be under the Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the reason is that the Israelites would no more put their trust in them, but learn to depend on God.(:note) base kingdom.

geneva@Ezekiel:29:17 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Counting from the captivity of Jeconiah.(:note) seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:29:18 @ Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great (note:)He took great pains at the siege of Tyre and his army was sore handled.(:note) service against Tyre: every head [was] made bald, and every shoulder [was] rubbed raw: yet had he no wages, Signifying that Nebuchadnezzar had more pains than profit by the taking of Tyre. nor his army, for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it:

geneva@Ezekiel:30:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of (note:)Which was a strong city of Egypt, (Eze_29:10).(:note) Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:7 @ And they shall be desolate in the middes of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the middes of the cities that are wasted.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:9 @ In that day shall there messengers go forth from me in shippes, to make the carelesse Mores aftaide, and feare shall come vpon them, as in the day of Egypt: for loe, it commeth.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:10 @ Thus sayth the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:12 @ And I will make the riuers drye, and fell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord haue spoken it.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:13 @ Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idoles, and I will cause their idoles to cease out of Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a feare in the land of Egypt.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:18 @ At Tehaphnehes also the day (note:)Meaning that there will be great sorrow and affliction.(:note) shall be darkened, when I shall break there the That is, the strength and force. yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:20 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Of the captivity of Jeconiah, or of Zedekiah's reign.(:note) eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:30:22 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break (note:)His force and power.(:note) his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:24 @ And I will strengthen the arme of the King of Babel, and put my sworde in his hand, but I will breake Pharaohs armes, and he shall cast out sighings, as the sighings of him, that is wounded before him.

geneva@Ezekiel:30:25 @ But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, (note:)By which we see that tyrants have no power of themselves, neither can do any more harm than God appoints and when he wills they must cease.(:note) when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Of Zedekiah's reign, or of Jeconiah's captivity.(:note) eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:31:2 @ Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou (note:)Meaning that he was not the same in strength to the king of the Assyrians whom the Babylonians overcame.(:note) like in thy greatness?

geneva@Ezekiel:31:3 @ Beholde, Asshur was like a cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, & with thicke shadowing boughes, and shot vp very hye, and his toppe was among the thicke boughes.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:5 @ Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:6 @ All the foules of the heauen made their nestes in his boughes, and vnder his branches did all the beastes of the fielde bring foorth their yong, and vnder his shadowe dwelt all mightie nations.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:7 @ Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:8 @ The cedars in the garden (note:)Signifying that there was no greater power in the world than his was.(:note) of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; not any tree in the garden of God was like him in his beauty.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:11 @ I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the (note:)That is, of Nebuchadnezzar, who was the monarch and only ruler of the world.(:note) mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:12 @ And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are (note:)By this is signified the destruction of the power of the Assyrians by the Babylonians.(:note) broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:13 @ Vpon his ruine shall all the foules of the heauen remaine, and all the beastes of the fielde shall be vpon his branches,

geneva@Ezekiel:31:15 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I (note:)The deep waters that caused him to mount so high (meaning his great abundance and pomp) will now lament as though they were covered with sackcloth.(:note) covered the deep for him, and I restrained its floods, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:16 @ I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to the grave with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall (note:)To cause this destruction of the king of Assyria to seem more horrible, he sets forth other kings and princes who are dead, as though they rejoiced at the fall of such a tyrant.(:note) be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

geneva@Ezekiel:31:18 @ To whom (note:)Meaning that Pharaoh's power was nothing so great as his was.(:note) art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the Read (Eze_28:10). uncircumcised with [them that are] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Which was the first year of the general captivity under Zedekiah.(:note) twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:32:2 @ Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art like a young (note:)Thus the scriptures compare tyrants to cruel and huge beasts which devour all that are weaker than they and such as they may overcome.(:note) lion of the nations, and thou [art] as a whale in the seas: and thou didst come forth with thy rivers, and didst You prepared great armies. trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst foul their rivers.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:4 @ Then will I leaue thee vpon the land, and I will cast thee vpon the open field, and I wil cause all the foules of the heauen to remaine vpon thee, and I will fill all the beastes of the field with thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:5 @ And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys (note:)With heaps of the carcass of your army.(:note) with thy height.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:6 @ I will also water with thy blood the land in which thou (note:)As the Nile overflows in Egypt, so will I make the blood of your host overflow it.(:note) swimmest, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:7 @ And when I shall (note:)The word signifies to be put out as a candle is put out.(:note) put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:9 @ I will also trouble the heartes of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations and vpon the countries which thou hast not knowen.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:10 @ Yea, I will make many people amased at thee, and their Kings shalbe astonished with feare for thee, when I shall make my sworde to glitter against their faces, and they shall be afraide at euery moment: euery man for his owne life in the day of thy fall.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:12 @ By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall lay waste the (note:)This came to pass in less than four years after this prophecy.(:note) pomp of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:13 @ I will destroy also all the beastes thereof from the great watersides, neither shall the foote of man trouble them any more, nor the hooues of beast trouble them.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:15 @ When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the countrey with all that is therein, shall be laid waste: when I shall smite all them which dwell therein, then shall they know that I am ye Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:18 @ Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and (note:)That is, prophecy that they will be cast down: thus the Lord gives his prophets power both to plant and to destroy by his word, read (Jer_1:10).(:note) cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:19 @ Whom dost thou pass (note:)Have not other kingdoms more beautiful than you perished?(:note) in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:22 @ Asshur is there and all his companie: their graues are about him: all they are slaine and fallen by the sworde.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:26 @ There [is] (note:)That is, the Capadocians and Italians or Spaniards, as Josephus writes.(:note) Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves [are] around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:30 @ There [are] the princes of the (note:)The kings of Babylon.(:note) north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that are] slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:31 @ Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be (note:)As the wicked rejoice when they see others partakers of their miseries.(:note) comforted over all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:32:32 @ For I have caused my (note:)I will make the Egyptians afraid of me, as they caused others to fear them.(:note) terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:9 @ Neuerthelesse, If thou warne the wicked of his way, to turne from it, if he doe not turne from his way, he shall die for his iniquitie, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say to them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, (note:){{See Eze_18:23}}(:note) I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked should turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

geneva@Ezekiel:33:12 @ Therefore, thou son of man, say to the children of thy people, The (note:)Read of this righteousness, (Eze_18:21, Eze_18:24).(:note) righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sinneth.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:21 @ And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our (note:)When the prophet was led away captive with Jeconiah.(:note) captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [that] one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is smitten.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:22 @ Now the (note:)I was endued with the Spirit of prophecy, (Eze_3:22).(:note) hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, before he that had escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my By which is signified that the ministers of God cannot give them courage and open their mouths, (Eze_24:27, Eze_29:21; Eph_6:19). mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:24 @ Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, (note:)Thus the wicked think themselves more worthy to enjoy God's promises than the saints of God, to whom they were made: and would bind God to be subject to them, though they would not be bound to him.(:note) Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we [are] many; the land is given to us for inheritance.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:26 @ Ye stand upon your (note:)As they that are ready still to shed blood.(:note) sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

geneva@Ezekiel:33:27 @ Say thus vnto them, Thus saieth the Lorde God, As I liue, so surely they that are in the desolate places, shall fall by the sword: and him that is in the open field, will I giue vnto the beasts to be deuoured: and they that be in the forts and in the caues, shall die of the pestilence.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:28 @ For I will lay the land desolate and waste, and the pompe of her strength shall cease: and the moutaines of Israel shalbe desolate, and none shall passe through.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:29 @ Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I haue laid ye land desolate & wast, because of al their abominations, that they haue committed.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:31 @ And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they (note:)This declares that we ought to hear God's word with such zeal and affection that we should in all points obey it, else we abuse the word to our own condemnation and make of its ministers as though they were jesters to serve men's foolish fantasies.(:note) show much love, [but] their heart goeth after their covetousness.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:32 @ And loe, thou art vnto them, as a iesting song of one that hath a pleasant voyce, and can sing well: for they heare thy woordes, but they doe them not.

geneva@Ezekiel:33:33 @ And when this commeth to passe (for loe, it will come) then shall they know, that a Prophet hath bene among them.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:4 @ The (note:)He describes the office and duty of a good pastor who ought to love and comfort his flock and not be cruel toward them.(:note) diseased ye have not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:5 @ And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd: and they (note:)For lack of good government and doctrine they perished.(:note) became food to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:6 @ My sheepe wandred through all the mountaines, and vpon euery hie hill: yea, my flocke was scattered through al the earth, and none did seeke or search after them.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:8 @ As I liue, sayeth the Lorde God, surely because my flocke was spoyled, and my sheepe were deuoured of all the beasts of the fielde, hauing no shepherde, neither did my shepherdes seeke my sheepe, but the shepherdes fedde them selues, and fedde not my sheepe,

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:)By destroying the covetous hirelings and restoring true shepherds of which we have a sign so often as God sends true preachers, who both by doctrine and life labour to feed his sheep in the pleasant pastures of his word.(:note) their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:12 @ As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep [that are] scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in (note:)In the day of their affliction and misery: and this promise is to comfort the Church in all dangers.(:note) the cloudy and dark day.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:14 @ I will feede them in a good pasture, and vpon the hie mountaines of Israel shal their folde be: there shall they lie in a good folde and in fat pasture shall they feede vpon the mountaines of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:16 @ I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the (note:)Meaning such as lift up themselves above their brethren and think they have no need to be governed by me.(:note) strong; I will feed them with That is, by putting difference between the good and the bad, and so give to either as they deserve. judgment.

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@Ezekiel:34:23 @ And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant (note:)Meaning Christ, of whom David was a figure, {{See Jer_30:9}}(:note) David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:25 @ And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall (note:)This declares that under Christ the flock would be truly delivered from sin and hell, and so be safely preserved in the Church where they would never perish.(:note) dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:26 @ And I wil set them, as a blessing, euen roud about my mountaine: and I will cause rayne to come downe in due season, & there shalbe raine of blessing.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:27 @ And the (note:)The fruit of God's grace will appear in great abundance in his Church.(:note) tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that subjected them to service.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:28 @ And they shall no more be spoyled of the heathen, neither shall the beastes of the land deuoure them, but they shal dwell safely and none shal make them afrayd.

geneva@Ezekiel:34:31 @ And yee my sheepe, the sheepe of my pasture are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:3 @ And say vnto it, Thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, O mount Seir, I come against thee, and I wil stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:4 @ I wil lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, & thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:5 @ Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed [the blood of] the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time [that their] (note:)When by their punishment I called them from their iniquity.(:note) iniquity [had] an end:

geneva@Ezekiel:35:6 @ Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not (note:)Except you repent your former cruelty.(:note) hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:7 @ Thus will I make mount Seir desolate and waste, and cut off from it him that passeth out & him that returneth.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:10 @ Because thou hast said, (note:)Meaning, Israel and Judah.(:note) These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; though the LORD was And so by fighting against God's people they should go about to put him out of his own possession. there:

geneva@Ezekiel:35:11 @ Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thy (note:)As you have done cruelly, so will you be cruelly handled.(:note) anger, and according to thy envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among Showing that when God punishes the enemies, the godly ought to consider that he has a care over them and so praise his name: and also that the wicked rage as though there were no God, till they feel his hand to their destruction. them, when I have judged thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:12 @ And thou shalt know, that I the Lord haue heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountaines of Israel, saying, They lye waste, they are giuen vs to be deuoured.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:13 @ Thus with your mouthes ye haue boasted against me, & haue multiplied your words against me: I haue heard them.

geneva@Ezekiel:35:15 @ As thou diddest reioyce at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I doe vnto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea wholly, & they shall know, that I am the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:2 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the (note:)That is, the Idumean.(:note) enemy had said against you, Aha, even the ancient That is Jerusalem, which for God's promises was the chief of all the world. high places are ours in possession:

geneva@Ezekiel:36:4 @ Therefore ye mountaines of Israel, heare the worde of the Lord God, Thus sayth the Lord God to the mountaines & to the hilles, to the riuers, and to the valleys, and to the waste, and desolate places, and to the cities that are forsaken: which are spoyled & had in derision of the residue of the heathen that are round about.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:5 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who have (note:)They appointed with themselves to have it, and therefore came with Nebuchadnezzar against Jerusalem for this purpose.(:note) appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:11 @ And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you according to your old estates, and will do better [to you] than (note:)Which was accomplished under Christ, to whom all these temporal deliverances directed them.(:note) at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

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

geneva@Ezekiel:36:14 @ Therefore thou shalt deuoure men no more, neither waste thy people henceforth, sayth the Lord God,

geneva@Ezekiel:36:17 @ Sonne of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their owne lande, they defiled it by their owne wayes, & by their deedes: their way was before me as the filthinesse of the menstruous.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:21 @ But I had pity for my holy (note:)And therefore would not permit my Name to be had in contempt, as the heathen would have reproached me, if I had allowed my Church to perish.(:note) name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, to which they went.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:23 @ And I wil sanctifie my great Name, which was polluted among the heathen, among whome you haue polluted it, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, sayth the Lorde God, when I shalbe sanctified in you before their eyes.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:29 @ I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the (note:)Under the abundance of temporal benefits he concludes the spiritual graces.(:note) grain, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:30 @ For I will multiplie the fruite of the trees, & the increase of the fielde, that ye shal beare no more the reproch of famine among the heathen.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:32 @ Be it knowen vnto you that I do not this for your sakes, sayth the Lord God: therefore, O ye house of Israel, be ashamed, and confounded for your owne wayes.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:33 @ Thus sayth the Lord God, What time as I shall haue clensed you from all your iniquities, I will cause you to dwel in the cities, & the desolate places shalbe builded.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:34 @ And the desolate land shalbe tilled, whereas it lay waste in the sight of all that passed by.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:35 @ For they sayd, This waste land was like the garden of Eden, and these waste & desolate and ruinous cities were strong, and were inhabited.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:36 @ Then the nations that are left around you shall (note:)He declares that it ought not to be referred to the soil or plentifulness of the earth that any country is rich and abundant, but only to God's mercies, as his plagues and curses declare, when he makes it barren.(:note) know that I the LORD build the ruined [places, and] plant that which was desolate: I the LORD have spoken [it], and I will do [it].

geneva@Ezekiel:36:37 @ Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be sought of ye house of Israel, to performe it vnto them: I wil encrease them with men like a flocke.

geneva@Ezekiel:36:38 @ As the holy flocke, as the flocke of Ierusalem in their solemne feastes, so shall the desolate cities be filled with flockes of men, and they shal know, that I am the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:1 @ The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of (note:)He shows by a great miracle that God has power and will deliver his people from their captivity, in as much as he is able to give life to the dead bones and bodies and raise them up again.(:note) bones,

geneva@Ezekiel:37:7 @ So I prophecied, as I was commanded: and as I prophecied, there was a noyse, and beholde, there was a shaking, & the bones came together, bone to his bone.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:8 @ And when I beheld, loe, the sinewes, & the flesh grewe vpon them, and aboue, the skinne couered them, but there was no breath in them.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:10 @ So I prophecied as hee had commaunded me: and the breath came into them, and they liued, and stood vp vpon their feete, an exceeding great armie.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:17 @ And thou shalt ioyne the one to another into one tree, & they shalbe as one in thine hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:37:26 @ Moreouer, I will make a couenant of peace with them: it shall be an euerlasting couenant with them, and I wil place them, and multiply them, and wil set my Sanctuarie among them for euermore.

geneva@Ezekiel:38:7 @ Be thou prepared, and (note:)Signifying that all the people of the world would assemble themselves against the Church and Christ their head.(:note) prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled to thee, and be thou a guard to them.

geneva@Ezekiel:38:8 @ After many dayes thou shalt bee visited: for in the latter yeres thou shalt come into the land, that hath bene destroyed with the sworde, and is gathered out of many people vpon the mountaines of Israel, which haue long lien waste: yet they haue bene brought out of the people, and they shall dwell all safe.

geneva@Ezekiel:38:9 @ Thou shalt ascende and come vp like a tempest, and shalt be like a cloude to couer the land, both thou, and all thy bandes, and many people with thee.

geneva@Ezekiel:38:10 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, [that] at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an (note:)That is, to molest and destroy the Church.(:note) evil thought:

geneva@Ezekiel:38:11 @ And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; (note:)Meaning Israel, which had now been destroyed and was not yet built again: declaring by this the simplicity of the godly, who seek not so much to fortify themselves by outward force, as to depend on the providence and goodness of God.(:note) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

geneva@Ezekiel:38:13 @ Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its young lions, shall say to thee, (note:)One enemy will envy another because everyone will think to have the spoil of the Church.(:note) Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

geneva@Ezekiel:38:16 @ And thou shalt come against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the (note:)Meaning in the last age, and from the coming of Christ to the end of the world.(:note) latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I Signifying that God will be sanctified by maintaining his church, and destroying his enemies, as in (Eze_36:23, Eze_37:28). shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

geneva@Ezekiel:38:17 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; [Art] thou he of whom I have spoken of old (note:)By this he declares that no affliction can come to the Church of which they have not been advertised before to teach them to endure all things with more patience when they know that God has so ordained.(:note) by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days [many] years that I would bring thee against them?

geneva@Ezekiel:38:20 @ So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping animals that creep upon the earth, and all the men that [are] upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be overturned, and the (note:)All means by which man would think to save himself will fail, the affliction in those days will be so great, and the enemies destruction will be so terrible.(:note) steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:2 @ And I will turn thee back, (note:)Or, destroy you with six plagues, as in (Eze_38:22).(:note) and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

geneva@Ezekiel:39:4 @ Thou (note:)Meaning that by the virtue of God's word the enemy will be destroyed wherever he assails his Church.(:note) shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy troops, and the people that [are] with thee: I will give thee to the ravenous birds of every sort, and [to] the beasts of the field to be devoured.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:11 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will give to Gog (note:)Which declares that the enemies will have a horrible fall.(:note) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the travellers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the For the stink of the carcasses. [noses] of the travellers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call [it] The valley of Hamongog.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:14 @ And they shall set apart men for [the] continual task of passing through the (note:)Partly that the holy land should not be polluted and partly for the compassion that the children of God have even on their enemies.(:note) land to bury with the travellers those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:15 @ And the trauailers that passe through the land, if any see a mans bone, then shall he set vp a signe by it, till the buriers haue buried it, in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:17 @ And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; (note:)By which he signifies the horrible destruction that would come on the enemies of his Church.(:note) gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:18 @ Ye shall eate the flesh of the valiant, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of the weathers, of the lambes, and of the goates, and of bullockes, euen of all fat beastes of Bashan.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:23 @ And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for (note:)The heathen will know that they did not overcome my people by their strength, neither yet by the weakness of my arm, but that this was for my people's sins.(:note) their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore I hid my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so they all fell by the sword.

geneva@Ezekiel:39:25 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lord God, Nowe will I bring againe the captiuitie of Iaakob, and haue compassion vpon the whole house of Israel, and wil be ielous for mine holy Name,

geneva@Ezekiel:40:1 @ In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the (note:)The Jews counted the beginning of the year after two sorts: for their feasts they began to count in March and for their other affairs in September: so that this is to be understood of September.(:note) beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in the same day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me there.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:2 @ Into the lande of Israel brought he me by a diuine vision, & set me vpon a very hie mountaine, whereupon was as the building of a citie, toward the South.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:3 @ And he brought me there, and, behold, [there was] a (note:)Which was an angel in the form of a man, that came to measure out this building.(:note) man, whose appearance [was] like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:5 @ And beholde, I sawe a wall on the outside of the house round about: and in the mans hand was a reede to measure with, of sixe cubites long, by the cubite, and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the buylding with one reede, and the height with one reede.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:6 @ Then came he vnto the gate, which looketh towarde the East, and went vp the stayres thereof, and measured the poste of the gate, which was one reede broade, and the other poste of the gate, which was one reede broade.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:7 @ And euery chamber was one reede long, & one reede broad, & betweene the chambers were fiue cubites: & the post of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reede.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:8 @ He measured also the porche of the gate within with one reede.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:9 @ Then measured he the porch of the gate of eight cubites, and the postes thereof, of two cubites, and the porch of the gate was inward.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:10 @ And the chambers of the gate Eastwarde, were three on this side, and three on that side: they three were of one measure, and the postes had one measure on this side, and one on that side.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:11 @ And he measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate ten cubites, and the height of the gate thirteene cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:12 @ The space also before the chambers was one cubite on this side, and the space was one cubite on that side, and the chambers were sixe cubites on this side and sixe cubites on that side.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:13 @ He measured then the gate from the roufe of a chamber to the toppe of the gate: the breadth was fiue and twentie cubites, doore against doore.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:14 @ He made also postes of threescore cubites, and the postes of the court, and of the gate had one measure round about.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:18 @ And the pauement was by the side of the gates ouer against the length of the gates, and the pauement was beneath.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:19 @ Then hee measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate without, vnto the forefront of the court within, an hundreth cubits Eastward and Northward.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:20 @ And the gate of the outwarde court, that looked toward the North, measured he after the length and breadth thereof.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:21 @ And the chambers thereof were, three on this side, and three on that side, and the postes thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fiftie cubites, and the breadth fiue and twentie cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:22 @ And their windowes, and their arches with their palme trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the East, and the going vp vnto it had seuen steppes, and the arches therof were before them.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:23 @ And the gate of the inner court stoode ouer against the gate towarde the North, and towarde the East, and hee measured from gate to gate an hundreth cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:24 @ After that, he brought mee towarde the South, and loe, there was a gate towarde the South, and hee measured the postes thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:25 @ And there were windowes in it, and in the arches thereof round about, like those windowes: the height was fiftie cubites, and the breadth fiue and twentie cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:27 @ And there was a gate in the inner court towarde the South, and he measured from gate to gate towarde the South an hundreth cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:28 @ And he brought me into the inner court by the South gate, and he measured the South gate according to these measures,

geneva@Ezekiel:40:29 @ And the chambers thereof, and the postes thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures, and there were windowes in it, and in the arches thereof rounde about, it was fiftie cubites long and fiue and twentie cubites broade.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:32 @ Againe he brought me into ye inner court toward the East, and he measured the gate according to these measures.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:33 @ And the chambers thereof, and the postes thereof, and the arches thereof were according to these measures, and there were windowes therein, and in the arches thereof round about, it was fiftie cubites long, and fiue and twentie cubites broade.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:35 @ After he brought mee to the North gate, and measured it, according to these measures,

geneva@Ezekiel:40:36 @ The chambers thereof, the postes thereof, and the arches thereof, and there were windowes therein round about: the height was fiftie cubits, and the breadth fiue and twentie cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:38 @ And euery chamber, and the entrie thereof was vnder the postes of the gates: there they washed the burnt offring.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:39 @ And in the porch of the gate stoode two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, vpon the which they slew the burnt offring, and the sinne offring, and the trespas offring.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:40 @ And at the side beyond the steppes, at the entry of the North gate stoode two tables, and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate were two tables.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:43 @ And within were borders an hand broade, fastened round about, and vpon the tables lay the flesh of the offring.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:44 @ And without the inner gate were ye chambers of the singers in the inner Court, which was at the side of the North gate: and their prospect was towarde the South, and one was at the side of the East gate, hauing the prospect towarde the North.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:47 @ So he measured the court, an hundreth cubites long, & an hundreth cubits broad, eue foure square: likewise the altar that was before ye house.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:48 @ And hee brought mee to the porch of the house, and measured the postes of the porch, fiue cubites on this side, and fiue cubites on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubites on this side, and three cubites on that side.

geneva@Ezekiel:40:49 @ The length of the porch was twentie cubites, and ye breadth eleuen cubites, & he brought me by the steps whereby they went vp to it, and there were pillars by the postes, one on this side, and another on that side.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:1 @ Afterwarde, hee brought mee to the Temple, and measured the postes, sixe cubites broade on the one side, and sixe cubites broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the Tabernacle.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:2 @ And the breadth of the entrie was tenne cubites, and the sides of the entrie were fiue cubites on the one side, and fiue cubites on the other side, and hee measured the length thereof fourtie cubites, and the breadth twentie cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:3 @ Then went hee in, and measured the postes of the entrie two cubites, and the entrie sixe cubites, and the breadth of the entrie seuen cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:4 @ So he measured the length thereof twentie cubites, and the breadth twentie cubites before the Temple; he sayde vnto mee, This is the most holy place.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:5 @ After, he measured the wall of the house, sixe cubites, and the breadth of euery chamber foure cubites rounde about the house, on euery side.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:6 @ And the chambers were chamber vpon chaber, three and thirtie foote high, and they entred into the wall made for the chambers which was round about the house, that the postes might bee fastened therein, and not be fastened in the wall of the house.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:7 @ And it was large and went rounde mounting vpwarde to the chambers: for the staire of the house was mounting vpwarde, rounde about the house: therefore the house was larger vpward: so they went vp from the lowest chamber to the hiest by the middes.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:9 @ The thickenesse of the wall which was for the chamber without, was fiue cubites, and that which remained, was the place of the chambers that were within.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:10 @ And betwene the chambers was the widenes of twentie cubites round about the House on euery side.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:11 @ And the doores of the chambers were toward the place that remained, one doore toward the North, and another doore toward the South, and the breadth of the place that remained, was fiue cubites round about.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:12 @ Nowe the building that was before the separate place toward the West corner, was seuentie cubites broad, and the wall of the building was fiue cubites thick, round about, and ye length ninetie cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:13 @ So he measured the house an hundreth cubites long, and the separate place and the building with the walles thereof were an hundreth cubites long.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:14 @ Also the breadth of the forefront of the house and of the separate place towarde the East, was an hundreth cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:15 @ And hee measured the length of the building, ouer against the separate place, which was behinde it, and the chambers on the one side and on the other side an hundreth cubites with the Temple within, and the arches of the court.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:17 @ And from aboue the doore vnto the inner house and without, and by all the wall rounde about within and without it was sieled according to the measure.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:18 @ And it was made with Cherubims and palme trees, so that a palme tree was betweene a Cherub and a Cherub: and euery Cherub had two faces.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:19 @ So that the face of a man was towarde the palme tree on the one side, and the face of a lyon toward the palme tree on the other side: thus was it made through all the house round about.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:20 @ From the grounde vnto aboue the doore were Cherubims and palme trees made as in the wall of the Temple.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:21 @ The postes of the Temple were squared, & thus to looke vnto was the similitude and forme of the Sanctuarie.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:22 @ The altar of wood was three cubites hie, and the length thereof two cubites, and the corners thereof and the length thereof and the sides thereof were of wood; he sayd vnto me, This is the table that shalbe before the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:41:25 @ And vpon the doores of the Temple there were made Cherubims and palmetrees, like as was made vpon the walles, and there were thicke plankes vpon the forefront of the porch without.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:1 @ Then brought hee me into the vtter court by the way towarde the North, and he brought me into the chamber that was ouer against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the North.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:2 @ Before ye length of an hundreth cubites, was the North doore, and it was fiftie cubites broad.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:3 @ Ouer against the twentie cubites which were for the inner court, and ouer against the pauement, which was for the vtter court, was chamber against chamber in three rowes.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:4 @ And before the chambers was a gallery of ten cubites wide, and within was a way of one cubite, and their doores towarde the North.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:6 @ For they were in three rowes, but had not pillars as the pillars of the court: therefore there was a difference from them beneath and from the middlemost, euen from the ground.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:7 @ And the wall that was without ouer against the chambers, toward the vtter court on the forefront of the chambers, was fiftie cubites long.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:8 @ For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court, was fiftie cubites: and loe, before the Temple were an hundreth cubites.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:9 @ And vnder these chambers was the entrie, on the East side, as one goeth into them from the outward court.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:10 @ The chambers were in the thicknesse of the wall of the court towarde the East, ouer against the separate place, and ouer against the building.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:11 @ And the way before them was after ye maner of the chambers, which were toward ye North, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their entries were like, both according to their facions, and according to their doores.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:12 @ And according to ye doores of ye chambers that were towarde the South, was a doore in the corner of the way, euen the way directly before the wall toward the East, as one entreth.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:13 @ The said he vnto me, The North chambers and ye South chambers which are before ye separate place, they be holy chambers, wherein the Priests that approch vnto ye Lord, shal eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meate offering, and the sinne offering, and the trespasse offring: for the place is holy.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:15 @ Nowe when he had made an ende of measuring the inner house, he brought mee forth toward the gate whose prospect is towarde the East, and measured it round about.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:16 @ He measured the East side with the measuring rod, fiue hundreth reedes, euen with the measuring reede round about.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:17 @ He measured also the Northside, fiue hundreth reedes, euen with the measuring reede rounde about.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:18 @ And he measured the South side fiue hundreth reedes with the measuring reede.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:19 @ He turned about also to the West side, and measured fiue hundreth reedes with the measuring reede.

geneva@Ezekiel:42:20 @ He measured it by the foure sides: it had a wall round about, fiue hundreth reedes long, and fiue hundreth broade to make a separation betweene the Sanctuarie, and the prophane place.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:1 @ Afterwarde he brought me to the gate, euen the gate that turneth towarde the East.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:2 @ And beholde, the glorie of the God of Israel came from out of the East, whose voyce was like a noyse of great waters, and the earth was made light with his glorie.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:3 @ And [it was] according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, [even] according to the vision that I saw (note:)When I prophesied the destruction of the city of the Chaldeans.(:note) when I came to destroy the city: and the visions [were] like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:4 @ And the (note:)Which was departed before, (Eze_10:4, Eze_12:22).(:note) glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:7 @ And he said to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more (note:)By their idolatries.(:note) defile, [neither] they, nor their kings, by their harlotry, nor by the carcases of He alludes to Amon and Manasseh, who were buried in their gardens near the Temple and there had erected monuments to their idols. their kings in their high places.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:8 @ Albeit they set their thresholdes by my thresholdes, and their postes by my postes (for there was but a wall betweene me and them) yet haue they defiled mine holy Name with their abominations, that they haue committed: wherfore I haue consumed them in my wrath.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:10 @ Thou sonne of man, shew this House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their wickednes, & let them measure ye paterne.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:11 @ And if they be ashamed of all that they haue done, shew them the forme of the House, & ye paterne thereof, & the going out thereof, & the coming in thereof, & the whole fashion thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the figures thereof, and all the lawes thereof: & write it in their sight, that they may keepe the whole fashio thereof, & all the ordinances thereof, & do them.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:13 @ And these are the measures of the Altar, after the cubites, the cubite is a cubite, & an had breadth, euen the bottome shalbe a cubite, and the breadth a cubite, and the border thereof by the edge thereof rounde about shalbe a spanne: and this shalbe the height of the altar.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:17 @ And ye frame shalbe foureteene cubites log, and fourteene broade in the fouresquare corners thereof, & the border about it shalbe halfe a cubite, & the bottome therof shalbe a cubite about, & the steps thereof shalbe turned towarde ye East.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:22 @ But the second day thou shalt offer an hee goat wtout blemish for a sinne offring, & they shal clense ye altar, as they did clense it with the bullocke.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:23 @ When thou hast made an ende of clensing it, thou shalt offer a yong bullocke without blemish, & a ram out of the flocke without blemish.

geneva@Ezekiel:43:24 @ And thou shalt offer them before ye Lord, and the Priestes shall cast salt vpon them, & they shall offer them for a burnt offring vnto ye Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:1 @ Then he brought me towarde the gate of the outwarde Sanctuarie, which turneth towarde the East, and it was shut.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:10 @ And the (note:)The Levites who had committed idolatry were put from their dignity and could not be received into the priests office although they had been of the house of Aaron, but must serve in the inferior offices as to watch and to keep the doors, read (2Ki_23:9).(:note) Levites that have gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:15 @ But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that (note:)Who observed the law of God and did not fall to idolatry.(:note) kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

geneva@Ezekiel:44:20 @ Neither shall they (note:)As did the infidels and heathen.(:note) shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut [the hair of] their heads.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:24 @ And in controuersie they shall stande to iudge, and they shall iudge it according to my iudgements: and they shall keepe my lawes and my statutes in all mine assemblies, and they shall sanctifie my Sabbaths.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:25 @ And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may (note:)They may be at their burial which was a defiling.(:note) defile themselves.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:29 @ They shall eate the meat offring, and the sinne offring, and the trespas offring, and euery dedicate thing in Israel shal be theirs.

geneva@Ezekiel:44:31 @ The Priests shal not eate of any thing, that is dead, or torne, whether it be foule or beast.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:3 @ And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of fiue and twentie thousande, and the breadth of tenne thousande: and in it shalbe the Sanctuarie, and the most holy place.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:7 @ And a portion shalbe for the prince on ye one side, and on that side of the oblation of the holy portion, & of the possession of the citie, euen before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the citie from the West corner Westward, and from the East corner Eastward, and the length shalbe by one of the portions fro the West border vnto the East border.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:10 @ Ye shall have just balances, and a just (note:)Ephah and Bath are the same quantity save that an Ephah is a dry measure and a Bath liquid, (Lev_5:11; 1Ki_5:11).(:note) ephah, and a just bath.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:15 @ And one lambe of two hundreth sheepe out of ye fat pastures of Israel for a meat offring, and for a burnt offring and for peace offrings, to make reconciliation for them, sayth the Lorde God.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:17 @ And it shalbe ye princes part to giue burnt offrings, and meat offrings, and drinke offrings in the solemne feasts and in the newe moones, & in the Sabbaths, and in all the hie feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sinne offring, and the meat offring, and the burnt offring, and the peace offrings to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:18 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first [month], in the first [day] of the (note:)Which was Nisan containing part of March and part of April.(:note) month, thou shalt take a young bull without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

geneva@Ezekiel:45:21 @ In the first moneth in the foureteenth day of the moneth, ye shal haue the Passeouer, a feast of seuen dayes, & ye shal eate vnleauened bread.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:23 @ And in the seuen dayes of the feast he shal make a burnt offring to the Lorde, euen of seuen bullockes, and seuen rammes without blemish dayly for seuen dayes, and an hee goate dayly for a sinne offring.

geneva@Ezekiel:45:25 @ In the seuenth moneth, in the fifteenth day of the moneth, shal he do the like in the feast for seuen dayes, according to the sinne offring, according to the burnt offring, and according to the meate offring, and according to the oyle.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:1 @ Thus sayth the Lord God, The gate of the inner court, that turneth toward the East, shall be shut the sixe working dayes: but on the Sabbath it shalbe opened, and in the day of the newe moone it shalbe opened.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:5 @ And the meat offering [shall be] an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs (note:)That is, as much as he will.(:note) as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:7 @ And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs (note:)Meaning, as he will think good.(:note) according as his hand shall be able, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:9 @ But when the people of the land shal come before the Lord in the solemne feastes, hee that entreth in by the way of the North gate to worship, shall goe out by the way of the South gate: & he that entreth by the way of the South gate, shall goe foorth by the way of the North gate: hee shall not returne by the way of the gate whereby hee came in, but they shall goe forth ouer against it.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:11 @ And in the feastes, and in the solemnities the meat offring shalbe an Ephah to a bullocke, and an Ephah to a ram, and to the lambes, the gift of his hand, and an Hin of oyle to an Ephah.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:12 @ Nowe when the prince shall make a free burnt offring or peace offrings freely vnto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate, that turneth towarde the East, and hee shall make his burnt offring and his peace offrings, as he did on the Sabbath day: after, hee shall goe foorth, and when he is gone forth, one shall shut the gate.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:17 @ But if he shall give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the (note:)Which was at the Jubile, (Lev_25:9).(:note) year of liberty; afterward it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be to his sons for them.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:18 @ Moreover the prince shall not (note:)But be content with that portion that God has assigned him, as in (Eze_45:8).(:note) take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; [but] he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not dispossessed every man from his possession.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:19 @ After, he brought me through the entrie, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the Priestes, which stoode towarde the North: and beholde, there was a place at the West side of them.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:20 @ Then said he to me, This [is] the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear [them] not out into the outer court, (note:)That the people should not have to do with those things which belong to the Lord, and think it lawful for them to eat them.(:note) to sanctify the people.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:21 @ Then he brought me foorth into the vtter court, and caused me to goe by the foure corners of the court: and beholde, in euery corner of the court, there was a court.

geneva@Ezekiel:46:22 @ In the foure corners of the court there were courts ioyned of fourty cubits long, & thirty broad: these foure corners were of one measure.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:1 @ Afterward he brought me again to the door of the house; and, behold, (note:)By which are meant the spiritual graces that would be given to the Church under the kingdom of Christ.(:note) waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the front of the house [stood toward] the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south [side] of the altar.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:2 @ Then brought he me out toward the North gate, and led me about by the way without vnto the vtter gate, by the way that turneth Eastward: & behold, there came forth waters on ye right side

geneva@Ezekiel:47:3 @ And when the man that had the line in his hand, went foorth Eastward, he measured a thousand cubites, and he brought me through the waters: the waters were to the ancles.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:4 @ Againe he measured a thousande, and brought me through the waters: the waters were to the knees: againe he measured a thousand, & brought me through: ye waters were to ye loynes.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:5 @ Afterward he measured a thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass over: for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a (note:)Signifying that the graces of God would never decrease, but ever abound in his Church.(:note) river that could not be passed over.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:6 @ And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, hast thou seene this? Then he brought me, and caused me to returne to the brinke of the riuer.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:8 @ Then said he to me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the (note:)Showing that the abundance of these graces would be so great, that all the world would be full of it, which is here meant by the Persian sea, or Genezareth, and the sea called Mediterranean, (Zec_14:8).(:note) sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:9 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] every thing that liveth, which moveth, wherever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come there: for they shall be (note:)The waters which by nature are salt and unwholesome will be made sweet and comfortable.(:note) healed; and every thing shall live where the river cometh.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:10 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] the (note:)Signifying that when God bestows his mercies in such abundance the ministers will by their preaching win many.(:note) fishermen shall stand upon it from Engedi even to Which were cities at the corners of the salt or dead sea. Eneglaim; they shall be a [place] to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of They will be here of all sorts and in as great abundance as in the great ocean where they are bred. the great sea, very many.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:14 @ And ye shal inherite it, one as wel as another: concerning the which I lift vp mine hand to giue it vnto your fathers, and this lande shall fall vnto you for inheritance.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:15 @ And this [shall be] the border (note:)By the land of promise he signifies the spiritual land of which this was a figure.(:note) of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;

geneva@Ezekiel:47:16 @ Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is betweene the border of Damascus, and the border of Hamath, & Hazar, Hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:17 @ And the border from the sea shalbe Hazar, Enan, & the border of Damascus, and the residue of the North, Northwarde, and the border of Hamath: so shalbe the North part.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:18 @ But the East side shall ye measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the lande of Israel by Iorden, and from the border vnto the East sea: and so shalbe the East part.

geneva@Ezekiel:47:22 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be to you as born in the country among the children of Israel; (note:)Meaning that in this spiritual kingdom there would be no difference between Jew nor Gentile but that all would be partakers of this inheritance in their head Christ.(:note) they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:1 @ Now these [are] the names of the (note:)The tribes after they entered into the land under Joshua divided the land somewhat otherwise then is here set forth by this vision.(:note) tribes. From the north end to the border of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the border of Hamath; for these are his sides east [and] west; a [portion for] Daniel.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:2 @ And by the border of Dan from the East side vnto the West side, a portion for Asher.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:3 @ And by the border of Asher from the East parte euen vnto the West parte a portion for Naphtali.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:4 @ And by the border of Naphtali from the East quarter vnto the West side, a portion for Manasseh.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:5 @ And by the border of Manasseh from the East side vnto the West side a portion for Ephraim.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:6 @ And by the border of Ephraim, from the East part euen vnto the West part, a portion for Reuben.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:7 @ And by the border of Reuben, from the East quarter vnto the West quarter, a portion for Iudah.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:8 @ And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, (note:)That is, the portion of the ground which they will separate and appoint to the Lord which will be divided into three parts for the priests for the prince and for the city.(:note) shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand [reeds in] breadth, and [in] length as one of the [other] parts, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:10 @ And for them, euen for the Priestes shalbe this holy oblation, towarde the North fiue and twentie thousande long, and towarde the West, ten thousande broade, and towarde the East ten thousand broad, and towarde the South fiue and twentie thousand long, and the Sanctuarie of the Lorde shalbe in the middes thereof.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:11 @ It shalbe for the Priestes that are sanctified of the sonnes of Zadok, which haue kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Leuites went astray.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:12 @ Therefore this oblation of the land that is offred, shalbe theirs, as a thing most holy by the border of the Leuites.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:16 @ And these [shall be] the measures of it; the north side (note:)Meaning that it would be square.(:note) four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:17 @ And the suburbes of the citie shall be toward the North two hundreth and fiftie, and towarde the South two hundreth and fiftie, and towarde the East two hundreth and fiftie, and towarde the West two hundreth and fiftie.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:18 @ And the residue in length ouer against the oblation of the holy portion shalbe ten thousand Eastwarde, and ten thousand Westwarde: and it shalbe ouer against the oblation of the holy portion, and the encrease thereof shall be for foode vnto them that serue in the citie.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:21 @ And the residue shalbe for the prince on the one side and on the other of the oblation of the Sanctuarie, and of the possession of the citie, ouer against the fiue and twentie thousand of the oblation toward the East border, and Westward ouer against the fiue and twentie thousande towarde the West border, ouer against shalbe for the portion of the prince: this shall be the holy oblation, and the house of the Sanctuarie shalbe in the middes thereof.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:22 @ Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, [being] in the midst [of that] which is the prince's, between the border (note:)So that Judah was on the north side of the princes and Levites portions and Benjamin on the south side.(:note) of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:23 @ And the rest of the tribes shalbe thus: from the East parte vnto the West parte Beniamin shalbe a portion.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:24 @ And by the border of Beniamin, from the East side vnto the West side Simeon a portion.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:25 @ And by the border of Simeon from the East part vnto the West part, Isshachar a portion.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:26 @ And by the border of Isshachar, from the East side vnto the West, Zebulun a portion.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:27 @ And by the border of Zebulun from the East parte vnto the West part, Gad a portion.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:28 @ And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the (note:)Which is here taken for Idumea.(:note) border shall be even from Which was Jericho the city of palm trees. Tamar [to] the waters of strife [in] Kadesh, [and] to the Meaning, the Nile that runs into the sea called the Mediterranean. river toward the great sea.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:30 @ And these are the boundes of the citie, on the North side fiue hundreth, and foure thousande measures.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:32 @ And at the East side fiue hundreth and foure thousande, and three gates, and one gate of Ioseph, one gate of Beiamin, & one gate of Daniel.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:33 @ And at the South side, fiue hundreth and foure thousande measures, and three portes, one gate of Simeon, one gate of Isshachar, and one gate of Zebulun.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:34 @ At the West side, fiue hundreth and foure thousand, with their three gates, one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, and one gate of Naphtali.

geneva@Ezekiel:48:35 @ It was rounde about eighteene thousande measures, and the name of the citie from that day shalbe, The Lorde is there.

geneva@Daniel:1:1 @ In the (note:)Read (2Ki_24:1; Jer_25:1).(:note) third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. The Argument - The great providence of God, and his singular mercy towards his Church are set forth here most vividly, who never leaves his own destitute, but now in their greatest miseries and afflictions gives them Prophets, such as Ezekiel and Daniel, whom he adorned with special graces of his Holy Spirit. And Daniel above all others had most special revelations of such things as would come to the Church, even from the time that they were in captivity, to the last end of the world, and to the general resurrection, as of the four Monarchies and empires of all the world, that is, of the Babylonians, Persians, Grecians, and Romans. Also of the certain number of the times even until Christ, when all ceremonies and sacrifices would cease, because he would be the accomplishment of them: moreover he shows Christ's office and the reason of his death, which was by his sacrifice to take away sins, and to bring everlasting life. And as from the beginning God always exercised his people under the cross, so he teaches here, that after Christ is offered, he will still leave this exercise to his Church, until the dead rise again, and Christ gathers his own into his kingdom in the heavens.

geneva@Daniel:1:2 @ And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of (note:)Which was a plain by Babylon, where the temple of their great god was, and is here taken for Babylon.(:note) Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

geneva@Daniel:1:3 @ And the king spake unto (note:)Who was as master of the guards.(:note) Ashpenaz the master of his He calls them «eunuchs» whom the King nourished and brought up to be rulers of other countries afterwards. eunuchs, that he should bring [certain] of the children of Israel, and of the His purpose was to keep them as hostages, and so that he might show himself victorious, and also by their good entreaty and learning of his religion, they might favour him rather than the Jews, and so to be able to serve him as governors in their land. Moreover by this means the Jews might be better kept in subjection, fearing otherwise to bring hurt upon these noble men. king's seed, and of the princes;

geneva@Daniel:1:4 @ Children in whom [was] no blemish, but well (note:)The King required three things: that they should be of noble birth, that they should be intelligent and learned, and that they should be of a strong and handsome nature, so that they might do him better service. This he did for his own benefit, therefore it is not to praise his liberality: yet in this he is worthy of praise, that he esteemed learning, and knew that it was a necessary means to govern by.(:note) favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as [had] ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the That they might forget their own religion and country fashions to serve him the better to his purpose: yet it is not to be thought that Daniel learned any knowledge that was not godly. In all points he refused the abuse of things and superstition, insomuch that he would not eat the meat which the King appointed him, but was content to learn the knowledge of natural things. learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

geneva@Daniel:1:5 @ And the king appointed them a (note:)That by their good entertainment they might learn to forget the mediocrity of their own people.(:note) daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them With the intent that in this time they might learn both the manners of the Chaldeans, and also their language. three years, that at the end thereof they might stand As well as to serve at the table as in other offices. before the king.

geneva@Daniel:1:7 @ Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs (note:)That they might altogether forget their religion: for the Jews gave their children names which might always put them in remembrance of some point of religion. Therefore this was a great temptation and a sign of servitude, which they were not able to resist.(:note) gave names: for he gave unto Daniel [the name] of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.

geneva@Daniel:1:8 @ But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not (note:)Not that he thought any religion to be in the meat or drink (for afterwards he did eat), but because the king should not entice him by this sweet poison to forget his religion and accustomed sobriety, and that in his meat and drink he might daily remember of what people he was from. And Daniel brings this in to show how God from the beginning assisted him with his Spirit, and at length called him to be a Prophet.(:note) defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

geneva@Daniel:1:10 @ And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, (note:)He supposed they did this for their religion, which was contrary to the Babylonians, and therefore in this he represents those who are of no religion: for neither would he condemn theirs, nor maintain his own.(:note) I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which [are] of your sort? then shall ye make [me] endanger my head to the king.

geneva@Daniel:1:12 @ Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, (note:)Meaning that within this space he might have the test, and that no man would be able to know about it: and thus he spoke, being moved by the Spirit of God.(:note) ten days; and let them give us Not that it was a thing abominable to eat dainty meats, and to drink wine, as both before and after they did, but if they would have by this been won to the King, and had refused their own religion, that meat and drink would have been accursed. pulse to eat, and water to drink.

geneva@Daniel:1:13 @ Then let our countenances bee looked vpon before thee, and the countenances of the children that eate of the portion of the Kings meate: and as thou seest, deale with thy seruantes.

geneva@Daniel:1:15 @ And at the end of ten days their (note:)This bare feeding and that also of Moses, when he fled from the court of Egypt, declares that we must live in such sobriety as God calls us to, seeing that he will make it more profitable to us than all dainties: for his blessing alone suffices.(:note) countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

geneva@Daniel:1:17 @ As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning (note:)Meaning in the liberal sciences, and natural knowledge, and not in the magical areas which are forbidden; (Deu_18:11).(:note) and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all So that he alone was a Prophet, and none of the others: for by dreams and visions God appeared to his Prophets; (Num_12:6) visions and dreams.

geneva@Daniel:1:18 @ Now at the (note:)Of the three years mentioned above as in (Dan_1:5).(:note) end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

geneva@Daniel:1:19 @ And the King communed with them: and among them al was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stoode they before the king.

geneva@Daniel:1:20 @ And in all matters of wisedome, and vnderstanding that the King enquired of them, hee founde them tenne times better then all the inchanters and astrologians, that were in all his realme.

geneva@Daniel:1:21 @ And Daniel continued [even] unto (note:)That is, he was esteemed in Babylon as a Prophet as long as that commonwealth stood.(:note) the first year of king Cyrus.

geneva@Daniel:2:1 @ And in the (note:)The father and the son were both called by this name, so that this is meant of the son, when he reigned alone: for he also reigned in a way with his father.(:note) second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed Not that he had many dreams, but because many matters were contained in this dream. dreams, wherewith his spirit was Because it was so rare and strange a dream, that he had had nothing similar. troubled, and Or, «his sleep was upon him», that is, that he was so heavy with sleep, that he began to sleep again. his sleep brake from him.

geneva@Daniel:2:2 @ Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the (note:)For all these astrologers and sorcerers called themselves by this name of honour, as though all the wisdom and knowledge of the country depended upon them, and that all other countries were void of such wisdom and knowledge.(:note) Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

geneva@Daniel:2:3 @ And the King sayde vnto them, I haue dreamed a dreame, and my spirite was troubled to knowe the dreame.

geneva@Daniel:2:4 @ Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in (note:)That is, in the Syrian language, which differed not much from the Chaldeans, except it seemed to be more eloquent, and therefore the learned used to speak it, as the Jewish writers do to this day.(:note) Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

geneva@Daniel:2:5 @ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye (note:)This is a just reward of their arrogance (who boasted of themselves that they had knowledge of all things), that they should be proved fools, and that to their perpetual shame and confusion.(:note) shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

geneva@Daniel:2:7 @ They answered again and said, Let the king tell (note:)In this appears their ignorance, that despite their braggings, yet they were not able to tell the dream, unless he told them of it. And if he did tell them, they would pretend knowledge where there was but mere ignorance, and so as deluders of the people they were worthy to die.(:note) his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.

geneva@Daniel:2:10 @ Then the Caldeans answered before the King, and sayde, There is no man vpon earth that can declare the Kings matter: yea, there is neither king nor prince nor lorde that asked such things at an inchanter or astrologian or Caldean.

geneva@Daniel:2:12 @ For this cause the king was angrie and in great furie, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babel.

geneva@Daniel:2:13 @ And the decree went forth that the wise [men] should be slain; and they (note:)Which declares that God would not have his servant united in the company of these sorcerers and astrologers, whose arts were wicked, and therefore justly ought to die, even though the king did it upon a rage and not from zeal.(:note) sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

geneva@Daniel:2:14 @ Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisedome to Arioch the Kings chiefe stewarde, which was gone foorth to put to death the wise men of Babel.

geneva@Daniel:2:15 @ Yea, he answered and sayde vnto Arioch the kings captaine, Why is the sentence so hastie from the king? Then Arioch declared the thing to Daniel.

geneva@Daniel:2:16 @ So Daniel went and desired the king that he woulde giue him leasure and that he woulde shewe the king the interpretation thereof.

geneva@Daniel:2:19 @ Then was the secret reueiled vnto Daniel in a vision by night: therefore Daniel praysed the God of heauen.

geneva@Daniel:2:21 @ And hee changeth the times & seasons: he taketh away kings: he setteth vp kings: he giueth wisedome vnto the wise, and vnderstanding to those that vnderstand.

geneva@Daniel:2:22 @ He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what [is] in the darkness, and the (note:)He shows that man has neither wisdom nor knowledge, but very dark blindness and ignorance of himself: for it comes only from God that man understands anything.(:note) light dwelleth with him.

geneva@Daniel:2:23 @ I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my (note:)To whom you made your promise, and who lived in fear of you: by which he excludes all other gods.(:note) fathers, who hast given me wisdom and Meaning power to interpret it. might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast [now] made known unto us the king's matter.

geneva@Daniel:2:24 @ Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise [men] of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not (note:)By which appears that many were slain, as in verse thirteen, and the rest at Daniel's offer were preserved on condition. Not that Daniel favoured their wicked profession, but that he had respect to fairness, because the King proceeded according to his wicked affection, and not considering if their profession was morally correct or not.(:note) the wise [men] of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.

geneva@Daniel:2:25 @ Then Arioch brought Daniel before the King in all haste, and sayd thus vnto him, I haue found a man of the children of Iudah that were brought captiues, that will declare vnto the King the interpretation.

geneva@Daniel:2:26 @ Then answered the King, and sayde vnto Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to shew me the dreame, which I haue seene, and the interpretation thereof?

geneva@Daniel:2:27 @ Daniel answered in the presence of the King, and sayd, The secret which the King hath demanded, can neither the wise, the astrologians, the inchanters, nor the southsayers declare vnto the King.

geneva@Daniel:2:28 @ But there is a God in (note:)He affirms that man by reason and craft is not able to attain to the cause of God's secrets, but the understanding only of them must come from God: by which he smites the king with a certain fear and reverence of God, that he might be the more able to receive the high mysteries that would be revealed.(:note) heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;

geneva@Daniel:2:29 @ O King, when thou wast in thy bedde, thoughts came into thy mind, what should come to passe hereafter, and he that reueyleth secretes, telleth thee, what shall come.

geneva@Daniel:2:30 @ But as (note:)Because he had said that God alone must reveal the signification of this dream, the King might have asked why Daniel undertook to interpret it: and therefore he shows that he was but God's minister, and had no gifts but those which God had given him to set forth his glory.(:note) for me, this secret is not revealed to me for [any] wisdom that I have more than any living, but for [their] sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

geneva@Daniel:2:31 @ O King, thou sawest, and beholde, there was a great image: this great image whose glory was so excellent, stood before thee, & the forme thereof was terrible.

geneva@Daniel:2:32 @ This image's head [was] of fine (note:)By gold, silver, brass, and iron are meant the Chaldean, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman kingdoms, which would successively rule all the world until Christ (who is here called the stone) himself comes, and destroys the last. And this was to assure the Jews that their affliction would not end with the empire of the Chaldeans, but that they should patiently await the coming of the Messiah, who would be at the end of this fourth monarchy.(:note) gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

geneva@Daniel:2:34 @ Thou beheldest it til a stone was cut without hands, which smote the image vpon his feete, that were of yron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

geneva@Daniel:2:35 @ Then was the yron, the clay, the brasse, the siluer and the golde broken all together, and became like the chaffe of the sommer floures, and the winde caryed them away, that no place was founde for them: and the stone that smote the image, became a great mountaine, and filled the whole earth.

geneva@Daniel:2:38 @ And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou [art] (note:)Daniel leaves out the kingdom of the Assyrians, which was before the Babylonian, both because it was not a monarchy and general empire, and also because he would declare the things that were to come, until the coming of Christ, for the comfort of the elect among these wonderful alterations. And he calls the Babylonian kingdom the golden head, because in respect of the other three, it was the best, and yet it was of itself wicked and cruel.(:note) this head of gold.

geneva@Daniel:2:39 @ And after thee shall arise another kingdom (note:)Meaning, the Persians who were not inferior in dignity, power, or riches, but were worse with regard to ambition, cruelty, and every type of vice, showing that the world would grow worse and worse, until it was restored by Christ.(:note) inferior to thee, and another That is, those of the Macedonians will be of brass, not alluding to the hardness of it, but to the vileness with regard to silver. third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

geneva@Daniel:2:40 @ And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all [things]: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in (note:)That is, the Roman empire will subdue all these others, which after Alexander were divided into the Macedonians, Grecians, Syrians, and Egyptians.(:note) pieces and bruise.

geneva@Daniel:2:41 @ And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be (note:)They will have civil wars, and continual discords among themselves.(:note) divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

geneva@Daniel:2:42 @ And as the toes of the feete were parte of yron, and parte of clay, so shall the kingdome be partly strong, and partly broken.

geneva@Daniel:2:43 @ And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with (note:)They will be marriages and affinities think to make themselves strong: yet they will never by united in heart.(:note) the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

geneva@Daniel:2:45 @ Forasmuch as thou sawest that the (note:)Meaning Christ, who was sent by God, and not set up by man, whose kingdom at the beginning would be small and without beauty to man's judgment, but would at length grow and fill the whole earth, which he calls a great mountain, as in (Dan_2:35). And this kingdom, which is not only referred to the person of Christ, but also to the whole body of his Church, and to every member of it, will be eternal: for the Spirit that is in them is eternal life; (Rom_8:10).(:note) stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream [is] certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

geneva@Daniel:2:47 @ The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth [it is], that your (note:)This confession was but a sudden motion, as it was also in Pharaoh, (Exo_9:28), but his heart was not touched, as appeared soon afterwards.(:note) God [is] a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

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:2:49 @ Then Daniel (note:)He did not do this for their personal profit, but that the whole Church, which was then there in affliction, might have some release and ease by this benefit.(:note) requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel [sat] in the Meaning that either he was a judge, or that he had the whole authority, so than no one could be admitted to the king's presence but by him. gate of the king.

geneva@Daniel:3:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king made (note:)Under pretence of religion, and holiness in making an image to his idol Bel, he sought his own ambition and vain glory: and this declares that he was not touched with the true fear of God before, but that he confessed him on a sudden motion, as the wicked when they are overcome with the greatness of his works. The Greek interpreters write that this was done eighteen years after the dream, and as may appear, the King feared lest the Jews by their religion should have altered the state of his commonwealth: therefore he meant to bring all to one type of religion, and so rather sought his own peace than God's glory.(:note) an image of gold, whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

geneva@Daniel:3:2 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the (note:)Showing that the idol is not known for an idol as long as he is with workmen: but when the ceremonies and customs are recited and used, and the consent of the people is there, then they think they have made a god out of a block.(:note) dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the This was sufficient with the wicked at all times to approve their religion, if the king's authority were alleged for the establishment of it, not considering in the meantime what God's word allowed. king had set up.

geneva@Daniel:3:3 @ So the nobles, princes and dukes, the iudges, the receiuers, the counsellers, the officers, and all the gouernours of the prouinces were assembled vnto the dedicating of the image, that Nebuchad-nezzar the King had set vp: and they stood before the image, which Nebuchad-nezzar had set vp.

geneva@Daniel:3:6 @ And whosoeuer falleth not downe & worshippeth, shall the same houre bee cast into the middes of an hote fierie fornace.

geneva@Daniel:3:7 @ Therefore assoone as all the people heard the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, sackebut, psalterie, and all instruments of musike, all the people, nations, and languages fell downe, and worshipped the golden image, that Nebuchad-nezzar the King had set vp.

geneva@Daniel:3:8 @ By reason whereof at that same time came men of the Caldeans, and grieuously accused the Iewes.

geneva@Daniel:3:10 @ Thou, O King, hast made a decree, that euery man that shall heare the sounde of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, sackebut, psalterie, and dulcimer, and all instruments of musike, shall fall downe and worship the golden image,

geneva@Daniel:3:11 @ And whosoeuer falleth not downe, and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the mids of an hote fierie fornace.

geneva@Daniel:3:12 @ There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, (note:)It seems that they named not Daniel, because he was greatly in the king's favour, thinking if these three had been destroyed, they might have had better occasion to accuse Daniel. And this declares that this policy of erecting this image was invented by the malicious flatterers who sought nothing but the destruction of the Jews, whom they accused of rebellion and ingratitude.(:note) Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

geneva@Daniel:3:17 @ If it be [so], our God whom we serve is (note:)They have two points as their foundation: first on the power and providence of God over them, and second on their cause, which was God's glory, and the testifying of his true religion with their blood. And so they make open confession, that they will not so much as outwardly consent to idolatry.(:note) able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king.

geneva@Daniel:3:18 @ But if not, bee it knowen to thee, O King, that wee will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image, which thou hast set vp.

geneva@Daniel:3:19 @ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven (note:)This declares that the more that tyrants rage, and the more crafty they show themselves in inventing strange and cruel punishments, the more is God glorified by his servants, to whom he gives patience and constancy to abide the cruelty of their punishment. For either he delvers them from death, or else for this life gives them better.(:note) times more than it was wont to be heated.

geneva@Daniel:3:20 @ And hee charged the most valiant men of warre that were in his armie, to binde Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the hote fierie fornace.

geneva@Daniel:3:21 @ So these men were bounde in their coates, their hosen, and their clokes, with their other garments, and cast into the middes of the hote fierie fornace.

geneva@Daniel:3:22 @ Therefore, because the Kings commaundement was straite, that the fornace should be exceeding hote, the flame of the fire slew those men that brought foorth Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

geneva@Daniel:3:23 @ And these three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego fell downe bound into the middes of the hote fierie fornace. \par {\cf2 (3:24) And they walked in the middes of the flame, praising God, & magnified the Lord. (3:25) Then Azarias stoode vp, & praied on this maner, and opening his mouth in ye mids of the fire, saide, (3:26) Blessed be thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy Name is worthie to bee praised and honoured for euermore. (3:27) For thou art righteous in all the things, that thou hast done vnto vs, and all thy works are true, and thy waies are right, and all thy iudgementes certeine. (3:28) In all the things that thou hast brought vpon vs, and vpon Ierusalem, the holy citie of our fathers, thou hast executed true iudgementes: for by right and equitie hast thou brought all these things vpon vs, because of our sinnes. (3:29) For we haue sinned and done wickedly, departing from thee: in all things haue we trespassed, (3:30) And not obeied thy commaundements, nor kept them, neither done as thou haddest commanded vs, that we might prosper. (3:31) Wherefore in all that thou hast broughtvpon vs, and in euery thing that thou hast done to vs, thou hast done them in true iudgement: (3:32) As in deliuering vs into the handes of our wicked enemies, and most hatefull traitours, and to an vnrighteous King, and the most wicked in all the worlde. (3:33) And nowe we may not open our mouthes: we are become a shame and reproofe vnto thy seruants, and to them that worship thee. (3:34) Yet for thy names sake, we beseech thee, giue vs not vp for euer, neither breake thy couenant, (3:35) Neither take away thy mercie from vs, for thy beloued Abrahams sake, and for thy seruant Isaacs sake, and for thine holy Israels sake, (3:36) To whome thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest multiplie their seed as ye starres of heauen, & as the sand, that is vpon the sea shore. (3:37) For we, O Lorde, are become lesse then any nation, and be kept vnder this day in all the world, because of our sinnes: (3:38) So that now we haue neither prince, nor prophet, nor gouernour, nor burnt offering, nor sacrifice, nor oblation, nor incense, nor place to offer ye first fruits before thee, that we might finde mercie. (3:39) Neuerthelesse in a contrite heart, & an humble spirit, let vs be receiued. (3:40) As in the burnt offring of rams & bullocks, and as in ten thousand of fat lambes, so let our offring be in thy sight this daye, that it may please thee: for there is no confusion vnto them that put their trust in thee. (3:41) And now we follow thee with all our heart, and feare thee, and seeke thy face. (3:42) Put vs not to shame, but deale with vs after thy louing kindenesse, and according to the multitude of thy mercies. (3:43) Deliuer vs also by thy miracles, and giue thy Name the glory, O Lord, (3:44) That all they which doe thy seruantes euill, may be confounded: euen let them bee confounded by thy great force and power, and let their strength be broken, (3:45) That they may know, that thou only art the Lord God, and glorious ouer the whole worlde. (3:46) Now the kings seruants that had cast them in, ceased not to make the ouen hote with naphtha, and with pitch, and with towe, & with fagots, (3:47) So that the flame went out of the fornace fourtie and nine cubites. (3:48) And it brake forth, and burnt those Chaldeans, that it found by the fornace. (3:49) But the Angel of the Lord went downe into the fornace with them that were with Azarias, and smote the flame of the fire out of the fornace, (3:50) And made in the middes of the fornace like a moyst hissing winde, so that the fire touched the not at all, neither grieued, nor troubled them. (3:51) Then these three (as out of one mouth) praised, and glorified, and blessed God in the fornace, saying, (3:52) Blessed be thou, O Lord God of our fathers, and praysed, & exalted aboue all things for euer, & blessed be thy glorious & holy Name, and praysed aboue all things, and magnified for euer. (3:53) Blessed be thou in the Temple of thine holy glory, and praysed aboue all thinges, and exalted for euer. (3:54) Blessed be thou that beholdest the depthes, and sittest vpon the Cherubins, and praysed aboue all things, and exalted for euer. (3:55) Blessed be thou in the glorious Throne of thy kingdome, and praysed aboue all things, and exalted for euer. (3:56) Blessed be thou in the firmament of heauen, & praysed aboue all things, & glorified for euer. (3:57) All ye works of the Lord, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:58) O heauens, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:59) O Angels of the Lorde, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:60) Al ye waters that be aboue the heauen, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:61) All ye powers of the Lord, blesse ye ye Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:62) O sunne & moone, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:63) O starres of heauen, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:64) Euery showre and dewe, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:65) All ye windes, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:66) O fire & heate, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:67) O winter & sommer, blesse ye ye Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:68) O dewes and stormes of snowe, blesse yee the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:69) O frost and colde, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:70) O yee & snow, blesse ye the Lord: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:71) O nights & dayes, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:72) O light and darkenesse, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:73) O lightnings & cloudes, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:74) Let the earth blesse the Lorde: let it prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:75) O mountaines, & hilles, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:76) All things that growe on the earth, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue al things for euer. (3:77) O fountaines, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:78) O sea, and floods, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:79) O whales, and all that moue in the waters, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:80) All ye foules of heauen, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:81) All ye beastes and cattel, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:82) O children of men, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:83) Let Israel blesse the Lord, praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:84) O Priestes of the Lorde, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:85) O seruants of the Lord, blesse ye the Lorde: praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer. (3:86) O spirites and soules of the righteous, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer\par (3:87) O Saintes and humble of heart, blesse ye the Lorde: prayse him, and exalt him aboue all thinges for euer. (3:88) O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, blesse ye the Lord: prayse him, & exalt him aboue all things for euer: for he hath deliuered vs from the hel, & saued vs from the hand of death, and deliuered vs out of the middes of the fornace, and burning flame: euen out of the middes of the fire hath he deliuered vs. (3:89) Confesse vnto the Lord, that he is gracious: for his mercy endureth for euer. (3:90) All ye that worship the Lord, blesse the God of gods: prayse him, and acknowledge him: for his mercy endureth worlde without ende.}

geneva@Daniel:3:24 @ Then Nebuchad-nezzar the King was astonied and rose vp in haste, and spake, and saide vnto his counsellers, Did not wee cast three men bound into the middes of the fire? Who answered and said vnto the King, It is true, O King.

geneva@Daniel:3:26 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, [and] spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come [hither]. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, (note:)This commends their obedience to God, that they would not because of any fear depart out of this furnace until the appointed time, as Noah remained in the ark, until the Lord called him forth.(:note) came forth of the midst of the fire.

geneva@Daniel:3:27 @ Then the nobles, princes and dukes, and the Kings counsellers came together to see these men, because the fire had no power ouer their bodies: for not an heare of their head was burnt, neither was their coates changed, nor any smell of fire came vpon them.

geneva@Daniel:3:28 @ [Then] Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, (note:)He was moved by the greatness of the miracle to praise God, but his heart was not touched. And here we see that miracles are not sufficient to convert men to God, but that doctrine most chiefly be joined with them, without which there can be no faith.(:note) Blessed [be] the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

geneva@Daniel:3:29 @ Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak (note:)If this heathen king moved by God's Spirit would punish blasphemy, and made a law and set a punishment for such transgressors, much more ought all they that profess religion make sure that such impiety does not happen, lest according as their knowledge and responsibility is greater, so they suffer double punishment.(:note) any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

geneva@Daniel:4:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the (note:)Meaning, as far as his dominion extended.(:note) earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

geneva@Daniel:4:3 @ How great [are] his signs! and how mighty [are] his wonders! (note:){{See Dan_2:44}}(:note) his kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion [is] from generation to generation.

geneva@Daniel:4:4 @ I Nebuchadnezzar was at (note:)There was no trouble that might cause me to dream, and therefore it came only from God.(:note) rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:

geneva@Daniel:4:5 @ I saw a (note:)This was another dream besides that which he saw of the four empires, for Daniel both declared what that dream was, and what it meant, and here he expounds this dream.(:note) dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

geneva@Daniel:4:7 @ Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but (note:)In that he sent abroad to others, whose ignorance in times past he had experienced, and left Daniel who was ever ready at hand, it declares the nature of the ungodly, who never seek for the servants of God unless they absolutely have to, and then they flatter to a great extent.(:note) they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.

geneva@Daniel:4:8 @ But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name [was] (note:)This no doubt was a great grief to Daniel not only to have his name changed, but to be called by the name of a vile idol, which thing Nebuchadnezzar did to make him forget the true religion of God.(:note) Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, [saying],

geneva@Daniel:4:9 @ O Belteshazzar, (note:)Which also was a great grief to the Prophet, to be numbered among the sorcerers and men whose practices were wicked and contrary to God's word.(:note) master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods [is] in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.

geneva@Daniel:4:10 @ Thus [were] the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a (note:)By the tree is signified the dignity of a king whom God ordains to be a defence for every type of man, and whose state is profitable for mankind.(:note) tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof [was] great.

geneva@Daniel:4:12 @ {\cf2 (4:9)} The boughes thereof were faire & the fruite thereof much, and in it was meate for all: it made a shadow vnder it for the beastes of the fielde, and the foules of the heauen dwelt in the boughes thereof, and all flesh fedde of it.

geneva@Daniel:4:14 @ {\cf2 (4:11)} And cried aloude, and said thus, Hew downe the tree, and breake off his branches: shake off his leaues, and scatter his fruite, that the beastes may flee from vnder it, and the foules from his branches.

geneva@Daniel:4:15 @ {\cf2 (4:12)} Neuerthelesse leaue the stumpe of his rootes in the earth, and with a band of yron and brasse binde it among the grasse of the fielde, and let it be wet with the dewe of heauen, and let his portion be with the beastes among the grasse of the fielde.

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

geneva@Daniel:4:20 @ {\cf2 (4:17)} The tree that thou sawest, which was great and mightie, whose height reached vnto the heauen, and the sight thereof through all the world,

geneva@Daniel:4:21 @ {\cf2 (4:18)} Whose leaues were faire & the fruit thereof much, and in it was meate for all, vnder the which the beastes of the fielde dwelt, and vpon whose branches the foules of the heauen did sit,

geneva@Daniel:4:23 @ And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts of the field, (note:)By which he means a long space, as seven years. Some interpret seven months, and others seven weeks, but it seems he means seven years.(:note) till seven times pass over him;

geneva@Daniel:4:25 @ That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as (note:)Not that his shape or form was changed into a beast, but that he was either stricken mad, and so avoided man's company, or was cast out because of his tyranny, and so wandered among the beasts, and ate herbs and grass.(:note) oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that Daniel shows the reason why God punished him in this way. the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

geneva@Daniel:4:26 @ {\cf2 (4:23)} Where as they sayd, that one should leaue the stumpe of the tree rootes, thy kingdome shall remaine vnto thee: after that, thou shalt knowe, that the heauens haue the rule.

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@Daniel:4:31 @ {\cf2 (4:28)} While the worde was in the Kings mouth, a voyce came downe from heauen, saying, O King Nebuchad-nezzar, to thee be it spoken, Thy kingdome is departed from thee,

geneva@Daniel:4:32 @ {\cf2 (4:29)} And they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beastes of the fielde: they shall make thee to eate grasse, as the oxen, and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, vntill thou knowest, that the most High beareth rule ouer the kingdome of men, and giueth it vnto whomsoeuer he will.

geneva@Daniel:4:33 @ {\cf2 (4:30)} The very same houre was this thing fulfilled vpon Nebuchad-nezzar, and hee was driuen from men, and did eate grasse as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of heauen, till his heares were growen as egles feathers, & his nailes like birds clawes.

geneva@Daniel:4:34 @ And at the end of the (note:)When the term of these seven years was accomplished.(:note) days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from generation to generation:

geneva@Daniel:4:35 @ And all the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his (note:)He confesses God's will to be the rule of all justice, and a most perfect law, by which he governs both man and angels and devils, so that none ought to murmur or ask a reason for his doings, but only to stand content with them and give him the glory.(:note) will in the army of heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

geneva@Daniel:4:36 @ At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and (note:)By whom it seems that he had been put from his kingdom before.(:note) my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.

geneva@Daniel:4:37 @ Now I Nebuchadnezzar (note:)He not only praises God for his deliverance, but also confesses his fault, so that God alone may have the glory, and man the shame, and so that God may be exalted and man cast down.(:note) praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works [are] truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

geneva@Daniel:5:2 @ Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his (note:)Meaning his grandfather.(:note) father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.

geneva@Daniel:5:4 @ They drank wine, and praised the (note:)In contempt of the true God they praise their idols, not that they thought that the gold or silver were gods, but that there was a certain strength and power in them to do them good, which is also the opinion of all idolaters.(:note) gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

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

geneva@Daniel:5:7 @ The king cried aloud to bring in (note:)Thus the wicked in their troubles seek many means, which draw them from God, because they do not seek for him who is the only comfort in all afflictions.(:note) the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. [And] the king spake, and said to the wise [men] of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [have] a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

geneva@Daniel:5:9 @ Then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his princes were astonied.

geneva@Daniel:5:10 @ [Now] the (note:)That is, his grandmother, Nebuchadnezzar's wife, who because of her age was not at the feast before, but came there when she heard of this strange news.(:note) queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: [and] the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:

geneva@Daniel:5:11 @ There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, [I say], thy father, made master of the (note:)Read (Dan_4:6); and this declares that both this name was odious to him, and also he did not use these vile practises, because he was not among them when all were called.(:note) magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers;

geneva@Daniel:5:13 @ Then was Daniel brought before the King, and the King spake and sayd vnto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captiuitie of Iudah, whom my father the King brought out of Iewrie?

geneva@Daniel:5:14 @ I have even heard of thee, that (note:)For the idolaters thought that the angels had power as God, and therefore held them in the same estimation that they held God, thinking that the spirit of prophecy and understanding came from them.(:note) the spirit of the gods [is] in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.

geneva@Daniel:5:15 @ Now therefore, wisemen and astrologians haue bene brought before me, that they should reade this writing, and shewe me the interpretation thereof: but they could not declare the interpretation of the thing.

geneva@Daniel:5:20 @ But when his heart was puft vp, and his minde hardened in pride, hee was deposed from his kingly throne, and they tooke his honour from him.

geneva@Daniel:5:21 @ And hee was driuen from the sonnes of men, and his heart was made like the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde asses: they fed him with grasse like oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of the heauen, till he knewe, that the most high God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appointeth ouer it, whomsoeuer he pleaseth.

geneva@Daniel:5:22 @ And thou his sonne, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all these things,

geneva@Daniel:5:23 @ But hast lift thy selfe vp against the Lorde of heauen, and they haue brought the vessels of his House before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wiues and thy concubines haue drunke wine in them, and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse, yron, wood and stone, which neither see, neither heare, nor vnderstand: and the God in whose hand thy breath is and all thy wayes, him hast thou not glorified.

geneva@Daniel:5:25 @ And this [is] the writing that was written, (note:)This word is written twice because of the certainty of the thing, showing that God had most surely decided: it signifies also that God has appointed a term for all kingdoms, and that a miserable end will come on all that raise themselves against him.(:note) MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

geneva@Daniel:5:30 @ The same night was Belshazzar the King of the Caldeans slaine.

geneva@Daniel:6:1 @ It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom (note:)Read (Est_1:1).(:note) an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;

geneva@Daniel:6:2 @ And ouer these, three rulers (of whome Daniel was one) that the gouernours might giue accompts vnto them, and the King should haue no domage.

geneva@Daniel:6:3 @ Then this Daniel (note:)This heathen king preferred Daniel a stranger to all his nobles and those he was familiar with, because the graces of God were more excellent in him than in others.(:note) was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit [was] in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

geneva@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the presidents and princes (note:)Thus the wicked cannot abide the graces of God in others, but seek by every occasion to deface them: therefore against such assaults there is no better remedy than to walk upright in the fear of God, and to have a good conscience.(:note) sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he [was] faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

geneva@Daniel:6:5 @ Then sayd these men, We shall not finde an occasion against this Daniel, except we finde it against him concerning the Law of his God.

geneva@Daniel:6:7 @ All the rulers of thy kingdome, the officers and gouernours, the counsellers, and dukes haue consulted together to make a decree for the King and to establish a statute, that whosoeuer shall aske a petition of any god or man for thirtie dayes saue of thee, O King, he shalbe cast into the denne of lyons.

geneva@Daniel:6:9 @ Wherefore king Darius (note:)In this is condemned the wickedness of the king, who would be set up as a god, and did not care what wicked laws he approved for the maintenance of it.(:note) signed the writing and the decree.

geneva@Daniel:6:10 @ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his (note:)Because he would not by his silence show that he consented to this wicked decree, he set open his windows toward Jerusalem when he prayed: both to stir up himself with the remembrance of God's promises to his people, when they should pray toward that temple, and also that others might see that he would neither consent in heart nor deed for these few days to anything that was contrary to God's glory.(:note) windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

geneva@Daniel:6:11 @ Then these men assembled, and founde Daniel praying, and making supplication vnto his God.

geneva@Daniel:6:12 @ So they came &, spake vnto the King concerning the Kings decree, Hast thou not sealed the decree, that euery man that shall make a request to any god or man within thirtie dayes, saue to thee, O King, shall be cast into the denne of lyons? The King answered, and sayd, The thing is true, according to the Lawe of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

geneva@Daniel:6:13 @ Then answered they, and sayd vnto the King, This Daniel which is of the children of the captiuitie of Iudah, regardeth not thee, O King, nor the decree, that thou hast sealed, but maketh his petition three times a day.

geneva@Daniel:6:14 @ When the King heard these wordes, hee was sore displeased with himselfe, and set his heart on Daniel, to deliuer him: and he laboured till the sunne went downe, to deliuer him.

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:)Thus the wicked maintain evil laws by constancy and authority, which is often either weakness, or stubbornness, and the innocent as a result perish by them: and these governors neither ought to fear, nor be ashamed to break such laws.(:note) changed.

geneva@Daniel:6:16 @ Then the King commaunded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the denne of lyons: now the King spake, and said vnto Daniel, Thy God, whome thou alway seruest, euen he will deliuer thee.

geneva@Daniel:6:17 @ And a stone was brought, and layed vpon the mouth of the denne, and the King sealed it with his owne signet, and with the signet of his princes, that the purpose might not be changed, concerning Daniel.

geneva@Daniel:6:18 @ Then the King went vnto his palace, and remained fasting, neither were the instruments of musike brought before him, and his sleepe went from him.

geneva@Daniel:6:19 @ Then the King arose early in the morning, & went in all haste vnto the denne of lyons.

geneva@Daniel:6:20 @ And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: [and] the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, (note:)This declares that Darius was not touched with the true knowledge of God, because he doubted of his power.(:note) able to deliver thee from the lions?

geneva@Daniel:6:22 @ My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him (note:)My just cause and uprightness in this thing in which I was charged, is approved by God.(:note) innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done For he disobeyed the kings's wicked commandment in order to obey God, and so he did no injury to the king, who ought to command nothing by which God would be dishonoured. no hurt.

geneva@Daniel:6:23 @ Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he (note:)Because he committed himself wholly to God whose cause he defended, he was assured that nothing but good could come to him: and in this we see the power of faith, as in (Heb_11:33).(:note) believed in his God.

geneva@Daniel:6:24 @ And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they (note:)This is a terrible example against all the wicked who do against their conscience make cruel laws to destroy the children of God, and also admonishes princes how to punish such when their wickedness is come to light: though not in every point, or with similar circumstances, but yet to execute true justice upon them.(:note) cast [them] into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

geneva@Daniel:6:26 @ I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear (note:)This does not prove that Darius worshipped God properly, or was converted: for then he would have destroyed all superstition and idolatry, and not only given God the chief place, but also have set him up, and caused him to be honoured according to his word. But this was a specific confession of God's power, unto which he was compelled by this wonderful miracle.(:note) before the God of Daniel: for he [is] the Who not only has life in himself, but is the only fountain of life, and quickens all things, so that without him there is no life. living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion [shall be even] unto the end.

geneva@Daniel:7:1 @ In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: (note:)Whereas the people of Israel looked for a continual peace, after the seventy years which Jeremiah had declared, he shows that this rest will not be a deliverance from all troubles, but a beginning. And therefore he encourages them to look for a continual affliction until the Messiah is uttered and revealed, by whom they would have a spiritual deliverance, and all the promises would be fulfilled. And they would have a certain experience of this in the destruction of the Babylonian kingdom.(:note) then he wrote the dream, [and] told the sum of the matters.

geneva@Daniel:7:3 @ And foure great beastes came vp from the sea one diuers from another.

geneva@Daniel:7:4 @ The first [was] like a (note:)Meaning the Assyrian and Chaldean empire, which was most strong and fierce in power, and most soon to come to their authority, as though they had wings to fly: yet their wings were pulled off by the Persians, and they went on their feet, and were made like other men, which is meant here by man's heart.(:note) lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

geneva@Daniel:7:5 @ And behold another beast, a second, like to a (note:)Meaning the Persians who were barbarous and cruel.(:note) bear, and it raised up itself on They were small in the beginning, and were shut up in the mountains, and had no strength. one side, and [it had] three ribs in the That is, destroyed many kingdoms and whose hunger could not be satisfied. mouth of it between the teeth of it: That is, the angels by God's commandment, who by this means punished the ingratitude of the world. and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

geneva@Daniel:7:6 @ After this I beheld, and lo another, like a (note:)Meaning Alexander the king of Macedonia.(:note) leopard, which had upon the back of it That is, his four chief captains, which had the empire among them after his death. Selencus had Asia the great, Antigonus the less, Cassander and after him Antipater was king of Macedonia, and Ptolemeus had Egypt. four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and It was not of himself nor of his own power that he gained all these countries: for his army contained only thirty thousand men, and he overcame in one battle Darius, who had one million, when he was so heavy with sleep that his eyes were hardly open, as the stories report: therefore this power was given to him from God. dominion was given to it.

geneva@Daniel:7:7 @ After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a (note:)That is, the Roman empire which was a monster, and could not be compared to any beast, because there was no beast that was even comparable.(:note) fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great Signifying the tyranny and greediness of the Romans. iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped That which the Romans could not quietly enjoy in other countries, they would give it to other kings and rulers, so that whenever they wanted to, they might take it again: which liberality is here called the stamping of the rest under the feet. the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had That is, various and different provinces which were governed by the deputies and proconsuls: and each one of these might be compared to a king. ten horns.

geneva@Daniel:7:8 @ I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little (note:)Which is meant of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, etc., who were as kings in effect, but because they could not rule, except by the consent of the senate, their power is compared to a little horn. For Muhammad did not come from the Roman Empire, and the pope has no vocation of government: therefore this cannot be applied to them, and also in this prophecy the Prophet's purpose is chiefly to comfort the Jews until the revelation of Christ. Some take it for the whole body of antichrist.(:note) horn, before whom there were Meaning a certain portion of the ten horns: that is, a part from the whole estate was taken away. For Augustus took from the senate the liberty of choosing the deputies to send into the provinces, and took the governing of certain countries to himself. three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] These Roman emperors at the first used a certain humanity and gentleness, and were content that others, as the consuls, and senate, should bear the names of dignity, so that they might have the profit. And therefore in election and counsels they would behave themselves according as did other senators: yet against their enemies and those that would resist them, they were fierce and cruel, which is here meant by the proud mouth. eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

geneva@Daniel:7:9 @ I beheld till the (note:)Meaning, the places where God and his angels would come to judge these monarchies, which judgment would begin at the first coming of Christ.(:note) thrones were cast down, and the That is, God who was before all times, and is here described in a way such that man's nature is able to comprehend some portion of his glory. Ancient of days did sit, whose garment [was] white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne [was like] the fiery flame, [and] his wheels [as] burning fire.

geneva@Daniel:7:10 @ A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand (note:)That is, an infinite number of angels, who were ready to execute his commandment.(:note) times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the This is meant of the first coming of Christ, when the will of God was plainly revealed by his Gospel. books were opened.

geneva@Daniel:7:11 @ I beheld then (note:)Meaning that he was astonished when he saw these emperors in such dignity and pride, so suddenly destroyed at the coming of Christ, when this fourth monarchy was subject to men of other nations.(:note) because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld [even] till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

geneva@Daniel:7:12 @ As (note:)As the three former monarchies had an end at the time that God appointed, even though they flourished for a time, so will this fourth have an end, and they that patiently wait for God's appointment, will enjoy the promises.(:note) concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

geneva@Daniel:7:13 @ I saw in the night visions, and, behold, (note:)Which is meant of Christ, who had not yet taken upon him man's nature, neither was he yet the son of David according to the flesh, as he was afterward: but he appeared then in a figure, and that in the clouds, that is, being separated from the common sort of men by manifest signs of his divinity.(:note) [one] like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and That is, when he ascended into the heavens, and his divine majesty appeared, and all power was given to him, in respect that he was our mediator. came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

geneva@Daniel:7:14 @ And there was given him (note:)This is meant of the beginning of Christ's kingdom, when God the Father gave unto him all dominion, as the the Mediator, with the intent that he would continually govern his Church which is here on earth, until the time that he brought them to eternal life.(:note) dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed.

geneva@Daniel:7:15 @ I Daniel was (note:)Because of the strangeness of the vision.(:note) grieved in my spirit in the midst of [my] body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

geneva@Daniel:7:16 @ I came near unto (note:)Meaning one of the angels, as in {{See Dan_7:10}}(:note) one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

geneva@Daniel:7:17 @ These great beastes which are foure, are foure Kings, which shall arise out of the earth,

geneva@Daniel:7:18 @ But the saints of the (note:)That is, of the most high things, because God has chosen them out of this world, that they should look up to the heavens, upon which all their hope depends.(:note) most High shall take the Because Abraham was appointed heir of all the world, (Rom_4:13), and in him all the faithful, therefore the kingdom of him is theirs by right, which these four beasts or tyrants would invade, and usurp until the world were restored by Christ. And this was to strengthen and encourage those that were in troubles, that their afflictions would eventually have an end. kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

geneva@Daniel:7:19 @ Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was (note:)For the other three monarchies were governed by a king, and the Roman empire by consuls: the Romans changed their governors yearly, and the other monarchies retained them for term of life: also the Romans were the strongest of all the others, and were never at peace among themselves.(:note) diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth [were of] iron, and his nails [of] brass; [which] devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the Read (Dan_7:7). residue with his feet;

geneva@Daniel:7:20 @ And of the ten horns that [were] in his head, and [of] the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even [of] that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose (note:)This is meant of the fourth beast, which was more terrible than the others.(:note) look [was] more stout than his fellows.

geneva@Daniel:7:22 @ Until (note:)Until God showed his power in the person of Christ, and by the preaching of the Gospel gave unto his own some rest, and so obtained a famous name in the world, and were called the Church of God, or the kingdom of God.(:note) the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

geneva@Daniel:7:23 @ Then he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdome in the earth, which shall be vnlike to all the kingdomes, and shall deuoure the whole earth, and shall treade it downe and breake it in pieces.

geneva@Daniel:7:25 @ And he shall speak [great] words against (note:)That is, will make wicked decrees and proclamations against God's word, and send throughout all their dominion, to destroy all that did profess it.(:note) the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to These emperors will not consider that they have their power from God, but think it is in their own power to change God's laws and man's, and as it were the order of nature, as appears by Octavius, Tiberius, Calligula, Nero, Domitianus, etc. change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a God will allow them to rage in this way against his saints for a long time, the time and times, but at length he will soften these troubles, and shorten the time for his elect's sake, (Mat_24:22), which is here meant by the dividing of time. time and times and the dividing of time.

geneva@Daniel:7:27 @ And the (note:)He shows why the beast would be destroyed, that is, so that his Church might have rest and quietness, which though they do not fully enjoy here, yet they have it in hope, and by the preaching of the Gospel enjoy the beginning of it, which is meant by these words, «under the whole heaven». And therefore he speaks here of the beginning of Christ's kingdom in this world, which kingdom the faithful have by the participation that they have with Christ their head.(:note) kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and all That is, some of every type that rule. dominions shall serve and obey him.

geneva@Daniel:7:28 @ Hitherto [is] the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my (note:)Even though he had many motions in his heart which moved him to and fro to seek out this matter curiously, yet he was content with that which God revealed, and kept it in memory, and wrote it for the use of the Church.(:note) cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

geneva@Daniel:8:1 @ In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, [even unto] me Daniel, (note:)After the general vision, he comes to certain particular visions with regard to the destruction of the monarchy of the Persians, and Macedonians: for the ruin of the Babylonians was at hand, and also he had sufficiently spoken of it.(:note) after that which appeared unto me at the first.

geneva@Daniel:8:2 @ And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I [was] at Shushan [in] the palace, which [is] in the province (note:)That is, of Persia.(:note) of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.

geneva@Daniel:8:3 @ Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a (note:)Which represented the kingdom of the Persians and Medes, which were united together.(:note) ram which had [two] horns: and the [two] horns [were] high; but one [was] Meaning Cyrus, who after grew greater in power than Darius his uncle and father-in-law. higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

geneva@Daniel:8:4 @ I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no (note:)That is, no kings or nations.(:note) beasts might stand before him, neither [was there any] that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.

geneva@Daniel:8:5 @ And as I was considering, behold, (note:)Meaning Alexander that came from Greece with great speed and warlike undertaking.(:note) an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat [had] a notable Even though he came in the name of all Greece, yet he bore the title and dignity of the general captain, so that the strength was attributed to him, which is meant by this horn. horn between his eyes.

geneva@Daniel:8:7 @ And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and (note:)Alexander overcame Darius in two different battles, and so had the two kingdoms of the Medes and Persians.(:note) smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.

geneva@Daniel:8:8 @ Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great (note:)Alexander's great power was broken: for when he had overcome all the East, he thought to return towards Greece to subdue those that had rebelled, and so died along the way.(:note) horn was broken; and for it came up four That is, who were famous: for almost in the space of fifteen years there were fifteen different successors before this monarchy was divided to these four, of which Cassander had Macedonia, Seleucus had Syria, Antigonus had Asia the less, and Ptolemeus had Egypt. notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.

geneva@Daniel:8:9 @ And out of one of them came forth a (note:)Which was Antiochus Epiphanes, who was of a servile and flattering nature, and also there were others between him and the kingdom: and therefore he is here called the little horn, because neither princely conditions, nor any other thing was in him, why he should obtain this kingdom.(:note) little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the That is, towards Egypt. south, and toward the By which he means Ptolemais. east, and toward the That is, Judea. pleasant [land].

geneva@Daniel:8:10 @ And it waxed great, [even] to the (note:)Antiochus raged against the elect of God, and tread his precious stars underfoot, who are so called because they are separated from the world.(:note) host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.

geneva@Daniel:8:11 @ Yea, he magnified [himself] even to the (note:)That is, God, who governs and maintains his Church.(:note) prince of the host, and by him the He laboured to abolish all religion, and therefore cast God's service out of his temple, which God had chosen as a little corner from all the rest of the world to have his name there truly called upon. daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

geneva@Daniel:8:12 @ And (note:)He shows that their sins are the cause of these horrible afflictions: and yet comforts them, in that he appoints this tyrant for a time, whom he would not allow to utterly abolish his religion.(:note) an host was given [him] against the daily [sacrifice] by reason of transgression, and it This horn will abolish for a time the true doctrine, and so corrupt God's service. cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.

geneva@Daniel:8:13 @ Then I heard one (note:)Meaning that he heard one of the angels asking this question of Christ, whom he called a certain one, or a secret one, or a marvellous one.(:note) saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain [saint] which spake, How long [shall be] the vision [concerning] the daily [sacrifice], and the transgression of That is, the Jews' sins, which were the cause of its destruction. desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the That is, which suppresses God's religion and his people. host to be trodden under foot?

geneva@Daniel:8:14 @ And (note:)Christ answered me for the comfort of the Church.(:note) he said unto me, Unto That is, until so many natural days have passed, which make six years, and three and a half months: for the temple was profaned this long under Antiochus. two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

geneva@Daniel:8:15 @ And it came to pass, when I, [even] I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me (note:)Who was Christ who in this manner declared himself to the old fathers, how he would be God manifest in flesh.(:note) as the appearance of a man.

geneva@Daniel:8:16 @ And I heard a man's voice between [the banks of] Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, (note:)This power to command the angel, declared that he was God.(:note) make this [man] to understand the vision.

geneva@Daniel:8:17 @ So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for (note:)The effect of this vision will not yet appear, until a long time after.(:note) at the time of the end [shall be] the vision.

geneva@Daniel:8:18 @ Nowe as he was speaking vnto me, I being a sleepe fell on my face to the ground: but he touched me, and set me vp in my place.

geneva@Daniel:8:19 @ And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last (note:)Meaning that great rage which Antiochus would show against the Church.(:note) end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end [shall be].

geneva@Daniel:8:22 @ Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up (note:)That is, out of Greece.(:note) out of the nation, but not They will not have similar power as Alexander had. in his power.

geneva@Daniel:8:23 @ And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of (note:)Noting that this Antiochus was impudent and cruel, and also crafty so that he could not be deceived.(:note) fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

geneva@Daniel:8:25 @ And through his (note:)Whatever he goes about by his craft, he will bring it to pass.(:note) policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by That is, under pretence of peace, or as it were in sport. peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Meaning, against God. Prince of princes; but he shall be broken For God would destroy him with a notable plague, and so comfort his Church. without hand.

geneva@Daniel:8:26 @ And the vision of the (note:)Read (Dan_8:14).(:note) evening and the morning which was told [is] true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it [shall be] for many days.

geneva@Daniel:8:27 @ And I Daniel fainted, and was sick (note:)Because of fear and astonishment.(:note) [certain] days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood [it].

geneva@Daniel:9:1 @ In the first year of Darius the son of (note:)Who was also called Astyages.(:note) Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the For Cyrus led with ambition, and went about wars in other countries, and therefore Darius had the title of the kingdom, even though Cyrus was king in effect. realm of the Chaldeans;

geneva@Daniel:9:2 @ In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by (note:)For even though he was an excellent Prophet, yet he daily increased in knowledge by the reading of the scriptures.(:note) books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

geneva@Daniel:9:3 @ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to (note:)He does not speak of that ordinary prayer, which he used in his house three times a day, but of a rare and vehement prayer, lest their sins should cause God to delay the time of their deliverance prophesied by Jeremiah.(:note) seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

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

geneva@Daniel:9:7 @ O Lord, (note:)He shows that whenever God punishes, he does it for just cause: and thus the godly never accuse him of rigour as the wicked do, but acknowledge that in themselves there is just cause why he should so treat them.(:note) righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are] near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

geneva@Daniel:9:8 @ O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion of face, to our (note:)He does not excuse the kings because of their authority, but prays chiefly for them as the chief occasions of these great plagues.(:note) kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

geneva@Daniel:9:9 @ Yet compassion and forgiuenesse is in the Lorde our God, albeit we haue rebelled against him.

geneva@Daniel:9:11 @ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the (note:)As in (Deu_27:15), or the curse confirmed by an oath.(:note) curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

geneva@Daniel:9:12 @ And he hath confirmed his wordes, which he spake against vs, and against our iudges that iudged vs, by bringing vpon vs a great plague: for vnder the whole heauen hath not bene the like, as hath bene brought vpon Ierusalem.

geneva@Daniel:9:13 @ All this plague is come vpon vs, as it is written in the Lawe of Moses: yet made we not our prayer before the Lorde our God, that we might turne from our iniquities and vnderstand thy trueth.

geneva@Daniel:9:15 @ And nowe, O Lorde our God, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mightie hand, and hast gotten thee renoume, as appeareth this day, we haue sinned, we haue done wickedly.

geneva@Daniel:9:19 @ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, (note:)Thus he could not content himself with any vehemency of words: for he was so led with a fervent zeal, considering God's promise made to the city in respect of his Church, and for the advancement of God's glory.(:note) hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

geneva@Daniel:9:20 @ And whiles I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sinne, and the sinne of my people Israel, and did present my supplication before the Lord my God, for the holy Mountaine of my God,

geneva@Daniel:9:21 @ Yea, while I was speaking in prayer, euen the man Gabriel, whome I had seene before in the vision, came flying, and touched mee about the time of the euening oblation.

geneva@Daniel:9:24 @ Seventy (note:)He alludes to Jeremiah's prophecy, who prophesied that their captivity would be seventy years: but now God's mercy would exceed his judgment seven times as much, which would be 490 years, even until the coming of Christ, and so then it would continue forever.(:note) weeks are determined upon Meaning Daniel's nation, over whom he was careful. thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the To show mercy and to put sin out of remembrance. transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

geneva@Daniel:9:26 @ And after threescore and two (note:)In this week of the seventy, will Christ come and preach and suffer death.(:note) weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but He will seem to have no beauty, nor to be of any estimation; (Isa_53:2). not for himself: and the people of the Meaning Titus, Vespasians's son, who would come and destroy both the temple, and the people, without any hope of recovery. prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

geneva@Daniel:9:27 @ And he (note:)By the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.(:note) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection. cease, Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them. and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

geneva@Daniel:10:1 @ In the (note:)He notes this third year, because at this time the building of the temple began to be hindered by Cambyses, Cyrus's son, when the father made war in Asia minor against the Scythians, which was discouraging to the godly, and fearful to Daniel.(:note) third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing [was] true, but the time appointed [was] Which is to declare that the godly should not hasten too much, but patiently abide the fulfilment of God's promise. long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

geneva@Daniel:10:2 @ At the same time I Daniel was in heauines for three weekes of dayes.

geneva@Daniel:10:3 @ I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint my selfe at all, till three weekes of dayes were fulfilled.

geneva@Daniel:10:4 @ And in the four and twentieth day of the (note:)Called Abib, which contains part of March, and part of April.(:note) first month, as I Being carried by the Spirit of prophecy so that he could see the river Tigris. was by the side of the great river, which [is] Hiddekel;

geneva@Daniel:10:5 @ Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man (note:)This was the angel of God, who was sent to assure Daniel in this prophecy that follows.(:note) clothed in linen, whose loins [were] girded with fine gold of Uphaz:

geneva@Daniel:10:6 @ His body also was like the Chrysolite, and his face (to looke vpon) like the lightning, & his eyes as lamps of fire, and his armes and his feete were like in colour to polished brasse, & the voyce of his wordes was like the voyce of a multitude.

geneva@Daniel:10:8 @ Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for (note:)So that because of fear he was like a dead man because of his deformity.(:note) my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.

geneva@Daniel:10:9 @ Yet heard I the voyce of his wordes: and when I heard the voyce of his wordes, I slept on my face: and my face was toward the ground.

geneva@Daniel:10:13 @ But the (note:)Meaning Cambyses, who reigned in his father's absence, and did not only for this time hinder the building of the temple, but would have further raged, if God had not sent me to resist him: and therefore I have stayed for the profit of the Church.(:note) prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Even though God could by one angel destroy all the world, yet to assure his children of his love he sends forth double power, even Michael, that is, Christ Jesus the head of angels. Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

geneva@Daniel:10:14 @ Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the (note:)For even though the Prophet Daniel would end and cease, yet his doctrine would continue until the coming of Christ, for the comfort of his Church.(:note) vision [is] for [many] days.

geneva@Daniel:10:16 @ And, behold, (note:)This was the same angel that spoke with him before in the appearance of a man.(:note) [one] like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, I was overcome with fear and sorrow, when I saw the vision. by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.

geneva@Daniel:10:17 @ For howe can the seruant of this my Lorde talke with my Lord being such one? for as for me, straight way there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.

geneva@Daniel:10:19 @ And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: (note:)He declares by this that God would be merciful to the people of Israel.(:note) peace [be] unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I Which declares that when God smites his children down, he does not immediately lift them up at once (for now the Angel had touched him twice), but by little and little. was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.

geneva@Daniel:10:21 @ But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: (note:)For this angel was appointed for the defence of the Church under Christ, who is the head of it.(:note) and [there is] none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

geneva@Daniel:11:1 @ Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, [even] I, (note:)The angel assures Daniel that God has given him power to perform these things, seeing that he appointed him to assist Darius when he overcame the Chaldeans.(:note) stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

geneva@Daniel:11:2 @ And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet (note:)Of which Cambyses that now reigned was the first, the second Smerdes, the third Darius the son of Hystaspis, and the fourth Xerxes, who all were enemies to the people of God, and stood against them.(:note) three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than [they] all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up For he raised up all the east countries to fight against the Grecians, and even though he had in his army 900,000 men, yet in four battles he was defeated, and fled away with shame. all against the realm of Grecia.

geneva@Daniel:11:4 @ And when he shall stand up, (note:)For when his estate was most flourishing, he overcame himself with drink, and so fell into a disease: or as some write, was poisoned by Cassander.(:note) his kingdom shall be broken, For his twelve chief princes first divided his kingdom among themselves. and shall be divided toward the After this his monarchy was divided into four: for Seleucus had Syria, Antigonus had Asia minor, Cassander had the kingdom of Macedonia, and Ptolemeus had Egypt. four winds of heaven; and not to his Thus God avenged Alexander's ambition and cruelty, in causing his posterity to be murdered, partly by their father's chief friends, and partly by one another. posterity, nor according to None of these four will be able to be compared to the power of Alexander. his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside That is, his posterity having no part of it. those.

geneva@Daniel:11:5 @ And the (note:)That is, Ptolemeus king of Egypt.(:note) king of the south shall be strong, and [one] of That is, Antiochus the son of Seleucus, and one of Alexander's princes will be more mighty: for he would have both Asia and Syria. his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion [shall be] a great dominion.

geneva@Daniel:11:7 @ But out of a branch of her (note:)Meaning that Ptolemais Evergetes after the death of his father Philadelphus would succeed in the kingdom, being of the same stock that Bernice was.(:note) roots shall [one] stand up in his estate, To revenge the sister's death against Antiochus Calinicus King of Syria. which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:

geneva@Daniel:11:10 @ But his (note:)Meaning Seleucus and Antiochus the great, the sons of Calinicus, will make war against Ptolemais Philopater, the son of Philadelphus.(:note) sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and [one] For his older brother Seleucus died, or was slain while the armies were preparing for war. shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he That is, Philopater, when he will see Antiochus take great dominions from him in Syria, and also ready to invade Egypt. return, and be stirred up, [even] to his fortress.

geneva@Daniel:11:12 @ Then the multitude shall be proude, and their heart shall be lifted vp: for hee shall cast downe thousands: but he shall not still preuaile.

geneva@Daniel:11:13 @ For the king of the north (note:)After the death of Ptolemais Philopater, who left Ptolemais Epiphanes as his heir.(:note) shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.

geneva@Daniel:11:15 @ So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall (note:)The Egyptians were not able to resist Stopas, Antiochus' captain.(:note) not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither [shall there be any] strength to withstand.

geneva@Daniel:11:17 @ He shall also (note:)This was the second battle that Antiochus fought against Ptolemais Epiphanes.(:note) set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the That is, a beautiful woman who was Cleopatra, Antiochus' daughter. daughter of women, corrupting For he did not regard the life of his daughter in respect of the kingdom of Egypt. her: but She will not agree to his wicked counsel, but will love her husband, as her duty requires, and not seek his destruction. she shall not stand [on his side], neither be for him.

geneva@Daniel:11:18 @ After this shall he turn his face unto the (note:)That is, towards Asia, Greece, and those isles which are in the Mediterranean Sea: for the Jews called all countries which were divided by the sea «isles».(:note) isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf For whereas Antiochus was accustomed to condemn the Romans, and put their ambassadors to shame in all places, Attilius the consul, or Lucius Scipio put him to flight, and caused his shame to turn on his own head. shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause [it] to turn upon By his wicked life, and obedience to foolish counsel. him.

geneva@Daniel:11:19 @ Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of (note:)For fear of the Romans he will flee to his strongholds.(:note) his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be For when as under the pretence of poverty he would have robbed the temple of Jupiter Dodomeus, the countrymen slew him. found.

geneva@Daniel:11:21 @ And in his estate shall stand up a (note:)Who was Antiochus Epiphanes, who as is thought was the occasion of Seleucus his brother's death, and was of a vile, cruel, and flattering nature, and defrauded his brother's son of the kingdom, and usurped the kingdom without the consent of the people.(:note) vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

geneva@Daniel:11:22 @ And with the (note:)He shows that great foreign powers will come to help the young son of Seleucus against his uncle Antiochus, and yet will be overthrown.(:note) arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the Meaning Ptolemais Philopater's son, who was this child's cousin, and is here called the prince of the covenant, because he was the chief, and all others followed his conduct. covenant.

geneva@Daniel:11:24 @ He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do [that] which his fathers (note:)Meaning, in Egypt.(:note) have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: [yea], and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a He will content himself with the small strongholds for a time, but will always labour by craft to attain to the chiefest. time.

geneva@Daniel:11:25 @ And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not (note:)He will be overcome with treason.(:note) stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.

geneva@Daniel:11:27 @ And both these kings' hearts [shall be] to do (note:)The uncle and the nephew will make truce, and banquet together, yet in their hearts they will imagine mischief against one another.(:note) mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for Signifying that it depends not on the counsel of men to bring things to pass, but on the providence of God, who rules the kings by a secret bridle, so that they cannot do what they themselves wish. yet the end [shall be] at the time appointed.

geneva@Daniel:11:29 @ At the time appointed he shall returne, and come toward the South: but the last shall not be as the first.

geneva@Daniel:11:30 @ For the ships (note:)That is, the Roman power will come against him: for P. Popilius the ambassador appointed him to depart in the Romans' name, which he obeyed, although with grief, and to avenge his rage he came against the people of God the second time.(:note) of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, With the Jews who will forsake the covenant of the Lord: for first he was called against the Jews by Jason the high priest, and this second time by Menelaus. and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

geneva@Daniel:11:31 @ And arms (note:)A great faction of the wicked Jews will join with Antiochus.(:note) shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary So called because the power of God was not at all diminished, even though this tyrant set up in the temple the image of Jupiter Olympius, and so began to corrupt the pure service of God. of strength, and shall take away the daily [sacrifice], and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

geneva@Daniel:11:32 @ And such as do wickedly (note:)Meaning those who had the name of Jews, but indeed were not Jews at all, for they sold their souls, and betrayed their brethren for gain.(:note) against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do [exploits].

geneva@Daniel:11:34 @ Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a (note:)As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet he will not deliver it all at once, but help in such a way that they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, of which he here prophesies.(:note) little help: but many shall cleave to them That is, there will even be among this small number many hypocrites. with flatteries.

geneva@Daniel:11:35 @ And [some] of them (note:)That is, of those that fear God and will lose their life for the defence of true religion. Signifying also that the Church must continually be tried and purged, and ought to look for one persecution after another: for God has appointed the time, and therefore we must obey.(:note) of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make [them] white, [even] to the time of the end: because [it is] yet for a time appointed.

geneva@Daniel:11:36 @ And the (note:)Because the angels purpose is to show the whole course of the persecutions of the Jews until the coming of Christ, he now speaks of the monarchy of the Romans, which he notes by the name of a king, who were without religion and condemned the true God.(:note) king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation So long the tyrants will prevail as God has appointed to punish his people: but he shows that it is but for a time. be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

geneva@Daniel:11:37 @ Neither shall he regard the (note:)The Romans will observe no certain form of religion as other nations, but will change their gods at their pleasures, indeed, they will condemn them and prefer themselves to their gods.(:note) God of his fathers, nor the desire Signifying that they would be without all humanity: for the love of women is taken for singular or great love, as (2Sa_1:26). of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

geneva@Daniel:11:38 @ But in his estate shall he honour the (note:)That is, the god of power and riches: they will esteem their own power above all their gods and worship it.(:note) God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with Under pretence of worshipping the gods, they will enrich their city with the most precious jewels of all the world, because by this all men would hold them in admiration for their power and riches. gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

geneva@Daniel:11:39 @ Thus shall he do in (note:)Even though in their hearts they had no religion, yet they did acknowledge the gods, and worshipped them in their temples, lest they should have been despised as atheists. But this was to increase their fame and riches, and when they gained any country, they made others the rulers of it in such a way that the profit always came to the Romans.(:note) the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge [and] increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

geneva@Daniel:11:40 @ And at the time of the end shall the king of the (note:)That is, both the Egyptians and the Syrians will at length fight against the Romans, but they will be overcome.(:note) south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

geneva@Daniel:11:41 @ He shall enter also into the (note:)The angel forewarns the Jews that when they should see the Romans invade them, and that the wicked would escape their hands, that then they should think that all this was done by God's providence, seeing that he warned them of it so long before, and therefore he would still preserve them.(:note) glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, [even] Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

geneva@Daniel:11:43 @ But he shall haue power ouer the treasures of golde and of siluer, and ouer all the precious things of Egypt, and of the Lybians, and of the blacke Mores where he shall passe.

geneva@Daniel:11:44 @ But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall (note:)Hearing that Crassus was slain, and Antonius defeated.(:note) trouble him: therefore he shall go forth For Augustus overcame the Parthians, and recovered that which Antonius had lost. with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

geneva@Daniel:11:45 @ And he shall plant the tabernacles (note:)The Romans after this reigned quietly throughout all countries, and from sea to sea, and in Judea: but at length because of their cruelty God will destroy them.(:note) of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

geneva@Daniel:12:1 @ And at that (note:)The angel here notes two things: first that the Church will be in great affliction and trouble at Christ's coming, and next that God will send his angel to deliver it, whom he here calls Michael, meaning Christ, who is proclaimed by the preaching of the Gospel.(:note) time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

geneva@Daniel:12:2 @ And many (note:)Meaning all will rise at the general resurrection, which thing he here names because the faithful should always consider that: for in the earth there will be no sure comfort.(:note) of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

geneva@Daniel:12:3 @ And they that be (note:)Who have kept the true fear of God and his religion.(:note) wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that He chiefly means the ministers of God's word, and next all the faithful who instruct the ignorant, and bring them to the true knowledge of God. turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

geneva@Daniel:12:4 @ But thou, O Daniel, (note:)Even though the most part despise this prophecy, yet make sure you keep it and esteem it as a treasure.(:note) shut up the words, and seal the book, Until the time that God has appointed for the full revelation of these things: and then many will run to and fro to search for the knowledge of these mysteries, which things they obtain now by the light of the Gospel. [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

geneva@Daniel:12:5 @ Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the (note:)Which was the Tigris.(:note) river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

geneva@Daniel:12:6 @ And one saide vnto the man clothed in linen, which was vpon ye waters of the riuer, When shalbe the ende of these wonders?

geneva@Daniel:12:7 @ And I heard the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his (note:)Which was as it were a double oath, and did the more confirm the thing.(:note) right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for a Meaning, a long time, a longer time, and at length a short time: signifying that their troubles would have an end. time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished When the Church will be scattered and diminished in such a way as it will seem to have no power. to scatter the power of the holy people, all these [things] shall be finished.

geneva@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days (note:)Also called Azariah, who being a leper was disposed from his kingdom.(:note) of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, So that it may be gathered by the reign of these four kings that he preached about eighty years. kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. The Argument - After the ten tribes had fallen away from God by the wicked and subtle counsel of Jeroboam, the son of Neba, and instead of his true service commanded by his word, worshipped him according to their own imaginings and traditions of men, giving themselves to most vile idolatry and superstition, the Lord from time to time sent them Prophets to call them to repentance. But they grew even worse and worse, and still abused God's benefits. Therefore now when their prosperity was at the highest under Jeroboam, the son of Joash, God sent Hosea and Amos to the Israelites (as he did at the same time send Isaiah and Micah to those of Judah) to condemn them for their ingratitude. And whereas they thought themselves to be greatly in the favour of God, and to be his people, the Prophet calls them bastards and children born in adultery: and therefore shows them that God would take away their kingdom, and give them to the Assyrians to be led away captives. Thus Hosea faithfully executed his office for the space of seventy years, though they remained still in their vices and wickedness and derided the Prophets, and condemned God's judgments. And because they would neither be discouraged with threatening only, nor should they flatter themselves by the sweetness of God's promises, he sets before them the two principal parts of the Law, which are the promise of salvation, and the doctrine of life. For the first part he directs the faithful to the Messiah, by whom alone they would have true deliverance: and for the second, he uses threatenings and menaces to bring them from their wicked manners and vices: and this is the chief scope of all the Prophets, either by God's promises to allure them to be godly, or else by threatenings of his judgments to scare them from vice. And even though the whole Law contains these two points, yet the Prophets moreover note distinctly both the time of God's judgments and the manner.

geneva@Hosea:1:2 @ The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife (note:)That is, one that has been a harlot for a long time: not that the Prophet did this thing in effect, but he saw this in a vision, or else was commanded by God to set forth under this parable or figure the idolatry of the Synagogue, and of the people her children.(:note) of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD.

geneva@Hosea:1:4 @ And the LORD said unto him, Call his name (note:)Meaning that they would no longer be called Israelites, which name they boasted because Israel did prevail with God: but that they were as bastards, and therefore should be called Jezreelites, that is, scattered people, alluding to Jezreel, which was the chief city of the ten tribes under Ahab, where Jehu shed so much blood; (1Ki_18:45).(:note) Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of I will be avenged upon Jehu for the blood that he shed in Jezreel: for even though God stirred him up to execute his judgments, yet he did them for his own ambition, and not for the glory of God as the intended goal: for he built up that idolatry which he had destroyed. Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

geneva@Hosea:1:5 @ And it shall come to pass at that (note:)When the measure of their iniquity is full, and I will take vengeance and destroy all their administration and strength.(:note) day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

geneva@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call her name (note:)That is, not obtaining mercy: by which he signifies that God's favour had departed from them.(:note) Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly For the Israelites never returned after they were taken captives by the Assyrians. take them away.

geneva@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the (note:)Because they thought that God could not have been true in his promise unless he had preserved them, he declares that though they were destroyed, yet the true Israelites who are the sons of the promise, would be without number, who consist both of the Jews and the Gentiles; (Rom_9:26).(:note) children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.

geneva@Hosea:2:2 @ Plead with your (note:)God shows that the fault was not in him, that he forsook them, but in their Synagogue, and their idolatries; (Isa_50:1).(:note) mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries Meaning that their idolatry was so great, that they were not ashamed, but boasted of it; (Eze_16:25). from between her breasts;

geneva@Hosea:2:3 @ Lest I strip her naked, and (note:)For even though his people were as a harlot for their idolatries, yet he had left them with their dress and dowry and certain signs of his favour, but if they continued still, he would utterly destroy them.(:note) set her as in the day that she was When I brought her out of Egypt. {{See Eze_16:4}} born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

geneva@Hosea:2:4 @ And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the (note:)That is bastards, and begotten in adultery.(:note) children of whoredoms.

geneva@Hosea:2:7 @ And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, (note:)This he speaks of the faithful, who are truly converted, and also shows the use and profit of God's punishments.(:note) I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.

geneva@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore will I return, and take away (note:)Signifying that God will take away his benefits, when man by his ingratitude abuses them.(:note) my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.

geneva@Hosea:2:11 @ I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast daies, her newe moones, and her Sabbathes, and all her solemne feasts.

geneva@Hosea:2:12 @ And I wil destroy her vines & her figtrees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen mee: and I will make them as a forest, and the wilde beasts shall eate them.

geneva@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will visit upon her the days of (note:)I will punish her for her idolatry.(:note) Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her By showing how harlots trim themselves to please others, he declares how superstitious idolaters set a great part of their religion in adorning themselves on their holy days. earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Hosea:2:15 @ And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley (note:)Which was a plentiful valley, and in which they had great comfort when they came out of the wilderness, as in (Jos_7:26), and is called the door of hope, because it was a departing from death and an entry into life.(:note) of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall She will then praise God as she did when she was delivered out of Egypt. sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:2:16 @ And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, [that] thou shalt call me (note:)That is, my husband, knowing that I am united to you by a covenant which could not be violated.(:note) Ishi; and shalt call me no more That is, my master: which name was applied to their idols. Baali.

geneva@Hosea:2:18 @ And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the (note:)Meaning that he will so bless them that all creatures will favour them.(:note) beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

geneva@Hosea:2:19 @ And I wil marry thee vnto me for euer: yea, I will marry thee vnto me in righteousnes, and in iudgement, and in mercy and in compassion.

geneva@Hosea:2:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear (note:)Then will the heaven desire rain for the earth, which will bring forth things for the use of man.(:note) the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

geneva@Hosea:2:23 @ And I will sowe her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercie vpon her, that was not pitied, and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; they shal say, Thou art my God.

geneva@Hosea:3:1 @ Then said the LORD unto me, (note:)In this the Prophet represents the person of God, who loved his Church before he called her, and did not withdraw his love when she gave herself to idols.(:note) Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and That is, gave themselves wholly to pleasure, and could not stop, as those that are given to drunkenness. love flagons of wine.

geneva@Hosea:3:2 @ So (note:)Yet I loved her and paid a small portion for her, lest she would have perceived the greatness of my love, and abused me, and not been under duty: for fifteen pieces of silver was but half the price of a slave; (Exo_21:32).(:note) I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

geneva@Hosea:3:3 @ And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for (note:)I will try you a long time as in your widowhood, whether you will be mine or not.(:note) me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man: so [will] I also [be] for thee.

geneva@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and (note:)This is meant of Christ's kingdom, which was promised to David to be eternal; (Psa_72:17).(:note) David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

geneva@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein, shall be cut off, with the beasts of the fielde, and with the foules of the heauen, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.

geneva@Hosea:4:4 @ Yet (note:)As though he would say that it was in vain to rebuke them, for no man can endure it: indeed, they will speak against the prophets and priests whose office it is chiefly to rebuke them.(:note) let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people [are] as they that strive with the priest.

geneva@Hosea:4:5 @ Therefore shalt thou fall in the (note:)You will both perish together as one, because the former would not obey, and the other, because he would not admonish.(:note) day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy That is, the synagogue in which you boast. mother.

geneva@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because (note:)That is, the priests will be cast off, because for lack of knowledge they are not able to execute their charge, and instruct others; (Deu_33:3; Mal_2:7).(:note) thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing Meaning the whole body of the people, who were weary with hearing the word of God. thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

geneva@Hosea:4:7 @ As they were (note:)The more I was beneficial to them.(:note) increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.

geneva@Hosea:4:9 @ And there shall be, like people, like (note:)Signifying that as they have sinned together, so will they be punished together.(:note) priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

geneva@Hosea:4:10 @ For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall (note:)Showing that their wickedness will be punished in all ways: for even though they think by the multitude of wives to have many children, yet they will be deceived of their hope.(:note) commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

geneva@Hosea:4:12 @ My (note:)Thus he speaks by derision in calling them his people, who now because of their sins they were not his people: for they sought help from stocks or wooden images and sticks or idols.(:note) people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the They are carried away with madness. spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

geneva@Hosea:4:15 @ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] (note:)God complains that Judah is infected, and wants them to learn to return in time.(:note) let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto For even though the Lord had honoured this place by his presence, yet because it was abused by their idolatry, he did not want his people to resort there. Gilgal, neither go ye up to He calls Bethel, that is, the house of God, Bethaven, that is, the house of iniquity, because of their abominations set up there, signifying that no place is holy, where God is not purely worshipped. Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

geneva@Hosea:4:16 @ For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a (note:)God will so disperse them, that they will not remain in any certain place.(:note) lamb in a large place.

geneva@Hosea:4:19 @ The wind hath (note:)To carry them suddenly away.(:note) bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

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@Hosea:5:3 @ I know (note:)They boasted themselves not only to be Israelites, but also Ephraimites, because their King Jeroboam came from that tribe.(:note) Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.

geneva@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud [at] Bethaven, after thee, O (note:)That is, all of Israel that was included under this tribe, signifying that the Lord's plagues would pursue them from place to place until they were destroyed.(:note) Benjamin.

geneva@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iudah as a rottennesse.

geneva@Hosea:5:13 @ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to (note:)Instead of seeking for remedy from God's hand.(:note) the Assyrian, and sent to king Who was king of the Assyrians. Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

geneva@Hosea:5:14 @ For I will be vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iudah: I, euen I will spoyle, and goe away: I will take away, and none shall rescue it.

geneva@Hosea:6:3 @ Then shall we haue knowledge, and indeuour our selues to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come vnto vs as the raine, and as the latter raine vnto the earth.

geneva@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for (note:)You seem to have a certain holiness and repentance, but it is very sudden, and as a morning cloud.(:note) your goodness [is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

geneva@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore have I (note:)I have still laboured by my prophets, and as it were prepared you to bring you to correction, but all was in vain: for my word was not food to feed them, but a sword to slay them.(:note) hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy My doctrine which I taught you, was most evident. judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth.

geneva@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desired (note:)He shows to what his doctrine was aimed at, that they should unite the obedience of God, and the love of their neighbour, with outward sacrifices.(:note) mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

geneva@Hosea:6:9 @ And as the eues waite for a man, so the companie of Priestes murther in the way by consent: for they worke mischiefe.

geneva@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, he hath set an (note:)That is, imitates your idolatry, and has taken grafts of your trees.(:note) harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

geneva@Hosea:7:1 @ When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and (note:)Meaning that there was no one type of vice among them, but that they were subject to all wickedness, both secret and open.(:note) the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.

geneva@Hosea:7:3 @ They make the (note:)They esteem their wicked king Jeroboam above God, and seek how to flatter and please him.(:note) king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

geneva@Hosea:7:4 @ They [are] all adulterers, as an (note:)He compares the rage of the people to a burning oven which the baker heats, until his dough is leavened and raised.(:note) oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

geneva@Hosea:7:5 @ In the (note:)They used all indulgence and excess in their feasts and solemnities, by which their king was overcome with being fed too much, and brought into diseases, and who delighted in flatteries.(:note) day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

geneva@Hosea:7:6 @ For they haue made ready their heart like an ouen whiles they lie in waite: their baker sleepeth all the night: in the morning it burneth as a flame of fire.

geneva@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, and have (note:)By their doing God has deprived them of all good rulers.(:note) devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me.

geneva@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim, he hath (note:)That is, he counterfeited the religion of the Gentiles, yet is but as a cake baked on the one side, and raw on the other, that is, neither thoroughly hot, nor thoroughly cold, but partly a Jew, and partly a Gentile.(:note) mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

geneva@Hosea:7:11 @ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without (note:)That is, without all judgment, as those that cannot tell whether it is better to cleave only to God, or to seek the help of man.(:note) heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

geneva@Hosea:7:12 @ When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their (note:)According to my curses made to the whole congregation of Israel.(:note) congregation hath heard.

geneva@Hosea:7:14 @ And they have not cried unto me with their heart, (note:)When they were in affliction, and cried out in pain, they did not seek me for help.(:note) when they howled upon their beds: They only seek their own benefit and wealth, and care not for me their God. they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.

geneva@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage (note:)Because they boast of their own strength, and do not care what they speak against me and my servants; (Psa_73:9).(:note) of their tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:8:1 @ [Set] the trumpet to thy (note:)God encourages the Prophet to signify the speedy coming of the enemy against Israel, which was once the people of God.(:note) mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

geneva@Hosea:8:2 @ Israel shall (note:)They will cry like hypocrites, but not from the heart, as their deeds declare.(:note) cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

geneva@Hosea:8:3 @ Israel hath cast off ye thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.

geneva@Hosea:8:5 @ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to (note:)That is, upright judgment and a godly life.(:note) innocency?

geneva@Hosea:8:7 @ For they have (note:)Showing that their religion has but a show, and in itself is but vanity.(:note) sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

geneva@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is deuoured, now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.

geneva@Hosea:8:9 @ For they are gone up to Assyria, a (note:)They never cease, but run to and fro to seek help.(:note) wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

geneva@Hosea:8:12 @ I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a (note:)In this way the idolaters consider the word of God as strange with regard to their own invention.(:note) strange thing.

geneva@Hosea:8:13 @ They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat [it; but] the (note:)Saying that they offer it to the Lord, but he accepts no service which he himself has not appointed.(:note) LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:8:14 @ For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth Temples, & Iudah hath increased strong cities: but I will sende a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.

geneva@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, (note:)For even though all other people should escape, yet you will be punished.(:note) as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved You have committed idolatry in hope of reward, and to have your barns filled ((Jer_44:17)), as a harlot that had rather live by playing the whore, than to be provided for by her own husband. a reward upon every cornfloor.

geneva@Hosea:9:3 @ They wil not dwel in the Lordes lande, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, and they will eate vncleane things in Asshur.

geneva@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not offer (note:)All their doings both with regard to administration and religion, will be rejected as polluted things.(:note) wine [offerings] to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices [shall be] unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread The meat offering which they offered for themselves. for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do (note:)When the Lord will take away all the occasions of serving him, which will be the most grievous part of your captivity, when you will see yourselves cut off from God.(:note) in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

geneva@Hosea:9:6 @ For, lo, they are gone because of (note:)Even though they think to escape by fleeing the destruction that is at hand, yet they will be destroyed in the place where they flee for help.(:note) destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles.

geneva@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim (note:)The Prophet's duty is to bring men to God, and not to be a snare to pull them from God.(:note) [was] with my God: [but] the prophet [is] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his God.

geneva@Hosea:9:9 @ They (note:)This people is so rooted in their wickedness, that Gibeah, which was similar to Sodom, was never more corrupt; (Jdg_19:22).(:note) have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of Gibeah: [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

geneva@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel like (note:)Meaning, that he esteemed them and delighted in them in this way.(:note) grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according They were as abominable to me, as their lovers the idols. as they loved.

geneva@Hosea:9:11 @ [As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, (note:)Signifying that God would destroy their children by these different means, and so consume them by little and little.(:note) and from the womb, and from the conception.

geneva@Hosea:9:13 @ Ephraim, as I saw (note:)As they kept tender plants in their houses in Tyrus to preserve them from the cold air of the sea, so was Ephraim at the first to me: but now I will give him to the slaughter.(:note) Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

geneva@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a (note:)The Prophet seeing the great plagues of God toward Ephraim, prays to God to make them barren, rather than that this great slaughter should come upon their children.(:note) miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

geneva@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shall wander among the nations.

geneva@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel [is] an (note:)Of which though the grapes were gathered, yet always as it gathered new strength it increased in new wickedness, so that the correction which should have brought them to obedience, only proclaimed their stubbornness.(:note) empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the As they were rich and had abundance. goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

geneva@Hosea:10:4 @ They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making (note:)In promising to be faithful toward God.(:note) a covenant: thus In this way their integrity and fidelity which they pretended, was nothing but bitterness and grief. judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

geneva@Hosea:10:6 @ It shall bee also brought to Asshur, for a present vnto King Iareb: Ephraim shall receiue shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his owne counsell.

geneva@Hosea:10:7 @ Of Samaria, the King thereof is destroyed as the some vpon the water.

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

geneva@Hosea:10:10 @ [It is] in my desire (note:)Because they are so desperate, I will delight to destroy them.(:note) that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two That is, when they have gathered all their strength together. furrows.

geneva@Hosea:10:11 @ And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loveth to (note:)In which is pleasure, whereas in plowing there is labour and pain.(:note) tread out [the corn]; but I passed over upon her I will lay my yoke upon her fat neck. fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, [and] Jacob shall break his clods.

geneva@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as (note:)That is, Shalmaneser in the destruction of that city spared neither type nor age.(:note) Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children.

geneva@Hosea:11:1 @ When Israel (note:)While the Israelites were in Egypt, and did not provoke my wrath by their malice and ingratitude.(:note) [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:11:2 @ [As] they called them, so they (note:)They rebelled and went a contrary way when the Prophets called them to repentance.(:note) went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

geneva@Hosea:11:3 @ I ledde Ephraim also, as one shoulde beare them in his armes: but they knewe not that I healed them.

geneva@Hosea:11:4 @ I drew them with cords (note:)That is, friendly, and not as beasts or slaves.(:note) of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

geneva@Hosea:11:5 @ He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his (note:)Seeing that they condemn all this kindness, they will be led captive into Assyria.(:note) king, because they refused to return.

geneva@Hosea:11:12 @ Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with (note:)Governs their state according to God's word, and does not degenerate.(:note) God, and is faithful with the saints.

geneva@Hosea:12:1 @ Ephraim feedeth (note:)That is, flatters himself with vain confidence.(:note) on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and Meaning presents to get friendship. oil is carried into Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:12:2 @ The LORD hath also a controversy with (note:)Which in those points was similar to Ephraim, but not in idolatry.(:note) Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

geneva@Hosea:12:3 @ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had (note:)Seeing that God in this way preferred Jacob their father, Judah's ingratitude was the more to be abhorred.(:note) power with God:

geneva@Hosea:12:4 @ Yea, he had (note:)Read (Gen_32:24-32).(:note) power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: God found Jacob as he lay sleeping in Bethel (Gen_28:12), and spoke with him there in such a way that the fruit of that speech appertained to the whole body of the people, of which we are. he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us;

geneva@Hosea:12:7 @ [He is] (note:)As for Ephraim, he is more like the wicked Canaanites than godly Abraham or Jacob.(:note) a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

geneva@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me (note:)Thus way the wicked measure God's favour by outward prosperity, and like hypocrites cannot endure that any should reprove their doings.(:note) that [were] sin.

geneva@Hosea:12:9 @ And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in (note:)Seeing you will not acknowledge my benefits, I will bring you again to dwell in tents, as in the feast of the Tabernacles, which you now condemn.(:note) the days of the solemn feast.

geneva@Hosea:12:11 @ [Is there] (note:)The people thought that no man dare have spoken against Gilead, that holy place, and yet the Prophet says that all their religion was but vanity.(:note) iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

geneva@Hosea:12:13 @ And by a (note:)Meaning Moses, by which appears that whatever they have, it comes from God's free goodness.(:note) prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

geneva@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore they shall bee as the morning cloude, and as the morning dewe that passeth away, as the chaffe that is driuen with a whirlewind out of the floore, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney.

geneva@Hosea:13:6 @ As in their pastures, so were they filled: they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore haue they forgotten me.

geneva@Hosea:13:7 @ And I wil be vnto them as a very lyon, and as a leopard in the way of Asshur.

geneva@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meete them, as a beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I will breake the kall of their heart, and there will I deuoure them like a lion: the wilde beast shall teare them.

geneva@Hosea:13:9 @ O Israel, thou (note:)Your destruction is certain, and my benefits toward you declare that it comes not from me: therefore your own malice, idolatry, and vain confidence in men must necessarily be the cause of it.(:note) hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine help.

geneva@Hosea:13:12 @ The iniquity of Ephraim [is] (note:)It is surely laid up to be punished, as in (Jer_17:1).(:note) bound up; his sin [is] hid.

geneva@Hosea:13:15 @ Though he grewe vp among his brethren, an East winde shall come, euen the winde of the Lord shal come vp from the wildernesse, and drie vp his veine, and his fountaine shalbe dryed vp: he shal spoyle the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

geneva@Hosea:13:16 @ {\cf2 (14:1)} Samaria shalbe desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shal fall by the sworde: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, & their women with childe shalbe ript.

geneva@Hosea:14:1 @ O Israel, (note:)He exhorts them to repentance to avoid all these plagues, exhorting them to declare by words their obedience and repentance.(:note) return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

geneva@Hosea:14:3 @ Asshur shall (note:)We will forsake all vain confidence and pride.(:note) not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

geneva@Hosea:14:5 @ {\cf2 (14:6)} I will be as the dewe vnto Israel: he shall grow as the lilie and fasten his rootes, as the trees of Lebanon.

geneva@Hosea:14:6 @ {\cf2 (14:7)} His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.

geneva@Hosea:14:7 @ They that dwell under his (note:)Whoever unites themselves to this people will be blessed.(:note) shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.

geneva@Hosea:14:8 @ Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I (note:)God shows how prompt he is to hear his own when they repent, and to offer himself as a protection and safeguard for them, as a most sufficient fruit and benefit.(:note) have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

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

geneva@Joel:1:4 @ That which is left of ye palmer worme, hath the grashopper eaten, & the residue of ye grashopper hath the canker worme eaten, and the residue of the canker worme hath the caterpiller eaten.

geneva@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye (note:)Meaning, that the reason for their excess and drunkenness was taken away.(:note) drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

geneva@Joel:1:6 @ For (note:)This was another plague with which God had punished them when he stirred up the Assyrians against them.(:note) a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

geneva@Joel:1:7 @ He maketh my vine waste, & pilleth off the barke of my figge tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: ye branches therof are made white.

geneva@Joel:1:8 @ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the (note:)Mourn grievously as a woman who has lost her husband, to whom she has been married in her youth.(:note) husband of her youth.

geneva@Joel:1:9 @ The meat offering and the drink offering is (note:)The signs of God's wrath appeared in his temple, in so much that God's service was discontinued.(:note) cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

geneva@Joel:1:10 @ The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: (note:)All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away.(:note) the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

geneva@Joel:1:11 @ Be ye ashamed, O husband men: howle, O ye vine dressers for the wheate, and for the barly, because the haruest of the fielde is perished.

geneva@Joel:1:14 @ Sanctifie you a fast: call a solemne assemblie: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the House of the Lorde your God, and cry vnto the Lord,

geneva@Joel:1:15 @ Alas for the day! for the (note:)We see by these great plagues that utter destruction is at hand.(:note) day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

geneva@Joel:1:18 @ How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, & the flockes of sheepe are destroyed.

geneva@Joel:1:19 @ O Lord, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt vp all the trees of the fielde.

geneva@Joel:1:20 @ The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the (note:)That is, drought.(:note) fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

geneva@Joel:2:2 @ A (note:)Of affliction and trouble.(:note) day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a Meaning, the Assyrians. great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.

geneva@Joel:2:3 @ A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [is] as the garden of (note:)The enemy destroyed our plentiful country, wherever he went.(:note) Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

geneva@Joel:2:5 @ Like the noyse of charrets in the toppes of the mountaines shal they leape, like the noyse of a flame of fire that deuoureth the stubble, and as a mightie people prepared to the battel.

geneva@Joel:2:6 @ Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces (note:)They will be pale and black because of fear, as in (Nah_2:10).(:note) shall gather blackness.

geneva@Joel:2:11 @ And the LORD shall (note:)The Lord will stir up the Assyrians to execute his judgments.(:note) utter his voice before his army: for his camp [is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

geneva@Joel:2:12 @ Therefore also now the Lord sayth, Turne you vnto me with all your heart, & with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning,

geneva@Joel:2:15 @ Blowe the trumpet in Zion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assembly.

geneva@Joel:2:16 @ Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the (note:)That as all have sinned, so all may show forth signs of their repentance, so that men seeing the children who are not free from God's wrath, might be the more deeply touched with the consideration of their own sins.(:note) children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

geneva@Joel:2:20 @ But I will remove far off from you the (note:)That is, the Assyrians your enemies.(:note) northern [army], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the Called the Salt Sea, or Persian Sea: meaning, that even though this army was so great that it filled all from this sea to the Mediterranean Sea, yet he would scatter them. east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

geneva@Joel:2:22 @ Be not afrayde, ye beastes of the fielde: for the pastures of the wildernesse are greene: for the tree beareth her fruite: the figge tree & the vine do giue their force.

geneva@Joel:2:23 @ Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain (note:)That is, such as would come by just measure, and would be sent when God was reconciled with them.(:note) moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].

geneva@Joel:2:25 @ And I will render you the yeeres that the grashopper hath eaten, the canker worme and the caterpiller and the palmer worme, my great hoste which I sent among you.

geneva@Joel:2:26 @ So you shal eate and be satisfied and praise the Name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt marueilously with you: and my people shal neuer be ashamed.

geneva@Joel:2:27 @ Ye shal also know, that I am in the middes of Israel, and that I am the Lorde your God and none other, & my people shal neuer be ashamed.

geneva@Joel:2:28 @ And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour (note:)That is, in greater abundance, and more broadly than in times past. And this was fulfilled under Christ, when God's graces and his Spirit under the Gospel were abundantly given to the Church; (Isa_44:3; Act_2:17) (Joh_7:38-39).(:note) out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream As they had visions and dreams in ancient times, so will they now have clearer revelations. dreams, your young men shall see visions:

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

geneva@Joel:3:2 @ I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the (note:)It appears that he alludes to the great victory of Jehoshaphat, whom God used without man's help to destroy the enemies, (2Ch_20:20-26); also he is referring to this word Jehoshaphat, which signifies pleading or judgment, because God would judge the enemies of his Church, as he did there.(:note) valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

geneva@Joel:3:3 @ And they have cast lots for my people; and have (note:)That which the enemy received for the sale of my people, they bestowed upon harlots and drink.(:note) given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

geneva@Joel:3:4 @ Yea, and (note:)He takes the cause of his Church in hand against the enemy, as though the injury were done to himself.(:note) what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me Have I done you wrong, that you will render me the same? a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

geneva@Joel:3:5 @ For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.

geneva@Joel:3:8 @ And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they (note:)For afterward God sold them by Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander the Great, because of the love he had for his people, and by this they were comforted, as though they themselves had sold them.(:note) shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

geneva@Joel:3:11 @ Assemble your selues, and come all yee heathen and gather your selues together round about: there shall the Lord cast downe the mightie men.

geneva@Joel:3:16 @ The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD [will be] the (note:)God assures his own against all trouble, that when he destroys his enemies, his children will be delivered.(:note) hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

geneva@Joel:3:17 @ So shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass (note:)The strangers will no longer destroy his Church: and if they do, it is the fault of the people, who by their sins make the breach for the enemy.(:note) through her any more.

geneva@Joel:3:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the mountains shall (note:)He promises to his Church abundance of graces, {{See Eze_47:1}}, which would water and comfort the most barren places; (Amo_9:13).(:note) drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

geneva@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of (note:)Which was a town five miles from Jerusalem in Judea, but he prophesied in Israel.(:note) Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of In his days the kingdom of Israel flourished the most. Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the Which as Josephus writes, was when Uzziah would have usurped the priest's office, and therefore was smitten with leprosy. earthquake. The Argument - Among many other Prophets that God raised up to admonish the Israelites of his plagues for their wickedness and idolatry, he stirred up Amos, who was a herdman or shepherd of a poor town, and gave him both knowledge and constancy to reprove all estates and degrees, and to make known God's horrible judgments against them, unless they repented in time. And he showed them, that if God did not spare the other nations around them, who had lived as it were in ignorance of God compared to them, but for their sins punished them, then they could look for nothing, but a horrible destruction, unless they turned to the Lord in true repentance. And finally, he comforts the godly with hope of the coming of the Messiah, by whom they would have perfect deliverance and salvation.

geneva@Amos:1:2 @ And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top (note:)Whatever is fruitful and pleasant in Israel, will shortly perish.(:note) of Carmel shall wither.

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

geneva@Amos:1:5 @ I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto (note:)Tiglath Pileser led the Assyrians captive, and brought them to Cyrene, which he here calls Kir.(:note) Kir, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:1:8 @ And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and turne mine hande to Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistims shall perish, sayth the Lord God.

geneva@Amos:1:11 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath (note:)He was a continual enemy to him.(:note) for ever:

geneva@Amos:1:13 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they (note:)He notes the great cruelty of the Ammonites, that did not spare the women, but most tyrannously tormented them, and yet the Ammonites came from Lot, who was of the household of Abraham.(:note) have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

geneva@Amos:2:1 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he burned the (note:)For the Moabites were so cruel against the King of Edom, that they burnt his bones after he was dead: which declared their barbarous rage, that they would avenge themselves upon the dead.(:note) bones of the king of Edom into lime:

geneva@Amos:2:4 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, (note:)Seeing that the Gentiles who did have as much knowledge were punished in this way, Judah which was so fully instructed by the Lord's will, should not think that they would escape.(:note) I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

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:2:9 @ Yet destroyed I the (note:)The destruction of their enemies and his mercy toward them, should have caused their hearts to melt because of love toward him.(:note) Amorite before them, whose height [was] like the height of the cedars, and he [was] strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

geneva@Amos:2:13 @ Behold, I am (note:)You have wearied me with your sins; (Isa_1:14).(:note) pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves.

geneva@Amos:3:3 @ Can two walk together, except they be (note:)By this the Prophet signifies that he speaks not of himself, but as God guides and moves him, which is called the agreement between God and his Prophets.(:note) agreed?

geneva@Amos:3:4 @ Will a (note:)Will God threaten by his Prophet, unless there is some great occasion?(:note) lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

geneva@Amos:3:7 @ Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he (note:)God does not deal with the Israelites as he does with other people: for he always warns them before of his plagues by his Prophets.(:note) revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

geneva@Amos:3:8 @ The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but (note:)Because the people always murmured against the Prophets, he shows that God's Spirit moved them to speak as they did.(:note) prophesy?

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

geneva@Amos:3:12 @ Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh (note:)When the lion has satisfied his hunger, the shepherd finds a leg or a piece of an ear, to show that the sheep have been torn by his teeth.(:note) out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Where they thought to have had a sure stronghold, and to have been in safety. Damascus [in] a couch.

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:4:3 @ And ye shal goe out at the breaches euery kowe forward: and ye shal cast your selues out of the palace, saith the Lord.

geneva@Amos:4:4 @ Come to (note:)He speaks this in contempt of those who resorted to those places, thinking that their great devotion and good intention was sufficient to have bound God to them.(:note) Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three Read (Deu_14:28). years:

geneva@Amos:4:5 @ And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving (note:)As (Lev_7:13).(:note) with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this You only delight in these outward ceremonies and care for nothing else. liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Amos:4:7 @ And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet three (note:)I stopped the rain until the fruits of the earth were destroyed with drought, and yet you would not consider to return to me by repentance.(:note) months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

geneva@Amos:4:9 @ I haue smitten you with blasting, and mildewe: your great gardens and your vineyardes, & your figtrees, and your oliue trees did the palmer worme deuoure: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, saith the Lord.

geneva@Amos:4:10 @ I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of (note:)As I plagued the Egyptians; (Exo_9:10).(:note) Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:4:11 @ I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a (note:)You were almost all consumed, and a few of you were wonderfully preserved; (2Ki_14:26).(:note) firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

geneva@Amos:5:2 @ The (note:)He so calls them, because they so boasted of themselves, or because they were given to lustfulness and daintiness.(:note) virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none to raise her up.

geneva@Amos:5:5 @ But seek not Bethel, nor enter into (note:)In those places they worshipped new idols, which before served for the true honour of God: therefore he says that these will not save them.(:note) Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

geneva@Amos:5:6 @ Seeke the Lorde, and yee shal liue, least he breake out like fire in the house of Ioseph & deuoure it, & there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

geneva@Amos:5:10 @ They hate him (note:)They hate the Prophets, who reprove them in the open assemblies.(:note) that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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:5:14 @ Seeke good and not euil, that ye may liue: and the Lorde God of hostes shalbe with you, as you haue spoken.

geneva@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the (note:)So that people of all types will have reason to lament because of the great plagues.(:note) husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

geneva@Amos:5:17 @ And in al the vines shalbe lamentation: for I wil passe through thee, saith the Lord.

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

geneva@Amos:5:19 @ As if a man did flee from a lyon, & a beare met him: or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

geneva@Amos:5:21 @ I hate and abhorre your feast dayes, and I wil not smell in your solemne assemblies.

geneva@Amos:5:22 @ Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, (note:)Because you have corrupted my true service, and remain obstinate in your vices; (Isa_1:11; Jer_6:10).(:note) I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

geneva@Amos:5:24 @ But let judgment run down as (note:)Do your duty to God, and to your neighbour, and so you will plentifully feel his grace, if you show your abundant affections according to God's word.(:note) waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

geneva@Amos:5:26 @ But ye have borne the tabernacle of your (note:)That idol which you esteemed as your king, and carried about as you did Chiun, in which images you thought that there was a certain divinity.(:note) Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

geneva@Amos:5:27 @ Therefore wil I cause you to goe into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the Lorde, whose Name is the God of hostes.

geneva@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to (note:)The Prophet threatens the wealthy, who did not regard God's plagues, nor threatenings by his Prophets.(:note) them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, These two cities were famous from their first inhabitants the Canaanites: and seeing that before they did not avail those that were born here, why should you think that they should save you who were brought in to dwell in other men's possessions? [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

geneva@Amos:6:2 @ Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be (note:)If God has destroyed these excellent cities in three different kingdoms, that is Babylon, Syria, and that of the Philistines, and has narrowed their wide borders more than yours yet are, do you think that you are better, or that you will escape?(:note) they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

geneva@Amos:6:5 @ That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like (note:)As he caused different types of instruments to be made to serve God's glory, so these did strive to invent as many to serve their unrestrained affections and lusts.(:note) David;

geneva@Amos:6:10 @ And a man's uncle (note:)The destruction will be so great, that almost none will be left to bury the dead: and therefore they will burn them at home, to carry out the burnt ashes with more ease.(:note) shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that [is] by the That is, to some neighbour that dwells near by. sides of the house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, They will be so astonished at this destruction, that they will not boast any more of the name of God, and that they are his people: but they will be silent when they hear God's name, and abhor it, as those that are desperate, or reprobate. Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

geneva@Amos:7:1 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed (note:)To devour the land: and he alludes to the invading of the enemies.(:note) grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth After the public commandment for mowing was given: or as some read, when the kings sheep were shorn. after the king's mowings.

geneva@Amos:7:2 @ And when they had made an ende of eating the grasse of the land, then I saide, O Lorde God, spare, I beseeche thee: who shal raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

geneva@Amos:7:4 @ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, (note:)Meaning, that God's indignation was inflamed against the stubbornness of this people.(:note) and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

geneva@Amos:7:5 @ Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseeche thee: who shal raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

geneva@Amos:7:7 @ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, (note:)Signifying that this would be the last measuring of the people, and that he would defer his judgment no longer.(:note) with a plumbline in his hand.

geneva@Amos:7:8 @ And the Lorde saide vnto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A line. Then said the Lord, Beholde, I wil set a line in the middes of my people Israel, and wil passe by them no more.

geneva@Amos:7:12 @ Also (note:)When this instrument of Satan was not able to accomplish his purpose by the king, he tried by another practice, that was, to scare the Prophet, that he might depart, and not reprove their idolatry there openly, and so hinder his profit.(:note) Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

geneva@Amos:7:14 @ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I [was] no (note:)Thus he shows by his extraordinary calling, that God had given him a charge, which he must necessarily execute.(:note) prophet, neither [was] I a prophet's son; but I [was] an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

geneva@Amos:7:15 @ And the Lord tooke me as I followed the flocke, and the Lord said vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.

geneva@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; (note:)In this way God used to approve the authority of his Prophets, by his plagues and judgments against those who were malicious enemies as in (Jer_28:12-17; Jer_29:21-26), as this day he does against those that persecute the ministers of his Gospel.(:note) Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

geneva@Amos:8:1 @ Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, & behold, a basket of summer fruite.

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

geneva@Amos:8:3 @ And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with (note:)There will be none left to mourn for them.(:note) silence.

geneva@Amos:8:5 @ Saying, When will the (note:)When the scarcity had come they were so greedy for gain, that they thought the holy day to be a hindrance to them.(:note) new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making That is, the measure small, and the price great. the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

geneva@Amos:8:8 @ Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and (note:)That is, the inhabitants of the land will be drowned, as the Nile drowns many when it overflows.(:note) drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt.

geneva@Amos:8:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the (note:)In the midst of their prosperity, I will send great affliction.(:note) sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

geneva@Amos:8:10 @ And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as a bitter day.

geneva@Amos:8:12 @ And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the (note:)By which he shows that they will not only perish in body, but also in soul for lack of God's word, which is the food of it.(:note) word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].

geneva@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the Lord standing upon the (note:)Which was at Jerusalem: for he did not appear in the idolatrous places of Israel.(:note) altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the Both the most important of them, and also the common people. head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

geneva@Amos:9:3 @ And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the (note:)He shows that God will declare himself as an enemy to them in all places, and that his elements and all his creatures will be enemies to destroy them.(:note) serpent, and he shall bite them:

geneva@Amos:9:5 @ And the Lord God of hosts shall touch the land, and it shall melt away, & al that dwel therein shall mourne, and it shall rise vp wholy like a flood, and shall bee drowned as by the flood of Egypt.

geneva@Amos:9:7 @ [Are] ye not as children of the Ethiopians (note:)Am I more bound to you than to the Ethiopians, or other people? Yet I have bestowed upon you greater benefits.(:note) unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Read (Jer_47:4). Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

geneva@Amos:9:9 @ For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the (note:)Meaning that none of his own would perish in his wrath.(:note) least grain fall upon the earth.

geneva@Amos:9:10 @ But all the sinners of my people shall dye by the sword, which say, The euill shal not come, nor hasten for vs.

geneva@Amos:9:11 @ In that day will I raise up the (note:)I will send the promised Messiah, and restore by him the spiritual Israel; (Act_15:16).(:note) tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

geneva@Amos:9:12 @ That they may possess the remnant of (note:)Meaning, the very enemies (as were the Edomites) and others would be united with the Jews in one society and body, of which Christ would be the head.(:note) Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

geneva@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; (note:)God has certainly revealed to his prophets, that he will raise up the heathen to destroy the Edomites, concerning which the rumour is now proclaimed; (Jer_49:14).(:note) We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and Thus the heathen encourage themselves to rise against Edom. let us rise up against her in battle. The Argument - The Idumeans, who came from Esau, were mortal enemies always to the Israelites, who came from Jacob, and therefore did not only vex them continually with various types of cruelty, but also stirred up others to fight against them. Therefore when they were now in their greatest prosperity, and did most triumph against Israel, which was in great affliction and misery, God raised up his Prophet to comfort the Israelites. For God had now determined to destroy their adversaries, who did so severely vex them, and to send them those who would deliver them, and set up the kingdom of the Messiah which he had promised.

geneva@Obadiah:1:3 @ The (note:)Which despises all others in respect of yourself, and yet you are but a handful in comparison with others, and you are shut up among the hills as separate from the rest of the world.(:note) pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

geneva@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though thou exalt thy selfe as the egle, and make thy nest among the starres, thence will I bring thee downe, sayth the Lord.

geneva@Obadiah:1:6 @ Howe are the things of Esau sought vp, and his treasures searched?

geneva@Obadiah:1:10 @ For [thy] violence against thy (note:)He shows the reason why the Edomites were so severely punished: that is, because they were enemies to his Church, whom he now comforts by punishing their enemies.(:note) brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

geneva@Obadiah:1:11 @ In the day that thou stoodest (note:)When Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem, you joined with him, and had part of the spoil, and so rejoiced when my people (that is, your brother), were afflicted, whereas you should have pitied and helped your brother.(:note) on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them.

geneva@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day (note:)When he will summon all the heathen, and send them to destroy you.(:note) of the LORD [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

geneva@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as ye have (note:)That is, rejoiced and triumphed.(:note) drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be The Edomites will be utterly destroyed, and yet in spite of all the enemies I will reserve my Church and restore it. as though they had not been.

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

geneva@Jonah:1:2 @ Arise, go to (note:)For seeing the great obstipation of the Israelites, he sent his Prophet to the Gentiles, that they might provoke them to repentance, or at least make them inexcusable: for Nineveh was the chief city of the Assyrians.(:note) Nineveh, that For as authors write, it contained in circuit about forty-eight miles, and had 1500 towers, and at this time there were 120,000 children in it; (Jon_4:11). great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

geneva@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose up to (note:)By which he declares his weakness, that would not promptly follow the Lord's calling, but gave place to his own reason, which persuaded him that he would not profit these people at all, seeing he had done such little good among his own people; (Jon_4:2).(:note) flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Which was the haven, and port to take shipping there, also called Joppa. Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the From that vocation to which God had called him, and in which he would have assisted him. presence of the LORD.

geneva@Jonah:1:4 @ But the Lorde sent out a great winde into the sea, and there was a mightie tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

geneva@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. But Jonah was gone down (note:)As one that would have cast off this care and concern by seeking rest and quietness.(:note) into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

geneva@Jonah:1:6 @ So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy (note:)As they had called on their idols, which declares that idolaters have no rest nor certainty, but in their troubles seek what they do not even know.(:note) God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

geneva@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast (note:)Which declares that the matter was very extreme and in doubt, which was God's way of getting them to test for the cause: and this may not be done except in matters of great importance.(:note) lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

geneva@Jonah:1:10 @ Then were the men exceedingly afrayde, and said vnto him, Why hast thou done this? (for the men knewe, that he fled from the presence of the Lorde, because he had tolde them)

geneva@Jonah:1:11 @ Then saide they vnto him, What shall we doe vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? (for the sea wrought and was troublous)

geneva@Jonah:1:12 @ And he said vnto them, Take me, and cast me into the sea: so shall the sea be calme vnto you: for I knowe that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you.

geneva@Jonah:1:13 @ Neuerthelesse, the men rowed to bring it to the lande, but they coulde not: for the sea wrought, and was troublous against them.

geneva@Jonah:1:14 @ Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, (note:)This declares that the very wicked in their time of need flee to God for help, and also that they are touched with a certain fear of shedding man's blood, whereas they know no manifest sign of wickedness.(:note) We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

geneva@Jonah:1:15 @ So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.

geneva@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men (note:)They were touched with a certain repentance of their past life, and began to worship the true God by whom they saw themselves as wonderfully delivered. But this was done for fear, and not from a pure heart and affection, neither according to God's word.(:note) feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

geneva@Jonah:1:17 @ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the (note:)Thus the Lord would chastise his Prophet with a most terrible spectacle of death, and by this also strengthened and encouraged him of his favour and support in this duty which was commanded him.(:note) belly of the fish three days and three nights.

geneva@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God (note:)Being now swallowed up by death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith broke out to the Lord, knowing that out of this very hell he was able to deliver him.(:note) out of the fish's belly,

geneva@Jonah:2:2 @ And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly (note:)For he was now in the fishes belly as in a grave or place of darkness.(:note) of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.

geneva@Jonah:2:3 @ For thou haddest cast me into the bottome in the middes of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waues passed ouer me.

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

geneva@Jonah:2:5 @ The waters compassed me about vnto the soule: the depth closed me rounde about, and the weedes were wrapt about mine head.

geneva@Jonah:2:6 @ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my (note:)You have delivered me from the belly of the fish and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life.(:note) life from corruption, O LORD my God.

geneva@Jonah:2:10 @ And the Lorde spake vnto the fish, and it cast out Ionah vpon the dry lande.

geneva@Jonah:3:1 @ And the word of the LORD came unto (note:)This is a great declaration of God's mercy, that he receives him again, and sends him forth as his Prophet, who had before shown such great weakness.(:note) Jonah the second time, saying,

geneva@Jonah:3:3 @ So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding (note:){{See Jon_1:2}}(:note) great city of three days' journey.

geneva@Jonah:3:4 @ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's (note:)He went forward one day in the city and preached, and so he continued until the city was converted.(:note) journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

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

geneva@Jonah:3:6 @ For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes.

geneva@Jonah:3:7 @ And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor (note:)Not that the dumb beasts had sinned or could repent, but that by their example man might be astonished, considering that for his sin the anger of God hung over all creatures.(:note) beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

geneva@Jonah:3:8 @ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and (note:)He exhorted that the men should earnestly call to God for mercy.(:note) cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.

geneva@Jonah:4:1 @ But it displeased (note:)Because by this he would be taken as a false prophet, and so the name of God, which he preached, would be blasphemed.(:note) Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

geneva@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto (note:)Read (Jon_1:3).(:note) Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

geneva@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life (note:)Thus he prayed from grief, fearing that God's name by this forgiveness might be blasphemed, as though he sent his Prophets forth to make known his judgments in vain.(:note) from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

geneva@Jonah:4:5 @ So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, (note:)For he doubted as yet whether God would show them mercy or not, and therefore after forty days he departed out of the city, to see what God would do.(:note) till he might see what would become of the city.

geneva@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God prepared a (note:)Which was a further means to cover him from the heat of the sun, as he remained in his booth.(:note) gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

geneva@Jonah:4:8 @ And when the sunne did arise, God prepared also a feruent East winde: and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to dye, then to liue.

geneva@Jonah:4:10 @ Then said the Lorde, Thou hast had pitie on the gourde for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it growe, which came vp in a night, and perished in a night,

geneva@Jonah:4:11 @ And should (note:)Thus God mercifully reproves him who would pity himself and this gourd, and yet would keep God from showing his compassion to so many thousand people.(:note) not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that Meaning that they were children and infants. cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?

geneva@Micah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Micah the (note:)Born in Mareshah, a city of Judah.(:note) Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The Argument - Micah the prophet of the tribe of Judah served in the work of the Lord concerning Judah and Israel at least thirty years: during which time Isaiah prophesied. He declares the destruction first of the one kingdom, and then of the other, because of their manifold wickedness, but chiefly because of their idolatry. And to this end he notes the wickedness of the people, the cruelty of the princes and governors, and the allowing of the false prophets, and the delighting in them. Then he sets forth the coming of Christ, his kingdom, and the felicity of it. This Prophet was not that Micah who resisted Ahab and all his false prophets, (1Ki_22:8) but another with the same name.

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

geneva@Micah:1:4 @ And the mountaines shall melt vnder him (so shall the valleys cleaue) as waxe before the fire, and as the waters that are powred downewarde.

geneva@Micah:1:5 @ For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not (note:)Samaria, which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion and justice, was the dirty pool and the tank that all idolatry and corruption was kept alive in, and who prided themselves in their father Jacob, and boasted of him.(:note) Samaria? and what [are] the high That is, the idolatry and infection. places of Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem?

geneva@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore I wil make Samaria as an heape of the fielde, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble downe into the valley, and I will discouer the foundations thereof.

geneva@Micah:1:7 @ And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the (note:)Which they gathered by evil practices, and thought that their idols had enriched them with these wages because of their service to them.(:note) hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return The gain that came by their idols will be consumed as a thing of nothing: for as the wages or riches of harlots are wickedly gotten, so are they vilely and quickly spent. to the hire of an harlot.

geneva@Micah:1:8 @ Therefore I will mourne and howle: I wil goe without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches.

geneva@Micah:1:10 @ Declare ye [it] not at (note:)Lest the Philistines our enemies rejoice at our destruction.(:note) Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Which was a city near to Jerusalem (Jos_18:23), there called Ophrah, and signifies dust: therefore he wants them to mourn and roll themselves in the dust, for their dusty city. Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

geneva@Micah:1:11 @ Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of (note:)These were cities by which the enemy would pass as he came to Judah.(:note) Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall He will not depart before he has overcome you, and so you will pay for his staying. receive of you his standing.

geneva@Micah:1:13 @ O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the (note:)To flee away: for Sennacherib laid siege first to that city, and remained there when he sent his captains and army against Jerusalem.(:note) swift beast: she You first received the idolatry of Jeroboam, and so infected Jerusalem. [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

geneva@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore shalt thou give presents to (note:)You will bribe the Philistines your neighbours, but they will deceive you, as well as those of Jerusalem.(:note) Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel.

geneva@Micah:1:16 @ Make thee balde: and shaue thee for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldenesse as the eagle, for they are gone into captiuity from thee.

geneva@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! (note:)As soon as they rise, they execute their wicked devices of the night, and according to their ability hurt others.(:note) when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

geneva@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in (note:)You will have no more lands to divide as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them in the Jubilee.(:note) the congregation of the LORD.

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@Micah:2:9 @ The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away (note:)That is, their substance and living, which is God's blessing, and as it were part of his glory.(:note) my glory for ever.

geneva@Micah:2:11 @ If a man (note:)That is, show himself to be a prophet.(:note) walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], He shows what prophets they delight in, that is, in flatterers, who tell them pleasant tales, and speak of their benefits. I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

geneva@Micah:2:12 @ I will surely assemble, O Jacob, (note:)To destroy you.(:note) all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.

geneva@Micah:2:13 @ The (note:)The enemy will break their gates and walls, and lead them into Chaldea.(:note) breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD To drive them forward, and to help their enemies. on the head of them.

geneva@Micah:3:2 @ Who hate the good, and love the evil; (note:)The Prophet condemns the wicked governors not only of covetousness, theft, and murder, but compares them to wolves, lions, and most cruel beasts.(:note) who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

geneva@Micah:3:3 @ And they eate also the flesh of my people, & flay off their skinne from them, & they breake their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

geneva@Micah:3:4 @ Then (note:)That is, when I will punish their wickedness: for though I hear the godly before they cry (Isa_65:24), yet I will not hear these even though they cry; (Isa_1:15) (Eze_8:18; Jam_2:13; 1Pe_3:11-12).(:note) shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

geneva@Micah:3:6 @ Therefore (note:)As you have loved to walk in darkness, and to prophesy lies, so God will reward you with gross blindness and ignorance, so that when all others will see the bright beams of God's grace, you will as blind men grope as in the night.(:note) night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

geneva@Micah:3:7 @ Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover (note:)When God will reveal them to the world, they will be afraid to speak: for all will know that they were but false prophets, and did give a false notion of the word of God.(:note) their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.

geneva@Micah:3:8 @ But truly I am full (note:)The Prophet being assured of his vocation by the Spirit of God, sets himself alone against all the wicked, showing how God gave him gifts, ability and knowledge, to discern between good and evil, and also steadfastness and endurance to reprove the sins of the people, and not to flatter them.(:note) of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

geneva@Micah:3:10 @ They build up Zion with (note:)They will say that they are the people of God, and abuse his name, as a pretence to disguise their hypocrisy.(:note) blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

geneva@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore shall Zion for your sake be (note:)Read (Jer_26:18).(:note) plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

geneva@Micah:4:1 @ But in the (note:)When Christ will come, and the temple will be destroyed.(:note) last days it shall come to pass, [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the {{See Isa_2:2}} hills; and people shall flow unto it.

geneva@Micah:4:6 @ At the same day, saith the Lorde, will I gather her that halteth, and I will gather her that is cast out, and her that I haue afflicted.

geneva@Micah:4:7 @ And I will make her that halted (note:)I will cause that Israel, who is now as one lame and halting, and so almost destroyed, to live again, and grow into a great people.(:note) a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

geneva@Micah:4:8 @ And thou, O (note:)Meaning Jerusalem, where the Lord's flock was gathered.(:note) tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even The flourishing state of the kingdom, as it was under David and Solomon, which thing was accomplished for the Church by the coming of Christ. the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

geneva@Micah:4:9 @ Now why dost thou cry out aloud? [is (note:)In the meantime he shows that they would endure great troubles and temptations, when they saw themselves neither to have king nor counsel.(:note) there] no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

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

geneva@Micah:4:13 @ Arise and thresh, (note:)God gives his Church this victory, as often as he overcomes their enemies: but the accomplishment of this will be at the last coming of Christ.(: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@Micah:5:1 @ Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter (note:)He forewarns them of the dangers that will come before they enjoy these comforts, showing that inasmuch as Jerusalem was accustomed with her garrisons to trouble others, the Lord would now cause other garrisons to vex her, and that her rulers would be hit on the face most contemptuously.(:note) of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

geneva@Micah:5:2 @ But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be (note:)For so the Jews divided their country that for every thousand there was a chief captain: and because Bethlehem was not able to make a thousand, he calls it little. But yet God will raise up his captain and governor in it: and thus it is not the least by reason of this benefit. {{See Mat_2:6}}(:note) little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose He shows that the coming of Christ and all his ways were appointed by God from all eternity. goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.

geneva@Micah:5:4 @ And he shall (note:)That is, Christ's kingdom will be stable and everlasting, and his people, the Gentiles as well as the Jews, will dwell in safety.(:note) stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

geneva@Micah:5:5 @ And this [man] (note:)This Messiah will be a sufficient safeguard for us, and though the enemy invades us for a time, yet will God stir up many who will be able to deliver us.(:note) shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

geneva@Micah:5:6 @ And they shall waste the (note:)These whom God will raise up for the deliverance of his Church, will destroy all the enemies of it, who are meant here by the Assyrians and Babylonians, who were the chief enemies at that time.(:note) land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he By these governors will God deliver us when the enemy comes into our land. deliver [us] from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

geneva@Micah:5:7 @ And the (note:)This remnant or Church which God will deliver will only depend on God's power and defence (as does the grass of the field), and not on the hope of man.(:note) remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

geneva@Micah:5:8 @ And the remnant of Iaakob shalbe among the Gentiles in the middes of many people, as the lyon among the beastes of the forest, and as the lyons whelpe among the flockes of sheepe, who when he goeth thorow, treadeth downe and teareth in pieces, and none can deliuer.

geneva@Micah:5:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy (note:)I will destroy all things in which you put your confidence, such as your vain self-reliance and idolatry, and in doing this I will be helping you.(:note) horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

geneva@Micah:5:15 @ And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, (note:)It will be so terrible that nothing like it has been heard of.(:note) such as they have not heard.

geneva@Micah:6:1 @ Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the (note:)He took the high mountains and hard rocks as witnesses against the obstinacy of his people.(:note) mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

geneva@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from (note:)That is, remember my benefits from the beginning, how I delivered you from Balaam's curse, and also spared you from Shittim which was in the plain of Moab, until I brought you into the promised land.(:note) Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the That is, the truth of his promise and his manifold benefits toward you. righteousness of the LORD.

geneva@Micah:6:6 @ Wherewith (note:)Thus the people by hypocrisy ask how to please God, and are content to offer sacrifices, but will not change their lives.(:note) shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

geneva@Micah:6:7 @ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my (note:)There is nothing so dear to man, but the hypocrites will offer it to God, if they think by this to avoid his anger. But they will never by brought to mortify their own affections, and to give themselves willingly to serve God as he commands.(:note) firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?

geneva@Micah:6:8 @ He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, (note:)The Prophet in few words calls them to the observation of the second table of the ten commandments, to know if they will obey God correctly or not, saying that God has commanded them to do this.(:note) but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

geneva@Micah:6:10 @ Are yet the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable?

geneva@Micah:6:14 @ Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and (note:)You will be consumed with inward grief and evils.(:note) thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou Meaning that the city would go about to save her men, as they that lay hold of that which they would preserve. shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

geneva@Micah:6:16 @ For the (note:)You have received all the corruption and idolatry with which the ten tribes were infected under Omri and Ahab his son: and to excuse your doings, you allege the King's authority by his statutes, and also wisdom and policy in so doing, but you will not escape punishment. But as I have shown you great favour, and taken you for my people, so will your plagues be according as your sins; (Luk_12:47).(:note) statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

geneva@Micah:7:1 @ Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the (note:)The Prophet takes upon himself the voice of the earth, which complains that all her fruits are gone, so that none are left: that is, that there is no godly man remaining, for all are given to cruelty and deceit, so that none spares his own brother.(:note) summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

geneva@Micah:7:3 @ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the (note:)That is, the rich man that is able to give money, abstains from no wickedness or injury.(:note) great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so These men agree among themselves, and conspire with one another to do evil. they wrap it up.

geneva@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them [is] as (note:)They that are of most estimation and are counted most honest among them, are but thorns and briers to prick.(:note) a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of Meaning the prophets and governors. thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

geneva@Micah:7:10 @ Then she that is mine enemie, shall looke vpon it, and shame shall couer her, which said vnto me, Where is the Lorde thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be troden downe as the myre of the streetes.

geneva@Micah:7:12 @ [In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from (note:)When the Church will be restored, those that were enemies before will come out of all the corners of the world to her, so that neither fortresses, rivers, seas, nor mountains will be able to stop them.(:note) Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain.

geneva@Micah:7:13 @ Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of (note:)Before this grace appears, he shows how grievously the hypocrites themselves will be punished, seeing that the earth itself, which cannot sin, will be made waste because of their wickedness.(:note) their doings.

geneva@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall (note:)They will be as dumb men, and dare brag no more.(:note) lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, They will be astonished and afraid to hear men speak, lest they should hear of their destruction. their ears shall be deaf.

geneva@Micah:7:18 @ Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and (note:)As though he did not see it, ignoring it.(:note) passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.

geneva@Micah:7:19 @ He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all (note:)Meaning his elect.(:note) their sins into the depths of the sea.

geneva@Micah:7:20 @ Thou wilt perform the (note:)The Church is assured that God will perform the truth of his merciful promise, which he had made long ago to Abraham, and to all that would apprehend the promise by faith.(:note) truth to Jacob, [and] the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

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:1:2 @ God [is] (note:)Meaning, of his glory.(:note) jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and With his own he is but angry for a time, but his anger is never appeased toward the reprobate, even though he defers it for a time. [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.

geneva@Nahum:1:3 @ The (note:)Thus the wicked would make God's mercy an occasion to sin, but the Prophet wishes them to consider his power and justice.(:note) LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.

geneva@Nahum:1:4 @ He rebuketh the sea, and dryeth it, and he dryeth vp all the riuers: Bashan is wasted and Carmel, and the floure of Lebanon is wasted.

geneva@Nahum:1:7 @ The LORD [is] good, (note:)Lest the faithful should be discouraged by hearing the power of God, he shows them that his mercy appertains to them, and that he has care over them.(:note) a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

geneva@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the (note:)Signifying that God will suddenly destroy Nineveh and the Assyrians in such a way, that they will lie in perpetual darkness, and never recover their strength again.(:note) place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

geneva@Nahum:1:9 @ What do ye (note:)He shows that the undertakings of the Assyrians against Judah and the Church were against God, and therefore he would so destroy them the first time, that he would not need to return the second time.(:note) imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

geneva@Nahum:1:10 @ For while [they be] folden together [as] (note:)Though the Assyrians think themselves like thorns that prick on all sides, yet the Lord will set fire on them, and as drunken men are not able to stand against any force, so they will not be able to resist him at all.(:note) thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

geneva@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus saith the LORD; Though [they be] (note:)Though they think themselves in most safety, and of greatest strength, yet when God will pass by, he will destroy them: nonetheless, he comforts his Church, and promises to stop punishing them by the Assyrians.(:note) quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

geneva@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth (note:)Which peace the Jews would enjoy by the death of Sennacherib.(:note) peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

geneva@Nahum:2:2 @ For the LORD hath (note:)Seeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them; read (Isa_10:12).(:note) turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and Signifying that the Israelites were utterly destroyed. marred their vine branches.

geneva@Nahum:2:3 @ The shield of his mighty men is made red, (note:)Both to put fear into the enemy, and also that they themselves should not so soon detect blood among one another, to discourage them.(:note) the valiant men [are] in scarlet: the chariots [shall be] with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and Meaning their spears would shake and crash together. the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

geneva@Nahum:2:7 @ And Huzzab the Queene shalbe led away captiue, and her maides shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, smiting vpon their breastes.

geneva@Nahum:2:8 @ But Nineveh [is] of (note:)The Assyrians will flatter themselves and say that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fishpool, whose waters cannot be touched by those that walk on the banks. But they will be scattered, and will not look back, even if men call them.(:note) old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.

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@Nahum:3:1 @ Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; (note:)It never ceases to spoil and rob.(:note) the prey departeth not;

geneva@Nahum:3:2 @ The noise of a whip, (note:)He shows how the Chaldeans will hasten, and how courageous their horses will be in beating the ground when they come against the Assyrians.(:note) and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

geneva@Nahum:3:6 @ And I will cast filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gasing stocke.

geneva@Nahum:3:7 @ And it shall come to passe, that al they that looke vpon thee, shall flee from thee, and say, Nineueh is destroyed, who will haue pitie vpon her? where shall I seeke comforters for thee?

geneva@Nahum:3:8 @ Art thou better than populous (note:)Meaning Alexandria, which had a compact of peace with so many nations, and yet was now destroyed.(:note) No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?

geneva@Nahum:3:9 @ Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and there was none ende: Put and Lubim were her helpers.

geneva@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet was she caried awaye, and went into captiuitie: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streetes: and they cast lottes for her noble men, and al her myghtie men were bound in chaines.

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

geneva@Nahum:3:16 @ Thou hast multiplied thy marchantes aboue the starres of heauen: the locust spoileth and flyeth away.

geneva@Nahum:3:17 @ Thy princes are as the grashoppers, and thy captaines as the great grashoppers which remaine in the hedges in the colde day: but when the sunne ariseth, they flee away and their place is not knowen where they are.

geneva@Nahum:3:18 @ Thy (note:)Your princes and counsellors.(:note) shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell [in the dust]: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth [them].

geneva@Nahum:3:19 @ [There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon (note:)Meaning that the Assyrians had done hurt to all people.(:note) whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

geneva@Habakkuk:1:1 @ The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. (note:)The Argument - The Prophet complains to God, considering the great felicity of the wicked, and the miserable oppression of the godly, who endure all types of affliction and cruelty, and yet can see no end. Therefore he had this revelation shown to him by God, that the Chaldeans would come and take them away as captives, so that they could look for no end of their troubles as yet, because of their stubbornness and rebellion against the Lord. And lest the godly should despair, seeing this horrible confusion, he comforts them by this, that God will punish the Chaldeans their enemies, when their pride and cruelty will be at height. And for this reason he exhorts the faithful to patience by his own example, and shows them a form of prayer, with which they should comfort themselves.(:note)

geneva@Habakkuk:1:4 @ Therefore the law is feeble, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth (note:)To suppress him, if any should show himself zealous of God's cause.(:note) surround the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth Because the judges who should remedy this excess, are as evil as the rest. perverted

geneva@Habakkuk:1:5 @ Behold ye among the nations, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] (note:)As in times past you would not believe God's word, so you will not now believe the strange plagues which are at hand.(:note) ye will not believe, though it be told [you].

geneva@Habakkuk:1:8 @ Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening: and their horsemen are many: & their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flie as the eagle hasting to meate.

geneva@Habakkuk:1:9 @ They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the (note:)For the Jews most feared this wind, because it destroyed their fruits.(:note) east wind, and they shall gather the captives They will be so many in number. as the sand.

geneva@Habakkuk:1:10 @ And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap (note:)They will cast up mounds against it.(:note) dust, and take it.

geneva@Habakkuk:1:11 @ Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall (note:)The Prophet comforts the faithful that God will also destroy the Babylonians, because they will abuse this victory, and become proud and insolent, attributing the praise of this to their idols.(:note) pass over, and offend, [imputing] this his power to his god.

geneva@Habakkuk:1:12 @ [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not (note:)He assures the godly of God's protection, showing that the enemy can do no more than God has appointed, and also that their sins require such a sharp rod.(:note) die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

geneva@Habakkuk:1:14 @ And makest men as the (note:)So that the great devours the small, and the Chaldeans destroy all the world.(:note) fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals, [that have] no ruler over them?

geneva@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the (note:)Which contained the destruction of the enemy, and the comfort of the Church. And even though God does not execute this according to man's hasty affections, yet the issue of both is certain at his appointed time.(:note) end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:5 @ Yea also, because (note:)He compares the proud and covetous man to a drunkard that is without reason and sense, whom God will punish and make a laughing stock to all the world: and this he speaks for the comfort of the godly, and against the Chaldeans.(:note) he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and heapeth to him all people:

geneva@Habakkuk:2:6 @ Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! (note:)Signifying that all the world will wish the destruction of tyrants, and that by their oppression and covetousness, they heap but upon themselves more heavy burdens: for the more they get, the more are they troubled.(:note) how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

geneva@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnant of the people shal spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therein.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:10 @ Thou (note:)Signifying that the covetous man is the ruin of his own house, when he thinks to enrich it be cruelty and oppression.(:note) gavest shameful counsel to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, [is it] not from the (note:)Meaning, that God will not defer his vengeance long, but will come and destroy all their labours, as though they were consumed with fire.(:note) LORD of hosts that the people shall labour [only] for fire, and the nations shall weary themselves for nothing?

geneva@Habakkuk:2:14 @ For the earth shall (note:)In the destruction of the Babylonians his glory will appear through all the world.(:note) be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:15 @ Woe to him that giveth his neighbour (note:)He reproaches by this the king of Babylon, who as he was drunken with covetousness and cruelty, so he provoked others to the same, and inflamed them by his madness, and so in the end brought them to shame.(:note) drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunk also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

geneva@Habakkuk:2:16 @ Thou art filled with shame (note:)Whereas you thought to have the glory of these your doings, they will turn to your shame: for you will drink of the same cup with others in your turn.(:note) for glory: drink thou also, and let thy shame come upon thee: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to thee, and utter shame [shall be] on thy glory.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:17 @ For the (note:)Because the Babylonians were cruel not only against other nations, but also against the people of God, which is meant by Lebanon and the beast in it, he shows that the same cruelly will be executed against them.(:note) violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:19 @ Woe to him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! (note:)If you will consider what it is, and how it has neither breath nor life, but is a dead thing.(:note) Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all within it.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:3 @ God came from (note:)Teman and Paran were near Sinai, where the Law was given: by which is signified that his deliverance was as present now as it was then.(:note) Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:4 @ And [his] brightness was as the light; (note:)By which is meant a power that was joined with his brightness, which was hidden to the rest of the world, but was revealed at Mount Sinai to his people; (Psa_31:16).(:note) he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:6 @ He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his (note:)Signifying that God has wonderful means, and always has a marvellous power when he will deliver his Church.(:note) ways [are] everlasting.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:8 @ Was the LORD displeased against the (note:)Meaning that God was not angry with the waters, but that by this means he would destroy his enemies, and deliver his Church.(:note) rivers? [was] thy anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride And so did use all the elements as instruments for the destruction of your enemies. upon thy horses [and] thy chariots of salvation?

geneva@Habakkuk:3:9 @ Thy (note:)That is, your power.(:note) bow was made quite naked, [according] to the For he had not only made a covenant with Abraham, but renewed it with his posterity. oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou Read (Num_20:11). didst cleave the earth with rivers.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:10 @ The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water (note:)He alludes to the Red Sea and Jordan, which gave passage to God's people, and showed signs of their obedience as it were by the lifting up of their hands.(:note) passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:11 @ The (note:)As appears in (Jos_10:12).(:note) sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: According to your command the sun was directed by the weapons of your people, that fought in your cause, as though it dare not go forward. at the light of thy arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:12 @ Thou trodest downe the land in anger, and didest thresh the heathen in displeasure.

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@Habakkuk:3:16 @ When I (note:)He returns to that which he spoke as in, (Hab_3:2) and shows how he was afraid of God's judgments.(:note) heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in He shows that the faithful can never have true rest, except that which they feel before the weight of God's judgments. the day of trouble: when he cometh up That is, the enemy, but the godly will be quiet, knowing that all things will turn to good for them. to the people, he will invade them with his troops.

geneva@Habakkuk:3:19 @ The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon my high places. (note:)The chief singer upon the instruments of music, will have occasion to praise God for this great deliverance of his Church.(:note) To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. (note:)The Argument - Seeing the great rebellion of the people, and that there was now no hope of amendment, he gives notice of the great judgment of God, which was at hand, showing that their country would be utterly destroyed, and they would be carried away captives by the Babylonians. Yet for the comfort of the faithful he prophesied of God's vengeance against their enemies, such as the Philistines, Moabites, Assyrians, and others, to assure them that God had a continual care over them. And as the wicked would be punished for their sins and transgressions, so he exhorts the godly to patience, and to trust to find mercy by reason of the free promise of God made to Abraham: and therefore quietly to wait until God shows them the effect of that grace, by which in the end they should be gathered to him, and counted as his people and children.(:note)

geneva@Zephaniah:1:3 @ I will consume man and beast; I will consume the (note:)Not that God was angry with these dumb creatures, but because man was so wicked for whose cause they were created, God makes them to take part of the punishments with him.(:note) fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:4 @ I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, [and] the name of the (note:)Who were an order of superstitious priests appointed to minister in the service of Baal, and were as his special chaplains; read (2Ki_23:5; Hos_10:5).(:note) Chemarims with the priests;

geneva@Zephaniah:1:5 @ And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship [and] that swear by the LORD, and that swear by (note:)He alludes to their idol Molech, which was forbidden; read (Lev_20:2), yet they called him their king, and made him as a god: therefore he here notes those that will both say they worship God, and yet will swear by idols and serve them: which faltering is here condemned, as in (Eze_20:39; 1Ki_18:21; 2Ki_17:33).(:note) Malcham;

geneva@Zephaniah:1:8 @ And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with (note:)Meaning, the courtiers, who did imitate the strange apparel of other nations to win their favour by it, and to appear glorious in the eyes of all others; read (Eze_23:14-15).(:note) strange apparel.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:9 @ In the same day also will I punish all those that (note:)He means the servants of the rulers who invade other men's houses, and rejoice and leap for joy, when they can get any gain to please their master with.(:note) leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, [that there shall be] the noise of a cry from the (note:)Signifying that all the corners of the city of Jerusalem would be full of trouble.(:note) fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:11 @ Howl, ye inhabitants of (note:)This is meant of the street of the merchants which was lower than the rest of the place around it.(:note) Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:12 @ And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with (note:)So that nothing will escape me.(:note) candles, and punish the men that are settled By their prosperity they are hardened in their wickedness. on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:13 @ Therefore their goods shall be spoyled, and their houses waste: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:14 @ The great day of the LORD [is] near, [it is] near, and hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of the LORD: (note:)They that trusted in their own strength and condemned the Prophets of God.(:note) the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

geneva@Zephaniah:1:17 @ And I will bring distresse vpon men, that they shall walke like blind men, because they haue sinned against the Lorde, and their blood shall be powred out as dust, and their flesh as the dongue.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:2 @ Before the decree come foorth, and ye be as chaffe that passeth in a day, and before the fierce wrath of the Lord come vpon you, and before the day of the Lords anger come vpon you.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:3 @ Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which (note:)That is, who have lived uprightly and godly according as he prescribes by his word.(:note) have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:4 @ For (note:)He comforts the faithful in that God would change his punishments from them to the Philistines their enemies, and other nations.(:note) Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea (note:)That is, Galilee: by these nations he means the people that dwelt near to the Jews, and instead of friendship were their enemies: therefore he calls them Canaanites, whom the Lord appointed to be slain.(:note) coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:6 @ And the sea coast shal be dwellings and cotages for shepheardes and sheepefoldes.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:7 @ And the coast shall be for the (note:)He shows why God would destroy their enemies, because their country would be a resting place for his Church.(:note) remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Therefore, as I liue, saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall bee as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorah, euen the breeding of nettels and salt pittes, and a perpetuall desolation: the residue of my folke shall spoyle them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:13 @ And he wil stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Asshur, and will make Nineueh desolate, and waste like a wildernesse.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:14 @ And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the (note:)Read (Isa_34:11)(:note) cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

geneva@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This [is] the (note:)Meaning, Nineveh, which rejoicing so much of her strength and prosperity, should be thus made waste, and God's people delivered.(:note) rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am], and [there is] none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, [and] wag his hand.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:5 @ The (note:)The wicked thus boasted that God was ever among them, but the Prophet answers that that cannot excuse their wickedness: for God will not bear with their sins. Yet he did patiently abide and sent his Prophets continually to call them to repentance, but he profited nothing.(:note) just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:6 @ I have (note:)By the destruction of other nations he shows that the Jews should have learned to fear God.(:note) cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:8 @ Therefore (note:)Seeing that you will not repent, you can expect my vengeance as well as other nations.(:note) wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:9 @ For (note:)Lest any should then think that God's glory should have perished when Judah was destroyed, he shows that he will proclaim his grace through all the world.(:note) then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:10 @ From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, [even] the (note:)That is, the Jews will come as well as the Gentiles: which is to be understood as referring to the time of the Gospel.(:note) daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:11 @ In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for (note:)For they will have full remission of their sins, and the hypocrites who boasted of the temple, which was also your pride in times past, will be taken from you.(:note) all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

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

geneva@Zephaniah:3:18 @ I will gather [them that are] sorrowful for the solemn assembly, [who] are of thee, [to whom] the reproach of (note:)That is, those that were held in hatred and reviled for the Church, and because of their religion.(:note) it [was] a burden.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:19 @ Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will (note:)I will deliver the Church, which now is afflicted, as in (Mic_4:6).(:note) save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every As among the Assyrians and Chaldaeans, who mocked them and put them to shame. land where they have been put to shame.

geneva@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of (note:)Who was the son of Histaspis and the third king of the Persians, as some think.(:note) Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Because the building of the temple began to cease, by reason that the people were discouraged by their enemies: and if these two notable men had need to be stirred up and admonished of their duties, what will we think of other governors, whose doings are either against God, or very cold in his cause? Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, The Argument - When the time of the seventy years captivity prophesied by Jeremiah was expired, God raised up Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, to comfort the Jews, and to exhort them to the building of the temple, which was a figure of the spiritual Temple and Church of God, whose perfection and excellency depended on Christ. And because all were given to their own pleasures and benefits, he declares that that plague of famine, which God then sent among them, was a just reward for their ingratitude, in that they condemned God's honour, who had delivered them. Yet he comforts them, if they will return to the Lord, with the promise of great felicity, since the Lord will finish the work that he has begun, and send Christ whom he had promised, and by whom they would attain to perfect joy and glory.

geneva@Haggai:1:4 @ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your (note:)Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honour.(:note) cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?

geneva@Haggai:1:8 @ Go (note:)Meaning, that they should leave their own benefits, and go forward in the building of God's temple, and in the setting forth of his religion.(:note) up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and That is, I will hear your prayers according to my promise; (1Ki_8:22, 1Ki_8:29). I will take pleasure in it, and I will That is, my glory will be set forth by you. be glorified, saith the LORD.

geneva@Haggai:1:9 @ Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow (note:)And so bring it to nothing.(:note) upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

geneva@Haggai:1:12 @ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the (note:)This declares that God was the author of the doctrine, and that Haggai was but the minister, as in (Exo_14:31), (Jdg_7:20; Act_15:28).(:note) voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

geneva@Haggai:2:3 @ Who [is] left among you that saw this (note:)For the people according as had been prophesied in (Isa_2:2) and (Eze. strkjv@41:1-26), thought this temple should have been more excellent than Solomon's temple, which was destroyed by the Babylonians, but the Prophets meant the spiritual Temple, the Church of Christ.(:note) house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? [is it] not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?

geneva@Haggai:2:6 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; (note:)He exhorts them to patience though they do not see as yet this temple so glorious as the Prophets had declared: for this should be accomplished in Christ, by whom all things should be renewed.(:note) Yet once, it [is] a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land];

geneva@Haggai:2:7 @ And I will shake all nations, and (note:)Meaning Christ, whom all ought to look for and desire: or by desire he may signify all precious things, such as riches, and things like them.(:note) the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:8 @ The (note:)Therefore when his time comes he can make all the treasures of the world to serve his purpose: but the glory of this second Temple does not consist of material things, neither can it be built.(:note) silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:9 @ The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give (note:)Meaning all spiritual blessings and felicity purchased by Christ; (Phi_4:7).(:note) peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Haggai:2:11 @ {\cf2 (2:12)} Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Aske nowe the Priests concerning the Law, and say,

geneva@Haggai:2:15 @ And now, I pray you, consider from this (note:)Consider how God plagued you with famine before you began to build the temple.(:note) day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

geneva@Haggai:2:17 @ {\cf2 (2:18)} I smote you with blasting, and with mildewe, and with haile, in all the labours of your hands: yet you turned not to me, saith the Lord.

geneva@Haggai:2:18 @ Consider now from (note:)From the time they began to build the temple, he promises that God would bless them: and even though the fruit has not yet come forth, yet in the gathering they would have plenty.(:note) this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider [it].

geneva@Haggai:2:19 @ Is the (note:)He exhorts them to have patience, and to remain until the harvest came, and then they would see God's blessings.(:note) seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].

geneva@Haggai:2:23 @ In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a (note:)Signifying that his dignity would be most excellent, which thing was accomplished in Christ.(:note) signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:1:1 @ In the eighth month, in the second year of (note:)Who was the son of Histaspis.(:note) Darius, came the word of the LORD unto This was not the Zechariah, of which mention is made in (2Ch_24:20), but he had the same name, and is called the son of Berechiah, as he was, because he came of those progenitors, as of Joiada or Berechiah, and Iddo. Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, The Argument - Two months after Haggai had begun to prophesy, Zechariah was also sent of the Lord to help him in the labour, and to confirm the same doctrine. First therefore, he puts them in remembrance for what reason God had so severely punished their fathers: and yet comforts them if they will truly repent, and not abuse this great benefit of God in their deliverance which was a figure of that true deliverance, that all the faithful should have from death and sin, by Christ. But because they remained still in their wickedness, and lack of desire to set forth God's glory, and were not yet made better by their long banishment, he rebukes them most sharply: yet for the comfort of the repentant, he ever mixes the promise of grace, that they might by this means be prepared to receive Christ, in whom all should be sanctified to the Lord.

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

geneva@Zechariah:1:3 @ Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; (note:)Let your fruits declare that you are God's people, and that he has wrought in you by his Spirit, and mortified you: for otherwise man has no power to return to God, but God must convert him; (Jer_31:18; Lam_5:21) {{See Isa_31:6}}(:note) Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:1:4 @ Be ye not as your fathers, vnto whome the former prophets haue cried, saying, Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Turne you nowe from your euill wayes, and from your wicked workes: but they would not heare, nor hearken vnto me, saith the Lorde.

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

geneva@Zechariah:1:8 @ I (note:)This vision signifies the restoration of the Church: but as yet it would not appear to man's eyes, which is here meant by the night, by the bottom, and by the myrtle trees, which are black, and give a dark shadow. Yet he compares God to a King who has his posts and messengers abroad, by whom he still works his purpose and brings his matters to pass.(:note) saw by night, and behold Who was the chief among the rest of the horsemen. a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that [were] in the bottom; and behind him [were there] These signify the various offices of God's angels, by whom God sometimes punishes, and sometimes comforts, and brings forth his works in various ways. red horses, speckled, and white.

geneva@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the (note:)That is, Christ the mediator prayed for the salvation of his Church, which was now troubled, when all the countries about them were at rest.(:note) angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

geneva@Zechariah:1:14 @ So the angel that talked with me said to me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am (note:)Though for a time God defers his help and comfort from his Church, yet this declares that he still loves them most dearly, as a most merciful father his children, or a husband his wife, and when it is expedient for them, his help is ever ready.(:note) jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

geneva@Zechariah:1:15 @ And I am very greatly displeased with the nations [that are] at ease: for I was but (note:)In destroying the reprobate, I showed myself but a little angry toward my Church, but the enemy would have destroyed them also, and did not consider the goal of my chastisements.(:note) a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

geneva@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD; I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line (note:)To measure out the buildings.(:note) shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

geneva@Zechariah:1:18 @ Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold (note:)Which signifies all the enemies of the Church: east, west, north, and south.(:note) four horns.

geneva@Zechariah:1:20 @ And the LORD showed me four (note:)These craftsmen or smiths are God's instruments, who with their mallets and hammers break these hard and strong horns which would overthrow the Church, and declare that no enemies' horn is so strong, but God has a hammer to break it in pieces.(:note) craftsmen.

geneva@Zechariah:1:21 @ Then said I, What come these to doe? And he answered, and said, These are the hornes, which haue scattered Iudah, so that a man durst not lift vp his head: but these are come to fray them, and to cast out the hornes of the Gentiles, which lift vp their horne ouer the land of Iudah, to scatter it.

geneva@Zechariah:2:1 @ I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a (note:)This is the angel who was Christ: for in respect of his office he is often called an angel, but in respect of his eternal essence, is God, and so called.(:note) man with a measuring line in his hand.

geneva@Zechariah:2:2 @ Then saide I, Whither goest thou? And he saide vnto me, To measure Ierusalem, that I may see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

geneva@Zechariah:2:4 @ And said to him, Run, speak to this (note:)Meaning himself, Zechariah.(:note) young man, saying, Signifying the spiritual Jerusalem and Church under Christ, which would be extended by the Gospel through all the world, and would need no material walls, nor trust in any worldly strength, but would be safely preserved and dwell in peace among all their enemies. Jerusalem shall be inhabited [as] towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in it:

geneva@Zechariah:2:6 @ Ho, ho, [come (note:)He calls to those who partly for fear, and partly for their own case, remained still in captivity, and so preferred their own personal benefits to the benefits of God promised in his Church.(:note) forth], and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four As it was I that scattered you, so I have power to restore you. winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the (note:)Seeing that God had begun to show his grace among you by delivering you, he continues the same still toward you, and therefore sends me his angel and his Christ to defend you from your enemies, so that they will not hurt you, neither along the way nor at home.(:note) glory hath he sent me to the nations which wasted you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the You are so dear to God, that he can no more allow your enemies to hurt you, than a man can endure to be thrust in the eye; (Psa_17:8). apple of his eye.

geneva@Zechariah:2:9 @ For, behold, I will shake my hand (note:)Upon the heathen your enemies.(:note) upon them, and They will be your servants, as you have been theirs. they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath This must necessarily be understood of Christ, who being God equal with his Father, was sent, as he was Mediator to dwell in his Church and to govern them. sent me.

geneva@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the (note:)That is, Christ speaks to God as the mediator of his Church, that he would rebuke Satan: and here he shows himself to be the continual preserver of his Church.(:note) LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: [is] not this a Meaning that Joshua was wonderfully preserved in the captivity, and now Satan sought to afflict and trouble him when he was doing his office. brand plucked out of the fire?

geneva@Zechariah:3:3 @ Now Joshua was clothed with (note:)With regard to the glorious garments and precious stones that the priests wore before the captivity: and by this contemptible state the Prophet signifies, that these small beginnings would be made excellent when Christ will make the full restitution of his Church.(:note) filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

geneva@Zechariah:3:4 @ And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, Take away the (note:){{See Zec_3:3}}(:note) filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have He shows of what apparel he speaks, which is, when our filthy sins are taken away, and we are clothed with God's mercies, which refers to the spiritual restitution. caused thy iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

geneva@Zechariah:3:5 @ And I said, Let them (note:)The Prophet prays that besides the raiment, the Priest might also have attire for his head accordingly, that is, that the dignity of the priesthood might be perfect: and this was fulfilled in Christ, who was both Priest and King. And here all those are condemned, that can content themselves with any average reformation in religion, seeing the Prophet desires the perfection, and obtains it.(:note) set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.

geneva@Zechariah:3:7 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also (note:)That is, have rule and government in my Church, as your predecessors have had.(:note) judge my house, and shalt also keep my By which he means to have the whole charge and ministry of the Church. courts, and I will give thee places to walk among That is, the angels, who represented the whole number of the faithful: signifying that all the godly would willingly receive him. these that stand by.

geneva@Zechariah:3:8 @ Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they (note:)Because they follow my word, they are condemned in the world, and esteemed as monsters. {{See Isa_8:18}}(:note) [are] men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the That is, Christ, who did so humble himself, that he not only became the servant of God, but also the servant of men: and therefore in him they should have comfort, even though in the world they are condemned; (Isa_11:1) (Jer_23:5; Jer_33:14-15). BRANCH.

geneva@Zechariah:3:9 @ For behold the (note:)He shows that the ministers cannot build before God lay the first stone, which is Christ, who is full of eyes, both because he gives light to all others, and that all ought to seek light from him; (Zec_4:10).(:note) stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone [shall be] seven eyes: behold, I That is, I will make perfect in all points, as a thing done by the hand of God. will engrave the engraving of it, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will Though I have punished this land for a time, yet I will even now be pacified, and punish their sins no more. remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

geneva@Zechariah:4:1 @ And the Angel that talked with mee, came againe and waked mee, as a man that is raysed out of his sleepe,

geneva@Zechariah:4:2 @ And said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a (note:)Which was ever in the midst of the temple, signifying that the graces of God's Spirit would shine, here in most abundance, and in all perfection.(:note) lamp stand all [of] gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps, and seven Which conveyed the oil that dropped from the trees into the lamps, so that the light never went out: and this vision was to strengthen and encourage the faithful that God had sufficient power in himself to continue his graces, and to bring his promise to pass even though he had no help from man. pipes to the seven lamps, which [were] upon the top of it:

geneva@Zechariah:4:6 @ Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This [is] the word of the LORD to (note:)Who was a figure of Christ, and therefore this doctrine was directed to all the Church who are his body and members.(:note) Zerubbabel, saying, Not by He shows that God's power alone is sufficient to preserve his Church, even though he does not use man's help to do it. might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

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:5:2 @ And he said to me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying (note:)Because the Jews had provoked God's plagues by condemning his word, and casting off all judgment and equity, he shows that God's curses written in this book had justly happened both to them and their fathers. But now if they would repent, God would send the same among the Chaldeans and their former enemies.(:note) scroll; its length [is] twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.

geneva@Zechariah:5:3 @ Then said he to me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that (note:)That is, does any injury toward his neighbour.(:note) stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this Meaning, wherever he is in the world. side according to it; and every one that He that transgresses the first table of the ten commandments, and does not serve God correctly but abuses his name. sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.

geneva@Zechariah:5:6 @ And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] an (note:)Which was a measure in dry things, containing about five gallons.(:note) ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] their That is, all the wickedness of the ungodly is in God's sight, which he keeps in a measure, and can shut it or open it at his pleasure. resemblance through all the earth.

geneva@Zechariah:5:7 @ And, behold, there was lifted up a (note:)To cover the measure.(:note) talent of lead: and this [is] a Which represents iniquity, as in the next verse. woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

geneva@Zechariah:5:8 @ And he said, This [is] (note:)Signifying that Satan would not have such power against the Jews to tempt them, as he had in times past, but that God would shut up iniquity in a measure as in a prison.(:note) wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon its mouth.

geneva@Zechariah:5:9 @ Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two (note:)Which declared that God would execute his judgment by the means of the weak and infirm.(:note) women, and the wind [was] in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.

geneva@Zechariah:5:11 @ And he said to me, To build for it an house in the land of (note:)To remove the iniquity and affliction that came from Judah because of the judgment, to place it forever in Babylon.(:note) Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

geneva@Zechariah:6:1 @ And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four (note:)By chariots here, as by horses before, he means the swift messengers of God to execute and declare his will.(:note) chariots out from between By the mountains he means the external counsel and providence of God, by which he has from before all eternity declared what will come to pass, and that which neither Satan nor all the world can alter. two mountains; and the mountains [were] mountains of brass.

geneva@Zechariah:6:3 @ And in the third chariot (note:)These represented their state under the Persians, who restored them to their liberty.(:note) white horses; and in the fourth chariot Which signified that God would sometimes give his Church rest, and pour his plagues upon their enemies, as he did in destroying Nineveh and Babylon, and other of their enemies. spotted and bay horses.

geneva@Zechariah:6:7 @ And the (note:)That is, those of different colours, which ask permission, to signify that Satan has no power to hurt or afflict, until God gives it to him; (Job_1:12).(:note) bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Go from here, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.

geneva@Zechariah:6:8 @ Then he cried upon me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my (note:)By punishing the Chaldeans my anger ceased, and you were delivered.(:note) spirit in the north country.

geneva@Zechariah:6:11 @ Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the (note:)Because this could not be attributed to any one according to the Law, therefore it follows that Joshua must represent the Messiah, who was both Priest and King.(:note) head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;

geneva@Zechariah:6:12 @ And speak to him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name [is] The (note:)Meaning Christ, of whom Joshua was the figure: for in Greek they were both called Jesus.(:note) BRANCH; and he shall grow That is, of himself without the help of man. up out of his place, and he shall Which declares that no one could build this temple of which Haggai speaks, but only Christ: and therefore it was spiritual, and not material; (Hag_2:9). build the temple of the LORD:

geneva@Zechariah:6:14 @ And the crowns shall be to (note:)Who was also called Heldai.(:note) Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to He was also called Joshias. Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a That they may acknowledge their infirmity, who thought that all things would be restored immediately: and of this their infidelity these two crowns will remain as tokens; (Act_1:6). memorial in the temple of the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:6:15 @ And they [that are] (note:)That is, the Gentiles by the preaching of the Gospel, will help toward the building of the spiritual temple.(:note) far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me to you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently If you will believe and remain in the obedience of faith. obey the voice of the LORD your God.

geneva@Zechariah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, [that] the word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in (note:)Which contained part of November and part of December.(:note) Chisleu;

geneva@Zechariah:7:2 @ When (note:)That is, the rest of the people that yet remained in Chaldea, sent to the Church at Jerusalem for the resolution of these questions, because these feasts were consented upon by the agreement of the whole Church, the one in the month that the temple was destroyed, and the other when Gedaliah was slain; (Jer_41:2).(:note) they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

geneva@Zechariah:7:3 @ [And] to speak to the priests who [were] in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I (note:)By weeping and mourning are shown what exercises they used in their fasting.(:note) weep in the fifth month, That is, prepare myself with all devotion to his fast. separating myself, as I have done these so many Which had been since the time the temple was destroyed. years?

geneva@Zechariah:7:5 @ Speak to all the people of the land, and to the (note:)For there were both of the people, and of the priests, those who doubted with regard to this controversy, besides those who as yet remained in Chaldea, and argue about it, as of one of the chief points of their religion.(:note) priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, For they thought they had gained favour with God because of this fast, which they invented by themselves: and though fasting of itself is good, yet because they thought it a service toward God, and trusted in it, it is here reproved. [even] to me?

geneva@Zechariah:7:7 @ [Should ye] not [hear] the words which the LORD (note:)By this he condemns their hypocrisy, who thought by their fasting to please God, and by such things as they invented, and in the meantime would not serve him as he had commanded.(:note) hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities around her, when [men] inhabited the south and the plain?

geneva@Zechariah:7:9 @ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, (note:)He shows that they did not fast with a sincere heart, but because of hypocrisy, and that it was not done from a pure religion, because they lacked these offices of charity which should have declared that they were godly; (Mat_23:23).(:note) Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

geneva@Zechariah:7:11 @ But they refused to hearken, and (note:)And would not carry the Lord's burden, which was sweet and easy, but would bear their own, which was heavy and grievous to the flesh, thinking to gain merit by it: which metaphor is taken from oxen, which shrink at the yoke; (Neh_9:29).(:note) withdrew the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

geneva@Zechariah:7:12 @ Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his (note:)Which declares that they did not only rebel against the Prophets, but against the Spirit of God that spoke in them.(:note) spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:7:13 @ Therefore it is come to passe, that as he cried, and they would not heare, so they cried, and I would not heare, sayth the Lord of hostes.

geneva@Zechariah:7:14 @ But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate (note:)That is, after they were taken captive.(:note) after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land By their sins by which they provoked God's anger. desolate.

geneva@Zechariah:8:2 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was (note:)I loved my city with a singular love, so that I could not endure that any should do her any injury.(:note) jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

geneva@Zechariah:8:4 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old (note:)Though their enemies did greatly molest and trouble them, yet God would come and dwell among them, and so preserve them as long as nature would allow them to live, and increase their children in great abundance.(:note) men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

geneva@Zechariah:8:6 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it is (note:)He shows in what our faith consists, that is, to believe that God can perform that which he has promised, though it seem ever so impossible to man; (Gen_13:14; Rom_4:20).(:note) marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Zechariah:8:7 @ Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Beholde, I will deliuer my people from the East countrey, and from the West countrey.

geneva@Zechariah:8:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your (note:)Let neither respect of your personal benefits, neither counsel of others, nor fear of enemies, discourage you in the going forward with the building of the temple, but be steadfast and obey the Prophets, who encourage you to that.(:note) hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, who [were] in the day [when] the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

geneva@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before these days there was no hire for (note:)For God cursed your work, so that neither man nor beast had profit from their labours.(:note) man, nor any hire for beast; neither [was there any] peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

geneva@Zechariah:8:11 @ But nowe, I wil not intreate the residue of this people as aforetime, saith the Lord of hostes.

geneva@Zechariah:8:12 @ For the seede shall be prosperous: the vine shall giue her fruite, and the ground shal giue her increase, and the heauens shall giue their dewe, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possesse all these things.

geneva@Zechariah:8:13 @ And it shal come to passe, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Iudah, and house of Israel, so wil I deliuer you, & ye shalbe a blessing: feare not, but let your hands be strong.

geneva@Zechariah:8:14 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish (note:)Read (Eze_18:20).(:note) you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

geneva@Zechariah:8:19 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the (note:)Which fast was appointed when the city was besieged, and was the first fast of these four. And here the prophet shows that if the Jews will repent, and turn wholly to God, they will have no more occasion to fast, or to show signs of heaviness, for God will send them joy and gladness.(:note) tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

geneva@Zechariah:8:20 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; [It shall] yet [come to pass], that there shall come (note:)He declares the great zeal that God would give the Gentiles to come to his Church, and to unite with the Jews in his true religion, which would be in the kingdom of Christ.(:note) people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

geneva@Zechariah:9:1 @ The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of (note:)By which he means Syria.(:note) Hadrach, and Damascus [shall be] the God's anger will remain upon their chief city, and not spare even as much as that. rest of it: when the When the Jews will convert and repent, then God will destroy their enemies. eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, [shall be] toward the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:9:2 @ And Hamath also shall border (note:)That is, by Damascus: meaning, that Harnath or Antiochia would be under the same rod and plague.(:note) by it; Tyre, and Zidon, though it be He secretly shows the cause of their destruction, because they deceived all others by their craft and subtilty, which they cloaked with this name of wisdom. very wise.

geneva@Zechariah:9:3 @ For Tyrus did build her selfe a strong holde, and heaped vp siluer as the dust, and golde as the myre of the streetes.

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

geneva@Zechariah:9:5 @ Ashkelon shall see it, and feare, and Azzah also shalbe very sorowfull, and Ekron: for her countenance shalbe ashamed, & the King shal perish fro Azzah, & Ashkelon shal not be inhabited.

geneva@Zechariah:9:6 @ And a (note:)Meaning, that all would be destroyed, save a very few, that would remain as strangers.(:note) bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

geneva@Zechariah:9:7 @ And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his (note:)He promises to deliver the Jews when he will take vengeance on their enemies for their cruelty, and the wrongs they did to them.(:note) teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, [shall be] for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and As the Jebusites had been destroyed, so would Ekron and all the Philistines. Ekron as a Jebusite.

geneva@Zechariah:9:8 @ And I will encamp about (note:)He shows that God's power alone will be sufficient to defend his Church against all adversaries, be they ever so cruel, or assert their power ever so often.(:note) my house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now That is, God has now seen the great injuries and afflictions with which they have been afflicted by their enemies. have I seen with my eyes.

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:9:13 @ When I have bent Judah for me, filled the (note:)I will make Judah and Ephraim, that is, my whole Church, victorious against all enemies, which he here means by the Greeks.(:note) bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

geneva@Zechariah:9:14 @ And the Lord shalbe seene ouer them, and his arrowe shal go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shal blowe the trumpet, and shal come forth with the whirlewindes of the South.

geneva@Zechariah:9:15 @ The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, (note:)He promises that the Jews will destroy their enemies, and have abundance and excess of all things, as there is abundance on the altar when the sacrifice is offered. And these things are not to move them to excess, but to sobriety, and a thankful remembrance of God's great liberality.(:note) and subdue the sling stones; and they shall drink, [and] make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, [and] as the corners of the altar.

geneva@Zechariah:9:16 @ And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they [shall be as] the (note:)The faithful will be preserved, and reverenced by all, that their very enemies will be compelled to esteem them: for God's glory will shine in them, as Josephus declares of Alexander the great when he met Jadi the high priest.(:note) stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

geneva@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of the (note:)The Prophet reproves the Jews, because by their own infidelity they turn away God's promised graces, and so famine came by God's just judgment. Therefore to avoid this plague, he exhorts them to turn to God, and to pray in faith to him, and so he will give them abundance.(:note) LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; [so] the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

geneva@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the (note:)He calls to remembrance God's punishments in times past, because they trusted not in him, but in their idols and sorcerers who always deceived them.(:note) idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore That is, the Jews went into captivity. they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

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:10:4 @ Out (note:)Out of Judah will the chief governor proceed, who will be as a corner to uphold the building, and as a nail to fasten it together.(:note) of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every Over their enemies. oppressor together.

geneva@Zechariah:10:5 @ And they shalbe as the mightie men, which treade downe their enemies in the mire of the streetes in the battell, and they shall fight, because the Lorde is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

geneva@Zechariah:10:6 @ And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the (note:)That is, the ten tribes, which would be united under Christ to the rest of the Church.(:note) house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I [am] the LORD their God, and will hear them.

geneva@Zechariah:10:7 @ And they of Ephraim shall be as a gyant, and their heart shall reioyce as thorowe wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad: and their heart shall reioyce in the Lord.

geneva@Zechariah:10:8 @ I will (note:)By which he declares the power of God, who needs no great preparation when he will deliver his own: for with a gesture or hiss he can call them suddenly from all places.(:note) hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.

geneva@Zechariah:10:9 @ And I will (note:)Though they will yet be scattered and seem to be lost, yet it will be profitable to them: for there they will come to the knowledge of my name, which was accomplished under the Gospel, among whom it was first preached.(:note) sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and Not that they would return into their country, but be gathered and joined in one faith by the doctrine of the Gospel. turn again.

geneva@Zechariah:10:10 @ I will bring them againe also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Asshur: and I will bring them into the land of Gilead, and Lebanon, and place shall not be found for them.

geneva@Zechariah:10:11 @ And he (note:)He alludes to the deliverance of the people out of Egypt, when the angel smote the floods and rivers.(:note) shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

geneva@Zechariah:11:1 @ Open thy doors, O (note:)Because the Jews thought themselves so strong by reason of this mountain, that no enemy could come to hurt them, the Prophet shows that when God sends the enemies, it will show itself ready to receive them.(:note) Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

geneva@Zechariah:11:2 @ Wail, (note:)Showing that if the strong men were destroyed, the weaker were not able to resist.(:note) fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are laid waste: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the Seeing that Lebanon was destroyed, which was the strongest fortress, the weaker places could not hope to hold out. vintage is come down.

geneva@Zechariah:11:3 @ [There is] a voice of the wailing of the shepherds; for their (note:)That is, the fame of Judah and Israel would perish.(:note) glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is laid waste.

geneva@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the (note:)Which being now destined to be slain, were delivered as out of the lion's mouth.(:note) slaughter;

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

geneva@Zechariah:11:12 @ And I said to them, If ye think good, give [me] (note:)Besides their ingratitude, God accuses them of malice and wickedness, who did not only forget his benefits, but esteemed them as nothing.(:note) my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty [pieces] of silver.

geneva@Zechariah:11:13 @ And the LORD said to me, Cast it to the (note:)Showing that it was too little to pay his wages with, which could hardly suffice to make a few tiles to cover the temple.(:note) potter: a glorious price that I was valued at by them. And I took the thirty [pieces] of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Zechariah:11:15 @ And the LORD said to me, Take to thee yet (note:)Signifying that they should have a certain type of regiment and outward show of government: but in effect it would be nothing, for they would be wolves, and devouring beasts instead of shepherds.(:note) the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

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

geneva@Zechariah:12:7 @ The LORD also shall save the (note:)The people who are now as it were dispersed by the fields, and lie open to their enemies, will be preserved by my power just as if they were under their kings (which is meant by the house of David), or in their defended cities.(:note) tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not magnify [themselves] against Judah.

geneva@Zechariah:12:8 @ In that day shall the Lord defende the inhabitants of Ierusalem, & he that is feeble among them, in that day shall be as Dauid: and the house of Dauid shall be as Gods house, and as the Angel of the Lord before them.

geneva@Zechariah:12:10 @ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of (note:)They will have the feeling of my grace by faith, and know that I have compassion on them.(:note) grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have That is, whom they have continually vexed with their obstinacy, and grieved my Spirit. In (Joh_19:37) it is referred to Christ's body, whereas here it is referred to the Spirit of God. pierced, and they shall mourn for They will turn to God by true repentance, whom before they had so grievously offended by their ingratitude. him, as one mourneth for [his] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.

geneva@Zechariah:12:11 @ In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the (note:)They will exceedingly lament and repent for their offences against God.(:note) mourning of Which was the name of a town and place near to Megiddo, where Josiah was slain; (2Ch_35:22). Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

geneva@Zechariah:13:2 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I will cut off the (note:)He promises that God will also purge them from all superstition, and that their religion will be pure.(:note) names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the Meaning, the false prophets and teachers, who are the corrupters of all religion, whom the Prophet here calls unclean spirits. prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

geneva@Zechariah:13:3 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] when any shall yet (note:)That is, when they will prophesy lies, and make God, who is the author of truth, a cloak for them.(:note) prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him He shows what zeal the godly will have under the kingdom of Christ; (Deu_13:6, Deu_13:9). shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

geneva@Zechariah:13:4 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the prophets shall (note:)God will make them ashamed of their errors and lies, and bring them to repentance, and they will no more wear prophet's apparel to make their doctrine seem more holy.(:note) be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

geneva@Zechariah:13:6 @ And [one] shall say to him, What [are] these (note:)By this he shows that though their parents and friends dealt more gently with them, and did not put them to death, yet they would so punish their children that became false prophets, that the marks and signs would remain forever.(:note) wounds in thy hands? Then he shall answer, [Those] with which I was wounded [in] the house of my friends.

geneva@Zechariah:13:7 @ Awake, O sword, against my (note:)The Prophet warns the Jews, that before this great comfort under Christ would come, there would be a horrible dissipation among the people: for their governors and pastors would be destroyed, and the people would be as scattered sheep. And the evangelist applies this to Christ, because he was the head of all pastors; (Mat_26:31).(:note) shepherd, and against the man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

geneva@Zechariah:13:8 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] in all the land, saith the LORD, (note:)The greatest part will have no portion of these blessings, and yet they that will enjoy them will be tried with great afflictions, so that is will be known that only God's power and his mercies preserve them.(:note) two parts in it shall be cut off [and] die; but the third shall be left in it.

geneva@Zechariah:13:9 @ And I will bring that third part thorowe the fire, and will fine them as the siluer is fined, and will trye them as golde is tryed: they shall call on my Name, and I will heare them: I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, The Lorde is my God.

geneva@Zechariah:14:3 @ Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he (note:)As your fathers and you have had experience both at the Red Sea, and at all other times.(:note) fought in the day of battle.

geneva@Zechariah:14:4 @ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the (note:)By this manner of speech the Prophet shows God's power and care over his Church, and how he will as it were by a miracle save it.(:note) mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst of it toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great So that out of all the parts of the world, they will see Jerusalem, which was before his with this mountain: and this he means of the spiritual Jerusalem the Church. valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

geneva@Zechariah:14:5 @ And ye shall flee [to] the (note:)He speaks of the hypocrites, who could not abide God's presence, but would flee into all places, where they might hide themselves among the mountains.(:note) valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yea, ye shall flee, as ye fled from before the Read (Amo_1:1). earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD Because they did not credit the Prophet's words, he turns to God and comforts himself in that that he knew that these things would come, and says, «You, O God, with your angels will come to perform this great thing.» my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee.

geneva@Zechariah:14:7 @ But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, (note:)Signifying, that there would be great troubles in the Church, and that the time of it is in the Lord's hands, yet at length (which is here meant by the evening) God would send comfort.(:note) not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening it shall be light.

geneva@Zechariah:14:10 @ All the land shall be turned (note:)This new Jerusalem will be seen through all the world, and will excel the first in excellency, wealth, and greatness.(:note) as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and [from] the tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.

geneva@Zechariah:14:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] (note:)God will not only raise up war outside, but sedition at home to test them.(:note) a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on To hurt and oppress him. the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

geneva@Zechariah:14:15 @ And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this (note:)As the men would be destroyed, (Zec_14:12).(:note) plague.

geneva@Zechariah:14:16 @ But it shall come to passe that euery one that is left of all the nations, which came against Ierusalem, shall goe vp from yere to yere to worship the King the Lord of hostes, and to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.

geneva@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of (note:)By the Egyptians, who were the greatest enemies to true religion, he means all the Gentiles.(:note) Egypt shall not go up, and shall not come, that [have] no [rain]; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

geneva@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that come not vp to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.

geneva@Zechariah:14:20 @ In that day there shall be upon the (note:)Signifying to whatever service they were put now (whether to labour, or to serve in war), they were now holy, because the Lord had sanctified them.(:note) bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO THE LORD; and the The one as precious as the other, because they will be sanctified. pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

geneva@Malachi:1:1 @ The (note:){{See Isa_13:1}}(:note) burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. The Argument - This Prophet was one of the three who God raised up for the comfort of the Church after the captivity, and after him there was no one else until John the Baptist was sent, which was either a token of God's wrath, or an admonition that they should with more fervent desires look for the coming of the Messiah. He confirms the same doctrine, that the two former do: chiefly he reproves the priests for their covetousness, and because they served God after their own fantasies, and not according to the direction of his word. He also notes certain distinct sins, which were then among them, such as the marrying of idolatrous and many wives, murmurings against God, impatience, and things such as these. Nonetheless, for the comfort of the godly he declares that God would not forget his promise made to their fathers, but would send Christ his messenger, in whom the covenant would be accomplished, whose coming would be terrible to the wicked, and bring all consolation and joy to the godly.

geneva@Malachi:1:2 @ I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, (note:)Which declares their great ingratitude that did not acknowledge this love, which was so evident, in that he chose Abraham from out of all the world, and next chose Jacob the younger brother from whom they came, and left Esau the elder.(:note) Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

geneva@Malachi:1:3 @ And I (note:)For besides this the signs of my hatred appeared even when he was made servant to his younger brother, being yet in his mother's belly, and also afterward in that he was put from his birthright. Yet even now before your eyes the signs of this are evident, in that his country lies waste, and he will never return to inhabit it.(:note) hated Esau, Whereas you my people, whom the enemy hated more than them, are by my grace and love towards you delivered; read (Rom_9:13). and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

geneva@Malachi:1:6 @ A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, (note:)Besides the rest of the people he mainly condemns the priests, because they should have reproved others for their hypocrisy, and for not yielding to God, and should not have hardened them by their example to do greater evils.(:note) O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, He notes their great hypocrisy, who would not see their faults, but most impudently covered them, and so were blind guides. Wherein have we despised thy name?

geneva@Malachi:1:8 @ And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] (note:)You make it no fault: and by this he condemns them that think it sufficient to serve God partly as he has commanded, and partly after man's fantasy, and so do not come to the pureness of religion, which he requires. And therefore in reproach he shows them that a mortal man would not be content to be served in such a way.(:note) not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:1:9 @ And now, I pray you, (note:)He derides the priests who deceived the people in saying that they prayed for them, and shows that they were the occasion that these evils came upon the people.(:note) beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard Will God consider your office and state, seeing you are so covetous and wicked? your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:1:10 @ Who [is there] even among you (note:)Because the Levites who kept the doors did not test whether the sacrifices that came in were according to the Law, God wishes that they would rather shut the doors, than to receive such as were not perfect.(:note) that would shut the doors [for nought]? neither do ye kindle [fire] on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

geneva@Malachi:1:11 @ For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name [shall be] (note:)God shows that their ingratitude and neglect of his true service will be the cause of the calling of the Gentiles: and here the Prophet that was under the Law, used words that the people would understand, and by the altar and sacrifice he means the spiritual service of God, which should be under the Gospel, when an end would be made to all these legal ceremonies by Christ's sacrifice alone.(:note) great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:1:12 @ But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, (note:)Both the priests and the people were infected with this error, that they did not regard what was offered: for they thought that God was as well content with the lean, as with the fat. But in the meantime they did not show the obedience to God which he required, and so committed impiety, and also showed their contempt of God, and covetousness.(:note) The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.

geneva@Malachi:1:13 @ Ye said also, Behold, what a (note:)The priests and people were both weary with serving God, and did not regard what manner of sacrifice and service they gave to God: for that which was least profitable, was thought good enough for the Lord.(:note) weariness [is it]! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought [that which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.

geneva@Malachi:1:14 @ But cursed [be] the deceiver, which hath in his flock (note:)That is, has ability to serve the Lord according to his word, and yet will serve him according to his covetous mind.(:note) a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I [am] a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name [is] dreadful among the heathen.

geneva@Malachi:2:3 @ Behold, I will corrupt (note:)The seed you sow will come to no profit.(:note) your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the You boast of your holiness, sacrifices, and feasts, but they will turn to your shame and be as vile as dung. dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it.

geneva@Malachi:2:5 @ My (note:)He shows what were the two conditions of the covenant made with the tribe of Levi on God's part, that he would give them long life and felicity, and on their part, that they should faithfully serve him according to his word.(:note) covenant was with him of life and peace; and I I commanded Levi a certain law to serve me. gave them to him [for] the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before He served me and set forth my glory with all humility and submission. my name.

geneva@Malachi:2:6 @ The law of (note:)He shows that the priests ought to have knowledge to instruct others in the word of the Lord.(:note) truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

geneva@Malachi:2:7 @ For the priest's (note:)He is as the treasure house of God's word, and ought to give to everyone according to their need, and not to reserve it for himself.(:note) lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the Showing that whoever does not declare God's will, is not his messenger, and priest. messenger of the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:2:10 @ Have we not all one (note:)The Prophet accuses the ingratitude of the Jews toward God and man: for seeing they were all born of one father Abraham, as God had elected them to be his holy people, they ought neither to offend God nor their brethren.(:note) father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of By which they had bound themselves to God to be a holy people. our fathers?

geneva@Malachi:2:12 @ The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that (note:)That is, the priest.(:note) offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye say, (note:)This is another fault, of which he accuses them, that is, that they broke the laws of marriage.(:note) Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy As the one half of yourself. companion, and the wife of thy She that was united to you by a solemn covenant, and by the invocation of God's name. covenant.

geneva@Malachi:2:15 @ And did not (note:)Did not God make man and woman as one flesh and not many?(:note) he make one? Yet had he the By his power and strength he could have made many women for one man. residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly Those who should be born in lawful and moderate marriage, in which is no excess of lusts. seed. Therefore take heed to your Contain yourselves within your bounds, and be sober in mind, and bridle your affections. spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

geneva@Malachi:2:16 @ For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he (note:)Not that he allows divorce, but of two faults he shows which is the less.(:note) hateth putting away: for [one] covereth He thinks it sufficient to keep his wife still, even though he takes others, and so as it were covers his fault. violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

geneva@Malachi:2:17 @ Ye have (note:)You murmur against God, because he did not hear you as soon as you called.(:note) wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth In thinking that God favoured the wicked, and had no respect for those that serve him. evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of Thus they blasphemed God in condemning his power and justice, because he did not judge according to their imaginings. judgment?

geneva@Malachi:3:1 @ Behold, I will send my (note:)This is meant of John the Baptist, as Christ interprets it; (Luk_7:27).(:note) messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Meaning, the Messiah, as in (Psa_40:17; Dan_9:17, Dan_9:25). Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the That is, Christ, by whom the covenant was made and ratified, who is called the angel or messenger of the covenant, because he reconciles us to his Father, and is Lord or King, because he has the rule of his Church. messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:3:3 @ And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of (note:)He begins at the priests, that they might be lights, and shine unto others.(:note) Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

geneva@Malachi:3:4 @ Then shall the offerings of Iudah and Ierusalem be acceptable vnto the Lord, as in old time and in the yeeres afore.

geneva@Malachi:3:6 @ For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob (note:)They murmured against God, because they did not see his help which was ever present to defend them: and therefore he accuses them of ingratitude, and shows that in that they are not daily consumed, it is a sign that he still defends them, and so his mercy towards them never changes.(:note) are not consumed.

geneva@Malachi:3:11 @ And I will rebuke the (note:)Meaning the caterpillar, and whatever destroys corn and fruits.(:note) devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:3:12 @ And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a pleasant lande, sayeth the Lorde of hostes.

geneva@Malachi:3:13 @ Your words have been stout (note:)The Prophet condemns them of double blasphemy against God: first, in that they said that God had no respect for those that served him, and next, that the wicked were more in his favour than the godly.(:note) against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee?

geneva@Malachi:3:17 @ And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day (note:)When I will restore my Church according to my promise, they will be as my own proper goods.(:note) when I make up my jewels; and I will That is, forgive their sins, and govern them with my Spirit. spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

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

geneva@Malachi:4:2 @ But unto you that fear my name shall the (note:)Meaning, Christ, who with his wings or beams of his grace would enlighten and comfort his Church; (Eph_5:14). And he is called the «Sun of righteousness», because in himself he has all perfection, and also the justice of the Father dwells in him: by which he regenerates us to righteousness, cleanses us from the filth of this world, and reforms us to the image of God.(:note) Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go You will be set at liberty, and increase in the joy of the Spirit; (2Co_3:17). forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

geneva@Malachi:4:5 @ Behold, I will send you (note:)This Christ interprets of John the Baptist, who both for his zeal, and restoring or religion, is aptly compared to Elijah; (Mat_11:13-14).(:note) Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and Which as it is true for the wicked, so does it waken the godly, and call them to repentance. dreadful day of the LORD:

geneva@Malachi:4:6 @ And he shall (note:)He shows in what John's office would consist: in the turning of men to God, and uniting the father and children in one voice of faith: so that the father will turn to the religion of his son who is converted to Christ, and the son will embrace the faith of the true fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.(:note) turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and The second point of his office was to give notice of God's judgment against those that would not receive Christ. smite the earth with a curse.

geneva@Matthew:1:1 @ The (note:)Jesus Christ came of Abraham of the tribe of Judah, and of the family of David as God promised.(:note)Rehearsal: as the Hebrews used to speak; see (Gen_5:1), the book of the generations. book of the Of the ancestors from whom Christ came. generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the Christ is also the son of Abraham. son of Abraham.

geneva@Matthew:1:2 @ Abraham begate Isaac. And Isaac begate Iacob; Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren.

geneva@Matthew:1:3 @ And Iudas begate Phares, and Zara of Thamar; Phares begate Esrom; Esrom begate Aram.

geneva@Matthew:1:4 @ And Aram begate Aminadab; Aminadab begate Naasson; Naasson begat Salmon.

geneva@Matthew:1:6 @ And Iesse begate Dauid the King; Dauid the King begate Solomon of her that was the wife of Vrias.

geneva@Matthew:1:7 @ And Solomon begate Roboam; Roboam begate Abia; Abia begate Asa.

geneva@Matthew:1:8 @ And Asa begate Iosaphat; Iosaphat begate Ioram; Ioram begate Hozias.

geneva@Matthew:1:9 @ And Hozias begat Ioatham; Ioatham begate Achaz; Achaz begate Ezekias.

geneva@Matthew:1:10 @ And Ezekias begate Manasses; Manasses begate Amon; Amon begate Iosias.

geneva@Matthew:1:11 @ and Josias begat (note:)That is, the captivity fell in the days of Jakim and Jechonias: for Jechonias was born before the carrying away into captivity.(:note) Jechonias and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away of Babylon.

geneva@Matthew:1:12 @ And after they were caried away into Babylon, Iechonias begate Salathiel. And Salathiel begate Zorobabel.

geneva@Matthew:1:16 @ And Iacob begat Ioseph ye husbad of Mary, of whom was borne Iesvs, that is called Christ.

geneva@Matthew:1:17 @ All (note:)All those who were considered to be in the lineage of David's family, as they begat one another orderly in turn.(:note) the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David [were] fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the carrying away of Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen generations.

geneva@Matthew:1:18 @ Now the birth of (note:)Christ is the true Emmanuel, and therefore, Jesus (that is, Saviour) is conceived in the virgin by the Holy Spirit, as foretold by the prophets.(:note) Jesus Christ was thus: His mother, Mary, that is, having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child of [the] Holy Spirit.

geneva@Matthew:1:19 @ Then Ioseph her husbande being a iust man, and not willing to make her a publike example, was minded to put her away secretly.

geneva@Matthew:1:20 @ but while he pondered on these things, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to (note:)Receive her from her parents and kinsfolks hands.(:note) take to [thee] Mary, thy Who was promised, and made sure to you to be your wife. wife, for that which is Of the mother's substance by the Holy Spirit. begotten in her is of [the] Holy Spirit.

geneva@Matthew:1:22 @ And al this was done that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by ye Prophet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:1:23 @ Behold, a (note:)There is an article added in the Hebrew and Greek text, to point out the woman and set her forth plainly: as we would say, the virgin, or a certain virgin.(:note) virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

geneva@Matthew:1:24 @ Then Ioseph, being raised from sleepe, did as the Angel of the Lorde had inioyned him, and tooke his wife.

geneva@Matthew:1:25 @ And knew her not (note:)The word «till», in the Hebrew language, gives us to understand that a thing will not come to pass in time to come: as Michal had no children «till» her death day, (2Sa_6:23). And in the last chapter of this evangelist: Behold, I am with you «till» the end of the world.(:note) till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

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:2:2 @ Saying, Where is that King of the Iewes that is borne? For wee haue seene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him.

geneva@Matthew:2:3 @ When Herod the king had heard [these things], he was (note:)Was much moved, for he was a foreigner, and became ruler by force; and the Jews were troubled; for wickedness is mad and raging.(:note) troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

geneva@Matthew:2:4 @ And when he had gathered all the (note:)The chief priests, that is, such as were of Aaron's family, who were divided into twenty-four orders. (1Ch_24:5; 2Ch_36:14).(:note) chief priests and They that expound the law to the people, for the Hebrews take this word for another, which means as much as to expound and to declare. scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

geneva@Matthew:2:6 @ And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the (note:)Though you are a small town, yet you will be very famous and notable through the birth of the Messiah, who will be born in you.(:note) least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that That will rule and govern: for kings are rightly called leaders and shepherds of the people. shall rule my people Israel.

geneva@Matthew:2:9 @ So when they had heard the King, they departed: and loe, the starre which they had seene in the East, went before them, till it came and stoode ouer the place where the babe was.

geneva@Matthew:2:11 @ And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and (note:)A kind of humble and lovely reverence.(:note) fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their The rich and costly presents, which they brought him. treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

geneva@Matthew:2:12 @ And being (note:)God warned and told them of it, even though they did not ask him.(:note) warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

geneva@Matthew:2:15 @ And was there vnto the death of Herod, that that might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, Out of Egypt haue I called my sonne.

geneva@Matthew:2:16 @ Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the Wisemen, was exceeding wroth, and sent foorth, and slew all the male children that were in Beth-leem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two yeere old and vnder, according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the Wisemen.

geneva@Matthew:2:17 @ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken (note:)For God speaketh by the mouth of the prophets.(:note) by Jeremy the prophet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:2:18 @ In Rama was there (note:)A voice of lamenting, weeping and howling.(:note) a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, That is to say, All who live around Bethlehem: for Rachel, Jacob's wife who died in childbirth, was buried by the road that leads to this town, which is also called Ephratah, because of the fruitfulness of the soil, and the plentifulness of corn. Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

geneva@Matthew:2:22 @ But whe he heard that Archelaus did reigne in Iudea in stead of his father Herod, he was afraide to go thither: yet after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned aside into the parts of Galile,

geneva@Matthew:2:23 @ And went and dwelt in a citie called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophets, which was, That hee should be called a Nazarite.

geneva@Matthew:3:1 @ In (note:)Not when Joseph went to dwell at Nazareth, but a great while after, about fifteen years: for in the 30th year of his life Jesus was baptized by John: therefore «those days» means the time when Jesus remained as an inhabitant of the town of Nazareth.(:note) those days came John, who through his singular holiness and rare austerity of life caused men to cast their eyes on him, prepares the way for Christ who is following fast on his heels, as the prophet Isaiah foretold, and delivers the sum of the gospel, which a short time later would be delivered more fully. John the Baptist, preaching in the In a hilly country, which was nonetheless inhabited, for Zacharias dwelt there, (Luk_1:39-40), and there was Joab's house, (1Ki_2:34); and besides these, Joshua makes mention of six towns that were in the wilderness, (Jos_15:61-62). wilderness of Judaea,

geneva@Matthew:3:3 @ For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, (note:)Make him a plain and smooth way.(:note) make his paths straight.

geneva@Matthew:3:4 @ And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was (note:)Locusts were a type of meat which certain of the eastern people use, who were therefore called devourers of locusts.(:note) locusts and wild honey.

geneva@Matthew:3:10 @ And now also is the axe put to the roote of the trees: therfore euery tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewen downe, & cast into ye fire.

geneva@Matthew:3:15 @ And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil (note:)All such things as it has appointed for us to keep.(:note) all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

geneva@Matthew:3:16 @ And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto (note:)To John.(:note) him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

geneva@Matthew:4:1 @ Then was (note:)Christ is tempted in all manner of ways, and still overcomes, that we also through his virtue may overcome.(:note) Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

geneva@Matthew:4:2 @ And when he had fasted (note:)A full forty days.(:note) forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

geneva@Matthew:4:5 @ Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a (note:)The battlement which encompassed the flat roof of the Temple so that no man might fall down: as was appointed by the law; (Deu_22:8).(:note) pinnacle of the temple,

geneva@Matthew:4:6 @ And said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe: for it is written, that he wil giue his Angels charge ouer thee, and with their hands they shall lift thee vp, lest at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.

geneva@Matthew:4:13 @ And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in (note:)Which was a town a great deal more famous than Nazareth was.(:note) Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:

geneva@Matthew:4:14 @ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Propet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:4:15 @ The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, [by] the way of the (note:)Of Tiberias, or because that country went toward Tyre, which borders the eastern Mediterranean Sea.(:note) sea, beyond Jordan, So called because it bordered upon Tyre and Sidon, and because Solomon gave the king of Tyre twenty cities in that quarter; (1Ki_9:11). Galilee of the Gentiles;

geneva@Matthew:4:21 @ And when he was gone forth from thence, he saw other two brethren, Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, and Iohn his brother in a ship with Zebedeus their father, mending their nets, & he called them.

geneva@Matthew:4:23 @ And (note:)Christ assures the hearts of the believers of his spiritual and saving virtue, by healing the diseases of the body.(:note) Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in Their, that is, the Galilaeans. their Synagogues, that is, the Churches of the Jews. synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the Of the Messiah. kingdom, and healing Diseases of all kinds, but not every disease: that is, as we say, some of every kind. all manner of sickness and all manner of The word properly signifies the weakness of the stomach: but here it is taken for those diseases which make those that have them faint and wear away. disease among the people.

geneva@Matthew:4:24 @ And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and (note:)The word signifies properly the stone with which gold is tried: and by a borrowed kind of speech, is applied to all kinds of examinations by torture, when as by rough dealing and torments, we draw out the truths from men who otherwise would not confess: in this place it is taken for those diseases, which put sick men to great woe.(:note) torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were Who at every full moon or the change of the moon, are troubled and diseased. lunatick, and those that had the Weak and feeble men, who have the parts of their body loosed and so weakened, that they are neither able to gather them up together, nor do with them as they wish. palsy; and he healed them.

geneva@Matthew:5:1 @ And when he sawe the multitude, he went vp into a mountaine: and when he was set, his disciples came to him.

geneva@Matthew:5:8 @ Blessed [are] the (note:)Fitly is this word «pure» joined with the heart, for as a bright and shining resemblance or image may be seen plainly in a clear and pure looking glass, even so does the face (as it were) of the everlasting God, shine forth, and clearly appear in a pure heart.(:note) pure in heart: for they shall see God.

geneva@Matthew:5:13 @ Ye (note:)The ministers of the word especially (unless they will be the most cowardly of all) must lead others both by word and deed to this greatest joy and happiness.(:note) are the salt of the Your doctrine must be very sound and good, for if it is not so, it will be not regarded and cast away as a thing unsavoury and vain. earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be What will you have to salt with? And so are fools in the Latin tongue called «saltless», as you would say, men that have no salt or savour and taste in them. salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

geneva@Matthew:5:22 @ But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be (note:)He speaks of the judgment of God, and of the difference of sins, and therefore applies his words to the form of civil judgments which were then used.(:note) in danger Of that judgment which was ruled by three men, who had the hearing and deciding of money matters, and such other small causes. of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the By that judgment which stood of 23 judges, who had the hearing and deciding of weighty affairs, as the matter of a whole tribe or of a high priest, or of a false prophet. council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of Whereas we read here «hell», it is in the text itself «Gehenna», which is one Hebrew word made out of two, and is as if to say «as the Valley of Hinnom», which the Hebrews called Topheth: it was a place where the Israelites cruelly sacrificed their children to false gods, whereupon it was taken for a place appointed to torment the reprobates in (Jer_7:31). hell The Jews used four kinds of punishments, before their government was taken away by Herod: hanging, beheading, stoning, and burning. It is burning that Christ meant, because burning was the greatest punishment; therefore by making mention of a judgment, a council, and a fire, he shows that some sins are worse than others are, but yet they are all such that we must give account for them, and will be punished for them. fire.

geneva@Matthew:5:26 @ Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast (note:)You will be dealt with in this manner, to the utmost extremity.(:note) paid the uttermost farthing.

geneva@Matthew:5:29 @ And if thy (note:)He names the right eye and the right hand, because the parts of the right side of our bodies are the chiefest, and the most ready to commit any wickedness.(:note) right eye Literally, do cause you to offend: for sins are stumbling blocks as it were, that is to say, rocks which we are cast upon. offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.

geneva@Matthew:5:30 @ Also if thy right hand make thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

geneva@Matthew:5:42 @ Giue to him that asketh, and from him that would borowe of thee, turne not away.

geneva@Matthew:5:47 @ And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do not even the (note:)They that were the toll masters, and had the oversight of tributes and customs: this was a type of man that the Jews hated to death, both because they served the Romans in those offices (whose heavy bondage they could not overthrow) and also because these toll masters were for the most part given to covetousness.(:note) publicans so?

geneva@Matthew:5:48 @ Ye shall therefore be perfit, as your Father which is in heauen, is perfite.

geneva@Matthew:6:2 @ Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the (note:)Counterfeits, for hypocrites were players that played a part in a play.(:note) hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

geneva@Matthew:6:6 @ But when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber and when thou hast shut thy doore, pray vnto thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall rewarde thee openly.

geneva@Matthew:6:7 @ But when ye pray, use not (note:)Long prayers are not condemned, but vain, needless, and superstitious ones.(:note) vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

geneva@Matthew:6:8 @ Be ye not like them therefore: for your Father knoweth whereof ye haue neede, before ye aske of him.

geneva@Matthew:6:10 @ Thy Kingdome come. Thy will be done euen in earth, as it is in heauen.

geneva@Matthew:6:11 @ Give us this day our (note:)That which is suitable for our nature for our daily food, or such as may suffice our nature and complexion.(:note) daily bread.

geneva@Matthew:6:12 @ And forgiue vs our dettes, as we also forgiue our detters.

geneva@Matthew:6:15 @ But if ye do not forgiue men their trespasses,, no more will your father forgiue you your trespaces.

geneva@Matthew:6:17 @ But when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face,

geneva@Matthew:6:18 @ That thou seeme not vnto men to fast, but vnto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret, will rewarde thee openly.

geneva@Matthew:6:20 @ But lay vp treasures for your selues in heauen, where neither the mothe nor canker corrupteth, & where theeues neither digge through, nor steale.

geneva@Matthew:6:21 @ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

geneva@Matthew:6:27 @ Which of you by (note:)He speaks of care which is joined with thought of mind, and has for the most part distrust yoked with it.(:note) taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

geneva@Matthew:6:29 @ Yet I say vnto you, that euen Solomon in all his glorie was not arayed like one of these.

geneva@Matthew:6:30 @ Wherefore if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde which is to day, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, shall he not doe much more vnto you, O ye of litle faith?

geneva@Matthew:7:2 @ Eor with what iudgement ye iudge, ye shall be iudged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you againe.

geneva@Matthew:7:4 @ Or howe sayest thou to thy brother, Suffer me to cast out the mote out of thine eye, and beholde, a beame is in thine owne eye?

geneva@Matthew:7:5 @ Hypocrite, first cast out that beame out of thine owne eye, and then shalt thou see clearely to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye.

geneva@Matthew:7:8 @ For whosoeuer asketh, receiueth: and he, that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

geneva@Matthew:7:9 @ For what man is there among you, which if his sonne aske him bread, woulde giue him a stone?

geneva@Matthew:7:10 @ Or if he aske fish, wil he giue him a serpent?

geneva@Matthew:7:11 @ If ye then, which are euill, can giue to your children good giftes, howe much more shall your Father which is in heauen, giue good thinges to them that aske him?

geneva@Matthew:7:14 @ Because (note:)The way is straight and narrow: we must pass through this rough way and suffer, endure, be changed and so enter into life.(:note) strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

geneva@Matthew:7:19 @ Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

geneva@Matthew:7:22 @ Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy (note:)By «name» here is meant mighty working power of God, which every man witnesses that calls upon him.(:note) name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many Properly, powers: Now these excellent works which are done are called powers because of those things which they bring to pass, for by them we understand how mighty the power of God is. wonderful works?

geneva@Matthew:7:23 @ And then will I profess unto them, (note:)This is not of ignorance, but because he will cast them away.(:note) I never knew you: depart from me, You that are given to all kinds of wickedness, and seem to make an art of sin. ye that work iniquity.

geneva@Matthew:7:25 @ And the raine fell, and the floods came, and the windes blewe, and beat vpon that house, and it fell not: for it was grounded on a rocke.

geneva@Matthew:7:27 @ And the raine fell, and the floods came, and the windes blewe, and beat vpon that house, and it fell, and the fall thereof was great.

geneva@Matthew:7:28 @ And it came to passe, when Iesus had ended these wordes, the people were astonied at his doctrine.

geneva@Matthew:7:29 @ For he taught them as one hauing authoritie, and not as the Scribes.

geneva@Matthew:8:1 @ Nowe when he was come downe from the mountaine, great multitudes followed him.

geneva@Matthew:8:3 @ And Iesus putting foorth his hand, touched him, saying, I will, be thou cleane: and immediately his leprosie was clensed.

geneva@Matthew:8:6 @ And saide, Master, my seruant lieth sicke at home of the palsie, and is grieuously pained.

geneva@Matthew:8:8 @ But the Centurion answered, saying, Master, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come vnder my roofe: but speake the worde onely, and my seruant shall be healed.

geneva@Matthew:8:11 @ And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall (note:)A metaphor taken of banqueters, for they that sit down together are fellows in the banquet.(:note) sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

geneva@Matthew:8:12 @ But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into (note:)Who are outside the kingdom: For in the kingdom is light, and outside the kingdom is darkness.(:note) outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:8:13 @ Then Iesus saide vnto the Centurion, Goe thy way, and as thou hast beleeued, so be it vnto thee, And his seruant was healed the same houre.

geneva@Matthew:8:16 @ When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with [his] word, and healed (note:)Of all sorts.(:note) all that were sick:

geneva@Matthew:8:17 @ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying, He tooke our infirmities, and bare our sickenesses.

geneva@Matthew:8:18 @ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the (note:)For Capernaum was situated upon the lake of Tiberias.(:note) other side.

geneva@Matthew:8:24 @ And beholde, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the ship was couered with waues: but he was a sleepe.

geneva@Matthew:8:25 @ Then his disciples came, and awoke him, saying, Master, saue vs: we perish.

geneva@Matthew:8:26 @ And he said vnto them, Why are ye fearefull, O ye of litle faith? Then he arose, & rebuked the winds & the sea: & so there was a great calme.

geneva@Matthew:8:30 @ And there was (note:)On a hill, as Mark and Luke witness: Now Gederah, as Josephus records, book seventeen chapter thirteen, lived after the order of the Greeks and therefore we must not be surprised if there were swine there.(:note) a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.

geneva@Matthew:8:31 @ And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.

geneva@Matthew:8:33 @ Then the heardmen fled: and when they were come into the citie, they tolde all things, and what was become of them that were possessed with the deuils.

geneva@Matthew:8:34 @ And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought [him] that he would (note:)Where men live as swine, there Christ does not abide, but demons.(:note) depart out of their coasts.

geneva@Matthew:9:1 @ And he (note:)Sins are the cause of our afflictions, and Christ only forgives them if we believe.(:note) entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his Into Capernaum, for as Theophylact says, Bethlehem brought him forth, Nazareth brought him up, and Capernaum was his dwelling place. own city.

geneva@Matthew:9:3 @ And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This [man] (note:)To blaspheme, signifies among the divines, to speak wickedly: and among the more eloquent Greeks, to slander.(:note) blasphemeth.

geneva@Matthew:9:5 @ For whether is it easier to say, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee, or to say, Arise, and walke?

geneva@Matthew:9:10 @ And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and (note:)The publicans who were placed by the Romans, after that time Judea was brought into the form of a province, to gather the taxes, and therefore by the rest of the Jews they were called sinners, that is to say, very vile men.(:note) sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

geneva@Matthew:9:11 @ And when the Pharises sawe that, they saide to his disciples, Why eateth your master with Publicanes and sinners?

geneva@Matthew:9:15 @ And Jesus said unto them, Can the (note:)A Hebrew idiom, for they that are admitted into the marriage chamber are as the bridegroom's closest friends.(:note) children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

geneva@Matthew:9:16 @ No man putteth a piece of (note:)Raw, which was never processed by the fuller.(:note) new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

geneva@Matthew:9:20 @ (And beholde, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeres, came behinde him, and touched the hemme of his garment.

geneva@Matthew:9:22 @ Then Iesus turned him about, and seeing her, did say, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; the woman was made whole at that same moment.)

geneva@Matthew:9:28 @ And when hee was come into the house, the blinde came to him, & Iesus saide vnto them, Beleeue yee that I am able to doe this? And they sayd vnto him, Yea, Lord.

geneva@Matthew:9:33 @ And when the deuill was cast out, the domme spake: then the multitude marueiled, saying, The like was neuer seene in Israel.

geneva@Matthew:9:34 @ But the Pharises saide, He casteth out deuils, through the prince of deuils.

geneva@Matthew:9:35 @ And Iesus went about all cities and townes, teaching in their Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdome, and healing euery sickenesse and euery disease among the people.

geneva@Matthew:9:38 @ Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will (note:)Literally, «cast them out»: for men are very slow in a work so holy.(:note) send forth labourers into his harvest.

geneva@Matthew:10:1 @ And (note:)The apostles are sent to preach the gospel in Israel.(:note) when he had called unto [him] his twelve disciples, he gave them power [against] unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

geneva@Matthew:10:3 @ Philippe and Bartlemewe: Thomas, and Matthewe that Publicane: Iames the sonne of Alpheus, & Lebbeus whose surname was Thaddeus:

geneva@Matthew:10:4 @ Simon the Canaanite, and Judas (note:)A man of Kerioth. Now Kerioth was in the tribe of Judah; (Jos_15:25).(:note) Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

geneva@Matthew:10:15 @ Truely I say vnto you, it shall be easier for them of the lande of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of iudgement, then for that citie.

geneva@Matthew:10:24 @ The disciple is not aboue his master, nor the seruant aboue his Lord.

geneva@Matthew:10:25 @ It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house (note:)It was the idol of the Acronites, which we call the god of flies.(:note) Beelzebub, how much more [shall they call] them of his household?

geneva@Matthew:11:1 @ And (note:)Christ shows by his works that he is the promised Messiah.(:note) it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of Of instructing them with precepts. commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in The disciples' cities, that is to say, in Galilee, where many of them were born; (Act_2:7). their cities.

geneva@Matthew:11:11 @ Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the (note:)In the new state of the Church where the true glory of God shines: the people are not compared together, but the types of doctrines, the preaching of John with the law and the prophets: and again, the most clear preaching of the gospel is compared with John's.(:note) kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

geneva@Matthew:11:14 @ And if ye will receiue it, this is that Elias, which was to come.

geneva@Matthew:11:21 @ Woe be to thee, Chorazin: Woe be to thee, Bethsaida: for if ye great workes, which were done in you, had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, they had repented long agone in sackecloth and ashes.

geneva@Matthew:11:22 @ But I say to you, It shalbe easier for Tyrus and Sidon at the day of iudgement, then for you.

geneva@Matthew:11:24 @ But I say vnto you, that it shall be easier for them of the land of Sodom in the day of iudgement, then for thee.

geneva@Matthew:11:25 @ At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast (note:)Through the ministry of Christ, who alone shows the truth of all things pertaining to God.(:note) revealed them unto babes.

geneva@Matthew:11:28 @ Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you.

geneva@Matthew:11:30 @ For my yoke [is] (note:)May easily be carried. For his commandments are not grievous, for all who are born of God overcome the world; (1Jo_5:4).(:note) easy, and my burden is light.

geneva@Matthew:12:3 @ But he said vnto them, Haue ye not read what Dauid did when he was an hungred, & they that were with him?

geneva@Matthew:12:4 @ How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the (note:)The Hebrews call it «bread of faces», because it stood before the Lord all the week upon the golden table appointed for that service; (Lev_24:6).(:note) shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

geneva@Matthew:12:10 @ And beholde, there was a man which had his hand dried vp; they asked him, saying, Is it lawfull to heale vpon a Sabbath day? That they might accuse him.

geneva@Matthew:12:13 @ Then said he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand; he stretched it foorth, and it was made whole as the other.

geneva@Matthew:12:17 @ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:12:18 @ Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew (note:)By judgment is meant a godly kingdom, because Christ was to proclaim true religion among the Gentiles, and to cast out superstition; and wherever this is done, the Lord is said to reign and judge there, that is to say, to govern and rule matters.(:note) judgment to the Gentiles.

geneva@Matthew:12:23 @ And all the people were amased, and saide, Is not this that sonne of Dauid?

geneva@Matthew:12:24 @ But when the Pharises heard it, they saide, This man casteth the deuils no otherwise out, but through Beelzebub the prince of deuils.

geneva@Matthew:12:26 @ So if Satan cast out Satan, he is deuided against himself: how shal then his kingdom endure?

geneva@Matthew:12:27 @ Also if I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whom doe your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your iudges.

geneva@Matthew:12:28 @ But if I cast out deuils by ye Spirit of God, then is the kingdome of God come vnto you.

geneva@Matthew:12:31 @ Wherefore I say vnto you, euery sinne and blasphemie shalbe forgiuen vnto men: but the blasphemie against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiuen vnto men.

geneva@Matthew:12:32 @ And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: (note:)Of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.(:note) but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the [world] to come.

geneva@Matthew:12:35 @ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: & an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things.

geneva@Matthew:12:39 @ But he answered and said unto them, An evil and (note:)Bastard, who fell from Abraham's faith or forsook the true worship of God.(:note) adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

geneva@Matthew:12:40 @ For as Ionas was three daies & three nights in the whales belly: so shall the Sonne of man be three daies & three nights in ye heart of the earth.

geneva@Matthew:12:42 @ The queen of the (note:)He means the Queen of Sheba: whose country is south in respect to the land of Israel; (1Ki_10:1-13).(:note) south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the For Sheba is situated in the farthest coast of Arabia at the mouth of the Arabian Sea. uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.

geneva@Matthew:13:4 @ And as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the foules came and deuoured them vp.

geneva@Matthew:13:6 @ And when the sunne was vp, they were parched, and for lacke of rooting, withered away.

geneva@Matthew:13:14 @ So in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which prophecie saieth, By hearing, ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand, and seeing, ye shal see, and shall not perceiue.

geneva@Matthew:13:19 @ When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth [it] not, then cometh the wicked [one], and catcheth away that which was sown in his (note:)Though there is mention made of the heart, yet this sowing is referred to as hearing without understanding. For whether the seed is received in the heart or not, yet he that sows, sows to the heart.(:note) heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

geneva@Matthew:13:21 @ Yet hath he no roote in himselfe, and dureth but a season: for assoone as tribulation or persecution commeth because of the woorde, by and by he is offended.

geneva@Matthew:13:26 @ And when the blade was sprong vp, and brought forth fruite, then appeared the tares also.

geneva@Matthew:13:27 @ Then came the seruaunts of the housholder, and sayd vnto him, Master, sowedst not thou good seede in thy fielde? from whence then hath it tares?

geneva@Matthew:13:32 @ Which in deede is the least of all seedes: but when it is growen, it is the greatest among herbes, and it is a tree, so that the birdes of heauen come and builde in the branches thereof.

geneva@Matthew:13:35 @ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, and will vtter the thinges which haue beene kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.

geneva@Matthew:13:40 @ As then the tares are gathered and burned in ye fire, so shal it be in the end of this world.

geneva@Matthew:13:42 @ And shall cast them into a fornace of fire. There shalbe wailing and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:13:43 @ Then shall the iust men shine as ye sunne in the kingdome of their Father. Hee that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

geneva@Matthew:13:48 @ Which, when it is full, men draw to lande, and sit and gather the good into vessels, and cast the bad away.

geneva@Matthew:13:50 @ And shall cast them into a fornace of fire: there shalbe wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:13:52 @ Then sayd hee vnto them, Therefore euery Scribe which is taught vnto the kingdome of heauen, is like vnto an householder, which bringeth foorth out of his treasure things both newe and olde.

geneva@Matthew:13:53 @ And it came to passe, that when Iesus had ended these parables, he departed thence,

geneva@Matthew:13:55 @ Is not this the carpenters sonne? Is not his mother called Marie, and his brethren Iames and Ioses, and Simon and Iudas?

geneva@Matthew:14:3 @ For Herod had taken Iohn, and bounde him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife.

geneva@Matthew:14:5 @ And when hee woulde haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.

geneva@Matthew:14:6 @ But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased (note:)There were three Herods: the first of them was Antipater's son, who is also called Ascalonius, in whose reign Christ was born, and it was he that caused the children to be slain. The second was called Antipas, Magnus his son, whose mother's name was Malthaca or Martaca, and he was called Tetrarch, because he enlarged his dominion, when Archelaus was banished to Vienna in France. The third was Agrippa, Magnus his nephew by Aristobulus, and it was he that slew James.(:note) Herod.

geneva@Matthew:14:7 @ Wherefore he promised with an othe, that he would giue her whatsoeuer she would aske.

geneva@Matthew:14:9 @ And the King was sorie: neuerthelesse because of the othe, and them that sate with him at the table, he commanded it to be giuen her,

geneva@Matthew:14:11 @ And his head was brought in a platter, and giuen to the maide, and shee brought it vnto her mother.

geneva@Matthew:14:15 @ And when euen was come, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desart place, and the time is alreadie past: let the multitude depart, that they may goe into the townes, and bye them vitailes.

geneva@Matthew:14:19 @ And hee commanded the multitude to sit downe on the grasse, and tooke the fiue loaues and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen and blessed, and brake, and gaue the loaues to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

geneva@Matthew:14:20 @ And they did all eate, and were sufficed, and they tooke vp of the fragments that remained, twelue baskets full.

geneva@Matthew:14:23 @ And assoone as hee had sent the multitude away, he went vp into a moutaine alone to pray: and when the euening was come, hee was there alone.

geneva@Matthew:14:26 @ And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a (note:)A spirit, as it is taken here, is that which a man imagines to himself vainly in his mind, persuading himself that he sees something when he sees nothing.(:note) spirit; and they cried out for fear.

geneva@Matthew:14:29 @ And he saide, Come; when Peter was come downe out of the shippe, he walked on the water, to goe to Iesus.

geneva@Matthew:14:30 @ But when he sawe a mightie winde, he was afraide: and as he began to sinke, he cried, saying, Master, saue me.

geneva@Matthew:14:32 @ And assoone as they were come into the ship, the winde ceased.

geneva@Matthew:14:34 @ And when they were gone over, they came into the land of (note:)This Gennesaret was a lake near Capernaum, which is also called the Sea of Galilee or Tiberias; so the country itself grew to be called Gennesaret.(:note) Gennesaret.

geneva@Matthew:14:36 @ And besought him, that they might touch the hemme of his garment onely: and as many as touched it, were made whole.

geneva@Matthew:15:2 @ Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they (note:)Which they received handed down from their ancestors, or their elders allowed, who were the governors of the Church.(:note) wash not their hands when they eat bread.

geneva@Matthew:15:5 @ But ye say, (note:)The meaning is this: whatever I bestow upon the temple, is to your profit, for it is as good as if I gave it to you, for (as the Pharisees of our time say) it will be meritorious for you: for under this form of religion, they gathered all to themselves, as though he that had given anything to the temple, had done the duty of a child.(:note) Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

geneva@Matthew:15:6 @ And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none (note:)As much as you could, you destroyed the power and authority of the commandment: for otherwise the commandments of God stand fast in the Church of God, in spite of the world and Satan.(:note) effect by your tradition.

geneva@Matthew:15:17 @ Perceiue ye not yet, that whatsoeuer entreth into the mouth, goeth into the bellie, and is cast out into the draught?

geneva@Matthew:15:20 @ These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.

geneva@Matthew:15:21 @ Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the (note:)Coasts which were next to Tyre and Sidon, that is in that region where Palestine faces toward Venice, and the sea of Syria.(:note) coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

geneva@Matthew:15:22 @ And, behold, a woman of (note:)Of the people of the Canaanites, who dwelt in Phoenicia.(:note) Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

geneva@Matthew:15:26 @ And he answered, and said, It is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to whelps.

geneva@Matthew:15:27 @ But she said, Trueth, Lord: yet in deede the whelpes eate of the crommes, which fall from their masters table.

geneva@Matthew:15:28 @ Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee, as thou desirest; her daughter was made whole at that houre.

geneva@Matthew:15:30 @ And great multitudes came unto him, having with them [those that were] lame, blind, dumb, (note:)Whose members were weakened with paralysis, or by nature, for after it is said that he healed them. Now Christ preferred to heal in this way, that such members as were weak, he restored to health, and yet he could easily, if he had wanted, have given them hands and feet and other members which they lacked.(:note) maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:

geneva@Matthew:15:33 @ And his disciples saide vnto him, Whence should we get so much bread in the wildernes, as should suffice so great a multitude!

geneva@Matthew:15:35 @ And he commanded the multitude to (note:)Literally, «to lie down backwards», as rowers do in rowing, when they draw their oars to themselves.(:note) sit down on the ground.

geneva@Matthew:15:37 @ And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken [meat] that was left seven (note:)A kind of container made with twigs.(:note) baskets full.

geneva@Matthew:16:1 @ The (note:)The wicked who otherwise disagree with one another, agree well together against Christ, but do what they can, Christ is victorious, and triumphs over them.(:note) Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and To see whether he could do that which they desired, but their purpose was useless for they thought to find something in him by it, in which case they might have just occasion to reprehend him: or else distrust and curiosity moved them to do so, for by such means also is God said to be tempted, that is to say, provoked to anger, as though men would strive with him. tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

geneva@Matthew:16:3 @ And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the (note:)The outward show and countenance, as it were, of all things, is called in the Hebrew language, a face.(:note) face of the sky; but can ye not [discern] the signs of the times?

geneva@Matthew:16:4 @ A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but (note:)The article shows how notable the sign is.(:note) the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

geneva@Matthew:16:7 @ And they reasoned among themselues, saying, It is because we haue brought no bread.

geneva@Matthew:16:8 @ [Which] when Jesus (note:)Not by others, but by virtue of his divinity.(:note) perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?

geneva@Matthew:16:9 @ Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the (note:)That five thousand men were filled with so many loaves?(:note) five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

geneva@Matthew:16:10 @ Neither the seuen loaues when there were foure thousande men, and howe many baskets tooke ye vp?

geneva@Matthew:16:14 @ And they said, Some [say that thou art] (note:)As Herod thought.(:note) John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

geneva@Matthew:16:22 @ Then Peter (note:)Took him by the hand and led him aside, as they used to do, which meant to talk familiarly with one.(:note) took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

geneva@Matthew:16:25 @ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall (note:)Shall gain himself: And this is his meaning, they that deny Christ to save themselves, not only not gain that which they look for, but also lose the thing they would have kept, that is, themselves, which is the greatest loss of all: but as for them that doubt not to die for Christ, it goes well with them otherwise.(:note) find it.

geneva@Matthew:16:27 @ For the Son of man shall come (note:)Like a King, as (Mat_6:29).(:note) in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

geneva@Matthew:16:28 @ Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his (note:)By his kingdom is understood the glory of his ascension, and what follows after that, (Eph_4:10), or the preaching of the gospel, (Mar_9:1).(:note) kingdom.

geneva@Matthew:17:1 @ And (note:)Christ in his present company is humble in the gospel, but all the while he is Lord both of heaven and earth.(:note)Luke counts eight days, containing in that number the first and last, and Matthew speaks but of the days between them. after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

geneva@Matthew:17:2 @ And was (note:)Changed into another colour.(:note) transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

geneva@Matthew:17:3 @ And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses, and Elias, talking with him.

geneva@Matthew:17:4 @ Then answered Peter, and saide to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: if thou wilt, let vs make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

geneva@Matthew:17:5 @ While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is (note:)The word «my» distinguishes Christ from other children. For he is God's natural son, we by adoption; therefore he is called the first begotten among the brethren, because although he is by right the only son, yet he is chief among many, in that he is the source and head of the adoption.(:note) my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

geneva@Matthew:17:6 @ And when the disciples heard [it], they (note:)Fell down flat on their faces and worshipped him, as in (Mat_2:11).(:note) fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

geneva@Matthew:17:9 @ And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the (note:)Which they saw, otherwise the word used in this place is usually used in referring to that which is seen in a dream.(:note) vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

geneva@Matthew:17:10 @ And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the Scribes that Elias must first come?

geneva@Matthew:17:11 @ And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Certeinely Elias must first come, and restore all thinges.

geneva@Matthew:17:12 @ But I say vnto you that Elias is come alreadie, and they knewe him not, but haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they would: likewise shal also the Sonne of man suffer of them.

geneva@Matthew:17:15 @ Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is (note:)They that at certain times of the moon are troubled with the falling sickness, or any other kind of disease: but in this case, we must so understand it, that besides the natural disease he had a demonic derangement.(:note) lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.

geneva@Matthew:17:18 @ And Iesus rebuked the deuill, and he went out of him: and the childe was healed at that houre.

geneva@Matthew:17:20 @ And Iesus said vnto them, Because of your vnbeliefe: for verely I say vnto you, if ye haue faith as much as is a graine of mustarde seede, ye shall say vnto this mountaine, Remooue hence to yonder place, and it shall remoue: and nothing shalbe vnpossible vnto you.

geneva@Matthew:17:25 @ He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own (note:)By children we must not understand subjects who pay tribute, but natural children.(:note) children, or of strangers?

geneva@Matthew:17:27 @ Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a (note:)The word used here is «stater», which is in value four didrachmas; every drachma is about five pence.(:note) piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

geneva@Matthew:18:3 @ And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be (note:)An idiom taken from the Hebrews which is equivalent to «repent».(:note) converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

geneva@Matthew:18:4 @ Whosoeuer therefore shal humble himselfe as this litle childe, the same is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen.

geneva@Matthew:18:8 @ Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot (note:){{See Mat_5:29}}(:note) offend thee, cut them off, and cast [them] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

geneva@Matthew:18:9 @ And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, then hauing two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

geneva@Matthew:18:11 @ For the Sonne of man is come to saue that which was lost.

geneva@Matthew:18:12 @ How thinke ye? If a man haue an hundreth sheepe, and one of them be gone astray, doeth he not leaue ninetie & nine, & go into the mountaines, and seeke that which is gone astray?

geneva@Matthew:18:13 @ And if so be that he finde it, verely I say vnto you, he reioyceth more of that sheepe, then of the ninetie and nine which went not astray:

geneva@Matthew:18:16 @ But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the (note:)That is, by the word and witness; the mouth is sometimes taken for the word of speech, (Num_3:16), and also for a still witness, namely, when the matter speaks for itself, as below in (Mat_21:16).(:note) mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be Sure and certain. established.

geneva@Matthew:18:19 @ Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall (note:)This word, which is normally used of the body, is here used of the mind, for it belongs properly to poetry.(:note) agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

geneva@Matthew:18:24 @ And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him (note:)Here is set down a very great sum of six thousand crowns, that the difference may be the greater, for there is no proportion between them.(:note) ten thousand talents.

geneva@Matthew:18:26 @ The servant therefore fell down, and (note:)This was a polite reverence which was very common in the East.(:note) worshipped him, saying, Lord, Yield not too much to your anger against me: so is God called in the Scripture, slow to anger, that is to say, gentle, and one that refrains his fierce wrath, (Psa_86:5); patient and of great mercy. have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

geneva@Matthew:18:27 @ Then that seruants Lord had compassion, and loosed him, and forgaue him the dette.

geneva@Matthew:18:28 @ But when the seruant was departed, hee found one of his felow seruants, which ought him an hundred pence, & he layde hands on him, and thratled him, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

geneva@Matthew:18:30 @ Yet he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the dette.

geneva@Matthew:18:31 @ And when his other felowe seruants sawe what was done, they were very sory, & came, and declared vnto their Lord all that was done.

geneva@Matthew:18:33 @ Oughtest not thou also to haue had pitie on thy fellowe seruant, euen as I had pitie on thee?

geneva@Matthew:18:34 @ So his Lord was wroth, and deliuered him to the tormentours, till he should pay all that was due to him.

geneva@Matthew:18:35 @ So likewise shall mine heauenly Father doe vnto you, except ye forgiue from your hearts, eche one to his brother their trespasses.

geneva@Matthew:19:1 @ And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had finished these sayings, he (note:)Passed over the water out of Galilee into the borders of Judea.(:note) departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;

geneva@Matthew:19:5 @ And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall (note:)The Greek word conveys «to be glued unto», by which it signifies the union by marriage, which is between man and wife, as though they were glued together.(:note) cleave to his wife: and they They who were two become one as it were: and this word «flesh» is figuratively taken for the whole man, or the body, after the manner of the Hebrews. twain shall be one flesh?

geneva@Matthew:19:6 @ Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath (note:)Has made them yokefellows, as the marriage itself is called a yoke, by a borrowed kind of speech.(:note) joined together, let not man put asunder.

geneva@Matthew:19:8 @ He saith unto them, Moses (note:)Being brought about because of the hardness of your hearts.(:note) because of the hardness of your hearts By a political law, not by the moral law: for the moral law is a perpetual law of God's justice; the other bows and bends as the carpenter's bevel. suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

geneva@Matthew:19:10 @ His disciples say unto him, If the (note:)If the matter stands in this way between man and wife, or in marriage.(:note) case of the man be so with [his] wife, it is not good to marry.

geneva@Matthew:19:12 @ For there are some (note:)A man can become a eunuch in one of two ways: the first is by castration or emasculation, and the other by natural causes, such as a rupture.(:note) eunuchs, which were so born from [their] mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have Who abstain from marriage, and live as celibates through the gift of God. made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive [it], let him receive [it].

geneva@Matthew:19:19 @ Honour thy father and mother: and thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.

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:19:24 @ And again I say unto you, It is (note:)Literally, «it is of less labour».(:note) easier for a Theophylact notes, that by this word is meant a cable rope, but Caninius alleges out of the Talmuds that it is a proverb, and the word «Camel» signifies the beast itself. camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

geneva@Matthew:19:25 @ And whe his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amased, saying, Who then can be saued?

geneva@Matthew:19:29 @ And whosoeuer shal forsake houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Names sake, he shall receiue an hundreth folde more, and shall inherite euerlasting life.

geneva@Matthew:20:6 @ And about the (note:)The last hour: for the day was twelve hours long, and the first hour began at sunrise.(:note) eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

geneva@Matthew:20:8 @ And when euen was come, the master of the vineyard sayd vnto his steward, Call the labourers, and giue them their hire, beginning at the last, till thou come to the first.

geneva@Matthew:20:11 @ And when they had receiued it, they murmured against the master of the house,

geneva@Matthew:20:12 @ Saying, These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made them equall vnto vs, which haue borne the burden & heate of the day.

geneva@Matthew:20:14 @ Take that which is thine owne, and go thy way: I will giue vnto this last, as much as to thee.

geneva@Matthew:20:15 @ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye (note:)Naught, that is to say, do you envy at my goodness towards them? For by an «evil eye» the Hebrews mean «envy», because such dispositions appear chiefly in the eyes, as above in (Mat_6:23). It is set in opposition to the word «single», and it is taken there for corrupt: for whereas he said before in verse 22, «If thine eye be single», he adds in verse 23, «but if thine eye by wicked», or «corrupt», the word being the same in that place as it is here. (Mat_6:22-23)(:note) evil, because I am good?

geneva@Matthew:20:16 @ So the last shalbe first, and the first last: for many are called, but fewe chosen.

geneva@Matthew:20:22 @ But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to (note:)«Taking the cup» is figurative speech for that which is contained in the cup. And again, the Hebrews understand by the word «cup», sometimes the manner of punishment which is rendered to sin, as (Psa_11:6), or the joy that is given to the faithful, as (Psa_23:5), and sometimes a lot or condition, as (Psa_16:5).(:note) drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the This is in reference to afflictions, as David commonly uses. baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

geneva@Matthew:20:23 @ And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is (note:)The almightiness of Christ's divinity is not shut out by this, but it shows the debasing of himself by taking man's nature upon him.(:note) not mine to give, but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared of my Father.

geneva@Matthew:20:28 @ Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.

geneva@Matthew:20:30 @ And beholde, two blinde men, sitting by the way side, when they heard that Iesus passed by, cryed, saying, O Lorde, the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on vs.

geneva@Matthew:20:34 @ And Iesus mooued with compassion, touched their eyes, & immediatly their eyes receiued sight, and they followed him.

geneva@Matthew:21:1 @ And (note:)Christ by his humility, triumphing over the pride of this world, ascends to true glory by the shame of the cross.(:note) when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,

geneva@Matthew:21:2 @ Saying to them, Goe into the towne that is ouer against you, and anon yee shall finde an asse bounde, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them vnto me.

geneva@Matthew:21:3 @ And if any [man] say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway (note:)He that will say anything to you will let them go, that is, the ass and the colt.(:note) he will send them.

geneva@Matthew:21:4 @ All this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:21:5 @ Tell ye the (note:)The city of Sion. This is a Hebrew idiom, common in the Lamentations of Jeremiah.(:note) daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

geneva@Matthew:21:6 @ So the disciples went, and did as Iesus had commaunded them,

geneva@Matthew:21:7 @ And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their (note:)Their uppermost garment.(:note) clothes, and they set [him] Upon their garments, not upon the ass and the colt. thereon.

geneva@Matthew:21:9 @ And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, (note:)This was an ancient kind of cry, which they voiced in the feast of Tabernacles, when they carried boughs according as God commanded; (Lev_23:40). And the word is corruptly made of two, for we should say, «Hoshiang-na», which is as much as to say, «Save I pray thee».(:note) Hosanna to the Son of David: Well is it to him that comes in the Name of the Lord, that is to say, whom the Lord has given us for our King. Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

geneva@Matthew:21:10 @ And when he was come into Jerusalem, (note:)That is, all the men of Jerusalem were moved.(:note) all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?

geneva@Matthew:21:12 @ And Iesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all them that solde and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrew the tables of the money chagers, & the seates of them that sold doues,

geneva@Matthew:21:16 @ And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast (note:)You have made most perfect. We read in David, «Thou hast established» or «grounded», and if the matter is considered well, the evangelist says here the same thing, for that which is most perfect is stable and sure.(:note) perfected praise?

geneva@Matthew:21:22 @ And whatsoeuer ye shall aske in prayer, if ye beleeue, ye shall receiue it.

geneva@Matthew:21:24 @ And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you (note:)One thing, that is to say, I will ask you one thing first before I answer your questions.(:note) one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

geneva@Matthew:21:25 @ The (note:)The preaching of John is called by the figure «baptism» because he preached the baptism of repentance, etc.; (Mar_1:4; Act_19:3).(:note) baptism of John, whence was it? from From God, and so it is plainly seen how these are set one against another. heaven, or of men? And they Beat their heads about it, and mused, or laid their heads together. reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?

geneva@Matthew:21:26 @ And if we say, Of men, we feare the multitude, for all holde Iohn as a Prophet.

geneva@Matthew:21:31 @ Whether of them twain did the will of [his] father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots (note:)They hurry to the kingdom of God and you go slowly, so that you should at least have followed their example. Mark then that this word, «go into», is improperly taken in this place because none of them followed Christ.(:note) go into the kingdom of God before you.

geneva@Matthew:21:37 @ But last of all he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

geneva@Matthew:21:38 @ But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us (note:)Literally, «let us hold it fast».(:note) seize on his inheritance.

geneva@Matthew:21:39 @ So they tooke him, and cast him out of the vineyarde, and slewe him.

geneva@Matthew:21:41 @ They say unto him, He will (note:)A kind of proverb, showing what punishment the wicked are worthy of.(:note) miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

geneva@Matthew:21:42 @ Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the (note:)Master builders, who are chief builders of the house, that is of the Church.(:note) builders rejected, the same is Began to be. become the The chiefest stone in the corner is called the head of the corner: which bears up the couplings or joints of the whole building. head of the corner: That matter (in that the stone which was cast away is made the head) is the Lord's doing which we behold and greatly marvel at. this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

geneva@Matthew:21:44 @ And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will (note:)As chaff used to be scattered with the wind, for he uses a word which properly signifies separating the chaff from the corn with winnowing, and to scatter it abroad.(:note) grind him to powder.

geneva@Matthew:22:1 @ And (note:)Not all of the whole company of those that are called by the voice of the gospel are the true Church before God: for the most part of them would rather follow the conveniences of this life: and some persecute very cruelly those that call them: but they are the true Church who obey when they are called, such as for the most part are those whom the world despises.(:note) Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

geneva@Matthew:22:4 @ Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and [my] fatlings [are] (note:)The word used here is commonly used in sacrifices, and is by translation used for other feasts also: For feasts and banquets usually began with sacrifices.(:note) killed, and all things [are] ready: come unto the marriage.

geneva@Matthew:22:8 @ Then saith he to his servants, The (note:)The marriage feast.(:note) wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

geneva@Matthew:22:10 @ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both (note:)The general calling offers the gospel to all men: but those who enter in have their life examined.(:note) bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

geneva@Matthew:22:12 @ And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was (note:)Literally, «haltered», that is to say, he held his peace, as though he had a bridle or a halter around his neck.(:note) speechless.

geneva@Matthew:22:13 @ Then said the king to the (note:)To those that served the guests.(:note) servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him] into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:22:16 @ And they sent out unto him their disciples with the (note:)Those who with Herod made a new religion, composed of both heathen and Jewish religion.(:note) Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God Truly and sincerely. in truth, neither carest thou for any [man]: for thou regardest not the You are not moved with any appearance and outward show. person of men.

geneva@Matthew:22:19 @ Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a (note:)Before (Mat_17:24) there is mention made of a didrachma, and here of a penny, whereas a didrachma is more by the seventh part then a penny: so that there seems to be an inconsistency in these two places: but they may easily be reconciled in this way: The penny was paid to the Romans for tribute, according to the proportion they were rated at, and the drachma was payed by everyone to the Temple, which also the Romans took to themselves when they had subdued India.(:note) penny.

geneva@Matthew:22:24 @ Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no (note:)Daughters are also included by this word «children», but even though they were part of his family and bore his name, the man who had only daughters was in the same position as the man who had no children at all; this is because daughters were not at this time able to carry on the family name. Therefore, by «children» here, we should understand it to be referring to «sons».(:note) children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

geneva@Matthew:22:25 @ Nowe there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first maried a wife, and deceased: and hauing none yssue, left his wife vnto his brother.

geneva@Matthew:22:27 @ And last of all the woman died also.

geneva@Matthew:22:30 @ For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the (note:)He does not say that they will be without bodies, for then they would not be men any more; but, they will be as angels, for they will neither marry nor be married.(:note) angels of God in heaven.

geneva@Matthew:22:33 @ And when the multitude heard it, they were astonied at his doctrine.

geneva@Matthew:22:35 @ Then (note:)A scribe, so it says in (Mar_12:28). To understand what a scribe is, {{See Mat_2:4}}(:note) one of them, [which was] a lawyer, asked [him a question], tempting him, and saying,

geneva@Matthew:22:36 @ Master, which is ye great commaundement in the Lawe?

geneva@Matthew:22:39 @ And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy (note:)Another man.(:note) neighbour as thyself.

geneva@Matthew:22:46 @ And none could answere him a worde, neither durst any from that day foorth aske him any moe questions.

geneva@Matthew:23:6 @ And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the (note:)When assemblies and councils are gathered together.(:note) synagogues,

geneva@Matthew:23:7 @ And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, (note:)This word «Rabbi» signifies one that is above his fellows, and is as good as any of them: and we may see by the repeating of it how proud a title it was. Now they were called Rabbi who, by the laying on of hands, were uttered and declared to the world to be wise men.(:note) Rabbi.

geneva@Matthew:23:10 @ Neither be ye called (note:)It seems that the scribes hunted very greatly after such titles, these scribes being the ones whom he called blind guides in (Mat_23:16).(:note) masters: for one is your Master, [even] Christ.

geneva@Matthew:23:12 @ And whosoever (note:)He seems to allude to the position of the rabbis, for rabbi signifies one that is in a high position.(:note) shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

geneva@Matthew:23:15 @ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and (note:)The dry part: now that part of the earth is called dry which the Lord has given to us to live upon.(:note) land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

geneva@Matthew:24:3 @ And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues, his disciples came vnto him apart, saying, Tell vs when these things shall be, and what signe shalbe of thy coming, and of the ende of the world.

geneva@Matthew:24:6 @ And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the (note:)That is, when those things are fulfilled, yet the end will not come.(:note) end is not yet.

geneva@Matthew:24:12 @ And because iniquitie shalbe increased, the loue of many shalbe colde.

geneva@Matthew:24:20 @ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the (note:)It was not lawful to take a journey on the sabbath day; Josephus, book 13.(:note) sabbath day:

geneva@Matthew:24:21 @ For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the worlde to this time, nor shalbe.

geneva@Matthew:24:22 @ And except (note:)Those things which befell the people of the Jews in the thirty-four years, when the whole land was wasted, and at length the city of Jerusalem was taken, and both it and their temple destroyed, are mixed with those things which will come to pass before the last coming of the Lord.(:note) those days should be shortened, there should no The whole nation would utterly be destroyed: and this word «flesh» is a figurative word for «man», as the Hebrews used to say. flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

geneva@Matthew:24:27 @ For as the lightning commeth out of the East, and is seene into the West, so shall also the coming of the Sonne of man be.

geneva@Matthew:24:30 @ And then shall appear the (note:)The exceeding glory and majesty, which will bear witness that Christ the Lord of heaven and earth draws near to judge the world.(:note) sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the All nations, and he alludes to the dispersion which we read of in (Genesis 10-11), or to the dividing of the people of Israel. tribes of the earth They will be in such sorrow, that they will strike themselves: and it is transferred to the mourning. mourn, and they shall see the Son of man Sitting upon the clouds, as he was taken up into heaven. coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

geneva@Matthew:24:34 @ Verily I say unto you, This (note:)This age: the word «generation» or «age» is here being used for the men of this age.(:note) generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

geneva@Matthew:24:37 @ But as the dayes of Noe were, so likewise shall the coming of the Sonne of man be.

geneva@Matthew:24:38 @ For as in the days that were before the flood they were (note:)The word which the evangelist uses expresses the matter more fully then ours does: for it is a word which is used of brute beasts: and his meaning is that in those days men will pay attention to their appetites just like brute beasts: for otherwise there is nothing wrong with eating and drinking.(:note) eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

geneva@Matthew:24:45 @ Who then is a faithfull seruaunt and wise, whom his master hath made ruler ouer his household, to giue them meate in season?

geneva@Matthew:24:46 @ Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

geneva@Matthew:24:48 @ But if that euil seruant shal say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,

geneva@Matthew:24:50 @ That seruaunts master will come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of,

geneva@Matthew:24:51 @ And shall (note:)That is, from the rest, or will cut him into two pieces, which was a most cruel kind of punishment: with which, as Justin Martyr witnesses, Isaiah the Prophet was executed by the Jews: the same kind of punishment we read of in (1Sa_15:33) and (Dan_3:29).(:note) cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:25:1 @ Then (note:)We must desire strength from God's hand which may serve us as a torch while we walk through this darkness, to bring us to our desired end: otherwise, if we become slothful and negligent because we are weary of our pains and travail, we shall be kept from entering the doors.(:note) shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and The pomp of weddings was usually preferred to be done at night, and that by young unmarried women. went forth to meet the bridegroom.

geneva@Matthew:25:6 @ And at midnight there was a crie made, Behold, the bridegrome commeth: goe out to meete him.

geneva@Matthew:25:10 @ And while they went to bye, the bridegrome came: and they that were readie, went in with him to the wedding, and the gate was shut.

geneva@Matthew:25:15 @ And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several (note:)According to the wisdom and skill in dealing which was given to them.(:note) ability; and straightway took his journey.

geneva@Matthew:25:18 @ But he that receiued that one, went & digged it in the earth, and hid his masters money.

geneva@Matthew:25:19 @ But after a long season, the master of those seruants came, and reckoned with them.

geneva@Matthew:25:20 @ Then came he that had receiued fiue talents, and brought other fiue talents, saying, Master, thou deliueredst vnto me fiue talents: behold, I haue gained with them other fiue talents.

geneva@Matthew:25:21 @ His lord said unto him, Well done, [thou] good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: (note:)Come and receive the fruit of my goodness: now the Lord's joy is doubled; see (Joh_15:11): that my joy may remain in you, and your joy be fulfilled.(:note) enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

geneva@Matthew:25:22 @ Also he that had receiued two talents, came, and said, Master, thou deliueredst vnto me two talents: behold, I haue gained two other talets more.

geneva@Matthew:25:23 @ His master saide vnto him, It is well done good seruant, and faithfull, Thou hast bene faithfull in litle, I will make thee ruler ouer much: enter into thy masters ioy.

geneva@Matthew:25:24 @ Then he which had receiued the one talent, came, & said, Master, I knewe that thou wast an hard man, which reapest where thou sowedst not, and gatherest where thou strawedst not:

geneva@Matthew:25:25 @ I was therefore afraide, and went, & hid thy talent in the earth: behold, thou hast thine owne.

geneva@Matthew:25:26 @ And his master answered, & said vnto him, Thou euill seruant, and slouthfull, thou knewest that I reape where I sowed not, and gather where I strawed not.

geneva@Matthew:25:27 @ Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the (note:)Bankers who have their shops or tables set up abroad, where they lend money at interest. Usury or loaning money at interest is strictly forbidden by the Bible, (Exo_22:25-27; Deu_23:19-20). Even a rate as low as one per cent interest was disallowed, (Neh_5:11). This servant had already told two lies. First he said the master was an austere or harsh man. This is a lie for the Lord is merciful and gracious. Next he called his master a thief because he reaped where he did not sow. Finally the master said to him sarcastically why did you not add insult to injury and loan the money out at interest so you could call your master a «usurer» too! If the servant had done this, his master would have been responsible for his servant's actions and guilty of usury.(:note) exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

geneva@Matthew:25:30 @ Cast therefore that vnprofitable seruant into vtter darkenes: there shalbe weeping and gnasshing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:25:32 @ And before him shalbe gathered all nations, & he shal seperate them one from another, as a shepheard separateth the sheepe from ye goates.

geneva@Matthew:25:34 @ Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye (note:)Blessed and happy, upon whom my Father has most abundantly bestowed his benefits.(:note) blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

geneva@Matthew:25:35 @ For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.

geneva@Matthew:25:36 @ I was naked, & ye clothed me: I was sicke, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came vnto me.

geneva@Matthew:25:40 @ And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.

geneva@Matthew:25:41 @ Then shal he say vnto them on ye left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuill and his angels.

geneva@Matthew:25:42 @ For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke:

geneva@Matthew:25:43 @ I was a stranger, & ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, & ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

geneva@Matthew:25:45 @ Then shall he answere them, and say, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

geneva@Matthew:25:46 @ And these shall goe into euerlasting paine, and the righteous into life eternall.

geneva@Matthew:26:1 @ And (note:)Christ witnesses by his going to death voluntarily, that he will make full satisfaction for the sin of Adam by his obedience.(:note) it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,

geneva@Matthew:26:3 @ Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of ye people into the hall of the high Priest called Caiaphas:

geneva@Matthew:26:5 @ But they said, Not on the (note:)By the word «feast» is meant the whole feast of unleavened bread: the first and eighth day of which were so holy that they were not allowed to do any work on it, though the whole company of the Sanhedrin determined otherwise: And yet it came to pass through God's providence, that Christ suffered at that time, so that all the people of Israel might be witnesses of his everlasting sacrifice.(:note) feast [day], lest there be an uproar among the people.

geneva@Matthew:26:8 @ But when his (note:)This is a figure of speech called synecdoche: for it is said that only Judas was moved at this; (Joh_12:4).(:note) disciples saw [it], they had indignation, saying, To what purpose [is] this Unprofitable spending. waste?

geneva@Matthew:26:14 @ Then one of the twelue, called Iudas Iscariot, went vnto the chiefe Priestes,

geneva@Matthew:26:18 @ And he said, Goe yee into the citie to such a man, and say to him, The master saieth, My time is at hande: I will keepe the Passeouer at thine house with my disciples.

geneva@Matthew:26:19 @ And the disciples did as Iesus had giuen them charge, and made readie the Passeouer.

geneva@Matthew:26:20 @ Now when the even was come, he (note:)Because the Law appointed them to be wearing footwear, and to have their staffs in their hands, as though they were is haste, therefore it is to be gathered that they did not sit down when they ate the Passover, but stood, for normally when they went to eat they took off their shoes: therefore he speaks here in this place, not of the Passover, but of the supper which was celebrated after the Passover was solemnly done.(:note) sat down with the twelve.

geneva@Matthew:26:21 @ And as they did eate, he sayde, Verely I say vnto you, that one of you shall betraie me.

geneva@Matthew:26:22 @ And they were exceeding sorowfull, and began euery one of them to say vnto him, Is it I, Master?

geneva@Matthew:26:23 @ And he answered and said, He that (note:)That is to say, he whom I invited to come to my table, alluding in this to (Psa_41:9), which is not to be understood as though just as the Lord spoke these words Judas had his hand in the dish (for that would have been an undoubted sign) but it refers to his tabling and eating with him.(:note) dippeth [his] hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.

geneva@Matthew:26:24 @ Surely the Sonne of man goeth his way, as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the Sonne of man is betrayed: it had bene good for that man, if hee had neuer bene borne.

geneva@Matthew:26:25 @ Then Judas, (note:)Who was thinking of nothing else but to betray him.(:note) which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.

geneva@Matthew:26:30 @ And when they had sung (note:)When they had made an end of their solemn singing, which some think was six Psalms, (Psa_112:1; Psa_117:2).(:note) an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

geneva@Matthew:26:35 @ Peter saide vnto him, Though I should die with thee, I will in no case denie thee. Likewise also sayd all the disciples.

geneva@Matthew:26:37 @ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and (note:)The word which he uses signifies great sorrow, and tremendous and deadly grief: this thing, as it indicates man's true nature, which shuns death as a thing that entered in against nature, shows that though Christ was void of sin, yet he sustained this horrible punishment, because he felt the wrath of God kindled against us for sins, which he revenged and punished in his person.(:note) very heavy.

geneva@Matthew:26:39 @ And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, (note:)Let it pass me, and not touch me.(:note) let this That is, which is at hand, and is offered and prepared for me: an idiom which the Hebrews use for the wrath of God, and the punishment he sends. {{See Mat_20:22}}. cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].

geneva@Matthew:26:42 @ Againe he went away the second time, and praied, saying, O my Father, if this cuppe can not passe away from mee, but that I must drinke it, thy will be done.

geneva@Matthew:26:47 @ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, (note:)Sent from the high Priests.(:note) from the chief priests and elders of the people.

geneva@Matthew:26:49 @ And forthwith he came to Iesus, and sayd, God saue thee, Master, and kissed him.

geneva@Matthew:26:55 @ The same houre sayde Iesus to the multitude, Ye be come out as it were against a thiefe, with swordes and staues to take mee: I sate daily teaching in the Temple among you, and yee tooke me not.

geneva@Matthew:26:56 @ But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsooke him, and fled.

geneva@Matthew:26:58 @ But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's (note:)The word used here properly denotes an open large room in the front of a house, as we see in kings' palaces and noblemen's houses: we call it a court, for it is open to the air, and by the use of synecdoche, is understood to mean the house itself.(:note) palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.

geneva@Matthew:26:60 @ But they founde none, and though many false witnesses came, yet founde they none: but at the last came two false witnesses,

geneva@Matthew:26:62 @ And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? (note:)How does it come to pass that these men witness against thee?(:note) what [is it which] these witness against thee?

geneva@Matthew:26:64 @ Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, (note:)This word distinguishes his first coming from the latter.(:note) Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting Sitting with God in like and equal honour at the right hand of his power, that is, in greatest power: for the right hand signifies among the Hebrews that which is mighty and of great power. on the right hand of power, and coming in the Clouds of heaven; see above in (Mat_24:30). clouds of heaven.

geneva@Matthew:26:65 @ Then the high priest (note:)This was a peculiar custom among the Jews: for so were they bound to do when they heard any Israelite blaspheme God, and it was a tradition of their talmud in the book of the magistrates, in the title, of the four kinds of death.(:note) rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

geneva@Matthew:26:71 @ And when hee went out into the porche, another maide sawe him, and sayde vnto them that were there, This man was also with Iesus of Nazareth.

geneva@Matthew:27:1 @ Vvhen the morning was come, all the chiefe Priests, and the elders of the people tooke counsell against Iesus, to put him to death,

geneva@Matthew:27:5 @ And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and (note:)Out of the sight of men.(:note) departed, and went and hanged himself.

geneva@Matthew:27:6 @ And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the (note:)The treasury of the temple.(:note) treasury, because it is the price Of life and death. of blood.

geneva@Matthew:27:9 @ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by (note:)As this prophecy is found in (Zec_11:12) it cannot be denied that Jeremy's name slipped into the text either through the fault of the Scribe, or by someone else's ignorance: it may also be that it came out of the margin by means of the abbreviation on one of the letters, the one being «yod» and the other being «zayin», which are very similar: But in the Syrian text the Prophet's name is not written down at all.(:note) Jeremy the prophet, saying, The evangelist does not follow the prophet's words, but instead he follows the prophet's meaning, which he shows to have been fulfilled. And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

geneva@Matthew:27:10 @ And they gaue them for the potters fielde, as the Lord appointed me.)

geneva@Matthew:27:12 @ And when he was accused of the chiefe Priestes, and Elders, he answered nothing.

geneva@Matthew:27:16 @ And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

geneva@Matthew:27:17 @ When they were then gathered together, Pilate said vnto the, Whether will ye that I let loose vnto you Barabbas, or Iesus which is called Christ?

geneva@Matthew:27:19 @ Also when he was set downe vpon the iudgement seate, his wife sent to him, saying, Haue thou nothing to do with that iust man: for I haue suffered many things this day in a dreame by reason of him.)

geneva@Matthew:27:20 @ But the chiefe Priestes and the Elders had persuaded the people that they shoulde aske Barabbas, and should destroy Iesus.

geneva@Matthew:27:21 @ Then the gouernour answered, and said vnto them, Whether of the twaine will ye that I let loose vnto you? And they said, Barabbas.

geneva@Matthew:27:26 @ Thus let he Barabbas loose vnto them, and scourged Iesus, and deliuered him to be crucified.

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@Matthew:27:44 @ The (note:)This is spoken using the figure of speech called synecdoche, for only one of the thieves reviled him.(:note) thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

geneva@Matthew:27:46 @ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou (note:)That is, in this misery: And this crying out is a natural part of his humanity, which, even though it was void of sin, still felt the wrath of God, the wrath which is due to our sins.(:note) forsaken me?

geneva@Matthew:27:47 @ Some of them that stood there, when they heard [that], said, This [man] calleth for (note:)They allude to Elias' name, not because they did not understand what he said, but because of a profane impudence and disrespect, and he repeated those words so that this repetition of the name might be understood.(:note) Elias.

geneva@Matthew:27:49 @ Other said, Let be: let vs see, if Elias wil come and saue him.

geneva@Matthew:27:52 @ And the (note:)That is to say, the stones broke apart, and the graves opened themselves to show by this act that death was overcome: and the resurrection of the dead followed the resurrection of Christ, as the next verse indicates (Mat_27:53).(:note) graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

geneva@Matthew:27:54 @ When the Centurion, and they that were with him watching Iesus, saw the earthquake, and the thinges that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truely this was the Sonne of God.

geneva@Matthew:27:56 @ Among whom was Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, & Ioses, and the mother of Zebedeus sonnes.

geneva@Matthew:27:58 @ He went to Pilate, & asked ye body of Iesus. Then Pilate commanded ye body to be deliuered.

geneva@Matthew:27:61 @ And there was Marie Magdalene, and the other Marie sitting ouer against the sepulchre.

geneva@Matthew:27:63 @ And said, Syr, we remember that that deceiuer saide, while he was yet aliue, Within three dayes I will rise.

geneva@Matthew:27:64 @ Command therefore, that the sepulchre be made sure vntill the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steale him away, and say vnto the people, He is risen from the dead: so shall the last errour be worse then the first.

geneva@Matthew:27:65 @ Pilate said unto them, Ye have a (note:)The soldiers of the garrison who were appointed to guard the temple.(:note) watch: go your way, make [it] as sure as ye can.

geneva@Matthew:28:1 @ In (note:)Christ, having routed death in the tomb, rises by his own power, as the angel immediately witnesses.(:note) the At the going out of the sabbath, that is, about daybreak after the Roman manner of telling time, which considers the natural day to be from the rising of the sun to the next sunrise: and not as the Hebrews, which count from evening to evening. end of the sabbath, as it When the morning of the first day after the sabbath began to dawn: and that first day is the same as that which we now call Sunday, or the Lord's day. began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

geneva@Matthew:28:2 @ And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the Angel of the Lorde descended from heauen, and came and rolled backe the stone from the doore, and sate vpon it.

geneva@Matthew:28:3 @ His (note:)The beams of his eyes, and by the figure of speech called synecdoche, this is understood as the countenance.(:note) countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

geneva@Matthew:28:4 @ And for feare of him, the keepers were astonied, and became as dead men.

geneva@Matthew:28:5 @ And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not (note:)The word «ye» is spoken with force to indicate that it was the women to whom he was speaking, as the soldiers were also afraid.(:note) ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

geneva@Matthew:28:6 @ He is not here, for he is risen; as he saide: come, see the place where the Lord was laid,

geneva@Matthew:28:14 @ And if this (note:)For it was to be feared that it would be brought to the governor's ears.(:note) come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.

geneva@Matthew:28:15 @ So they tooke the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is noysed among the Iewes vnto this day.

geneva@Mark:1:6 @ Nowe Iohn was clothed with camels heare, and with a girdle of a skinne about his loynes: and he did eate Locusts and wilde hony,

geneva@Mark:1:11 @ And there came a voice from heaven, [saying], Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am (note:){{See Mat_3:17}}(:note) well pleased.

geneva@Mark:1:13 @ And he was there in the wildernesse fourtie daies, and was tempted of Satan: hee was also with the wilde beastes, and the Angels ministred vnto him.

geneva@Mark:1:22 @ And they were astonied at his doctrine, for he taught them as one that had authoritie, and not as the Scribes.

geneva@Mark:1:24 @ Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, thou (note:)He was born in Bethlehem, but through the error of the people he was called a Nazarene, because he was brought up in Nazareth.(:note) Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the He alludes to the name that was written in the golden plate which the high Priest wore; (Exo_28:36) Holy One of God.

geneva@Mark:1:27 @ And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned (note:)As men who were amazed.(:note) among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine [is] this? for with authority By his own authority, or as a lord. commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.

geneva@Mark:1:32 @ And whe euen was come, at what time the sunne setteth, they brought to him all that were diseased, & them that were possessed with deuils.

geneva@Mark:1:33 @ And the whole citie was gathered together at the doore.

geneva@Mark:1:34 @ And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and (note:)For it is not proper for the demons to preach the gospel; (Act_16:18)(:note) suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.

geneva@Mark:1:39 @ And hee preached in their Synagogues, throughout all Galile, and cast the deuils out.

geneva@Mark:1:41 @ And Iesus had compassion, and put foorth his hand, and touched him, and said to him, I wil: be thou cleane.

geneva@Mark:1:42 @ And assone as he had spoken, immediatly ye leprosie departed fro him, & he was made cleane.

geneva@Mark:1:45 @ But when he was departed, hee began to tel many things, and to publish the matter: so that Iesus could no more openly enter into the citie, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from euery quarter.

geneva@Mark:2:1 @ And (note:)By healing this man who was sick from paralysis Christ shows that men recover all their lost strength in him through faith alone.(:note) again he entered into Capernaum after [some] days; and it was noised that he was in the In the house where he used to remain: for he chose Capernaum to dwell in and left Nazareth. house.

geneva@Mark:2:2 @ And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive [them], no, not so much as (note:)Neither the house nor the entry was able to hold them.(:note) about the door: and he preached the word unto them.

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:2:6 @ But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and (note:)In their minds disputing upon the matter, arguing both sides.(:note) reasoning in their hearts,

geneva@Mark:2:7 @ Why doeth this man speake such blasphemies? who can forgiue sinnes, but God onely?

geneva@Mark:2:8 @ And immediatly when Iesus perceiued in his spirite, that thus they reasoned with themselues, he sayde vnto them, Why reason yee these things in your hearts?

geneva@Mark:2:9 @ Whether is it easier to say to the sicke of the palsie, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee? or to say, Arise, and take vp thy bed, and walke?

geneva@Mark:2:12 @ And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all (note:)Literally, «past themselves», or «out of their wit».(:note) amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.

geneva@Mark:2:14 @ And as he passed by, he saw (note:)Matthew's other name.(:note) Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

geneva@Mark:2:15 @ And it came to passe, as Iesus sate at table in his house, many Publicanes & sinners sate at table also with Iesus, and his disciples: for there were many that followed him.

geneva@Mark:2:19 @ And Iesus saide vnto them, Can the children of the marriage chamber fast, whiles the bridegrome is with them? as long as they haue the bridegrome with them, they cannot fast.

geneva@Mark:2:20 @ But the daies will come, when the bridegrome shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast in those daies.

geneva@Mark:2:25 @ And he saide to them, Haue yee neuer read what Dauid did when he had neede, and was an hungred, both he, and they that were with him?

geneva@Mark:2:27 @ And hee sayde to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

geneva@Mark:2:28 @ Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the (note:)Has the sabbath day in his power, and may rule it as he desires.(:note) sabbath.

geneva@Mark:3:1 @ And (note:)Thirdly, because they preferred the ceremonial law (which was but an addition to the moral law) before the moral law, whereas in reality they should have learned from this the true use of the ceremonial law.(:note) he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a That is, unprofitable and dead. withered hand.

geneva@Mark:3:4 @ And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save (note:)He uses here the figure of speech called synecdoche, for this type of saying, «to save the life», is the same as saying «to save the man».(:note) life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

geneva@Mark:3:5 @ And when he had looked round about on them (note:)Men are angry when they have wrong done to them, but not without sin: but Christ is angry without sin, and he is not sorry for the injury that is done to him as much as he is for their wickedness; and therefore he had pity upon them, and because of that he is said to have been grieved.(:note) with anger, being grieved for the As though their heart had been closed up and had grown together, so that wholesome doctrine had no effect upon them. hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

geneva@Mark:3:10 @ For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had (note:)Diseases with which God scourges men as it were with whips.(:note) plagues.

geneva@Mark:3:15 @ And that they might haue power to heale sicknesses, and to cast out deuils.

geneva@Mark:3:16 @ And the first was Simon, and hee named Simon, Peter,

geneva@Mark:3:18 @ And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and (note:)Whom Luke also calls Judas: and to make a distinction the other Judas is called Iscariot.(:note) Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

geneva@Mark:3:19 @ And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an (note:)The disciples whom Christ had taken as part of his company and to live with him come home to his house, to be with him from this point on.(:note) house.

geneva@Mark:3:20 @ And the multitude assembled againe, so that they could not so much as eate bread.

geneva@Mark:3:22 @ And the Scribes which came downe fro Hierusalem, saide, He hath Beelzebub, & through the prince of the deuils he casteth out deuils.

geneva@Mark:3:29 @ But hee that blasphemeth against the holy Ghost, shall neuer haue forgiuenesse, but is culpable of eternall damnation.

geneva@Mark:4:1 @ And he began again to teach by the (note:)Seaside of Tiberias.(:note) sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat In a ship which was launched into the sea. in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

geneva@Mark:4:4 @ And it came to passe as he sowed, that some fell by the way side, and the foules of the heauen came, and deuoured it vp.

geneva@Mark:4:6 @ But assoone as ye Sunne was vp, it was burnt vp, and because it had not roote, it withered away.

geneva@Mark:4:10 @ And when he was (note:)Literally, «solitary».(:note) alone, they that were They that followed him at his heels. about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

geneva@Mark:4:11 @ And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are (note:)That is to say, to strangers, and such ones as are not of us.(:note) without, all [these] things are done in parables:

geneva@Mark:4:12 @ That they seeing, may see, and not discerne: and they hearing, may heare, and not vnderstand, least at any time they should turne, and their sinnes should be forgiuen them.

geneva@Mark:4:15 @ And these are they that receiue the seede by the wayes side, in whome the worde is sowen: but when they haue heard it, Satan commeth immediatly, and taketh away the worde that was sowen in their heartes.

geneva@Mark:4:18 @ Also they that receiue the seede among the thornes, are such as heare the word:

geneva@Mark:4:27 @ And (note:)That is, when he has finished sowing should wait both day and night not doubting that the seed should spring forth, which grows both by day and night.(:note) should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he It is the duty of the ministers to work the ground with all diligence, and accredit the success to God: for the mighty work of the seed coming to blade and ear is mysterious, and is only known by the fruit that comes. knoweth not how.

geneva@Mark:4:29 @ And assoone as the fruite sheweth it selfe, anon hee putteth in the sickle, because the haruest is come.

geneva@Mark:4:31 @ It is like a graine of mustarde seede, which when it is sowen in the earth, is the least of all seedes that be in the earth:

geneva@Mark:4:33 @ And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, (note:)According to the ability of the hearers.(:note) as they were able to hear [it].

geneva@Mark:4:34 @ But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he (note:)Literally, «loosed», as you would say, explained to them the hard riddles.(:note) expounded all things to his disciples.

geneva@Mark:4:35 @ Nowe the same day when euen was come, he saide vnto them, Let vs passe ouer vnto the other side.

geneva@Mark:4:36 @ And they left the multitude, and tooke him as he was in the shippe, and there were also with him other little shippes.

geneva@Mark:4:38 @ And he was in the sterne asleepe on a pillow: and they awoke him, and saide to him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

geneva@Mark:4:39 @ And hee rose vp, and rebuked the winde, and saide vnto the sea, Peace, and be still. So the winde ceased, and it was a great calme.

geneva@Mark:4:40 @ And he said unto them, (note:)How does it come to pass that you have no faith?(:note) Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

geneva@Mark:5:1 @ And (note:)Many hold the virtue of Christ in admiration, and yet they will not lose even the least thing they have in order to redeem it.(:note) they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the {{See Mat_8:30}} Gadarenes.

geneva@Mark:5:2 @ And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man (note:)Literally, «in an unclean spirit»; now they are said to be in the spirit because the spirit holds them tightly locked up, and as it were bound.(:note) with an unclean spirit,

geneva@Mark:5:4 @ Because that when hee was often bounde with fetters and chaines, he plucked the chaines asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces, neither could any man tame him.

geneva@Mark:5:7 @ And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I (note:)That is, assure me by an oath that you will not vex me.(:note) adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

geneva@Mark:5:9 @ And he asked him, What is thy name? and hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

geneva@Mark:5:10 @ And he (note:)The demon that was the spokesperson of the many.(:note) besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

geneva@Mark:5:11 @ Now there was there nigh unto the (note:)This whole country is for the most part very hilly, for the mountains of Galeed run through it.(:note) mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

geneva@Mark:5:13 @ And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the (note:)Strabo in the sixteenth book says that in Gadaris there is a standing pool of very polluted water, which if beasts taste, they shed their hair, nails, or hooves and horns.(:note) sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.

geneva@Mark:5:14 @ And the swineheards fled, and told it in the citie, and in the countrey, and they came out to see what it was that was done.

geneva@Mark:5:16 @ And they that saw it, tolde them, what was done to him that was possessed with the deuil, and concerning the swine.

geneva@Mark:5:17 @ Then they began to pray him, that hee would depart from their coastes.

geneva@Mark:5:18 @ And when he was come into the shippe, he that had bene possessed with the deuil, prayed him that he might be with him.

geneva@Mark:5:19 @ Howbeit, Iesus would not suffer him, but said vnto him, Goe thy way home to thy friendes, and shewe them what great thinges the Lorde hath done vnto thee, and howe hee hath had compassion on thee.

geneva@Mark:5:21 @ And when Iesus was come ouer againe by ship vnto the other side, a great multitude gathered together to him, & he was neere vnto the sea.

geneva@Mark:5:22 @ And, (note:)The whole company did not assemble without any structure, but in every synagogue there were certain men who governed the people.(:note) behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,

geneva@Mark:5:27 @ When she had heard of Iesus, shee came in the preasse behinde, and touched his garment.

geneva@Mark:5:29 @ And straightway the course of her blood was dried vp, and she felt in her body, that she was healed of that plague.

geneva@Mark:5:30 @ And immediatly when Iesus did knowe in himselfe the vertue that went out of him, he turned him round about in the preasse, and said, Who hath touched my clothes?

geneva@Mark:5:33 @ And the woman feared and trembled: for she knewe what was done in her, and shee came and fell downe before him, and tolde him the whole trueth.

geneva@Mark:5:35 @ While hee yet spake, there came from the same ruler of the Synagogues house certaine which said, Thy daughter is dead: why diseasest thou the Master any further?

geneva@Mark:5:42 @ And straightway the mayden arose, and walked: for shee was of the age of twelue yeeres, and they were astonied out of measure.

geneva@Mark:6:2 @ And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing [him] were astonished, saying, From whence hath this [man] these things? and what wisdom [is] this which is given unto him, that even such (note:)The word signifies powers or virtues, by which are meant those wonderful works that Christ did which showed and set forth the virtue and power of his Godhead to all the world; (Mat_7:22).(:note) mighty works are wrought by his hands?

geneva@Mark:6:4 @ But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without (note:)Not only has that honour taken from him which is rightly due to him, but also has evil spoken of him and his words are misrepresented.(:note) honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

geneva@Mark:6:13 @ And they cast out many devils, and (note:)This oil was a token and a sign of his marvellous virtue: and seeing that the gift of healing has stopped a good while since, the ceremony of anointing which is yet carried on by some is of no purpose.(:note) anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed [them].

geneva@Mark:6:15 @ Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of (note:)Of the old prophets.(:note) the prophets.

geneva@Mark:6:17 @ For Herod him selfe had sent forth, & had taken Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias sake, which was his brother Philippes wife, because he had maried her.

geneva@Mark:6:19 @ Therefore Herodias (note:)Sought all means to hurt him.(:note) had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:

geneva@Mark:6:20 @ For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him (note:)The tyrant was very well content to hear sentence pronounced against himself, but the seed fell upon stony places.(:note) gladly.

geneva@Mark:6:22 @ And when the daughter (note:)This same Herodias had the daughter by Philip, not by Herod Antipas, and Josephus called the daughter Salome.(:note) of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give [it] thee.

geneva@Mark:6:23 @ And he sware vnto her, Whatsoeuer thou shalt aske of me, I will giue it thee, euen vnto the halfe of my kingdome.

geneva@Mark:6:24 @ And (note:)For women did not used to eat with men.(:note) she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

geneva@Mark:6:25 @ Then she came in straightway with haste vnto the King, & asked, saying, I would that thou shouldest giue me euen now in a charger the head of Iohn Baptist.

geneva@Mark:6:26 @ Then the King was very sory: yet for his othes sake, and for their sakes which sate at table with him, he would not refuse her.

geneva@Mark:6:27 @ And immediately the king sent an (note:)The word signifies one that bears a short lance, and the king's guard was so called because they bore short lances.(:note) executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

geneva@Mark:6:33 @ But the people sawe them when they departed, and many knewe him, and ran a foote thither out of all cities, and came thither before them, and assembled vnto him.

geneva@Mark:6:34 @ Then Iesus went out, and sawe a great multitude, and had compassion on them, because they were like sheepe which had no shepheard: and he began to teach them many things.

geneva@Mark:6:35 @ And when the day was nowe farre spent, his disciples came vnto him, saying, This is a desart place, and nowe the day is farre passed.

geneva@Mark:6:39 @ And he commanded them to make all sit down by (note:)Literally, «by banquets», after the manner of the Hebrews who have no distributive words; see (Mar_6:7). Now he calls the rows of the sitters, «banquets».(:note) companies upon the green grass.

geneva@Mark:6:40 @ And they sat down in (note:)The word signifies the beds in a garden, and it is literally, «by beds and beds», meaning by this that they sat down in rows one by another, as beds in a garden.(:note) ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

geneva@Mark:6:43 @ And they tooke vp twelue baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

geneva@Mark:6:47 @ And when euen was come, the ship was in the mids of the sea, and he alone on the land.

geneva@Mark:6:48 @ And he saw them troubled in rowing, (for the winde was contrary vnto them) and about the fourth watch of the night, hee came vnto them, walking vpon the sea, and would haue passed by them.

geneva@Mark:6:51 @ And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were (note:)They were still so amazed when they knew that it was no spirit, that they were much more astonished than they ever were before, when they saw the wind and the sea obey his commandment.(:note) sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.

geneva@Mark:6:52 @ For they (note:)Either they did not perceive, or had not well considered that miracle of the five loaves, to the point that the virtue of Christ was just as strange to them as if they had not been present at that miracle which was done just a little before.(:note) considered not [the miracle] of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

geneva@Mark:6:55 @ And ran about throughout all that region round about, and began to cary hither & thither in couches all that were sicke, where they heard that he was.

geneva@Mark:6:56 @ And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched (note:)Or the hem of his garment.(:note) him were made whole.

geneva@Mark:7:1 @ Then (note:)None resist the wisdom of God more than they that should be wisest, and they resist because of their zeal for their own traditions: for men please themselves in superstition more than in any other thing, that is to say, in a worship of God fondly devised by themselves.(:note) came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

geneva@Mark:7:2 @ And when they saw some of his disciples (note:)Literally, «eat bread»: an idiom which the Hebrews use, understanding bread to represent every type of food.(:note) eat bread with For the Pharisees would not eat their food with unwashed hands, because they thought that their hands were defiled with the common handling of things; (Mat_15:11-12). defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

geneva@Mark:7:3 @ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands oft, eat not, (note:)Observing diligently.(:note) holding the tradition of the elders.

geneva@Mark:7:4 @ And [when they come] from the (note:)That is to say, after coming from civil and worldly affairs they do not eat unless they first wash themselves.(:note) market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, [as] the washing of cups, and By these words are understood all types of vessels which we use daily. pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.

geneva@Mark:7:5 @ Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why (note:)Why live they not? This is a Hebrew idiom: for among them the «way» is taken for «lifestyle».(:note) walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

geneva@Mark:7:17 @ And when hee came into an house, away from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

geneva@Mark:7:22 @ Thefts, (note:)All types of craftiness by which men profit themselves at other men's losses.(:note) covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an Corrupted malice. evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

geneva@Mark:7:26 @ The woman was a (note:)By nationality, profane.(:note) Greek, a A neighbour of or near to Damascus. Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

geneva@Mark:7:27 @ But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] unto the (note:)«Dog» here signifies a little dog, and he uses this term that he may seem to speak more reproachfully.(:note) dogs.

geneva@Mark:7:28 @ And she answered and said unto him, (note:)As if she said, «It is as thou sayest Lord, for it is enough for the dogs if they can but gather up the crumbs that are under the table; therefore I crave the crumbs and not the children's bread.»(:note) Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

geneva@Mark:7:30 @ And when shee was come home to her house, shee founde the deuill departed, and her daughter lying on the bed.

geneva@Mark:7:32 @ And they brought vnto him one that was deafe and stambered in his speache, and prayed him to put his hand vpon him.

geneva@Mark:7:33 @ Then hee tooke him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers in his eares, and did spit, and touched his tongue.

geneva@Mark:7:35 @ And straightway his eares were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and hee spake plaine.

geneva@Mark:7:37 @ And were beyonde measure astonied, saying, Hee hath done all thinges well: he maketh both the deafe to heare, & the domme to speake.

geneva@Mark:8:1 @ In those dayes, when there was a very great multitude, and had nothing to eate, Iesus called his disciples to him, and said vnto them,

geneva@Mark:8:2 @ I haue compassion on the multitude, because they haue nowe continued with mee three dayes, and haue nothing to eate.

geneva@Mark:8:3 @ And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will (note:)Literally, «they will fall apart», or «be dissolved», for when men faint they tear their muscles.(:note) faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

geneva@Mark:8:5 @ And hee asked them, Howe many loaues haue ye? And they said, Seuen.

geneva@Mark:8:8 @ So they did eate, and were sufficed, and they tooke vp of the broken meate that was left, seuen baskets full.

geneva@Mark:8:12 @ And he (note:)These sighs came from the centre of his heart for the Lord was very much moved with the great unbelief of these men.(:note) sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, Literally, «If a sign be given». It is an abbreviated kind of speech very common among the Hebrews; it is the same as when we say, «Let me be taken for a liar», or something similar. And when they speak out the whole, they say, «The Lord do such and such by me.» There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

geneva@Mark:8:17 @ And when Iesus knew it, he said vnto them, Why reason you thus, because ye haue no bread? perceiue ye not yet, neither vnderstande? haue ye your hearts yet hardened?

geneva@Mark:8:19 @ When I brake the fiue loaues among fiue thousand, how many baskets full of broken meate tooke ye vp? They said vnto him, Twelue.

geneva@Mark:8:20 @ And when I brake seuen among foure thousande, howe many baskets of the leauings of broken meate tooke ye vp? And they said, Seuen.

geneva@Mark:8:21 @ And he said unto them, (note:)How does it come to pass that you do not understand these things which are so plain and evident.(:note) How is it that ye do not understand?

geneva@Mark:8:23 @ Then he tooke the blinde by the hand, and ledde him out of the towne, and spat in his eyes, and put his handes vpon him, and asked him, if he sawe ought.

geneva@Mark:8:24 @ And he looked up, and said, I (note:)He perceived men moving but at the same time could not discern their bodies.(:note) see men as trees, walking.

geneva@Mark:8:25 @ After that he put [his] hands again upon his eyes, and made him (note:)He commanded him to try again, to determine whether or not he could indeed see well.(:note) look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

geneva@Mark:8:28 @ And they answered, Some say, Iohn Baptist: and some, Elias: and some, one of the Prophets.

geneva@Mark:8:38 @ For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of mee, and of my wordes among this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed also, when he commeth in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.

geneva@Mark:9:1 @ And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the (note:)When he will begin his kingdom through the preaching of the gospel: that is to say, after the resurrection.(:note) kingdom of God come with power.

geneva@Mark:9:3 @ And his raiment (note:)Did sparkle as it were.(:note) became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

geneva@Mark:9:4 @ And there appeared vnto them Elias with Moses, and they were talking with Iesus.

geneva@Mark:9:5 @ Then Peter answered, and said to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: let vs make also three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

geneva@Mark:9:7 @ And there was a cloude that shadowed them, and a voyce came out of the cloude, saying, This is my beloued Sonne: heare him.

geneva@Mark:9:10 @ And they (note:)Though just barely as it were.(:note) kept that saying with themselves, They did not question together concerning the general resurrection, which will be in the latter day, but they did not understand what he meant when he spoke of his own special resurrection. questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

geneva@Mark:9:12 @ And he answered, and said vnto them, Elias verely shall first come, and restore all things: and as it is written of the Sonne of man, hee must suffer many things, and be set at nought.

geneva@Mark:9:13 @ But I say vnto you, that Elias is come, (and they haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they would) as it is written of him.

geneva@Mark:9:15 @ And straightway all the people, when they behelde him, were amased, and ranne to him, and saluted him.

geneva@Mark:9:16 @ Then hee asked the Scribes, What dispute you among your selues?

geneva@Mark:9:17 @ And one of the companie answered, and said, Master, I haue brought my sonne vnto thee, which hath a dumme spirit:

geneva@Mark:9:18 @ And wheresoever he taketh him, he (note:)Vexes him inwardly, as the colic does.(:note) teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

geneva@Mark:9:20 @ And they brought him unto him: and when he (note:)As soon as Jesus had looked upon the boy that was brought to him, the demon began to rage in this way.(:note) saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

geneva@Mark:9:21 @ Then he asked his father, How long time is it since he hath bin thus? And he said, Of a childe.

geneva@Mark:9:22 @ And oft times he casteth him into the fire, & into the water to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, helpe vs, and haue compassion vpo vs.

geneva@Mark:9:29 @ And he saide vnto them, This kinde can by no other meanes come foorth, but by prayer and fasting.

geneva@Mark:9:30 @ And they departed thence, and (note:)He and his disciples together.(:note) passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know [it].

geneva@Mark:9:32 @ But they vnderstoode not that saying, and were afraide to aske him.

geneva@Mark:9:34 @ And they helde their peace: for by the way they reasoned among themselues, who should bee the chiefest.

geneva@Mark:9:35 @ And he sate downe, and called the twelue, and said to them, If any man desire to be first, the same shalbe last of all, and seruant vnto all.

geneva@Mark:9:44 @ Where their (note:)Their worm who will be cast into that flame.(:note) worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

geneva@Mark:9:45 @ Likewise, if thy foote cause thee to offend, cut it off: it is better for thee to go halt into life, then hauing two feete, to be cast into hell, into the fire that neuer shalbe quenched,

geneva@Mark:9:47 @ And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out: it is better for thee to goe into the kingdome of God with one eye, then hauing two eyes, to be cast into hell fire,

geneva@Mark:9:50 @ Salt is good: but if the salt be vnsauerie, wherewith shall it be seasoned? haue salt in your selues, and haue peace one with another.

geneva@Mark:10:1 @ And he (note:)That is to say, departed and went from there: for in the Hebrew language sitting and dwelling are the same thing, and so are rising and going forth.(:note) arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

geneva@Mark:10:2 @ Then the Pharises came and asked him, if it were lawfull for a man to put away his wife, and tempted him.

geneva@Mark:10:10 @ And in the house his disciples asked him againe of that matter.

geneva@Mark:10:14 @ But when Iesus sawe it, he was displeased, and said to them, Suffer the litle children to come vnto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.

geneva@Mark:10:15 @ Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God (note:)In our malice we must become as children if we will enter into the kingdom of heaven.(:note) as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

geneva@Mark:10:20 @ Then he answered, and said to him, Master, all these things I haue obserued from my youth.

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:10:22 @ But hee was sad at that saying, and went away sorowfull: for he had great possessions.

geneva@Mark:10:25 @ It is easier for a camel to goe through the eye of a needle, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.

geneva@Mark:10:26 @ And they were much more astonied, saying with themselues, Who then can be saued?

geneva@Mark:10:30 @ But he shall receive an (note:)A hundred times as much, if we use the commodities of this life in a proper way, so that we use them in accordance with the will of God, and not just to gain the wealth itself, and to fulfil our greedy desire.(:note) hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, Even in the midst of persecutions. with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

geneva@Mark:10:31 @ But many that are first, shall be last, and the last, first.

geneva@Mark:10:38 @ But Iesus sayd vnto them, Ye knowe not what ye aske. Can ye drinke of the cup that I shal drinke of, and be baptized with the baptisme that I shall be baptized with?

geneva@Mark:10:47 @ And when hee heard that it was Iesus of Nazareth, he began to crye, and to say, Iesus the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on me.

geneva@Mark:11:2 @ And sayd vnto them, Goe your wayes into that towne that is ouer against you, and assoone as ye shall enter into it, ye shall finde a colte tied, whereon neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him.

geneva@Mark:11:6 @ And they sayde vnto them, as Iesus had commanded them: So they let them goe.

geneva@Mark:11:7 @ And they brought the colte to Iesus, & cast their garments on him, and he sate vpon him.

geneva@Mark:11:11 @ So Iesus entred into Hierusalem, and into the Temple: and when he had looked about on all things, and now it was euening, he went forth vnto Bethania with the twelue.

geneva@Mark:11:12 @ And on the morowe when they were come out from Bethania, he was hungry.

geneva@Mark:11:18 @ And the Scribes and hie Priestes heard it, and sought howe to destroy him: for they feared him, because the whole multitude was astonied at his doctrine.

geneva@Mark:11:19 @ But when euen was come, Iesus went out of the citie.

geneva@Mark:11:21 @ Then Peter remembred, and said vnto him, Master, beholde, the figge tree which thou cursedst, is withered.

geneva@Mark:11:22 @ And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have (note:)The faith of God is that assured faith and trust which we have in him.(:note) faith in God.

geneva@Mark:11:23 @ For verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer shall say vnto this mountaine, Be thou taken away, and cast into the sea, and shall not wauer in his heart, but shall beleeue that those things which he saieth, shal come to passe, whatsoeuer he saieth, shall be done to him.

geneva@Mark:11:25 @ And when (note:)When you will appear before the altar.(:note) ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

geneva@Mark:11:26 @ For if you will not forgiue, your Father which is in heauen, will not pardon you your trespasses.

geneva@Mark:11:29 @ Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, I will also aske of you a certaine thing, & answere ye me, and I will tell you by what authoritie I do these things.

geneva@Mark:11:30 @ The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men? answere me.

geneva@Mark:12:4 @ And againe he sent vnto them another seruant, and at him they cast stones, and brake his head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

geneva@Mark:12:6 @ Yet had he one sonne, his deare beloued: him also he sent the last vnto them, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

geneva@Mark:12:8 @ So they tooke him, & killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

geneva@Mark:12:10 @ Haue ye not read so much as this Scripture? The stone which the builders did refuse, is made the head of the corner.

geneva@Mark:12:11 @ This was done of the Lord, and it is marueilous in our eyes.

geneva@Mark:12:14 @ And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou (note:)You do not judge by the outward appearance, so that the truth is therefore not darkened by any means at all.(:note) regardest not the person of men, but teachest the The way by which we come to see God. way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

geneva@Mark:12:19 @ Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die, and leaue his wife, and leaue no children, that his brother should take his wife, and rayse vp seede vnto his brother.

geneva@Mark:12:22 @ So those seuen had her, and left no yssue: last of all the wife died also.

geneva@Mark:12:25 @ For when they shall rise againe from the dead, neither men marry, nor wiues are married, but are as the Angels which are in heauen.

geneva@Mark:12:26 @ And as touching the dead, that they shall rise againe, haue ye not read in the booke of Moses, howe in the bush God spake vnto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob?

geneva@Mark:12:31 @ And the second is like, that is, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. There is none other commandement greater then these.

geneva@Mark:12:32 @ Then that Scribe said vnto him, Well, Master, thou hast saide the trueth, that there is one God, and that there is none but he,

geneva@Mark:12:33 @ And to loue him with all the heart, and with all the vnderstanding, and with all the soule, and with all the strength, and to loue his neighbour as himselfe, is more then all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

geneva@Mark:12:34 @ Then when Iesus saw that he answered discreetely, he saide vnto him, Thou art not farre from the kingdome of God; no man after that durst aske him any question.

geneva@Mark:12:36 @ For David himself said by (note:)Literally, «in the Holy Spirit»; and there is a great power in this kind of speech, by which is meant that it was not so much David who was speaking, but instead the Holy Spirit, who in a way possessed David.(:note) the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

geneva@Mark:12:39 @ And the chiefe seates in the Synagogues, and the first roumes at feastes,

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:12:44 @ For they all did cast in of their superfluitie: but she of her pouertie did cast in all that she had, euen all her liuing.

geneva@Mark:13:1 @ And (note:)The destruction of the temple, city, and whole nation is foretold, and the troubles of the Church: but yet there are many comforts added, and last of all, the end of the world is described.(:note) as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings [are here]!

geneva@Mark:13:3 @ And as he sate on the mount of Oliues, ouer against the Temple, Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrew asked him secretly,

geneva@Mark:13:11 @ But when they shall lead [you], and deliver you up, (note:)We are not forbidden to think beforehand, but we are willed to beware of that pensive carefulness by which men discourage themselves, which proceeds from distrust and lack of confidence and sure hope of God's assistance. {{See Mat_6:27}}(:note) take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither By any kind of made-up and cunning type of story to tell. do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

geneva@Mark:13:19 @ For [in] (note:)This is an idiom which the Hebrews use and it has a great power in it, for it shows us that during that entire time one misery will follow another in such a way as if the time itself was very misery itself. So the prophet Amos says that the day of the Lord will be darkness; (Amo_5:20).(:note) those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

geneva@Mark:13:29 @ So in like maner, when ye see these things come to passe, knowe that the kingdom of God is neere, euen at the doores.

geneva@Mark:13:30 @ Verely I say vnto you, that this generation shall not passe, till all these things be done.

geneva@Mark:13:31 @ Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my woordes shall not passe away.

geneva@Mark:13:34 @ For the Sonne of man is as a man going into a strange countrey, & leaueth his house, & giueth authoritie to his seruaunts, and to euery man his woorke, and commandeth the porter to watch.

geneva@Mark:13:35 @ Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)

geneva@Mark:13:36 @ Least if he come suddenly, he should finde you sleeping.

geneva@Mark:14:1 @ After (note:)By the will of God, against the counsel of men, it came to pass that Christ should be put to death upon the solemn day of the passover, that in all respects the truth of his sacrifice might agree to the symbol of the passover.(:note) two days was [the feast of] the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put [him] to death.

geneva@Mark:14:2 @ But they sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.

geneva@Mark:14:3 @ And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

geneva@Mark:14:14 @ And whithersoeuer he goeth in, say yee to the good man of the house, The Master sayeth, Where is the lodging where I shal eate the Passeouer with my disciples?

geneva@Mark:14:16 @ So his disciples went foorth, and came to the citie, and found as he had said vnto them, and made readie the Passeouer.

geneva@Mark:14:21 @ Truly the Sonne of man goeth his way, as it is written of him: but woe bee to that man, by whome the Sonne of man is betrayed: it had beene good for that man, if hee had neuer beene borne.

geneva@Mark:14:22 @ And as they did eate, Iesus tooke the bread, and when hee had giuen thankes, he brake it and gaue it to them, and sayde, Take, eate, this is my bodie.

geneva@Mark:14:35 @ So he went forward a litle, and fell downe on the ground, and praied, that if it were possible, that houre might passe from him.

geneva@Mark:14:36 @ And he said, (note:)This doubling of the word was used in those days when their languages were mixed together: for the word «Abba» is a Syrian word.(:note) Abba, Father, all things [are] possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

geneva@Mark:14:45 @ And assoone as hee was come, hee went straightway to him, and saide, Haile Master, and kissed him.

geneva@Mark:14:48 @ And Iesus answered and saide to them, Ye be come out as against a thiefe with swordes, and with staues, to take me.

geneva@Mark:14:49 @ I was daily with you teaching in the Temple, and yee tooke me not: but this is done that the Scriptures should be fulfilled.

geneva@Mark:14:53 @ And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were (note:)The highest council was assembled because Christ was accused as a blasphemer and a false prophet: for as to the other crime of treason, it was forged against him by the priest in order to force Pilate to condemn him.(:note) assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

geneva@Mark:14:60 @ Then the hie Priest stoode vp amongst them, and asked Iesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? What is the matter that these beare witnesse against thee?

geneva@Mark:14:61 @ But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the (note:)Of God, who is most worthy of all praise?(:note) Blessed?

geneva@Mark:14:64 @ Ye haue heard the blasphemie: what thinke yee? And they all condemned him to be worthie of death.

geneva@Mark:14:67 @ And when shee sawe Peter warming him selfe, shee looked on him, and sayde, Thou wast also with Iesus of Nazareth.

geneva@Mark:14:69 @ And (note:)If we carefully compare the evangelists together we will perceive that Peter was known by many through the maiden's report: furthermore, when the second denial is spoken of in Luke, there is a man servant mentioned and not a maid.(:note) a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is [one] of them.

geneva@Mark:15:1 @ And (note:)Christ being bound before the judgment seat of an earthly Judge, is condemned before the open assembly as guilty unto the death of the cross, not for his own sins (as is shown by the judge's own words) but for all of ours, that we who are indeed guilty creatures, in being delivered from the guiltiness of our sins, might be acquitted before the judgment seat of God, even in the open assembly of the angels.(:note) straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried [him] away, and It was not lawful for them to put any man to death, for all authority to punish by death was taken away from them, first by Herod the great, and afterward by the Romans, about forty years before the destruction of the temple, and therefore they deliver Jesus to Pilate.delivered [him] to Pilate.

geneva@Mark:15:2 @ Then Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered, and sayde vnto him, Thou sayest it.

geneva@Mark:15:4 @ Wherefore Pilate asked him againe, saying, Answerest thou nothing? beholde howe many things they witnesse against thee.

geneva@Mark:15:6 @ Now at [that] feast he (note:)Pilate used to deliver.(:note) released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.

geneva@Mark:15:7 @ Then there was one named Barabbas, which was bounde with his fellowes, that had made insurrection, who in the insurrection had committed murther.

geneva@Mark:15:8 @ And the people cried aloude, and began to desire that he woulde doe as he had euer done vnto them.

geneva@Mark:15:11 @ But the high Priestes had moued the people to desire that he would rather deliuer Barabbas vnto them.

geneva@Mark:15:15 @ So Pilate willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas, & deliuered Iesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified.

geneva@Mark:15:21 @ And they (note:)The rage of the wicked has no measure; meanwhile, even the weakness of Christ, who was in pain under the heavy burden of the cross, manifestly shows that a lamb is led to be sacrificed.(:note) compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

geneva@Mark:15:25 @ And it was the third houre, when they crucified him.

geneva@Mark:15:26 @ And ye title of his cause was written aboue, That king of the iewes.

geneva@Mark:15:28 @ Thus the Scripture was fulfilled, which sayth, And he was counted among the wicked.

geneva@Mark:15:33 @ And when the sixth hour was come, there was (note:)How angry God was against our sins, which he punished in his son who is our sure substitute, is made evident by this horrible darkness.(:note) darkness over the By this word «land» he means Palestine: so that the strangeness of the wonder is all the more set forth in that at the feast of the passover, and in the full moon, when the sun shone over all the rest of the world, and at midday, this corner of the world in which so wicked an act was committed was covered over with great darkness. whole land until the ninth hour.

geneva@Mark:15:34 @ And at the (note:)Christ striving mightily with Satan, sin and death, all three armed with the horrible curse of God, grievously tormented in body hanging upon the cross, and in soul plunged into the depth of hell, yet he clears himself, crying with a mighty voice: and notwithstanding the wound which he received from death, in that he died, yet by smiting both things above and things beneath, by the renting of the veil of the temple, and by the testimony wrung out of those who murdered him, he shows evidently unto the rest of his enemies who are as yet obstinate, and mock at him, that he will be known without delay to be conqueror and Lord of all.(:note) ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

geneva@Mark:15:35 @ And some of them that stoode by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

geneva@Mark:15:36 @ And one ranne, and filled a spondge full of vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke, saying, Let him alone: let vs see if Elias will come, and take him downe.

geneva@Mark:15:38 @ And the vaile of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the toppe to the bottome.

geneva@Mark:15:39 @ Nowe when the Centurion, which stoode ouer against him, sawe that he thus crying gaue vp the ghost, he saide, Truely this man was the Sonne of God.

geneva@Mark:15:41 @ Which also when he was in Galile, folowed him, and ministred vnto him, and many other women which came vp with him vnto Hierusalem.

geneva@Mark:15:42 @ And nowe when the night was come (because it was the day of the preparation that is before the Sabbath)

geneva@Mark:15:43 @ Joseph of Arimathaea, an (note:)A man of great authority, of the council of the sanhedrin, or else a man who was taken by Pilate for his own council.(:note) honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in If we consider what danger Joseph put himself into we shall perceive how bold he was. boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

geneva@Mark:15:44 @ And Pilate marueiled, if he were already dead, and called vnto him the Centurion, and asked of him whether he had bene any while dead.

geneva@Mark:15:46 @ Who bought a linnen cloth, & tooke him downe, and wrapped him in the linnen cloth, and laide him in a tombe that was hewen out of a rocke, and rolled a stone vnto the doore of the sepulchre:

geneva@Mark:16:1 @ And when the Sabbath day was past, Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, and Salome, bought sweete oyntments, that they might come, and anoynt him.

geneva@Mark:16:2 @ Therefore early in the morning, the first day of the weeke, they came vnto the sepulchre, when the Sunne was nowe risen.

geneva@Mark:16:4 @ And when they (note:)When they cast their eyes toward the sepulchre.(:note) looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

geneva@Mark:16:5 @ And entering into the (note:)Into the cave out of which the sepulchre was cut.(:note) sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.

geneva@Mark:16:7 @ But goe your way, and tell his disciples, and Peter, that he will goe before you into Galile: there shall ye see him, as he said vnto you.

geneva@Mark:16:8 @ And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre: for they trembled, and were amased: neither said they any thing to any man: for they were afraide.

geneva@Mark:16:11 @ And when they heard that he was aliue, and had appeared to her, they beleeued it not.

geneva@Mark:16:17 @ And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with (note:)Strange tongues, ones which they did not know before.(:note) new tongues;

geneva@Luke:1:1 @ Forasmuch as (note:)Luke commends the witnesses that saw this present account.(:note) many have Many took it in hand, but did not perform: Luke wrote his gospel before Matthew and Mark. taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

geneva@Luke:1:3 @ It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things (note:)Luke began his gospel a great deal further in the past than the others did.(:note) from the very first, to write unto thee in order, It is «most mighty», and therefore Theophilus was a very honourable man, and in a place of great dignity. most excellent Theophilus,

geneva@Luke:1:4 @ That thou mightest (note:)Have fuller knowledge of those things which you know only partially.(:note) know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

geneva@Luke:1:5 @ There (note:)John, who was another Elias and appointed to be the herald of Christ, coming from the family of Aaron, and of two famous and blameless parents, has shown in his conception (which was against the course of nature) a double miracle, to the end that men should be more readily prepared for the hearing of his preaching, according to the forewarning of the prophets.(:note) was This is a Hebrew idiom which shows us how short and frail a thing the power of princes is. in the days of Herod the great. Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the For the posterity of Aaron was divided into courses. course of Abia: and his wife [was] of the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elisabeth.

geneva@Luke:1:6 @ And they were both (note:)The true mark of righteousness is demonstrated when one is liked and accepted in the judgment of God.(:note) righteous before God, Lived, as the Hebrews say, for our life is as a way in which we must walk until we come to the mark. walking in all the In all the moral and ceremonial law. commandments and ordinances of the Lord Whom no man could justly reprove: now so it is that the fruits of justification are set forth here, and not the cause, which is faith only, and nothing else. blameless.

geneva@Luke:1:7 @ And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.

geneva@Luke:1:8 @ And it came to passe, as he executed the Priestes office before God, as his course came in order,

geneva@Luke:1:9 @ According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the (note:)The temple was one, and the court another, for Zacharias went out of the court (or outward room) where all the people were (and therefore they are said to be without) and into the temple.(:note) temple of the Lord.

geneva@Luke:1:10 @ And the whole multitude of the people were without in prayer, while the incense was burning.

geneva@Luke:1:12 @ And when Zacharias sawe him, he was troubled, and feare fell vpon him.

geneva@Luke:1:13 @ But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.

geneva@Luke:1:15 @ For he shall be great in the (note:)So the Hebrews say when a rare kind of excellency is signified: so it is said of Nimrod in (Gen_10:9), «He was a mighty hunter before the LORD».(:note) sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor Any drink that might make someone drunk. strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

geneva@Luke:1:17 @ And he shall go (note:)As they used to go before kings, and when you see them, you know the king is not far off.(:note) before him This is spoken by the figure of speech metonymy, taking the spirit for the gift of the spirit; as you would say, the cause of that which comes from the cause. in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the By the figure of speech synecdoche he shows that he will take away all types of enmities which used to breed great troubles and turmoils among men. hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the Wisdom and goodness are two of the main causes which make men revere and honour their fathers. wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

geneva@Luke:1:18 @ Then Zacharias said vnto ye Angel, Whereby shall I knowe this? For I am an olde man, and my wife is of a great age.

geneva@Luke:1:20 @ And beholde, thou shalt be domme, & not be able to speake, vntill the day that these things be done, because thou beleeuedst not my words, which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

geneva@Luke:1:21 @ Now the people waited for Zacharias, and marueiled that he taried so long in the Temple.

geneva@Luke:1:23 @ And it came to passe, when the daies of his office were fulfilled, that he departed to his owne house.

geneva@Luke:1:27 @ To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the (note:)The same can be said of Mary, otherwise Christ would not have been of the stock of David, nor his son.(:note) house of David; and the virgin's name [was] Mary.

geneva@Luke:1:29 @ And when she saw [him], she was (note:)Moved at the strangeness of the matter.(:note) troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

geneva@Luke:1:30 @ And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast (note:)So the Hebrews said, saying that those men have found favour who are in favour.(:note) found favour with God.

geneva@Luke:1:32 @ He shall be great, and shall be (note:)He will be declared to be so, for he was the Son of God from everlasting, but was made manifest in the flesh in his time.(:note) called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

geneva@Luke:1:34 @ Then said Mary unto the angel, (note:)The greatness of the matter causes the virgin to ask this question, not that she distrusted by any means at all, for she asks only of the manner of the conceiving, so that it is plain she believed all the rest.(:note) How shall this be, seeing So speak the Hebrews, signifying by this modest kind of speech the company of man and wife together, and this is the meaning of it: how will this be, for as I will be Christ's mother I am very sure I will not know any man: for the godly virgin had learned by the prophets that the Messiah would be born of a virgin. I know not a man?

geneva@Luke:1:35 @ And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost (note:)That is, the Holy Spirit will cause thee to conceive by his mighty power.(:note) shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that That thing which is pure and void of all spot of uncleanliness: for he that was to take away sin must of necessity be void of sin. holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be Declared and shown to the world to be the Son of God. called the Son of God.

geneva@Luke:1:36 @ And, behold, thy (note:)Though Elisabeth was of the tribe of Levi, yet it was possible for her to be Mary's cousin: for whereas it was forbidden by the Law for maidens to be married to men of other tribes, there was an exception among the Levites, who could take for themselves wives out of any tribe: for the Levites had no portion allotted to them when the land was divided among the people.(:note) cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the This is now the sixth month from the time when she conceived. sixth month with her, who was called barren.

geneva@Luke:1:40 @ And entred into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabet.

geneva@Luke:1:41 @ And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe (note:)This was no ordinary or usual type of moving.(:note) leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

geneva@Luke:1:44 @ For loe, assoone as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my bellie for ioye,

geneva@Luke:1:48 @ For he hath (note:)Has freely and graciously loved.(:note) regarded the Literally, «My baseness», that is, my base estate: so that the virgin did not boast of her deserts, but the grace of God. low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

geneva@Luke:1:50 @ And his mercy [is] on them (note:)To those that live godly and religiously, as the Hebrews say.(:note) that fear him from generation to generation.

geneva@Luke:1:51 @ He hath shewed strength with his (note:)Here many more words than necessary are used, which the Hebrews use very much: and «arm» here is taken for strength.(:note) arm; he hath Even as the wind does to the chaff. scattered the proud in the He has scattered them, and the imagination of their hearts; or, by and through the imagination of their own hearts; so that their wicked counsel turned to their own destruction. imagination of their hearts.

geneva@Luke:1:55 @ As he (note:)Promised.(:note) spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

geneva@Luke:1:59 @ And it was so that on the eight day they came to circumcise the babe, and called him Zacharias after the name of his father.

geneva@Luke:1:63 @ So hee asked for writing tables, and wrote, saying, His name is Iohn, and they marueiled all.

geneva@Luke:1:64 @ And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue, and he spake and praised God.

geneva@Luke:1:65 @ And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all (note:)All this which was said and done.(:note) these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.

geneva@Luke:1:66 @ And all they that heard [them] (note:)Thought upon them diligently and earnestly, and as it were, printed them in their hearts.(:note) laid [them] up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the That is, the present favour of God, and a singular type of virtue appeared in him. hand of the Lord was with him.

geneva@Luke:1:68 @ Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath (note:)That he has shown himself mindful of his people, to the extent that he came down from heaven himself to visit us in person, and to redeem us.(:note) visited and Has paid the ransom, that is to say, the price of our redemption. redeemed his people,

geneva@Luke:1:69 @ And hath raised up an (note:)This word «horn», in the Hebrew language, signifies strength, and it is a metaphor taken from beasts that fight with their horns: And by raising up the might of Israel is meant that the kingdom of Israel was defended, and the enemies of it laid on the ground, even then when the strength of Israel seemed to be utterly gone.(:note) horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

geneva@Luke:1:70 @ As he spake by ye mouth of his holy Prophets, which were since the world began, saying,

geneva@Luke:1:72 @ To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and (note:)Declare indeed that he was mindful.(:note) to remember his holy covenant;

geneva@Luke:1:74 @ Which was, that he would graunt vnto vs, that we being deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, should serue him without feare,

geneva@Luke:1:78 @ Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the (note:)Or «bud», or «branch»; he alludes to (Jer_23:5) (Zec_3:8; Zec_6:12); and he is called a bud from on high, that is, sent from God unto us, and not as other buds which bud out of the earth.(:note) dayspring from on high hath visited us,

geneva@Luke:1:80 @ And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the wildernesse, til the day came that he should shewe him selfe vnto Israel.

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:2:2 @ (This first taxing was made when Cyrenius was gouernour of Syria.)

geneva@Luke:2:4 @ And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the (note:)Which David was born and brought up in.(:note) city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

geneva@Luke:2:5 @ To bee taxed with Marie that was giuen him to wife, which was with childe.

geneva@Luke:2:6 @ And so it was, that while they were there, the daies were accomplished that shee shoulde be deliuered,

geneva@Luke:2:7 @ And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laide him in a cratch, because there was no roome for them in the ynne.

geneva@Luke:2:13 @ And suddenly there was with the angel (note:)Whole armies of angels, who compass the majesty of God round about, just as soldiers, as it were.(:note) a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

geneva@Luke:2:15 @ And it came to passe whe the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, that the shepheards sayde one to another, Let vs goe then vnto Beth-leem, and see this thing that is come to passe which the Lord hath shewed vnto vs.

geneva@Luke:2:16 @ So they came with haste, and founde both Marie and Ioseph, & the babe laid in the cratch.

geneva@Luke:2:17 @ And when they had seene it, they published abroade the thing, that was tolde them of that childe.

geneva@Luke:2:20 @ And the shepheardes returned glorifiyng and praising God, for all that they had heard and seene as it was spoken vnto them.

geneva@Luke:2:23 @ (As it is written in the Lawe of the Lorde, Euery man childe that first openeth ye wombe, shalbe called holy to the Lord)

geneva@Luke:2:24 @ And to giue an oblation, as it is commanded in the Lawe of the Lorde, a paire of turtle doues, or two yong pigeons.

geneva@Luke:2:26 @ And it was declared to him from God by the holy Ghost, that he shoulde not see death, before he had seene that Anointed of the Lord.

geneva@Luke:2:29 @ Lord, now (note:)Let me depart out of this life, to be joined to my Father.(:note) lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy As you promised me. word:

geneva@Luke:2:30 @ For (note:)That is, for I have seen with my very eyes: for he saw before in mind, as it is said of Abraham, «He saw my day and rejoiced.»(:note) mine eyes have seen thy That in which your salvation is contained. salvation,

geneva@Luke:2:31 @ Which thou hast prepared (note:)As a sign set up in a high place for all men to look upon.(:note) before the face of all people;

geneva@Luke:2:37 @ And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings & prayers, night and day.

geneva@Luke:2:40 @ And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, (note:)As Christ grew up in age, so the virtue of his Godhead showed itself more and more.(:note) filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

geneva@Luke:2:42 @ And when hee was twelue yeere olde, and they were come vp to Hierusalem, after the custome of the feast,

geneva@Luke:2:43 @ And had finished the dayes thereof, as they returned, the childe Iesus remained in Hierusalem, and Ioseph knew not, nor his mother,

geneva@Luke:2:46 @ And it came to passe three dayes after, that they found him in the Temple, sitting in the mids of the doctours, both hearing them, and asking them questions:

geneva@Luke:2:47 @ And all that heard him, were astonied at his vnderstanding and answeres.

geneva@Luke:2:52 @ And Iesus increased in wisedome, and stature, and in fauour with God and men.

geneva@Luke:3:1 @ Now (note:)John comes at the time foretold by the prophets and lays the foundation of the gospel which is exhibited unto us, setting forth the true observing of the law and free mercy in Christ, which comes after John, using also baptism which is the outward sign both of regeneration and also forgiveness of sins.(:note) in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

geneva@Luke:3:3 @ And hee came into all the coastes about Iordan, preaching the baptisme of repentance for the remission of sinnes,

geneva@Luke:3:4 @ As it is written in the booke of the sayings of Esaias the Prophet, which saith, The voyce of him that crieth in the wildernes is, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.

geneva@Luke:3:9 @ Nowe also is the axe layed vnto the roote of the trees: therefore euery tree which bringeth not foorth good fruite, shalbe hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

geneva@Luke:3:10 @ Then the people asked him, saying, What shall we doe then?

geneva@Luke:3:12 @ Then came there Publicanes also to bee baptized, and saide vnto him, Master, what shall we doe?

geneva@Luke:3:14 @ And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse [any] falsely; and be content with your (note:)Which was paid to them partly in money and partly in food.(:note) wages.

geneva@Luke:3:22 @ And the holy Ghost came downe in a bodily shape like a doue, vpon him, and there was a voyce from heauen, saying, Thou art my beloued Sonne: in thee I am well pleased.

geneva@Luke:3:25 @ The sonne of Mattathias, the sonne of Amos, the sonne of Naum, the sonne of Esli, the sonne of Nagge,

geneva@Luke:3:26 @ The sonne of Maath, the sonne of Mattathias, the sonne of Semei, the sonne of Ioseph, the sonne of Iuda,

geneva@Luke:3:32 @ The sonne of Iesse, the sonne of Obed, the sonne of Booz, the sonne of Salmon, the sonne of Naasson,

geneva@Luke:4:1 @ And (note:)Christ, being carried away (as it were out of the world) into the desert, comes suddenly as if from heaven, having fasted for forty days and overcoming Satan three times, and thus begins his office.(:note) Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

geneva@Luke:4:2 @ And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, & in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry.

geneva@Luke:4:7 @ If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be (note:)Out of a high place, from which would be seen a good and first-class country, and thus the devil showed him all countries.(:note) thine.

geneva@Luke:4:9 @ Then hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence,

geneva@Luke:4:11 @ And with their handes they shall lift thee vp, least at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.

geneva@Luke:4:13 @ And when the deuil had ended all the tentation, he departed from him for a litle season.

geneva@Luke:4:15 @ For he taught in their Synagogues, and was honoured of all men.

geneva@Luke:4:17 @ And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had (note:)Their books in those days were rolled up as scrolls upon a ruler: and so Christ unrolled or unfolded it, which is here called «opened».(:note) opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

geneva@Luke:4:20 @ And hee closed the booke, and gaue it againe to the minister, and sate downe: and the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him.

geneva@Luke:4:25 @ But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the (note:)Land of Israel; {{See Mar_15:33}}.(:note) land;

geneva@Luke:4:26 @ But vnto none of them was Elias sent, saue into Sarepta, a citie of Sidon, vnto a certaine widowe.

geneva@Luke:4:27 @ Also many lepers were in Israel, in the time of Eliseus the Prophet: yet none of them was made cleane, sauing Naaman the Syrian.

geneva@Luke:4:29 @ And rose vp, and thrust him out of the citie, and led him vnto the edge of the hil, whereon their citie was built, to cast him downe headlong.

geneva@Luke:4:30 @ But he passed through the middes of them, and went his way,

geneva@Luke:4:32 @ And they were astonied at his doctrine: for his worde was with authoritie.

geneva@Luke:4:33 @ And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an vncleane deuill, which cryed with a loude voyce,

geneva@Luke:4:40 @ Now at the sunne setting, all they that had sicke folkes of diuers diseases, brought them vnto him, and he layd his hands on euery one of them, and healed them.

geneva@Luke:5:1 @ And (note:)Christ reveals to the four disciples whom he had taken unto himself the office of the apostleship, which would be committed unto them in the future.(:note) it came to pass, that, as the people Did as it were lie upon him, so desirous were they both to see him and hear him, and therefore he taught them out of a ship. pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,

geneva@Luke:5:2 @ And sawe two shippes stand by the lakes side, but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nettes.

geneva@Luke:5:3 @ And he entred into one of the ships, which was Simons, & required him that he would thrust off a litle from the land: and he sate downe, and taught the people out of the ship.

geneva@Luke:5:5 @ And Simon answering said unto him, (note:)The word signifies someone that has rule over anything.(:note) Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

geneva@Luke:5:9 @ For he was vtterly astonied, and all that were with him, for the draught of fishes which they tooke.

geneva@Luke:5:10 @ And so was also Iames & Iohn the sonnes of Zebedeus, which were companions with Simon. Then Iesus sayde vnto Simon, Feare not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

geneva@Luke:5:14 @ And he commaunded him that hee should tell it no man: but Go, sayth he, and shew thy selfe to the Priest, and offer for thy clensing, as Moses hath commanded, for a witnes vnto them.

geneva@Luke:5:18 @ Then beholde, men brought a man lying in a bed, which was taken with a palsie, and they sought meanes to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

geneva@Luke:5:19 @ And when they could not finde by what way they might bring him in, because of the preasse, they went vp on the house, and let him downe through the tyling, bed and all, in the middes before Iesus.

geneva@Luke:5:21 @ Then the Scribes & the Pharises began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? who can forgiue sinnes, but God onely?

geneva@Luke:5:22 @ But when Iesus perceiued their reasoning, he answered, and sayd vnto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

geneva@Luke:5:23 @ Whether is easier to say, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee, or to say, Rise and walke?

geneva@Luke:5:26 @ And they were all amased, & praysed God, and were filled with feare, saying, Doutlesse we haue seene strange things to day.

geneva@Luke:5:29 @ Then Leui made him a great feast in his owne house, where there was a great company of Publicanes, and of other that sate at table with them.

geneva@Luke:5:35 @ But the dayes will come, euen when the bridegrome shalbe taken away from them: then shall they fast in those dayes.

geneva@Luke:6:1 @ And (note:)Christ shows against the superstitious, who dwell on every trifling matter, that the law of the very sabbath was not given to be kept without exception: much less that the salvation of man should consist in the outward keeping of it.(:note) it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples Epiphanius notes well in his treatise, where he refutes Ebion, that the time when the disciples plucked the ears of the corn was in the feast of unleavened bread. Now, in those feasts which were kept over a period of many days, as the feast of tabernacles and passover, their first day and the last were very solemn; see (Leviticus. strkjv@23:1-44). Luke then fitly calls the last day the second sabbath, though Theophylact understands it to be any of the sabbaths that followed the first. plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing [them] in [their] hands.

geneva@Luke:6:3 @ Then Iesus answered them, and said, Haue ye not read this, that Dauid did when he himselfe was an hungred, and they which were with him,

geneva@Luke:6:4 @ Howe he went into the house of God, and tooke, and ate the shewbread, and gaue also to them which were with him, which was not lawful to eate, but for the Priests onely?

geneva@Luke:6:9 @ Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to (note:)Whoever does not help his neighbour when he can, he kills him.(:note) destroy [it]?

geneva@Luke:6:10 @ And he behelde them all in compasse, and sayd vnto the man, Stretch forth thine hand; he did so, and his hand was restored againe, as whole as the other.

geneva@Luke:6:13 @ And when it was day, he called his disciples, and of them he chose twelue which also he called Apostles.

geneva@Luke:6:15 @ Matthewe and Thomas: Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelous,

geneva@Luke:6:16 @ Iudas Iames brother, and Iudas Iscariot, which also was the traitour.)

geneva@Luke:6:17 @ And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the (note:)From all the sea coast, which is called Syrophoenecia.(:note) sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

geneva@Luke:6:22 @ Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall (note:)Cast you out of their synagogues, as John expounds in (Joh_16:2), which is the severest punishment the Church has, if the elders judge rightfully, and by the word of God.(:note) separate you [from their company], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

geneva@Luke:6:23 @ Rejoice ye in that day, and (note:)Leap for exceeding joy, as cattle do who are spurred on by food.(:note) leap for joy: for, behold, your reward [is] great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

geneva@Luke:6:30 @ Giue to euery man that asketh of thee: and of him that taketh away the things that be thine, aske them not againe.

geneva@Luke:6:31 @ And as ye would that men should doe to you, so doe ye to them likewise.

geneva@Luke:6:35 @ But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, (note:)When you will lend, do it only to benefit and please with it, and not with the hope of receiving the principal again.(:note) hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.

geneva@Luke:6:36 @ Be ye therefore mercifull, as your Father also is mercifull.

geneva@Luke:6:38 @ Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, (note:)These are borrowed types of sayings, taken from those who used to measure dry things, as corn and such things, who do it in a rather forceful manner, and thrust it down and shake it together, and press it and put it into a pile.(:note) pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

geneva@Luke:6:40 @ The disciple is not aboue his master: but whosoeuer will be a perfect disciple, shall bee as his master.

geneva@Luke:6:42 @ Either howe canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou seest not the beame that is in thine owne eye? Hypocrite, cast out the beame out of thine owne eye first, and then shalt thou see, perfectly to pull out the mote that is in thy brothers eye.

geneva@Luke:6:45 @ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

geneva@Luke:6:48 @ He is like a man which built an house, and digged deepe, and layde the fundation on a rocke: and when the waters arose, the flood beat vpon that house, and coulde not shake it: for it was grounded vpon a rocke.

geneva@Luke:6:49 @ But hee that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that built an house vpon the earth without foundation, against which the flood did beate, and it fell by and by: and the fall of that house was great.

geneva@Luke:7:2 @ And a certaine Ceturions seruant was sicke and readie to die, which was deare vnto him.

geneva@Luke:7:4 @ So they came to Iesus, and besought him instantly, saying that hee was worthy that hee should doe this for him:

geneva@Luke:7:6 @ Then Iesus went with them: but when he was now not farre from the house, the Centurion sent friendes to him, saying vnto him, Lorde, trouble not thy selfe: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe:

geneva@Luke:7:10 @ And when they that were sent, turned backe to the house, they founde the seruant that was sicke, whole.

geneva@Luke:7:12 @ Nowe when hee came neere to the gate of the citie, behold, there was a dead man caried out, who was the onely begotten sonne of his mother, which was a widowe, and much people of the citie was with her.

geneva@Luke:7:13 @ And when the Lord sawe her, he had compassion on her, and said vnto her, Weepe not.

geneva@Luke:7:15 @ And he that was dead, sate vp, and began to speake, and he deliuered him to his mother.

geneva@Luke:7:28 @ For I say vnto you, there is no greater Prophet then Iohn, among them that are begotten of women: neuerthelesse, hee that is the least in the kingdome of God, is greater then he.

geneva@Luke:7:29 @ And all the people that heard [him], and the publicans, (note:)Said that he was just, good, faithful and merciful.(:note) justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

geneva@Luke:7:37 @ And beholde, a woman in the citie, which was a sinner, when she knewe that Iesus sate at table in the Pharises house, shee brought a boxe of oyntment.

geneva@Luke:7:38 @ And shee stoode at his feete behinde him weeping, and began to wash his feete with teares, and did wipe them with the heares of her head, and kissed his feete, and anoynted them with the oyntment.

geneva@Luke:7:41 @ There was a certaine lender which had two detters: the one ought fiue hundreth pence, and the other fiftie:

geneva@Luke:7:43 @ Simon answered, and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgaue most; he said vnto him, Thou hast truely iudged.

geneva@Luke:7:44 @ Then he turned to the woman, and said vnto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entred into thine house, and thou gauest mee no water to my feete: but she hath washed my feete with teares, and wiped them with the heares of her head.

geneva@Luke:7:45 @ Thou gauest me no kisse: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kisse my feete.

geneva@Luke:7:47 @ Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; (note:)That is, says Theophylact, she has shown her faith abundantly: and Basil in his «Sermon of Baptism» says, «He that owes much has much forgiven him, that he may love much more». And therefore Christ's saying is so plain in light of this that it is a wonder to see the enemies of the truth so badly distort and misinterpret this place in such a thorough manner in order to establish their meritorious works: for the greater sum a man has forgiven him, the more he loves him that has been so gracious to him. And this woman shows by deeds of love how great the benefit was she had received: and therefore the charity that is here spoken of is not to be taken as the cause of her forgiveness, but as a sign of it: for Christ does not say as the Pharisees did that she was a sinner, but bears her witness that the sins of her past life are forgiven her.(:note) for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, [the same] loveth little.

geneva@Luke:8:1 @ And it came to passe afterwarde, that hee himselfe went through euery citie and towne, preaching and publishing the kingdome of God, and the twelue were with him,

geneva@Luke:8:2 @ And certaine women, which were healed of euill spirites, and infirmities, as Mary which was called Magdalene, out of whom went seuen deuils,

geneva@Luke:8:5 @ A sower went out to sowe his seede, and as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side, and it was troden vnder feete, and the foules of heauen deuoured it vp.

geneva@Luke:8:6 @ And some fell on the stones, and when it was sprong vp, it withered away, because it lacked moystnesse.

geneva@Luke:8:8 @ And some fell on good ground, and sprang vp, and bare fruite, an hundreth folde; as hee sayd these things, he cryed, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

geneva@Luke:8:9 @ Then his disciples asked him, demaunding what parable that was.

geneva@Luke:8:12 @ And they that are beside the way, are they that heare: afterward commeth the deuill, and taketh away the worde out of their hearts, least they should beleeue, and be saued.

geneva@Luke:8:14 @ And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, (note:)That is, as soon as they have heard the word, they go about their business.(:note) go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and They do not bring forth perfect and full fruit to the ripening: or, they begin, but they do not bring to an end. bring no fruit to perfection.

geneva@Luke:8:20 @ And it was tolde him by certaine which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee.

geneva@Luke:8:23 @ But as they sailed he fell (note:)Jesus fell asleep, and it appears that he was very fast asleep, because they called him twice before he awoke.(:note) asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and Not the disciples, but the ship. they were filled [with water], and were in jeopardy.

geneva@Luke:8:24 @ Then they went to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we perish; he arose, and rebuked the winde, and the waues of water: and they ceased, and it was calme.

geneva@Luke:8:29 @ (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, (note:)By force and violence, as a horse when he is spurred.(:note) and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

geneva@Luke:8:30 @ Then Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he sayd, Legion, because many deuils were entred into him.

geneva@Luke:8:32 @ And there was there by, an hearde of many swine, feeding on an hill: and the deuils besought him, that he would suffer them to enter into them. So he suffered them.

geneva@Luke:8:33 @ Then went the deuils out of the man, and entred into the swine: and the hearde was caried with violence from a steepe downe place into the lake, and was choked.

geneva@Luke:8:34 @ When the heardmen sawe what was done, they fled: and when they were departed, they tolde it in the citie and in the countrey.

geneva@Luke:8:35 @ Then they came out to see what was done, and came to Iesus, and found the man, out of whom the deuils were departed, sitting at the feete of Iesus, clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afrayd.

geneva@Luke:8:36 @ They also which saw it, tolde them by what meanes he that was possessed with the deuill, was healed.

geneva@Luke:8:39 @ Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published (note:)That is, the city of the Gadarenes: and though Mark says that he preached it in Decapolis, these accounts do not differ, for Pliny records in lib. 5, chap. 18, that Gadara is a town of Decapolis: so that Decapolis was partly on this side of Jordan, and partly on the other side.(:note) throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

geneva@Luke:8:40 @ And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people (note:)The multitude was glad he had come again, and greatly rejoiced.(:note) [gladly] received him: for they were all waiting for him.

geneva@Luke:8:42 @ For he had but a daughter onely, about twelue yeeres of age, and she lay a dying (and as he went, the people thronged him.

geneva@Luke:8:45 @ Then Iesus sayd, Who is it that hath touched me? When euery man denied, Peter sayd and they that were with him, Master, the multitude thrust thee, and tread on thee, & sayest thou, Who hath touched me?

geneva@Luke:8:47 @ When the woman sawe that she was not hid, she came trembling, and fell downe before him, and tolde him before all the people, for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediatly.

geneva@Luke:8:49 @ While he yet spake, there came one from the ruler of the Synagogues house, which sayde to him, Thy daughter is dead: disease not the Master.

geneva@Luke:8:53 @ And they laught him to scorne, knowing that she was dead.

geneva@Luke:8:55 @ And her spirit came again, and she (note:)The corpse was lying there, and then the young girl received life, and rose out of the bed, that all the world might see that she was not only restored to life, but also void of all sickness.(:note) arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.

geneva@Luke:8:56 @ Then her parents were astonied: but hee commaunded them that they should tell no man what was done.

geneva@Luke:9:1 @ Then (note:)The twelve apostles are sent forth only at the commandment of Christ and equipped with the power of the Holy Spirit: both that none of the Israelites might pretend ignorance, and also that they might be better prepared for their general mission.(:note) he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.

geneva@Luke:9:4 @ And whatsoever house ye enter into, there (note:)When you depart out of any city, depart from that place where you first took up your lodging: so that in these few words the Lord forbids them to change their lodgings: for this publishing of the gospel was as it were a publishing throughout the whole land, that no one in Judea might pretend ignorance, as though he had not heard that Christ had come.(:note) abide, and thence depart.

geneva@Luke:9:8 @ And of some, that Elias had appeared: and of some, that one of the olde Prophets was risen againe.

geneva@Luke:9:16 @ Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, (note:)He gave God thanks for these loaves and fishes, and prayed at the same time that God would feed this multitude which was so great with such a small quantity, and to put it briefly, that this whole banquet might be to the glory of God.(:note) he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.

geneva@Luke:9:17 @ So they did all eate, and were satisfied: and there was taken vp of that remained to them, twelue baskets full of broken meate.

geneva@Luke:9:19 @ They answered, and sayd, Iohn Baptist: and others say, Elias: and some say, that one of the olde Prophets is risen againe.

geneva@Luke:9:23 @ And he said to [them] all, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross (note:)Even as one day follows another, so does one cross follow another, and the cross is by the figure of speech metonymy taken for the miseries of this life: for to be hanged on the cross was the most grievous and cruel punishment that there was amongst the Jews.(:note) daily, and follow me.

geneva@Luke:9:26 @ For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of me, and of my wordes, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed, when hee shall come in his glorie, and in the glorie of the Father, and of the holy Angels.

geneva@Luke:9:27 @ And I tell you of a suretie, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they haue seene the kingdome of God.

geneva@Luke:9:29 @ And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was changed, and his garment was white and glistered.

geneva@Luke:9:30 @ And beholde, two men talked with him, which were Moses and Elias:

geneva@Luke:9:31 @ Who appeared in glory, and spake of his (note:)What death he would die in Jerusalem.(:note) decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.

geneva@Luke:9:33 @ And it came to passe, as they departed fro him, Peter said vnto Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: let vs therefore make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias, and wist not what he said.

geneva@Luke:9:36 @ And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept [it] close, and told no man in (note:)Until Christ was risen again from the dead.(:note) those days any of those things which they had seen.

geneva@Luke:9:38 @ And beholde, a man of the companie cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, beholde my sonne: for he is all that I haue.

geneva@Luke:9:39 @ And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and (note:)As it happens in the falling sickness.(:note) bruising him hardly departeth from him.

geneva@Luke:9:40 @ Nowe I haue besought thy disciples to cast him out, but they could not.

geneva@Luke:9:42 @ And whiles he was yet comming, the deuill rent him, and tare him: and Iesus rebuked the vncleane spirite, and healed the childe, and deliuered him to his father.

geneva@Luke:9:45 @ But they vnderstood not that word: for it was hid from them, so that they could not perceiue it: and they feared to aske him of that worde.

geneva@Luke:9:48 @ And said vnto them, Whosoeuer receiueth this litle childe in my Name, receiueth me: and whosoeuer shall receiue me, receiueth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, he shall be great.

geneva@Luke:9:53 @ But they woulde not receiue him, because his behauiour was, as though he would go to Hierusalem.

geneva@Luke:9:55 @ But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of (note:)So the Hebrews say, that is, you do not know what will, mind, and counsel you are of: so the gifts of God are called the spirit because they are given by God's Spirit, and so are the things that are contrary to them also called the spirit, which proceed from the wicked spirit, such as the spirit of covetousness, of pride, and madness.(:note) spirit ye are of.

geneva@Luke:9:60 @ Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury (note:)Who, even though they live in this frail life of man, yet are strangers from the true life, which is everlasting and heavenly.(:note) their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

geneva@Luke:10:1 @ After (note:)The seventy are sent as the second forewarners of the coming of Christ.(:note) these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

geneva@Luke:10:4 @ Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute (note:)This is spoken figuratively, which manner of speech men use when they put down more in words than is meant. This is usual among the Hebrews when they command a thing to be done speedily without delay, as is found in (2Ki_4:29); for in any other case courteous and gentle salutations are matters of Christian duty: as for the calling, it was only for a limited time.(:note) no man by the way.

geneva@Luke:10:7 @ And in the same house (note:)Take up your lodging in that house which you enter into first, that is, do not be concerned about comfortable lodging, as men do who plan to stay in a place a long time: for here that solemn preaching of the gospel, which was used afterward when the Churches were settled, is not instituted: but these are sent abroad to all the coasts of Judea to show them that the last jubilee is at hand.(:note) remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

geneva@Luke:10:8 @ And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, (note:)Be content with the food that is set before you.(:note) eat such things as are set before you:

geneva@Luke:10:11 @ Euen the very dust, which cleaueth on vs of your citie, we wipe off against you: notwithstanding knowe this, that the kingdome of God was come neere vnto you.

geneva@Luke:10:12 @ For I say to you, that it shall be easier in that day for them of Sodom, then for that citie.

geneva@Luke:10:13 @ Woe be to thee, Chorazin: woe be to thee, Beth-saida: for if the miracles had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, which haue bene done in you, they had a great while agone repented, sitting in sackecloth and ashes.

geneva@Luke:10:14 @ Therefore it shall be easier for Tyrus, and Sidon, at the iudgement, then for you.

geneva@Luke:10:18 @ And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning (note:)Paul writes that the location of the devil and his angels is in the air, as is found in (Eph_6:12), and he is said to be cast down from there by force, when his power is abolished by the voice of the Gospel.(:note) fall from heaven.

geneva@Luke:10:27 @ And he answered, and saide, Thou shalt loue thy Lord God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy strength, and with all thy thought, and thy neighbour as thy selfe.

geneva@Luke:10:28 @ Then he said vnto him, Thou hast answered right: this doe, and thou shalt liue.

geneva@Luke:10:31 @ Nowe so it fell out, that there came downe a certaine Priest that same way, and when he sawe him, he passed by on the other side.

geneva@Luke:10:32 @ And likewise also a Leuite, when he was come neere to the place, went and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

geneva@Luke:10:33 @ Then a certaine Samaritane, as he iourneyed, came neere vnto him, and when he sawe him, he had compassion on him,

geneva@Luke:10:34 @ And went to him, & bound vp his wounds, and powred in oyle and wine, and put him on his owne beast, and brought him to an Inne, and made prouision for him.

geneva@Luke:10:36 @ Which nowe of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour vnto him that fell among the theeues?

geneva@Luke:10:40 @ But Martha was combred about much seruing, and came to him, and saide, Master, doest thou not care that my sister hath left me to serue alone? bid her therefore, that she helpe me.

geneva@Luke:11:1 @ And so it was, that as he was praying in a certaine place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said vnto him, Lord, teache vs to pray, as Iohn also taught his disciples.

geneva@Luke:11:2 @ And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, (note:)A form of true prayer.(:note) Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

geneva@Luke:11:3 @ Give us (note:)That is, as much as is needed for us this day, by which we are not prevented from having an honest care for the maintenance of our lives; but that complaining care, which kills a number of men, is cut off and restrained.(:note) day by day our daily bread.

geneva@Luke:11:8 @ I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his (note:)Literally, «impudence»: but that impudency which is spoken of here is not to be found fault with, but is very commendable before God, for he is well pleased by such importunity.(:note) importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

geneva@Luke:11:9 @ And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and yee shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.

geneva@Luke:11:10 @ For euery one that asketh, receiueth: and he that seeketh, findeth: & to him that knocketh, it shalbe opened.

geneva@Luke:11:11 @ If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will he giue him a stone? Or if hee aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent?

geneva@Luke:11:12 @ Or if hee aske an egge, will hee giue him a scorpion?

geneva@Luke:11:14 @ Then hee cast out a deuill which was domme: and when the deuill was gone out, the domme spake, and the people wondered.

geneva@Luke:11:18 @ If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils (note:)By the name and power of Beelzebub.(:note) through Beelzebub.

geneva@Luke:11:19 @ If I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whome doe your children cast them out? Therefore shall they be your iudges.

geneva@Luke:11:20 @ But if I with the (note:)That is, by the power of God: so it says in {{See Exo_8:19}}.(:note) finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

geneva@Luke:11:26 @ Then goeth hee, and taketh to him seuen other spirites worse then himselfe: and they enter in, and dwel there: so the last state of that man is worse then the first.

geneva@Luke:11:29 @ And when the people were gathered thicke together, he began to say, This is a wicked generation: they seeke a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen them, but the signe of Ionas the Prophet.

geneva@Luke:11:30 @ For as Ionas was a signe to the Niniuites: so shall also the Sonne of man bee to this generation.

geneva@Luke:11:32 @ The men of Niniue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.

geneva@Luke:11:36 @ If therefore thy whole body shall be light, hauing no part darke, then shall all be light, euen as when a candle doth light thee with the brightnesse.

geneva@Luke:11:38 @ And when the Pharise saw it, he marueiled that he had not first washed before dinner.

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:11:48 @ Truly (note:)When you persecute God's servants like mad men, even as your fathers did, though you try and cover it with a pretence of godliness, yet nonetheless, by beautifying the sepulchres of the prophets, what else are you doing but glorying in your father's cruelty, and setting up monuments (as it were) in glory and triumph of it?(:note) ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

geneva@Luke:11:50 @ That the blood of all the prophets, which was (note:)That you may be called to give an account for it, yea, and be punished for the shedding of that blood of the prophets.(:note) shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

geneva@Luke:11:51 @ From the blood of Abel vnto the blood of Zacharias, which was slaine betweene the altar and the Temple: verely I say vnto you, it shall be required of this generation.

geneva@Luke:12:5 @ But I will (note:)He warns them of dangers that presently hang over their heads, for those that come upon one suddenly make a greater wound.(:note) forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

geneva@Luke:12:10 @ And whosoeuer shall speake a woorde against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but vnto him, that shal blaspheme ye holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen.

geneva@Luke:12:19 @ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] (note:)Be merry and make good cheer.(:note) be merry.

geneva@Luke:12:20 @ But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule fro thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?

geneva@Luke:12:21 @ So [is] he that layeth up treasure (note:)Caring for no man but for himself, and making sure to trust in himself.(:note) for himself, and is not rich toward God.

geneva@Luke:12:26 @ If yee then bee not able to doe the least thing, why take yee thought for the remnant?

geneva@Luke:12:27 @ Consider the lilies howe they growe: they labour not, neither spin they: yet I say vnto you, that Solomon himselfe in all his royaltie was not clothed like one of these.

geneva@Luke:12:28 @ If then God so clothe the grasse which is to day in the field, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, howe much more will he clothe you, O yee of litle faith?

geneva@Luke:12:34 @ For where your treasure is, there will your hearts be also.

geneva@Luke:12:36 @ And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.

geneva@Luke:12:41 @ Then Peter saide vnto him, Master, tellest thou this parable vnto vs, or euen to all?

geneva@Luke:12:42 @ And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom [his] lord shall make ruler over his household, to give [them their] (note:)That is, every month the measure of corn that was given to them.(:note) portion of meat in due season?

geneva@Luke:12:43 @ Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

geneva@Luke:12:45 @ But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,

geneva@Luke:12:46 @ The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.

geneva@Luke:12:47 @ And that seruant that knewe his masters will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.

geneva@Luke:12:48 @ But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few [stripes]. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask (note:)More than the one who did not receive as much.(:note) the more.

geneva@Luke:12:55 @ And when ye see the South winde blowe, ye say, that it wilbe hoate: & it commeth to passe.

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:)To him that has to demand and gather the fines from those who were fined at the discretion of the court, people who had wrongly troubled men: moreover, the magistrate's officers make those who are condemned pay what they owe, yea and often if they are obstinate, they not only take the fine, but also imprison them.(:note) officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

geneva@Luke:12:59 @ I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast payed the vtmost mite.

geneva@Luke:13:1 @ There (note:)We must not rejoice at the just punishment of others, but rather we should be instructed by it to repent.(:note) were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea almost ten years, and about the fourth year of his government, which might be about the fifteenth year of Tiberius' reign, Christ finished the work of our redemption by his death. Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

geneva@Luke:13:4 @ Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in (note:)That is, in the place, or river: for Siloam was a small river from which the conduits of the city came; see (Joh_9:7; Isa_8:6); and therefore it was a tower or a castle, built upon the conduit side, which fell down suddenly and killed some.(:note) Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

geneva@Luke:13:11 @ And, behold, there was a woman which had a (note:)Troubled with a disease which Satan caused.(:note) spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up [herself].

geneva@Luke:13:12 @ And when Jesus saw her, he called [her to him], and said unto her, Woman, thou art (note:)For Satan had the woman bound, as if she had been in chains, to the extent that for eighteen years time she could not hold up her head.(:note) loosed from thine infirmity.

geneva@Luke:13:13 @ And he laide his handes on her, and immediately she was made straight againe, and glorified God.

geneva@Luke:13:15 @ Then answered him the Lord, and said, Hypocrite, doth not eche one of you on the Sabbath day loose his oxe or his asse from the stall, & leade him away to the water?

geneva@Luke:13:17 @ And when he said these things, all his aduersaries were ashamed: but all the people reioyced at all the excellent things, that were done by him.

geneva@Luke:13:21 @ It is like leauen, which a woman tooke, and hid in three peckes of floure, till all was leauened.

geneva@Luke:13:29 @ And they shall come from the (note:)From all the corners of the world, and the places mentioned here are four of the main ones.(:note) east, and [from] the west, and from the north, and [from] the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

geneva@Luke:13:30 @ And beholde, there are last, which shalbe first, and there are first, which shalbe last.

geneva@Luke:13:32 @ And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that (note:)That deceitful and treacherous man.(:note) fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures That is, a small time, and Theophylact says it is a proverb: or else by «to day» we may understand the present time, and by tomorrow the time to come, meaning by this the entire time of his ministry and office. to day and to morrow, and the third [day] I shall be That is, when the sacrifice for sin is finished. perfected.

geneva@Luke:13:34 @ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen [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:14:1 @ And (note:)The law of the very sabbath ought not to hinder the offices of charity.(:note) it came to pass, as he went into the house of Either one of the elders, whom they called the sanhedrin, or one of the chiefs of the synagogue: for all the Pharisees were not chief men of the synagogue (Joh_7:48); for this word Pharisee was the name of a sect, though it appears by viewing the whole history of the matter that the Pharisees had much authority. one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

geneva@Luke:14:2 @ And beholde, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.

geneva@Luke:14:5 @ And answered them, saying, Which of you shall haue an asse, or an oxe fallen into a pit, & wil not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?

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:14:22 @ And the seruaunt saide, Lorde, it is done as thou hast commaunded, and yet there is roome.

geneva@Luke:14:23 @ Then the master sayd to the seruaunt, Goe out into the hie wayes, and hedges, and compell them to come in, that mine house may bee filled.

geneva@Luke:14:24 @ For I say vnto you, that none of those men which were bidden, shall taste of my supper.

geneva@Luke:14:26 @ If any [man] come to me, and (note:)If anything stands between God and him, as Theophylact says: and therefore these words are spoken in a comparative way, and not by themselves.(:note) hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

geneva@Luke:14:30 @ Saying, This man began to builde, and was not able to make an end?

geneva@Luke:14:32 @ Or els while hee is yet a great way off, hee sendeth an ambassage, and desireth peace.

geneva@Luke:14:35 @ It is neither meete for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out. He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

geneva@Luke:15:1 @ Then drew near unto (note:)We must not give up on those who have gone out of the way, but according to the example of Christ we must take great pains for them.(:note) him Some publicans and sinners came to Christ from all areas. all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

geneva@Luke:15:6 @ And when he commeth home, he calleth together his friendes and neighbours, saying vnto them, Reioyce with mee: for I haue founde my sheepe which was lost.

geneva@Luke:15:13 @ So not many daies after, when the yonger sonne had gathered all together, hee tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there hee wasted his goods with riotous liuing.

geneva@Luke:15:19 @ And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

geneva@Luke:15:20 @ So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.

geneva@Luke:15:24 @ For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found; they began to be merie.

geneva@Luke:15:26 @ And called one of his seruaunts, and asked what those things meant.

geneva@Luke:15:28 @ Then he was angry, and would not goe in: therefore came his father out and entreated him.

geneva@Luke:15:30 @ But when this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy good with harlots, thou hast for his sake killed the fat calfe.

geneva@Luke:15:32 @ It was meete that we shoulde make merie, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and hee was lost, but he is found.

geneva@Luke:16:1 @ And he said also unto his disciples, (note:)Seeing that men often purchase friendship for themselves at the expense of others, we are to be ashamed if we do not please the Lord or procure the good will of our neighbours with the goods which the Lord has bestowed on us freely and liberally, making sure that by this means riches, which are often occasions of sin, are used for another end and purpose.(: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:16:3 @ Then the stewarde saide within himselfe, What shall I doe? for my master taketh away from me the stewardship. I cannot digge, and to begge I am ashamed.

geneva@Luke:16:5 @ Then called he vnto him euery one of his masters detters, & said vnto the first, Howe much owest thou vnto my master?

geneva@Luke:16:6 @ And he said, An hudreth measures of oyle; he saide to him, Take thy writing, and sitte downe quickely, and write fiftie.

geneva@Luke:16:7 @ Then said he to another, How much owest thou? And hee sayde, An hundreth measures of wheate. Then he saide to him, Take thy writing, and write foure score.

geneva@Luke:16:8 @ And the lord commended (note:)This parable does not approve the steward's evil dealing, for it was definitely theft: but parables are set forth to show a thing in a secret way, and as it were, to present the truth by means of an allegory, even though it may not be exact: so that by this parable Christ means to teach us that worldly men are more clever in the affairs of this world than the children of God are diligent for everlasting life.(:note) the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the Men that are given to this present life, contrary to whom are the children of light: Paul calls the former carnal and the latter spiritual. children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

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:16:17 @ Nowe it is more easie that heauen and earth shoulde passe away, then that one title of the Lawe should fall.

geneva@Luke:16:18 @ Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her (note:)They that gather by this passage that a man cannot be married again after he has divorced his wife for adultery, while she lives, reason incorrectly: for Christ speaks of those divorces which the Jews had which were not because of adultery, for adulterers were put to death by the law.(:note) that is put away from [her] husband committeth adultery.

geneva@Luke:16:20 @ Also there was a certaine begger named Lazarus, which was laide at his gate full of sores,

geneva@Luke:16:22 @ And it was so that the begger died, and was caried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome. The rich man also died, and was buried.

geneva@Luke:16:25 @ But Abraham saide, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures, and likewise Lazarus paines: now therefore is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

geneva@Luke:16:28 @ (For I haue fiue brethren) that he may testifie vnto them, least they also come into this place of torment.

geneva@Luke:17:1 @ Then said he unto the disciples, (note:)The Church is of necessity subject to offences, but the Lord will not suffer them unpunished, if any of the least be offended.(:note) It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe [unto him], through whom they come!

geneva@Luke:17:2 @ It is better for him that a great milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were cast into ye sea, then that he should offende one of these litle ones.

geneva@Luke:17:6 @ And the Lord said, If ye had faith as (note:)If you had no more faith, but the quantity of the grain of mustard seed.(:note) a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

geneva@Luke:17:9 @ Doeth he thanke that seruant, because hee did that which was commaunded vnto him? I trowe not.

geneva@Luke:17:12 @ And as hee entred into a certaine towne, there met him tenne men that were lepers, which stoode a farre off.

geneva@Luke:17:13 @ And they lift vp their voyces and saide, Iesus, Master, haue mercie on vs.

geneva@Luke:17:14 @ And when he saw them, he said vnto them, Goe, shewe your selues vnto the Priestes; it came to passe, that as they went, they were clensed.

geneva@Luke:17:15 @ Then one of them, when hee sawe that hee, was healed, turned backe, and with a loude voyce praised God,

geneva@Luke:17:16 @ And fell downe on his face at his feete, and gaue him thankes: and he was a Samaritan.

geneva@Luke:17:21 @ Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is (note:)You look around for the Messiah as though he were absent, but he is amongst you in the midst of you.(:note) within you.

geneva@Luke:17:24 @ For as the lightening that lighteneth out of the one part vnder heauen, shineth vnto the other part vnder heauen, so shall the Sonne of man be in his day.

geneva@Luke:17:28 @ Likewise also, as it was in the dayes of Lot: they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they built.

geneva@Luke:17:33 @ Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall (note:)That is, will save it, as Matthew expounds it: for the life that is spoken of here is everlasting salvation.(:note) preserve it.

geneva@Luke:18:1 @ And (note:)God will have us to continue in prayer, not to weary us, but to exercise us; therefore we must fight against impatience so that a long delay does not cause us to quit our praying.(:note) he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to Yield to afflictions and adversities as those do who have lost heart. faint;

geneva@Luke:18:3 @ And there was a widowe in that citie, which came vnto him, saying, Doe mee iustice against mine aduersarie.

geneva@Luke:18:5 @ Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she (note:)Literally, «beat me down with her blows», and it is a metaphor taken of wrestlers who beat their adversaries with their fists or clubs: in the same way those that are persistent beat the judge's ears with their crying out, even as it were with blows.(:note) weary me.

geneva@Luke:18:12 @ I fast twise in the weeke: I giue tithe of all that euer I possesse.

geneva@Luke:18:13 @ And the publican, standing (note:)Far from the Pharisee in a lower place.(:note) afar off, would not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

geneva@Luke:18:18 @ Then a certaine ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what ought I to doe, to inherite eternall life?

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:18:23 @ But when he heard those things, he was very heauie: for he was marueilous riche.

geneva@Luke:18:25 @ Surely it is easier for a camel to go through a needles eye, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.

geneva@Luke:18:30 @ Which shall not receiue much more in this world, and in the world to come life euerlasting.

geneva@Luke:18:34 @ And they understood (note:)By this we see how ignorant the disciples were.(:note) none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

geneva@Luke:18:36 @ And when he heard the people passe by, he asked what it meant.

geneva@Luke:18:37 @ And they saide vnto him, that Iesus of Nazareth passed by.

geneva@Luke:18:40 @ And Iesus stoode stil, and commanded him to be brought vnto him; when he was come neere, he asked him,

geneva@Luke:19:1 @ And (note:)Christ especially guides by his grace those who seem to be furthest from it.(:note) [Jesus] entered and passed through Jericho.

geneva@Luke:19:2 @ And, behold, [there was] a man named Zacchaeus, which was the (note:)The overseer and head of the publicans who were there together: for the publicans were divided into companies, as we may gather from many places in the orations of Cicero.(:note) chief among the publicans, and he was rich.

geneva@Luke:19:3 @ And he sought to see Iesus, who hee should be, and coulde not for the preasse, because he was of a lowe stature.

geneva@Luke:19:6 @ Then he came downe hastily, and receiued him ioyfully.

geneva@Luke:19:9 @ And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a (note:)Beloved of God, one that walks in the steps of Abraham's faith: and we gather that salvation came to that house because they received the blessing as Abraham had. (Ed.)(:note) son of Abraham.

geneva@Luke:19:10 @ For the Sonne of man is come to seeke, and to saue that which was lost.

geneva@Luke:19:14 @ Nowe his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not haue this man to reigne ouer vs.

geneva@Luke:19:15 @ And it came to passe, when hee was come againe, and had receiued his kingdome, that he commanded the seruants to be called to him, to whome he gaue his money, that he might knowe what euery man had gained.

geneva@Luke:19:16 @ Then came the first, saying, Lord, (note:)This was a piece of money which the Greeks used, and was worth about one hundred pence, which is about ten crowns.(:note) thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

geneva@Luke:19:17 @ And he sayd vnto him, Well, good seruant: because thou hast bene faithfull in a very litle thing, take thou authoritie ouer ten cities.

geneva@Luke:19:18 @ And the second came, saying, Lord, thy piece hath encreased fiue pieces.

geneva@Luke:19:23 @ Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the (note:)To the bankers and money changers. Usury or loaning money at interest is strictly forbidden by the Bible, (Exo_22:25-27; Deu_23:19-20). Even a rate as low as one per cent interest was disallowed, (Neh_5:11). This servant had already told two lies. First he said the master was an austere or harsh man. This is a lie for the Lord is merciful and gracious. Next he called his master a thief because he reaped where he did not sow. Finally the master said to him that why did you not add insult to injury and loan the money out at interest so you could call your master a «usurer» too! If the servant had done this, his master would have been responsible for his servant's actions and guilty of usury. (Ed.)(:note) bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

geneva@Luke:19:28 @ And when he had thus spoken, (note:)The disciples were staggered and stopped by what Christ said, but Christ goes on boldly even though death was before his eyes.(:note) he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.

geneva@Luke:19:30 @ Saying, Goe ye to the towne which is before you, wherein, assoone as ye are come, ye shall finde a colte tied, whereon neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him hither.

geneva@Luke:19:31 @ And if any man aske you, why ye loose him, thus shall ye say vnto him, Because the Lord hath neede of him.

geneva@Luke:19:32 @ So they that were sent, went their way, and found it as he had sayd vnto them.

geneva@Luke:19:33 @ And as they were loosing the colte, the owners thereof sayd vnto them, Why loose ye the colte?

geneva@Luke:19:35 @ So they brought him to Iesus, and they cast their garments on the colte, and set Iesus thereon.

geneva@Luke:19:36 @ And as he went, they spred their clothes in the way.

geneva@Luke:19:37 @ And when he was nowe come neere to the going downe of the mount of Oliues, the whole multitude of the disciples began to reioyce, and to prayse God with a loude voyce, for all the great workes that they had seene,

geneva@Luke:19:43 @ For the dayes shall come vpon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compasse thee round, and keepe thee in on euery side,

geneva@Luke:20:1 @ And (note:)The Pharisees, being overcome with the truth of Christ's doctrine, propose a question about his outward calling, and are overcome by the witness of their own conscience.(:note) it came to pass, [that] on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon [him] with the elders,

geneva@Luke:20:3 @ And he answered, and sayde vnto them, I also will aske you one thing: tell me therefore:

geneva@Luke:20:4 @ The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men?

geneva@Luke:20:5 @ And they reasoned within themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then beleeued ye him not?

geneva@Luke:20:6 @ But if we shall say, Of men, all the people will stone vs: for they be perswaded that Iohn was a Prophet.

geneva@Luke:20:7 @ Therefore they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.

geneva@Luke:20:12 @ Moreouer he sent the third, and him they wounded, and cast out.

geneva@Luke:20:14 @ But when the husbandmen sawe him, they reasoned with themselues, saying, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

geneva@Luke:20:15 @ So they cast him out of the vineyarde, and killed him. What shall the Lord of the vineyarde therefore doe vnto them?

geneva@Luke:20:21 @ And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the (note:)You are not moved by favour of any man: and by «person» he means outward circumstances, for if a man judges according to these, there will be those who are truly alike whom he will judge to be different.(:note) person [of any], but teachest the way of God truly:

geneva@Luke:20:28 @ Saying, Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die hauing a wife, and hee die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.

geneva@Luke:20:32 @ And last of all the woman dyed also.

geneva@Luke:20:34 @ And Jesus answering said unto them, The (note:)«The children of this world» refers here to those who live in this world, and not those that are wholly given to the world (and therefore contrary to the children of light), as above in (Luk_16:8).(:note) children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

geneva@Luke:20:36 @ Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the (note:)That is, men who partake in the resurrection: for as we truly say that they will indeed live who will enjoy everlasting bliss, so do those indeed rise who rise to life; though if this word «resurrection» is taken generally, it refers also to the wicked, who will rise to condemnation, which is not properly life, but death.(:note) children of the resurrection.

geneva@Luke:20:39 @ Then certaine of the Scribes answered, and sayd, Master, thou hast well sayd.

geneva@Luke:20:40 @ And after that, durst they not aske him any thing at all.

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:21:4 @ For they all haue of their superfluitie cast into the offerings of God: but she of her penurie hath cast in all the liuing that she had.

geneva@Luke:21:7 @ Then they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what signe shall there be when these things shall come to passe?

geneva@Luke:21:12 @ But before all these, they shal lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.

geneva@Luke:21:13 @ And it shall turn to you for (note:)This will be the result of your troubles and afflictions: they will be witnesses both before God and man of the treacherous and cruel dealing of your enemies, as well as of your steadfastness: A noble saying, that the afflictions of the godly and holy men pertain to the witness of the truth.(:note) a testimony.

geneva@Luke:21:14 @ Lay it vp therefore in your heartes, that ye cast not before hand, what ye shall answere.

geneva@Luke:21:23 @ But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and (note:)By «wrath» are meant those things which God sends when he is displeased.(:note) wrath upon this people.

geneva@Luke:21:28 @ And when these things beginne to come to passe, then looke vp, and lift vp your heades: for your redemption draweth neere.

geneva@Luke:21:31 @ So likewise yee, when yee see these thinges come to passe, knowe ye that the kingdome of God is neere.

geneva@Luke:21:32 @ Verely I say vnto you, This age shall not passe, till all these things be done:

geneva@Luke:21:33 @ Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my wordes shall not passe away.

geneva@Luke:21:34 @ Take heede to your selues, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeting and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and least that day come on you at vnwares.

geneva@Luke:21:35 @ For as a snare shall it come (note:)On all men wherever they may be.(:note) on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

geneva@Luke:21:36 @ Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to (note:)You will appear before him in a condition such that you will abide the presence and sentence of the Judge without fear.(:note) stand before the Son of man.

geneva@Luke:22:1 @ Now the (note:)Christ is taken upon the day of the Passover rather by the providence of his Father, than by the will of men.(:note) feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

geneva@Luke:22:4 @ And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and (note:)Those that had the charge of keeping the temple, who were not from among the priests and bishops, as is shown below in (Luk_22:52).(:note) captains, how he might betray him unto them.

geneva@Luke:22:6 @ And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the (note:)Without tumult, doing it without the knowledge of the people who used to follow him: and therefore they indeed waited patiently until they knew he was alone in the garden.(:note) absence of the multitude.

geneva@Luke:22:8 @ And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the (note:)The lamb which was the symbol of the passover: And this is said using the figure of speech metonymy, which is often used when talking about the sacraments.(:note) passover, that we may eat.

geneva@Luke:22:11 @ And say vnto the good man of the house, The Master saith vnto thee, Where is the lodging where I shall eate my Passeouer with my disciples?

geneva@Luke:22:13 @ So they went, and found as he had said vnto them, and made readie the Passeouer.

geneva@Luke:22:15 @ And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I (note:)I am put to death.(:note) suffer:

geneva@Luke:22:20 @ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This (note:)Here is a double use of metonymy: for first, the vessel is taken for that which is contained in the vessel, as the cup is spoken of for the wine which is within the cup. Second, the wine is called the covenant or testament, whereas in reality it is but the sign of the testament, or rather of the blood of Christ by which the testament was made: neither is it a vain sign, although it is not the same as the thing that it represents.(:note) cup [is] This word «the» shows the excellency of the testament, and corresponds to (Jer_31:31) where the new testament is promised. the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

geneva@Luke:22:25 @ And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called (note:)Have great titles, for so it was the custom to honour princes with some great titles.(:note) benefactors.

geneva@Luke:22:26 @ But yee shall not be so: but let the greatest among you be as the least: and the chiefest as he that serueth.

geneva@Luke:22:27 @ For who is greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that serueth? Is not he that sitteth at table? And I am among you as he that serueth.

geneva@Luke:22:29 @ Therefore I appoint vnto you a kingdome, as my Father hath appointed vnto me,

geneva@Luke:22:34 @ But he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cocke shall not crowe this day, before thou hast thrise denied that thou knewest me.

geneva@Luke:22:37 @ For I say vnto you, That yet the same which is written, must be perfourmed in me, Euen with the wicked was he nombred: for doubtlesse those things which are written of me, haue an ende.

geneva@Luke:22:39 @ And he came out, and went (as he was wont) to the mount of Oliues: and his disciples also followed him.

geneva@Luke:22:44 @ And being in an (note:)This agony shows that Christ struggled hard and was in great distress: for Christ struggled hard not only with the fears of death as other men do (for in this regard many martyrs might seem more constant then Christ), but also with the fearful judgment of his angry Father, which is the most fearful thing in the world: and this was because he took the burden of all our sins upon himself.(:note) agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great These do not only show that Christ was true man, but also other things which the godly have to consider of, in which the secret of the redemption of all mankind is contained in the Son of God when he debased himself to the state of a servant: such things as these no man can sufficiently declare. drops of blood falling down to the ground.

geneva@Luke:22:46 @ And he said vnto them, Why sleepe ye? rise and pray, least ye enter into tentation.

geneva@Luke:22:48 @ And Iesus saide vnto him, Iudas, betrayest thou the Sonne of man with a kisse?

geneva@Luke:22:53 @ When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the (note:)The power that was given to darkness to oppress the light for a time.(:note) power of darkness.

geneva@Luke:22:56 @ And a certaine mayde behelde him as hee sate by the fire, and hauing well looked on him, said, This man was also with him.

geneva@Luke:22:59 @ And about the space of an houre after, a certaine other affirmed, saying. Verely euen this man was with him: for he is also a Galilean.

geneva@Luke:22:64 @ And when they had blindfolded him, they smote him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophecie who it is that smote thee.

geneva@Luke:22:65 @ And many other thinges blasphemously spake they against him.

geneva@Luke:22:68 @ And if also I aske you, you will not answere me, nor let me goe.

geneva@Luke:23:3 @ And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered him, and sayd, Thou sayest it.

geneva@Luke:23:7 @ And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto (note:)This was Herod Antipas the Tetrarch, in the time of whose period of rule (which was almost twenty-two years long) John the Baptist preached and was put to death, and Jesus Christ also died and rose again, and the apostles began to preach, and various things were done at Jerusalem almost seven years after Christ's death. This Herod was sent into banishment to Lyons, about the second year of Gaius Caesar.(:note) Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.

geneva@Luke:23:8 @ And when Herod sawe Iesus, hee was exceedingly glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him, and trusted to haue seene some signe done by him.

geneva@Luke:23:14 @ And sayd vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerted the people: and beholde, I haue examined him before you, and haue found no fault in this man, of those things whereof ye accuse him:

geneva@Luke:23:17 @ (For of necessitie hee must haue let one loose vnto them at the feast.)

geneva@Luke:23:18 @ Then all ye multitude cried at once, saying, Away with him, and deliuer vnto vs Barabbas:

geneva@Luke:23:19 @ Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and murther, was cast in prison.

geneva@Luke:23:24 @ So Pilate gaue sentence, that it should be as they required.

geneva@Luke:23:25 @ And he let loose vnto them him that for insurrection and murther was cast into prison, whome they desired, and deliuered Iesus to doe with him what they would.

geneva@Luke:23:31 @ For if they do these things in a (note:)As if he said, «If they do this to me who is always fruitful and flourishing, and who lives forever by reason of my Godhead, what will they do to you who are unfruitful and void of all active righteousness?»(:note) green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

geneva@Luke:23:43 @ And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in (note:)God made the visible paradise in the eastern part of the world: but that which we behold with the eyes of our mind is the place of everlasting joy and salvation, through the goodness and mercy of God, a most pleasant rest for the souls of the godly, and a most quiet and joyful dwelling.(:note) paradise.

geneva@Luke:23:51 @ Hee did not consent to the counsell and deede of them, which was of Arimathea, a citie of the Iewes: who also himselfe waited for the kingdome of God.

geneva@Luke:23:52 @ He went vnto Pilate, and asked the body of Iesus,

geneva@Luke:23:53 @ And tooke it downe, & wrapped it in a linnen cloth, and laide it in a tombe hewen out of a rocke, wherein was neuer man yet laide.

geneva@Luke:23:54 @ And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath (note:)Literally, «dawning», and now beginning, for the light of the former day drew toward the going down of the sun, and that was the day of preparation for the feast, that is, the feast which was to be kept the following day.(:note) drew on.

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@Luke:24:4 @ And it came to passe, that as they were amased thereat, beholde, two men suddenly stood by them in shining vestures.

geneva@Luke:24:5 @ And as they were afraide, & bowed downe their faces to the earth, they sayd to them, Why seeke ye him that liueth, among the dead?

geneva@Luke:24:6 @ He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake vnto you, when he was yet in Galile,

geneva@Luke:24:10 @ Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Ioanna, and Mary the mother of Iames, and other women with them, which tolde these things vnto the Apostles.

geneva@Luke:24:11 @ But their wordes seemed vnto them, as a fained thing, neither beleeued they them.

geneva@Luke:24:15 @ And it came to passe, as they communed together, and reasoned, that Iesus himselfe drewe neere, and went with them.

geneva@Luke:24:17 @ And he sayd vnto them, What maner of communications are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sad?

geneva@Luke:24:18 @ And (note:)Some of the old fathers think that the other disciple was the same evangelist who wrote this book, but Epiphanius, writing against the Saturnilians, says it was Nathanael; but none of these are certainties.(:note) the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?

geneva@Luke:24:19 @ And he said vnto them, What things? And they sayd vnto him, Of Iesus of Nazareth, which was a Prophet, mightie in deede and in word before God, and all people,

geneva@Luke:24:21 @ But we trusted that it had bene he that should haue deliuered Israel, and as touching all these things, to day is ye third day, that they were done.

geneva@Luke:24:22 @ Yea, & certaine women among vs made vs astonied, which came early vnto the sepulchre.

geneva@Luke:24:23 @ And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seene a vision of Angels, which sayd, that he was aliue.

geneva@Luke:24:24 @ Therefore certaine of them which were with vs, went to the sepulchre, and found it euen so as the women had sayd, but him they saw not.

geneva@Luke:24:28 @ And they drew neere vnto ye towne, which they went to, but he made as though hee would haue gone further.

geneva@Luke:24:30 @ And it came to passe, as hee sate at table with them, he tooke the bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gaue it to them.

geneva@Luke:24:31 @ And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he (note:)Suddenly taken away, and we may not therefore imagine that he was there in an invisible body, but indeed believe that he suddenly changed the place where he was.(:note) vanished out of their sight.

geneva@Luke:24:35 @ And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he was known of them in (note:)When he broke bread, which that people used to do, and as the Jews still do today at the beginning of their meals and say a prayer.(:note) breaking of bread.

geneva@Luke:24:37 @ But they were abashed and afraide, supposing that they had seene a spirit.

geneva@Luke:24:39 @ Beholde mine handes and my feete: for it is I my selfe: handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me haue.

geneva@Luke:24:51 @ And it came to passe, that as he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp into heauen.

geneva@John:1:1 @ In (note:)The Son of God is of one and the selfsame eternity or everlastingness, and of one and the selfsame essence or nature with the Father.(:note) the From the beginning, as the evangelist says in (1Jo_1:1); it is as though he said that the Word did not begin to have his being when God began to make all that was made: for the Word was even then when all things that were made began to be made, and therefore he was before the beginning of all things. beginning Had his being. was This word «the» points out to us a peculiar and choice thing above all others, and puts a difference between this «Word», which is the Son of God, and the laws of God, which are also called the word of God. the Word, and the Word was This word «with» points out that there is a distinction of persons here. with God, and the This word «Word» is the first in order in the sentence, and is the subject of the sentence, and this word «God» is the latter in order, and is the predicate of the sentence. Word was God.

geneva@John:1:2 @ This same was in the beginning with God.

geneva@John:1:8 @ He was not (note:)That light which we spoke of, that is, Christ, who alone can enlighten our darkness.(:note) that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light.

geneva@John:1:13 @ Which were born, not of blood, nor of the (note:)Of that shameful and corrupt nature of man, which is throughout the scriptures described as an enemy of the spirit.(:note) will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

geneva@John:1:17 @ For the Lawe was giuen by Moses, but grace, and trueth came by Iesus Christ.

geneva@John:1:20 @ And he (note:)He did acknowledge him, and spoke of him plainly and openly.(:note) confessed, and This repeating of the one and the selfsame thing, though in different words, is often used by the Hebrews, and it has great force, for they used to speak one thing twice in order to set it out more certainly and plainly. denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

geneva@John:1:21 @ And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, (note:)The Jews thought that Elias would come again before the days of the Messiah, and they took as the basis of their opinion (Mal_4:5), which is to be understood as referring to John, see (Mat_11:14). And yet John denies that he is Elias, answering their question just as they meant it.(:note) I am not. Art thou They are inquiring about some great prophet, and not about Christ, for John denied before that he is Christ, for they thought that some great prophet would be sent like Moses, using to support this position (Deu_18:15), which is to be understood to refer to all the company of the prophets and ministers, which have been and shall be to the end, and especially of Christ who is the head of all prophets. that prophet? And he answered, No.

geneva@John:1:23 @ He said, I am the voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.

geneva@John:1:25 @ And they asked him, and said unto him, (note:)By this we may prove that the Jews knew there should be some change in religion under the Messiah.(:note) Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

geneva@John:1:27 @ He it is that commeth after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthie to vnloose.

geneva@John:1:30 @ This is he of whom I saide, After me commeth a man, which was before me: for he was better then I.

geneva@John:1:38 @ Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) (note:)Where is your lodging?(:note) where dwellest thou?

geneva@John:1:39 @ He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the (note:)It was getting later in the night.(:note) tenth hour.

geneva@John:1:40 @ Andrewe, Simon Peters brother, was one of the two which had heard it of Iohn, and that followed him.

geneva@John:1:41 @ He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the (note:)That is, anointed, and king after the manner of the Jewish people.(:note) Christ.

geneva@John:1:42 @ And he brought him to Iesus; Iesus behelde him, and saide, Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone.

geneva@John:1:44 @ Nowe Philip was of Bethsaida, the citie of Andrewe and Peter.

geneva@John:1:51 @ And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God (note:)These words signify the power of God which would appear in Christ's ministry by the angels serving him as the head of the Church.(:note) ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

geneva@John:2:1 @ And (note:)Christ, declaring openly in an assembly by a notable miracle that he has power over the nature of things to feed man's body, leads the minds of all men to consider his spiritual and saving strength and power.(:note) the After the talk which he had with Nathanael, or after his departure from John, or after he came into Galilee. third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

geneva@John:2:2 @ And Iesus was called also, and his disciples vnto the mariage.

geneva@John:2:6 @ And there were set there six (note:)These were vessels made for the use of water, in which they washed themselves.(:note) waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three Every firkin contained one hundred pounds, at twelve ounces a pound: By this we gather that Christ helps them with one thousand and eight hundred pounds of wine. (about 135 imperial gallons or 600 litres Ed.) firkins apiece.

geneva@John:2:8 @ Then he sayde vnto them, Draw out nowe and beare vnto the gouernour of the feast. So they bare it.

geneva@John:2:9 @ Nowe when the gouernour of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, (for he knewe not whence it was: but the seruants, which drewe the water, knewe) the gouernour of ye feast called the bridegrome,

geneva@John:2:10 @ And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have (note:)Literally, «are drunken». Now this saying, to be drunken, does not always refer to being drunk in the evil sense in the Hebrew language, but sometimes signifies an abundant and plentiful use of wine, which is nonetheless a measured amount, as in (Gen_43:34).(:note) well drunk, then that which is worse: [but] thou hast kept the good wine until now.

geneva@John:2:17 @ And his disciples remembered that it was written, The (note:)«Zeal» in this place is taken for a wrathful indignation and displeasure of the mind, brought about when someone deals wickedly and evilly towards those whom we love well.(:note) zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

geneva@John:2:20 @ Then said the Iewes, Fourtie & sixe yeeres was this Temple a building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three daies?

geneva@John:2:22 @ Assoone therefore as he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembred that hee thus sayde vnto them: and they beleeued the Scripture, and the worde which Iesus had saide.

geneva@John:2:23 @ Nowe when hee was at Hierusalem at the Passeouer in the feast, many beleeued in his Name, when they sawe his miracles which he did.

geneva@John:3:1 @ There (note:)There are none sometimes more unlearned than the learned, but the learned as well as the unlearned must desire wisdom from Christ only.(:note) was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a A man of great estimation and a ruler amongst the Jews. ruler of the Jews:

geneva@John:3:2 @ The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a (note:)We know that you are sent from God to teach us.(:note) teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, But he in whom some part of the excellency of God appears. And if Nicodemus had rightly known Christ, he would not only have said that God was with him, but in him, as Paul does in (2Co_1:19). except God be with him.

geneva@John:3:4 @ Nicodemus saith unto him, How (note:)How can I who am old be born again? For Nicodemus answers as if Christ's words were only addressed to himself.(:note) can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

geneva@John:3:6 @ That which is born of the flesh is (note:)That is, fleshly, namely, wholly unclean and under the wrath of God: and therefore this word «flesh» signifies the corrupt nature of man: contrary to which is the Spirit, that is, the man ingrafted into Christ through the grace of the Holy Spirit, whose nature is everlasting and immortal, though the strife of the flesh remains.(:note) flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

geneva@John:3:8 @ The wind bloweth where it (note:)With free and wandering blasts as it wishes.(:note) listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

geneva@John:3:11 @ Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our (note:)You handle doubtful things even though you have no solid basis for believing them, and yet men believe you: but I teach those things that are of a truth and well known, and you do not believe me.(:note) witness.

geneva@John:3:13 @ And no (note:)Only Christ can teach us heavenly things, for no man ascends, etc.(:note) man That is, has any spiritual light and understanding, or ever had any, but only the Son of God who came down to us. hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] Whereas he is said to have come down from heaven, this must be understood as referring to his Godhead, and of the manner of his conception: for Christ's birth upon the earth was heavenly and not earthly, for he was conceived by the Holy Spirit. the Son of man which That which is proper to the divinity of Christ, is here spoken of the whole Christ, to show us that he is but one person in which two natures are united. is in heaven.

geneva@John:3:14 @ And as Moses lift vp the serpent in the wildernesse, so must that Sonne of man be lift vp,

geneva@John:3:20 @ For euery man that euill doeth, hateth the light, neither commeth to light, least his deedes should be reprooued.

geneva@John:3:21 @ But he that (note:)That is, he that leads an honest life, and is void of all cunning and deceit.(:note) doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought That is, with God, God as it were going before. in God.

geneva@John:3:23 @ And Iohn also baptized in Enon besides Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

geneva@John:3:24 @ For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.

geneva@John:3:26 @ And they came vnto Iohn, and saide vnto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Iorden, to whom thou barest witnesse, behold, he baptizeth, and all men come to him.

geneva@John:3:30 @ He must increase, but I must decrease.

geneva@John:3:34 @ For hee whome God hath sent, speaketh the woordes of God: for God giueth him not the Spirit by measure.

geneva@John:3:36 @ He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not (note:)Shall not enjoy.(:note) see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

geneva@John:4:1 @ When (note:)This balance is to be kept in doing our duty, that neither by fear are we terrified from going forward, and neither by rashness procure or bring dangers upon ourselves.(:note) therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

geneva@John:4:6 @ Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat (note:)Even as he was weary, or because he was weary.(:note) thus on the well: [and] it was about the It was almost noon. sixth hour.

geneva@John:4:9 @ Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews (note:)There is no familiarity nor friendship between the Jews and the Samaritans.(:note) have no dealings with the Samaritans.

geneva@John:4:10 @ Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest (note:)By this word «the» we are shown that Christ speaks of some excellent gift, that is to say, even about himself, whom his Father offered to this woman.(:note) the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee This everlasting water, that is to say, the exceeding love of God, is called «living» or «of life», to make a difference between it and the water that should be drawn out of a well: and these metaphors are frequently used by the Jews. living water.

geneva@John:4:11 @ The woman saide vnto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of life?

geneva@John:4:14 @ But whosoeuer drinketh of the water that I shall giue him, shall neuer be more a thirst: but the water that I shall giue him, shalbe in him a well of water, springing vp into euerlasting life.

geneva@John:4:17 @ The woman answered, and saide, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband.

geneva@John:4:18 @ For thou hast had fiue husbands, and he whom thou nowe hast, is not thine husband: that saidest thou truely.

geneva@John:4:23 @ But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in (note:)This word «spirit» is to be taken here as it is set against that commandment which is called carnal in (Heb_7:16), as the commandment is considered in itself: and so he speaks of «truth» not as we set it against a lie, but as we take it in respect of the outward ceremonies of the law, which only shadowed that which Christ indeed performed.(:note) spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

geneva@John:4:25 @ The woman said vnto him, I knowe well that Messias shall come which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell vs all things.

geneva@John:4:27 @ And vpon that, came his disciples, and marueiled that he talked with a woman: yet no man said vnto him, What askest thou? or why talkest thou with her?

geneva@John:4:31 @ In the meane while, the disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eate.

geneva@John:4:45 @ Then when he was come into Galile, the Galileans receiued him, which had seene all the things that he did at Hierusalem at the feast: for they went also vnto the feast.

geneva@John:4:47 @ When he heard that Iesus was come out of Iudea into Galile, he went vnto him, and besought him that he would goe downe, and heale his sonne: for he was euen ready to die.

geneva@John:4:51 @ And as he was nowe going downe, his seruants met him, saying, Thy sonne liueth.

geneva@John:4:53 @ Then the father knew, that it was the same houre in the which Iesus had said vnto him, Thy sonne liueth; he beleeued, & all his houshold.

geneva@John:4:54 @ This second miracle did Iesus againe, after he was come out of Iudea into Galile.

geneva@John:5:1 @ After that, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

geneva@John:5:4 @ For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: whosoeuer then first, after the stirring of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he had.

geneva@John:5:5 @ And a certaine man was there, which had bene diseased eight and thirtie yeeres.

geneva@John:5:6 @ When Iesus sawe him lie, and knew that he nowe long time had bene diseased, he saide vnto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

geneva@John:5:9 @ And immediately the man was made whole, and tooke vp his bed, and walked: and the same day was the Sabbath.

geneva@John:5:12 @ Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed and walke?

geneva@John:5:13 @ And he that was healed, knewe not who it was: for Iesus had conueied himselfe away from the multitude that was in that place.

geneva@John:5:15 @ The man departed and tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus, which had made him whole.

geneva@John:5:18 @ Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was (note:)That is, his alone and no one else's, which they gather from his saying, «And I work», applying this word «work» to himself which properly belongs to God, and therefore makes himself equal to God.(:note) his Father, making himself equal with God.

geneva@John:5:22 @ For the Father (note:)This word «judgeth» is taken by the figure of speech synecdoche to represent all governing.(:note) judgeth These words are not to be taken as though they simply denied that God governed the world, but rather they deny that he governed as the Jews imagined it, who separate the Father from the Son, whereas indeed, the Father does not govern the world, but only in the person of his Son, being made manifest in the flesh: so he says below in (Joh_5:30), that he came not to do his own will: that his doctrine is not his own, that the blind man and his parents did not sin (Joh_7:16; Joh_9:3), etc. no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

geneva@John:5:23 @ Because that all men shoulde honour the Sonne, as they honour the Father: he that honoureth not the Sonne, the same honoureth not the Father, which hath sent him.

geneva@John:5:26 @ For as the Father hath life in himselfe, so likewise hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in himselfe,

geneva@John:5:27 @ And hath given him (note:)That is, high and sovereign power to rule and govern all things, in so much that he has power over life and death.(:note) authority to execute judgment also, because he is That is, he will not only judge the world as he is God, but also as he is man, he received this from his Father, to be judge of the world. the Son of man.

geneva@John:5:35 @ He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for (note:)A little while.(:note) a season to rejoice in his light.

geneva@John:6:1 @ After these things Jesus went (note:)Not that he cut across the lake of Tiberias, but by sailing across the large creeks he made his journey shorter: therefore he is said to have gone over the sea, when in reality he passed over from one side of the creek to the other.(:note) over the sea of Galilee, which is [the sea] of Tiberias.

geneva@John:6:2 @ And a great multitude followed him, because they sawe his miracles, which hee did on them that were diseased.

geneva@John:6:4 @ Now the Passeouer, a feast of the Iewes, was neere.

geneva@John:6:10 @ And Iesus saide, Make ye people sit downe. (Nowe there was much grasse in that place.) Then the men sate downe in nomber, about fiue thousande.

geneva@John:6:11 @ And Iesus tooke the bread, & gaue thanks, & gaue to the disciples, and the disciples, to them that were set downe: and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

geneva@John:6:13 @ Then they gathered it together, and filled twelue baskets with the broken meat of the fiue barly loaues, which remained vnto them that had eaten.

geneva@John:6:17 @ And entered into a ship, and went over the sea (note:)In (Mar_6:45) they are told to go ahead to Bethsaida, for Bethsaida was along the way to Capernaum.(:note) toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.

geneva@John:6:21 @ Then they (note:)They were afraid at first, but when they recognized his voice they became new men and took him willingly into the ship, the very one whom they had shunned and fled from before.(:note) willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

geneva@John:6:22 @ The day following, the people which stoode on the other side of the sea, saw that there was none other ship there, saue that one, whereinto his disciples were entred, and that Iesus went not with his disciples in the ship, but that his disciples were gone alone,

geneva@John:6:23 @ And that there came other ships from Tiberias neere vnto the place where they ate the bread, after the Lord had giuen thankes.

geneva@John:6:24 @ Nowe when the people sawe that Iesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also tooke shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Iesus.

geneva@John:6:28 @ Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the (note:)Which please God: for they think that everlasting life depends upon the condition of fulfilling the law: therefore Christ calls them back to faith.(:note) works of God?

geneva@John:6:31 @ Our fathers did eate Manna in the desart, as it is written, Hee gaue them bread from heauen to eate.

geneva@John:6:35 @ And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread (note:)Which has life and gives life.(:note) of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

geneva@John:6:39 @ And this is the Fathers will which hath sent mee, that of all which hee hath giuen mee, I should lose nothing, but shoulde raise it vp againe at the last day.

geneva@John:6:40 @ And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which (note:)Seeing and believing are joined together: for there is another type of seeing which is general, which the demons have, for they see: but here he speaks about that type of seeing which properly belongs to the elect.(:note) seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

geneva@John:6:44 @ No man can come to mee, except the Father, which hath sent mee, drawe him: and I will raise him vp at the last day.

geneva@John:6:45 @ It is written in the (note:)In the book of the prophets, for the Old Testament was divided by them into three general parts: into the law, the prophets, and the holy writings.(:note) prophets, And they shall be all That is, they will be children of the Church, for so the prophet Isaiah expounds it in (Isa_54:13); that is to say, ordained to life, {{See Act_13:48}}, and therefore the knowledge of the heavenly truth is the gift and work of God, and does not rest in any power of man. taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

geneva@John:6:46 @ Not that any man hath seen the Father, (note:)If only the Son has seen the Father, then it is only he that can truly teach us and instruct us.(:note) save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

geneva@John:6:47 @ Verely, verely I say vnto you, hee that beleeueth in me, hath euerlasting life.

geneva@John:6:54 @ Whosoeuer eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternall life, and I will raise him vp at the last day.

geneva@John:6:57 @ As (note:)In that Christ is man, he receives that power which quickens and gives life to those that are his, from his Father: and he adds this word «the» to make a distinction between his Father and all other fathers.(:note) the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Christ means that although he is man, yet his flesh can give life, not by its own nature, but because his flesh lives by the Father, that is to say, sucks and draws out of the Father that power which it has to give life. Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

geneva@John:6:58 @ This is that bread which came downe from heauen: not as your fathers haue eaten Manna, and are deade. Hee that eateth of this bread, shall liue for euer.

geneva@John:6:59 @ These things spake he in the Synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

geneva@John:6:62 @ What then if yee should see that Sonne of man ascend vp where he was before?

geneva@John:6:68 @ Then Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whome shall we goe? thou hast the wordes of eternall life:

geneva@John:6:71 @ Now he spake it of Iudas Iscariot the sonne of Simon: for hee it was that shoulde betraie him, though he was one of the twelue.

geneva@John:7:2 @ Now the Jews' (note:)This feast was so called because of the booths and tents which they made out of different types of boughs, and sat under them seven days altogether; and during this entire time the feast went on.(:note) feast of tabernacles was at hand.

geneva@John:7:8 @ Go ye vp vnto this feast: I wil not go vp yet vnto this feast: for my time is not yet fulfilled.

geneva@John:7:11 @ Then the Iewes sought him at the feast, and saide, Where is hee?

geneva@John:7:12 @ And much murmuring was there of him among the people. Some said, He is a good man: other sayd, Nay: but he deceiueth the people.

geneva@John:7:20 @ The people answered, and said, Thou hast a deuil: who goeth about to kill thee?

geneva@John:7:38 @ He that believeth on me, as the (note:)The scripture being referred to is not found anywhere word for word, but rather Christ seems to be referring to many different places where mention is made of the gifts of the Holy Spirit; see (Joe_2:28-29; Isa_44:3) and especially (Isa_55:1-13).(:note) scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

geneva@John:7:39 @ (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the (note:)What is meant by the Holy Spirit he expressed a little before, speaking of the Spirit which they that believed in him should receive. So that by the name of Holy Spirit are meant the powers and mighty workings of the Holy Spirit.(:note) Holy Ghost was not yet [given]; because that Jesus was not yet That is, those things were not yet seen and perceived which were to show and set forth the glory of the only begotten. glorified.)

geneva@John:7:42 @ Saith not the Scripture that that Christ shall come of the seede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Beth-leem, where Dauid was?

geneva@John:7:43 @ So was there dissension among the people for him.

geneva@John:7:50 @ Nicodemus said vnto them, ( he that came to Iesus by night, and was one of them.)

geneva@John:7:51 @ Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know (note:)What the one who is accused has committed.(:note) what he doeth?

geneva@John:8:4 @ And said vnto him, Master, we foud this woman committing adulterie, euen in the very acte.

geneva@John:8:9 @ And when they heard it, being accused by their owne conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at ye eldest euen to the last: so Iesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the mids.

geneva@John:8:14 @ Jesus answered and said unto them, (note:)That which he denied before in (Joh_5:31) must be understood as Christ granting their position in a way, for in that place he talked of himself somewhat in line with the opinions of his hearers, who acknowledged nothing in Christ but his humanity, and therefore he was content they should not regard his own witness, unless it were otherwise confirmed. But in this place he stands and affirms Godhead, and praises his Father, who is his witness, and agrees with him.(:note) Though I bear record of myself, [yet] my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

geneva@John:8:20 @ These words spake Jesus in the (note:)This was a certain place appointed for the gathering of the offerings.(:note) treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; We live and die according to the pleasure of God, and not of men: therefore it behooves us that we constantly go forward in our calling. for his hour was not yet come.

geneva@John:8:28 @ Then said Iesus vnto them, When ye haue lift vp the Sonne of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I doe nothing of my selfe, but as my Father hath taught me, so I speake these things.

geneva@John:8:29 @ For he that sent me, is with me: the Father hath not left me alone, because I do alwayes those things that please him.

geneva@John:8:30 @ As hee spake these thinges, many beleeued in him.

geneva@John:8:43 @ Why do ye not understand my (note:)Or, language: as though he said, «You do not understand what I say any more than if I spoke in a strange and unknown language to you.»(:note) speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.

geneva@John:8:44 @ Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the (note:)From the beginning of the world: for as soon as man was made, the devil cast him headlong into death.(:note) beginning, and That is, did not continue constantly, or did not remain. abode not in the That is, in faithfulness and uprightness, that is, he did not remain in the manner in which he was created. truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his Even from his own head, and from his own mind or disposition. own: for he is a liar, and the The author of it. father of it.

geneva@John:8:57 @ Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, & hast thou seene Abraham?

geneva@John:8:58 @ Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I (note:)Christ, as he was God, was before Abraham: and he was the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world.(:note) am.

geneva@John:9:1 @ And (note:)Sin is even the beginning of all bodily diseases, and yet it does not follow that in punishing, even very severely, that God is punishing because of sin.(:note) as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth.

geneva@John:9:2 @ And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sinne, this man, or his parents, that he was borne blinde?

geneva@John:9:3 @ Jesus answered, (note:)Christ reasons here as his disciples thought, who presupposed that no diseases came except for the reason of sins: as a result of this he answers that there was another cause of this man's blindness, and that was in order that God's work might be seen.(:note) Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

geneva@John:9:5 @ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

geneva@John:9:7 @ And sayd vnto him, Go wash in the poole of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came againe seeing.

geneva@John:9:11 @ He answered, and sayd, The man that is called Iesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and sayde vnto me, Goe to the poole of Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and receiued sight.

geneva@John:9:13 @ They brought to the Pharises him that was once blinde.

geneva@John:9:14 @ And it was the Sabbath day, when Iesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

geneva@John:9:15 @ Then againe the Pharises also asked him, how he had receiued sight; hee sayd vnto them, He layd clay vpon mine eyes, & I washed, and doe see.

geneva@John:9:19 @ And they asked them, saying, Is this your sonne, whom ye say was borne blinde? How doeth he nowe see then?

geneva@John:9:20 @ His parents answered them, and sayd, We know that this is our sonne, & that he was borne blinde:

geneva@John:9:21 @ But by what meanes hee nowe seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, can we not tell: he is olde ynough: aske him: hee shall answere for himselfe.

geneva@John:9:22 @ These wordes spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had ordeined already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be excommunicate out of the Synagogue.

geneva@John:9:23 @ Therefore sayde his parents, Hee is olde ynough: aske him.

geneva@John:9:24 @ Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, (note:)A solemn order, by which men were put under oath in ancient time to acknowledge their fault before God, as if it was said to them, «Consider that you are before God, who knows the entire matter, and therefore be sure that you revere his majesty, and do him this honour and confess the whole matter openly rather than to lie before him»; (Jos_7:19; 1Sa_6:5).(:note) Give God the praise: we know that this man is a He is called a sinner in the Hebrew language, who is a wicked man, and someone who makes an art of sinning. sinner.

geneva@John:9:25 @ Then he answered, and sayd, Whether hee be a sinner or no, I can not tell: one thing I know, that I was blinde, and nowe I see.

geneva@John:9:32 @ Since the world began, was it not heard, that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blinde.

geneva@John:9:34 @ They answered and said unto him, (note:)You are wicked even from your cradle, and as we used to say, there is nothing in you but sin.(:note) Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

geneva@John:9:37 @ And Iesus sayd vnto him, Both thou hast seene him, and he it is that talketh with thee.

geneva@John:10:15 @ As the Father (note:)Loves me, allows me.(:note) knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

geneva@John:10:22 @ And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the (note:)The feast of the dedication was instituted by Judas Maccabeus and his brethren after the restoring of God's true religion, by the casting out of Antiochus' garrison.(:note) dedication, and it was winter.

geneva@John:10:33 @ The Iewes answered him, saying, For the good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemie, and that thou being a man, makest thy selfe God.

geneva@John:10:36 @ Say ye of him, whome the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the worlde, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Sonne of God?

geneva@John:11:1 @ Now (note:)Christ, in restoring the rotting body of his friend to life, shows an example both of his mighty power, and also of his singular good will toward men: and this is also an image of the resurrection to come.(:note) a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany, the Where his sisters dwelt. town of Mary and her sister Martha.

geneva@John:11:2 @ (And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her heare, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)

geneva@John:11:9 @ Jesus answered, Are there not (note:)All things happen in a proper way and are brought to pass in their due time.(:note) twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

geneva@John:11:15 @ And I am glad for your sakes, that I was not there, that ye may beleeue: but let vs go vnto him.

geneva@John:11:16 @ Then saide Thomas (which is called Didymus) vnto his felow disciples, Let vs also goe, that we may die with him.

geneva@John:11:18 @ (Nowe Bethania was neere vnto Hierusalem, about fifteene furlongs off.)

geneva@John:11:20 @ Then Martha, when shee heard that Iesus was comming, went to meete him: but Mary sate still in the house.

geneva@John:11:22 @ But now I know also, that whatsoeuer thou askest of God, God will giue it thee.

geneva@John:11:24 @ Martha said vnto him, I know that he shall rise againe in the resurrection at the last day.

geneva@John:11:28 @ And when she had so saide, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

geneva@John:11:30 @ For Iesus was not yet come into the towne, but was in the place where Martha met him.

geneva@John:11:31 @ The Iewes then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they sawe Marie, that she rose vp hastily, & went out, folowed her, saying, She goeth vnto the graue, to weepe there.

geneva@John:11:32 @ Then when Mary was come where Iesus was, and sawe him, she fell downe at his feete, saying vnto him, Lord, if thou haddest bene here, my brother had not bene dead.

geneva@John:11:38 @ Iesus therefore againe groned in himselfe, and came to the graue; it was a caue, and a stone was layde vpon it.

geneva@John:11:39 @ Iesus saide, Take ye away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead, said vnto him, Lorde, he stinketh alreadie: for he hath bene dead foure dayes.

geneva@John:11:41 @ Then they tooke away the stone from the place where the dead was layde; Iesus lift vp his eyes, and saide, Father, I thanke thee, because thou hast heard me.

geneva@John:11:42 @ I knowe that thou hearest me alwayes, but because of the people that stand by, I said it, that they may beleeue, that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:11:43 @ As hee had spoken these things, hee cried with a loude voyce, Lazarus, come foorth.

geneva@John:11:44 @ Then he that was dead, came forth, bound hande and foote with bandes, and his face was bound with a napkin. Iesus said vnto them, Loose him, and let him goe.

geneva@John:11:48 @ If we let him thus alone, all [men] will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and (note:)That is, take away from us by force: for at that time, though the high priest's authority was greatly lessened and weakened, yet there was some type of government left among the Jews.(:note) take away both our place and nation.

geneva@John:11:52 @ And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that (note:)For they were not gathered together in one country, as the Jews were, but were to be gathered from all quarters, from the east to the west.(:note) were scattered abroad.

geneva@John:11:55 @ And the Iewes Passeouer was at hande, and many went out of the countrey vp to Hierusalem before the Passeouer, to purifie themselues.

geneva@John:11:56 @ Then sought they for Iesus, and spake among themselues, as they stoode in the Temple, What thinke ye, that he cometh not to the feast?

geneva@John:12:1 @ Then Iesus, sixe dayes before the Passeouer, came to Bethania, where Lazarus was, who died, whom he had raised from the dead.

geneva@John:12:2 @ There they made him a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him.

geneva@John:12:3 @ Then tooke Mary a pound of oyntment of Spikenarde very costly, and anoynted Iesus feete, and wiped his feete with her heare, and the house was filled with the sauour of the oyntment.

geneva@John:12:4 @ Then said one of his disciples, euen Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, which should betray him:

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:12:12 @ On the morowe a great multitude that were come to the feast, when they heard that Iesus should come to Hierusalem,

geneva@John:12:14 @ And Iesus found a yong asse, and sate thereon, as it is written,

geneva@John:12:15 @ Feare not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King commeth sitting on an asses colte.

geneva@John:12:16 @ But his disciples vnderstoode not these thinges at the first: but when Iesus was glorified, then remembred they, that these thinges were written of him, and that they had done these things vnto him.

geneva@John:12:17 @ The people therefore that was with him, bare witnesse that hee called Lazarus out of the graue, and raised him from the dead.

geneva@John:12:20 @ And there were certain Greeks among them that (note:)After the solemn custom: the Greeks were first so called by the name of the country of Greece, where they lived: but afterward, all that were not of the Jew's religion, but worshipped false gods and were also called heathens, were called by the name Greeks.(:note) came up to worship at the feast:

geneva@John:12:21 @ And they came to Philippe, which was of Bethsaida in Galile, and desired him, saying, Syr, we would see that Iesus.

geneva@John:12:29 @ Then saide the people that stoode by, and heard, that it was a thunder: other said, An Angel spake to him.

geneva@John:12:31 @ Now is the iudgement of this world: nowe shall the prince of this world be cast out.

geneva@John:12:32 @ And I, if I be (note:)Christ used a word which has a double meaning, for it signifies either to lift up or to get out of the way: for he intended them to think of his death, but the Jews seemed to take it another way.(:note) lifted up from the earth, will draw Chrysostom and Theophylact say that this word «all» refers to all nations: that is, not only to the Jews. all [men] unto me.

geneva@John:12:38 @ That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the (note:)The arm of the Lord is the gospel, which is the power of God to salvation to all that believe, and therefore the arm of the Lord is not revealed to those whose hearts the Lord has not opened.(:note) arm of the Lord been revealed?

geneva@John:12:39 @ Therefore could they not beleeue, because that Esaias saith againe,

geneva@John:12:41 @ These things sayd Esaias when he sawe his glory, and spake of him.

geneva@John:12:48 @ He that refuseth me, and receiueth not my wordes, hath one that iudgeth him: the worde that I haue spoken, it shall iudge him in the last day.

geneva@John:12:50 @ And I knowe that his commaundement is life euerlasting: the thinges therefore that I speake, I speake them so as the Father sayde vnto me.

geneva@John:13:1 @ Now (note:)Christ is as sure of the victory as he is of the combat which was at hand, and by using the sign of washing the feet, gives by this an example in part of singular modesty, and his great love toward his apostles in this notable act, being likely to depart very shortly from them: and he partly witnesses unto them that it is he alone who washes away the filth of his people, and sanctifies them little by little in their time and season.(:note) before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his Those of his household, that is, his saints. own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

geneva@John:13:2 @ And when supper was done (and that the deuill had now put in the heart of Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne, to betray him)

geneva@John:13:3 @ Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his (note:)Into his power.(:note) hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

geneva@John:13:4 @ He (note:)In that he is said to rise, it argues that there was a space of time between the ceremony of the passover and this washing of feet, at which time it seems that the Lord's supper was instituted.(:note) riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

geneva@John:13:5 @ After that, hee powred water into a basen, and began to wash the disciples feete, and to wipe them with the towell, wherewith he was girded.

geneva@John:13:6 @ Then came he to Simon Peter, who sayd to him, Lord, doest thou wash my feete?

geneva@John:13:8 @ Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast (note:)Unless you allow me to wash you, you will have no part in the kingdom of heaven.(:note) no part with me.

geneva@John:13:10 @ Iesus sayd to him, He that is washed, needeth not, saue to wash his feete, but is cleane euery whit: and ye are cleane, but not all.

geneva@John:13:12 @ So after he had washed their feete, and had taken his garments, and was set downe againe, he sayd vnto them, Knowe ye what I haue done to you?

geneva@John:13:13 @ Ye call me Master, and Lorde, and ye say well: for so am I.

geneva@John:13:14 @ If I then your Lorde, and Master, haue washed your feete, ye also ought to wash one an others feete.

geneva@John:13:15 @ For I haue giuen you an example, that ye should doe, euen as I haue done to you.

geneva@John:13:16 @ Verely, verely I say vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master, neither the ambassadour greater then he that sent him.

geneva@John:13:19 @ From henceforth tell I you before it come, that when it is come to passe, ye might beleeue that I am he.

geneva@John:13:21 @ When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and (note:)He affirmed it openly and sealed it.(:note) testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

geneva@John:13:23 @ Now there was (note:)John's leaning was such that sitting down on his mat his head was toward the head of Jesus: for it is certain that in ancient times men used to not sit at the table, but to lie down on one of their sides.(:note) leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

geneva@John:13:24 @ To him beckened therefore Simon Peter, that he should aske who it was of whom he spake.

geneva@John:13:25 @ He then, as he leaned on Iesus breast, saide vnto him, Lord, who is it?

geneva@John:13:26 @ Iesus answered, He it is, to whome I shall giue a soppe, when I haue dipt it: and hee wet a soppe, and gaue it to Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne.

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:13:30 @ Assoone then as he had receiued the soppe, he went immediately out, and it was night.

geneva@John:13:34 @ A newe commaundement giue I vnto you, that ye loue one another: as I haue loued you, that ye also loue one another.

geneva@John:14:2 @ In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], (note:)That is, if it were not as I am telling you, that is, unless there was room enough not only for me, but also for you in my Father's house, I would not deceive you in this way with a vain hope, but I would have plainly told you so.(:note) I would have told you. I go to This whole speech is an allegory, by which the Lord comforts his own, declaring to them his departure into heaven; and he departs not to reign there alone, but to go before and prepare a place for them. prepare a place for you.

geneva@John:14:5 @ Thomas sayd vnto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest: how ca we then know ye way?

geneva@John:14:9 @ Iesus sayd vnto him, I haue bene so long time with you, and hast thou not knowen mee, Philippe? he that hath seene me, hath seene my Father: how then sayest thou, Shewe vs thy Father?

geneva@John:14:11 @ Beleeue me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: at the least, beleeue me for the very workes sake.

geneva@John:14:13 @ And whatsoeuer ye aske in my Name, that will I doe, that the Father may be glorified in the Sonne.

geneva@John:14:14 @ If ye shall aske any thing in my Name, I will doe it.

geneva@John:14:17 @ [Even] the (note:)The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of truth by reason of that which he does, because he inspires the truth into us, because he has the truth in himself.(:note) Spirit of truth; whom the Worldly men. world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

geneva@John:14:20 @ At that day ye shall know that I [am] (note:)The Son is in the Father in such a way that he is of one selfsame substance with the Father, but he is in his disciples in a different way, as an aider and helper of them.(:note) in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

geneva@John:14:21 @ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will (note:)I will show myself to him, and be known by him, as if he saw me with his eyes: but this showing of himself is not bodily, but spiritual, yet so plain that no other showing could be more evident.(:note) manifest myself to him.

geneva@John:14:29 @ And nowe haue I spoken vnto you, before it come, that when it is come to passe, ye might beleeue.

geneva@John:14:31 @ But it is that the world may knowe that I loue my Father: and as the Father hath commanded me, so I doe. Arise, let vs goe hence.

geneva@John:15:1 @ I (note:)We are by nature dry and fit for nothing but the fire. Therefore, in order that we may live and be fruitful, we must first be grafted into Christ, as it were into a vine, by the Father's hand: and then be daily moulded with a continual meditation of the word, and the cross: otherwise it will not avail any man at all to have been grafted unless he cleaves fast to the vine, and so draws juice out of it.(:note) am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

geneva@John:15:4 @ Abide in me, and I in you: as the branche cannot beare fruite of it selfe, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

geneva@John:15:6 @ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branche, and withereth: and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they burne.

geneva@John:15:10 @ If ye shall keepe my commandements, ye shall abide in my loue, as I haue kept my Fathers commandements, and abide in his loue.

geneva@John:15:12 @ This is my commandement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.

geneva@John:15:20 @ Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe yours.

geneva@John:15:25 @ But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their (note:)Sometimes this word «law» refers to the five books of Moses, but in this place it refers to the whole scripture: for the place that he refers to is found in the Psalms.(:note) law, They hated me without a cause.

geneva@John:16:4 @ But these things haue I tolde you, that when the houre shall come, ye might remember, that I tolde you them; these things said I not vnto you from ye beginning, because I was with you.

geneva@John:16:5 @ But now I go my way to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

geneva@John:16:10 @ Of (note:)Of Christ himself: for when the world will see that I have poured out the Holy Spirit they will be forced to confess that I was just, and was not condemned by my Father when I went out of this world.(:note) righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

geneva@John:16:19 @ Now Iesus knew that they would aske him, and said vnto them, Doe ye enquire among your selues, of that I said, A litle while, & ye shal not see me: and againe, a litle while, and yee shall see me?

geneva@John:16:21 @ A woman when she traueileth, hath sorowe, because her houre is come: but assoone as she is deliuered of the childe, she remembreth no more the anguish, for ioy that a man is borne into the world.

geneva@John:16:23 @ And in that day shall ye aske me nothing. Verely, verely I say vnto you, whatsoeuer ye shall aske the Father in my Name, he will giue it you.

geneva@John:16:24 @ Hitherto haue ye asked nothing in my Name: aske, and ye shall receiue, that your ioye may be full.

geneva@John:16:30 @ Nowe knowe wee that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should aske thee. By this we beleeue, that thou art come out from God.

geneva@John:17:1 @ These (note:)Jesus Christ, the everlasting high Priest, being ready to immediately offer himself up, by solemn prayers consecrates himself to God the Father as a sacrifice, and us together with himself. Therefore this prayer was from the beginning, is, and will be to the end of the world, the foundation and ground of the Church of God.(:note) words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, He first declares that as he came into the world so that the Father might show in him (being apprehended by faith) his glory in saving his elect, so he applied himself to that only: and therefore he desires from the Father that he would bless the work which he had finished. Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

geneva@John:17:2 @ As thou hast given him power over (note:)Over all men.(:note) all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

geneva@John:17:3 @ And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the (note:)He calls the Father the only true God in order to set him against all false gods, and to include himself and the Holy Spirit, for he immediately joins the knowledge of the Father and the knowledge of himself together, and according to his accustomed manner sets forth the whole Godhead in the person of the Father. So is the Father alone said to be King, immortal, wise, dwelling in light which no man can attain unto, and invisible; (Rom_16:27; 1Ti_1:17).(:note) only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

geneva@John:17:5 @ And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.

geneva@John:17:7 @ Nowe they knowe that all things whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me, are of thee.

geneva@John:17:8 @ For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, & haue beleeued that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:17:9 @ I pray for them: I pray not for the worlde, but for them which thou hast giuen me: for they are thine.

geneva@John:17:11 @ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be (note:)He prays that his people may peaceably agree and be joined together in one, that as the Godhead is one, so they may be of one mind and one consent together.(:note) one, as we [are].

geneva@John:17:12 @ While I was with them in the worlde, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gauest me, haue I kept, and none of them is lost, but the childe of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

geneva@John:17:14 @ I haue giuen them thy word, & the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

geneva@John:17:16 @ They are not of the worlde, as I am not of the world.

geneva@John:17:19 @ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the (note:)The true and substantial sanctification of Christ is contrasted with the outward purifyings of the law.(:note) truth.

geneva@John:17:21 @ That they all may bee one, as thou, O Father, art in me, and I in thee: euen that they may be also one in vs, that the worlde may beleeue that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:17:22 @ And the glory that thou gauest me, I haue giuen them, that they may be one, as we are one,

geneva@John:17:23 @ I in them, and thou in mee, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.

geneva@John:17:24 @ Father, I will that they which thou hast giuen me, be with me euen where I am, that they may beholde that my glorie, which thou hast giuen mee: for thou louedst me before the foundation of the world.

geneva@John:17:25 @ O righteous Father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen, that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:18:1 @ When (note:)Christ goes of his own accord into a garden, which his betrayer knew, to be taken, so that by his obedience he might take away the sin that entered into the world by one man's rebellion, and that in a garden.(:note) Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.

geneva@John:18:2 @ And Iudas which betraied him, knewe also the place: for Iesus oft times resorted thither with his disciples.

geneva@John:18:5 @ They answered him, Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus sayde vnto them, I am hee. Nowe Iudas also which betraied him, stoode with them.

geneva@John:18:6 @ Assoone then as hee had saide vnto them, I am hee, they went away backewardes, and fell to the grounde.

geneva@John:18:7 @ Then he asked them againe, Whome seeke yee? And they sayd, Iesus of Nazareth.

geneva@John:18:9 @ This was that the worde might be fulfilled which hee spake, Of them which thou gauest me, haue I lost none.

geneva@John:18:14 @ And Caiaphas was he, that gaue counsel to the Iewes, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

geneva@John:18:16 @ But Peter stood at the doore without. Then went out the other disciple which was knowen vnto the hie Priest, and spake to her that kept the doore, and brought in Peter.

geneva@John:18:18 @ And the seruants and officers stoode there, which had made a fire of coles: for it was colde, & they warmed themselues; Peter also stood among them, and warmed himselfe.

geneva@John:18:21 @ Why askest thou mee? aske them which heard mee what I sayde vnto them: beholde, they knowe what I sayd.

geneva@John:18:24 @ Nowe Annas had sent him bound vnto Caiaphas the hie Priest)

geneva@John:18:35 @ Pilate answered, Am I a Iewe? Thine owne nation, and the hie Priestes haue deliuered thee vnto me. What hast thou done?

geneva@John:18:39 @ But you haue a custome, that I shoulde deliuer you one loose at the Passeouer: will yee then that I loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes?

geneva@John:18:40 @ Then (note:)Literally, «made a great and foul voice».(:note) cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

geneva@John:19:1 @ Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and (note:)The wisdom of the flesh chooses the least of two evils, but God curses that very wisdom.(:note) scourged [him].

geneva@John:19:6 @ When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, (note:)They will have him crucified whom, by an old custom of theirs, they should have stoned and hanged up as convicted of blasphemy: but they desire to have him crucified after the manner of the Romans.(:note) Crucify [him], crucify [him]. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him]: for I find no fault in him.

geneva@John:19:14 @ And it was the Preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and hee sayde vnto the Iewes, Beholde your King.

geneva@John:19:20 @ This title then read many of the Iewes: for the place where Iesus was crucified, was neere to the citie: and it was written in Hebrewe, Greeke and Latine.

geneva@John:19:24 @ Therefore they sayde one to another, Let vs not deuide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. This was that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which sayth, They parted my garments among them, and on my coate did cast lots. So the souldiers did these things in deede.

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@John:19:32 @ Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the first, and of the other, which was crucified with Iesus.

geneva@John:19:33 @ But when they came to Iesus, and saw that he was dead alreadie, they brake not his legges.

geneva@John:19:40 @ Then tooke they the body of Iesus, and wrapped it in linnen clothes with the odours, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie.

geneva@John:19:41 @ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was (note:)That no man might frivolously object to his resurrection, as though someone else that had been buried there had risen; Theophylact.(:note) never man yet laid.

geneva@John:19:42 @ There then laide they Iesus, because of the Iewes Preparation day, for the sepulchre was neere.

geneva@John:20:1 @ The (note:)Mary Magdalene, Peter, and John, are the first witnesses of the resurrection, and these cannot justly be suspected, for they themselves could hardly be persuaded of it; therefore, they would obviously not invent such a story on purpose.(:note) first [day] of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

geneva@John:20:7 @ And the kerchiefe that was vpon his head, not lying with the linnen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by it selfe.

geneva@John:20:9 @ For as yet they knewe not the Scripture, That he must rise againe from the dead.

geneva@John:20:11 @ But Mary stood (note:)That is, outside of the cave which the sepulchre was cut out of.(:note) without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [and looked] into the sepulchre,

geneva@John:20:13 @ And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away (note:)Mary spoke as the common people used to speak: for they spoke of a dead carcass as they did of a living man.(:note) my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

geneva@John:20:15 @ Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She supposing that he had bene the gardener, said vnto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

geneva@John:20:16 @ Iesus saith vnto her, Marie. She turned her selfe, and said vnto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.

geneva@John:20:21 @ Then saide Iesus to them againe, Peace be vnto you: as my Father sent me, so sende I you.

geneva@John:20:26 @ And eight dayes after, againe his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Iesus, when the doores were shut, and stood in the middes, and said, Peace be vnto you.

geneva@John:20:27 @ After saide he to Thomas, Put thy finger here, and see mine hands, & put forth thine hand, and put it into my side, and be not faithlesse, but faithfull.

geneva@John:20:28 @ Then Thomas answered, & said vnto him, Thou art my Lord, and my God.

geneva@John:21:1 @ After these things (note:)In that Christ is not only present here but also eats with his disciples, he gives a most full assurance of his resurrection.(:note) Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he [himself].

geneva@John:21:2 @ There were together Simon Peter, & Thomas, which is called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galile, and the sonnes of Zebedeus, and two other of his disciples.

geneva@John:21:4 @ But when the morning was nowe come, Iesus stoode on the shore: neuerthelesse the disciples knewe not that it was Iesus.

geneva@John:21:6 @ Then he said vnto them, Cast out the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall finde. So they cast out, & they were not able at all to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.

geneva@John:21:7 @ Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt [his] fisher's (note:)It was a linen garment which prevented him from swimming freely.(:note) coat [unto him], (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.

geneva@John:21:9 @ Assoone then as they were come to land, they sawe hoate coales, and fish laide thereon, and bread.

geneva@John:21:11 @ Simon Peter stepped foorth and drewe the net to land, full of great fishes, an hundreth, fiftie and three: and albeit there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

geneva@John:21:12 @ Iesus saide vnto them, Come, and dine; none of the disciples durst aske him, Who art thou? seeing they knewe that he was the Lord.

geneva@John:21:14 @ This is now the third time that Iesus shewed himselfe to his disciples, after that he was risen againe from the dead.

geneva@John:21:17 @ He saith unto him the (note:)It was appropriate that he that had denied him three times should confess him three times, so that Peter might neither doubt the forgiveness of his grievous sin, nor his being restored to the office of the apostleship.(:note) third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

geneva@Acts:1:2 @ Vntill the day that hee was taken vp, after that hee through the holy Ghost, had giuen commaundements vnto the Apostles, whome hee had chosen:

geneva@Acts:1:4 @ And, being (note:)They were dispersed here and there, but he gathers them together so that all of them might together be witnesses of his resurrection.(:note) assembled together with [them], commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith he], ye have heard of me.

geneva@Acts:1:5 @ For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized (note:)Either by the Father, or by me: so that either the Father or Christ is set here contrasted with John, as the Holy Spirit is contrasted with water, as things that are comparable to one another.(:note) with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

geneva@Acts:1:7 @ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the (note:)That is, the proper occasions that provide opportunities for doing matters, which occasions the Lord has appointed to bring things to pass in.(:note) seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

geneva@Acts:1:10 @ And while they looked stedfastly towarde heauen, as hee went, beholde, two men stoode by them in white apparell,

geneva@Acts:1:11 @ Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up (note:)That is, out of your sight.(:note) from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

geneva@Acts:1:14 @ These all (note:)The Greek word signifies an invincible constancy and steadfastness.(:note) continued with It is to good purpose that this agreement is mentioned: for those prayers are most acceptable to God which are made with agreeing minds and wills. one accord in The disciples prayed for the sending of the Holy Spirit, and also to be delivered from present dangers, of which there were many that they were experiencing. prayer and supplication, with the For it was appropriate to have the wives strengthened and encouraged who would afterwards be partakers of the dangers with their husbands. women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his With his relatives. brethren.

geneva@Acts:1:17 @ For hee was nombred with vs, and had obteined felowship in this ministration.

geneva@Acts:1:18 @ Now this man (note:)Luke did not consider Judas' purpose, but that which followed it, and so we used to say that a man has done himself harm, not that he wanted and intended to, but in respect of that which followed.(:note) purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and The Greek words signify this much, that Judas fell down flat and was torn apart in the middle, with a tremendously great noise. falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

geneva@Acts:1:22 @ Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up (note:)From our company.(:note) from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

geneva@Acts:1:24 @ And they praied, saying, Thou Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen,

geneva@Acts:1:25 @ That he may take (note:)That he may be a member and partaker of this ministry.(:note) part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression Departed from, or fallen from: and it is a metaphor taken from the word «way»: for callings are signified by the name of «ways» with the Hebrews. fell, that he might go to his own place.

geneva@Acts:1:26 @ Then they gaue foorth their lottes: and the lotte fell on Matthias, and hee was by a common consent counted with the eleuen Apostles.

geneva@Acts:2:1 @ And (note:)The Apostles being gathered together on a most solemn feast day in one place, that it might evidently appear to all the world that they all had one office, one Spirit, and one faith, are by a double sign from heaven authorised, and anointed with all the most excellent gifts of the Holy Spirit, and especially with an extraordinary and necessary gift of tongues.(:note) when the day of Pentecost was Literally, «was fulfilled»: that is, was begun, as in (Luk_2:21). For the Hebrews say that a day or a year is fulfilled or ended when the former days or years are ended, and the other has begun; (Jer_25:12): «And it will come to pass that when seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit, etc.» For the Lord did not bring his people home after the seventieth year was ended, but in the seventieth year: Now the day of Pentecost was the fiftieth day after the feast of the Passover. fully come, they were The twelve apostles, who were to be the patriarchs as it were of the Church. all with one accord in one place.

geneva@Acts:2:2 @ And suddenly there came a sounde from heauen, as of a russhing and mightie winde, and it filled all the house where they sate.

geneva@Acts:2:4 @ And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with (note:)He calls them «other tongues» which were not the same as the apostles commonly used, and Mark calls them «new tongues».(:note) other tongues, as the By this we understand that the apostles were not speaking one language and then another by chance at random, or as eccentric men used to do, but that they kept in mind the languages of their hearers: and to be short, that they only spoke as the Holy Spirit directed them to speak. Spirit gave them utterance.

geneva@Acts:2:6 @ Nowe when this was noised, the multitude came together and were astonied, because that euery man heard them speake his owne language.

geneva@Acts:2:9 @ Parthians, and Medes, & Elamites, and the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, and of Iudea, and of Cappadocia, of Pontus, and Asia,

geneva@Acts:2:15 @ For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is [but] the (note:)After the sunrise, which may be about seven or eight o'clock to us.(:note) third hour of the day.

geneva@Acts:2:16 @ But this is that which was spoken by the (note:)There is nothing that can dissolve questions and doubt except testimony taken out of the Prophets: for men's reasonings may be overturned, but God's voice cannot be overturned.(:note) prophet Joel;

geneva@Acts:2:23 @ Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and (note:)God's everlasting foreknowledge, which can neither be separated from his determinate counsel, as the Epicureans say, neither yet be the cause of evil: for God in his everlasting and unchangeable counsel appointed the wicked act of Judas to an excellent end: and God does that well which the instrument does wickedly.(:note) foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked God's counsel does not excuse the Jews, whose hands were wicked. hands have crucified and The fact is said to be theirs by whose counsel and urging on it is done. slain:

geneva@Acts:2:26 @ Therefore did mine heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad, and moreouer also my flesh shall rest in hope,

geneva@Acts:2:28 @ Thou hast (note:)You have opened to me the way of true life.(:note) made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

geneva@Acts:2:34 @ For Dauid is not ascended into heauen, but he sayth, The Lord sayd to my Lorde, Sit at my right hande,

geneva@Acts:2:36 @ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath (note:)Christ is said to be «made» because he was advanced to that dignity, and therefore it is not spoken with reference to his nature, but with reference to his position and high dignity.(:note) made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

geneva@Acts:2:39 @ For the (note:)The word that is used here shows us that it was a free gift.(:note) promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.

geneva@Acts:2:45 @ And they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all me, as euery one had need.

geneva@Acts:2:47 @ Praysing God, and had fauour with all the people: and the Lorde added to the Church from day to day, such as should be saued.

geneva@Acts:3:1 @ Now (note:)Christ, in healing a man that was born lame and well known to all men, both in a famous place and at a popular time, by the hands of his apostles partly strengthens and encourages those who believed, and partly also calls others to believe.(:note) Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, [being] the ninth [hour].

geneva@Acts:3:2 @ And a certaine ma which was a creeple fro his mothers wombe, was caried, whom they layde dayly at the gate of the Temple called Beautifull, to aske almes of them that entred into ye Temple.

geneva@Acts:3:6 @ Then said Peter, Siluer & gold haue I none, but such as I haue, that giue I thee: In the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth, rise vp and walke.

geneva@Acts:3:10 @ And they knewe him, that it was he which sate for the almes at the Beautifull gate of the Temple: and they were amased, and sore astonied at that, which was come vnto him.

geneva@Acts:3:11 @ And as the lame man which was healed (note:)Either because he loved them who had healed him, or because he feared that if he let them go out of his sight that he would become lame again.(:note) held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

geneva@Acts:3:15 @ And killed the Prince (note:)Who has life in himself, and gives life to others.(:note) of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

geneva@Acts:3:16 @ And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: (note:)Because he believed on him who was raised from the dead, whose name he heard about from us.(:note) yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

geneva@Acts:3:20 @ And he shall sende Iesus Christ, which before was preached vnto you,

geneva@Acts:3:24 @ Yea, and all the prophets (note:)At which time the kingdom of Israel was established.(:note) from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

geneva@Acts:4:1 @ And (note:)There are none more commonly diligent or bold enemies of the Church than those who profess themselves to be the chief builders of it, but the more they rage, the more steadfastly the faithful servants of God continue.(:note) as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the The Jews had certain troops for the guard and safety of the temple and holy things (see (Mat_26:47)). These garrisons had a captain, such as Eleazarus Ananias, the high Priest's son in the time of the war that was in Judea, being a very impudent and proud young man; Josephus, lib. 2, of the taking of Judea. captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

geneva@Acts:4:3 @ And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntill the next day: for it was now euentide.

geneva@Acts:4:4 @ Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the (note:)While they thought to diminish the number, they actually increased it.(:note) number of the men was about five thousand.

geneva@Acts:4:5 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, that their (note:)These were those who were members of the Sanhedrin, who were all from the tribe of Judah, until Herod came to power.(:note) rulers, and elders, and scribes,

geneva@Acts:4:6 @ And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the (note:)From whom the high Priests were usually chosen and made. At this time the former high Priest was stepping down, and a new high Priest was being appointed.(:note) kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.

geneva@Acts:4:11 @ This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is become the head of the corner.

geneva@Acts:4:12 @ Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other (note:)There is no other man, or no other power and authority at all; and this kind of speech was common among the Jews, and arose from this, that when we are in danger we call upon those at whose hands we look for help.(:note) name Anywhere: and this shows us the largeness of Christ's kingdom. under heaven Of God. given among men, whereby we must be saved.

geneva@Acts:4:14 @ And beholding also the man which was healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.

geneva@Acts:4:15 @ But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they (note:)Laid their heads together.(:note) conferred among themselves,

geneva@Acts:4:22 @ For the man was aboue fourtie yeeres olde, on whome this miracle of healing was shewed.

geneva@Acts:4:25 @ Which by the mouth of thy seruant Dauid hast saide, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the people imagine vaine things?

geneva@Acts:4:26 @ The Kings of the earth assembled, and the rulers came together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

geneva@Acts:4:27 @ For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the (note:)Although the people of Israel were but one people, yet the plural number is used here, not so much for the twelve tribes, every one of which counted as a people, but because of the great multitude of them, as though many nations had assembled themselves together, as in (Jdg_5:14).(:note) people of Israel, were gathered together,

geneva@Acts:4:33 @ And with great power gaue the Apostles witnes of the resurrection of the Lord Iesus: and great grace was vpon them all.

geneva@Acts:4:35 @ And layde it downe at the Apostles feete, and it was distributed vnto euery man, according as he had neede.

geneva@Acts:4:36 @ Also Ioses which was called of the Apostles, Barnabas (that is by interpretation the sonne of consolation) being a Leuite, and of the countrey of Cyprus,

geneva@Acts:4:37 @ Where as he had land, solde it, and brought the money, & laid it downe at the Apostles feete.

geneva@Acts:5:1 @ But (note:)Luke shows by contrary examples how great a sin hypocrisy is, especially in those who under a false pretence and cloak of zeal seem to shine and be of great importance in the Church.(:note) a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

geneva@Acts:5:3 @ But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan (note:)Fully possessed.(:note) filled thine heart For when they had appointed that farm or possession for the Church, they were foolish to keep away a part of the price, as though they were dealing with men, and not with God, and therefore he says afterwards that they tempted God. to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land?

geneva@Acts:5:4 @ Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou (note:)By this is meant an advised and purposeful deceit, and the fault of the man in listening to the devil's suggestions.(:note) conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

geneva@Acts:5:5 @ Now when Ananias heard these wordes, he fell downe, and gaue vp the ghost. Then great feare came on all them that heard these things.

geneva@Acts:5:7 @ And it came to passe about the space of three houres after, that his wife came in, ignorant of that which was done.

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:5:15 @ In so much that they brought the sicke into the streetes, and layd them on beds and couches, that at the least way the shadowe of Peter, when he came by, might shadow some of them.

geneva@Acts:5:23 @ Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

geneva@Acts:5:27 @ And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, & the chiefe Priest asked them,

geneva@Acts:5:37 @ After this man, arose vp Iudas of Galile, in the dayes of the tribute, and drewe away much people after him: hee also perished, and all that obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

geneva@Acts:5:42 @ And daily in the (note:)Both publicly and privately.(:note) temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

geneva@Acts:6:1 @ And (note:)When Satan has assailed the Church on the outside, and with little result and in vain, he assails it on the inside, with civil dissension and strife between themselves: but the apostles take occasion by this to set order in the Church.(:note) in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the From among their own members, who became religious Jews from among the Greeks. Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the In the bestowing of alms according to their need. daily ministration.

geneva@Acts:6:5 @ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Steuen a man full of fayth and of the holy Ghost, and Philippe, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a Proselyte of Antiochia,

geneva@Acts:6:11 @ Then they suborned men, which saide, We haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes against Moses, and God.

geneva@Acts:6:15 @ And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, (note:)By this it appears that Steven had an excellent and wholesome countenance, having a quiet and settled mind, a good conscience, and certain conviction that his cause was just: for seeing as he was to speak before the people, God beautified his countenance, so that by the very beholding of him the Jews' minds might be penetrated and amazed.(:note) saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.

geneva@Acts:7:1 @ Then (note:)Steven is allowed to plead his cause, but for this reason and purpose, that under a disguise and pretence of the Law he might be condemned.(:note) said the high priest, Are these things so?

geneva@Acts:7:4 @ Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran; after that his father was dead, God brought him from thence into this land, wherein ye now dwell,

geneva@Acts:7:5 @ And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not [so much as] to (note:)Not enough ground to even set his foot upon.(:note) set his foot on: yet he The promise of the possession was certain, and belonged to Abraham, though it was his posterity that enjoyed it a great while after his death: and this is the figure of speech synecdoche. promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child.

geneva@Acts:7:6 @ And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat [them] evil (note:)Four hundred years are counted from the beginning of Abraham's progeny, which was at the birth of Isaac: and four hundred and thirty years which are spoken of by Paul in (Gal_3:17), from the time that Abraham and his father departed together out of Ur of the Chaldeans.(:note) four hundred years.

geneva@Acts:7:12 @ But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:

geneva@Acts:7:13 @ And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto Pharao.

geneva@Acts:7:19 @ The same (note:)He devised a subtle plan against our stock, in that he commanded all the males to be cast out.(:note) dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

geneva@Acts:7:20 @ In which time Moses was born, and was (note:)This child was born through God's merciful goodness and favour, to be of a lovely and fair countenance.(:note) exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

geneva@Acts:7:21 @ And when he was cast out, Pharaos daughter tooke him vp, and nourished him for her owne sonne.

geneva@Acts:7:22 @ And Moses was learned in all the wisdome of the Egyptians, and was mightie in wordes and in deedes.

geneva@Acts:7:23 @ Nowe when he was full fourtie yeere olde, it came into his heart to visite his brethren, the children of Israel.

geneva@Acts:7:26 @ And the next day, he shewed himselfe vnto them as they stroue, and woulde haue set them at one againe, saying, Syrs, ye are brethren: why doe ye wrong one to another?

geneva@Acts:7:28 @ Wilt thou kill mee, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

geneva@Acts:7:29 @ Then fled Moses at that saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begate two sonnes.

geneva@Acts:7:30 @ And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an (note:)Now, he calls the Son of God an angel, for he is the angel of great counsel, and therefore immediately after he describes him as saying to Moses, «I am the God of thy fathers, etc.»(:note) angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

geneva@Acts:7:31 @ And when Moses sawe it, hee wondred at the sight: and as he drew neere to consider it, the voyce of the Lord came vnto him, saying,

geneva@Acts:7:38 @ This is he that was in the Congregation, in the wildernes with the Angell, which spake to him in mount Sina, and with our fathers, who receiued the liuely oracles to giue vnto vs.

geneva@Acts:7:41 @ And they made a (note:)This was the superstition of the Egyptian's idolatry: for they worshipped Apis, a strange and marvellous looking calf, and made beautiful images of cows.(:note) calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

geneva@Acts:7:42 @ Then God turned, and (note:)Being destitute and void of his Spirit, he gave them up to Satan, and wicked lusts, to worship stars.(:note) gave them up to worship the By «the host of heaven» here he does not mean the angels, but the moon, and sun, and other stars. host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] forty years in the wilderness?

geneva@Acts:7:48 @ Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with handes, as saith the Prophet,

geneva@Acts:7:58 @ And cast [him] out of the city, and stoned [him]: and the (note:)It was appointed by the Law that the witnesses should cast the first stones; (Deu_17:7).(:note) witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

geneva@Acts:8:1 @ And (note:)Christ uses the rage of his enemies in the spreading forth and enlarging of his kingdom.(:note) Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

geneva@Acts:8:8 @ And there was great ioy in that citie.

geneva@Acts:8:10 @ To whome they gaue heede from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that great power of God.

geneva@Acts:8:12 @ But assoone as they beleeued Philip, which preached the thinges that concerned the kingdome of God, and the Name of Iesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.

geneva@Acts:8:16 @ (For as yet, hee was fallen downe on none of them, but they were baptized onely in the Name of the Lord Iesus.)

geneva@Acts:8:21 @ Thou hast neither part nor lot in this (note:)In this doctrine which I preach.(:note) matter: for thy heart is not Is not upright indeed and without the concealing of hypocritical motives. right in the sight of God.

geneva@Acts:8:23 @ For I perceive that thou art in the (note:)He calls the inward malice of the heart and the venomous and demonic wickedness with which the magician was wholly filled with the gall of bitterness: and he is said to be in the gall, as though he were wholly overwhelmed with gall, and buried in it.(:note) gall of bitterness, and [in] the Entangled in the bonds of iniquity. bond of iniquity.

geneva@Acts:8:27 @ And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch (note:)A man of great wealth and authority with Candace. Now this word «Candace» is a common name of all the Queens of Ethiopia.(:note) of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

geneva@Acts:8:28 @ And as he returned sitting in his charet, he read Esaias the Prophet.

geneva@Acts:8:30 @ And Philip ranne thither, and heard him reade the Prophet Esaias, and said, But vnderstandest thou what thou readest?

geneva@Acts:8:33 @ In his (note:)The Hebrew text reads it in this way, «out of a narrow strait, and out of judgment was he taken»: and by the «narrow strait» he means the grave and the very bonds of death, and by «judgment» he means the punishment which was laid upon him, and the miserable state which Christ took upon himself for our sakes, in bearing his Father's wrath.(:note) humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his How long he will endure: for Christ, having once risen from the dead, dies no more; (Rom_6:9). generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

geneva@Acts:8:36 @ And as they went on their way, they came vnto a certaine water, and the Eunuche said, See, here is water: what doeth let me to be baptized?

geneva@Acts:8:39 @ And assoone as they were come vp out of the water, the Spirit of the Lorde caught away Philip, that the Eunuche sawe him no more: so he went on his way reioycing.

geneva@Acts:8:40 @ But Philippe was found at Azotus, and he walked to and fro preaching in all the cities, till he came to Cesarea.

geneva@Acts:9:1 @ And (note:)Saul (who is also Paul), persecuting Christ most cruelly, who did as it were flee before him, falls into Christ's hands, and is overcome: and with a singular example of the goodness of God, in place of punishment which he justly deserved for his cruelty, is not only kindly received, but is also even by the mouth of God appointed an apostle, and is confirmed by the ministry and witness of Ananias.(:note) Saul, yet This is a sign that Saul's stomach boiled and cast out great threats to murder the disciples. breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

geneva@Acts:9:2 @ And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this (note:)Any trade of life which a man take upon himself the Jews call a «way».(:note) way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

geneva@Acts:9:3 @ Now as he iourneyed, it came to passe that as he was come neere to Damascus, suddenly there shined rounde about him a light from heauen.

geneva@Acts:9:6 @ He then both trembling and astonied, sayd, Lord, what wilt thou that I doe? And the Lord sayd vnto him, Arise and goe into the citie, and it shall be tolde thee what thou shalt doe.

geneva@Acts:9:7 @ And the men which journeyed with him (note:)Stood still and could not go one step forward, but remained amazed as stood still like statues.(:note) stood speechless, hearing a They heard Paul's voice: for afterwards it is plainly said in (Act_22:9) that they did not hear the voice of the one who spoke. Others, however, try to reconcile these places (which seem to contradict) by saying that the men with Saul heard the sound of a voice, but did not hear it clearly. voice, but seeing no man.

geneva@Acts:9:8 @ And Saul arose from the ground, and opened his eyes, but sawe no man. Then led they him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus,

geneva@Acts:9:9 @ Where he was three dayes without sight, and neither ate nor dranke.

geneva@Acts:9:10 @ And there was a certaine disciple at Damascus named Ananias, and to him sayd the Lord in a vision, Ananias; he sayd, Beholde, I am here Lord.

geneva@Acts:9:11 @ And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for [one] called Saul, of (note:)Tarsus was a city of Cilicia near to Anchiala. It is said that Sardanapalus built these two cities in one day.(:note) Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,

geneva@Acts:9:12 @ (And he sawe in a vision a man named Ananias comming in to him, and putting his hands on him, that he might receiue his sight.)

geneva@Acts:9:13 @ Then Ananias answered, Lord, I haue heard by many of this man, howe much euill hee hath done to thy saints at Hierusalem.

geneva@Acts:9:17 @ And Ananias went his way, and entered into (note:)Into Judas' house.(:note) the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, [even] Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

geneva@Acts:9:18 @ And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had bene scales, & suddenly he receiued sight, and arose, and was baptized,

geneva@Acts:9:19 @ And receiued meate, & was strengthened. So was Saul certaine dayes with the disciples which were at Damascus.

geneva@Acts:9:21 @ So that all that heard him, were amased, and sayde, Is not this hee, that made hauocke of them which called on this Name in Hierusalem, and came hither for that intent, that hee should bring them bound vnto the hie Priests?

geneva@Acts:9:24 @ But their laying awayte was knowen of Saul: nowe they watched the gates day and night, that they might kill him.

geneva@Acts:9:27 @ But Barnabas tooke him, and brought him to the Apostles, and declared to them, howe hee had seene the Lord in the way, and that hee had spoken vnto him, and how he had spoken boldly at Damascus in the Name of Iesus.

geneva@Acts:9:33 @ And there he found a certaine man named Aeneas, which had kept his couch eight yeeres, and was sicke of the palsie.

geneva@Acts:9:34 @ Then said Peter vnto him, Aeneas, Iesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise and trusse thy couch together; he arose immediately.

geneva@Acts:9:35 @ And all that dwelt at (note:)Lydda was a city of Palestine, and Saron a first-class country, and a place which was excellent for grazing, between Caesarea of Palestine and Mount Tabor, and the lake of Gennesaret, which goes far beyond Joppa.(:note) Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.

geneva@Acts:9:37 @ And it came to passe in those dayes, that she was sicke & dyed: and when they had washed her, they layd her in an vpper chamber.

geneva@Acts:9:38 @ Now forasmuch as Lydda was nere to Ioppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent vnto him two men, desiring that he would not delay to come vnto them.

geneva@Acts:9:39 @ Then Peter arose and came with them: and when hee was come, they brought him into the vpper chamber, where all the widowes stoode by him weeping, and shewing the coates and garments, which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

geneva@Acts:9:42 @ And it was knowen throughout all Ioppa, and many beleeued in the Lord.

geneva@Acts:9:43 @ And it came to passe that he taried many dayes in Ioppa with one Simon a Tanner.

geneva@Acts:10:1 @ There (note:)Peter consecrates the first fruits of the Gentiles to God by the means of two miracles.(:note) was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian [band],

geneva@Acts:10:2 @ [A] (note:)So that he worshipped one God, and was not an idolater, and neither could he be void of faith in Christ, because he was a devout man: but as of yet he did not know that Christ had come.(:note) devout [man], and one that feared God with This is a commendable thing about the man, that he laboured to have all his household, and well-known friends, and acquaintances to be religious and godly. all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

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 That is, in as much that they will not allow God as it were to forget you: for so the Scripture often talks childish with us as nurses do with little children, when they prepare their tongues to speak. a memorial before God.

geneva@Acts:10:7 @ And when the Angel which spake vnto Cornelius, was departed, he called two of his seruants, and a souldier that feared God, one of them that waited on him,

geneva@Acts:10:9 @ On the morow as they went on their iourney, and drew neere vnto the citie, Peter went vp vpon the house to pray, about the sixt houre.

geneva@Acts:10:10 @ And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a (note:)For though Peter does not stand amazed as one that is tongue tied, but talks with God and is instructed in his mysteries, yet his mind was far from being as it normally was; shortly, however, it returned to its normal state.(:note) trance,

geneva@Acts:10:11 @ And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the (note:)So that it seemed to be a square sheet.(:note) four corners, and let down to the earth:

geneva@Acts:10:12 @ Wherein were (note:)Here is this word «all» which is general, plainly used for something indefinite and uncertain, that is to say, for some of all sorts, not for all of every sort.(:note) all manner of That is, such as were proper for men's use. fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and To see what is meant by these creeping things see (Leviticus. strkjv@11:2-47). creeping things, and fowls of the air.

geneva@Acts:10:16 @ This was so done thrise: and the vessell was drawen vp againe into heauen.

geneva@Acts:10:18 @ And called, and asked, whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.

geneva@Acts:10:22 @ And they sayd, Cornelius the captaine, a iust man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Iewes, was warned from heauen by an holy Angel, to send for thee into his house, and to heare thy wordes.

geneva@Acts:10:27 @ And as he talked with him, he came in, and found many that were come together.

geneva@Acts:10:29 @ Therefore came I vnto you without saying nay, when I was sent for. I aske therefore, for what intent haue ye sent for me?

geneva@Acts:10:30 @ And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until (note:)He does not mean the very hour at the present time (as it was nine o'clock when he spoke to Peter), but the like, that is, about nine o'clock the other day.(:note) this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

geneva@Acts:10:33 @ Then sent I for thee immediately, and thou hast well done to come. Nowe therefore are we all here present before God, to heare all things that are commanded thee of God.

geneva@Acts:10:35 @ But in every nation he that (note:)By the «fear of God» the Hebrews understood the whole service of God, by which we perceive that Cornelius was not void of faith, no more than they were who lived before Christ's time: and therefore they deal incorrectly who deduce meritorious works and free will from this passage.(:note) feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

geneva@Acts:10:38 @ How God (note:)This manner of speaking is taken from an old custom of the Jews, who used to anoint their kings and priests, because of which it came to pass to call those anointed upon whom God bestowed gifts and virtues.(:note) anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

geneva@Acts:10:40 @ Him God raysed vp the third day, and caused that he was shewed openly:

geneva@Acts:10:45 @ So they of the circumcision which beleeued, were astonied, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was powred out the gift of the holy Ghost.

geneva@Acts:11:1 @ And (note:)Peter, being reprehended without reason by the unskilful and ignorant, does not object and say that he should not be judged by any, but openly gives an account of his actions.(:note) the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

geneva@Acts:11:2 @ And when Peter was come vp to Hierusalem, they of the circumcision contended against him,

geneva@Acts:11:3 @ Saying, Thou wentest in to men vncircumcised, and hast eaten with them.

geneva@Acts:11:5 @ I was in the citie of Ioppa, praying, and in a trance I sawe this vision, A certaine vessell comming downe as it had bene a great sheete, let downe from heauen by the foure corners, and it came to me.

geneva@Acts:11:6 @ Towarde the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and sawe foure footed beastes of the earth, and wilde beastes, and creeping things, and foules of the heauen.

geneva@Acts:11:10 @ And this was done three times, and all were taken vp againe into heauen.

geneva@Acts:11:11 @ Then behold, immediatly there were three men already come vnto the house where I was, sent from Cesarea vnto me.

geneva@Acts:11:15 @ And as I began to speake, the holy Ghost fell on them, euen as vpon vs at the beginning.

geneva@Acts:11:17 @ For as much then as God gaue them a like gift, as he did vnto vs, when we beleeued in the Lorde Iesus Christ, who was I, that I coulde let God?

geneva@Acts:11:21 @ And the hand of the Lord was with them, so that a great number beleeued and turned vnto the Lord.

geneva@Acts:11:23 @ Who when he was come and had seene the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted all, that with purpose of heart they would continue in the Lord.

geneva@Acts:11:24 @ For he was a good man, and full of the holy Ghost, and faith, and much people ioyned them selues vnto the Lord.

geneva@Acts:11:26 @ And when he had founde him, he brought him vnto Antiochia: and it came to passe that a whole yere they were conuersant with ye Church, and taught much people, in so much that the disciples were first called Christians in Antiochia.

geneva@Acts:11:28 @ And there stoode vp one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit, that there should be great famine throughout all the world, which also came to passe vnder Claudius Cesar.

geneva@Acts:11:30 @ Which thing they also did, and sent it to the Elders, by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

geneva@Acts:12:1 @ Now (note:)God gives his Church peace only for a short time.(:note) about that time This name Herod was common to all those that come from the stock of Herod Ascalonites, whose surname was Magnus: but he that is spoken of here was nephew to Herod the great, son to Aristobulus, and father to the Agrippa who is spoken of afterwards. Herod the king stretched forth [his] hands to vex certain of the church.

geneva@Acts:12:8 @ And the Angel saide vnto him, Girde thy selfe, and binde on thy sandales; so he did. Then he said vnto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and followe me.

geneva@Acts:12:9 @ So Peter came out and followed him, and knewe not that it was true, which was done by the Angel, but thought he had seene a vision.

geneva@Acts:12:10 @ Nowe when they were past the first and the second watch, they came vnto the yron gate, that leadeth vnto the citie, which opened to them by it owne accord, and they went out, and passed through one streete, and by and by the Angel departed from him.

geneva@Acts:12:11 @ And when Peter was come to himselfe, he said, Nowe I know for a trueth, that the Lord hath sent his Angel, and hath deliuered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the wayting for of the people of the Iewes.

geneva@Acts:12:15 @ But they said vnto her, Thou art mad. Yet she affirmed it constantly, that it was so. Then said they, It is his Angel.

geneva@Acts:12:16 @ But Peter continued knocking, and when they had opened it, and sawe him, they were astonied.

geneva@Acts:12:25 @ So Barnabas and Saul returned from Hierusalem, when they had fulfilled their office, and tooke with them Iohn, whose surname was Marke.

geneva@Acts:13:1 @ Now (note:)Paul with Barnabas is again the second time appointed apostle of the Gentiles, not of man, neither by man, but by an extraordinary commandment of the Holy Spirit.(:note) there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with This was the same Antipas who put John the Baptist to death. Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

geneva@Acts:13:2 @ As they (note:)While they were busy doing their office, that is, as Chrysostom expounds it, while they were preaching.(:note) ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have The Lord is said to call, from which this word «called» comes from, which is common in the Church, when he causes that to be which was not, whether you refer it to the matter itself, or to any quality or thing about the matter: and the use of the word «call» has come about because when things begin to be, then they have some name: and furthermore this also declares God's mighty power, in that he spoke the word, and things were made. called them.

geneva@Acts:13:7 @ Which was with the Deputie Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He called vnto him Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the woorde of God.

geneva@Acts:13:11 @ And now, behold, the (note:)His power which he shows in striking and beating down his enemies.(:note) hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

geneva@Acts:13:12 @ Then the Deputie when he sawe what was done, beleeued, and was astonied at the doctrine of the Lord.

geneva@Acts:13:14 @ But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in (note:)This distinguishes between it, and Antioch which was in Syria.(:note) Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

geneva@Acts:13:17 @ The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and (note:)Advanced and brought to honour.(:note) exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an Openly and with strong power, breaking in pieces the enemies of his people. high arm brought he them out of it.

geneva@Acts:13:21 @ And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of (note:)In this space of forty years the time of Samuel must be counted and included with the days of Saul, for the kingdom did as it were include his administration.(:note) forty years.

geneva@Acts:13:24 @ When John had first preached (note:)John as a herald did not show Christ coming from afar off, as the other prophets did, but right at hand and having already begun his journey.(:note) before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

geneva@Acts:13:31 @ And hee was seene many dayes of them, which came vp with him from Galile to Hierusalem, which are his witnesses vnto the people.

geneva@Acts:13:33 @ God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he (note:)For then he appeared plainly and manifestly as the only Son of God, when he left behind his weakness and came out of the grave, having conquered death.(:note) hath raised up Jesus again; If Christ had remained dead, he would not have been the true Son of God, neither would the covenant which was made with David have been certain. as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

geneva@Acts:13:34 @ And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, [now] no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the (note:)The Greeks call those things «holy things» which the Hebrews call «gracious bounties»: and they are called David's bounties in the passive voice, because God bestowed them upon David. Moreover, they are termed «sure», after the manner of speech which the Hebrews use, who terms those things «sure» which are steady and certain, and such things which never alter or change.(:note) sure mercies of David.

geneva@Acts:13:36 @ Howbeit, Dauid after hee had serued his time by the counsell of God, hee slept, and was laid with his fathers, and sawe corruption.

geneva@Acts:13:39 @ And by him all that believe are justified from (note:)Whereas the ceremonies of the Law could not absolve you from your sins, this man absolves you, if you lay hold of him by faith.(:note) all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

geneva@Acts:13:43 @ Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and (note:)Who had forsaken their heathen religion, and embraced the religion set forth by Moses.(:note) religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

geneva@Acts:13:48 @ And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were (note:)Therefore either all were not appointed to everlasting life, or either all believed, but because all did not believe, it follows that certain ones were ordained: and therefore God did not only foreknow, but also foreordained, that neither faith nor the effects of faith should be the cause of his ordaining, or appointment, but his ordaining the cause of faith.(:note) ordained to eternal life believed.

geneva@Acts:13:49 @ Thus the worde of the Lord was published throughout the whole countrey.

geneva@Acts:14:1 @ And (note:)We should be no less constant in the preaching of the Gospel than the perversity of the wicked is obstinate in persecuting it.(:note) it came to pass in Iconium was a city of Lycaonia. Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

geneva@Acts:14:4 @ But the multitude of the city was deuided: and some were with the Iewes, and some with the Apostles.

geneva@Acts:14:5 @ And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and of the Iewes with their rulers, to doe them violence, and to stone them,

geneva@Acts:14:12 @ And they called Barnabas, Iupiter: and Paul, Mercurius, because hee was the chiefe speaker.

geneva@Acts:14:13 @ Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the (note:)Of the house where Paul and Barnabas were.(:note) gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

geneva@Acts:14:14 @ But when the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul heard it, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying,

geneva@Acts:14:17 @ Neuerthelesse, hee left not him selfe without witnes, in that hee did good and gaue vs raine from heauen, & fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with foode, and gladnesse.

geneva@Acts:14:18 @ And speaking these things, scarce appeased they the multitude, that they had not sacrificed vnto them.

geneva@Acts:14:20 @ Howbeit, as the disciples stoode rounde about him, hee arose vp, and came into the citie, and the next day hee departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

geneva@Acts:14:25 @ And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into (note:)Attalia was a sea city of Pamphylia, near to Lycia.(:note) Attalia:

geneva@Acts:15:1 @ And (note:)The Church is at length troubled with dissension within itself, and the trouble rises from the proud and stubborn intellects of certain evil men. The first strife was concerning the office of Christ, whether we are saved only by his righteousness apprehended by faith, or if we also have need to observe the Law.(:note)Epiphanius is of the opinion that this was Cerinthus. certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, [and said], Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

geneva@Acts:15:3 @ And (note:)Courteously and lovingly brought on their way by the Church, that is, by certain ones appointed by the Church.(:note) being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.

geneva@Acts:15:5 @ But said they, certaine of the sect of the Pharises, which did beleeue, rose vp, saying, that it was needefull to circumcise them, and to commaunde them to keepe the lawe of Moses.

geneva@Acts:15:8 @ And God which knoweth the heartes, bare them witnesse, in giuing vnto them ye holy Ghost euen as he did vnto vs.

geneva@Acts:15:11 @ But we beleeue, through the grace of the Lord Iesus Christ to be saued, euen as they doe.

geneva@Acts:15:15 @ And to this agree the woordes of the Prophets, as it is written,

geneva@Acts:15:20 @ But that we write unto them, that they abstain from (note:)From sacrifices, or from feasts which were kept in idol's temples.(:note) pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.

geneva@Acts:15:25 @ It seemed therefore good to vs, when we were come together with one accord, to send chosen men vnto you, with our beloued Barnabas and Paul,

geneva@Acts:15:27 @ We haue therefore sent Iudas and Silas, which shall also tell you ye same things by mouth.

geneva@Acts:15:32 @ And Iudas and Silas being Prophets, exhorted the brethren with many wordes, & strengthened them.

geneva@Acts:15:33 @ And after they had tarried [there] a space, they were let go in (note:)This is a Hebrew idiom, which is the same as saying, «as the brethren wished them all prosperous success, and the church dismissed them with good leave.»(:note) peace from the brethren unto the apostles.

geneva@Acts:15:34 @ Notwithstanding Silas thought good to abide there still.

geneva@Acts:15:35 @ Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antiochia, teaching and preaching with many other, the worde of the Lord.

geneva@Acts:15:40 @ And Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended of the brethren vnto the grace of God.

geneva@Acts:16:1 @ Then (note:)Paul himself does not receive Timothy into the ministry without sufficient testimony, and permission of the brethren.(:note) came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Paul, in his second epistle to Timothy, commends the godliness of Timothy's mother and grandmother. Jewess, and believed; but his father [was] a Greek:

geneva@Acts:16:2 @ Which was (note:)Both for his godliness and honesty.(:note) well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.

geneva@Acts:16:5 @ And so were the Churches stablished in the faith, and encreased in number daily.

geneva@Acts:16:8 @ Therefore they passed through Mysia, and came downe to Troas,

geneva@Acts:16:11 @ Then went we forth from Troas, and with a straight course came to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis,

geneva@Acts:16:18 @ And this did she (note:)Paul made no haste to do this miracle, for he did all things only as he was led by the Spirit.(:note) many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.

geneva@Acts:16:23 @ And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into prison, commaunding the Iayler to keepe them surely.

geneva@Acts:16:24 @ Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet (note:)Because he wanted to be more sure that they did not escape, he set them fast in the stocks.(:note) fast in the stocks.

geneva@Acts:16:26 @ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken: and by and by all the doores opened, and euery mans bands were loosed.

geneva@Acts:16:29 @ Then he called for a light, and leaped in, and came trembling, and fell downe before Paul and Silas,

geneva@Acts:17:1 @ Now (note:)The casting out of Silas and Paul was the saving of many others.(:note) when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

geneva@Acts:17:2 @ And Paul, as his maner was, went in vnto them, and three Sabbath daies disputed with them by the Scriptures,

geneva@Acts:17:4 @ And some of them beleeued, and ioyned in companie with Paul and Silas: also of the Grecians that feared God a great multitude, and of the chiefe women not a fewe.

geneva@Acts:17:6 @ And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the (note:)Into whatever country and place they come, they cause sedition and tumult.(:note) world upside down are come hither also;

geneva@Acts:17:7 @ Whom Iason hath receiued, and these all doe against the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another King, one Iesus.

geneva@Acts:17:9 @ And when they had taken (note:)When Jason had put them in good assurance that they would appear.(:note) security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.

geneva@Acts:17:17 @ Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with (note:)Whoever Paul met with that would allow him to talk with him, he reasoned with him, so thoroughly did he burn with the zeal of God's glory.(:note) them that met with him.

geneva@Acts:17:19 @ And they took him, and brought him unto (note:)This was a place called, as one would say, Mars hill, where the judges sat who were called Areopagita upon important matters, who in ancient time arraigned Socrates, and afterward condemned him of impiety.(:note) Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is]?

geneva@Acts:17:23 @ For as I passed by, and beheld your (note:)Whatever men worship for religion's sake, that we call religion.(:note) devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE Pausanias in his Atticis makes mention of the altar which the Athenians had dedicated to unknown gods: and Laertius in his Epimenides makes mention of an altar that had no name entitled upon it. UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

geneva@Acts:17:25 @ Neither is worshipped with mens handes, as though he needed any thing, seeing hee giueth to all life and breath and all things,

geneva@Acts:17:27 @ That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might (note:)For as blind men we could not seek out God except by groping, before the true light came and enlightened the world.(:note) feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

geneva@Acts:17:28 @ For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.

geneva@Acts:17:29 @ Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, (note:)Which things (gold, silver, and stones) are custom engraved as much as a man's mind can devise, for men will not worship those things as they are, unless by some art it has formed into an image of some sort.(:note) graven by art and man's device.

geneva@Acts:17:31 @ Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath ordained; [whereof] he hath given (note:)By declaring Christ to be the judge of the world through the resurrection from the dead.(:note) assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead.

geneva@Acts:17:34 @ Howbeit certaine men claue vnto Paul, and beleeued: among whome was also Denys Areopagita, and a woman named Damaris, and other with them.

geneva@Acts:18:3 @ And because hee was of the same crafte, he abode with them and wrought (for their crafte was to make tentes.)

geneva@Acts:18:5 @ And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul (note:)Was very much grieved in mind: by which is signified the great earnestness of his mind, which was greatly moved: for Paul was so zealous that he completely forgot himself, and with a wonderful courage gave himself to preach Christ.(:note) was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] Christ.

geneva@Acts:18:14 @ And when Paul was now about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O [ye] Jews, (note:)As much as I rightly could.(:note) reason would that I should bear with you:

geneva@Acts:18:15 @ But if it be a question of (note:)As if a man has not spoken well, as judged by your religion.(:note) words and For this profane man thinks that the controversy of religion is merely a fight about words, and over nothing important. names, and [of] your law, look ye [to it]; for I will be no judge of such [matters].

geneva@Acts:18:21 @ But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, (note:)So we should promise nothing without this clause, for we do not know what the following day will bring forth.(:note) if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

geneva@Acts:18:25 @ The same was instructed in the way of the Lorde, and hee spake feruently in the Spirite, and taught diligently the things of the Lord, & knew but the baptisme of Iohn onely.

geneva@Acts:18:27 @ And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through (note:)Through God's gracious favour, or by those excellent gifts which God had bestowed upon him.(:note) grace:

geneva@Acts:18:28 @ For mightily hee confuted publikely the Iewes, with great vehemencie, shewing by the Scriptures, that Iesus was that Christ.

geneva@Acts:19:1 @ And (note:)Paul, not being offended at the rudeness of the Ephesians, plants a church amongst them.(:note) it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

geneva@Acts:19:2 @ He said unto them, Have ye received the (note:)Those excellent gifts of the Holy Spirit, which were in the Church in those days.(:note) Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

geneva@Acts:19:10 @ And this was done by the space of two yeeres, so that all they which dwelt in Asia, heard the word of ye Lord Iesus, both Iewes & Grecians.

geneva@Acts:19:12 @ So that from his body were brought vnto the sicke, kerchefs or handkerchefs, and the diseases departed from them, and the euill spirits went out of them.

geneva@Acts:19:16 @ And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and (note:)He prevailed against them, though they struggled ever so much.(:note) prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

geneva@Acts:19:17 @ And this was knowen to all the Iewes and Grecians also, which dwelt at Ephesus, and feare came on them all, and the Name of the Lord Iesus was magnified,

geneva@Acts:19:22 @ So sent hee into Macedonia two of them that ministred vnto him, Timotheus and Erastus, but he remained in Asia for a season.

geneva@Acts:19:26 @ Moreouer ye see and heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath perswaded, and turned away much people, saying, That they be not gods which are made with handes.

geneva@Acts:19:27 @ So that not only (note:)As if he said, «If Paul goes on in this way as he has begun, to confuse the opinion which men have of Diana's image, all of our gain will come to nothing.»(:note) this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

geneva@Acts:19:29 @ And the whole citie was full of confusion, and they rushed into the common place with one assent, and caught Gaius, and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, and Pauls companions of his iourney.

geneva@Acts:19:32 @ Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assemblie was out of order, and the more part knewe not wherefore they were come together.

geneva@Acts:19:36 @ Seeing then that no man can speake against these things, ye ought to be appeased, and to doe nothing rashly.

geneva@Acts:19:37 @ For yee haue brought hither these men, which haue neither committed sacrilege, neither doe blaspheme your goddesse.

geneva@Acts:19:39 @ But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a (note:)He speaks of a lawful assembly not only to speak against the disordered tumult of the people, but also against all meeting and coming together which was not by order: for there were certain days appointed to call people together in.(:note) lawful assembly.

geneva@Acts:19:40 @ For we are euen in ieopardie to be accused of this dayes sedition, for as much as there is no cause, whereby we may giue a reason of this concourse of people.

geneva@Acts:19:41 @ And when he had thus spoken, hee let the assembly depart.

geneva@Acts:20:1 @ And (note:)Paul departs from Ephesus by the consent of the church, not to be idle or at rest, but to take pains in another place.(:note) after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto [him] the disciples, and embraced [them], and departed for to go into Macedonia.

geneva@Acts:20:2 @ And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them (note:)For after so great trouble, there was need of much exhortation.(:note) much exhortation, he came into Greece,

geneva@Acts:20:4 @ And there accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of Berea, and of them of Thessalonica, Aristarchus, and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus, and of them of Asia, Tychicus, and Trophimus.

geneva@Acts:20:5 @ These went before, and taried vs at Troas.

geneva@Acts:20:6 @ And we sailed forth from Philippi, after the dayes of vnleauened bread, & came vnto them to Troas in fiue dayes, where we abode seuen dayes.

geneva@Acts:20:9 @ And there sate in a windowe a certaine yong man, named Eutychus, fallen into a dead sleepe: and as Paul was long preaching, hee ouercome with sleepe, fell downe from the thirde loft, and was taken vp dead.

geneva@Acts:20:11 @ Then when Paul was come vp againe, and had broken bread, and eaten, hauing spoken a long while till the dawning of the day, hee so departed.

geneva@Acts:20:13 @ Then we went before to shippe, and sailed vnto the citie Assos, that wee might receiue Paul there: for so had hee appointed, and would himselfe goe afoote.

geneva@Acts:20:14 @ Now when he was come vnto vs to Assos, and we had receiued him, we came to Mitylenes.

geneva@Acts:20:17 @ And from (note:)According as the situation of these places is set forth, the distance between Ephesus and Miletus was almost 50 miles or 80 km.(:note) Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

geneva@Acts:20:20 @ [And] how I kept (note:)I did not refrain form speaking, neither did I conceal my motives in any way at all, either for fear or for wicked gain.(:note) back nothing that was profitable [unto you], but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

geneva@Acts:20:24 @ But I passe not at all, neither is my life deare vnto my selfe, so that I may fulfill my course with ioye, and the ministration which I haue receiued of the Lorde Iesus, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.

geneva@Acts:20:28 @ Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to (note:)To keep it, to feed and govern it.(:note) feed the church of God, which A notable sentence for Christ's Godhead: which shows plainly in his person, how that by reason of the joining together of the two natures in his own person, that which is proper to one is spoken of the other, being taken as deriving from one another, and not in the original: which in old time the godly fathers termed a communicating or fellowship of properties or attributes, that is to say, a making common of that to two, which belongs but to one. he hath purchased with The words «his own» show forth the excellency of that blood. his own blood.

geneva@Acts:20:31 @ Therefore watche, and remember, that by the space of three yeres I ceased not to warne euery one, both night and day with teares.

geneva@Acts:20:35 @ I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought (note:)As it were by reaching out the hand to those who otherwise are about to slip and fall away, and so to steady them.(:note) to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

geneva@Acts:21:1 @ And (note:)Not only ordinary men, but even our friends, and such as are endued with the Spirit of God, sometimes go about to hinder the course of our calling: but it is our part to go forward without any stopping or staggering, after we are sure of our calling from God.(:note) it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the [day] following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:

geneva@Acts:21:4 @ And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the (note:)They foretold through the Spirit what dangers were about to befall Paul, and this they did as prophets: but they misdirected him away from Jerusalem because of a fleshly affection.(:note) Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

geneva@Acts:21:8 @ And the next [day] we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was [one] of the (note:)He speaks of the seven deacons which he mentioned before in (Act_6:1-7).(:note) seven; and abode with him.

geneva@Acts:21:10 @ And as we taried there many dayes, there came a certaine Prophet from Iudea, named Agabus.

geneva@Acts:21:11 @ And when he was come vnto vs, he tooke Pauls girdle, and bound his owne hands & feete, and sayd, Thus sayth the holy Ghost, So shall the Iewes at Hierusalem binde the man that oweth this girdle, and shall deliuer him into the hands of the Gentiles.

geneva@Acts:21:16 @ There went with vs also certaine of the disciples of Cesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an olde disciple, with whome we should lodge.

geneva@Acts:21:18 @ And the next day Paul went in with vs vnto Iames: and all the Elders were there assembled.

geneva@Acts:21:25 @ For as touching ye Gentiles, which beleeue, we haue written, & determined that they obserue no such thing, but that they keepe themselues from things offred to idoles, and from blood, and from that that is strangled, and from fornication.

geneva@Acts:21:26 @ Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, (note:)The priests were to be informed of the accomplishment of the days of the purification, because there were sacrifices to be offered the same day that their vow was ended.(:note) to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.

geneva@Acts:21:30 @ Then all the citie was moued, and the people ran together: and they tooke Paul and drewe him out of the Temple, and forth with the doores were shut.

geneva@Acts:21:33 @ Then the chiefe Captaine came neere and tooke him, and commaunded him to be bound with two chaines, and demaunded who he was, and what he had done.

geneva@Acts:21:34 @ And one cryed this, another that, among the people. So when he could not know the certeintie for the tumult, he commaunded him to be led into the castell.

geneva@Acts:21:35 @ And when hee came vnto the grieces, it was so that he was borne of the souldiers, for the violence of the people.

geneva@Acts:21:37 @ And as Paul should haue bene led into the castell, he sayd vnto the chiefe Captaine, May I speake vnto thee? Who sayd, Canst thou speake Greeke?

geneva@Acts:21:38 @ Art not thou that (note:)Concerning this Egyptian who assembled thirty thousand men, read Josephus, book 2, chap. 12.(:note) Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

geneva@Acts:21:40 @ And when he had giuen him licence, Paul stoode on the grieces, & beckened with the hand vnto the people: and when there was made great silence, hee spake vnto them in the Hebrewe tongue, saying,

geneva@Acts:22:5 @ As also ye chiefe Priest doeth beare me witnes, & al the company of the Elders: of whom also I receiued letters vnto the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring them which were there, bound vnto Hierusalem, that they might be punished.

geneva@Acts:22:6 @ And so it was, as I iourneyed and was come neere vnto Damascus about noone, that suddenly there shone from heauen a great light round about me.

geneva@Acts:22:10 @ Then I sayd, What shall I doe, Lord? And the Lorde sayde vnto me, Arise, and goe into Damascus: and there it shall be tolde thee of all things, which are appointed for thee to doe.

geneva@Acts:22:11 @ So when I could not see for the glory of that light, I was led by the hand of them that were with me, and came into Damascus.

geneva@Acts:22:12 @ And one Ananias a godly man, as perteining to the Lawe, hauing good report of all the Iewes which dwelt there,

geneva@Acts:22:15 @ For thou shalt be his witnes vnto all men, of the things which thou hast seene and heard.

geneva@Acts:22:16 @ Now therefore why tariest thou? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sinnes, in calling on the Name of the Lord.

geneva@Acts:22:17 @ And it came to passe, that when I was come againe to Hierusalem, and prayed in the Temple, I was in a traunce,

geneva@Acts:22:18 @ And saw him saying vnto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Hierusalem: for they will not receiue thy witnes concerning me.

geneva@Acts:22:20 @ And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that (note:)This is properly spoken, for Steven was murdered by a bunch of cutthroats, not by order of justice, but by open force: for at that time the Jews could not put any man to death by law.(:note) slew him.

geneva@Acts:22:23 @ And as they (note:)The description of a seditious tumult, and of a foolish and mad multitude.(:note) cried out, and cast off [their] clothes, and threw dust into the air,

geneva@Acts:22:28 @ And the chiefe captaine answered, With a great summe obtained I this freedome. Then Paul sayd, But I was so borne.

geneva@Acts:22:29 @ Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was (note:)Not by nation, but by the law of his city of birth.(:note) a Roman, and because he had bound him.

geneva@Acts:22:30 @ On the next day, because hee would haue knowen the certaintie wherefore he was accused of the Iewes, he loosed him from his bonds, and commaunded the hie Priests and all their Councill to come together: and he brought Paul, and set him before them.

geneva@Acts:23:11 @ Nowe the night folowing, the Lord stoode by him, and saide, Be of good courage, Paul: for as thou hast testified of mee in Hierusalem, so must thou beare witnesse also at Rome.

geneva@Acts:23:15 @ Now therefore ye with the (note:)You and the senate ask that the same thing should be done, so that the tribune will not think that it was demanded of him because of an individual's private interests.(:note) council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

geneva@Acts:23:16 @ But when Pauls sisters sonne heard of their laying awaite, he went, and entred into the castel, and tolde Paul.

geneva@Acts:23:19 @ Then the chiefe captaine tooke him by the hande, and went apart with him alone, and asked him, What hast thou to shewe me?

geneva@Acts:23:20 @ And he saide, The Iewes haue conspired to desire thee, that thou wouldest bring foorth Paul to morow into the Council, as though they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly:

geneva@Acts:23:27 @ As this man was taken of the Iewes, and shoulde haue bene killed of them, I came vpon them with the garison, and rescued him, perceiuing that he was a Romane.

geneva@Acts:23:29 @ There I perceiued that hee was accused of questions of their Lawe, but had no crime worthy of death, or of bondes.

geneva@Acts:23:30 @ And when it was shewed me, how that the Iewes layd waite for the man, I sent him straightway to thee, and commaunded his accusers to speake before thee the thinges that they had against him. Farewell.

geneva@Acts:23:31 @ Then the souldiers as it was commaunded them, tooke Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.

geneva@Acts:23:32 @ And the next day, they left the horsemen to goe with him, and returned vnto the Castel.

geneva@Acts:23:34 @ So when the Gouernour had read it, hee asked of what prouince he was: and when he vnderstoode that he was of Cilicia,

geneva@Acts:24:1 @ And (note:)Hypocrites, when they can not do what they want to do by force and deceit, at length they go about to accomplish it by a show of law.(:note) after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and [with] a certain orator [named] Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.

geneva@Acts:24:2 @ And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse [him], saying, Seeing that (note:)Felix ruled that province with great cruelty and covetousness, and yet Josephus records that he did many worthy things, such as taking Eleazar the captain of certain cutthroats, and put that deceiving wretch the Egyptian to flight, who caused great troubles in Judea.(:note) by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very He uses a word which the Stoics defined as a perfect duty and perfect behaviour. worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence,

geneva@Acts:24:5 @ For we have found this man [a] (note:)Literally, «a plague».(:note) pestilent [fellow], and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a As one would say, a ringleader, or a flag bearer. ringleader of the sect of the So they scoffingly called the Christians, taking the name from the towns where they thought that Christ was born, whereupon it happened that Julian the apostate called Christ a Galilean. Nazarenes:

geneva@Acts:24:7 @ But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him out of our handes,

geneva@Acts:24:9 @ And the Jews also (note:)Confirmed what Tertullus said.(:note) assented, saying that these things were so.

geneva@Acts:24:13 @ Neither can they (note:)They cannot lay forth before you and prove with good reasons.(:note) prove the things whereof they now accuse me.

geneva@Acts:24:24 @ And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife (note:)This Drusilla was Agrippa's sister of whom Luke speaks afterwards, a harlot and very licentious woman, and being the wife of Azizus king of the Emesens, who was circumcised, departed from him, and went to this Felix the brother of Pallas, who was at one time the slave of Nero.(:note) Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

geneva@Acts:24:25 @ And as he disputed of righteousnes & temperance, & of the iudgement to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time, and when I haue conuenient time, I will call for thee.

geneva@Acts:25:1 @ Now (note:)Satan's ministers are subtle and diligent in seeking every occasion: but God who watches for his own, easily hinders all their counsels.(:note) when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

geneva@Acts:25:7 @ And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which (note:)They could not prove them certainly and without undoubted reasons.(:note) they could not prove.

geneva@Acts:25:8 @ Forasmuch as he answered, that he had neither offended any thing against the lawe of the Iewes, neither against ye temple, nor against Cæsar.

geneva@Acts:25:10 @ Then said Paul, I stand at Cæsars iudgment seate, where I ought to be iudged: to the Iewes I haue done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.

geneva@Acts:25:11 @ For if I haue done wrong, or committed any thing worthie of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me, no man, to pleasure them, can deliuer me to them: I appeale vnto Cæsar.

geneva@Acts:25:12 @ Then when Festus had spoken with the Council, hee answered, Hast thou appealed vnto Cæsar? vnto Cæsar shalt thou goe.

geneva@Acts:25:18 @ Against whom when the accusers stood vp, they brought no crime of such things as I supposed:

geneva@Acts:25:20 @ And because I doubted of such maner of question, I asked him whether he would goe to Hierusalem, and there be iudged of these things.

geneva@Acts:25:23 @ And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great (note:)Gorgeously, like a prince.(:note) pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.

geneva@Acts:25:26 @ Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my (note:)To Augustus. Good princes refused this name at the first, that is, to be called lords, but afterwards they allowed it, as we read of Traianus.(:note) lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.

geneva@Acts:25:27 @ For me thinketh it vnreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to shewe the causes which are layde against him.

geneva@Acts:26:3 @ Chiefly, because thou hast knowledge of all customes, and questions which are among the Iewes: wherefore I beseech thee, to heare me patiently.

geneva@Acts:26:5 @ Which (note:)That I was, and where, and how I lived.(:note) knew me from That my parents were Pharisees. the beginning, if they would testify, that after the The sect of the Pharisees was the most exquisite amongst all the sects of the Jews, for it was better than all the rest. most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

geneva@Acts:26:10 @ Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave (note:)I consented to and allowed their actions: for he was not a judge.(:note) my voice against [them].

geneva@Acts:26:11 @ And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and (note:)By extreme punishment.(:note) compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities.

geneva@Acts:26:12 @ At which time, euen as I went to Damascus with authoritie, and commission from the hie Priests,

geneva@Acts:26:13 @ At midday, O King, I sawe in the way a light from heauen, passing the brightnes of the sunne, shine round about mee, and them which went with me.

geneva@Acts:26:16 @ But rise and stand vp on thy feete: for I haue appeared vnto thee for this purpose, to appoint thee a minister and a witnesse, both of the things which thou hast seene, and of the things in the which I will appeare vnto thee,

geneva@Acts:26:20 @ But shewed first vnto them of Damascus, and at Hierusalem, & throughout all the coasts of Iudea, & then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turne to God, and doe workes worthy amendement of life.

geneva@Acts:26:23 @ That Christ should (note:)That Christ would not be such a king as the Jews dreamed of, but one appointed to bear our miseries, and the punishment of our sins.(:note) suffer, [and] that he should be the The first of those who are raised from the dead. first that should rise from the dead, and should shew Life, yea and that a most blessed life which will be endless: and this is set against darkness, which almost in all languages sometimes signifies death, and sometimes misery and calamity. light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

geneva@Acts:26:26 @ For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a (note:)Secretly and privately.(:note) corner.

geneva@Acts:26:29 @ And Paul said, (note:)I would to God that not only almost, but thoroughly and altogether, both you and all that hear me this day, might be made as I am, only except for my bonds.(:note) I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

geneva@Acts:27:1 @ And (note:)Paul, with many other prisoners and through the midst of many deaths, is brought to Rome, but yet by God's own hand as it were, and set forth and commended to the world with many singular testimonies.(:note) when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto [one] named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.

geneva@Acts:27:2 @ And we entred into a ship of Adramyttium purposing to saile by the coastes of Asia, and launched foorth, and had Aristarchus of Macedonia, a Thessalonian, with vs.

geneva@Acts:27:7 @ And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against (note:)Which was a high hill of Crete.(:note) Salmone;

geneva@Acts:27:8 @ And with much adoe sayled beyond it, and came vnto a certaine place called the Faire hauens, neere vnto the which was the citie Lasea.

geneva@Acts:27:12 @ And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, many tooke counsell to depart thence, if by any meanes they might attaine to Phenice, there to winter, which is an hauen of Candie, and lyeth toward the Southwest and by West, and Northwest and by West.

geneva@Acts:27:14 @ But not long after there arose against (note:)By Crete, from whose shore our ship was driven by that means.(:note) it a tempestuous wind, called Northeast wind. Euroclydon.

geneva@Acts:27:15 @ And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the winde, we let her goe, and were caried away.

geneva@Acts:27:17 @ Which they tooke vp and vsed all helpe, vndergirding the ship, fearing least they should haue fallen into Syrtes, and they strake saile, and so were caried.

geneva@Acts:27:19 @ And the third day we cast out with our owne hands the tackling of the ship.

geneva@Acts:27:20 @ And when neither sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away.

geneva@Acts:27:26 @ Howbeit, we must be cast into a certaine Iland.

geneva@Acts:27:29 @ Then fearing least they should haue fallen into some rough places, they cast foure ancres out of the sterne, and wished that the day were come.

geneva@Acts:27:38 @ And whe they had eaten ynough, they lightened the ship, & cast out the wheat into the sea.

geneva@Acts:27:41 @ And falling into a place where (note:)So is an isthmus called, because the Sea touches it on both sides.(:note) two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

geneva@Acts:28:1 @ And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called (note:)That place which we today call Malta.(:note) Melita.

geneva@Acts:28:6 @ Howbeit they looked when he should have (note:)The Greek word signifies to be inflamed or to swell: moreover, Dioscorides in his sixth book, chap. 38, witnesses that the biting of a viper causes a swelling of the body, and so says Nicander, in his remedies against poisons.(:note) swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: There are none who are more changing in every way than they who are ignorant of true religion. but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

geneva@Acts:28:8 @ And so it was, that the father of Publius lay sicke of the feauer, and of a bloodie flixe: to whom Paul entred in, and when he prayed, he laide his hands on him, and healed him.

geneva@Acts:28:13 @ And from thence we set a compasse, and came to Rhegium: and after one day, the South wind blewe, and we came the seconde day to Putioli:

geneva@Acts:28:16 @ And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by (note:)Not in a common prison, but in a house which he rented for himself.(:note) himself with a soldier that kept him.

geneva@Acts:28:18 @ Who when they had examined me, would haue let me goe, because there was no cause of death in me.

geneva@Acts:28:22 @ But we will heare of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we knowe that euery where it is spoken against.

geneva@Acts:28:25 @ Therefore when they agreed not among themselues, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, to wit, Well spake the holy Ghost by Esaias the Prophet vnto our fathers,

geneva@Acts:28:27 @ For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they (note:)They made as though they did not see that which they saw against their desires: yea, they did see, but they would not see.(:note) closed; lest they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

geneva@Romans:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)The first part of the epistle contains a most profitable preface down to verse six.(:note) a Paul, exhorting the Romans to give diligent heed to him, in that he shows that he comes not in his own name, but as God's messenger to the Gentiles, entreats them with the weightiest matter that exists, promised long ago by God, by many good witnesses, and now at length indeed performed.Minister, for this word «servant» is not taken in this place as set against the word «freeman», but rather refers to and declares his ministry and office. servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an Whereas he said before in a general term that he was a minister, now he comes to a more special name, and says that he is an apostle, and that he did not take this office upon himself by his own doing, but that he was called by God, and therefore in this letter of his to the Romans he is doing nothing but his duty. apostle, Appointed by God to preach the gospel. separated unto the gospel of God,

geneva@Romans:1:9 @ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my (note:)Very willingly and with all my heart.(:note) spirit in the In preaching his Son. gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

geneva@Romans:1:12 @ That is, that (note:)Though Paul was ever so excellent, yet in teaching the church, he might be instructed by it.(:note) I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

geneva@Romans:1:13 @ Now my brethren, I would that ye should not be ignorant, how that I haue oftentimes purposed to come vnto you (but haue bene let hitherto) that I might haue some fruite also among you, as I haue among the other Gentiles.

geneva@Romans:1:15 @ So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at (note:)He means all those who dwell at Rome, though some of them were not Romans; see the end of the epistle.(:note) Rome also.

geneva@Romans:1:16 @ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: (note:)This is the second part of the epistle, until the beginning of chapter nine. Now the whole end and purpose of the discussion is this: that is to say, to show that there is but one way to attain unto salvation (which is displayed to us by God in the gospel, and that equally to every nation), and this way is Jesus Christ apprehended by faith.(:note) for it is the God's mighty and effectual instrument to save men by. power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the When this word «Greek» is contrasted with the word «Jew», then it signifies a Gentile. Greek.

geneva@Romans:1:20 @ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being (note:)You do not see God, and yet you acknowledge him as God by his works; Cicero.(:note) understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

geneva@Romans:1:21 @ Because that, when they knew God, they (note:)They did not honour him with that honour and service which was appropriate for his everlasting power and Godhead.(:note) glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became As if he said, became so corrupt in themselves. vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

geneva@Romans:1:23 @ And changed the glory of the (note:)For the true God they substituted another.(:note) uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

geneva@Romans:1:27 @ And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that (note:)An appropriate reward and that which they deserved.(:note) recompence of their error which was meet.

geneva@Romans:1:30 @ Backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proude, boasters, inuenters of euil things, disobedient to parents,

geneva@Romans:1:32 @ Who knowing the (note:)By the «judgment of God» he means that which the philosophers called the «law of nature», and the lawyers themselves termed the «law of nations».(:note) judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but Are companions and partakers with them in their wickedness, and beside that, commend those who do wrong. have pleasure in them that do them.

geneva@Romans:2:1 @ Therefore (note:)He convicts those who would seem to be exempt from the rest of men (because they reprehend other men's faults), and says that they are least of all to be excused, for if they were searched well and carefully (as God surely does) they themselves would be found guilty in those things which they reprehend and punish in others: so that in condemning others, they pronounce sentence against themselves.(:note) thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

geneva@Romans:2:2 @ But we (note:)Paul alleges no places of scripture, for he reasons generally against all men: but he brings reasons such that every man is persuaded by them in his mind, so that the devil himself is not able to completely pluck them out.(:note) are sure that the judgment of God is according to Considering and judging things correctly, and not by any outward show. truth against them which commit such things.

geneva@Romans:2:5 @ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart (note:)While you are giving yourself to pleasures, thinking to increase your goods, you will find God's wrath.(:note) treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

geneva@Romans:2:7 @ To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for (note:)Glory which follows good works, which he does not lay out before us as though there were any that could attain to salvation by his own strength, but, he lays this condition of salvation before us, which no man can perform, to bring men to Christ, who alone justifies the believers, as he himself concludes; see (Rom_2:21-22).(:note) glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

geneva@Romans:2:11 @ For there is no (note:)God does not judge men either by their blood or by their country, either to receive them or to cast them away.(:note) respect of persons with God.

geneva@Romans:2:20 @ An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the (note:)The way to teach and to form others in the knowledge of the truth.(:note) form of knowledge and of the truth in the As though he said that the Jews under a pretence of an outward serving of God, attributed all to themselves, when in reality they did nothing less than observe the Law. law.

geneva@Romans:2:24 @ For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

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@Romans:3:1 @ What (note:)The first address to the Jews, or the first anticipating of an objection by the Jews: what then, are the Jews preferred no more than the Gentiles? Indeed, they are, says the apostle, by the doing of God, for he committed the tables of the covenant to them, so that the unbelief of a few cannot cause the whole nation without exception to be cast away by God, who is true, and who also uses their unworthiness to commend and set forth his goodness.(:note) advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?

geneva@Romans:3:2 @ Much every way: (note:)The Jews' state and condition was of principal importance.(:note) chiefly, because that unto them were committed the Words. oracles of God.

geneva@Romans:3:4 @ God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be (note:)That your justice might be plainly seen.(:note) justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome Seeing that you showed forth an true token of your righteousness, steadfastness and faith, by preserving him who had broken his covenant. when thou art judged.

geneva@Romans:3:8 @ And (as we are blamed, & as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.

geneva@Romans:3:10 @ As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.

geneva@Romans:3:13 @ Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

geneva@Romans:3:20 @ Therefore by the (note:)By those deeds by which the law can be done by us.(:note) deeds of the law there shall no Flesh is here taken for man, as in many other places, and furthermore has greater force here: for it is given to show the contrast between God and man: as if one would say, «Man, who is nothing else but a piece of flesh defiled with sin, and God, who is most pure and most perfect in himself.» flesh be Absolved before the judgment seat of God. justified in his Paul has in mind a contrasting of the righteousness of before men, be they ever so just, against the justice which can stand before God: now there is no righteousness that can stand before God, except the righteousness of Christ alone. sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

geneva@Romans:3:23 @ For all have sinned, and come short of the (note:)By the «glory of God» is meant that mark which we all aim for, that is, everlasting life, which consists in our being made partakers of the glory of God.(:note) glory of God;

geneva@Romans:4:1 @ What (note:)A new argument of great weight, taken from the example of Abraham the father of all believers: and this is the proposition: if Abraham is considered in himself by his works, he has deserved nothing with which to rejoice with God.(:note) shall we then say that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the By works, as is evident from the next verse. flesh, hath found?

geneva@Romans:4:17 @ (As it is written, I have made thee a (note:)This fatherhood is spiritual, depending only upon the power of God, who made the promise.(:note) father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] Before God, that is by membership in his spiritual family, which has a place before God, and makes us acceptable to God. God, who Who restores to life. quickeneth the dead, and With whom those things are already, which as yet are not indeed, as he can with a word make what he wishes out of nothing. calleth those things which be not as though they were.

geneva@Romans:4:19 @ And being (note:)Very strong and steadfast.(:note) not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now Void of strength, and unfit to have children. dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

geneva@Romans:4:20 @ He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving (note:)Acknowledged and praised God, as most gracious and true.(:note) glory to God;

geneva@Romans:4:21 @ And being (note:)A description of true faith.(:note) fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

geneva@Romans:4:22 @ And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse.

geneva@Romans:4:25 @ Who was delivered for our (note:)To pay the ransom for our sins.(:note) offences, and was raised again for our justification.

geneva@Romans:5:1 @ Therefore being (note:)Another argument taken from the effects: we are justified with that which truly appeases our conscience before God: and faith in Christ does appease our conscience and not the law, as it was said before, therefore by faith we are justified, and not by the law.(:note) justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

geneva@Romans:5:8 @ But God (note:)He commends his love toward us, so that in the midst of our afflictions we may know assuredly that he will be present with us.(:note) commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet While sin reigned in us. sinners, Christ died for us.

geneva@Romans:5:21 @ That as sinne had reigned vnto death, so might grace also reigne by righteousnesse vnto eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.

geneva@Romans:6:1 @ What (note:)He passes now to another benefit of Christ, which is called sanctification or regeneration.(:note) shall we say then? Shall we continue in In that corruption, for though the guiltiness of sin, is not imputed to us, yet the corruption still remains in us: and this is killed little by little by the sanctification that follows justification. sin, that grace may abound?

geneva@Romans:6:2 @ God forbid. (note:)The benefits of justification and sanctification are always inseparable joined together, and both of them proceed from Christ by the grace of God: now sanctification is the abolishing of sin, that is, of our natural corruption, whose place is taken by the cleanness and pureness of a reformed nature.(:note) How shall we, that are They are said by Paul to be dead to sin, who are made partakers of the power of Christ, so that the natural corruption is dead in them, that is, the power of it is removed, and it does not bring forth its bitter fruits: and on the other hand, they are said to live to sin, who are in the flesh, that is, whom the Spirit of God has not delivered from the slavery of the corruption of nature. dead to sin, live any longer therein?

geneva@Romans:6:4 @ Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead (note:)So that Christ himself, being released of his infirmity and weakness, might live in glory with God forever.(:note) by the glory of the Father, even so And we who are his members rise for this purpose, that being made partakers of the very same power, we should begin to lead a new life, as though we were already in heaven. we also should walk in newness of life.

geneva@Romans:6:6 @ Knowing this, that our (note:)Our entire nature, as we are conceived and born into this world with sin, is called «old», partly by comparing that old Adam with Christ, and partly also in respect of the deformed state of our corrupt nature, which we change with a new.(:note) old man is crucified with Our corrupt nature is regarded as belonging to Christ, not because of what he has done, but by imputation. [him], that the That wickedness which remains in us. body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not The end of sanctification which we aim at, and will at length come to, that is, when God will be all in all. serve sin.

geneva@Romans:6:13 @ Neither (note:)To sin, as to a Lord or tyrant.(:note) yield ye your Your mind and all the powers of it. members [as] As instruments to commit wickedness with them. instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

geneva@Romans:6:16 @ Knowe ye not, that to whomsoeuer yee giue your selues as seruats to obey, his seruants ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of sinne vnto death, or of obedience vnto righteousnesse?

geneva@Romans:6:19 @ I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.

geneva@Romans:6:22 @ But now being freed from sinne, and made seruants vnto God, ye haue your fruit in holines, and the end, euerlasting life.

geneva@Romans:7:1 @ Know (note:)By expounding the similitude of marriage, he compares together the state of man both before and after regeneration. The law of matrimony, he says, is this, that as long as the husband lives, the marriage remains binding, but if he is dead, the woman may marry again.(:note) ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

geneva@Romans:7:6 @ But now we are delivered from the law, that (note:)As if he said, «The bond which bound us is dead, and has disappeared, in as much that the sin which held us does not have anything to hold us with now.»(:note) being dead For this husband is within us. wherein we were Satan is an unjust possessor, for he deceitfully brought us into bondage to sin and himself: and yet nonetheless, as long as we are sinners, we sin willingly. held; that we should serve in As is appropriate for those who, after the death of their old husband, are joined to the Spirit, the ones whom the Spirit of God has made new men. newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the By the letter he means the law, with respect to that old condition: for before our will is shaped by the Holy Spirit, the law speaks but to deaf men, and therefore it is dumb and dead to us, with regard to the fulfilling of it. letter.

geneva@Romans:7:8 @ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] (note:)Though sin is in us, yet it is not known as sin, neither does it rage in the same way that it rages after the law is known.(:note) dead.

geneva@Romans:7:10 @ But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.

geneva@Romans:7:11 @ For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.

geneva@Romans:7:22 @ For I delight in the law of God after the (note:)The inner man and the new man are the same, and are compared and contrasted with the old man; and neither do these words «inward man» signify man's mind and reason, and the «old man» the physical body that is subject to them, as the philosophers imagine: but by the outward man is meant whatever is either without or within a man from top to bottom, as long as that man is not born again by the grace of God.(:note) inward man:

geneva@Romans:7:23 @ But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my (note:)The law of the mind in this place is not to be understood as referring to the mind as it is naturally, and as our mind is from our birth, but of the mind which is renewed by the Spirit of God.(:note) mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

geneva@Romans:8:1 @ [There is] (note:)A conclusion of all the former discussion, from (Rom_1:16) to this verse: seeing that we, being justified by faith in Christ, obtain remission of sins and imputation of righteousness, and are also sanctified, it follows from this that those who are grafted into Christ by faith, need have no fear of condemnation.(:note) therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who The fruits of the Spirit, or effects of sanctification, which are begun in us, do not ingraft us into Christ, but declare that we are grafted into him. walk not after the Do not follow the flesh as their guide: for he is not said to live after the flesh that has the Holy Spirit for his guide, even though he sometimes takes a step off of the path. flesh, but after the Spirit.

geneva@Romans:8:20 @ For the creature was made subject to (note:)Is subject to a vanishing and disappearing state.(:note) vanity, not Not by their natural inclination. willingly, but by reason That they should obey the Creator's commandment, whom it pleased to show by their sickly state, how greatly he was displeased with man. of him who hath subjected [the same] in God would not make the world subject to be cursed forever because of the sin of man, but gave it hope that it would be restored. hope,

geneva@Romans:8:30 @ Moreover whom he did (note:)He uses the past tense for the present time, as the Hebrews use, who sometimes describe something that is to come by using the past tense, to signify the certainty of it: and he also is referring to God's continual working.(:note) predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

geneva@Romans:8:36 @ As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

geneva@Romans:9:1 @ I say (note:)The third part of this epistle, which goes to the twelfth chapter, in which Paul ascends to the higher causes of faith: and first of all, because he purposed to speak much of the casting off of the Jews, he uses a declaration, saying by a double or triple oath, and by witnessing of his great desire towards their salvation, his singular love towards them, and in addition granting to them all their privileges.(:note) the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

geneva@Romans:9:3 @ For I could wish that myself were (note:)The apostle loved his brethren so completely that if it had been possible he would have been ready to have redeemed the castaways of the Israelites with the loss of his own soul forever: for this word «accursed» signifies as much in this place.(:note) accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the Being brethren by flesh, as from one nation and country. flesh:

geneva@Romans:9:4 @ Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the (note:)The ark of the covenant, which was a token of God's presence.(:note) glory, and the The tables of the covenant, and this is spoken by the figure of speech metonymy. covenants, and the giving of the Of the judicial law. law, and the The ceremonial law. service [of God], and the Which were made to Abraham and to his posterity. promises;

geneva@Romans:9:5 @ Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], (note:)Or, «who is God over all, blessed for ever.» A most manifest testimony of the Godhead and divinity of Christ.(:note) who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

geneva@Romans:9:7 @ Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: (note:)The first proof is taken from the example of Abraham's own house, in which Isaac only was considered the son, and that by God's ordinance: although Ishmael also was born of Abraham, and circumcised before Isaac.(:note) but, In Isaac will be your true and natural son, and therefore heir of the blessing. Isaac shall thy seed be called.

geneva@Romans:9:11 @ (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the (note:)God's decree which proceeds from only his good will, by which it pleases him to choose one, and refuse the other.(:note) purpose of God according to election might Paul does not say, «might be made», but «being made might remain». Therefore they are deceived who make foreseen faith the cause of election, and foreknown infidelity the cause of reprobation. stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

geneva@Romans:9:13 @ As it is written, I haue loued Iacob, and haue hated Esau.

geneva@Romans:9:23 @ And that he might make known the (note:)The unmeasurable and marvellous greatness.(:note) riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

geneva@Romans:9:26 @ And it shalbe in the place where it was said vnto them, Ye are not my people, that there they shalbe called, The children of the liuing God.

geneva@Romans:9:29 @ And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of (note:)Armies, by which word the greatest power that exists is attributed to God.(:note) Sabaoth had left us a Even as very few. seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

geneva@Romans:9:32 @ Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the (note:)Seeking to attain righteousness, they followed the law of righteousness.(:note) works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

geneva@Romans:9:33 @ As it is written, Beholde, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and a rocke to make men fall: and euery one that beleeueth in him, shall not be ashamed.

geneva@Romans:10:6 @ But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, (note:)Do not think to yourself, as men that are doubting do.(:note) Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from above]:)

geneva@Romans:10:14 @ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? (note:)That is, true faith, which seeks God in his word, and that preached: and this preaching God has appointed in the Church.(:note) and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

geneva@Romans:10:15 @ And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, Howe beautifull are the feete of them which bring glad tidings of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

geneva@Romans:10:20 @ But Esaias is very (note:)Speaks without fear.(:note) bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

geneva@Romans:11:1 @ I say then, (note:)Now the apostle shows how this doctrine is to be applied to others, remaining still in his propounded cause. Therefore he teaches us that all the Jews in particular are not cast away, and therefore we ought not to pronounce rashly of individual persons, whether they are of the number of the elect or not.(:note) Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For The first proof: I am a Jew, and yet elected, therefore we may and ought fully to be sure of our election, as has been said before: but of another man's we cannot be so certainly sure, and yet ours may cause us to hope well of others. I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.

geneva@Romans:11:4 @ But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have (note:)He speaks of remnants and reserved people who were chosen from everlasting, and not of remnants that should be chosen afterwards: for they are not chosen, because they were not idolaters: but rather they were not idolaters, because they were chosen and elect.(:note) reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] «Baal» signifies as much as «master» or «patron», or one in whose power another is, which name the idolaters in this day give their idols, naming them «patrons», and «patronesses» or «ladies». Baal.

geneva@Romans:11:9 @ And David saith, (note:)As unhappy birds are enticed by that which is their sustenance, and then killed, and so did that thing turn to the Jew's destruction, out of which they sought life, that is, the law of God, for the preposterous zeal of which they refused the Gospel.(:note) Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

geneva@Romans:11:12 @ Now if the fall of them [be] the (note:)By «riches» he means the knowledge of the Gospel to everlasting life: and by the «world», all nations dispersed throughout the whole world.(:note) riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their Of the Jews, when the whole nation without exception will come to Christ. fulness?

geneva@Romans:11:15 @ For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], (note:)It will come to pass that when the Jews come to the Gospel, the world will as it were come to life again, and rise up from death to life.(:note) but life from the dead?

geneva@Romans:11:24 @ For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by (note:)Understand nature, not as it was first made, but as it was corrupted in Adam, and so passed on from him to his posterity.(:note) nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a Into the people of the Jews, whom God had sanctified only by his grace: and he speaks of the whole nation, not of any one part. good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be graffed into their own olive tree?

geneva@Romans:11:26 @ And so all Israel shalbe saued, as it is written, The deliuerer shall come out of Sion, and shall turne away the vngodlinesse from Iacob.

geneva@Romans:11:36 @ For of him, and through him, and to (note:)That is, for God, to whose glory all things are ascribed, not only things that were made, but especially his new works which he works in his elect.(:note) him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.

geneva@Romans:12:1 @ I beseech (note:)The fourth part of this epistle, which after the finishing of the principal points of Christian doctrine, consists in the declaring of precepts of the Christian life. And first of all he gives general precepts and grounds: the principal of which is this, that every man consecrate himself wholly to the spiritual service of God, and do as it were sacrifice himself, trusting the grace of God.(:note) you therefore, brethren, By this preface he shows that God's glory is the utmost goal of everything we do. by the mercies of God, that ye In times past the sacrifices were presented before the altar: but now the altar is everywhere. present your Yourselves: in times past other bodies besides our own, but now our own must be offered. bodies a In times past, dead sacrifices were offered, but now we must offer those which have the spirit of life in them. living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your Spiritual. reasonable service.

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:12:16 @ [Be] of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of (note:)There is nothing that disrupts harmony as much as seeking glory, when every man detests a base estate, and ambitiously seeks to be exalted.(:note) low estate. Be not Do not be puffed up with an opinion of your own wisdom. wise in your own conceits.

geneva@Romans:12:18 @ If it bee possible, as much as in you is, haue peace with all men.

geneva@Romans:13:1 @ Let (note:)Now he distinctly shows what subjects owe to their magistrates, that is, obedience: from which he shows that no man is free: and the obedience we owe is such that it is not only due to the highest magistrate himself, but also even to the lowest, who has any office under him.(:note) every Indeed, though an apostle, though an evangelist, though a prophet; Chrysostom. Therefore the tyranny of the pope over all kingdoms must be thrown down to the ground. soul be subject unto the higher A reason taken from the nature of the thing itself: for to what purpose are they placed in higher degree, but in order that the inferiors should be subject to them? powers. Another argument of great force: because God is author of this order: so that those who are rebels ought to know that they make war with God himself: and because of this they purchase for themselves great misery and calamity. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are Be distributed: for some are greater, some smaller. ordained of God.

geneva@Romans:13:4 @ For he is the minister of God to thee for good. (note:)God has armed the magistrate even with an avenging sword.(:note) But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a By whom God avenges the wicked. revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.

geneva@Romans:13:7 @ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom (note:)Obedience, and that from the heart.(:note) fear; honour to whom Reverence, which (as we have reason) we must give to the magistrate. honour.

geneva@Romans:13:9 @ For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is (note:)For the whole law commands nothing else but that we love God and our neighbour. But seeing that Paul speaks here of the duties we owe one to another, we must restrain this word «law» to the second table of the ten commandments.(:note) briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

geneva@Romans:13:12 @ The night is far spent, the day is (note:)In other places we are said to be in the light, but yet so that it does not yet appear what we are, for as yet we see but as it were in the twilight.(:note) at hand: let us therefore cast off the works That kind of life which those lead that flee the light. of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

geneva@Romans:13:13 @ So that wee walke honestly, as in the day: not in gluttonie, and drunkennesse, neither in chambering and wantonnes, nor in strife and enuying.

geneva@Romans:14:1 @ Him (note:)Now he shows how we ought to behave ourselves toward our brethren in matters and things indifferent, who offend in the use of them not from malice or damnable superstition, but for lack of knowledge of the benefit of Christ. And thus he teaches that they are to be instructed gently and patiently, and so that we apply ourselves to their ignorance in such matters according to the rule of charity.(:note) that is weak in the faith Do not for a matter or thing which is indifferent, and such a thing as you may do or not do, shun his company, but take him to you. receive ye, [but] not to To make him by your doubtful and uncertain disputations go away in more doubt than he came, or return back with a troubled conscience. doubtful disputations.

geneva@Romans:14:11 @ For it is written, [As] I (note:)This is a form of an oath, proper to God alone, for he and none but he lives, and has his being of himself.(:note) live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall Will acknowledge be to be from God. confess to God.

geneva@Romans:14:15 @ But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. (note:)It is the part of a cruel mind to make more account of meat than of our brother's salvation. Which thing those do who eat with the intent of giving offence to any brother, and so give him occasion to turn back from the Gospel.(:note) Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Another argument: we must follow Christ's example: and Christ was so far from destroying the weak with meat that he gave his life for them. Christ died.

geneva@Romans:14:23 @ And he that (note:)Reasons with himself.(:note) doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.

geneva@Romans:15:1 @ We (note:)Now the apostle reasons generally of tolerating or bearing with the weak by all means, in so far that it may be for their profit.(:note) then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to And despise others. please ourselves.

geneva@Romans:15:2 @ Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] (note:)For his profit and edification.(:note) good to edification.

geneva@Romans:15:7 @ Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also (note:)He did not shun us, but received us of his own accord, to make us partakers of God's glory.(:note) received us to the glory of God.

geneva@Romans:15:12 @ And againe Esaias sayth, There shall be a roote of Iesse, and hee that shall rise to reigne ouer the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust.

geneva@Romans:15:15 @ Neuerthelesse, brethren, I haue somewhat boldly after a sort written vnto you, as one that putteth you in remembrance, through the grace that is giuen me of God,

geneva@Romans:15:16 @ That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the (note:)By the offering up of the Gentiles, he means the Gentiles themselves, whom he offered to God as a sacrifice.(:note) offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

geneva@Romans:15:18 @ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which (note:)Christ was so with me in all things, and by all means, that even if I had wanted to, yet I cannot say what he has done by me to bring the Gentiles to obey the gospel.(:note) Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

geneva@Romans:15:19 @ Through (note:)In the first place this word «mighty» signifies the force and working of the wonders in piercing men's minds: and in the latter, it signifies God's mighty power which was the worker of those wonders.(:note) mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

geneva@Romans:15:20 @ Yea, so I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should haue built on another mans foundation.

geneva@Romans:15:21 @ But as it is written, To whome hee was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not, shall vnderstand him.

geneva@Romans:15:25 @ But now I go unto Jerusalem to (note:)Doing his duty for the saints, to carry to them that money which was gathered for their use.(:note) minister unto the saints.

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@Romans:15:30 @ Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the (note:)For the mutual union, with which the Holy Spirit has united our hearts and minds together.(:note) love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me;

geneva@Romans:16:2 @ That ye receive her in the (note:)For Christ's sake, which appropriately belongs to the Christians, for the heathen philosophers have a resemblance of the same virtues.(:note) Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

geneva@Romans:16:5 @ Likewise [greet] the (note:)The company of the faithful, for in so great a city as that was, there were different companies.(:note) church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the For he was the first of Achaia that believed in Christ: and this type of speech is an allusion to the ceremonies of the law. firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

geneva@Romans:16:8 @ Greete Amplias my beloued in the Lord.

geneva@Romans:16:14 @ Greete Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Mercurius, and the brethren which are with them.

geneva@Romans:16:15 @ Salute Philologus and Iulias, Nereas, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saintes which are with them.

geneva@Romans:16:16 @ Salute one another with an holy (note:)He calls that a holy kiss which proceeds from a heart that is full of that holy love: now this is to be understood as referring to the manner used in those days.(:note) kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

geneva@Romans:16:18 @ For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by (note:)The word which he uses signifies a promising which accomplishes nothing, and if you hear any such, you may assure yourself that he who promises to you is more concerned about receiving from you than he is concerned about giving to you.(:note) good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

geneva@Romans:16:22 @ I Tertius, who (note:)Wrote it as Paul uttered it.(:note) wrote [this] epistle, salute you in the Lord.

geneva@Romans:16:23 @ Gains mine hoste, & of the whole Church saluteth you. Erastus the steward of the citie saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

geneva@Romans:16:26 @ But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, (note:)Offered and exhibited to all nations to be known.(:note) made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

geneva@1Corinthians:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)The inscription of the epistle, in which he mainly tries to procure the good will of the Corinthians towards him, yet nonetheless in such a way that he always lets them know that he is the servant of God and not of men.(:note) called [to be] an If he is an apostle, then he must be heard, even though he sometimes sharply reprehends them, seeing he has not his own cause in hand, but is a messenger that brings the commandments of Christ. apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and He has Sosthenes with himself, that this doctrine might be confirmed by two witnesses. Sosthenes [our] brother,

geneva@1Corinthians:1:7 @ So that ye come behind in no gift; (note:)He says along the way that there is no reason why they should be so pleased in those gifts which they had received, seeing that those were nothing in comparison of those which are to be looked for.(:note) waiting for the He speaks of the last coming of Christ. coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

geneva@1Corinthians:1:12 @ Now (note:)The matter I would say to you is this.(:note) this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

geneva@1Corinthians:1:16 @ I baptized also the houshold of Stephanas: furthermore knowe I not, whether I baptized any other.

geneva@1Corinthians:1:20 @ Where [is] the wise? where [is] the (note:)Where are you, O you learned fellow, and you that spend your days in turning your books?(:note) scribe? where [is] the You that spend all your time in seeking out the secret things of this world, and in expounding all hard questions: and thus he triumphs against all the men of this world, for there was not one of them that could so much as dream of this secret and hidden mystery. disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

geneva@1Corinthians:1:28 @ And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which (note:)Which in man's judgment are almost nothing.(:note) are not, to bring to To show that they are vain and unprofitable, and worth nothing. {{See Rom_3:31}} nought things that are:

geneva@1Corinthians:1:29 @ That no (note:)«Flesh» is often, as we see, taken for the whole man: and he uses this word «flesh» very well, to contrast the weak and miserable condition of man with the majesty of God.(:note) flesh should glory in his presence.

geneva@1Corinthians:1:30 @ But (note:)Whom he cast down before, now he lifts up, indeed, higher than all men: yet in such a way that he shows them that all their worthiness is outside of themselves, that is, it stands in Christ, and that of God.(:note) of him are ye in Christ Jesus, He teaches that especially and above all things, the Gospel ought not to be condemned, seeing that it contains the principal things that are to be desired, that is, true wisdom, the true way to obtain righteousness, the true way to live honestly and godly, and the true deliverance from all miseries and calamities. who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

geneva@1Corinthians:1:31 @ That, according as it is written, (note:)Let him yield all to God and give him thanks: and so by this place is man's free will beaten down, which the papists so dream about.(:note) He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

geneva@1Corinthians:2:3 @ And I was with you in (note:)He contrasts weakness with excellency of words, and therefore joins with it fear and trembling, which are companions of true modesty, not such fear and trembling as terrify the conscience, but such as are contrary to vanity and pride.(:note) weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

geneva@1Corinthians:2:4 @ And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, (note:)He turns now to the commendation of his ministry, which he had granted to his adversaries: for his strength and power, which they knew well enough, was so much the more excellent because it had no worldly help behind it.(:note) but in By «demonstration» he means such a proof as is made by reasons both certain and necessary. demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

geneva@1Corinthians:2:12 @ Now we have received, not the (note:)The Spirit which we have received does not teach us things of this world, but lifts us up to God, and this verse teaches us the opposite of what the papists teach: what faith is, from where it comes, and from what power it originates.(:note) spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; That which he spoke generally, he confines now to those things which God has opened to us of our salvation in Christ: so that no man should separate the Spirit from the preaching of the word and Christ: or should think that those fanciful men are governed by the Spirit of God, who wandering besides the word, thrust upon us their vain imaginations for the secrets of God. that we might This word «know» is taken here in its proper sense for true knowledge, which the Spirit of God works in us. know the things that are freely given to us of God.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:1 @ And (note:)Having declared the worthiness of heavenly wisdom, and of the Gospel, and having generally condemned the blindness of man's mind, now at length he applies it particularly to the Corinthians, calling them carnal, that is, those in whom the flesh still prevails against the Spirit. And he brings a twofold testimony of it: first, because he had proved them to be such, in so much that he dealt with them as he would with ignorant men, and those who are almost babes in the doctrine of godliness, and second, because they showed indeed by these dissensions, which sprang up by reason of the ignorance of the power of the Spirit, and heavenly wisdom, that they had profited very little or nothing.(:note) I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto He calls them carnal, who are as yet ignorant, and therefore to express it better, he calls them «babes». carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:2 @ I have fed you with milk, and not with (note:)Substantial meat, or strong meat.(:note) meat: for hitherto ye were not To be fed by me with substantial meat: therefore as the Corinthians grew up in age, so the apostle nourished them by teaching, first with milk, then with strong meat. The difference was only in the manner of teaching. able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:3 @ For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as (note:)Using the tools of man's intellect and judgment.(:note) men?

geneva@1Corinthians:3:7 @ So then, neither is hee that planteth any thing, neither hee that watreth, but God that giueth the increase.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:9 @ For we are (note:)Serving under him: now they who serve under another do nothing by their own strength, but as it is given them of grace, which grace makes them fit for that service. See (1Co_15:10; 2Co_3:6). All the increase that comes by their labour proceeds from God in such a way that no part of the praise of it may be given to the servant.(:note) labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:10 @ According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. (note:)Now he speaks to the teachers themselves, who succeeded him in the church of Corinth, and in this regard to all that were after or will be pastors of congregations, seeing that they succeed into the labour of the apostles, who were planters and chief builders. Therefore he warns them first that they do not persuade themselves that they may build after their own fantasy, that is, that they may propound and set forth anything in the Church, either in matter, or in type of teaching, different from the apostles who were the chief builders.(:note) But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:15 @ If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but (note:)He does not take away the hope of salvation from the unskilful and foolish builders, who hold fast the foundation, of which sort were those rhetoricians, rather than the pastors of Corinth. However, he adds an exception, that they must nonetheless suffer this trial of their work, and also abide the loss of their vain labours.(:note) he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:22 @ Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the (note:)He passes from the persons to the things themselves, that his argument may be more forcible. Indeed, he ascends from Christ to the Father, to show that we rest ourselves not in Christ himself, in that he is man, but because he carries us up even to the Father, as Christ witnesses of himself everywhere that he was sent by his Father, that by this band we may be all united with God himself.(:note) world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

geneva@1Corinthians:4:1 @ Let (note:)He concludes the duty of the hearers towards their ministers: that they do not esteem them as lords. Yet nonetheless they are to give ear to them, as to those that are sent from Christ. Sent I say to this end and purpose, that they may receive as it were at their hands the treasure of salvation which is drawn out of the secrets of God.(:note) a Every man. man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

geneva@1Corinthians:4:9 @ For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a (note:)He that thinks that Paul and the pope are alike, who lyingly boasts that he is his successor, let him compare the delicacies of the popish court with Paul's state as we see it here.(:note) spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

geneva@1Corinthians:4:13 @ Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the (note:)Such as is gathered together by sweeping.(:note) filth of the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.

geneva@1Corinthians:4:17 @ For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my (note:)What way and rule I follow everywhere in teaching the churches.(:note) ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

geneva@1Corinthians:4:19 @ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the (note:)By words, he means their fancy and elaborate type of eloquence, which he contrasts with the power of the Holy Spirit.(:note) speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

geneva@1Corinthians:5:1 @ It is (note:)They are greatly to be reprehended who by allowing wickedness, set forth the Church of God to be mocked and scorned by infidels.(:note) reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

geneva@1Corinthians:5:4 @ In the (note:)Calling upon Christ's name.(:note) name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, There is no doubt that the judgment is ratified in heaven, in which Christ himself sits as Judge. with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

geneva@1Corinthians:5:8 @ Therefore let us keep the (note:)Let us lead our whole life as it were a continual feast, honestly and uprightly.(:note) feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

geneva@1Corinthians:6:1 @ Dare (note:)The third question is of civil judgments. Whether it is lawful for one of the faithful to draw another of the faithful before the judgment seat of an infidel? He answers that is not lawful because it is an offence for the faithful to do this, for it is not evil in itself that a matter be brought before the judgment seat, even of an infidel.(:note)As if he said, «Have you become so impudent, that you are not ashamed to make the Gospel a laughing stock to profane men?» any of you, having a matter against another, go to law Before the unjust. before the unjust, He adds that he does not forbid that one neighbour may go to law with another, if need so require, but yet under holy judges. and not before the saints?

geneva@1Corinthians:6:9 @ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? (note:)Now he prepares himself to pass over to the fourth treatise of this epistle, which concerns other matters, concerning this matter first, how men may well use a woman or not. And this question has three parts: fornication, matrimony, and a single life. As for fornication, he utterly condemns it. And marriage he commands to some, as a good and necessary remedy for them: to others he leaves is free. And others he dissuades from it, not as unlawful, but as inconvenient, and that not without exception. As for singleness of life (under which also I comprehend virginity) he enjoins it to no man: yet he persuades men to it, but not for itself, but for another respect, neither to all men, nor without exception. And being about to speak against fornication, he begins with a general reprehension of those vices, with which that rich and riotous city most abounded: warning and teaching them earnestly, that repentance is inseparable joined with forgiveness of sins, and sanctification with justification.(:note) Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

geneva@1Corinthians:6:11 @ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the (note:)In Jesus.(:note) name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:1 @ Now (note:)He teaches concerning marriage that although a single life has its advantages, which he will declare afterwards, yet that marriage is necessary for the avoiding of fornication. But so that neither one man may have many wives, nor any wife many husbands.(:note) concerning the things Concerning those matters about which you wrote to me. whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] Commodious, and (as we say) expedient. For marriage brings many griefs with it, and that by reason of the corruption of our first estate. good for a man not to touch a woman.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:5 @ Defraud ye not one the other, (note:)He adds an exception: unless the one abstain from the other by mutual consent, that they may the better give themselves to prayer, in which nonetheless he warns them to consider what is expedient, lest by this long breaking off as it were from marriage, they are stirred up to incontinency.(:note) except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may Do nothing else. give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:7 @ For I (note:)I wish.(:note) would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:20 @ Let euery man abide in the same vocation wherein he was called.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:21 @ Art thou called [being] a servant? (note:)As though this calling were too unworthy a calling for Christ.(:note) care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:28 @ But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the (note:)By the «flesh» he understands whatever things belong to this present life, for marriage brings with it many problems. So that he leans more to a single life, not because it is a service more agreeable to God than marriage is, but for those problems which (if it were possible) he would wish all men to be avoid, so that they might give themselves to God alone.(:note) flesh: but I I would your weakness were provided for. spare you.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:29 @ But this I say, brethren, the time [is] (note:)For we are now in the latter end of the world.(:note) short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

geneva@1Corinthians:7:30 @ And they that (note:)By «weeping» the Hebrews understand all adversity, and by «joy», all prosperity.(:note) weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

geneva@1Corinthians:7:31 @ And they that use this (note:)Those things which God gives us here.(:note) world, as not abusing [it]: for the The guise, and shape, and fashion: by which he shows us that there is nothing in this world that continues. fashion of this world passeth away.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:32 @ And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:33 @ But he that is married (note:)Those that are married have their minds drawn here and there, and therefore if any man has the gift of continency, it is more advantageous for him to live alone. But those who are married may care for the things of the Lord also. Clement, Strom. 3.(:note) careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:34 @ There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in (note:)Mind.(:note) spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:35 @ And this I speak for your own (note:)He means that he will force no man either to marry or not to marry, but to show them plainly what type of life is most advantageous.(:note) profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:37 @ Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his (note:)Resolved himself.(:note) heart, having no That the weakness of his daughter does not force him, or any other matter, that that he may safely still keep her a virgin. necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:38 @ So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth (note:)Provides better for his children, and that not in just any way, but by reason of such conditions as are mentioned before.(:note) better.

geneva@1Corinthians:8:1 @ Now (note:)He begins to entreat of another type of indifferent things, that is, things offered to idols, or the use of flesh so offered and sacrificed. And first of all he removes all those things which the Corinthians pretended in using things offered to idols without any respect. First of all they affirmed that this difference of foods was for the unskilful men, but as for them, they knew well enough the benefit of Christ, which causes all these things to be clean to those that are clean. Be it so, Paul says: even if we are all sufficiently instructed in the knowledge of Christ, I say nonetheless that we must not simply rest in this knowledge. The reason is, that unless our knowledge is tempered with charity, it does not only not avail, but also does much hurt, because it is the mistress of pride. Nay, it does not so much as deserve the name of godly knowledge, if it is separate from the love of God, and therefore from the love of our neighbour.(:note) as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we This general word is to be abridged as (1Co_8:7) appears, for there is a type of taunt in it, as we may perceive by (1Co_8:2). all have knowledge. Knowledge Gives occasion of vanity and pride, because it is void of charity. puffeth up, but charity Instructs our neighbour. edifieth.

geneva@1Corinthians:8:2 @ Nowe, if any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, hee knoweth nothing yet as hee ought to knowe.

geneva@1Corinthians:8:5 @ For though there bee that are called gods, whether in heauen, or in earth (as there be many gods, and many lords)

geneva@1Corinthians:8:6 @ But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, (note:)When the Father is distinguished from the Son, he is named the beginning of all things.(:note) of whom [are] all things, and we We have our being in him. in him; and But as the Father is called Lord, so is the Son therefore God: therefore this word «one» does not regard the persons, but the natures. one Lord Jesus Christ, This word «by» does not signify the instrumental cause, but the efficient: for the Father and the Son work together, which is not so to be taken that we make two causes, seeing they have both but one nature, though they are distinct persons. by whom [are] all things, and we by him.

geneva@1Corinthians:8:9 @ But take heede lest by any meanes this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:1 @ Am (note:)Before he proceeds any further in his purposed matter of things offered to idols, he would show the cause of all this evil, and also take it away. That is, that the Corinthians thought that they did not have to depart from the least amount of their liberty for any man's pleasure. Therefore he propounds himself for an example, and that in a matter almost necessary. And yet he speaks of both, but first of his own person. If (he says) you allege for yourselves that you are free, and therefore will use your liberty, am I not also free, seeing I am an apostle?(:note) I not an apostle? am I not free? He proves his apostleship by the effects, in that he was appointed by Christ himself, and the authority of his function was sufficiently confirmed to him among them by their conversion. And all these things he sets before their eyes, to make them ashamed because they would not in the least way that might be, debase themselves for the sake of the weak, whereas the apostle himself did all the he could to win them to God, when they were utterly reprobate and without God. have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye By the Lord. my work in the Lord?

geneva@1Corinthians:9:2 @ If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the (note:)As a seal by which it sufficiently appears that God is the author of my apostleship.(:note) seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:5 @ Have we not power to lead about a (note:)One that is a Christian and a true believer.(:note) sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

geneva@1Corinthians:9:6 @ Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to (note:)Not live by the works of our hands.(:note) forbear working?

geneva@1Corinthians:9:9 @ For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for (note:)Was it God's proper intention to provide for oxen, when he made this law? For there is not the smallest thing in the world, but that God has a concern for.(:note) oxen?

geneva@1Corinthians:9:14 @ Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live (note:)Because they preach the Gospel. It follows by this place, that Paul received no living, neither would have any other man receive, by a commodity of masses, or any other such superstitious nonsense.(:note) of the gospel.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:15 @ But I have used none of these things: (note:)He takes away occasion of suspicion by the way, that it might not be thought that he wrote this as though he was demanding his wages that were not payed him. On the contrary, he says, I had rather die, than not to continue in this purpose to preach the Gospel freely. For I am bound to preach the Gospel, seeing that the Lord has given and commanded me this office: but unless I do it willingly and for the love of God, nothing that I do is to be considered worthwhile. If I had rather that the Gospel should be evil spoken of, than that I should not require my wages, then would it appear that I took these pains not so much for the Gospel's sake, as for my gains and advantages. But I say, this would not be to use, but rather to abuse my right and liberty: therefore not only in this thing, but also in all others (as much as I could) I am made all things to all men, that I might win them to Christ, and might together with them be won to Christ.(:note) neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:20 @ And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the (note:)The word «law» in this place must be limited to the ceremonial Law.(:note) law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

geneva@1Corinthians:9:21 @ To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:

geneva@1Corinthians:9:22 @ To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to (note:)In matters that are indifferent, which may be done or not done with a good conscience. It is as if he said, «I accommodated all customs and manners, that by all means I might save some.»(:note) all [men], that I might by all means save some.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:25 @ And every man that striveth for the mastery is (note:)Uses a most excellent and moderate diet.(:note) temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:26 @ I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:27 @ But I keep under my (note:)The old man which strives against the Spirit.(:note) body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be Or, «reproved». And this word «reproved» is not contrasted with the word «elect», but with the word «approved», when we see someone who is experienced not to be such a one as he ought to be. a castaway.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:1 @ Moreover, (note:)He sets out that which he said, laying before them an example of the horrible judgment of God against those who had in effect the very same pledges of the same adoption and salvation that we have. And yet nonetheless when they gave themselves to idol's feasts, they perished in the wilderness, being horribly and manifoldly punished. Now, moreover and besides that these things are fitly spoken against those who frequented idol's feasts, the same also seems to be alleged to this end and purpose, because many men think that those things are not of such great weight that God will be angry with them if they use them. And so they frequent Christian assemblies and are baptized, and receive the communion, and confess Christ.(:note) brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our Paul says this in respect of the covenant, and not in respect of the persons, except generally. fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

geneva@1Corinthians:10:3 @ And did all eat the (note:)The same that we do.(:note) same spiritual Manna, which was a spiritual meat to the believers, who in faith lay hold upon Christ, who is the true meat. meat;

geneva@1Corinthians:10:4 @ And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that (note:)Of the River and running Rock, who followed the people.(:note) followed them: and that Rock was Did signify Christ as an ordinance, so that together with the sign, there was the thing signified, and the truth itself. For God does not offer a bare sign, but the thing signified by the sign together with it, which is to be received with faith. Christ.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:5 @ But with many of them God was not pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in ye wildernes.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:7 @ Neither bee ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:8 @ Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:9 @ Neither let us tempt (note:)To tempt Christ is to provoke him to a combat as it were, which those men do who abuse the knowledge that he has given them, and make it to serve for a cloak for their lusts and wickedness.(:note) Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:10 @ Neither murmure ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:13 @ There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to (note:)Which comes from weakness.(:note) man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also He that would have you tempted for your profit's sake, will make a way for you to escape out of the temptation. make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].

geneva@1Corinthians:10:16 @ The cup of (note:)Of thanksgiving: whereupon, that holy banquet was called «eucharist», which is Greek for thanksgiving.(:note) blessing which we bless, is it not the A most effectual pledge and note of your joining together with Christ, and ingrafting to him. communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

geneva@1Corinthians:10:21 @ Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the (note:)The heathen and profane people were accustomed to finish up and make an end of their feasts which they kept to the honour of their gods, in offering meat offerings and drink offerings to them, with banquets and feastings.(:note) cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:27 @ If any of them which beleeue not, call you to a feast, and if ye wil go, whatsoeuer is set before you, eate, asking no question for conscience sake.

geneva@1Corinthians:10:29 @ Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: (note:)A reason: for we must take heed that our liberty is not spoken of as evil, and that the benefit of God which we ought to use with thanksgiving is not changed into impiety. And this is through our fault, if we choose rather to offend the conscience of the weak, than to yield a little of our liberty in a matter of no importance, and so give occasion to the weak to judge in such sort of us, and of Christian liberty. And the apostle takes these things upon his own person, that the Corinthians may have so much the less occasion to oppose anything against him.(:note) for why is my liberty judged of another [man's] conscience?

geneva@1Corinthians:10:33 @ Euen as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine owne profite, but the profite of many, that they might be saued.

geneva@1Corinthians:11:1 @ Be yee followers of mee, euen as I am of Christ.

geneva@1Corinthians:11:12 @ For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman: but all things are of God.

geneva@1Corinthians:11:15 @ But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a (note:)To be a covering for her, and such a covering as should procure another.(:note) covering.

geneva@1Corinthians:11:24 @ And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is (note:)This word «broken» denotes to us the manner of Christ's death, for although his legs were not broken, as the thieves legs were, yet his body was very severely tormented, and torn, and bruised.(:note) broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

geneva@1Corinthians:11:25 @ After the same maner also he tooke the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the Newe Testament in my blood: this doe as oft as ye drinke it, in remembrance of me.

geneva@1Corinthians:11:26 @ For as often as ye shall eate this bread, and drinke this cup, ye shewe the Lords death till hee come.

geneva@1Corinthians:11:29 @ For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not (note:)He is said to discern the Lord's body that has consideration of the worthiness of it, and therefore comes to eat of this food with great reverence.(:note) discerning the Lord's body.

geneva@1Corinthians:11:32 @ But when we are iudged, we are chastened of the Lord, because we should not be condemned with the world.

geneva@1Corinthians:12:1 @ Now (note:)Now he enters into the third part of this treatise touching the right use of spiritual gifts, in which he gives the Corinthians plainly to understand that they abused them. For they that excelled bragged ambitiously of them, and so robbed God of the praise of his gifts: and having no consideration of their brethren, abused them to a vain display, and so robbed the church of the use of those gifts. On the other side the inferior sort envied the better, and went about to make a departure, so that all the body was as it were scatted and rent in pieces. So then, going about to remedy these abuses he wills them first to consider diligently that they have not these gifts of themselves, but from the free grace and liberality of God, to whose glory they ought to bestow them all.(:note) concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you Ignorant to what purpose these gifts are given to you. ignorant.

geneva@1Corinthians:12:10 @ To another the (note:)By «working» he means those great workings of God's mighty power, which pass and excel among his miracles, as the delivery of his people by the hand of Moses: that which he did by Elijah against the priests of Baal, in sending down fire from heaven to consume his sacrifice: and that which he did by Peter, in the matter of Ananias and Sapphira.(:note) working of miracles; to another Foretelling of things to come. prophecy; to another By which false prophets are know from true, in which Peter surpassed Philip in exposing Simon Magus; (Act_8:20). discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

geneva@1Corinthians:12:11 @ But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally (note:)He adds moreover somewhat else, that is, that although these gifts are unequal, yet they are most wisely divided, because the will of the Spirit of God is the rule of this distribution.(:note) as he will.

geneva@1Corinthians:12:18 @ But nowe hath God disposed the members euery one of them in the bodie at his owne pleasure.

geneva@1Corinthians:12:22 @ Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be (note:)Of the smallest and vilest offices, and therefore mentioned last among the rest.(:note) more feeble, are necessary:

geneva@1Corinthians:13:1 @ Though (note:)He reasons first of charity, the excellency of which he first shows by this, that without it, all other gifts are as nothing before God. And this he proves partly by an induction, and partly also by an argument taken of the end, for what reason those gifts are given. For, to what purpose are those gifts but to God's glory, and the profit of the Church as is before proved? So that those gifts, without charity, have no right use.(:note) I speak with the tongues of men and of A very earnest amplifying of the matter, as if he said, «If there were any tongues of angels, and I had them, and did not use them to the benefit of my neighbour, it would be nothing else except a vain and prattling type of babbling.» angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a That gives a rude and uncertain sound. tinkling cymbal.

geneva@1Corinthians:13:2 @ And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all (note:)By «faith» he means the gift of doing miracles, and not that faith which justifies, which cannot be void of charity as the other may.(:note) faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

geneva@1Corinthians:13:5 @ Doth (note:)It is not insolent, or reproachful.(:note) not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

geneva@1Corinthians:14:1 @ Follow (note:)He infers now of what he spoke before: therefore seeing charity is the chiefest of all, before all things set it before you as chief and principal. And so esteem those things as most excellent which profit the greater part of men (such as prophecy, that is to say, the gift of teaching and applying the doctrine: which was condemned in respect of other gifts, although it is the chiefest and most necessary for the Church) and not those who for a show seem to be marvellous, as the gifts of tongues. This was when a man was suddenly endowed with the knowledge of many tongues, which made men greatly amazed and yet of itself was not greatly of any use, unless there was an interpreter.(:note) after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may What prophecy is he shows in the third verse. prophesy.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:9 @ So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words (note:)That fitly utter the matter itself.(:note) easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:11 @ Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that (note:)As the papists in all their sermons, and they that ambitiously pour out some Hebrew or Greek words in the pulpit before the unlearned people, by this to get themselves a name of vain learning.(:note) speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:33 @ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as we see in all ye Churches of the Saints.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:35 @ And if they will learne any thing, let them aske their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speake in the Church.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:1 @ Moreover, (note:)The sixth treatise of this epistle, concerning the resurrection: and he uses a transition, or passing over from one matter to another, showing first that he brings no new thing, to the end that the Corinthians might understand that they had begun to swerve from the right course. And next that he does not go about to entreat of a trifling matter, but of another chief point of the Gospel, which if it is taken away, their faith will necessarily come to nothing. And so at the length he begins this treatise at Christ's resurrection, which is the ground and foundation of ours, and confirms it first by the testimony of the scriptures and by the witness of the apostles, and of more than five hundred brethren, and last of all by his own.(:note) brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye In the profession of which you still continue. stand;

geneva@1Corinthians:15:4 @ And that he was buried, and that he arose the third day, according to the Scriptures,

geneva@1Corinthians:15:5 @ And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the (note:)Of those twelve picked and chosen apostles, who were commonly called twelve, though Judas was put out of the number.(:note) twelve:

geneva@1Corinthians:15:6 @ After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at (note:)Not at several different times, but together and at one instant.(:note) once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:7 @ After that, he was seene of Iames: then of all the Apostles.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:9 @ For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not meete to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:10 @ But by the grace of God, I am that I am: and his grace which is in me, was not in vaine: but I laboured more aboundantly then they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:22 @ For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be (note:)Will rise by the power of Christ.(:note) made alive.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:25 @ For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies (note:)Christ is considered here as he appeared in the form of a servant, in which respect he rules the Church as head, and that because this power was given to him from his Father.(:note) under his feet.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:26 @ The (note:)The conclusion of the argument, which is taken from the whole to the part: for if all his enemies will be put under his feet, then it will necessarily be that death also will be subdued under him.(:note) last enemy [that] shall be destroyed [is] death.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:28 @ And when all things shall be subdued unto him, (note:)Not because the Son was not subject to his Father before, but because his body, that is to say, the Church which is here in distress, and not yet wholly partaker of his glory, is not yet fully perfect: and also because the bodies of the saints which are in the graves, will not be glorified until the resurrection. But Christ as he is God, has us subject to him as his Father has, but as he is Priest, he is subject to his Father together with us. Augustine, book 1, chap. 8, of the trinity.(:note) then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that By this high type of speech is set forth an incomprehensible glory which flows from God, and will fill all of us, as we are joined together with our head, but yet in such a way that our head will always preserve his preeminence. God may be all in all.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:31 @ I protest by your (note:)As though he said, «I die daily, as all the miseries I suffer can well witness, which I may truly boast of, that I have suffered among you.»(:note) rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:37 @ And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shalbe, but bare corne as it falleth, of wheat, or of some other.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:39 @ All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beastes, and another of fishes, and another of birdes.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:47 @ The first man [is] of the earth, (note:)Wallowing in dirt, and wholly given to an earthly nature.(:note) earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from As Adam was the first man, Christ is the second man; and these two are spoken of, as if they were the only two men in the world; because as the former was the head and representative of all his natural posterity, so the latter is the head and representative of all the spiritual offspring: and that he is «the Lord from heaven»; in distinction from the first man. (Ed.) heaven.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:49 @ And as we have borne the (note:)Not a vain and false image, but such a one as indeed had the truth with it.(:note) image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:52 @ In (note:)He shows that the time will be very short.(:note) a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:54 @ So when this corruptible hath put on incorruption, and this mortall hath put on immortalitie, then shalbe brought to passe the saying that is written, Death is swallowed vp into victorie.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:1 @ Now concerning (note:)Collections in ancient times were made by the appointment of the apostle appointment to be the first day of the week, on which day the manner was then to assemble themselves.(:note) the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:2 @ Upon the (note:)Which in times past was called Sunday, but now is called the Lord's day.(:note) first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God] hath That every man bestow according to the ability that God has blessed him with. prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:5 @ Nowe I will come vnto you, after I haue gone through Macedonia (for I will passe through Macedonia.)

geneva@1Corinthians:16:7 @ For I will not see you nowe in my passage, but I trust to abide a while with you, if the Lord permit.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:10 @ Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you (note:)Without any just occasion of fear.(:note) without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also [do].

geneva@1Corinthians:16:12 @ As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him, to come vnto you with the brethren: but his mind was not at all to come at this time: howbeit he will come when he shall haue conuenient time.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:13 @ Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: quite you like men, and be strong.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:15 @ I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of (note:)Stephanas is the name of a man and not of a woman.(:note) Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have Given themselves wholly to the ministry. addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

geneva@1Corinthians:16:16 @ That ye (note:)That you honour and revere them, be obedient to them, and be content to be ruled by them, as you properly should, seeing that they have bestowed themselves and their goods, and this to help you with them.(:note) submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with [us], and laboureth.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:17 @ I am glad of the comming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for they haue supplied the want of you.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:18 @ For they have refreshed my (note:)My heart.(:note) spirit and yours: therefore Take them for such men as they are indeed. acknowledge ye them that are such.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:19 @ The Churches of Asia salute you: Aquila and Priscilla with ye Church that is in their house, salute you greatly in the Lord.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:22 @ If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema (note:)By these words are meant the severest type of curse and excommunication that was among the Jews: and the words are as much as to say, «As our Lord comes». So that his meaning may be this, «Let him be accursed even to the coming of the Lord», that is to say, to the day of his death, even for ever.(:note) Maranatha.

geneva@1Corinthians:16:24 @ My loue be with you all in Christ Iesus, Amen. The first Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, and sent by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:5 @ For as the (note:)The miseries which we suffer for Christ, or which Christ suffers in us.(:note) sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:7 @ And our hope is stedfast concerning you, in as much as we know that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:9 @ But we had the sentence of death in (note:)I was resolved within myself to die.(:note) ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

geneva@2Corinthians:1:14 @ As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your (note:)Paul's rejoicing in the Lord was that he had won the Corinthians: and they themselves rejoiced that such an apostle was their instructor, and taught them so purely and sincerely.(:note) rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the When he will sit as judge. day of the Lord Jesus.

geneva@2Corinthians:1:15 @ And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a (note:)Another benefit.(:note) second benefit;

geneva@2Corinthians:1:16 @ And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you, and to be led foorth towarde Iudea of you.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:3 @ And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having (note:)For I trusted that you would immediately take that out of the way which you knew I was discontented with, considering how you are persuaded that my joy is your joy.(:note) confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:6 @ It is sufficient vnto the same man, that hee was rebuked of many.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:7 @ So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to (note:)That whereas before you punished him sharply, you should now forgive him.(:note) forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:8 @ Wherefore I beseech you that ye would (note:)That at my entreaty you would declare by the consent of the whole church, that you take him again as a brother.(:note) confirm [your] love toward him.

geneva@2Corinthians:2:17 @ For we are not as many, which (note:)We do not handle it craftily and covetously, or less sincerely than we ought. And he uses a metaphor, which is taken from hucksters, who used to play the false harlot with whatever came into their hands.(:note) corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

geneva@2Corinthians:3:1 @ Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you?

geneva@2Corinthians:3:3 @ [Forasmuch as ye are] (note:)The apostle says this wisely, that by little and little he may come from the commendation of the person to the matter itself.(:note) manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ Which I took pains to write as it were. ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Along the way he sets the power of God against the ink with which epistles are commonly written, to show that it was accomplished by God. living God; He alludes along the way to the comparison of the outward ministry of the priesthood of Levi with the ministry of the Gospel, and the apostolical ministry, which he handles afterward more fully. not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

geneva@2Corinthians:3:4 @ And such (note:)This boldness we show, and thus may we boast gloriously of the worthiness and fruit of our ministry.(:note) trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

geneva@2Corinthians:3:5 @ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our (note:)In that we are proper and able to make other men partakers of so great a grace.(:note) sufficiency [is] of God;

geneva@2Corinthians:3:7 @ But if the ministration of death, written (note:)Imprinted and engraved: so that by this place we may plainly perceive that the apostle speaks not of the ceremonies of the Law, but of the ten commandments.(:note) [and] engraven in stones, was This word «glorious» indicates a brightness, and a majesty which was in Moses physically, but in Christ spiritually. glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:

geneva@2Corinthians:3:8 @ How shall not the (note:)By which God offers, indeed, and gives the Spirit, not as a dead thing, but a living Spirit, working life.(:note) ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

geneva@2Corinthians:3:9 @ For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of (note:)That is, of Christ. And since he is imputed to us as our own, we are not condemned, and what is more we are also crowned as righteous.(:note) righteousness exceed in glory.

geneva@2Corinthians:3:10 @ For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.

geneva@2Corinthians:3:11 @ For if that which is (note:)The Law, indeed, and the ten commandments themselves, together with Moses, are all abolished, if we consider the ministry of Moses apart by itself.(:note) done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:1 @ Therefore (note:)Now he plainly witnesses that both he and his associates (through the mercy of God) do their vocation and duty uprightly and sincerely, neglecting all dangers.(:note) seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we Though we are broken in pieces with miseries and calamities, yet we do not yield. faint not;

geneva@2Corinthians:4:2 @ But have renounced the (note:)Subtilty and every type of deceit which men hunt after, as it were dens and lurking holes, to cover their shameless dealings with.(:note) hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God This is that which he called in the former chapter, making merchandise of the word of God. deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:9 @ We are persecuted, but not forsaken: cast downe, but we perish not.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:16 @ For which cause we faint not; (note:)He adds as it were a triumphant song, that he is outwardly afflicted, but inwardly he profits daily: and he is not bothered by all the miseries that may be sustained in this life, in comparison of that most constant and eternal glory.(:note) but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is Gathers new strength so that the outward man is not overcome with the miseries which come freshly one after another, being maintained and upheld with the strength of the inward man. renewed day by day.

geneva@2Corinthians:4:17 @ For our (note:)Afflictions are not called light, as though they were light in themselves, but because they pass away quickly, as indeed our whole life is not of very long continuance.(:note) light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of Which remains forever firm and stable, and can never be shaken. glory;

geneva@2Corinthians:5:1 @ For (note:)Taking occasion by the former comparison, he compares this miserable body as it is in this life, to a frail and brittle tabernacle. And contrasts this with the heavenly tabernacle, which he calls that sure and everlasting condition of this same body glorified in heaven. And this is so, he says, in that we are addicted to this tabernacle, but also with sobs and sighs desire rather that tabernacle. And so this place concerning the glory to come is put within the treatise of the dignity of the ministry, just as it also was in the beginning of the second chapter.(:note) we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:2 @ For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be (note:)He calls the glory of immortality, which we will be as it were clothed with, a garment.(:note) clothed upon with our house which is from Heavenly, not that the substance of it is heavenly, but rather the glory of it. heaven:

geneva@2Corinthians:5:8 @ We are (note:)And yet we are in such a manner confident and do so pass on our pilgrimage with a valiant and peaceful mind, that yet nonetheless we had rather depart from here to the Lord.(:note) confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:9 @ Wherefore we (note:)And seeing that it is so, we strive to live so, that both in this our pilgrimage here we may please him, and that at length we may be received home to him.(:note) labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:19 @ To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath (note:)Used our labour and travail.(:note) committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:20 @ Now then are we ambassadours for Christ: as though God did beseeche you through vs, we pray you in Christes steade, that ye be reconciled to God.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:21 @ For he hath made him [to be] (note:)A sinner, not in himself, but by imputation of the guilt of all our sins to him.(:note) sin for us, who Who was completely void of sin. knew no sin; that we might be made the Righteous before God, and that with righteousness which is not fundamental in us, but being fundamental in Christ, God imputes it to us through faith. righteousness of God in him.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:1 @ We (note:)Men do not only need the ministry of the Gospel before they have received grace, in order that they may be partakers of the Gospel, but also after they have received grace they need to continue in it.(:note) then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:4 @ But in all [things] (note:)Declare and indeed show.(:note) approving ourselves as the ministers of God, He first of all reckons up those things which are neither always in the ministers, nor without exception, unless they are there according to the minister's bodily condition. Patience, however, is an exception, which also is one of the virtues which ought to always be in a good minister. in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

geneva@2Corinthians:6:5 @ In stripes, in imprisonments, in (note:)In tossing to and fro, finding no place of rest and quietness.(:note) tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

geneva@2Corinthians:6:8 @ By honour, and dishonour, by euill report, and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true:

geneva@2Corinthians:6:9 @ As vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dying, and beholde, we liue: as chastened, and yet not killed:

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:6:12 @ Ye are not (note:)You are in my heart as in a house, and that no narrow or confined house, for I have opened my whole heart to you; but you are inwardly narrow towards me.(:note) straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own After the manner of the Hebrews, he calls those tender affections which rest in the heart, «bowels». bowels.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:13 @ Nowe for the same recompence, I speake as to my children, Be you also inlarged.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:16 @ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the (note:)He sets the living God against idols.(:note) living God; as God hath said, I will God dwells with us, because Christ has become God with us. dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

geneva@2Corinthians:7:6 @ Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are (note:)Whose hearts are cast down, and are very much worn out.(:note) cast down, comforted us by the With those things which Titus told me of you at his coming, that is, how fruitfully you read over my letters. And moreover and besides that, I am exceedingly refreshed with his presence. coming of Titus;

geneva@2Corinthians:7:7 @ And not by his comming onely, but also by the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you, when he tolde vs your great desire, your mourning, your feruent minde to me warde, so that I reioyced much more.

geneva@2Corinthians:7:12 @ Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the (note:)It was neither fake nor counterfeit, but such as I dare give account of before God.(:note) sight of God might appear unto you.

geneva@2Corinthians:7:13 @ Therefore we were comforted, because ye were comforted: but rather we reioyced much more for the ioye of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

geneva@2Corinthians:7:14 @ For if that I haue boasted any thing to him of you, I haue not bene ashamed: but as I haue spoken vnto you all things in trueth, euen so our boasting vnto Titus was true.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:6 @ That we should exhort Titus, that as hee had begon, so he would also accomplish the same grace among you also.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:7 @ Therefore, as yee abound in euery thing, in faith and woorde, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your loue towardes vs, euen so see that yee abound in this grace also.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:11 @ Nowe therefore performe to doe it also, that as there was a readinesse to will, euen so yee may performe it of that which yee haue.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:14 @ But by an (note:)That as now in your abundance you help others with a share of your goods, so should others in the same way bestow some of their goods upon you.(:note) equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality:

geneva@2Corinthians:8:15 @ As it is written, Hee that gathered much, had nothing ouer, and hee that gathered litle, had not the lesse.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:17 @ Because hee accepted the exhortation, yea, hee was so carefull that of his owne accorde hee went vnto you.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:19 @ And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this (note:)These alms which are bestowed for the relief of the church of Jerusalem.(:note) grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:

geneva@2Corinthians:8:24 @ Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the (note:)All the churches in whose presence you are in will be witnesses of this your godly behaviour, for these men are the messengers whom they have chosen by common consent, and sent to you.(:note) churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

geneva@2Corinthians:9:1 @ For (note:)He wisely answers the suspicion which the Corinthians might conceive, as though the apostle in urging them so carefully was doubting of their good will. Therefore he witnesses that he does it not to teach them that they ought to help the saints, seeing that he had become surety for them to the Macedonians. But only to stir those up who were labouring by themselves, to the end that all things might both be in a better readiness, and also be more plentiful.(:note) as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

geneva@2Corinthians:9:2 @ For I knowe your readinesse of minde, whereof I boast my selfe of you vnto them of Macedonia, and say, that Achaia was prepared a yeere agoe, and your zeale hath prouoked many.

geneva@2Corinthians:9:3 @ Nowe haue I sent the brethren, lest our reioycing ouer you shoulde bee in vaine in this behalfe, that yee (as I haue sayde) be readie:

geneva@2Corinthians:9:4 @ Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same (note:)The word which he uses signifies a mind so steady and established that it cannot be moved by any terror or fear.(:note) confident boasting.

geneva@2Corinthians:9:5 @ Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] (note:)As from covetous men.(:note) covetousness.

geneva@2Corinthians:9:7 @ Every man according as he (note:)Determines and appoints freely with himself.(:note) purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not With a sparing and grudging heart. grudgingly, or of Against his will, not wanting to have evil spoken of him. necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

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@2Corinthians:9:10 @ Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the (note:)There is no inheritance as good to the godly as bountifulness is.(:note) fruits of your righteousness;)

geneva@2Corinthians:10:1 @ Now (note:)He returns to the defence of his apostleship, but in such a way that he uses his authority in his defence: for he warns them earnestly and gravely, using also terrible threatenings, to show themselves to be those who are able to be instructed. And he reviles certain proud men who made no better account of him, than of a bragging proud man, in that he used to be sharp against them when he was absent, because they saw no great majesty in him after the manner of men; and besides, he had proved his gentleness, even though in his absence he had written to them sharply. Therefore first of all he professes that he was gentle and moderate, but after the example of Christ: but if they continue still to despise his gentleness, he protests to them that he will show indeed how far they are deceived, who judge the office of an apostle in the same way that they judge worldly offices, that is, according to the outward appearance.(:note) I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and That nature which is inclined to mercy, rather than to rigor of justice. gentleness of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

geneva@2Corinthians:10:2 @ But I beseech [you], that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked (note:)As though I had no other aid and help than that which outwardly I seem to have: and therefore Paul contrasts his flesh, that is, his weak condition and state, with his spiritual and apostolic dignity.(:note) according to the flesh.

geneva@2Corinthians:10:5 @ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, (note:)An amplification of this spiritual power, which conquers the enemies in such a way, be they ever so crafty and mighty, that it brings some of them by repentance to Christ, and justly avenges others that are stubbornly obstinate, separating them from the others who allow themselves to be ruled.(:note) and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

geneva@2Corinthians:10:8 @ For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lorde hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame.

geneva@2Corinthians:10:9 @ This I say, that I may not seeme as it were to feare you with letters.

geneva@2Corinthians:10:11 @ Let such one thinke this, that such as wee are in woorde by letters, when we are absent, such wil we be also in deede, when we are present.

geneva@2Corinthians:10:13 @ But we will not boast of things without [our] (note:)Of those things which God has not measured to me.(:note) measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

geneva@2Corinthians:10:14 @ For we stretche not our selues beyonde our measure, as though wee had not attained vnto you: for euen to you also haue we come in preaching the Gospel of Christ,

geneva@2Corinthians:10:15 @ Not boasting of things (note:)As though God had divided the whole world among the apostles to be governed.(:note) without [our] measure, [that is], of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

geneva@2Corinthians:10:16 @ To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in (note:)In countries which other men have prepared and cultivated with the preaching of the Gospel.(:note) another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:2 @ For I am jealous over you with (note:)He speaks as one who woos them, but yet as one that seeks them not for himself, but for God.(:note) godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may To marry you together. present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:3 @ But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be (note:)This passage is to be noted against those who hate the plain and pure simplicity of the scriptures, in comparison of the elegance and fluency of man's eloquence.(:note) corrupted from the simplicity that is in Which is proper for those who are in Christ. Christ.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:5 @ Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:9 @ And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, (note:)An amplification: so far is he from being ashamed of this act, that he has also resolved with himself to act in no other way while he is among them, in order that it may always be truly said that he taught in Achaia for nothing. And this is not because he disdains the Corinthians, but rather so that these proud and boastful men may never find the occasion which they have already sought for, and he in the meantime may set something before the Corinthians to follow, so that at length they may truly say that they are like Paul.(:note) and [so] will I keep [myself].

geneva@2Corinthians:11:10 @ As the (note:)This is a form of an oath, as if he said, «Let me not be thought to have any truth in me.»(:note) truth of Christ is in me, no man shall Will be always open to me. stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:12 @ But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they (note:)Paul's adversaries sought all occasions they could to be equal to him. And therefore seeing they had rather live off the Corinthians then preach to them for nothing, they sought another occasion, that is, to make Paul take something. And if he had done this, then they hoped by this means to be equal to him. For they made such a show of zeal and knowledge, and set it forth with such a flattering type of eloquence, that some of them even despised Paul. But he shows that all this is nothing but frivolities and pretensions.(:note) glory, they may be found even as we.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:15 @ Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transforme themselues, as though they were the ministers of righteousnes, whose end shall be according to their workes.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:17 @ That I speake, I speake it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:21 @ I speak as concerning (note:)As if he said, «In respect of that reproach which they do to you, which surely is as evil as if they beat you.»(:note) reproach, as though we had been Paul is called weak, in that he seems to be to the Corinthians a vile and abject man, a beggarly craftsman, a most wretched and miserable idiot, whereas in reality God's mighty power was made manifest in that. weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:23 @ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] (note:)Paul being honourable indeed, defends his ministry openly, not for his own sake, but because he saw his doctrine come into danger.(:note) more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in In danger of present death. deaths oft.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:26 @ In iourneying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine owne nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the citie, in perils in wildernes, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,

geneva@2Corinthians:11:27 @ In weariness and (note:)Painfulness is a troublesome sickness, as when a man who is weary and wants rest is forced to begin new labour.(:note) painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:32 @ In Damascus the gouernour of the people vnder King Aretas, layde watch in the citie of the Damascens, and would haue caught me.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:33 @ But at a windowe was I let downe in a basket through the wall, and escaped his handes.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:1 @ It (note:)He continues in his purpose, and because those braggarts boasted of revelations, he reckons up those things which lift him up above the common capacity of men. But he uses a preface, and prudently excuses himself.(:note) is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:2 @ I knew a man (note:)I speak this in Christ, that is, it is spoken without boastfulness, for I seek nothing but Christ Jesus only.(:note) in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the Into the highest heaven: for we do not need to dispute subtly upon the word «third». But yet this passage is to be marked against those who would make heaven to be everywhere. third heaven.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:4 @ How that he was caught up into (note:)So the Greeks name that which we call a park, that is to say, a place where trees are planted, and wild beasts kept. And those that translated the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greek, called the garden of Eden by this name, into which Adam was put immediately after his creation, as a most delicate and pleasant place. And from this it occurred that the blessed seat of the glory of God is called by that name.(:note) paradise, and heard Which no man is able to utter. unspeakable words, which it is not Which the saints themselves are not by any means able to express, because it is God himself. This is the way that Clement of Alexandria explains this passage, Strom. 5. lawful for a man to utter.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:9 @ And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. (note:)He concludes that he will only set his miseries against the vain braggings of the false apostles, and with this also excuses himself, because by their troublesome braggings he was forced to speak as much of those things as he did. That is, because if his apostleship were subverted, his doctrine would necessarily fall.(:note) Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may That I might feel the power of Christ more and more: for the weaker that our tabernacles are, the more does Christ's power appear in them. rest upon me.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:10 @ Therefore I take (note:)I do not only take them patiently and with a good heart, but I also take great pleasure in them.(:note) pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:13 @ For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not (note:)I was not slothful with my own hands, so that I might not be burdensome to you.(:note) burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:21 @ I feare least when I come againe, my God abase me among you, and I shall bewaile many of them which haue sinned already, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnesse which they haue committed.

geneva@2Corinthians:13:2 @ I tolde you before, and tell you before: as though I had bene present the seconde time, so write I nowe being absent to them which heretofore haue sinned and to all others, that if I come againe, I will not spare,

geneva@2Corinthians:13:4 @ For though he was crucified through (note:)Regarding that base form of a servant which he took upon him when he abased himself.(:note) weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

geneva@2Corinthians:13:7 @ Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as (note:)In men's judgment.(:note) reprobates.

geneva@2Corinthians:13:10 @ Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lorde hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction.

geneva@2Corinthians:13:14 @ {\cf2 (13:13)} The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you all, Amen. The seconde Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, a citie in Macedonia, and sent by Titus and Lucas.

geneva@Galatians:1:9 @ As we sayd before, so say I now againe, If any man preach vnto you otherwise, then that ye haue receiued, let him be accursed.

geneva@Galatians:1:12 @ For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the (note:)This passage is about an extraordinary revelation, for otherwise the Son revealed his Gospel only by his Spirit, even though by the ministry of men, which Paul excludes here.(:note) revelation of Jesus Christ.

geneva@Galatians:1:14 @ And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the (note:)He calls them the traditions of his fathers, because he was not only a Pharisee himself, but also had a Pharisee for his father.(:note) traditions of my fathers.

geneva@Galatians:1:15 @ But when it pleased God, who (note:)He speaks of God's everlasting predestination, by which he appointed him to be an apostle, of which he makes three distinctions: the everlasting council of God, his appointing from his mother's womb, and his calling. And we see that there is no mention at all of foreseen works.(:note) separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,

geneva@Galatians:1:16 @ To reveal his Son (note:)To me, and this is a type of speech which the Hebrews use, by which it shows us that this gift comes from God.(:note) in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately He says this because it might be objected that he was indeed called by Christ in the way, but afterward was instructed by the apostles and others (whose names, as I said before, the false apostles abused to destroy his apostleship), as though he delivered another Gospel than they did, and as though he were not of their number, who are to be credited without exception. Therefore, Paul answers that he began immediately after his calling to preach the Gospel at Damascus and in Arabia, and was not from that time in Jerusalem except for fifteen days, when he saw only Peter and James. And afterwards, he began to teach in Syria and Cilicia, with the consent and approval of the churches of the Jews, who knew him only by name: so far off was it, that he was there instructed by men. I conferred not with With any man in the world. flesh and blood:

geneva@Galatians:1:17 @ Neither came I againe to Hierusalem to them which were Apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and turned againe vnto Damascus.

geneva@Galatians:1:21 @ After that, I went into the coastes of Syria and Cilicia:

geneva@Galatians:1:22 @ For I was vnknowen by face vnto the Churches of Iudea, which were in Christ.

geneva@Galatians:1:23 @ But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the (note:)The doctrine of faith.(:note) faith which once he destroyed.

geneva@Galatians:2:1 @ Then (note:)Now he shows how he agrees with the apostles, with whom he grants that he conferred concerning his Gospel which he taught among the Gentiles, fourteen years after his conversion. And they permitted it in such a way, that they did not force his companion Titus to be circumcised, although some tormented themselves in this, who traitorously laid wait against him, but in vain. Neither did they add the least amount that might be to the doctrine which he had preached, but rather they gave to him and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, and acknowledged them as apostles appointed by the Lord to the Gentiles.(:note) fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also.

geneva@Galatians:2:2 @ And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, (note:)Unfruitful, for as touching his doctrine, Paul does not doubt it, but because there were certain reports being spread about him, that he was of another opinion than the rest of the apostles were, which thing might have hindered the course of the Gospel. Therefore he labours to remedy this dangerous situation.(:note) in vain.

geneva@Galatians:2:3 @ But neither yet Titus which was with me, though he were a Grecian, was compelled to be circumcised,

geneva@Galatians:2:6 @ But by them which seemed to be great, I was not taught (whatsoeuer they were in time passed, I am nothing the better: God accepteth no mans person) for they that are the chiefe, did adde nothing to me aboue that I had.

geneva@Galatians:2:7 @ But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the (note:)Among the Gentiles, as Peter had to preach it among the Jews.(:note) uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter;

geneva@Galatians:2:8 @ (For he that was mightie by Peter in the Apostleship ouer the circumcision, was also mightie by me toward the Gentiles)

geneva@Galatians:2:9 @ And when James, Cephas, and John, who (note:)Whom alone and only these men count for pillars of the Church, and whose name they abuse to deceive you.(:note) seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right They gave us their hand to show that we agreed wholly in the doctrine of the Gospel. hands of fellowship; that we [should go] unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

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

geneva@Galatians:2:11 @ But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the (note:)Before all men.(:note) face, because he was to be blamed.

geneva@Galatians:2:13 @ And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was (note:)By example rather than by judgment.(:note) carried away with their dissimulation.

geneva@Galatians:2:14 @ But when I saw that they walked not (note:)Literally, «with a right foot», which he sets against halting and hypocrisy, which is a backwards state.(:note) uprightly according to the He calls the truth of the Gospel, both the doctrine itself, and also the use of doctrine, which we call the practice. truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why He says they were forced who lived as Jews by Peter's example. compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

geneva@Galatians:2:18 @ For if I build againe the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser.

geneva@Galatians:2:19 @ For I through the law am dead to the (note:)The Law that terrifies the conscience brings us to Christ, and he alone causes us to indeed die to the Law, because by making us righteous, he takes away from us the terror of conscience. And by sanctifying us, he causes the mortifying of lust in us, so that it cannot take such occasion to sin by the restraint which the Law makes, as it did before; (Rom_7:10-11).(:note) law, that I might live unto God.

geneva@Galatians:2:20 @ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not (note:)The same that I was before.(:note) I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the In this mortal body. flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

geneva@Galatians:3:1 @ O (note:)The third reason or argument taken of those gifts of the Holy Spirit, with which they were endued from heaven after they had heard and believed the gospel by Paul's ministry. And seeing that they were so evident to all men's eyes, that they were as it were graphic images, in which they might behold the truth of the doctrine of the Gospel, just as much as if they had beheld with their eyes Christ himself crucified, in whose only death they ought to have their trust, he marvels how it could be that they could be so bewitched by the false apostles.(:note) foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, Christ was laid before you so notably and so plainly that you had a graphic image of him as it were represented before your eyes, as if he had been crucified before you. before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

geneva@Galatians:3:2 @ This only would I learn of you, Received ye the (note:)Those spiritual graces and gifts, which were a seal as it were to the Galatians that the Gospel which was preached to them was true.(:note) Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of Of the doctrine of faith. faith?

geneva@Galatians:3:16 @ Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, (note:)He puts forth the sum of the seventh argument, that is, that both the Jews and the Gentiles grow together in one body of the seed of Abraham, in Christ alone, so that all are one in Christ, as it is afterward declared in (Gal_3:28).(:note) which is Paul does not speak of Christ's person, but of two peoples, who grew together in one, in Christ. Christ.

geneva@Galatians:3:20 @ Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, (note:)A taking away of an objection, lest any man might say that sometimes by consent of the parties which have made a covenant, something is added to the covenant, or the former covenants are broken. This, the apostle says, does not come to pass in God, who is always one, and the very same, and like himself.(:note) but God is one.

geneva@Galatians:3:22 @ But the (note:)By this word «scripture» he means the Law.(:note) scripture hath concluded All mankind, and whatever comes from mankind. all under sin, that the In every one of these words, there lies an argument against the merits of works: for all these words, promise, faith, Christ, might be given, to believers, are against meritorious works, and not one of them can be included as a meritorious work. promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

geneva@Galatians:3:24 @ Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

geneva@Galatians:3:25 @ But after that faith is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaster.

geneva@Galatians:4:1 @ Now (note:)He declares by another twofold similitude, that which he said before concerning the keeper and schoolmaster. For, he says, the Law (that is, the whole government of God's house according to the Law) was as it were a tutor or overseer appointed for a time. And when that protection and overseeing which was but for a time is ended, we would at length come to be at our own liberty, and would live as children, and not as servants. Moreover, he shows along the way, that the governance of the Law was as it were the basics, and as certain principles, in comparison with the doctrine of the Gospel.(:note) I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

geneva@Galatians:4:3 @ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the (note:)The Law is called elements, because by the Law God instructed his Church as it were by elements, and afterward poured out his Holy Spirit most plentifully in the time of the Gospel.(:note) elements of the world:

geneva@Galatians:4:5 @ To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the (note:)The adoption of the sons of God is from everlasting, but is revealed and shown in the time appointed for it.(:note) adoption of sons.

geneva@Galatians:4:9 @ But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and (note:)They are called impotent and beggarly ceremonies, being considered apart by themselves without Christ: and again, by that means they gave good testimony that they were beggars in Christ, for when men fall back from Christ to ceremonies, it is nothing else but to cast away riches and to follow beggary.(:note) beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire By going backward. again to be in bondage?

geneva@Galatians:4:14 @ And my (note:)Those daily troubles with which the Lord tried me among you.(:note) temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as For the sake of my ministry. Christ Jesus.

geneva@Galatians:4:23 @ But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the (note:)As all men are, and by the common course of nature.(:note) flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by By virtue of the promise, which Abraham laid hold on for himself and his true seed, for otherwise Abraham and Sara were past the begetting and bearing of children. promise.

geneva@Galatians:4:24 @ Which things are an allegory: for (note:)These represent and symbolize.(:note) these are the They are called two covenants, one of the Old Testament, and another of the New: which were not two indeed, but in respect of the times, and the diversity of the manner of ruling. two covenants; the one from the mount He makes mention of Sinai, because that covenant was made in that mountain, of which mountain Hagar was a symbol. Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

geneva@Galatians:4:25 @ For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and (note:)Look how the case stands between Hagar and her children; even so stands it between Jerusalem and hers.(:note) answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and That is, Sinai. is in bondage with her children.

geneva@Galatians:4:28 @ Now we, brethren, (note:)After the manner of Isaac, who is the first begotten of the heavenly Jerusalem, as Israel is of the slavish synagogue.(:note) as Isaac was, are the children of That seed to which the promise belongs. promise.

geneva@Galatians:4:29 @ But as then he that was born after the (note:)By the common course of nature.(:note) flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the By the virtue of God's promise and after a spiritual manner. Spirit, even so [it is] now.

geneva@Galatians:5:1 @ Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.

geneva@Galatians:5:4 @ Christ is (note:)That is, as he himself expounds it afterward, «ye are fallen from grace.»(:note) become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are That is, seek to be justified by the Law, for indeed no man is justified by the Law. justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

geneva@Galatians:5:13 @ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; (note:)The third part of this epistle, showing that the right use of Christian liberty consists of this, that being delivered and set at liberty from the slavery of sin and the flesh, and being obedient to the Spirit, we should through love help each other to mature in their salvation.(:note) only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

geneva@Galatians:5:17 @ For the (note:)For the flesh dwells even in the regenerated man, but the Spirit reigns, even though not without great strife, as is largely set forth in (Romans. strkjv@7:1-25).(:note) flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

geneva@Galatians:5:21 @ Enuie, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonie, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also haue tolde you before, that they which doe such things, shall not inherite the kingdome of God.

geneva@Galatians:5:22 @ But the (note:)Therefore they are not the fruits of free will, but only as far forth as our will is made free by grace.(:note) fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

geneva@Galatians:5:23 @ Meekness, temperance: (note:)Lest that any man should object that Paul plays the deceiver, as one who urging the Spirit urges nothing but that which the Law commands, he shows that he requires not that literal and outward obedience, but spiritual, which proceeds not from the Law but from the Spirit of Christ, who gives us new birth, and must and ought to be the ruler and guider of our life.(:note) against such there is no law.

geneva@Galatians:6:8 @ For he that soweth to his (note:)To the commodities of this present life.(:note) flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

geneva@Galatians:6:12 @ As many as desire to make a (note:)He sets a fair show against the truth.(:note) fair shew in In the keeping of ceremonies. the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the For the preaching of him that was crucified. cross of Christ.

geneva@Galatians:6:13 @ For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in (note:)That they have entangled you in Judaism, and yet he dwells on the aspect of circumcision.(:note) your flesh.

geneva@Galatians:6:16 @ And as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy, and upon the (note:)Upon the true Israel, whose praise is from God and not from men; (Rom_2:29).(:note) Israel of God.

geneva@Ephesians:1:9 @ Having made known unto us the (note:)For unless the Lord had opened to us that mystery, we could never have so much as dreamed of it ourselves.(:note) mystery of his will, Not only the election, but also the calling proceeds from grace alone. according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

geneva@Ephesians:1:14 @ Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the (note:)Full and perfect.(:note) redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

geneva@Ephesians:1:16 @ I cease not to giue thankes for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

geneva@Ephesians:1:23 @ Which is his body, the (note:)For the love of Christ is so great towards the Church, that even though he fully satisfies all with all things, yet he considers himself but a maimed and unperfect head, unless he has the Church joined to him as his body.(:note) fulness of him that filleth all in all.

geneva@Ephesians:2:1 @ And (note:)He declares again the greatness of God's good will by comparing that miserable state in which we are born, with that dignity unto which we are advanced by God the Father in Christ. So he describes that condition in such a way that he says, that with regard to spiritual motions we are not only born half dead, but wholly and altogether dead.(:note) you [hath he quickened], who were See (Rom_6:2). So then he calls those dead who are not regenerated: for as the immortality of those who are damned is not life, so this knitting together of body and soul is properly not life, but death in those who are not ruled by the Spirit of God. dead in He shows the cause of death, that is, sins. trespasses and sins;

geneva@Ephesians:2:6 @ And hath raised [us] up (note:)That is, as he adds afterwards, in Christ, for as yet this is not fulfilled in us, but only in our head by whose Spirit we have begun to die to sin, and live to God, until that work is fully brought to an end. And yet the hope is certain, for we are as sure of that which we look for, as we are of that which we have already received.(:note) together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:

geneva@Ephesians:2:12 @ That at that time ye were (note:)He begins first with Christ, who was the end of all the promises.(:note) without Christ, being You had no right or title to the commonwealth of Israel. aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

geneva@Ephesians:2:16 @ And that he might reconcile both unto God in (note:)He alludes to the sacrifices of the Law, which represented that true and only sacrifice.(:note) one body by the cross, having For he destroyed death by death, and fastened it as it were to the cross. slain the enmity thereby:

geneva@Ephesians:2:18 @ For (note:)Christ is the gate as it were, by whom we come to the Father, and the Holy Spirit is as it were, our guiding man who leads us.(:note) through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

geneva@Ephesians:3:1 @ For (note:)He maintains his apostleship against the offence of the cross, upon which he also makes an argument to confirm himself, affirming that he was not only appointed an apostle by the mercy of God, but was also appointed particularly to the Gentiles. And this was to call them everywhere to salvation, because God had so determined this from the beginning, although he deferred a great while the manifestation of his counsel.(:note) this cause I Paul, These words, «the prisoner of Jesus Christ», are taken passively, that is to say, «I, Paul, am cast into prison for maintaining the glory of Christ.» the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

geneva@Ephesians:3:3 @ That is, that God by reuelation hath shewed this mysterie vnto me (as I wrote aboue in fewe wordes,

geneva@Ephesians:3:5 @ Which in (note:)He does not mean that no one knew of the calling of the Gentiles before, but because very few knew of it. And those that did know it, such as the prophets, had it revealed to them very obscurely, and by means of symbols.(:note) other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

geneva@Ephesians:3:8 @ Euen vnto me the least of all Saints is this grace giuen, that I should preach among the Gentiles the vnsearchable riches of Christ,

geneva@Ephesians:3:11 @ According to the (note:)Which was before all things.(:note) eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

geneva@Ephesians:3:19 @ And to know the (note:)Which God has shown us in Christ.(:note) love of Christ, which Which surpasses all the capacity of man's intellect, to comprehend it fully in his mind: for otherwise whoever has the Spirit of God perceives as much (according to the measure that God has given him) as is necessary for salvation. passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the So that we have abundantly in us whatever things are required to make us perfect with God. fulness of God.

geneva@Ephesians:4:1 @ I therefore, (note:)Another part of the epistle, containing precepts of the Christian life, the sum of which is this, that every man behave himself as it is fitting for so excellent a grace of God.(:note) the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the By this is meant the general calling of the faithful, which is this, to be holy as our God is holy. vocation wherewith ye are called,

geneva@Ephesians:4:6 @ One God and Father of all, who [is] (note:)Who alone has the chief authority over the Church.(:note) above all, and Who alone pours forth his providence, through all the members of the Church. through all, and Who alone is joined together with us in Christ. in you all.

geneva@Ephesians:4:8 @ Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led (note:)A multitude of captives.(:note) captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

geneva@Ephesians:4:9 @ (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the (note:)Down to the earth, which is the lowest part of the world.(:note) lower parts of the earth?

geneva@Ephesians:4:10 @ He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might (note:)Fill with his gifts.(:note) fill The Church. all things.)

geneva@Ephesians:4:16 @ From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the (note:)Of Christ, who with regard to the soul, empowers all the members.(:note) effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh Such increase as is fit for the body to have. increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in Charity is the knitting of the limbs together. love.

geneva@Ephesians:4:19 @ Who being (note:)Void of all judgment.(:note) past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with They strove to surpass one another, as though there were some gain to be gotten by it. greediness.

geneva@Ephesians:4:21 @ If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, (note:)As they have learned who acknowledge Christ indeed, and in good earnest.(:note) as the truth is in Jesus:

geneva@Ephesians:4:23 @ And be renewed in the (note:)Where there ought to have been the greatest force of reason, there is the greatest corruption of all, which gradually weakens all things.(:note) spirit of your mind;

geneva@Ephesians:4:32 @ And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, (note:)An argument taken from the example of Christ, most grave and strong, both for the pardoning of those injuries which have been done to us by our greatest enemies, and much more for having consideration of the miserable, and using moderation and gentle behaviour towards all men.(:note) even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

geneva@Ephesians:5:1 @ Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,

geneva@Ephesians:5:2 @ And walke in loue, euen as Christ hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God.

geneva@Ephesians:5:4 @ Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor (note:)Jests which men cast at one another: that no lightness is seen, nor evil example given, nor any offence made by evil words or backbiting.(:note) jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

geneva@Ephesians:5:8 @ For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] (note:)The faithful are called light, both because they have the true light in them which enlightens them, and also because they give light to others, insomuch that their honest conversation reproves the life of wicked men.(:note) light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

geneva@Ephesians:5:10 @ Approuing that which is pleasing to the Lorde.

geneva@Ephesians:5:27 @ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, (note:)The Church as it is considered in itself, will not be without wrinkle, before it come to the mark it aims at: for while it is in this life, it runs in a race. But if it is considered in Christ, it is clean and without wrinkle.(:note) not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

geneva@Ephesians:5:29 @ For no man ever yet hated his (note:)His own body.(:note) own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

geneva@Ephesians:6:1 @ Children, (note:)He comes to another part of a family, and shows that the duty of the children toward their parents consists in obedience to them.(:note) obey your parents The first argument: because God has so appointed. And upon this it follows also that children are obligated to obey their parents, that they may not swerve from the true worship of God. in the For the Lord is author of all fatherhood, and therefore we must yield such obedience as he will have us. Lord: The second argument: because this obedience is most just. for this is right.

geneva@Ephesians:6:6 @ Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, (note:)To cut off occasion of all pretences, he teaches us that it is God's will that some are either born or made servants, and therefore they must respect God's will although their service is ever so hard.(:note) doing the will of God from the heart;

geneva@Ephesians:6:7 @ With good will doing service, as to the (note:)Being moved with a reverence for God, as though you served God himself.(:note) Lord, and not to men:

geneva@Ephesians:6:11 @ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the assaultes of the deuil.

geneva@Ephesians:6:15 @ And your feet shod with the (note:)The preparation of the Gospel may be as it were shoes to you: and it is very fitly called the Gospel of peace, because, seeing we have to go to God through most dangerous ranks of enemies, this may encourage us to go on bravely, in that you know by the doctrine of the Gospel, that we are travelling to God who is at peace with us.(:note) preparation of the gospel of peace;

geneva@Ephesians:6:20 @ Whereof I am the ambassadour in bonds, that therein I may speake boldely, as I ought to speake.

geneva@Ephesians:6:24 @ Grace [be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ (note:)Or to immortality, to life everlasting.(:note) in sincerity. Amen. «[To [the] Ephesians written from Rome, by Tychicus.]»

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:1:7 @ Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my (note:)A true proof of a true knitting together with Christ.(:note) bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my He calls his bonds «grace», as though he had received some singular benefit. grace.

geneva@Philippians:1:16 @ The one preach Christ of contention, not (note:)Not with a pure mind: for otherwise their doctrine was pure.(:note) sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

geneva@Philippians:2:1 @ If (note:)A most earnest request to remove all those things, by which that great and special consent and agreement is commonly broken, that is, contention and pride, by which it comes to pass that they separate themselves from one another.(:note) [there be] therefore any consolation in Any Christian comfort. Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any If any seeking of inward love. bowels and mercies,

geneva@Philippians:2:6 @ Who, being in the (note:)Such as God himself is, and therefore God, for there is no one in all parts equal to God but God himself.(:note) form of God, Christ, that glorious and everlasting God, knew that he might rightfully and lawfully not appear in the base flesh of man, but remain with majesty fit for God: yet he chose rather to debase himself. thought it not robbery to be If the Son is equal with the Father, then is there of necessity an equality, which Arrius that heretic denies: and if the Son is compared to the Father, then is there a distinction of persons, which Sabellius that heretic denies. equal with God:

geneva@Philippians:2:7 @ But made himself of (note:)He brought himself from all things, as it were to nothing.(:note) no reputation, and took upon him the By taking our manhood upon him. form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

geneva@Philippians:2:16 @ Holding forth the (note:)The Gospel is called the word of life, because of the effects which it produces.(:note) word of life; Again he urges them forward, setting before them his true apostolic care that he had for them: in addition comforting them to the end that they should not be sorry for the greatness of his afflictions, no, not even if he should die to make perfect their sacrifice with his blood, as it were with a drink offering. that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

geneva@Philippians:2:17 @ Yea, and if I be offered upon the (note:)As if he said, I brought you Philippians to Christ, and my desire is that you present yourselves a living sacrifice to him, and then it will not grieve me to be offered up as a drink offering, to accomplish this your spiritual offering.(:note) sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

geneva@Philippians:2:22 @ But yee knowe the proofe of him, that as a sonne with the father, hee hath serued with me in the Gospel.

geneva@Philippians:2:23 @ Him therefore I hope to send assoone as I knowe howe it will goe with me,

geneva@Philippians:2:25 @ But I supposed it necessarie to sende my brother Epaphroditus vnto you, my companion in labour, and fellowe souldier, euen your messenger, and he that ministred vnto me such things as I wanted.

geneva@Philippians:2:26 @ For he longed after all you, and was full of heauinesse, because yee had heard that hee had beene sicke.

geneva@Philippians:2:27 @ And no doubt he was sicke, very neere vnto death: but God had mercie on him, and not on him onely, but on me also, least I should haue sorowe vpon sorowe.

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:3:1 @ 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@Philippians:3:2 @ Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the (note:)He alludes to circumcision; and while they were boasting in it, they broke apart the Church.(:note) concision.

geneva@Philippians:3:6 @ Concerning zeale, I persecuted ye Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, I was vnrebukeable.

geneva@Philippians:3:7 @ But what things were (note:)Which I considered as gain.(:note) gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

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@Philippians:3:11 @ If by any means I might attain unto the (note:)To everlasting life, which follows the resurrection of the saints.(:note) resurrection of the dead.

geneva@Philippians:3:12 @ Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am (note:)For we run only as far forth as we are laid hold on by Christ, that is, as God gives us strength, and shows us the way.(:note) apprehended of Christ Jesus.

geneva@Philippians:3:17 @ Brethren, bee followers of mee, and looke on them, which walke so, as yee haue vs for an ensample.

geneva@Philippians:3:21 @ Who shall change our vile bodie, that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body, according to the working, whereby hee is able euen to subdue all things vnto him selfe.

geneva@Philippians:4:1 @ Therefore, (note:)A rehearsal of the conclusion: that they bravely continue until they have gotten the victory, trusting in the Lord's strength.(:note) my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and My honour. crown, so stand fast in the In that unification of which the Lord is the bond. Lord, [my] dearly beloved.

geneva@Philippians:4:3 @ And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and [with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the (note:)God is said, after the manner of men, to have a book, in which the names of his elect are written, to whom he will give everlasting life. Ezekiel calls it the writing of the house of Israel, and the secret of the Lord; (Eze_13:9).(:note) book of life.

geneva@Philippians:4:7 @ And the (note:)That great quietness of mind, which God alone gives in Christ.(:note) peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your He divides the mind into the heart, that is, into that part which is the seat of the will and affections, and into the higher part, by which we understand and reason about matters. hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

geneva@Philippians:4:11 @ Not that I speak in respect of (note:)As though I am speaking concerning my want.(:note) want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.

geneva@Philippians:4:12 @ I know both how to be (note:)He uses a general word, and yet he speaks but of one type of cross, which is poverty, for poverty commonly brings all types of discomforts with it.(:note) abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am This is a metaphor taken from holy things or sacrifices, for our life is like a sacrifice. instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

geneva@Philippians:4:16 @ For euen when I was in Thessalonica, yee sent once, and afterward againe for my necessitie,

geneva@Philippians:4:18 @ But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [which were sent] from you, an (note:)He alludes to the sweet smelling savours that were offered under the old Law.(:note) odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

geneva@Colossians:1:6 @ Which is come vnto you, eue as it is vnto al the world, & is fruitful, as it is also amog you, from ye day that ye heard & truly knew ye grace of God,

geneva@Colossians:1:7 @ As yee also learned of Epaphras our deare fellowe seruaunt, which is for you a faithfull minister of Christ:

geneva@Colossians:1:9 @ For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of (note:)God's will.(:note) his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

geneva@Colossians:1:10 @ That ye might walke worthy of the Lord, & please him in all things, being fruitefull in all good workes, and increasing in the knowledge of God,

geneva@Colossians:1:16 @ For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] (note:)He sets forth the angels with glorious names, so that by the comparison of most excellent spirits, we may understand how far surpassing the excellency of Christ is, in whom alone we have to content ourselves with, and let go of all angels.(:note) thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

geneva@Colossians:1:19 @ For it pleased [the Father] that in him should (note:)Most plentiful abundance of all things pertaining to God.(:note) all fulness dwell;

geneva@Colossians:1:22 @ In the body of his (note:)In that fleshly body, to show us that his body was not an unreal body, but a real one.(:note) flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

geneva@Colossians:1:24 @ Who now rejoice in my sufferings for (note:)For our profit and benefit.(:note) you, and fill up The afflictions of the Church are said to be Christ's afflictions, by reason of that fellowship and knitting together that the body and the head have with one another. And this is not because there is any more need to have the Church redeemed, but because Christ shows his power in the daily weakness of his own, and that for the comfort of the whole body. that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

geneva@Colossians:1:26 @ [Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his (note:)Whom he chose to sanctify to himself in Christ. Moreover, he says that the mystery of our redemption was hidden since the world began, except that it was revealed to a few, who also were taught it extraordinarily.(:note) saints:

geneva@Colossians:2:1 @ For I (note:)The taking away of an objection: in that he did not visit the Colossians or the Laodiceans, he was not being negligent; rather, he is so much the more careful for them.(:note) would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and [for] them at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen my Me, present in body. face in the flesh;

geneva@Colossians:2:3 @ In whom are hid all the treasures of (note:)There is no true wisdom outside of Christ.(:note) wisdom and knowledge.

geneva@Colossians:2:5 @ For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your (note:)The manner of your ecclesiastical discipline.(:note) order, and the stedfastness of your Doctrine. faith in Christ.

geneva@Colossians:2:6 @ As ye have therefore (note:)So then Christ does not depend upon men's traditions.(:note) received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk ye in him:

geneva@Colossians:2:7 @ Rooted and built in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye haue bene taught, abouding therein with thankesgiuing.

geneva@Colossians:2:15 @ [And] having spoiled (note:)Satan and his angels.(:note) principalities and powers, he As a conqueror he made show of those captives, and put them to shame. made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in That is, the cross. The cross was a chariot of triumph. No conqueror could have triumphed so gloriously in his chariot, as Christ did upon the cross. it.

geneva@Colossians:2:17 @ Which are a shadow of things to come; but the (note:)The body as a thing of substance and physical strength, he sets against shadows.(:note) body [is] of Christ.

geneva@Colossians:3:1 @ If (note:)Another part of this epistle, in which he takes occasion by reason of those vain exercises, to show the duty of a Christian life: which is an ordinary thing with him, after he has once set down the doctrine itself.(:note) ye then Our renewing or new birth, which is accomplished in us by being partakers of the resurrection of Christ, is the source of all holiness, out of which various streams or rivers afterwards flow. be For if we are partakers of Christ, we are carried as it were into another life, where we will need neither meat nor drink, for we will be similar to the angels. risen with Christ, The end and mark which all the duties of Christian life aim at is to enter into the kingdom of heaven, and to give ourselves to those things which lead us there, that is, to true godliness, and not to those outward and physical things. seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

geneva@Colossians:3:13 @ Forbearing one another, and forgiuing one another, if any man haue a quarel to another: euen as Christ forgaue, euen so doe ye.

geneva@Colossians:3:15 @ And let the peace of God (note:)Rule and govern all things.(:note) rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in You are joined together into one body through God's goodness, so that you might help one another, as fellow members. one body; and be ye thankful.

geneva@Colossians:3:16 @ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in (note:)By «psalms» he means all godly songs which were written upon various occasions, and by «hymns», all such as contain the praise of God, and by «spiritual songs», other more special and artful songs which were also in praise of God, but they were made fuller of music.(:note) psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

geneva@Colossians:3:23 @ And whatsoeuer ye doe, doe it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men,

geneva@Colossians:3:24 @ Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the (note:)Because you will have duly obeyed your masters, the time will come, that you will be changed from servants to sons, and you will know this for certain, which will be when you are made partakers of the heavenly inheritance.(:note) reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

geneva@Colossians:4:1 @ Ye masters, doe vnto your seruants, that which is iust, and equall, knowing that ye also haue a master in heauen.

geneva@Colossians:4:4 @ That I may vtter it, as it becommeth mee to speake.

geneva@Colossians:4:10 @ Aristarchus my prison fellow saluteth you, and Marcus, Barnabas cousin (touching whom ye receiued commandements. If he come vnto you, receiue him)

geneva@Colossians:4:11 @ And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These (note:)Hence, Peter was not at that time in Rome.(:note) only [are my] fellowworkers unto the In the Gospel. kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.

geneva@Colossians:4:12 @ Epaphras the seruant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and alwayes striueth for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect, and full in all the will of God.

geneva@Colossians:4:14 @ Luke the beloued physician greeteth you, and Demas.

geneva@Colossians:4:15 @ Salute the brethren which are of Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the Church which is in his house.

geneva@Colossians:4:17 @ And say to Archippus, Take heede to the ministerie, that thou hast receiued in the Lorde, that thou fulfill it.

geneva@1Thessalonians:1:7 @ So that ye were as ensamples to all that beleeue in Macedonia and in Achaia.

geneva@1Thessalonians:1:10 @ And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from (note:)This word «the» is not put here without reason: and by «wrath» is meant that revenge and punishment with which the Lord will in time judge the world in his terrible wrath.(:note) the wrath to come.

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:1 @ For (note:)That which he mentioned before briefly concerning his apostleship, he handles now more at large, and to that end and purpose which we spoke of.(:note) yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:5 @ Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is recorde.

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:7 @ But we were (note:)We were rough, and yet easy and gentle as a nurse that is neither seeking glory, nor covetous, but who takes all pains as patiently as if she were a mother.(:note) gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:16 @ Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to (note:)Until that wickedness of theirs which they have by inheritance as it were of their fathers, has grown so great, that the measure of their iniquity being filled, God may come forth to wrath.(:note) fill up their sins alway: for the The judgment of God who was angry, which indeed appeared shortly after in the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, where many fled even out of various provinces, when it was besieged. wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

geneva@1Thessalonians:2:18 @ Therefore we would haue come vnto you (I Paul, at least once or twise) but Satan hindered vs.

geneva@1Thessalonians:3:4 @ For verily when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulations, euen as it came to passe, and ye knowe it.

geneva@1Thessalonians:3:8 @ For now we (note:)For now you cannot otherwise think of me as at rest and in a good state of being, unless you go forward in religion and faith.(:note) live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

geneva@1Thessalonians:3:10 @ Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might (note:)Paul was forced through the pressing dealing of the enemies to leave the building which he had just begun: and for that reason he had left Silas and Timothy in Macedonia, and when Timothy came to Athens to him, he sent him back again immediately. So that he desires to see the Thessalonians, that he may thoroughly perfect their faith and religion, that was as yet imperfect.(:note) perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

geneva@1Thessalonians:4:1 @ Furthermore (note:)Various exhortations, the foundation of which is this, to be mindful of those things which they have heard from the apostle.(:note) then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would That you labour to excel more and more, and daily surpass yourselves. abound more and more.

geneva@1Thessalonians:4:10 @ Yea, and that thing verily yee doe vnto all the brethren, which are throughout all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more,

geneva@1Thessalonians:5:1 @ But (note:)The day that God has appointed for this judgment we do not know. But this is sure, that it will come upon men when they are not expecting it.(:note) of the times and the See (Act_1:7). seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

geneva@1Thessalonians:5:2 @ For ye your selues knowe perfectly, that the day of the Lorde shall come, euen as a thiefe in the night.

geneva@1Thessalonians:5:3 @ For when they shall say, Peace, and safetie, then shall come vpon them sudden destruction, as the trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape,

geneva@1Thessalonians:5:6 @ Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.

geneva@1Thessalonians:5:13 @ And to esteem them very highly in love for (note:)So then, when this reason ceases, then must the honour cease.(:note) their work's sake. The maintenance of mutual harmony, is to be especially guarded. [And] be at peace among yourselves.

geneva@1Thessalonians:5:18 @ In every thing give thanks: for this is the (note:)An acceptable thing to God, and such as he approves well of.(:note) will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

geneva@2Thessalonians:1:9 @ Which shall be punished with euerlasting perdition, from the presence of the Lord, & from the glory of his power,

geneva@2Thessalonians:1:10 @ When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe ((note:)They are considered as children of God by the faith which they have in the Gospel, which is preached to them by the apostles.(:note) because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:1 @ Now (note:)The second part of the epistle, containing an excellent prophecy of the state of the Church, which will be from the apostles time to the latter day of judgment.(:note) we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our If we think earnestly upon that unmeasurable glory which we will be partakers of with Christ, it will be an excellent remedy for us against wavering and impatience, so that neither the glistening of the world will allure us, nor the dreadful sight of the cross dismay us. gathering together unto him,

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:4 @ Who opposeth and (note:)All men know who he is that says he can shut up heaven and open it at his pleasure, and takes upon himself to be lord and master above all kings and princes, before whom kings and princes fall down and worship, honouring that antichrist as a god.(:note) exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; He foretells that the antichrist (that is, whoever he is that will occupy that seat that falls away from God) will not reign outside of the Church, but in the very bosom of the Church. so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:12 @ That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but (note:)They liked lies so much that they had pleasure in them, which is the greatest madness that may exist.(:note) had pleasure in unrighteousness.

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:16 @ Now the same Iesus Christ our Lord; and our God euen the Father which hath loued vs, and hath giuen vs euerlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:1 @ Finally, (note:)He adds now consequently according to his manner, various admonitions: the first of them is, that they pray for the increase and passage of the Gospel, and for the safety of the faithful ministers of it.(:note) brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have [free] course, and be glorified, even as [it is] with you:

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:2 @ And that we may be delivered from (note:)Who do not do or care about their duty.(:note) unreasonable and wicked men: It is no wonder that the Gospel is hated by so many, seeing that faith is a rare gift of God. Nonetheless, the Church will never be destroyed by the multitude of the wicked, because it is grounded and stayed upon the faithful promise of God. for all [men] have not faith.

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:11 @ For we hear that there are some which walk among (note:)How great a fault idleness is, he declares in that God created no man in vain or to no purpose, neither is there any to whom he has not allotted as it were a certain position and place. From which it follows, that the order which God has appointed is troubled by the idle, indeed broken, which is great sin and wickedness.(:note) you disorderly, working not at all, He reprehends a vice, which is joined with the former, upon which follows an infinite sort of mischiefs: that is, that there are none more busy in other men's matters, than they who neglect their own. but are busybodies.

geneva@1Timothy:1:2 @ Unto Timothy, [my] own son in the faith: Grace, (note:)There is as much difference between mercy and grace, as is between the effect and the cause: for grace is that free good will of God, by which he chose us in Christ, and mercy is that free justification which follows it.(:note) mercy, [and] peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

geneva@1Timothy:1:13 @ Who was before a (note:)These are the meritorious works which Paul brags of.(:note) blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.

geneva@1Timothy:1:14 @ And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant (note:)He proves this change by the effects, because he who was a profane man, has become a believer: and he that did most outrageously persecute Christ, burns now in love towards him.(:note) with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

geneva@1Timothy:1:16 @ Notwithstanding, for this cause was I receiued to mercie, that Iesus Christ should first shewe on me all long suffering vnto the ensample of them, which shall in time to come beleeue in him vnto eternall life.

geneva@1Timothy:1:20 @ Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; (note:)Those who fall from God, and his religion, are not to be endured in the Church, but rather ought to be excommunicated.(:note) whom I have Cast out of the Church, and so delivered them to Satan. delivered unto Satan, that they may That by their pain they might learn how serious it is to blaspheme. learn not to blaspheme.

geneva@1Timothy:2:1 @ I (note:)Having dispatched those things which pertain to doctrine, he speaks now in the second place of the other part of the ministry of the word, that is, of public prayers. And first of all, answering the question for whom we ought to pray, he teaches that we must pray for all men, and especially for every type of magistrate. And this thing was at that time somewhat doubted of, seeing that kings, indeed, and most of the magistrates, were at that time enemies of the Church.(:note) exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;

geneva@1Timothy:2:10 @ But (as becommeth women that professe the feare of God) with good workes.

geneva@1Timothy:2:12 @ But I suffer not a woman to teach, (note:)The first argument, why it is not lawful for women to teach in the congregation, because by this means they would be placed above men, for they would be their masters: and this is against God's ordinance.(:note) nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

geneva@1Timothy:3:1 @ This (note:)Having completed the treatise of doctrine and of the manner of handling of it, as well also of public prayer, he now in the third place comes to the persons themselves, speaking first of pastors, and afterwards of deacons. And he uses a preface, so that the church may know that these are certain and sure rules.(:note) [is] a true saying, The office of bishop, or the ministry of the word is not an idle dignity, but a work, and that an excellent work: and therefore a bishop must be furnished with many virtues both at home and abroad. Therefore it is necessary before he is chosen to examine well his learning, his gifts, his abilities, and his life. If a man He does not speak here of ambitious seeking, of which there cannot be a worse fault in the Church, but generally of the mind and disposition of man, prepared and disposed to help and edify the Church of God, when and wherever it will please the Lord. desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

geneva@1Timothy:3:6 @ Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the (note:)Lest by reason that he is advanced to that position, he takes occasion to be proud, which will undo him, and so he fall into the same condemnation that the devil himself has fallen into.(:note) condemnation of the devil.

geneva@1Timothy:3:13 @ For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good (note:)Honour and estimation.(:note) degree, and Bold and assured confidence without fear. great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

geneva@1Timothy:3:15 @ But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the (note:)The pastor always has to consider how he carries out his duties in the house of the living God, in which the treasure of the truth is kept.(:note) house of God, which is the church of the living God, the That is, with regard to man: for the Church rested upon that cornerstone, Christ, and is the preserver of the truth, but not the mother. pillar and ground of the truth.

geneva@1Timothy:4:1 @ Now (note:)He contrasts that true doctrine, with false opinions, which he foretells that certain ones who shall fall away from God and his religion, will bring in by the suggestion of Satan, and so that a great number will give ear to them.(:note) the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the From the true doctrine of God. faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

geneva@1Timothy:4:14 @ Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the hands of the companie of the Eldership.

geneva@1Timothy:4:16 @ Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both (note:)Faith is by hearing, and hearing by preaching: and therefore the ministers of the word are so said to save themselves and others, because in them the Lord has put the word of reconciliation.(:note) save thyself, and them that hear thee.

geneva@1Timothy:5:1 @ Rebuke (note:)Of giving personal reprehensions appropriately, according to the degrees of ages and gender.(:note) not an elder, but intreat [him] as a father; [and] the younger men as brethren;

geneva@1Timothy:5:2 @ The elder women as mothers, the yonger as sisters, with all purenesse.

geneva@1Timothy:5:10 @ Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have (note:)This is spoken with regard to the manner of those countries.(:note) washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

geneva@1Timothy:6:1 @ Let (note:)He adds also rules for the servant's duty towards their masters: upon which matter there were no doubt many questions asked by those who took occasion by the Gospel to trouble the normal manner of life. And this is the first rule: let servants that have come to the faith and have the unfaithful for their masters, serve them nonetheless with great faithfulness.(:note) as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, The reason: lest God should seem by the doctrine of the Gospel to stir up men to rebellion and all wickedness. that the name of God and [his] doctrine be not blasphemed.

geneva@1Timothy:6:5 @ Perverse (note:)Such as we see in those shameless schools of popery, which are nothing else but vain babbling and foolish talking.(:note) disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

geneva@1Timothy:6:10 @ For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and (note:)Sorrow and grief do as it were pierce through the mind of man, and are the harvest and true fruits of covetousness.(:note) pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

geneva@1Timothy:6:12 @ Fight the good fight of faith: lay holde of eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, & hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

geneva@1Timothy:6:15 @ Which in his times he shall shew, [who is] the (note:)He combines many words together for one purpose: by which he confirms the power of God, which if we trust steadfastly in, we will not be moved out of our position.(:note) blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

geneva@1Timothy:6:16 @ Who onely hath immortalitie, and dwelleth in the light that none can attaine vnto, whom neuer man sawe, neither can see, vnto whome bee honour and power euerlasting, Amen.

geneva@1Timothy:6:21 @ Which some (note:)Not only in word, but also in appearance and gesture: to be short, while their behaviour was such that even when they held their peace they would make men believe, their heads were occupied about nothing but high and lofty matters, and therefore they erred concerning the faith.(:note) professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen. «[The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.]»

geneva@2Timothy:1:5 @ When I call to remembrance the vnfained faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and am assured that it dwelleth in thee also.

geneva@2Timothy:1:7 @ For God hath not given us the spirit of (note:)To pierce us through, and terrify us, as men whom the Lord will destroy.(:note) fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

geneva@2Timothy:1:10 @ But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to (note:)Has caused life and immortality to appear.(:note) light through the gospel:

geneva@2Timothy:1:16 @ The Lord giue mercie vnto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chaine,

geneva@2Timothy:1:17 @ But when he was at Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

geneva@2Timothy:2:1 @ Thou (note:)The conclusion of the former exhortation which has also a declaration added to it: how those who do not keep that worthy thing that is committed to them, who keep it to themselves, but rather those who do most freely communicate it with others, to the end that many may be partakers of it, without any man's loss or hindrance.(:note) therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

geneva@2Timothy:2:2 @ And the things that thou hast heard of me among (note:)When many were there, who can bear witness of these things.(:note) many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

geneva@2Timothy:2:4 @ No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of (note:)With affairs of household, or other things that belong to other ordinary businesses.(:note) [this] life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

geneva@2Timothy:2:14 @ Of these things put [them] in remembrance, (note:)Call God to witness, or as a Judge: as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and Paul himself did, in Acts 13.(:note) charging [them] before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to the subverting of the hearers.

geneva@2Timothy:2:17 @ And their worde shall fret as a canker: of which sort is Hymeneus and Philetus,

geneva@2Timothy:2:18 @ Which as concerning ye trueth haue erred from the marke, saying that the resurrection is past alreadie, and do destroy the faith of certaine.

geneva@2Timothy:2:21 @ If a man therefore (note:)By these words is meant the execution of the matter, and not the cause: for in that we purge ourselves, it is not to be attributed to any free will that is in us, but to God, who freely and wholly works in us, a good and an effectual will.(:note) purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good work.

geneva@2Timothy:2:24 @ And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, (note:)To win them through our patient bearing with them, but not to please them or excuse them in their wickedness.(:note) patient,

geneva@2Timothy:3:1 @ This (note:)The seventh admonition: we may not hope for a Church in this world without corruption: but there will be rather great abundance of most wicked men even in the very bosom of the Church, who will nonetheless make a show and countenance of great holiness, and charity.(:note) know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

geneva@2Timothy:3:2 @ For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, (note:)Who make no account, either of right or honesty.(:note) unholy,

geneva@2Timothy:3:4 @ Traitours, headie, high minded, louers of pleasures more then louers of God,

geneva@2Timothy:3:8 @ And as Iannes and Iambres withstoode Moses, so doe these also resist the trueth, men of corrupt mindes, reprobate concerning the faith.

geneva@2Timothy:3:13 @ But evil men and seducers shall wax (note:)Their wickedness will daily increase.(:note) worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

geneva@2Timothy:3:14 @ But continue thou in the thinges which thou hast learned, and which are committed vnto thee, knowing of who thou hast learned them:

geneva@2Timothy:3:15 @ And that thou hast knowen the holy Scriptures of a childe, which are able to make thee wise vnto saluation, through the faith which is in Christ Iesus.

geneva@2Timothy:4:1 @ I (note:)The principal and chief of all admonitions, being therefore proposed with a most earnest charge, is this: that the word of God is explained and set forth with a certain holy urgent exhorting, as necessity requires: but in such a way that a good and true ground of the doctrine is laid, and the vehemency is tempered with all holy meekness.(:note) charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

geneva@2Timothy:4:2 @ Preach the worde: be instant, in season and out of season: improue, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

geneva@2Timothy:4:10 @ For Demas hath forsaken me, having (note:)Contented himself with this world.(:note) loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

geneva@2Timothy:4:13 @ The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou commest, bring with thee, and the bookes, but specially the parchments.

geneva@2Timothy:4:16 @ At my first answering no man assisted me, but all forsooke me: I pray God, that it may not be laide to their charge.

geneva@2Timothy:4:17 @ Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the (note:)Of Nero.(:note) lion.

geneva@2Timothy:4:20 @ Erastus abode at Corinthus: Trophimus I left at Miletum sicke.

geneva@2Timothy:4:22 @ The Lorde Iesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you, Amen. The second Epistle writte from Rome vnto Timotheus, the first Bishop elected of the Church of Ephesus, when Paul was presented the second time before the Emperour Nero.

geneva@Titus:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)He vouches his apostleship (not for Titus, but for the Cretian's sake) both by the testimony of his outward calling, and by his consent in which he agrees with all the elect from the beginning of the world.(:note) a A minister, as Christ himself, in his office of minister and head of the Prophets, is called a servant; (Isa_43:10). servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's Of those whom God has chosen. elect, The faith in which all the elect agree, is the true and sincere knowledge of God for this purpose, that worshipping God correctly, they may at length obtain everlasting life according to the promise of God, who is true, which promise was exhibited in Christ in due time according to his eternal purpose. and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

geneva@Titus:2:3 @ The elder women likewise, that they be in such behauiour as becommeth holinesse, not false accusers, not subiect to much wine, but teachers of honest things,

geneva@Titus:2:5 @ [To be] discreet, chaste, (note:)Not roving about idly.(:note) keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

geneva@Titus:2:8 @ And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of.

geneva@Titus:2:14 @ Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a (note:)As it were a thing peculiarly laid aside for himself.(:note) peculiar people, zealous of good works.

geneva@Titus:3:5 @ Not by works of (note:)Literally, «of works which are done in righteousness»: and this passage fully refutes the doctrine of meritorious works.(:note) righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Which the power of the Holy Spirit works. Holy Ghost;

geneva@Titus:3:13 @ Bring Zenas the expounder of the Lawe, and Apollos on their iourney diligently, that they lacke nothing.

geneva@Philemon:1:5 @ (When I heare of thy loue & faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Iesus, and towarde all Saintes)

geneva@Philemon:1:7 @ For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the (note:)Because you did so dutifully and cheerfully refresh the saints, that they conceived inwardly a marvellous joy: for by this word {(bowels)} is meant not only the inward feeling of wants and miseries that men have of one another's state, but also that joy and comfort which enters into the very bowels, as though the heart were refreshed and comforted.(:note) bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

geneva@Philemon:1:11 @ Which in times past was to thee vnprofitable, but nowe profitable both to thee and to me,

geneva@Philemon:1:12 @ Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own (note:)As my own son, and as if I had begotten him from my own body.(:note) bowels:

geneva@Philemon:1:14 @ But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of (note:)That you might not seem to have lent me your servant on constraint, but willingly.(:note) necessity, but willingly.

geneva@Philemon:1:15 @ For perhaps he therefore (note:)He uses a more gentle type of speech, but in reality, he ran away.(:note) departed for For a little time. a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

geneva@Philemon:1:16 @ Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the (note:)Because he is your servant, as other servants are, and because he is the Lord's servant, you must love him both for the Lord's sake and for your own sake.(:note) flesh, and in the Lord?

geneva@Philemon:1:17 @ If therefore thou count our thinges common, receiue him as my selfe.

geneva@Philemon:1:23 @ There salute thee Epaphras my felowe prisoner in Christ Iesus,

geneva@Philemon:1:24 @ Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my felowe helpers.

geneva@Hebrews:1:1 @ God, who at (note:)The first part of the general proposition of this epistle the son of God is indeed that prophet or teacher, who has actually now performed that which God after a sort and in shadows signified by his prophets, and has fully revealed his Father's will to the world.(:note) sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, The purpose of this epistle, is to show that Jesus Christ the Son of God both God and man is that true eternal and only Prophet, King and High Priest, that was shadowed by the figures of the old law, and is now indeed exhibited of whom the whole Church ought to be taught, governed and sanctified.

geneva@Hebrews:1:2 @ Hath in these (note:)So that the former declaration made by the prophets was not complete, and nothing must be added to this latter.(:note) last days spoken unto us by [his] That one Son is God and man. Son, The second part of the same statement: The same Son is appointed by the Father to be our king and Lord, by whom also he made all things: and in whom only he sets forth his glory, yea and himself also to be under obligation to us, who upholds and supports all things by his will and pleasure. whom he hath appointed Possessor and equal partner of all things with the Father. heir of all things, by whom also he made the That is, whatever has been at any time, is, or shall be. worlds;

geneva@Hebrews:1:3 @ Who being the (note:)He in whom the glory and majesty of the Father shines, who is otherwise infinite, and cannot be under obligation.(:note) brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his His Father's person. person, and Sustains, defends and cherishes. upholding all things by the word of his power, The third part of the same proposition: The same Son executed the office of the High Priest in offering up himself, and is our only and most mighty Mediator in heaven. when he had by himself purged our sins, This shows that the savour of that his sacrifice is not only most acceptable to the Father, but also is everlasting, and furthermore how far this High Priest surpasses all the other high priests. sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

geneva@Hebrews:1:8 @ But unto the Son [he saith], Thy (note:)The throne is proper for princes and not for servants.(:note) throne, O God, [is] for ever For everlasting, for this repeating of the word increases the significance of it beyond all measure. and ever: a The government of your kingdom is righteous. sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom.

geneva@Hebrews:1:9 @ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated (note:)This type of speech in which the Jews use contrasting phrases, has great force in it.(:note) iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath In that, that the word became flesh, by sending the Holy Spirit on him without measure. anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy For he is the head and we are his members. fellows.

geneva@Hebrews:1:11 @ They shall perish, but thou doest remaine: and they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment.

geneva@Hebrews:1:12 @ And as a vesture shalt thou folde them vp, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy yeeres shall not faile.

geneva@Hebrews:2:2 @ For if the (note:)The Law which appointed punishment for the offenders: and which Paul says was given by angels, (Gal_3:19) and by Stephen also in, (Act_7:53).(:note) word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

geneva@Hebrews:2:3 @ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; (note:)If the neglect and disobedience of the word spoken by angels was not left unpunished, much less will it be tolerated if we neglect the gospel which the Lord of angels preached, and was confirmed by the voice of the apostles, and with so many signs and wonders from heaven, and especially with great and mighty working of the Holy Spirit.(:note) which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by By the apostles. them that heard [him];

geneva@Hebrews:2:4 @ God also bearing [them] witness, both with (note:)This is the true purpose of miracles. Now they are called signs, because they appear as one thing, and represent another: and they are called wonders, because they represent some strange and unaccustomed thing: and powers because they give us a glimpse of God's mighty power.(:note) signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

geneva@Hebrews:2:7 @ Thou (note:)This is the first honour of the citizens of the world to come, that they are beside the angels.(:note) madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with For they will be greatly honoured when they partake of the kingdom. He speaks of the thing that will be, as though it were already, because it is so certain. glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

geneva@Hebrews:2:8 @ Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing [that is] not put under him. (note:)An objection: But where is this great rule and dominion?(:note) But now we see not yet all things put under him.

geneva@Hebrews:2:14 @ Forasmuch then as the children are (note:)Are made of flesh and blood, which is a frail and delicate nature.(:note) partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the The devil is said to have the power of death, because he is the author of sin: and from sin comes death, and because of this he daily urges us to sin. power of death, that is, the He speaks of him as of a prince, placing over all his angels. devil;

geneva@Hebrews:2:15 @ And deliver them who through fear of (note:)By {(death)} you must understand here, that death which is joined with the wrath of God, as it must be if it is without Christ, and there can be nothing devised that is more miserable.(:note) death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

geneva@Hebrews:2:18 @ For in that he himself hath suffered being (note:)Was tried and urged to wickedness by the devil.(:note) tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

geneva@Hebrews:3:1 @ Wherefore, (note:)Having laid the foundation that is to say, declared and proved both the natures of one Christ, he gives him three offices, that is, the office of a Prophet, King and Priest, and concerning the office of teaching, and governing, compares him with Moses and Joshua from (Hebrews strkjv@3:1-4:14), and with Aaron concerning the priesthood. He proposes that which he intends to speak of, with a grave exhortation, that all our faith may be directed towards Christ, as the only everlasting teacher, governor, and High Priest.(:note) holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the The ambassador or messenger, as in (Rom_15:8) he is called the minister of circumcision. Apostle and High Priest of our Of the doctrine of the gospel which we profess. profession, Christ Jesus;

geneva@Hebrews:3:5 @ And (note:)Another comparison: Moses was a faithful servant in this house, that is, in the Church, serving the Lord that was to come, but Christ rules and governs his house as Lord.(:note) Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

geneva@Hebrews:3:6 @ But Christ as a son over his own house; (note:)He applies the former doctrine to his purpose, exhorting all men by the words of David to hear the Son speak, and to give full credit to his words, seeing that otherwise they cannot enter into that eternal rest.(:note) whose That is, Christ's. house are we, if we hold fast the He calls confidence the excellent effect of faith (by which we cry Abba, that is, Father), and to confidence he adds hope. confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

geneva@Hebrews:3:7 @ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye (note:)So that God was to speak once again after Moses.(:note) will hear his voice,

geneva@Hebrews:3:8 @ Harden not your hearts, as in the (note:)In the day that they troubled the Lord, or struggled with him.(:note) provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

geneva@Hebrews:3:10 @ Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway (note:)They are brutish and angry.(:note) err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.

geneva@Hebrews:3:13 @ But exhort one another daily, (note:)While today lasts, that is to say, so long as the gospel is offered to us.(:note) while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

geneva@Hebrews:3:17 @ But with whome was he displeased fourtie yeeres? Was hee not displeased with them that sinned, whose carkeises fell in the wildernes?

geneva@Hebrews:4:1 @ Let vs feare therefore, least at any time by forsaking the promes of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to be depriued.

geneva@Hebrews:4:6 @ Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter thereinto, & they to whom it was first preached, entred not therein for vnbeliefes sake:

geneva@Hebrews:4:7 @ Againe he appointed in Dauid a certaine day, by To day, after so long a time, saying, as it is sayd, This day, if ye heare his voyce, harden not your hearts.

geneva@Hebrews:4:8 @ For if (note:)He speaks of Joshua the son of Nun: and as the land of Canaan was a figure of our true rest, so was Joshua a figure of Christ.(:note) Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

geneva@Hebrews:5:1 @ For (note:)The first part of the first comparison of Christ's high priesthood with Aaron's: Other high priests are taken from among men, and are called after the order of men.(:note) every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, The first part of the second comparison: Others though weak, are made high priests, to the end that feeling the same infirmity in themselves which is in all the rest of the people, they should in their own and the peoples name offer gifts and sacrifices, which are witnesses of common faith and repentance. that he may offer both Offering of things without life. gifts and Beasts which were killed, but especially in the sacrifices for sins and offences. sacrifices for sins:

geneva@Hebrews:5:2 @ Who (note:)Fit and meet.(:note) can have compassion on the ignorant, and On them that are sinful: for in the Hebrew tongue, under ignorance and error is every sin meant, even that sin that is voluntary. on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is He carries with him a nature subject to the same inconveniences and vices. compassed with infirmity.

geneva@Hebrews:5:3 @ And for the sames sake he is bound to offer for sinnes, as wel for his own part, as for ye peoples.

geneva@Hebrews:5:6 @ As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the (note:)After the likeness or manner as it is later declared.(:note) order of Melchisedec.

geneva@Hebrews:5:14 @ But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their (note:)All their power by which they understand and judge.(:note) senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

geneva@Hebrews:6:5 @ And haue tasted of the good word of God, and of the powers of the world to come,

geneva@Hebrews:6:6 @ If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they (note:)As men that hate Christ, and as though they crucified him again, making a mockery of him to all the world, to their own destruction, as Julian the Apostate or backslider did.(:note) crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame.

geneva@Hebrews:6:11 @ And we desire that euery one of you shew the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope vnto the ende,

geneva@Hebrews:6:17 @ Wherein God, willing more (note:)More than was needed, were it not for the wickedness of men who do not believe God, even though he swears.(:note) abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:

geneva@Hebrews:7:1 @ For this (note:)Declaring those words, «According to the order of Melchizedek» upon which the comparison of the priesthood of Christ with the Levitical priesthood rests: first, Melchizedek himself is considered to be the type of Christ and these are the points of that comparison. Melchizedek was a king and a priest, as is Christ alone. He was a king of peace and righteousness as is Christ alone.(:note) Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and With a solemn and priestly blessing. blessed him;

geneva@Hebrews:7:10 @ For hee was yet in the loynes of his father Abraham, when Melchi-sedec met him.

geneva@Hebrews:7:24 @ But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an (note:)Which cannot pass away.(:note) unchangeable priesthood.

geneva@Hebrews:7:27 @ Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: (note:)Another argument, which nonetheless he handles afterward: The Levitical priests offered sacrifice after sacrifice, first for themselves, and then for the people. Christ offered not for himself, but for others, not sacrifices, but himself, not repeatedly, but once. This should not seem strange, he says, for they are weak, but this man is consecrated as an everlasting Priest, and that by an oath.(:note) for That sacrifice which he offered. this he did It was done so that it need not be repeated or offered again any more. once, when he offered up himself.

geneva@Hebrews:7:28 @ For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the (note:)The commandment of God which was bound with an oath.(:note) word of the oath, Another argument taken by the time: Former things are taken away by the later. which Exhibited. was since the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

geneva@Hebrews:8:1 @ Now (note:)He briefly repeats that to which all these things are to be referred, that is, that we have another High Priest than those Levitical high priests, even such a one as sits at the right hand of the Most High God in heaven.(:note) of the things which we have spoken [this is] the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

geneva@Hebrews:8:5 @ Who serue vnto the paterne and shadowe of heauenly things, as Moses was warned by God, whe he was about to finish the Tabernacle. See, saide hee, that thou make all thinges according to the paterne, shewed to thee in the mount.

geneva@Hebrews:8:8 @ For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the (note:)He calls it a house, as it were one family of the whole kingdom: for while the kingdom of David was divided into two sections, the Prophet would have us understand that through the new Testament they shall be joined together again in one.(:note) house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

geneva@Hebrews:8:11 @ And they shall not teache euery man his neighbour and euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall knowe me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

geneva@Hebrews:9:2 @ For the first Tabernacle was made, wherein was the candlesticke, and the table, and the shewebread, which Tabernacle is called the Holy places.

geneva@Hebrews:9:3 @ And after (note:)He calls it the second veil, not because there were two veils, but because it was behind the sanctuary or the first tabernacle.(:note) the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the The holiest sanctuary. Holiest of all;

geneva@Hebrews:9:4 @ Which had the golden censer, and the Arke of the Testament ouerlayde rounde about with golde, wherein the golden pot, which had Manna, was, and Aarons rod that had budded, and the tables of the Testament.

geneva@Hebrews:9:17 @ For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is aliue.

geneva@Hebrews:9:19 @ For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people (note:)As the Lord had commanded.(:note) according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and He used to sprinkle. sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

geneva@Hebrews:9:23 @ [It was] therefore necessary that the (note:)The counterparts of heavenly things were earthly, and therefore they were to be set forth with earthly things, as with the blood of beasts, wool and hyssop. But under Christ all things are heavenly, and therefore they could not be sanctified with the offering of his living blood.(:note) patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

geneva@Hebrews:9:27 @ And as it is appointed unto men (note:)He speaks of the natural state and condition of man: For though Lazarus and certain others died twice, that was no usual thing, but extraordinary: and as for them that shall be changed, their changing is a kind of death. {{See 1Co_15:51}}(:note) once to die, but after this the judgment:

geneva@Hebrews:9:28 @ So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of (note:)Thus the general promise is restrained to the elect only: and we have to seek the testimony of our election, not in the secret counsel of God, but in the effects that our faith works, and so we must climb up from the lowest step to the highest, there to find such comfort as is most certain, and shall never be moved.(:note) many; Shortly by the way he sets Christ as Judge, partly to terrify those who are not trusting in the only sacrifice of Christ once made, and partly to keep the faithful in their duty, so that they will not go back. and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

geneva@Hebrews:10:1 @ For (note:)He prevents a private objection. Why then were those sacrifices offered? The apostle answers, first concerning the yearly sacrifice which was the solemnest of all, in which (he says) there was made every year a remembrance again of all former sins. Therefore that sacrifice had no power to sanctify: for to what purpose should those sins which are purged be repeated again, and why should new sins come to be repeated every year, if those sacrifices abolished sin?(:note) the law having a shadow of good things to Of things which are everlasting, which were promised to the fathers, and exhibited in Christ. come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

geneva@Hebrews:10:2 @ For would they not then haue ceased to haue bene offered, because that the offerers once purged, should haue had no more conscience of sinnes?

geneva@Hebrews:10:6 @ In burnt offerings, and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure.

geneva@Hebrews:10:8 @ Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe)

geneva@Hebrews:10:20 @ By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his (note:)So Christ's flesh shows us the Godhead as if it were under a veil, For otherwise we could not stand the brightness of it.(:note) flesh;

geneva@Hebrews:10:23 @ And washed in our bodies with pure water, let vs keepe the profession of our hope, without wauering, (for he is faithfull that promised)

geneva@Hebrews:10:25 @ Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: (note:)Having mentioned the last coming of Christ, he stirs up the godly to the meditation of a holy life, and cites the faithless fallers from God to the fearful judgment seat of the Judge, because they wickedly rejected him in whom only salvation consists.(:note) and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

geneva@Hebrews:10:26 @ For if we sin (note:)Without any cause or occasion, or show of occasion.(:note) wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

geneva@Hebrews:10:27 @ But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the (note:)For it is another matter to sin through the frailty of man's nature, and another thing to proclaim war on God as on an enemy.(:note) adversaries.

geneva@Hebrews:10:29 @ Of howe much sorer punishment suppose ye shall hee be worthy, which treadeth vnder foote the Sonne of God, and counteth the blood of the Testament as an vnholy thing, wherewith he was sanctified, and doeth despite the Spirit of grace?

geneva@Hebrews:10:34 @ For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring (note:)Goods and riches.(:note) substance.

geneva@Hebrews:10:35 @ Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward.

geneva@Hebrews:11:1 @ Now (note:)An excellent description of faith by the effects, because it represents things which are but yet in hope, and sets as it were before our eyes things that are invisible.(:note) faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

geneva@Hebrews:11:6 @ But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a (note:)This reward is not referred to our merits, but to the free promise, as Paul teaches in Abraham the father of all the faithful, (Rom_4:4).(:note) rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

geneva@Hebrews:11:9 @ By faith he abode in the land of promes, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes.

geneva@Hebrews:11:10 @ For he looked for a city which hath (note:)This foundation is contrasted with their tabernacle.(:note) foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.

geneva@Hebrews:11:11 @ Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a childe when she was past age, because she iudged him faithfull which had promised.

geneva@Hebrews:11:12 @ Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as (note:)As unlikely to bear children, as if he had been dead.(:note) dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

geneva@Hebrews:11:15 @ And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned.

geneva@Hebrews:11:16 @ But nowe they desire a better, that is an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.

geneva@Hebrews:11:17 @ By faith Abraham, when he was (note:)Tried by the Lord.(:note) tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the Although the promises of life were made in that only begotten son Isaac, yet he appointed him to die; and so against hope he believed in hope. promises offered up his only begotten [son],

geneva@Hebrews:11:18 @ (To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede be called.)

geneva@Hebrews:11:19 @ Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from (note:)From which death.(:note) whence also he received him in For there was not the true and very death of Isaac, but as it were the death, by means of which he seemed also to have risen again. a figure.

geneva@Hebrews:11:24 @ By faith Moses when he was come to age, refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter,

geneva@Hebrews:11:25 @ Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the (note:)Such pleasures as he could not enjoy, unless he provoked God's wrath against him.(:note) pleasures of sin for a season;

geneva@Hebrews:11:26 @ Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect vnto the recompence of the reward.

geneva@Hebrews:11:27 @ By faith he forsooke Egypt, and feared not the fiercenes of the king: for he endured, as he that sawe him which is inuisible.

geneva@Hebrews:11:28 @ Through faith he ordeined the Passeouer and the effusion of blood, least he that destroyed the first borne, should touche them.

geneva@Hebrews:11:37 @ They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in (note:)In vile and rough clothing, so were the saints brought to extreme poverty, and constrained to live like beasts in the wilderness.(:note) sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

geneva@Hebrews:11:38 @ Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues of the earth.

geneva@Hebrews:11:40 @ God having provided some better thing for us, that they (note:)For their salvation depended on Christ, who was exhibited in our days.(:note) without us should not be made perfect.

geneva@Hebrews:12:1 @ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, (note:)An applying of the former examples, by which we ought to be stirred up to run the whole race, casting away all hindrances and impediments.(:note) let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which For sin besieges us on all sides, so that we cannot escape. doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

geneva@Hebrews:12:6 @ For whom the Lord loueth, he chasteneth: and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receiueth:

geneva@Hebrews:12:7 @ If ye endure chastening, God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes: for what sonne is it whom the father chasteneth not?

geneva@Hebrews:12:8 @ If therefore ye be without correction, whereof al are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sonnes.

geneva@Hebrews:12:11 @ Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but, grieuous: but afterwarde, it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are thereby exercised.

geneva@Hebrews:12:17 @ For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no (note:)There was no room left for his repentance: and it appears by the effects, what his repentance really was, for when he left his father's presence, he threatened to kill his brother.(:note) place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

geneva@Hebrews:12:20 @ (For they were not able to abide that which was commaunded, yea, though a beast touche the mountaine, it shalbe stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

geneva@Hebrews:12:21 @ And so terrible was the (note:)The shape and form which he saw, which was no counterfeit and forged shape, but a true one.(:note) sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

geneva@Hebrews:12:23 @ To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made (note:)So he calls them that are taken up to heaven, although one part of them sleeps in the earth.(:note) perfect,

geneva@Hebrews:12:27 @ And this worde, Yet once more, signifieth the remouing of those things which are shaken, as of things which are made with hands, that the things which are not shaken, may remaine.

geneva@Hebrews:13:1 @ Let (note:)He comes to the second table of the law, the sum of which is charity, especially toward strangers and such as are afflicted.(:note) brotherly love continue.

geneva@Hebrews:13:3 @ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as (note:)Be so touched, as if their misery were yours.(:note) being yourselves also in the body.

geneva@Hebrews:13:6 @ So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what (note:)He contrasts man with God.(:note) man shall do unto me.

geneva@Hebrews:13:9 @ Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. (note:)He speaks to those who mixed an external worship and especially the difference of meats with the gospel which he clearly condemns as repugnant to the benefit of Christ.(:note) For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with By this one form which concerns the difference of clean and unclean meat, we have to understand all the ceremonial worship. meats, which have not profited them that have been Who observed the difference of them superstitiously. occupied therein.

geneva@Hebrews:13:11 @ For the bodies of those beastes whose blood is brought into the Holy place by the high Priest for sinne, are burnt without the campe.

geneva@Hebrews:13:16 @ To doe good, and to distribute forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

geneva@Hebrews:13:20 @ The God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus, the great shepheard of the sheepe, through the blood of the euerlasting Couenant,

geneva@Hebrews:13:21 @ Make you (note:)Make you fit or suitable.(:note) perfect in every good work to do his will, From this comes that saying of the fathers, that God crowns his work in us. working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.

geneva@James:1:6 @ But let him ask in faith, (note:)Why then, what need is there of another mediator or priest?(:note) nothing wavering. A digression or going aside from his matter, as compared to prayers which are conceived with a doubting mind, but we have a trustworthy promise from God, and this is the second part of the epistle. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

geneva@James:1:11 @ For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his (note:)Whatever he purposes in his mind or does.(:note) ways.

geneva@James:1:24 @ For when he hath considered himselfe, hee goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what maner of one he was.

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:2:6 @ 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@James:2:7 @ Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are (note:)Literally, «which is called upon of you».(:note) called?

geneva@James:2:9 @ But if yee regarde the persons, yee commit sinne, and are rebuked of the Lawe, as transgressours.

geneva@James:2:18 @ Yea, (note:)No, by this every man will be eaten up with pride.(:note) a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

geneva@James:2:21 @ Was not Abraham our father (note:)Was he not by his works known and found to be justified? For he speaks not here of the causes of justification, but by what effects we may know that a man is justified.(:note) justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

geneva@James:2:22 @ Seest thou how faith (note:)Was effectual and fruitful with good works.(:note) wrought with his works, and by works was faith made That the faith was declared to be a true faith, through works. perfect?

geneva@James:2:23 @ And the scripture was (note:)Then the Scripture was fulfilled, when it appeared plainly how truly it was written about Abraham.(:note) fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

geneva@James:3:1 @ My (note:)The sixth part or place: Let no man usurp (as most men ambitiously do) authority to judge and censure others harshly.(:note) brethren, be not many masters, A reason: Because they provoke God's anger against themselves, who do so eagerly and harshly condemn others, being themselves guilty and faulty. knowing that we Unless we cease from this imperious and proud finding of fault with others. shall receive the greater condemnation.

geneva@James:3:2 @ For in many things we offend all. (note:)The seventh place, concerning the bridling of the tongue, joined with the former, so that it is revealed that there is no man in who can not justly be found fault as well, seeing as it is a rare virtue to bridle the tongue.(:note) If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.

geneva@James:3:5 @ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. (note:)On the contrary part he shows how great inconveniences arise by the excesses of the tongue, throughout the whole world, to the end that men may so much the more diligently give themselves to control it.(:note) Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

geneva@James:3:7 @ For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man.

geneva@James:3:17 @ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of (note:)He sets mercy against the fierce and cruel nature of man, and shows that heavenly wisdom brings forth good fruits, for he that is heavenly wise, refers all things to God's glory, and the profit of his neighbours.(:note) mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

geneva@James:4:1 @ From (note:)He advances the same argument, condemning certain other causes of wars and contentions, that is, unbridled pleasures and uncontrolled lusts, by their effects, for so much as the Lord does worthily make them come to no effect, so that they bring nothing to them in whom they reside, but incurable torments.(:note) whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

geneva@James:4:2 @ Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, (note:)He reprehends them by name, who are not ashamed to make God the minister and helper of their lusts and pleasures, in asking things which are either in themselves unlawful or being lawful, ask for them out of wicked motives and uses.(:note) because ye ask not.

geneva@James:4:3 @ Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.

geneva@James:4:10 @ Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.

geneva@James:4:16 @ But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

geneva@James:5:1 @ Go (note:)He denounces utter destruction to the wicked and profane rich men, and such as are drowned in their riotousness, mocking their foolish confidence when there is nothing indeed more vain than such things.(:note) to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].

geneva@James:5:3 @ Your gold and siluer is cankred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes.

geneva@James:5:5 @ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have (note:)You have pampered yourselves.(:note) nourished your hearts, as in a The Hebrews call a day that is appointed to solemn banqueting, a day of slaughter or feasting. day of slaughter.

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:)He has reason in making mention of sins, for diseases are often sent because of sins.(:note) sins, they shall be forgiven him.

geneva@James:5:17 @ Helias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rayne, and it rayned not on the earth for three yeeres and sixe moneths.

geneva@James:5:20 @ Let him knowe that he which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall saue a soule from death, and shal hide a multitude of sinnes.

geneva@1Peter:1:1 @ Peter an Apostle of Iesvs Christ, to the strangers that dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

geneva@1Peter:1:3 @ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a (note:)Everlasting hope.(:note) lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

geneva@1Peter:1:6 @ Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations,

geneva@1Peter:1:11 @ Searching when or what time the Spirite which testified before of Christ which was in them, shoulde declare the sufferings that should come vnto Christ, and the glorie that shoulde followe.

geneva@1Peter:1:12 @ Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost (note:)He alludes to the prophecy of Joel, which was exhibited upon the day of Pentecost, in the Apostles, as it were in the first fruits of the Holy Spirit, which this same prophecy Peter declares; (Act_2:6)(:note) sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

geneva@1Peter:1:15 @ But as hee which hath called you, is holie, so be yee holie in all maner of conuersation;

geneva@1Peter:1:19 @ But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe vndefiled, and without spot.

geneva@1Peter:2:1 @ Wherefore (note:)Having laid for the foundation the Spirit of God effectually working by the word, and having built on it three virtues which are the grounds of all Christian actions, that is, faith, hope, and charity: now he proceeds to a general exhortation the first part being that we flee all show of both secret and open malice.(:note) laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

geneva@1Peter:2:5 @ Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, (note:)Continuing, he compares us now to priests, placed for this purpose in the spiritual temple, that we should serve him with a spiritual worship, that is, with holiness and righteousness: but as the temple, so is the priesthood built upon Christ, in who alone all our spiritual offerings are accepted.(:note) an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

geneva@1Peter:2:10 @ Which in time past were not a people, yet are nowe the people of God: which in time past were not vnder mercie, but nowe haue obteined mercie.

geneva@1Peter:2:14 @ Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him (note:)The second argument taken from the end of this order, which is not only most profitable, but also very necessary: seeing that by that this means virtue is rewarded, and vice punished, in which the peacefulness and happiness if this life consists.(:note) for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

geneva@1Peter:2:16 @ As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.

geneva@1Peter:2:22 @ Who did no sinne, neither was there guile found in his mouth.

geneva@1Peter:2:23 @ Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but (note:)He shows them a remedy against injuries, that is, that they commend their cause to God, by the example of Christ.(:note) committed [himself] to him He seems now to turn his speech to masters, who have also themselves a master and judge in heaven, who will justly avenge the injuries that are done to servants, without any respecting of people. that judgeth righteously:

geneva@1Peter:2:25 @ For ye were as sheepe going astray: but are nowe returned vnto the shepheard and Bishop of your soules.

geneva@1Peter:3:1 @ Likewise, (note:)In the third place he sets forth the wives' duties to their husbands, commanding them to be obedient.(:note) ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; He speaks namely of those who had husbands who were not Christians, who ought so much the more be subject to their husbands, that by their honest and chaste conversation, they may win them to the Lord. that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

geneva@1Peter:3:4 @ But [let it be] the (note:)Who has his abiding place fastened in the heart: so that the hidden man is set against the outward adorning of the body.(:note) hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is Precious indeed and so taken of God. in the sight of God of great price.

geneva@1Peter:3:6 @ Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are (note:)Because women are by nature fearful, he gives them to understand that he requires of them that subjection, which is not wrung out from them either by force or fear.(:note) not afraid with any amazement.

geneva@1Peter:3:14 @ But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye]: (note:)A most certain counsel in afflictions, be they never so terrible, to be of a steady mind and to stand fast. But how shall we attain to it? If we sanctify God in our minds and hearts, that is to say, if we rest upon him as one that is almighty that loves mankind, that is good and true indeed.(:note) and be not afraid of their Be not dismayed as they are. terror, neither be troubled;

geneva@1Peter:3:15 @ But (note:)Give him all prayers and glory, and hang only on him.(:note) sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: He will have us, when we are afflicted for righteousness sake, to be careful not for redeeming of our life, either with denying or renouncing the truth, or with like violence, or any such means: but rather to give an account of our faith boldly, and yet with a meek spirit, and full of godly reverence, that the enemies may not have anything justly to object, but may rather be ashamed of themselves. and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

geneva@1Peter:3:16 @ Hauing a good coscience, that whe they speake euill of you as of euill doers, they may be ashamed, which slander your good conuersation in Christ.

geneva@1Peter:3:20 @ Which sometime were disobedient, when (note:)This word «once» shows that there was a furthermost day appointed, and if that were once past, there should be no more.(:note) once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight Men. souls were saved by water.

geneva@1Peter:4:1 @ Forasmuch (note:)Having ended his digression and sliding from his matter, now he returns to the exhortation which he broke off, taking occasion by that which he said concerning the death and resurrection of Christ, so defining our sanctification, that to be sanctified, is all one has to suffer in the flesh, that is to say, to leave off from our wickedness and viciousness: and to rise again to God, that is to say, to be renewed by the virtue of the holy Spirit, that we may lead the rest of our life which remains after the will of God.(:note) then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

geneva@1Peter:4:2 @ That he no longer should live the (note:)So much of this present life as remains yet to be passed over.(:note) rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

geneva@1Peter:4:16 @ But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not bee ashamed: but let him glorifie God in this behalfe.

geneva@1Peter:5:1 @ The (note:)He describes peculiarly the office of the Elders, that is to say, of them that have the care of the Church.(:note) elders which are among you He uses a preface concerning the circumstance of his own person: that is, that he as their companion communes with them not of manners which he knows not, but in which he is as well experienced as any, and propounds to them no other condition but that which he himself has sustained before them, and still takes the same trouble, and also has the same hope together with them. I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

geneva@1Peter:5:3 @ Neither as being lords over [God's] (note:)Which is the Christian people.(:note) heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

geneva@1Peter:5:7 @ Cast all your care on him: for he careth for you.

geneva@1Peter:5:9 @ Whom resist stedfast in the faith, (note:)The persecutions which Satan stirs up, are neither new nor proper to any one man, but from old and ancient times common to the whole Church, and therefore we must suffer patiently, in which we have such and so many fellows of our conflicts and combats.(:note) knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your Amongst your brethren which are dispersed throughout the world. brethren that are in the world.

geneva@2Peter:1:1 @ Simon (note:)A greeting, in which he gives them to understand that he deals with them as Christ's ambassadors, and otherwise agrees with them in the same faith which is grounded on the righteousness of Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour.(:note) Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the In that God, in standing by his promises, showed himself faithful, and therefore just to us. righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

geneva@2Peter:1:9 @ But he that lacketh these things is blind, and (note:)He that has not an effectual knowledge of God in him, is blind concerning the kingdom of God, for he cannot see things that are afar off, that is to say, heavenly things.(:note) cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

geneva@2Peter:1:11 @ For by this meanes an entring shalbe ministred vnto you aboundantly into the euerlasting kingdome of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ.

geneva@2Peter:1:13 @ Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this (note:)In this body.(:note) tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;

geneva@2Peter:1:14 @ Seeing I knowe that the time is at hand that I must lay downe this my tabernacle, euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed me.

geneva@2Peter:1:17 @ For he receiued of God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voyce to him from that excellent glory, This is my beloued Sonne, in whom I am well pleased.

geneva@2Peter:1:21 @ For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but (note:)The godly interpreters and messengers.(:note) holy men of God spake [as they were] Inspired by God: their actions were in very good order, and not as the actions of the profane soothsayers, and foretellers of things to come. moved by the Holy Ghost.

geneva@2Peter:2:1 @ But (note:)As in times past there were two kinds of prophets, the one true and the other false, so Peter tells them that there will be true and false teachers in the Church, so much so that Christ himself will be denied by some, who nonetheless will call him redeemer.(:note) there were false prophets also among the Under the law, while the state and policy of the Jews was yet standing. people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

geneva@2Peter:2:4 @ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to (note:)So the Greeks called the deep dungeons under the earth, which should be appointed to torment the souls of the wicked in.(:note) hell, and delivered [them] into Bound them with darkness as with chains: and by darkness he means that most miserable state of life that is full of horror. chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

geneva@2Peter:2:5 @ And spared not the (note:)Which was before the flood: not that God made a new world, but because the world seemed new.(:note) old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a For one hundred and twenty years, he did not cease to warn the wicked both by word and deed, of the wrath of God hanging over their heads. preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

geneva@2Peter:2:6 @ And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrhe into ashes, condemned them and ouerthrewe them, and made them an ensample vnto them that after should liue vngodly,

geneva@2Peter:2:9 @ The Lord (note:)Has been long practised in saving and delivering the righteous.(:note) knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

geneva@2Peter:2:11 @ Where as the Angels which are greater both in power and might, giue not railing iudgement against them before the Lord.

geneva@2Peter:2:13 @ And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings (note:)When by being among the Christians in the holy banquets which the Church keeps, they would seem by that to be true members of the Church, yet they are indeed but blots on the Church.(:note) while they feast with you;

geneva@2Peter:2:15 @ Which forsaking the right way, haue gone astray, folowing the way of Balaam, the sonne of Bosor, which loued the wages of vnrighteousnes.

geneva@2Peter:2:16 @ But he was rebuked for his iniquitie: for the dumme beast speaking with mans voyce, forbade the foolishnesse of the Prophet.

geneva@2Peter:2:18 @ For when they speak great (note:)They deceive with vain and swelling words.(:note) swelling [words] of vanity, they They take them, as fish are taken with the hook. allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were Unfeignedly and indeed, clean departed from idolatry. clean escaped from them who live in error.

geneva@2Peter:2:22 @ But it is come vnto them, according to the true Prouerbe, The dogge is returned to his owne vomit: and, The sowe that was washed, to the wallowing in the myre.

geneva@2Peter:3:12 @ Looking for and (note:)He requires patience from us, yet such patience as is not slothful.(:note) hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

geneva@2Peter:3:15 @ And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation; (note:)Paul's epistles are allowed by the express testimony of Peter.(:note) even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

geneva@2Peter:3:16 @ As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; (note:)There are some things that are obscure and dark which the ignorant use to overthrow men who are not established, wrestling the testimony of the scripture for their own destruction. But this is the remedy against such deceit, to labour that we may daily more and more grow up and increase in the knowledge of Christ.(:note) in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

geneva@2Peter:3:17 @ Ye therefore beloued, seeing ye know these thinges before, beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the errour of the wicked, and fall from your owne stedfastnesse.

geneva@1John:1:1 @ That (note:)He begins with the description of the person of Christ who he makes one and not two: and him both God from everlasting (for he was with the Father from the beginning, and is that eternal life) and also made true man, whom John himself and his companions both heard, beheld, and handled.(:note) which was from the beginning, which we have I heard him speak, I saw him myself with my eyes, I handled with my hands him that is true God, being made true man, and not I alone, but others also that were with me. heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the That same everlasting Word by whom all things are made, and in whom only is there life. Word of life;

geneva@1John:1:2 @ (For the life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and (note:)Being sent by him: and that doctrine is correctly said to be shown, for no man could so much as have thought of it, if it had not been thus shown.(:note) shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

geneva@1John:1:7 @ But if we walk in the (note:)God is said to be light by his own nature, and to be in light, that is to say, in that everlasting infinite blessedness: and we are said to walk in light in that the beams of that light shine to us in the Word.(:note) light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, A digression the matter at hand, to the remission of sins: for this our sanctification who walk in the light, is a testimony of our joining and knitting together with Christ: but because this our light is very dark, we must obtain another benefit in Christ, that is, that our sins may be forgiven us being sprinkled with his blood: and this in conclusion is the support and anchor of our salvation. and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

geneva@1John:2:2 @ And he is the (note:)Reconciliation and intercession go together, to give us to understand that he is both advocate and high priest.(:note) propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the For men of all sorts, of all ages, and all places, so that this benefit being not to the Jews only, of whom he speaks as appears in (1Jo_2:7) but also to other nations. whole world.

geneva@1John:2:10 @ Hee that loueth his brother, abideth in that light, & there is none occasion of euil in him.

geneva@1John:2:16 @ For all that is in this world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of this world.

geneva@1John:2:27 @ But the (note:)The Spirit who you have received from Christ, and who has led you into all truth.(:note) anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye You are not ignorant of those things, and therefore I teach them not as things that were never heard of, but call them to your mind as things which you do know. need not that any man teach you: but as the same He commends both the doctrine which they had embraced, and also highly praises their faith, and the diligence of those who taught them, yet so, that he takes nothing from the honour due to the Holy Spirit. anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

geneva@1John:3:9 @ Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his (note:)The Holy Spirit is so called by the effect he works, because by his power and mighty working, as it were by seed, we are made new men.(:note) seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

geneva@1John:3:23 @ This is then his commaundement, That we beleeue in the Name of his Sonne Iesus Christ, and loue one another as hee gaue commaundement.

geneva@1John:4:8 @ He that loveth not knoweth not God; (note:)A confirmation: for it is the nature of God to love men, of which we have a most manifest proof above all other, in that of his only free and infinite good will towards us his enemies, he delivered to death, not a common man, but his own Son, indeed his only begotten Son, to the end that we being reconciled through his blood might be partakers in his everlasting glory.(:note) for God is love.

geneva@1John:4:9 @ Herein was that loue of God made manifest amongst vs, because God sent that his onely begotten sonne into this world, that we might liue through him.

geneva@1John:4:15 @ Whosoever shall (note:)With such a confession as comes from true faith, and is accompanied with love, so that there is an agreement of all things.(:note) confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

geneva@1John:4:16 @ And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. (note:)A fourth reason: God is the fountain and wellspring of charity indeed charity itself: therefore whoever abides in it, has God with him.(:note) God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

geneva@1John:4:18 @ There is no (note:)If we understand by love, that we are in God, and God in us, that we are sons, and that we know God, and that everlasting life is in us: he concludes correctly, that we may well gather peace and quietness by this.(:note) fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

geneva@1John:5:15 @ And if we know that he heareth vs, whatsoeuer we aske, we know that we haue the petitions, that we haue desired of him.

geneva@1John:5:20 @ And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true (note:)The divinity of Christ is most clearly proved by this passage.(:note) God, and eternal life.

geneva@2John:1:1 @ The elder unto the (note:)This is not a proper name, but is to be taken as it sounds that is to say, the worthy and noble lady.(:note) elect Excellent and honourable woman. lady and her children, The bond of Christian union is the true and constant profession of the truth. whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

geneva@2John:1:3 @ Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in (note:)With true knowledge which always has love united with it, and following it.(:note) truth and love.

geneva@2John:1:5 @ And nowe beseeche I thee, Lady, (not as writing a newe commandement vnto thee, but that same which we had from the beginning) that we loue one another.

geneva@2John:1:6 @ And this is that loue, that we should walke after his commandements. This commandement is, that as ye haue heard from the beginning, ye should walke in it.

geneva@3John:1:2 @ Beloued, I wish chiefly that thou prosperedst and faredst well as thy soule prospereth.

geneva@3John:1:5 @ Beloved, thou doest (note:)As becomes a believer and a Christian.(:note) faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

geneva@3John:1:11 @ Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not (note:)Has not known God.(:note) seen God.

geneva@Jude:1:1 @ Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and (note:)This is to distinguish between him and Judas Iscariot.(:note) brother of James, to them that are sanctified By God the Father. by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called:

geneva@Jude:1:7 @ Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, (note:)Following the steps of Sodom and Gomorrah.(:note) giving themselves over to fornication, and going after Thus he sets forth their horrible and wicked perversions. strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

geneva@Jude:1:8 @ Likewise also these (note:)Who are so stupid and void of reason as if all their fears and wits were asleep.(:note) [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, Another most destructive doctrine of theirs, in that they take away the authority of the government and slander them. despise It is a greater matter to despise government than the governors, that is to say, the matter itself than the persons. dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

geneva@Jude:1:18 @ How that they told you that there should be mockers in ye last time, which should walke after their owne vngodly lustes.

geneva@Revelation:1:1 @ The (note:)This chapter has two principal parts, the title or inscription, which stands in place of an introduction: and a narration going before the whole prophecy of this book. The inscription is double, general and particular. In (Rev_1:1) the general inscription contains the kind of prophecy, the author, end, matter, instruments, and manner of communication the same, in (Rev_1:2) the most religious faithfulness of the apostle as public witness and the use of communicating the same, taken from the promise of God, and from the circumstance of the time, (Rev_1:3)(:note)An opening of secret and hidden things. Revelation of Which the Son opened to us out of his Father's bosom by angels. Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John:[1 AD] The dragon watches the Church of the Jews, which was ready to travail: She brings forth, flees and hides herself, while Christ was yet on the earth. [34 AD] The dragon persecutes Christ ascending to heaven, he fights and is thrown down: and after persecutes the Church of the Jews. [67 AD] The Church of the Jews is received into the wilderness for three years and a half. [70 AD] When the Church of the Jews was overthrown, the dragon invaded the catholic church: all this is in the twelfth chapter. The dragon is bound for a thousand years in chapter twenty. The dragon raises up the beast with seven heads, and the beast with two heads, which make havock of the catholic church and her prophets for 1260 years after the passion of Christ in (Rev_13:11). [97 AD] The seven churches are admonished of things present, somewhat before the end of Domitian his reign, and are forewarned of the persecution to come under Trajan for ten years, chapter 2,3. God by word and signs provokes the world, and seals the godly in chapter 6 and 7. He shows examples of his wrath on all creatures, mankind excepted in chapter 8. [1073 AD] The dragon is let loose after a thousand years, and Gregory the seventh, being Pope, rages against Henry the third, then Emperor in chapter 20. [1217 AD] The dragon vexes the world for 150 years to Gregory the ninth, who wrote the Decretals, and most cruelly persecuted the Emperor Fredrick the second. [1295 AD] The dragon kills the prophets after 1260 years, when Boniface the eighth was Pope, who was the author of the sixth book of the Decretals: he excommunicated Philip the French King. [1300 AD] Boniface celebrates the Jubile. [1301 AD] About this time was a great earthquake, which overthrew many houses in Rome. [1305 AD] Prophecy ceases for three years and a half, until Benedict the second succeeded after Boniface the eighth. Prophecy is revived in chapter 11. The dragon and the two beasts question prophecy in chapter 13. Christ defends his Church in word and deed, chapter 14, and with threats and arms, chapter 16. Christ gives his Church victory over the harlot, chapter 17 and 18. Over the two beasts, chapter 19. Over the dragon and death, chapter 20. The Church is fully glorified in heaven with eternal glory, in Christ Jesus, chapter 21 and 22.

geneva@Revelation:1:5 @ And from Jesus Christ, (note:)A most ample and honourable commendation of Christ, first from his offices of the priesthood and kingdom: secondly from his benefits, as his love toward us, and washing us with his blood, in this verse, and communication of his kingdom and priesthood with us: thirdly, from his eternal glory and power, which is always to be celebrated by us; (Rev_1:6) Finally, from the accomplishment of all things once to be effected by him, at his second coming, at which time he shall openly destroy the wicked, and comfort the godly in the truth; (Rev_1:7).(:note) [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

geneva@Revelation:1:10 @ I was in the (note:)This is a holy trance expressed, with which the prophets were entranced, and being carried out of the world, conversed with God: and so Ezekiel says often, that he was carried from place to place by the Spirit, and that the Spirit of the Lord came on him.(:note) Spirit on the He calls it the Lord's day, which Paul calls the first day of the week; (1Co_16:2). Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

geneva@Revelation:1:11 @ Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, that first and that last: & that which thou seest, write in a booke, and send it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamus, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and vnto Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea.

geneva@Revelation:1:14 @ His head, & heares were white as white wooll, and as snowe, and his eyes were as a flame of fire,

geneva@Revelation:1:15 @ And his feete like vnto fine brasse, burning as in a fornace: and his voyce as the sounde of many waters.

geneva@Revelation:1:16 @ And he had in his right hand seuen starres: and out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged sword: and his face shone as the sunne shineth in his strength.

geneva@Revelation:1:18 @ And am aliue, but I was dead: and beholde, I am aliue for euermore, Amen: and I haue the keyes of hell and of death.

geneva@Revelation:2:1 @ Unto (note:)The former part of this book is comprised in a narration of those things which then were, as John taught us, in (Rev_1:19) it belongs wholly to instruction, and in these two next chapters, contains seven places, according to the number and condition of those churches which were named before in (Rev_1:11) shown in (Rev_1:12) and distributed most aptly into their pastors and flocks, (Rev_1:10) which verse of that chapter is a passage to the first part. Every one of these seven passages has three principal parts, an introduction taken from the person of the reprehension of that which is evil: an instruction, containing either an exhortation alone, or a dissuasion opposite to it, and a conclusion stirring to attention, by divine promises. This first passage is to the pastors of the church of Ephesus.(:note) the angel of the church of Ephesus write; The introduction in which are contained the special prayers of Christ Jesus the author of this prophecy out of (Rev_1:6, Rev_1:13). These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

geneva@Revelation:2:3 @ And thou wast burdened, & hast patiece, and for my Names sake hast laboured, & hast not fainted.

geneva@Revelation:2:4 @ Nevertheless I have [somewhat] (note:)To deal with you for.(:note) against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

geneva@Revelation:2:6 @ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the workes of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

geneva@Revelation:2:10 @ Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have (note:)That is, of ten years. For so commonly both in this book and in Daniel, years are signified by days: that God by this might declare, that the space of time is appointed by him and the same very short. Now because John wrote this book in the end of Domitian the Emperor's reign, as Justinus and Ireneus do witness, it is altogether necessary that this should be referred to that persecution which was done by the authority of the emperor Trajan: who began to make havock of the Christian church in the tenth year of his reign, as the historians do write: and his bloody persecution continued until Adrian the emperor had succeeded in his stead: The space of which time is precisely ten years, which are here mentioned.(:note) tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

geneva@Revelation:2:14 @ But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to (note:)That which is here spoken of things offered to idols, is meant of the same type which Paul speaks of in (1Co_10:14).(:note) eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

geneva@Revelation:2:15 @ So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the (note:)Which follow the footsteps of Balaam, and such as are abandoned to all filthiness, as he showed in the verse before, and is here signified by a note of similarity, and thus also must (Rev_2:6) be understood. For this matter especially Ireneus must be consulted as well.(:note) Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

geneva@Revelation:2:18 @ And unto (note:)The fourth passage is to the pastors of Thyatira. The introduction is taken from (Rev_1:14-15).(:note) the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass;

geneva@Revelation:2:19 @ I know (note:)The note of praise is in this verse, and in (Rev_2:20) reprehension, for they tolerated with them the doctrine of unrighteousness and ungodliness. In (Rev_2:21), though they were called back to God, they did not repent. To this he adds even stronger threats and in (Rev_3:2-5) he gives a conditional promise and an exhortation to hold fast the truth(:note) thy works, and charity, and So he calls those offices of charity which are done to the saints. service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last [to be] more than the first.

geneva@Revelation:2:22 @ Beholde, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit fornication with her, into great affliction, except they repent them of their workes.

geneva@Revelation:2:24 @ But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the (note:)He points out the bragging of certain men, who boasted of their deep, that is, plentiful and common knowledge, which nonetheless is devilish.(:note) depths of Satan, as they speak; I will I will speak no worse thing against you, being content to have showed you what I require to be in you. put upon you none other burden.

geneva@Revelation:2:25 @ But that which ye haue alreadie, hold fast till I come.

geneva@Revelation:2:28 @ Euen as I receiued of my Father, so will I giue him the morning starre.

geneva@Revelation:3:1 @ And unto the angel of the church in (note:)Sardis is the name of a most flourishing and famous city, where the kings of Lydia kept their courts.(:note) Sardis The fifth passage is to the pastors of Sardis. The introduction is taken from (Rev_1:4, Rev_1:16). write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a You are said to live, but are dead indeed. name that thou livest, and art dead.

geneva@Revelation:3:3 @ Remember therefore, how thou hast receiued and heard, & hold fast & repent. If therefore thou wilt not watch, I will come on thee as a thiefe, and thou shalt not know what houre I wil come vpo thee.

geneva@Revelation:3:4 @ Thou hast a few names even in Sardis (note:)That is, who have with all religion guarded themselves from sin and moral corruption, even from the very show of evil; (Jud_1:23).(:note) which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in Pure from all spot, and shining with glory. So it is to be understood always hereafter, as in (Rev_3:5). white: for they are They are suitable and proper, that is, because they are justified in Christ, as they have truly showed it: for he who acts righteously is righteous in the same way that a tree bears good fruit; (Rom_8:18). worthy.

geneva@Revelation:3:9 @ Behold, I will make them (note:)I will bring them to that case.(:note) of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come That is, fall down and worship either you civilly, or Christ religiously at thy feet (this is how I would rather take it) whether here in the Church (which seems more proper to the argument here) or there in the world to come, for Christ shall truly fulfil his word. and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

geneva@Revelation:3:10 @ Because thou hast (note:)Because you have been patient and constant, as I would have my servants be.(:note) kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

geneva@Revelation:3:11 @ Beholde, I come shortly: holde that which thou hast, that no man take thy crowne.

geneva@Revelation:3:16 @ Therefore, because thou art Luke warme, and neither colde nor hote, it will come to passe, that I shall spewe thee out of my mouth.

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@Revelation:3:19 @ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be (note:)Zeal is set against those who are neither hot nor cold.(:note) zealous therefore, and repent.

geneva@Revelation:4:1 @ After (note:)Hereafter follows the second part of this book, altogether prophetical foretelling those things which were to come, as was said in (Rev_1:19). This is divided into two histories: one common to the whole world, till Chapter 9 and another unique to the Church of God, till Chapter 22. These histories are said to be described in several books (Rev_5:1, Rev_10:2). Now this verse is a passage from the former part to this second: where it is said, that heaven was opened, that is, that heavenly things were unlocked and that a trumpet sounded in heaven, to stir up the apostle, and call him to the understanding of things to come. The first history has two parts: one the causes of things done and of this whole revelation in this next chapter, another of the acts done in the next four chapters. The principal causes according to the economy or dispensation of it, are two: One the beginning, which none can approach, that is, God the Father, of whom is spoken in this chapter. The other, the Son, who is the secondary cause, easy to be approached, in that he is God and man in one person; (Rev_5:5-9).(:note) this I looked, and, behold, a door [was] opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

geneva@Revelation:4:2 @ And (note:)The manner of revelation:(:note) immediately I was See (Rev_1:10). in the spirit: A description of God the Father, and of his glory in the heavens, explained to men by his office, nature, attending company, effect, instruments and events that follow afterwards. In this verse he is presented in office as a judge as Abraham said; (Gen_18:25) which is declared by his throne as sign of judgment, and his sitting on it. and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and [one] sat on the throne.

geneva@Revelation:4:7 @ And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calfe, & the thirde beast had a face as a man, & the fourth beast was like a flying Eagle.

geneva@Revelation:4:8 @ And the (note:)Every beast had six wings.(:note) four beasts had each of them six wings about [him]; and [they were] full of eyes within: and they rest not By events, in that for all the causes before mentioned, God is glorified both by angels, as holy, Judge, omnipotent, eternal and immutable and also after their example he is glorified by holy men (Rev_4:9) in sign and speech (Rev_4:10). day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

geneva@Revelation:4:9 @ And when those beasts (note:)God is said to have glory, honour, kingdom, and such like given to him, when we godly and reverently set forth that which is properly and only his.(:note) give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

geneva@Revelation:5:1 @ And (note:)A passing to the second principal cause, which is the Son of God, God and man, the mediator of all, as the eternal word of God the Father, manifest in the flesh. This chapter has two parts: one that prepares the way to the revelation, by rehearsal of the occasions that occurred in the first four verses (Rev_5:2-5). Another, the history of the revelation of Christ, from there to the end of the chapter (Rev_5:6-14).(:note) I saw in the That is, in the very right hand of God. right hand of him that sat on the throne Here are shown the occasions for which the principal cause, and this revelation was also necessary: the same are three, the first a present vision of the book of the counsels of God, concerning the government of this whole world, which book is said to be laid up with the Father as it were in his hand: but shut up and unknown to all creature, in this verse. The second is a religious desire of the angels of God to understand the mysteries of this book (1Pe_1:12) (Rev_5:2). The third is a lamentation of John and all the godly, moved by the same desire (Rev_5:4) when they saw that it was an impossible thing for any creature to do: which is declared in (Rev_5:3). a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

geneva@Revelation:5:4 @ Then I wept much, because no man was foud worthy to open, and to reade the Booke, neither to looke thereon.

geneva@Revelation:5:6 @ And I beheld, and, lo, (note:)The sum of this revelation: Christ the mediator takes and opens the book (Rev_5:6,7). Therefore this revelation describes the person of Christ. The person is described this way: Christ the mediator between God, angels and men, as the eternal word of God, and our redeemer: as the Lamb of God, standing as slain and making intercession for us by the power and merit of his everlasting sacrifice, is armed with the Spirit of God, that is, with the power and wisdom of God effectually to the government of this whole world.(:note) in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

geneva@Revelation:5:9 @ And they sung a (note:)No common song.(:note) new That is, composed according to the present matter, the Lamb having received the book as it were with his feet and opened it with his horns, as it is said in the Song of Solomon song, saying, The song of the nobles or princes standing by the throne, consisting of a publication of the praise of Christ and a confirmation of the same from his blessings, both which we have received from him (as are the suffering of his death, our redemption upon the cross by his blood, in this verse: and our communion with him in kingdom and priesthood which long ago he has granted to us with himself and which we hereafter hope to obtain, as our kingdom to come, in Christ, (Rev_5:10). Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

geneva@Revelation:5:10 @ And hast made vs vnto our God Kings and Priests, and we shall reigne on the earth.

geneva@Revelation:5:12 @ Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to (note:)To have all praise given to him, as to the mightest and wisest(:note) receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

geneva@Revelation:6:1 @ And (note:)This is the second part of this first history (which I said was common and of the whole world) of the works of God in the government of all things. There are generally three parts to this: the forewarning, the caution, and the execution of all the evils which God sends on this world, which was scarcely postponed by him. The forewarning is set down in this chapter, the caution for preserving the Church is in the next chapter, and the execution is described in (Rev_8:9) In each part of the forewarning, there are three points: the distinct and express calling of John to prepare himself to take knowledge of the things that are to be showed to him in the opening of the seals, the sign, and the word expounding the sign. Though the express calling of John is used in only four of the signs, yet the same is also to be understood in the rest that follow. The author of the forewarnings is the Lamb as that word of the Father made the Mediator, opening the seals of the book. The instruments are the angels in most of the visions, who explain the sign and the words of it. Now this first verse contains an express calling of John to record the opening of the first seal.(:note) I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

geneva@Revelation:6:2 @ And (note:)The first sign, joined with a declaration, is that because of the sins and horrible rebellion of the world, God will invade the world: and first of all will suddenly, mightily, and gloriously, as if with arrows of pestilence from a distance, beat down the same as Judge, and triumph over it as conqueror.(:note) I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

geneva@Revelation:6:3 @ And (note:)The second sign joined with words of declaration (after the express calling of John as before) is, that God being provoked to wrath by the obstinacy and hard heartedness of the world, not repenting for the former plague: as setting on the same at hand, will cause disputes among men, and will destroy the inhabitants of this world, by the swords of one another.(:note) when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

geneva@Revelation:6:4 @ And there went out an other horse, that was red, & power was giuen to him that sate thereon, to take peace fro the earth, & that they should kill one another, & there was giuen vnto him a great sword.

geneva@Revelation:6:6 @ And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A (note:)It is here signified how little grain there was, for the word used here is a unit of measure for dry things, about an eighth of a bushel, which was a typical daily ration given to servants.(:note) measure of wheat for a penny, I would rather interpret and read the words this way, «And the wine and the oil you will not distribute unjustly.» In this sense likewise the wine and the oil will be sold a very little for a penny. You will not distribute unjustly, namely, when you measure out a very little for a great price: so are the times evident: otherwise it would be true, as the wise man says, that whoever withholds the grain will be cursed by the people; (Pro_11:26). and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

geneva@Revelation:6:8 @ And I looked, and beholde, a pale horse, and his name that sate on him was Death, and Hell folowed after him, & power was giuen vnto them ouer the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sworde, and with hunger, and with death, and with beasts of the earth.

geneva@Revelation:6:11 @ And (note:)As before (Rev_3:4).(:note) white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they [were], should be Until their number is completed fulfilled.

geneva@Revelation:6:13 @ And the starres of heauen fell vnto the earth, as a figge tree casteth her greene figges when it is shaken of a mightie winde.

geneva@Revelation:6:14 @ And heauen departed away, as a scroule, when it is rolled, and euery mountaine and yle were mooued out of their places.

geneva@Revelation:6:16 @ And said to the mountains and rocks, (note:)These are words of those who despair of escape: of the cause of this despair there are two arguments, the presence of God and the Lamb provoked to wrath against the world, in this verse: and the awareness of their own weakness, feeling that they are not able to survive the day of the wrath of God (Rev_6:17) as it is said in (Isa_14:27).(:note) Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

geneva@Revelation:7:1 @ And (note:)The second part of this section is a preventing of danger, as we distinguished before in (Rev_6:1) that is, of the caution of God ahead of time to provide for his, after the example of the Israelites; (Exo_8:23) the faithful are exempted from the plagues of this wicked world. This section is a dialogue and bringing in for this whole chapter by occasion of the prediction and argument of the sixth seal. For first harm is withheld from the elect, (Rev_7:1-9). Then thanks are given by the elect for that cause (Rev_7:10-12). Lastly, the accomplishment of it is set forth to the end of the chapter. The first verse is a transition, speaking of the angels who keep the lesser parts from harm, until God commands. For, as in (Eze_10:19), their faces and their wings reach up, continually waiting on and watching the countenance of God for their direction and every one of them goes into that part that is right before his face: wherever the Spirit goes, they go, they do not step out of the way, not so much as a foot breadth from the path commanded to them by God.(:note) after these things I saw four angels standing on the On the four corners or coasts of the earth. four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, That is, neither into the air, into which the trees grow. nor on any tree.

geneva@Revelation:7:4 @ And I heard the number of them which were sealed: [and there were] sealed (note:)That is, of the Jews a number certain in itself before God, and such as may be numbered of us: for which cause also the same is here set down as certain. But of the elect who are Gentiles, the number indeed is in itself certain with God, but of us not possibly to be numbered, as God, (Gen_15:5). This is spoken with respect, when a certain number is put for one uncertain. Compare with (Rev_7:9).(:note) an hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

geneva@Revelation:7:6 @ Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthali were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelue thousand.

geneva@Revelation:7:8 @ Of the tribe of Zabulon [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of (note:)Of Ephraim, who was Joseph's other son, and had the birthright given him, of which he is called Joseph.(:note) Joseph [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin [were] sealed twelve thousand.

geneva@Revelation:7:9 @ After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, (note:){{See Rev_7:4}}(:note) which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, As priests, kings and glorious conquerors by martyrdom: which is noted by the signs in this verse. stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

geneva@Revelation:7:11 @ And all the Angels stoode rounde about the throne, and about the Elders, and the foure beastes, and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

geneva@Revelation:7:14 @ And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, (note:)The explanation of the vision, in which the angel tells first the acts of the saints, that is, their sufferings and work of faith in Christ Jesus, in this verse. Secondly their glory: both present, which consists in two things, that they minister to God, and that God protects them (Rev_7:15) and to come, in their perfect deliverance from all annoyances (Rev_7:16) and in participation of all good things which the memory of past hurts shall never be able to diminish (Rev_7:17). The cause efficient and which contains all these things is only one, the Lamb of God, the Lord, the Mediator, and the Saviour Christ Jesus.(:note) These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

geneva@Revelation:7:15 @ Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him (note:)He alludes to the Levites, who served day and night, for there is no night in heaven.(:note) day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell Or, upon them, referring to God's defence and protection of those who are as safe, as men in the Lord's tents. among them.

geneva@Revelation:8:1 @ And (note:)He returns to the history of the seals of the book, which the Lamb opens. The seventh seal is the next sign, a precise commandment for the execution of the most severe judgment of God on this wicked world, and being understood by the seal, all things in heaven are silent, and in horror through admiration, until the command to act is given by God to the ministers of his wrath. So he moves to the third part which I spoke of before in (Rev_6:1) which is the enacting of those evils with which God most justly determined to afflict the world.(:note) when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

geneva@Revelation:8:4 @ And the smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, (note:)Our prayers are worth nothing, unless the true and sweet savour of that only sacrifice be especially and before all things with them, that is to say, unless we are first of all justified through faith in his Son, acceptable to him.(:note) ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

geneva@Revelation:8:5 @ And the Angel tooke the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth, and there were voyces, and thundrings, and lightnings, and earthquake.

geneva@Revelation:8:11 @ And the name of the star is called (note:)This is spoken by metaphor of a commonly known bitter herb: unless perhaps a man following those that note the derivation of words would rather explain it as an adjective for that which cannot be drunk because of its bitterness, causing the liquid it is made into to be more bitter than any man can drink.(:note) Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

geneva@Revelation:9:5 @ And to them was comanded that they should not kil them, but that they should be vexed fiue moneths, & that their paine should be as the paine that commeth of a scorpion, when he hath stung a man.

geneva@Revelation:9:8 @ And they had heare as the heare of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lyons.

geneva@Revelation:9:9 @ And they had habbergions, like to habbergions of yron: and the soud of their wings was like the sound of charets whe many horses runne vnto battel.

geneva@Revelation:9:10 @ And they had tailes like vnto scorpions, and there were stings in their tailes, and their power was to hurt men fiue moneths.

geneva@Revelation:9:14 @ Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, (note:)As if he should have said, these till now have been bound by the power of God, that they could not freely run over all men as they lusted, but were held and restrained at that great river of Euphrates, that is, in their spiritual Babylon (or this is a paraphrase of the spiritual Babylon, by the limits of the visible Babylon long since overthrown) that they might not commit those horrible slaughters, which they long breathed after. Now go to it, let loose those four angels, that is, administers of the wrath of God, in that number that is convenient to the slaughtering of the four quarters of the world: stir them up and give them the bridle, that rushing out of that Babylon of theirs, which is the seat of the wicked ones, they may fly over all the world, therein to rage, and most licentiously to practise their tyranny, as God has ordained. This was done when Gregory the ninth by public authority established as Law, his own Decretals, by which he might freely lay traps for the life of simple men. For who is it that sees not that the laws of Decretal, most of them are snares to catch souls with? Since that time (O good God) how many great slaughters have there been? How many great massacres? All history is full of them: and this our age abounds with most horrible and monstrous examples of the these.(:note) Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

geneva@Revelation:9:17 @ And thus I saw the horses in a vision, & them that sate on them, hauing firie habbergions, and of Iacinth, and of brimstone, and the heads of the horses were as the heades of lyons: and out of their mouthes went foorth fire and smoke and brimstone.

geneva@Revelation:9:18 @ Of these three was the thirde part of men killed, that is, of the fire, and of the smoke, and of the brimstone, which came out of their mouthes.

geneva@Revelation:10:1 @ And (note:)Now John passes to the other prophetical history, which is of the Church of God, as I showed that this book should be distinguished (Rev_4:1). This story goes from here to (Rev_22:1). This whole chapter is a transition from the common history of the world to that which is particular of the Church. There are in this transition or passage, two preparatives as it were, to this Church story comprised in this whole chapter. One is the authority of Christ revealing his mysteries and calling his servant, to (Rev_10:7). The other is John, his calling proper to this place, and repeated from before to the end of this chapter. Authority is given to this revelation, by these things: first, by the appearing from heaven in this habit and countenance, strong, ready glorious surveying all things by his providence, and governing them by his omnipotence (Rev_10:1). Secondly, that he brought not by chance, but out of a book, this open revelation, set forth to the eye, to signify the same to the sea and land, as the Lord over all (Rev_10:2). Thirdly that he offered the same not whispering or muttering in a corner (as false prophets do) but crying out with a loud voice to those who sleep, and with a lionish and terrible noise roused the secure: the very thunders themselves giving testimony to it (Rev_10:3). Lastly, for that he confirmed all by another (Rev_10:5-7).(:note) I saw Christ Jesus, see (Rev_7:2) another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow [was] upon his head, and his face [was] as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

geneva@Revelation:10:3 @ And cried with a loude voyce, as when a lyon roareth: and when he had cried, seuen thunders vttered their voyces.

geneva@Revelation:10:5 @ And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth (note:)This was a gesture used of one that swears, which men do now use.(:note) lifted up his hand to heaven,

geneva@Revelation:10:7 @ But in the days of the (note:)See (Rev_11:15; Rev_16:17).(:note) voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

geneva@Revelation:10:9 @ So I went vnto the Angel, and saide to him, Giue me the litle booke; he said vnto me, Take it, and eate it vp, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shalbe in thy mouth as sweete as honie.

geneva@Revelation:10:10 @ Then I tooke the litle booke out of ye Angels hand, and ate it vp, and it was in my mouth as sweete as hony: but whe I had eaten it my belly was bitter.

geneva@Revelation:11:1 @ And there (note:)The authority of the intended revelation being declared, together with the necessity of that calling which was particularly imposed on John after which follows the history of the estate of Christ his Church, both conflicting or warring, and overcoming in Christ. For the true Church of Christ is said to fight against that which is falsely so called, over which Antichrist rules, Christ Jesus overthrowing Antichrist by the spirit of his mouth: and Christ is said to overcome most gloriously until he shall slay Antichrist by the appearance of his coming, as the apostle teaches in (2Th_2:8). So this history has two parts: One of the state of the Church conflicting with temptations until Chapter 16. The other of the state of the same church obtaining victory, thence to Chapter 20. The first part has two sections most conveniently distributed into their times, of which the first contains a history of the Christian Church for 1260 years, what time the gospel of Christ was as it were taken up from among men into heaven: the second contains a history of the same Church to the victory perfected. These two sections are briefly, though distinctly propounded in this chapter, but both of them are discoursed after in due order. For we understand the state of the Church conflicting, out of Chapters 12 and 13, and of the same growing out of afflictions, out of Chapters 14 to 16. Neither did John unknowingly join together the history of these two times in this chapter, because here is spoken of prophecy, which all confess to be but one just and immutable in the Church, and which Christ commanded to be continual. The history of the former time reaches to (Rev_11:2-14), the latter is set down in the rest of this chapter (Rev_11:15-19). In the former are shown these things: the calling of the servants of God in (Rev_11:4) the conflicts which the faithful must undergo in their calling, for Christ and his Church, thence to (Rev_11:5-10) and their resurrection, and receiving up into heaven to (Rev_11:11-14). In the calling of the servants of God, two things are mentioned: the begetting and settling of the Church in two verses, and the education of it in two verses. The begetting of the Church is here commended to John by sign and by speech: the sign is a measuring rod, and the speech a commandment to measure the Temple of God, that is, to reduce the same to a new form: because the Gentiles are already entered into the Temple of Jerusalem, and shall shortly defile and overthrow it completely.(:note) was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and Either that of Jerusalem's, which was a figure of the Church of Christ, or that heavenly model in (Rev_11:19) but I like the first better, and the things following all agree to it. The sense therefore is, you see all things in God's house, almost from the passion of Christ, to be disordered: and not only the city of Jerusalem, but also the court of the Temple is trampled under foot by the nations, and by profane men whether Jews or strangers: and that only this Temple, that is, the body of the Temple, with the altar, and a small company of good men who truly worship God, do now remain, whom God sanctifies and confirms by his presence. Measure therefore this, even this true Church, or rather the true type of the true Church, omitting the rest, and so describe all things from me, that the true Church of Christ may be as it were a very little centre, and the Church of Antichrist as the circle of the centre, every way in length and breadth compassing about the same, that by way of prophecy you may so declare openly, that the state of the Temple of God, and the faithful who worship him, that is, of the Church, is much more upright than the Church of Antichrist. measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

geneva@Revelation:11:3 @ And (note:)I would rather translate it «illud» than «illam» the temple than the city: for God says, I will give that temple, and commit it to my two witnesses, that is, to the ministers of the word, who are few indeed, weak and contemptible: but yet two, that is, of such a number as one of them may help another, and one confirm the testimony of another to all men, that from the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be made good among men; (2Co_13:1).(:note) I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall They will exercise their office enjoined by me by the space of those 1260 years, in the midst of afflictions though never so lamentable, which is figuratively shown by the mourning garment. prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

geneva@Revelation:11:6 @ These haue power to shut heauen, that it raine not in the dayes of their prophecying, and haue power ouer waters to turne them into blood, and to smite the earth with all maner plagues, as often as they will.

geneva@Revelation:11:8 @ And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the (note:)That is, openly at Rome: where at that time was a most great crowd of people, the year of Jubile being then first ordained by Boniface to the same end, in the year 1300, an example of which is read in chapter 1 «Extra, de poenitentys strkjv@066:011:008 And their corpses shall lie in the streetes of the great citie, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord also was crucified. amp; remissionibus.» So by one act he committed two wrongs against Christ, both abolishing his truth by restoring the type of the Jubile, and triumphing over his members by wicked superstition. O religious heart! Now that we should understand the things of Rome, John himself is the author, both after in the seventeenth chapter almost throughout, and also in the restriction now next following, when he says, it is that great city (as he calls it) (Rev_17:18) and is spiritually termed Sodom and Egypt: and that spiritually (for that must here again be repeated from before) Christ was there crucified. For the two first names signify spiritual wickednesses: the latter signifies the show and pretence of good, that is, of Christian and sound religion. Sodom signifies most licentious impiety and in the most confident glorying of that city, as it were in true religion, being yet full of falsehood and ungodliness. Now who is ignorant that these things do rather, and better fit Rome, than any other city? The commendations of the city of Rome for many years past, are publicly notorious, which are not for me to gather together. This only I will say, that he long since did very well see what Rome is, who upon leaving, used these verses: «Roma vale, vidi, Satis est vidisse: revertar, Quumleno, meretrix, scurra, cinadus ero.» «Now farewell Rome, I have seen thee, it was enough to see: I will return when as I mean, bawd, harlot knave to be»(:note) street of the great city, which After a more secret type of meaning and understanding. spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, Namely in his parts, as also he said to Saul in (Act_9:5) where also our Lord was crucified.

geneva@Revelation:11:9 @ And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies (note:)That is, for three years and a half: for so many years Boniface lived after his Jubile, as Bergomensis witnesses.(:note) three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

geneva@Revelation:11:10 @ And they that dwell upon the earth (note:)So much the more shall they by this occasion exercise the hilarity of their Jubile.(:note) shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets The gospel of Christ is the affliction of the world, and the ministry of it, the savour of death to death, to those that perish, (2Co_2:16). tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

geneva@Revelation:11:12 @ And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, (note:)They were called by God into heaven, and taken out of this wicked world, into the heavenly Church, which also lies hidden here in the earth, to exercise their calling secretly: of whom this wretched world was unworthy; (Heb_11:38). For the church of the wicked is by comparison called the earth, or the world: and the Church of the godly, heaven. As it was in ancient times among the godly Israelites: so among the Jews in the days of Manasseh and other kings, when the earth refused the heirs of heaven, we read that they lay hidden as heaven in the earth.(:note) Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; Yet they could not hinder the secret ones of the Lord (as the Psalmist called them) (Psa_83:3) but they prospered in his work. and their enemies beheld them.

geneva@Revelation:11:17 @ Saying, We giue thee thankes, Lorde God almightie, Which art, and Which wast, and Which art to come: for thou hast receiued thy great might, and hast obteined thy kingdome.

geneva@Revelation:11:19 @ And the temple of God was (note:)This is the confirmation of the next prophecy before going by signs exhibited in heaven, and that of two sorts, of which some are visible, as the passing away of the heaven, the opening of the temple, the ark of the covenant appearing in the temple, and testifying the glorious presence of God, and the lightning: others apprehended by ear and feeling, which bear witness in heaven and earth to the truth of the judgments of God.(:note) opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

geneva@Revelation:12:1 @ And (note:)Until now it has been the general prophecy, comprehended in two parts, as I showed in (Rev. strkjv@11:1-19). Now will be declared the first part of this prophecy, in this and the next chapter and the latter part in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth chapters. To the first part, which is about the conflicting or militant Church belong two things. The beginning and the progress of the same in conflicts and Christian combats. Of which two the beginning of the Church is described in this chapter, and the progress of it in the chapter following. The beginning of the Christian Church we define as the first moment of the conception of Christ, until the time in which this church was weaned and taken away from the breast or milk of her mother: which is the time when the Church of the Jews with their city and temple was overthrown by the judgment of God. So we have in this chapter the story of 69 years and upwards. There are three parts to this chapter. The first, is the history of the conception and pregnancy in (Rev_12:1-4). The second, a history of the birth from (Rev_12:5-12). The third is about the woman who gave birth, to the end of the chapter. These several parts each have their conflicts. Therefore in the first part are two verses: and another of the lying in wait of the dragon against the child about to be born, in the next two verses. In the first point are these things, the description of the mother (Rev_12:1) and the pains of childbirth in (Rev_12:2) all shown to John from heaven.(:note) there appeared a great wonder in heaven; A type of the true holy Church which was at that time in the Jewish nation. This Church (as is the state of the Catholic church) did in itself shine with glory given by God, immutable and unchangeable, and possessed the kingdom of heaven as the heir of it. a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

geneva@Revelation:12:2 @ And (note:)For this is the barren woman who had not given birth; (Isa_45:1; Gal_4:27). She cried out with good cause, and was tormented at that time, when in the judgment of all she seemed near to death, about to die because of her weakness and poverty.(:note) she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

geneva@Revelation:12:3 @ And there appeared another wonder in heaven; (note:)That is the devil or Satan, see (Rev_12:9), mighty, angry and full of wrath.(:note) and behold a great red dragon, having By this to withstand those seven churches spoken of, that is, the catholic church, and that with kingly objects and tyrannical magnificence: signified by the crowns set on his heads, as if they belonged to him by the proper right, without controversy: as also he boasted to Christ; See (Mat_4:9; Rev_13:1). seven heads and ten More than the horns of the Lamb, or than the churches are: so well equipped does the tyrant brag himself to be, to do all manner of wickedness. horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

geneva@Revelation:12:7 @ And there was war in heaven: (note:)Christ is the Prince of angels and head of the Church, who bears that iron rod (Rev_12:5). Also {{See Dan_12:1}}. In this verse a description of the battle and of the victory in the two verses following (Rev_12:8-9). The psalmist noted this battle as did Paul; (Psa_68:9; Eph_4:8; Col_2:15).(:note) Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

geneva@Revelation:12:9 @ And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuil and Satan, was cast out, which deceiueth all the world: he was euen cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

geneva@Revelation:12:10 @ And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, (note:)The song of victory or triumph containing first, a proposition of the glory of God and of Christ shown in that victory: secondly, it contains a reason for the same proposition, taken from the effects, as the enemy is overcome in battle, in this verse, and the godly are made conquerors (and more than conquerors) (Rom_8:37). Thirdly a conclusion, in which is an exhortation to the angels, and to the saints: and to the word, a prophecy of great misery, and of destruction obtained by the devil against mankind, since he himself will soon be miserable (Rev_12:12).(:note) Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

geneva@Revelation:12:13 @ And when (note:)The third part: a history of the woman delivered, consisting of two parts, the present battle of Satan against the Christian Church of the Jewish nation, in (Rev_12:13-16): and the battle intended against the Church of the Gentiles, which is called holy by reason of the gospel of Christ in (Rev_12:17).(:note) the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man [child].

geneva@Revelation:13:2 @ And the beast which I saw was like (note:)Swift as the leopard, easily grabbing all things, as the bear does with his foot, and tearing and devouring all things with the mouth as a lion does.(:note) unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: That is, he lent the same power to the beast to use, when he perceived that he could not escape, but must be taken by the hand of the angel, and cast into the bottomless pit; (Rev_20:1-15) yet he did abandon the same power completely from himself, but that he might use it as long as he could. and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

geneva@Revelation:13:4 @ And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast, & they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like vnto the beast! Who is able to warre with him!

geneva@Revelation:13:6 @ And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, (note:)That is, the holy Church, the true house of the living God.(:note) and his tabernacle, That is, the godly who as a group hid themselves from his cruelty. For this bloody beast charged those holy souls falsely with innumerable accusations for the name of Christ as we read in Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Arnobius, Minutius, Eusebius, Augustine and others: whose example the latter times followed most diligently, in destroying the flock of Christ: and we in our own memory have found by experience, to our incredible grief. Concerning heaven, see in (Rev_11:12) and them that dwell in heaven.

geneva@Revelation:13:7 @ And it was giuen vnto him to make warre with the Saints, and to ouercome them, & power was giuen him ouer euery kinred, and tongue, and nation.

geneva@Revelation:13:8 @ And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, (note:)That is, such as are not from everlasting elected in Christ Jesus. For this is that Lamb slain; (Rev_5:6). These words I do with Aretas, distinguish in this manner: whose names are not written from the laying of the foundation of the world, in the book of Life, of the Lamb slain. This distinction is confirmed by a similar verse in (Rev_17:8).(:note) whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

geneva@Revelation:13:14 @ And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an (note:)That is, images, by «enallage» or change of the number: for the worship of them ever since the second Council of Nicea, has been ordained in the Church by public credit and authority, contrary to the Law of God.(:note) image to the In the Greek the word is in the Dative case, as much to say, as to the worship, honour and obeying of the beast: for by this maintenance of images, this pseudo-prophetical beast mightily profits the beast of Rome, of whom long ago he received them. Wherefore the same is hereafter fittingly called the image of the beast, for images have their beginning from the beast, and have their form or manner from the will of the beast, and have their end and use fixed in the profit and commodity of the beast. beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

geneva@Revelation:13:17 @ And that no man might (note:)That is, have any trade or dealings with men, but only those who have this annointing and consecration of Clearkely shaving of the head, as they call it, read Gratian «de Consecratione, distincione tertia.c.omnes.cap spiritus, etc.» of these matters.(:note) buy or sell, save he that had the Here the false prophets require three things, set down in the order of their greatness, a character, a name, and the number of the name. The meaning is, that man that does not have their first annointing and clerical shaving of the head: secondly holy orders, by which is communicated the name of the beast: or finally has not attained that high degree of pontifical knowledge, and of the law (as they call it) canonical, and has not made up in account and cast the number of the mysteries of it: for in these things consists the number of the name of the beast. This is excellently set forth in the next verse. mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

geneva@Revelation:14:1 @ And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb (note:)The history of the Church of Christ being finished for more than a 1300 years at which time Boniface the eighth lived as has been said: there remains the rest of the history of the conflicting or militant church, from there to the time of the last victory in three chapters. For first of all, as the foundation of the whole history, is described the standing of the Lamb with his army and retinue in five verses, after his worthy acts which he has done and yet does in most mighty manner, while he overthrows Antichrist with the spirit of his mouth, in the rest of this chapter and in the two following. To the description of the Lamb, are propounded three things: his situation, place and attendance: for the rest are expounded in the former visions, especially in the fifth chapter.(:note) stood on the mount Sion, and with him Prepared to do his office see (Act_7:56), in the midst of the church, which mount Zion pictured before. an hundred forty [and] four thousand, having his Father's This retinue of the Lamb is described first by divine mark (as before in) (Rev_7:2) in this verse. Then by divine occupation, in that every one in his retinue most earnestly and sweetly (Rev_14:2) glorify the Lamb with a special song before God and his elect angels. Flesh and blood cannot hear this song, nor understand, (Rev_14:3). Lastly by their deeds done before, and their sanctification in that they were virgins, pure from spiritual and bodily fornication, that is, from impiety and unrighteousness. They followed the Lamb as a guide to all goodness, cleaved to him and are holy to him, as by grace redeemed by him. In truth and simplicity of Christ they have exercised all these things, sanctimony of life, the guidance of the Lamb, a thankful remembrance of redemption by him and finally (to conclude in a word) they are blameless before the Lord, (Rev_14:4-5). name written in their foreheads.

geneva@Revelation:14:2 @ And I heard a voyce from heauen, as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of a great thunder: and I heard the voyce of harpers harping with their harpes.

geneva@Revelation:14:3 @ And they sung as it were a newe song before the throne, and before the foure beasts, and the Elders: and no man could learne that song, but the hundreth, fourtie and foure thousand, which were bought from the earth.

geneva@Revelation:14:5 @ And in their mouthes was found no guile: for they are without spot before the throne of God.

geneva@Revelation:14:8 @ And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the (note:)Of her fornication, by which God was provoked to wrath.(:note) wrath of her fornication.

geneva@Revelation:14:9 @ And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, (note:)That is, will not worship God alone, but will transfer his divine honour to this beast, whether he do it with his heart, or counterfeiting in show. «For he (says Christ) that denies me before men, him will I deny before my Father and his angels» (Mat_10:32). This is the voice of the holy ministry, which at this time is used of the holy and faithful servants of God. For having now sufficiently found out the public obstinacy of Babylon, they no longer work to speak out against the same: but to save some particular members by terror (as Jude speaks) and to pluck them out of the flame: or else lead them away by vehement commiseration of their state, they set before them eternal death into which they rush unaware, unless they return to God in time, but the godly who are of their own flock, they exhort to patience, obedience and faith to others.(:note) If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive [his] mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

geneva@Revelation:14:11 @ And the smoke of their torment shall ascend euermore: and they shal haue no rest day nor night, which worship the beast and his image, and whosoeuer receiueth the print of his name.

geneva@Revelation:14:16 @ And he that sate on the cloude, thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

geneva@Revelation:14:19 @ And the Angel thrust in his sharpe sickle on the earth, and cut downe the vines of the vineyard of the earth, and cast them into that great wine presse of the wrath of God.

geneva@Revelation:14:20 @ And the winepress was trodden without the city, (note:)That is, overflowed very deep, and very far and wide: the speech is exaggeration to signify the greatness of the slaughter. These are those pleasant fruits truly, of the contempt of Christ, and desiring of Antichrist rather than him, which the miserable, mad and blind world reaps at this time.(:note) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand [and] six hundred furlongs.

geneva@Revelation:15:1 @ And (note:)This is that other passage of the acts of Christ, as I noted before(:note) I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven Of which (Rev_8:9) in sending forth the plagues of the world: for even these plagues do for the most part agree with those. angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. {{See Rev_14:14}}. Now therefore is shown a singular work of the judgment of God belonging to the overthrow of Antichrist and his forces, of which divine work the preparation is described in this chapter: and the execution in the next. The preparation is first set down generally and in type in this verse: and is after particularly set forth in the rest of the chapter.

geneva@Revelation:15:3 @ And they sing (note:)That song of triumph, which is (Exo_15:2).(:note) the song of Moses the So is Moses called for honour's sake, as it is set forth in (Deu_34:10). servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, This song has two parts: one a confession, both particular, in this verse, and general, in the beginning of the next verse (Rev_15:4), another, a narration of causes belonging to the confession, of which one kind is eternal in itself, and most present to the godly, in that God is both holy and alone God: another kind is future and to come, in that the elect taken out of the Gentiles (that is, out of the wicked ones and unbelieving: as in (Rev_11:2) were to be brought to the same state of happiness, by the magnificence of the judgment of God, in (Rev_15:4). Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy Thy doings. ways, thou King of saints.

geneva@Revelation:15:6 @ And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the (note:)That is, commandments to inflict those seven plagues, by way of metonymy.(:note) seven plagues, clothed in Which was in old time a sign of the kingly or princely dignity. pure and white linen, and having their breasts This girding was a sign of diligence, and the girdle of gold was a sign of sincerity and trustworthiness in taking in charge the commandments of God. girded with golden girdles.

geneva@Revelation:15:7 @ And one of the (note:)Of these before (Rev_4:7).(:note) four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

geneva@Revelation:15:8 @ And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; (note:)None of those seven angels could return, till he had performed fully the charge committed to him, according to the decree of God.(:note) and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

geneva@Revelation:16:1 @ And (note:)In the former chapter was set down the preparation to the work of God: here is delivered the execution of it. In this discourse of the execution, is a general commandment, in this verse, then a particular recital in order of the execution done by every of the seven angels, in the rest of the chapter. This special execution against Antichrist and his crew does in manner agree to that which was generally done on the whole world, chapters eight and nine and belongs (if my conjecture fail me not) to the same time. Yet in here they differ from one another, that this was particularly effected on the princes and ringleaders of the wickedness of the world, the other generally against the whole world being wicked. Therefore these judgments are more grievous than those.(:note) I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

geneva@Revelation:16:5 @ And I heard the Angel of the waters say, Lord, thou art iust, Which art, and Which wast: and Holy, because thou hast iudged these things.

geneva@Revelation:16:6 @ For they shed the blood of the Saints, & Prophets, and therefore hast thou giuen them blood to drinke: for they are worthy.

geneva@Revelation:16:9 @ And men boyled in great heate, and blasphemed the Name of God, which hath power ouer these plagues, and they repented not, to giue him glorie.

geneva@Revelation:16:11 @ And blasphemed the God of heauen for their paines, and for their sores, and repented not of their workes.

geneva@Revelation:16:13 @ And I saw (note:)That is, every one of them focus their whole force, and conspired that by wonders, word and work they might bring into the same destruction all kings, princes and potentates of the world, cursedly bewitched by them by their spirits, and teachers of the vanity and impunity of the beast that committed fornication with the kings of the earth. This is a good description of our times.(:note) three unclean spirits Croaking with all importunity and continually day and night provoking and calling forth to arms, as the trumpets and furies of wars, as is declared in (Rev_16:14). like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the That is, the devil; (Rev_12:3) dragon, and out of the mouth of the See (Rev_13:1). beast, and out of the mouth of the That is, of that other beast; (Rev_13:11), for so he is called also in (Rev_19:20, Rev_20:10). false prophet.

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:17:4 @ And (note:)That harlot, the spiritual Babylon, which is Rome. She is described by her attire, profession, and deeds.(:note) the woman was arrayed In attire most glorious, triumphant, most rich, and most gorgeous. in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having In profession the nourisher of all, in this verse and teaching her mysteries to all, (Rev_17:5) setting forth all things most magnificently: but indeed fatally besetting miserable men with her cup, and brings upon them a deadly giddiness. a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

geneva@Revelation:17:14 @ These shall make war with the (note:)With Christ and his Church, as the reason following declares, and here are mentioned the facts and events which followed for Christ's sake, and for the grace of God the Father towards those that are elected, called, and are his faithful ones in Christ.(:note) Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him [are] called, and chosen, and faithful.

geneva@Revelation:17:16 @ And the ten (note:)The ten kings, as (Rev_17:12). The accomplishment of this fact and event is daily increased in this our age by the singular providence and most mighty government of God. Therefore the facts are propounded in this verse, and the cause of them in the verses following.(:note) horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

geneva@Revelation:17:18 @ And the woman which thou sawest is that (note:)That is, Rome that great city, or only city (as Justinian calls it) the king and head of which was then the emperor, but now the pope, since the condition of the beast was changed.(:note) great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

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. strkjv@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@Revelation:18:3 @ For all nations haue drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication with her, and the marchants of the earth are waxed rich of the abundance of her pleasures.

geneva@Revelation:18:7 @ How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith (note:)With herself.(:note) in her heart, I sit a queen, and am I am full of people and mighty. no widow, and shall I shall taste of none. see no sorrow.

geneva@Revelation:18:9 @ And (note:)The circumstances following the fall of Babylon, or the consequences of it (as I distinguished them in) {{See Rev_18:4}} are two. Namely the lamentation of the wicked to (Rev_18:5-19) and the rejoicing of the godly in (Rev_18:20). This sorrowful lamentation, according to those that lament, has three parts: the first of which is the mourning of the kings and mighty men of the earth, (Rev_18:9-10): The second is, the lamentation of the merchants that trade by land, to the sixteenth verse: (Rev_18:11-16). The third is, the wailing of those that trade by sea, in (Rev_18:16-18). In each of those the cause and manner of their mourning is described in order, according to the condition of those that mourn, with observation of that which best agrees to them.(:note) the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

geneva@Revelation:18:10 @ And shall stand a farre off for feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mightie citie: for in one houre is thy iudgemet come.

geneva@Revelation:18:12 @ The ware of golde, and siluer, and of precious stone, and of pearles, and of fine linnen, and of purple, and of silke, and of skarlet, and of all maner of Thyne wood, and of all vessels of yuorie, and of all vessels of most precious wood, and of brasse, and of yron, and of marble,

geneva@Revelation:18:13 @ And of cinamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oyle, and fine floure, and wheate, and beastes, and sheepe, and horses, and charets, and seruants, and soules of men.

geneva@Revelation:18:16 @ And saying, Alas, alas, that great citie, that was clothed in fine linnen and purple, and skarlet, and gilded with gold, and precious stones, and pearles.

geneva@Revelation:18:18 @ And crie, when they see that smoke of that her burning, saying, What citie was like vnto this great citie?

geneva@Revelation:18:19 @ And they shall cast dust on their heads, and crie, weeping, and wayling, and say, Alas, alas, that great citie, wherein were made rich all that had ships on the sea by her costlinesse: for in one houre she is made desolate.

geneva@Revelation:18:20 @ Rejoice over her, (note:)The other consequence on the ruin of Babylon, is the exultation or rejoicing of the godly in heaven and in earth as was noted in this verse.(:note) [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

geneva@Revelation:18:24 @ And in her was found the (note:)That is shed by bloody massacres, and calling for vengeance.(:note) blood of prophets, That is, proved and found out, as if God had appointed a just inquiry concerning the impiety, unnaturalness and injustice of these men. and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

geneva@Revelation:19:1 @ And (note:)This chapter has in summary two parts, one transitory or of passage to the things that follow, to the tenth verse, (Rev_19:2-10), another historical of the victory of Christ over both the beasts, to the end of the chapter (Rev_19:11-21), which I said was the second history of this argument, (Rev_17:1). The transition has two places, one of praising God for the overthrow done to Babylon in (Rev_19:4): and another likewise of praise and prophecy, for the coming of Christ to his kingdom, and his most royal marriage with his Church, thence to the tenth verse (Rev_19:5-10). The former praise has three parts, distinguished after the ancient manner of those that sing: an invitation in (Rev_19:1-2), a response or answer in (Rev_19:3), and a close or joining together in harmony in (Rev_19:4), all which I thought good of purpose to distinguish in this place, lest any man should with Porphyrius, or other like dogs, object to John, or the heavenly Church, a childish and idle repetition of speech.(:note) after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Praise the Lord.The proposition of praise with exhortation in this verse, and the cause of it in (Rev_19:2). Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

geneva@Revelation:19:3 @ And again they said, (note:)The song of the Antiphony or response, containing an amplification of the praise of God, from the continuous and certain testimony of his divine judgment as was done at Sodom and Gomorrah, (Genesis. strkjv@19:1-38).(:note) Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

geneva@Revelation:19:4 @ And the foure & twentie Elders, and the foure beastes fell downe, and worshipped God that sate on the throne, saying, Amen, Hallelu-iah.

geneva@Revelation:19:6 @ And I heard (note:)Outside the temple in heaven.(:note) as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

geneva@Revelation:19:8 @ And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in (note:)As an ensign of kingly and priestly dignity, which Christ bestows on us in (Rev_1:6).(:note) fine linen, clean and white: for the fine This is a gift given by the husband for marriage sake, and a most choice ornament which Christ gave to us, as to his spouse. linen is the Good works which are lively testimonies of faith. righteousness of saints.

geneva@Revelation:19:12 @ And his eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crownes: and he had a name written, that no man knewe but himselfe.

geneva@Revelation:19:13 @ And he was clothed with a garment dipt in blood, and his name is called The worde of God.

geneva@Revelation:19:20 @ And the beast (note:)Namely, that beast with seven heads; (Rev_13:1; Rev_17:3).(:note) was taken, and with him That is, that beast with two heads; (Rev_13:11; Rev_16:14). the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

geneva@Revelation:20:1 @ And (note:)Now follows the third part of the prophetic history, which is of the victory by which Christ overcame the dragon, as I noted in (Rev_7:1). This part must necessarily be joined with the end of the twelfth chapter and be applied to the correct understanding of it. This chapter has two parts, one of the dragon overcome, to (Rev_20:2-10): the other of the resurrection and last judgment to (Rev_20:11-15). The story of the dragon is twofold: First of the first victory, after which he was bound by Christ, to the sixth verse (Rev_20:1-6). The second is of the last victory, by which he has thrown down into everlasting punishment, there to the fifteenth verse (Rev_20:7-15). This first history happened in the first time of the Christian Church, when the dragon thrown down from heaven by Christ, went about to molest the new birth of the Church in the earth, (Rev_12:17, Rev_18:1). For which cause I gave warning, that this story of the dragon must be joined to that passage.(:note) I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key That is, of hell, where God threw the angels who had sinned, and bound them in chains of darkness to be kept till damnation, (2Pe_2:4) of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

geneva@Revelation:20:2 @ And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him (note:)The first of which (continuing this history with the end of the second chapter) in the 36 years from the passion of Christ, when the Church of the Jews being overthrown, Satan attempted to invade the Christian church gathered from the Gentiles, and to destroy part of her seed, (Rev_12:17). The thousandth year falls precisely on the times of that wicked Hildebrand, who was called Gregory the seventh, a most damnable necromancer and sorcerer, whom Satan used as an instrument when he was loosed out of bonds, from then on to annoy the saints of God with most cruel persecutions, and the whole world with dissentions, and most bloody wars: as Benno the Cardinal reports at large. This is the first victory gained over the dragon in the earth.(:note) a thousand years,

geneva@Revelation:20:3 @ And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations (note:)Namely, with that public and violent deceit which he attempted before in chapter 12 and which after a thousand years (alas for woe!) he most mightily achieved in the Christian world.(:note) no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed Which being once expired, the second battle and victory shall be; (Rev_20:7-8). a little season.

geneva@Revelation:20:9 @ And they went up on the (note:)As if he said, in so much that the whole face of the earth, however great it is, was filled.(:note) breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and The wrath of God, consuming the adversaries, and overthrowing all their enterprises; (Heb_10:27). This is the second part mentioned {{See Rev_20:7}}, in the overthrow of Satan. fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

geneva@Revelation:20:12 @ And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before (note:)That is, Christ the judge; (2Co_5:10).(:note) God; and the As it were, his books of reckoning or accounts, that is, the testimony of our conscience, and of our works, which by no means can be avoided. books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] The book of the eternal decree of God, in which God the Father has elected in Christ according to the good pleasure of his will, those that shall be heirs of life. This also is spoken according to the manner of men. of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

geneva@Revelation:20:15 @ And whosoeuer was not found written in the booke of life, was cast into the lake of fire.

geneva@Revelation:21:1 @ And (note:)Now follows the second part of the history prophetic of the future estate of the Church in heaven after the last judgment, to (Rev_21:2; Rev_22:5). In this are two things briefly declared. The station, seat, or place of it, (Rev_21:1). Then her state and condition, in the verses following. Before the state of the Church described, is set down the state of the whole world, that there shall be a new heaven, and a new earth; (Isa_65:17; Isa_66:22; 2Pe_3:13) and this is the seat or place of the Church, in which righteousness shall dwell.(:note) I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

geneva@Revelation:21:4 @ And God shall wipe away all teares fro their eyes: and there shalbe no more death, neither sorow, neither crying, neither shal there be any more paine: for the first things are passed.

geneva@Revelation:21:8 @ But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their (note:)Their lot, and inheritance as it were.(:note) part in the lake which burneth with fire and

geneva@Revelation:21:11 @ Hauing the glorie of God: and her shining was like vnto a stone most precious, as a Iasper stone cleare as crystall,

geneva@Revelation:21:13 @ On the East part there were three gates, and on the Northside three gates, on the Southside three gates, and on the Westside three gates.

geneva@Revelation:21:14 @ And the wall of the city had (note:)That is, foundation stones, according to the number of the gates, as is shown in (Rev_21:19).(:note) twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

geneva@Revelation:21:17 @ And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred [and] forty [and] four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of the (note:)He adds this, because the angel had the shape of a man.(:note) angel.

geneva@Revelation:21:19 @ And the foundations of the wal of ye city were garnished with all maner of precious stones: the first foundation was Iasper: the second of Saphire: the third of a Chalcedonie: the fourth of an Emeraude:

geneva@Revelation:21:20 @ The fift of a Sardonix: the sixt of a Sardius: the seueth of a Chrysolite: the eight of a Beryl: the ninth of a Topaze: the tenth of a Chrysoprasus: the eleuenth of a Iacynth: the twelfth an Amethyst.

geneva@Revelation:21:21 @ And the twelve gates [were] twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the (note:)By street, he means the broadest place of the city.(:note) street of the city [was] pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

geneva@Revelation:22:1 @ And (note:)Here is absolved and finished the description of the celestial Church (as I showed before) {{See Rev_21:12}} by the effects in (Rev_22:5), and then this book is concluded in the rest of the chapter. The effects proceeding from God, who dwells in the Church, are these: the everlasting grace of God, in this verse, the eternal life of the godly, as in (Rev_2:7) the eternal fruits which the godly bring forth to God, themselves and others, (Rev_22:2), freedom and immunity from all evil, God himself taking pleasure in his servants, and they likewise in their God, (Rev_22:3). The beholding and sight of God, and sealing of the faithful from all eternity, (Rev_22:4) the light of God and an everlasting kingdom and glory, (Rev_22:5).(:note) he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

geneva@Revelation:22:2 @ In the middes of the street of it, and of either side of ye riuer, was the tree of life, which bare twelue maner of fruits, and gaue fruit euery moneth: and the leaues of the tree serued to heale the nations with.

geneva@Revelation:22:13 @ I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ende, the first and the last.

geneva@Jdt:1:1 @ {\cf2 The booke of the woordes of Tobit sonne of Tobiel, the sonne of Ananeel, the sonne of Aduel, the sonne of Gabael, of the seede of Asael, and of the tribe of Nephthalim,}

geneva@Jdt:1:2 @ {\cf2 Who in the time of Enemessar King of the Assyrians was led away captiue out of Thisbe, which is at the right hande of that citie, which is called properly Nephthalim, in Galilee aboue Aser.}

geneva@Jdt:1:3 @ {\cf2 I Tobit haue walked all my life long in the way of trueth and iustice, and I did many things liberally to the brethren, which were of my nation, and came with me to Niniue into the lande of the Assyrians.}

geneva@Jdt:1:4 @ {\cf2 And when I was in mine owne countrey in the lande of Israel, being but young, all the tribe of Nephthalim my father fell from the house of Ierusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes shoulde sacrifice there, where the Temple of the tabernacle of the most High was consecrated, and built vp for all ages.}

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.}

geneva@Jdt:1:8 @ {\cf2 The thirde tenth part I gaue vnto them to whome it was meete, as Debora my fathers mother had commaunded mee: for my father left mee as a pupill.}

geneva@Jdt:1:9 @ {\cf2 Furthermore when I was come to the age of a man, I married Anna of mine owne kinred, and of her I begate Tobias.}

geneva@Jdt:1:10 @ {\cf2 But when I was led captiue to Niniue, all my brethren, and those which were of my kinred, did eate of the bread of the Gentiles.}

geneva@Jdt:1:13 @ {\cf2 Therefore the most High gaue me grace and fauour before Enemessar, so that I was his puruoier.}

geneva@Jdt:1:14 @ {\cf2 And I went into Media, & I deliuered ten talents of siluer to Gabael the brother of Gabrias in the land of Media.}

geneva@Jdt:1:15 @ {\cf2 But when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his sonne reigned in his stead: whose state because it was troubled, I coulde not goe into Media.}

geneva@Jdt:1:17 @ {\cf2 And my clothes to the naked: and if I sawe any of my kinred dead, or cast about the walles of Niniue, I buried him.}

geneva@Jdt:1:18 @ {\cf2 And if the King Sennacherib had slaine any, when he was come and fled from Iudea, I buried them priuilie (for in his wrath he killed many) but the bodies were not found when they were sought for of the king.}

geneva@Jdt:1:19 @ {\cf2 Therefore when a certaine Nineuite had accused mee to the King, because I did burie them, I hid my selfe: and because I knewe that I was sought to be slaine, I withdrewe my selfe for feare.}

geneva@Jdt:1:20 @ {\cf2 Then all my goods were spoyled, neither was there any thing left mee besides my wife Anna and my sonne Tobias.}

geneva@Jdt:1:22 @ {\cf2 And when Achiacharus had made a request for me, I came againe to Niniue: nowe Achiacharus was cupbearer and keeper of the signet, and stewarde, and ouersawe the accompts: so Sarchedonus appoynted him next vnto him, and he was my brothers sonne.}

geneva@Jdt:2:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe when I was come home againe, and my wife Anna was restored vnto mee with my sonne Tobias, in the feast of Pentecoste, which is the holy feast of the seuen weekes, there was a great dinner prepared me, in ye which I sate downe to eat.}

geneva@Jdt:2:3 @ {\cf2 But hee came againe, and sayde, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the market place.}

geneva@Jdt:2:4 @ {\cf2 Then before I had tasted any meate, I start vp, and brought him into mine house vntill the going downe of the sunne.}

geneva@Jdt:2:5 @ {\cf2 Then I returned and washed, & ate my meate in heauinesse,}

geneva@Jdt:2:6 @ {\cf2 Remembring that prophecie of Amos, which had saide, Your solemne feastes shall be turned into mourning, and your ioyes into wailing.}

geneva@Jdt:2:9 @ {\cf2 The same night also when I returned from the buriall, and slept at the wall of mine house because I was polluted, & hauing my face vncouered,}

geneva@Jdt:2:10 @ {\cf2 And I knewe not that sparrowes were in the wall, and as mine eyes were open, the sparrowes cast downe warme dongue into mine eyes, and a whitenesse came in mine eyes, and I went to the Phisitions, but they helped me not. Moreouer Achiacharus did nourish me, vntill I went into Helimais.}

geneva@Jdt:2:13 @ {\cf2 Which when it was at mine house, & beganto bleate, I sayd vnto her, from whence is this kid? Is it not stollen? Render it to the owners: for it is not lawfull to eate any thing that is stollen.}

geneva@Jdt:2:14 @ {\cf2 But shee sayde, It was giuen for a gift more then the wages, but I did not beleeue, and bade her to render it to the owners, and I did blush, because of her. Furthermore she said, where are thine almes, and thy righteousnes? behold, they all nowe appeare in thee.}

geneva@Jdt:3:4 @ {\cf2 For they haue not obeyed thy commaundementes: wherefore thou hast deliuered vs for a spoyle, & vnto captiuitie, & to death, & for a prouerbe of a reproch to all them among who we are dispersed, & now thou hast many and iust causes,}

geneva@Jdt:3:6 @ {\cf2 Now therfore deale with me as seemeth best vnto thee, and commande my spirite to be taken from me, that I may be dissolued, & become earth: for it is better for me to dye then to liue, because I haue heard false reproches, and am very sorowfull: command therefore that I may be dissolued out of this distresse, & go into the euerlasting place: turne not thy face away from me.}

geneva@Jdt:3:7 @ {\cf2 It came to passe the same day that in Ecbatane a citie of Media, Sarra the daughter of Raguel was also reproched by her fathers maydes,}

geneva@Jdt:3:8 @ {\cf2 Because she had bene marryed to seuen husbands, whom Asmodeus the euill spirit had killed, before that they had lyen with her. Doest thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had now seuen husbands, neyther wast thou named after any of them.}

geneva@Jdt:3:10 @ {\cf2 When she heard these things, shee was very sorowful, so that she thought to haue strangled her selfe; she sayde, I am the onely daughter of my father, and if I do this, I shal slaunder him, and shal bring his age to the graue with sorow.}

geneva@Jdt:3:15 @ {\cf2 And that I haue neuer polluted my name, nor the name of my father in ye land of my captiuitie: I am ye only daughter of my father, neither hath he any manchild to be his heire, neither any neere kinseman or childe borne of him, to whome I may keepe my selfe for a wife: my seue husbands are now dead, & why should I liue? But if it please not thee that I should die, command to looke on me, and to pitie me that I do no more heare reproch.}

geneva@Jdt:3:17 @ {\cf2 And Raphael was sent to heale them both, that is, to take away the whitenes of Tobits eyes, & to giue Sarra the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the sonne of Tobit, and to binde Asmodeus the euill spirite, because she belonged to Tobias by right. The selfe same time came Tobit home, and entred into his house, and Sarra the daughter of Raguel came downe from her chamber.}

geneva@Jdt:4:2 @ {\cf2 And sayde with himselfe, I haue wished for death: wherefore do I not call for my sonne Tobias that I may admonish him before I die?}

geneva@Jdt:4:3 @ {\cf2 And whe he had called him, he said, My sone, after that I am dead, bury me, and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the dayes of thy life, and do that which shal please her, & anger her not.}

geneva@Jdt:4:4 @ {\cf2 Remember, my sonne, howe many dangers she susteined when thou wast in her wombe,}

geneva@Jdt:4:6 @ {\cf2 My sonne, set our Lord God alwayes before thine eyes, and let not thy wil be set to sinne or to trasgresse the comandements of God. Do vprightly all thy life long, and followe not the wayes of vnrighteousnesse: for if thou deale truely, thy doings shal prosperously succeede to thee, and to all them which liue iustly.}

geneva@Jdt:4:18 @ {\cf2 Aske counsell alway of the wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.}

geneva@Jdt:4:19 @ {\cf2 Blesse thy Lord God alway, & desire of him that thy wayes may be made streight, and that all thy purposes and counsels may prosper: for euery nation hath not counsell: but the Lord giueth all good things, and he humbleth whome he wil, as he will: now therefore, my sonne, remember my commandements, neyther let them at any time be put out of thy minde.}

geneva@Jdt:4:20 @ {\cf2 Furthermore I signifie this to thee, that I deliuered tenne talents to Gabael the sonne of Gabrias at Rages in Media.}

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@Jdt:5:1 @ {\cf2 Tobias then answered, and sayd, Father, I wil do all things which thou hast commanded me.}

geneva@Jdt:5:4 @ {\cf2 Therfore when he was gone to seeke a man, he found Raphael the Angel.}

geneva@Jdt:5:7 @ {\cf2 Then Tobias sayd to him, Tarie for me, till I tell my father.}

geneva@Jdt:5:12 @ {\cf2 Then he sayd, I am of the kinred of Azarias and Ananias the great, and of thy brethren.}

geneva@Jdt:5:13 @ {\cf2 Then Tobit sayde, Thou art welcome, brother: be not now angry with me, because I haue enquired to knowe thy kinred, & thy familie: for thou art my brother of an honest & good stocke: for I know Ananias & Ionathas, sonnes of that great Samaias: for we went together to Ierusalem to worship, & offred the first borne, & the tenthes of the fruites, & they were not deceiued with the error of our brethren my brother, thou art of a great stocke.}

geneva@Jdt:5:14 @ {\cf2 But tel me, What wages shal I giue thee? wilt thou a groate a day and things necessarie, as to mine owne sonne?}

geneva@Jdt:5:16 @ {\cf2 So they agreed. Then said he to Tobias, Prepare thy selfe for the iourney, and goe you on Gods Name; when his sonne had prepared all things for the iourney, his father sayde, Goe thou with this man, and God which dwelleth in heauen, prosper your iourney, & the Angel of God keepe you companie. So they went forth both and departed, & the dogge of the yong man with them.}

geneva@Jdt:5:17 @ {\cf2 But Anna his mother wept, & sayd to Tobit, Why hast thou sent away our sonne? is he not the staffe of our hand to minister vnto vs?}

geneva@Jdt:5:18 @ {\cf2 Woulde to God wee had not layde money vpon money, but that it had bene cast away in respect of our sonne.}

geneva@Jdt:6:1 @ {\cf2 And as they went on their iourney, they came at night to the flood Tygris, and there abode.}

geneva@Jdt:6:2 @ {\cf2 And when the yong man went to wash him selfe, a fish leaped out of the riuer, and would haue deuoured him.}

geneva@Jdt:6:5 @ {\cf2 So the yong man did as the Angel commanded him: and when they had rosted the fishe, they ate it: then they both went on their way, till they came to Ecbatane.}

geneva@Jdt:6:6 @ {\cf2 Then the yong man sayde to the Angel, Brother Azarias, what auaileth the heart, and the liuer, and the gall of the fish?}

geneva@Jdt:6:8 @ {\cf2 As for ye gall, anoynt a man that hath whitenes in his eyes, and he shalbe healed.}

geneva@Jdt:6:13 @ {\cf2 Then the yong man answered the Angel, I haue heard, brother Azarias, that this mayde hath bene giuen to seuen men, who all dyed in the marriage chamber;}

geneva@Jdt:6:14 @ {\cf2 And I am the only begotten sonne of my father, and I am afraid, least I go in to her, and dye as the other before: for a wicked spirite loueth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come in to her: wherefore I also feare least I die, and bring my fathers and my mothers life because of mee to the graue with sorowe: for they haue no other sonne to bury them.}

geneva@Jdt:6:17 @ {\cf2 Which if the spirit do smel, he wil flee away, and nether come againe any more: but when thou shalt come to her, rise vp both of you, and pray to God which is mercifull, who wil haue pitie on you, and saue you: feare not, for she is appoynted vnto thee from the beginning, and thou shalt keepe her, and she shall go with thee: moreouer I suppose that she shall beare thee children: nowe when Tobias had heard these things, he loued her, and his heart was effectually ioyned to her.}

geneva@Jdt:7:3 @ {\cf2 And Raguel asked, Whence are you, my brethren? To whome they sayd, that they were of the tribe of Nephthalim, and of the captiues that dwelt at Nineue.}

geneva@Jdt:7:5 @ {\cf2 And they sayde, Hee is both aliue, and in good health: and Tobias sayd, He is my father.}

geneva@Jdt:7:7 @ {\cf2 And blessed him, and sayde vnto him, Thou art the sonne of an honest and good man: but when he had heard that Tobit was blinde, he was sorowfull and wept.}

geneva@Jdt:7:8 @ {\cf2 And likewise Edna his wife, and Sarra his daughter wept. Moreouer they receiued them with a ready minde, and after that they had killed a ram of the flocke, they set much meat on the table. The sayd Tobias to Raphael, Brother Azarias, put forth those things whereof thou spakest in the way, that this businesse may be dispatched.}

geneva@Jdt:7:9 @ {\cf2 So he communicated the matter with Raguel, and Raguel sayde to Tobias, Eate, and drinke, and make merry.}

geneva@Jdt:7:11 @ {\cf2 I haue giuen my daughter in marriage to seuen men, who dyed that night which they came in vnto her: neuerthelesse, be thou of a good courage and merry. But Tobias sayde, I will eate nothing here, vntill yee bring her hither, and betrothe her to me.}

geneva@Jdt:7:13 @ {\cf2 Then hee called his daughter Sarra, and shee came to her father, and he tooke her by the hande, and gaue her for wife to Tobias, saying, Beholde, take her after the lawe of Moyses, and leade her away to thy father: and he blessed them,}

geneva@Jdt:7:17 @ {\cf2 Which when she had done, as he had bidden her, shee brought her thither: then Sarra wept, and her mother wiped away her daughters teares,}

geneva@Jdt:8:1 @ {\cf2 And when they had supped, they brought Tobias in vnto her.}

geneva@Jdt:8:2 @ {\cf2 And as he went, he remembred the wordes of Raphael, and tooke coles for perfumes, and put the heart and liuer of the fish thereupon, and made a perfume.}

geneva@Jdt:8:4 @ {\cf2 And after that they were both shut in, Tobias rose out of the bed, and sayd, Sister, arise and let vs pray, that God would haue pitie on vs.}

geneva@Jdt:8:5 @ {\cf2 Then began Tobias to say, Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed is thine holy and glorious Name for euer: let the heauens blesse thee, and all thy creatures.}

geneva@Jdt:8:6 @ {\cf2 Thou madest Adam, and gauest him Eua his wife for an helpe, and stay: of them came mankinde: thou hast sayde, It is not good, that a man should be alone: let vs make vnto him an ayde like vnto himselfe.}

geneva@Jdt:8:11 @ {\cf2 But when Raguel was come into his house,}

geneva@Jdt:8:13 @ {\cf2 So the maide opened the doore, and went in, and found them both asleepe,}

geneva@Jdt:8:14 @ {\cf2 And came forth, & told them that he was aliue.}

geneva@Jdt:8:16 @ {\cf2 Thou art to be praised, O Lord: for thou hast made me ioyfull, and that is not come to me which I suspected: but thou hast dealt with vs according to great mercie.}

geneva@Jdt:8:17 @ {\cf2 Thou art to be praised because thou hast had mercy of two that were ye onely begotten children of their fathers: graunt them mercy, O Lord, and finish their life in health with ioy and mercy.}

geneva@Jdt:8:19 @ {\cf2 And hee kept the wedding feast foureteene dayes.}

geneva@Jdt:9:1 @ {\cf2 Then Tobias called Raphael, and sayde vnto him,}

geneva@Jdt:9:2 @ {\cf2 Brother Azarias, take with thee a seruant and two camels, and goe to Rages of the Medes to Gabael, and bring mee the money and bring him to the wedding.}

geneva@Jdt:9:6 @ {\cf2 And in the morning they went forth, both together, and came to the wedding; Tobias begate his wife with childe.}

geneva@Jdt:10:3 @ {\cf2 Therefore he was very sory.}

geneva@Jdt:10:7 @ {\cf2 But she sayd, Holde thy peace, and deceiue me not: my sonne is dead: and she went out euery day by the way, which they went, neither did shee eate meate on the day time, and did consume whole nightes in bewayling her sonne Tobias vntill the foureteene dayes of ye wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworne, that he should tary there. Then Tobias sayde to Raguel, Let mee goe: for my father and my mother looke no more to see me.}

geneva@Jdt:10:9 @ {\cf2 But Tobias sayde, No, but let mee goe to my father.}

geneva@Jdt:10:10 @ {\cf2 Then Raguel arose, and gaue him Sarra his wife, and halfe his goods, as seruants, and cattel, and money,}

geneva@Jdt:10:12 @ {\cf2 And he sayd to his daughter, Honour thy father, and thy mother in lawe which are nowe thy parents, that I may heare good report of thee: and hee kissed them, Edna also sayde to Tobias, The Lord of heauen restore thee, my deare brother, and graunt that I may see thy children of my daughter Sarra, that I may reioyce before the Lord. Beholde nowe, I commit to thee my daughter, as a pledge doe not entreat her euill.}

geneva@Jdt:11:1 @ {\cf2 After these thinges Tobias went his way, praysing God that hee had giuen him a prosperous iourney, and blessed Raguel and Edna his wife, and went on his way till he drewe neere to Nineue.}

geneva@Jdt:11:2 @ {\cf2 Then Raphael said to Tobias, Thou knowest, brother, howe thou diddest leaue thy father.}

geneva@Jdt:11:3 @ {\cf2 Let vs haste before thy wife, and prepare the house,}

geneva@Jdt:11:7 @ {\cf2 Then sayd Raphael, I knowe, Tobias, that thy father shall receiue his sight.}

geneva@Jdt:11:15 @ {\cf2 For thou hast scourged me, and hast had pitie on me: for beholde, I see my sonne Tobias: and his sonne, being glad went in, and tolde his father the great things that had come to passe in Media.}

geneva@Jdt:11:17 @ {\cf2 But Tobit testified before the al, that God had had pitie on him; when he came neere to Sarra his daughter in lawe, he blessed her, saying, Thou art welcome, daughter: God be blessed, which hath brought thee vnto vs, and blessed be thy father: and there was great ioy among all his brethren which were at Nineue.}

geneva@Jdt:11:18 @ {\cf2 And Achiacharus and Nasbas his brothers sonne came.}

geneva@Jdt:11:19 @ {\cf2 And Tobias marriage was kept seuen dayes with great ioy.}

geneva@Jdt:12:1 @ {\cf2 Then Tobit called his sonne Tobias, and sayde vnto him, Prouide, my sonne, wages for ye man, which went with thee, & thou must giue him more.}

geneva@Jdt:12:8 @ {\cf2 Prayer is good with fasting, and almes, and righteousnesse. A litle with righteousnesse is better then much with vnrighteousnes: it is better to giue almes then to lay vp golde.}

geneva@Jdt:12:11 @ {\cf2 Surely I will keepe close nothing from you: neuertheles, I said it was good to keepe close the secret of a King, but that it was honorable to reueile the workes of God.}

geneva@Jdt:12:12 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore when thou diddest pray, and Sarra thy daughter in lawe, I did bring to memorie your prayer before the Holy one: and when thou diddest bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.}

geneva@Jdt:12:13 @ {\cf2 And when thou wast not griued to rise vp, and leaue thy dinner to bury the dead, thy good deede was not hid from me: but I was with thee.}

geneva@Jdt:12:18 @ {\cf2 For I came not of mine owne pleasure, but by the good wil of your God: wherefore praise him in all ages.}

geneva@Jdt:13:6 @ {\cf2 If you turne to him with your whole heart, and with your whole minde, & deale vprightly before him, then will he turne vnto you, and will not hide his face from you, but ye shal see what he will doe with you: therefore confesse him with your whole mouth, & praise the Lord of righteousnes, & extoll the euerlasting King. I wil cofesse him in the land of my captiuitie, and will declare his power, & greatnes to a sinfull nation. O ye sinners, turne and do iustice before him: who can tell if he wil receiue you to mercy, and haue pitie on you?}

geneva@Jdt:13:10 @ {\cf2 Giue prayse to the Lord duely, and praise the euerlasting King, that his tabernacle may be buylded in thee againe with ioy: and let him make ioyfull there in thee those that are captiues, and loue in thee for euer those that be miserable.}

geneva@Jdt:14:2 @ {\cf2 And he was eight & fiftie yeere olde, when hee lost his sight, which was restored to him after eyght yeere, and he gaue almes, and he continued to feare the Lord God, and to prayse him.}

geneva@Jdt:14:3 @ {\cf2 And when he was very aged, hee called his sonne, & sixe of his sonnes sonnes, & sayde to him, My sonne, take thy children (for behold, I am aged, and am ready to depart out of this life)}

geneva@Jdt:14:4 @ {\cf2 Go into Media, my sonne for I surely beleeue those things which Ionas the Prophet spake of Nineue, that it shalbe destroyed, & for a time peace shal rather be in Media, & that our brethren shalbe scattered in the earth from that good land, & Ierusalem shall be desolate, and the House of God in it shalbe burned, and shalbe desolate for a time.}

geneva@Jdt:14:5 @ {\cf2 Yet againe God wil haue pitie on them, & bring them againe into the lande where they shall builde a Temple, but not like to the first, vntil the times of that age be fulfilled, which being finished, they shall returne from euery place out of captiuitie, & buylde vp Ierusalem gloriously, & the House of God shall be buylt in it for euer with a glorious buylding, as the Prophets haue spoken thereof.}

geneva@Jdt:14:8 @ {\cf2 And nowe, my sonne, depart out of Nineue, because that those things which the Prophet Ionas spake, shal surely come to passe.}

geneva@Jdt:14:10 @ {\cf2 And bury me honestly, & thy mother with me: but tary no longer at Nineue. Remember, my sonne, how Aman hadled Achiacharus that brought him vp, howe out of light hee brought him into darkenes, & how he rewarded him againe yet Achi acharus was saued, but the other had his reward: for he went downe into darknes. Manasses gaue almes, and escaped the snare of death, which they had set for him, but Aman fell into the snare and perished.}

geneva@Jdt:14:12 @ {\cf2 And when Anna was dead, hee buryed her with his father: but Tobias went with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in lawe.}

geneva@Jdt:14:15 @ {\cf2 But before he dyed, he heard of the destruction of Nineue, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus, and before his death he reioyced for Nineue.}

geneva@Wis:1:5 @ {\cf2 Euen in those dayes, King Nabuchodonosor made warre with King Arphaxad in the great field, which is the field in the coastes of Ragau.}

geneva@Wis:1:6 @ {\cf2 Then came vnto him all they that dwelt in the mountaines, & all that dwelt by Euphrates, and Tygris & Hydaspes, & the countrey of Arioch the king of the Elymeans, & very many nations assembled theselues to the battel of ye sonnes of Chelod.}

geneva@Wis:1:7 @ {\cf2 And Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians sent vnto all that dwelt in Persia, & to all that dwelt in the West, and to those that dwelt in Cilicia, and Damascus, and Libanus & Antilibanus, and to all that dwelt vpon the sea coast,}

geneva@Wis:1:11 @ {\cf2 But all the inhabitants of this countrey did not passe for the comandement of Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians, neither would they come with him to the battel: for they did not feare him: yea, he was before them as one man: therefore they sent away his ambassadours from them without effect, and with dishonour.}

geneva@Wis:1:12 @ {\cf2 Therefore Nabuchodonosor was very angry, with all this countrey, and sware by his throne and kingdome that he woulde surely be auenged vpon all those coastes of Cilicia & Damascus, & Syria, & that he woulde slay with the sworde all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Iudea, and all that were in Egypt, till one come to the borders of the two seas.}

geneva@Wis:1:16 @ {\cf2 So he returned afterward to Nineue, both he and all his companie with a very great multitude of men of warre, and there he passed the time, and banketed, both he, and his armie an hundreth and twentie dayes.}

geneva@Wis:2:1 @ {\cf2 And in the eighteenth yeere, the two and twentieth day of the first moneth, there was talke in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he should auenge himselfe on al ye earth, as he had spoken.}

geneva@Wis:2:4 @ {\cf2 And when hee had ended his counsell, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians called Olofernes his chiefe captaine, and which was next vnto him, and sayde vnto him,}

geneva@Wis:2:7 @ {\cf2 And thou shalt declare vnto them, that they prepare for me the land and the water: for I wil goe forth in my wrath against them, and will couer the whole face of the earth with the feete of mine armie, and I will giue them as a spoyle vnto them,}

geneva@Wis:2:12 @ {\cf2 For as I liue, & the power of my kingdome, whatsoeuer I haue spoken, that will I doe by mine hande.}

geneva@Wis:2:13 @ {\cf2 And take thou heede that thou transgresse not any of the commandements of thy lorde, but accomplish them fully, as I haue commanded thee, and deferre not to do them.}

geneva@Wis:2:14 @ {\cf2 Then Olofernes went forth from the presence of his Lord, & called all the gouernours, and captaines, and officers of the armie of Assur,}

geneva@Wis:2:15 @ {\cf2 And he mustred the chosen men for the battel, as his Lord had commanded him, vnto an hundreth and twentie thousand, and twelue thousande archers on horsebacke.}

geneva@Wis:2:17 @ {\cf2 And hee tooke camels & asses for their burdens, a very great number, and sheepe, and oxen, and goates without number for their prouision,}

geneva@Wis:2:20 @ {\cf2 A great multitude also of sundry sorts came with them like grashoppers, and like the grauell of the earth: for the multitude was without number.}

geneva@Wis:2:23 @ {\cf2 And he destroied Phud and Lud, and spoiled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Ismael, which were toward the wildernesse at the South of the Chelians.}

geneva@Wis:2:26 @ {\cf2 He compassed also all the children of Madian, and burnt vp their tabernacles, and spoiled their lodges.}

geneva@Wis:2:27 @ {\cf2 Then hee went downe into the countrey of Damascus, in the time of wheate haruest, and burnt vp all their fieldes, and destroyed their flockes and the heards: he robbed their cities, and spoyled their countrey, and smote all their yong men with the edge of the sword.}

geneva@Wis:2:28 @ {\cf2 Therefore feare and trembling fell vpon all the inhabitants of the sea coast, which were in Sidon and Tyrus, and them that dwelt in Sur and Ocina, and all that dwelt in Iemnaan: and they that dwelt in Azotus, and Ascalon feared him greatly.}

geneva@Wis:3:1 @ {\cf2 So they sent ambassadours to him with messages of peace, saying,}

geneva@Wis:3:2 @ {\cf2 Beholde, we are the seruants of Nabuchodonosor the great king: we lie downe before thee: vse vs as shalbe good in thy sight.}

geneva@Wis:3:3 @ {\cf2 Beholde, our houses and all our places, and all our fieldes of wheate, & our flocks, and our heards, and all our lodges and tabernacles lie before thy face: vse them as it pleaseth thee.}

geneva@Wis:3:4 @ {\cf2 Beholde, euen our cities and the inhabitantes therof are thy seruants come, and take them, as seemeth good to thee.}

geneva@Wis:3:6 @ {\cf2 The came he downe toward ye sea coast, both he and his armie, and set garisons in the hie cities, and tooke out of them chosen men for the warre.}

geneva@Wis:3:8 @ {\cf2 Yet he brake downe all their borders, and cut downe their woods: for it was inioyned him to destroy al the gods of the land, that al nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, & that all tongues and tribes should call vpon him as God.}

geneva@Wis:3:10 @ {\cf2 And he pitched betweene Geba, and a citie of ye Scythians, & there he taried a moneth, that he might assemble all the baggage of his armie.}

geneva@Wis:4:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe the children of Israel that dwelt in Iudea, heard all that Olofernes ye chiefe captaine of Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and howe hee had spoyled all their temples, and brought them to nought.}

geneva@Wis:4:3 @ {\cf2 For they were newly returned from the captiuitie, and of late all the people was assembled in Iudea, and the vessels and the altar of the house had bene sanctified because of the pollution.}

geneva@Wis:4:4 @ {\cf2 Therefore they sent into all the coastes of Samaria, and the villages, and to Bethoro, and Belmen, and Iericho, and to Choba, and Esora, and to the valley of Salem,}

geneva@Wis:4:6 @ {\cf2 Also Ioacim the hie Priest which was in those dayes in Ierusale, wrote to them that dwelt in Bethulia & Betomastham, which is ouer against Esdraelon toward the open countrey nere to Dothaim,}

geneva@Wis:4:7 @ {\cf2 Exhorting them to keepe the passages of the mountaines: for by them there was an entrie into Iudea, and it was easie to let them that woulde come vp, because ye passage was streit for two men at the most.}

geneva@Wis:4:8 @ {\cf2 And the children of Israel did as Ioacim ye hie Priest had commanded them with the Ancients of all the people of Israel, which dwelt at Ierusalem.}

geneva@Wis:4:11 @ {\cf2 Thus euery man and woman, and the children, and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem fell before the Temple, and sprinkled ashes vpon their heads, and spred out their sackcloth before the face of the Lord: also they put sackcloth about the altar,}

geneva@Wis:4:13 @ {\cf2 So God heard their prayers, and looked vpon their affliction: for the people fasted many dayes in al Iudea and Ierusalem before the Sanctuary of the Lord almightie.}

geneva@Wis:4:15 @ {\cf2 And had ashes on their mytres, & cried vnto the Lord with all their power for grace, and that he would looke vpon all the house of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:5:1 @ {\cf2 Then was it declared to Olofernes the chiefe captaine of the army of Assur, that the children of Israel had prepared for warre, and had shut the passages of the mountaines, and had walled all the toppes of the hie hilles, and had layd impediments in the champion countrey.}

geneva@Wis:5:2 @ {\cf2 Wherewith he was very angrie, and called all the princes of Moab, and the captaines of Ammon, and all the gouernours of the sea coast.}

geneva@Wis:5:8 @ {\cf2 But they went out of the way of their ancesters and worshipped the God of heauen, the God whom they knewe: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and soiourned there many dayes.}

geneva@Wis:5:9 @ {\cf2 Then their God commaunded them to depart from the place where they soiourned, and to go into the land of Chanaan, where they dwelt, and were increased with golde and siluer, and with very much cattell.}

geneva@Wis:5:12 @ {\cf2 Then they cried vnto their God, & he smote all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues: so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.}

geneva@Wis:5:14 @ {\cf2 And brought them into mount Sina and Cades barne, and cast foorth all that dwelt in the wildernesse.}

geneva@Wis:5:15 @ {\cf2 So they dwelt in the lande of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength all them of Esebon, and passing ouer Iordan, they inherited all the mountaines.}

geneva@Wis:5:16 @ {\cf2 And they cast forth before them the Chanaanites, and the Pheresites, and the Iebusites, and them of Sichem, and all the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that countrey many dayes.}

geneva@Wis:5:17 @ {\cf2 And whiles they sinned not before their God, they prospered, because the God that hated iniquitie, was with them.}

geneva@Wis:5:18 @ {\cf2 But when they departed from the way which he appoynted them, they were destroyed in many battels after a wonderfull sort, and were led captiues into a land that was not theirs and the Temple of their God was cast to the grounde, and their cities were taken by the enemies.}

geneva@Wis:5:21 @ {\cf2 But if there be none iniquitie in this people, let my lord passe by, least their Lord defende them, and their God be for them, and we become a reproche before all the worlde.}

geneva@Wis:6:1 @ {\cf2 And when the tumult of the men that were about the councill, was ceased, Olofernes, the chiefe captaine of the armie of Assur, said vnto Achior before all the people of the strangers, and before all the children of Moab, and of them that were hyred of Ephraim,}

geneva@Wis:6:2 @ {\cf2 Because thou hast prophesied among vs to day, and hast sayde that the people of Ierusalem is able to fight, because their God will defende them: and who is God but Nabuchodonosor?}

geneva@Wis:6:3 @ {\cf2 He will send his power, and will destroy the from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliuer them: but we his seruants will destroye them as one man: for they are not able to susteine the power of our horses.}

geneva@Wis:6:6 @ {\cf2 And thou Achior an hireling of Ammon, because thou hast spoken these wordes in the day of thine iniquitie, thou shalt see my face no more from this day vntill I take vengeance of that people that is come out of Egypt.}

geneva@Wis:6:7 @ {\cf2 And then shall the yron of mine armie, and the multitude of them that serue me, passe through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slaine, when I shall put them to flight,}

geneva@Wis:6:12 @ {\cf2 And when the men of the citie saw them fro the top of the mountaine, they tooke their armour, and went foorth of the citie vnto the toppe of the moutaine, euen all the throwers with slings, & kept the from coming vp, by casting stones against the.}

geneva@Wis:6:15 @ {\cf2 Which were in those dayes, Ozias the sonne of Micha, of ye tribe of Simeon, & Chabris ye sonne of Gothoniel, and Charmis the sonne of Melchiel.}

geneva@Wis:6:16 @ {\cf2 And they called together all the Auncients of the citie, and all their youth ranne together, and their women to the assemblie: and they set Achior in the middes of all their people. Then Ozias asked him of that which was done.}

geneva@Wis:6:17 @ {\cf2 And he answered and declared vnto them the wordes of the counsell of Olofernes, and all the wordes that he had spoken in the mids of the princes of Assur, and whatsoeuer Olofernes had spoken proudly against the house of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:6:19 @ {\cf2 O Lord God of heauen, beholde their pride, and haue mercie on the basenesse of our people, and beholde this day the face of those that are sanctified vnto thee.}

geneva@Wis:6:21 @ {\cf2 And Ozias tooke him out of ye asseblie into his house, & made a feast to the Elders, and they called on the God of Israel al that night for helpe.}

geneva@Wis:7:2 @ {\cf2 Then their strong men remoued their camps in that day, and the armie of the men of warre was an hundreth thousand and seuentie footemen, and twelue thousande horsemen, beside the baggage & other men that were afoote among them, a very great multitude.}

geneva@Wis:7:7 @ {\cf2 And viewed the passages vp to their citie, & came to the fountaines of their waters, and tooke them and set garrisons of men of warre ouer them, and remoued towarde his people.}

geneva@Wis:7:8 @ {\cf2 Then came vnto him all the chiefe of ye children of Esau, & all the gouernours of the people of Moab, and all the captaines of the sea coast, & said,}

geneva@Wis:7:9 @ {\cf2 Let our captaine nowe heare a worde, least an inconuenience come in thine armie.}

geneva@Wis:7:10 @ {\cf2 For this people of the children of Israel doe not trust in their speares, but in the height of the mountaines, wherein they dwell, because it is not easie to come vp to the tops of their mountaines.}

geneva@Wis:7:11 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore, my lorde, fight not against them in battell aray, and there shall not so much as one man of thy people perish.}

geneva@Wis:7:16 @ {\cf2 And these wordes pleased Olofernes and all his souldiers, and he appointed to doe as they had spoken.}

geneva@Wis:7:17 @ {\cf2 So the campe of the children of Ammon departed, & with the fiue thousande of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley, & tooke ye waters, & the fountaines of ye waters of the children of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:7:18 @ {\cf2 Then the children of Esau went vp with the children of Ammon, & camped in the mountaines ouer against Dothaim, and they sent some of them selues toward the South, and toward the East, ouer against Rebel, which is neere vnto Chusi, that is vpon the riuer Mochmur: and the rest of the armie of the Assyrians camped in the fielde, and couered the whole lande: for their tents and their baggage were pitched in a wonderfull great place.}

geneva@Wis:7:19 @ {\cf2 Then the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde their God, because their heart fayled: for all their enemies had compassed them about, and there was no waye to escape out from among them.}

geneva@Wis:7:20 @ {\cf2 Thus all the companie of Assur remained about them, both their footemen, chariots & horsemen, foure & thirtie dayes: so that euen all the places of their waters fayled all ye inhabitants of Bethulia.}

geneva@Wis:7:21 @ {\cf2 And the cisternes were emptie, and they had not water ynough to drinke for one day: for they gaue them to drinke by measure.}

geneva@Wis:7:22 @ {\cf2 Therefore their children swooned, and their wiues and yong men failed for thirst, & fell downe in the streetes of the citie, and by the passages of the gates, and there was no strength in them.}

geneva@Wis:7:23 @ {\cf2 Then all the people assembled to Ozias, and to the chiefe of the citie, both yong men and women, and children, and cryed with a loude voyce, and said before all the Elders,}

geneva@Wis:7:24 @ {\cf2 The Lord iudge betweene vs and you: for you haue done vs great iniurie, in that ye haue not required peace of the children of Assur.}

geneva@Wis:7:29 @ {\cf2 Then there was a great cry of all with one consent in the middes of the assemblie, and they cryed vnto the Lord God with a loude voyce.}

geneva@Wis:7:30 @ {\cf2 Then said Ozias to the, Brethren, be of good courage: let vs waite yet fiue dayes, in the which space the Lorde our God may turne his mercie towarde vs: for he will not forsake vs in the ende.}

geneva@Wis:7:31 @ {\cf2 And if these dayes passe, and there come not helpe vnto vs, I will doe according to your worde.}

geneva@Wis:8:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe at that time, Iudeth heard thereof, which was the daughter of Merari the sonne of Ox, the sonne of Ioseph, the sonne of Oziel, the sonne of Elcia, the sonne of Ananias, the sonne of Gedeon, the sonne of Raphaim, the sonne of Acito, the sonne of Eliu, the sonne of Eliab, the sonne of Nathanael, the sonne of Samael, the sonne of Salasadai, the sonne of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:8:2 @ {\cf2 And Manasses was her husband, of her stocke and kinred, who dyed in the barley haruest.}

geneva@Wis:8:3 @ {\cf2 For as he was diligent ouer them that bound sheaues in the fielde, the heate came vpon his head, and he fell vpon his bed, and dyed in the citie of Bethulia, and they buryed him with his fathers in the fielde betweene Dothaim and Balamo.}

geneva@Wis:8:4 @ {\cf2 So Iudeth was in her house a widowe three yeeres and foure moneths.}

geneva@Wis:8:6 @ {\cf2 And she fasted all the dayes of her widowhood, saue the day before the Sabbath & the Sabbaths, and the day before the newe moones, and in the feastes & solemne dayes of the house of Israel.}

geneva@Wis:8:7 @ {\cf2 She was also of a goodly countenance and very beautifull to beholde: and her husbande Manasses had left her golde and siluer, and men seruants, and maide seruants, and cattell, and possessions, where she remained.}

geneva@Wis:8:8 @ {\cf2 And there was none that coulde bring an euill report of her: for she feared God greatly.}

geneva@Wis:8:9 @ {\cf2 Now when she heard the euil wordes of the people against the gouernour, because they faintedfor lacke of waters (for Iudeth had hearde all the wordes that Ozias had spoken vnto them, and that hee had sworne vnto them to deliuer the citie vnto the Assyrians within fiue dayes)}

geneva@Wis:8:10 @ {\cf2 Then she sent her maide, that had the gouernement of all things that she had, to call Ozias and Chabris and Charmisthe Ancients of the citie.}

geneva@Wis:8:16 @ {\cf2 Doe not you therefore binde the counsels of the Lord our God: For God is not as man that he may be threatned, neither as the sonne of man to be brought to iudgement.}

geneva@Wis:8:17 @ {\cf2 Therefore let vs wayte for saluation of him and call vpon him to helpe vs, and hee will heare our voice if it please him.}

geneva@Wis:8:18 @ {\cf2 For there appeareth none in our age, neither is there any nowe in these dayes, neither tribe, nor familie, nor people, nor citie among vs, which worship ye gods made with hands, as hath bene aforetime.}

geneva@Wis:8:25 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, let vs giue thankes to ye Lord our God, which tryeth vs euen as hee did our fathers.}

geneva@Wis:8:27 @ {\cf2 For hee hath not tried vs as he did them to the examination of their heartes, neither doth hee take vengeance on vs, but the Lorde punisheth for instruction them that come neere to him.}

geneva@Wis:8:28 @ {\cf2 Then said Ozias to her, All that thou hast spoken, hast thou spoken with a good heart, and there is none that is able to resist thy words.}

geneva@Wis:8:30 @ {\cf2 But the people were very thirstie, and compelled vs to do vnto the, as we haue spoken, & haue brought vs to an oth which we may not transgresse.}

geneva@Wis:8:35 @ {\cf2 Then saide Ozias and the princes vnto her, Goe in peace, and the Lorde God be before thee, to take vengeance on our enemies.}

geneva@Wis:9:1 @ {\cf2 Then Iudeth fell vpon her face, and put ashes vpon her head, and put off the sackcloth wherwith she was clothed; about the time that the incense of that euening was offred in Ierusalem in the house of the Lorde, Iudeth cryed with a loude voyce, and saide,}

geneva@Wis:9:3 @ {\cf2 Yet they did things for the which thou gauest their princes to the slaughter, for they were deceiued and washed their beds with bloud) and hast striken the seruants with the gouerners, and the gouerners vpon their thrones,}

geneva@Wis:9:4 @ {\cf2 And hast giuen their wiues for a pray & their daughters to be captiues, and all their spoyles for a bootie to the children that thou louedst: which were mooued with thy zeale, & abhorred the pollution of their bloud, & called vpon thee for ayde, O God, O my God, heare me also a widdowe.}

geneva@Wis:9:5 @ {\cf2 For thou hast wrought the things afore, and these, and the things that shalbe after, and thou considerest the things that are present, and the things that are to come.}

geneva@Wis:9:7 @ {\cf2 Behold, the Assyrians are multyplied by their power: they haue exalted them selues with horses and horsemen: they glory in the strength of their footemen: they trust in shield, speare and bow, and sling, and do not know that thou art the Lord that breakest the battels: the Lord is thy Name.}

geneva@Wis:9:8 @ {\cf2 Breake thou their strength by thy power, and breake their force by thy wrath: for they haue purposed to defile thy Sanctuarie, and to pollute the Tabernacle where thy glorious Name resteth, and to cast downe with weapons the hornes of the Altar.}

geneva@Wis:10:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe after she had ceased to cry vnto the God of Israel, and had made an ende of all these wordes,}

geneva@Wis:10:2 @ {\cf2 She rose where she had fallen down, & called her maide, and went downe into the house, in the which she abode in the Sabbath dayes and in the feast dayes,}

geneva@Wis:10:3 @ {\cf2 And putting away the sackecloth wherewith she was clad, and putting off the garmentes of her widowhode, shee washed her bodie with water, and anointed it with much oyntment, and dressed the heare of her head, and put attire vpon it, and put on her garments of gladnesse, wherewith shee was clad during the life of Manasses her husbande.}

geneva@Wis:10:6 @ {\cf2 Thus they went forth to the gate of the citie of Bethulia, and found standing there Ozias, and the Ancients of the citie, Chabris and Charmis.}

geneva@Wis:10:7 @ {\cf2 And when they sawe her that her face was changed, and that her garment was changed, they marueyled greaely at her wonderfull beautie, and sayde vnto her,}

geneva@Wis:10:9 @ {\cf2 And she said vnto them, Command the gates of the citie to be opened vnto me, that I may goe forth to accomplish the things which you haue spoken to me. So they commanded the yong men to open vnto her, as she had spoken.}

geneva@Wis:10:10 @ {\cf2 And when they had done so, Iudeth went out, she and her maide with her, & the men of the citie looked after her, vntill shee was gone downe the mountaine, and till she had passed the valley, & could see her no more.}

geneva@Wis:10:11 @ {\cf2 Thus they went streight forth in the valley, and the first watch of the Assyrians met her,}

geneva@Wis:10:12 @ {\cf2 And tooke her, and asked her, Of what people art thou? and whence commest thou? and whither goest thou? And shee saide, I am a woman of the Hebrewes, and am fledde from them: for they shall be giuen you to be consumed.}

geneva@Wis:10:15 @ {\cf2 Thou hast saued thy life, in that thou hast hasted to come downe to the presence of our lorde nowe therefore come to his tent, and some of vs shall conduct thee vntill they haue deliuered thee into his hands.}

geneva@Wis:10:16 @ {\cf2 And when thou standest before him, be not afraide in thine heart, but shew vnto him according as thou hast to say, and hee will intreate thee well.}

geneva@Wis:10:18 @ {\cf2 Then there was a running to and fro, through out the campe: for her comming was bruted amog the tentes: and they came and stoode round about her: for she stood without the tent of Olophernes vntil they had declared vnto him concerning her.}

geneva@Wis:10:21 @ {\cf2 Now Olophernes rested vpon his bed vnder a conopie, which was wouen with purple and golde and emeraudes, and precious stones.}

geneva@Wis:10:23 @ {\cf2 And when Iudeth was come before him and his seruantes, they all marueyled at the beautie of her countenance, and she fel downe vpon her face, and did reuerence vnto him, and his seruants tooke her vp.}

geneva@Wis:11:4 @ {\cf2 For none shall hurt thee, but intreate thee well, as they doe the seruants of King Nabuchodonosor my lorde.}

geneva@Wis:11:6 @ {\cf2 And if thou wilt followe the wordes of thine handmaid, God wil bring ye thing perfectly to passe by thee, and my lorde shall not faile of his purpose.}

geneva@Wis:11:7 @ {\cf2 As Nabuchodonosor King of all the earth liueth, and as his power is of force, who hath sent thee to reforme all persons, not onely men shalbe made subiect to him by thee, but also the beastes of the fieldes, and the cattel, and the foules of the heauen shall liue by thy power vnder Nabuchodonosor and all his house.}

geneva@Wis:11:9 @ {\cf2 Nowe as concerning the matter which Achier did speake in thy councill, we haue heard his wordes: for the men of Bethulia did take him, and he declared vnto them all that he had spoken vnto thee.}

geneva@Wis:11:11 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore, least my lorde shoulde be frustrate, and voyde of his purpose, and that death may fall vpon them, and that they may be taken in their sinne whiles they prouoke their God to anger, which is so oft times as they doe that which is not beseeming,}

geneva@Wis:11:12 @ {\cf2 (For because their vitailes fayle, and all their water is wasted, they haue determined to take their cattell, and haue purposed to consume all things that God had forbidden them to eate by his Lawes:}

geneva@Wis:11:14 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, they haue sent to Ierusalem, because they also that dwel there, haue done the like, such as should bring them licence from ye Senate)}

geneva@Wis:11:19 @ {\cf2 And I will leade thee through the middes of Iudea, vntill thou come before Ierusalem, and I will set thy throne in the middes thereof, and thou shalt driue them as sheepe that haue no shepherd, and a dogge shall not barke with his mouth against thee: for these things haue bene spoken vnto me, and declared vnto me according to my foreknowledge, and I am sent to shewe thee.}

geneva@Wis:11:20 @ {\cf2 Then her wordes pleased Olofernes, and all his seruants, and they marueiled at her wisedom, and sayde,}

geneva@Wis:11:23 @ {\cf2 And nowe thou art both beautifull in thy countenance, and wittie in thy wordes: surely if thou doe as thou hast spoken, thy God shall be my God, and thou shalt dwell in the house of Nabuchodonosor, and shalt be renoumed throughout the whole earth.}

geneva@Wis:12:1 @ {\cf2 Then he commanded to bring her in where his treasures were layd, and bade that they should prepare for her of his owne meates, and that she should drinke of his owne wine.}

geneva@Wis:12:2 @ {\cf2 But Iudeth saide, I may not eate of them, least there should be an offence, but I can suffice my selfe with the things that I haue brought.}

geneva@Wis:12:3 @ {\cf2 Then Olofernes said vnto her, If the things that thou hast, should faile, howe should we giue thee the like? for there is none with vs of thy nation.}

geneva@Wis:12:4 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudeth vnto him, As thy soule liueth, my lorde, thine handmaide shall not spende those things that I haue, before the Lorde worke by mine hand the things that he hath determined.}

geneva@Wis:12:7 @ {\cf2 Then Olofernes commanded his garde that they shoulde not stay her: thus she abode in the campe three dayes, and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed her selfe in a fountaine, euen in the water by the campe.}

geneva@Wis:12:10 @ {\cf2 And in the fourth day, Olofernes made a feast to his owne seruants only, and called none of them to the banket, that had the affaires in hande.}

geneva@Wis:12:11 @ {\cf2 Then saide he to Bagoas the eunuche who had charge ouer all that he had, Goe and perswade this Hebrewe woman, which is with thee, that she come vnto vs, and eate and drinke with vs.}

geneva@Wis:12:13 @ {\cf2 Then went Bagoas from the presence of Olofernes, and came to her, and saide, Let not this faire maide make difficultie to goe in to my lord, and to be honoured in his presence, and to drinke wine with vs ioyfully, and to be entreated as one of the daughters of the children of Assur, which remaine in the house of Nabuchodonosor.}

geneva@Wis:12:14 @ {\cf2 The said Iudeth vnto him, Who am I now, that I should gainesay my lord? Surely whatsoeuer pleaseth him, I will doe speedily, and it shall be my ioy vnto the day of my death.}

geneva@Wis:12:15 @ {\cf2 So she arose & trimmed her with garments, and with all the ornaments of women, & her maid went, and spred foorth her skinnes on the grounde ouer against Olofernes, which she had receiued of Bagoas for her daily vse, that she might sit and eate vpon them.}

geneva@Wis:12:16 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudeth came and sate downe, Olofernes heart was rauished with her, and his spirite was moued, and he desired greatly her company: for he had waited for the time to deceiue her from the day that he had seene her.}

geneva@Wis:12:18 @ {\cf2 So Iudeth said, I drinke nowe, my lorde, because my state is exalted this day more then euer it was since I was borne.}

geneva@Wis:12:20 @ {\cf2 And Olofernes reioyced because of her, and dranke much more wine then hee had drunken at any time in one day since he was borne.}

geneva@Wis:13:1 @ {\cf2 Now when the euening was come, his seruants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed those that were present, from the presence of his lorde, and they went to their beddes: for they were all weary, because the feast had bene long.}

geneva@Wis:13:2 @ {\cf2 And Iudeth was left alone in the tent, and Olofernes was stretched along vpon his bed: for he was filled with wine.}

geneva@Wis:13:3 @ {\cf2 Nowe Iudeth had commanded her maide to stande without her chamber, and to waite for her comming foorth as she did daily: for she saide, she would go forth to her prayers, and she spake to Bagoas according to the same purpose.}

geneva@Wis:13:4 @ {\cf2 So all went foorth of her presence, and none was left in the chamber, neither litle nor great: then Iudeth standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lorde God of all power, beholde at this present the workes of mine handes for the exaltation of Ierusalem.}

geneva@Wis:13:6 @ {\cf2 Then she came to the post of the bed which was at Olofernes head, and tooke downe his fauchin from thence,}

geneva@Wis:13:10 @ {\cf2 And she put it in her scrippe of meate: so they twaine went together according to their custome vnto praier, and preassing through the tents, went about by that valley, & went vp to the moutaine of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.}

geneva@Wis:13:11 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudeth afarre off to the watchmen at the gates, Open nowe the gate: God, euen our God is with vs to shewe his power yet in Ierusalem, and his force against his enemies, as he hath euen done this day.}

geneva@Wis:13:12 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the men of her citie heard her voyce, they made haste to goe downe to the gate of their citie, and they called the Elders of the city.}

geneva@Wis:13:13 @ {\cf2 And they ranne all together both small and great: for it was aboue their expectation, that she shoulde come. So they opened the gate and receiued her, and made a fire for a light, and stood roud about them twaine.}

geneva@Wis:13:15 @ {\cf2 So she tooke the head out of the scrippe and shewed it, and said vnto them, Beholde the head of Olofernes, the chiefe captaine of the armie of Assur, and beholde the canopie, wherein he did lye in his drunkennes, and the Lord hath smitteth him by the hande of a woman.}

geneva@Wis:13:16 @ {\cf2 As the Lorde liueth, who hath kept me in my way that I went, my countenance hath deceiued him to his destruction, and he hath not committed sinne with me by any pollution or villenie.}

geneva@Wis:13:17 @ {\cf2 Then all the people were wonderfully astonished, and bowed them selues, and worshipped God, and said with one accorde, Blessed be thou, O our God, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people.}

geneva@Wis:13:18 @ {\cf2 Then said Ozias vnto her, O daughter, blessed art thou of the most hie God aboue al the women of the earth, and blessed be the Lorde God, which hath created the heauens and the earth, which hath directed thee to the cutting off of the head of the chiefe of our enemies.}

geneva@Wis:13:20 @ {\cf2 And God turne these things to thee for a perpetuall praise, and visite thee with good things, because thou hast not spared thy life, because of the affliction of our nation, but thou hast holpen our ruine, walking a straight way before our God; all the people said, So be it, so be it.}

geneva@Wis:14:2 @ {\cf2 And so soone as the morning shall appeare and the sunne shall come foorth vpon the earth, take you euery one his weapons, and goe foorth euery valiant man out of the citie, & set you a captaine ouer them, as though you woulde goe downe into the fielde, towarde the watch of the Assyrians, but goe not downe.}

geneva@Wis:14:3 @ {\cf2 Then they shall take their armour, and shall goe into their campe, and rayse vp the captaines of the armie of Assur, and they shall runne to the tent of Olofernes, but shall not finde him: then feare shall fall vpon them, and they shall flee beforeyour face.}

geneva@Wis:14:4 @ {\cf2 So you & all that inhabite the coastes of Israel, shal pursue them, & ouerthrow them as they go.}

geneva@Wis:14:5 @ {\cf2 But before you doe these things, call mee Achior the Ammonite, that hee may see, and knowe him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to vs as to death.}

geneva@Wis:14:6 @ {\cf2 Then they called Achior out of the house of Ozias, and when hee was come and sawe the head of Olofernes in a certaine mans hand in the assemblie of the people, hee fell downe on his face, and his spirit failed.}

geneva@Wis:14:7 @ {\cf2 But when they had taken him vp, hee fell at Iudeths feete, and reuerenced her, and said, Blessed art thou in all the tabernacle of Iuda, and in al nations, which, hearing thy name, shalbe astonished.}

geneva@Wis:14:8 @ {\cf2 Now therefore tell mee all the thinges, that thou hast done in these dayes. Then Iudeth declared vnto him in the middes of the people all that shee had done from the daye that shee went forth, vntill that houre shee spake vnto them.}

geneva@Wis:14:10 @ {\cf2 And Achior, seeing all things that God had done for Israel, beleeued in God vnfaynedly, and circumcised the foreskin of his flesh, and was ioyned vnto the house of Israel vnto this day.}

geneva@Wis:14:11 @ {\cf2 Assoone as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Olofernes out at the wall, and euery man tooke his weapons, and they went forth by bandes vnto the straytes of the mountaine.}

geneva@Wis:14:12 @ {\cf2 But when the Assyrians sawe them, they sent to their captaines, which went to the gouernours and chiefe captaines, and to all their rulers.}

geneva@Wis:14:14 @ {\cf2 Then went in Bagoas, and knocked at the doore of the tent: for hee thought that hee had slept with Iudeth.}

geneva@Wis:14:15 @ {\cf2 But because none answered, hee opened it, and went into the chamber, and founde him cast vpon the floore, and his head was taken from him.}

geneva@Wis:14:19 @ {\cf2 When the captaines of the Assyrians armie hearde these words, they rent their coates, and their heart was wonderfully troubled, and there was a cry and a verie great noyse throughout the campe.}

geneva@Wis:15:1 @ {\cf2 And when they that were in the tentes, heard, they were astonished at the thing that was done.}

geneva@Wis:15:2 @ {\cf2 And feare and trembling fell vpon them, so that there was no man that durst abide in the sight of his neighbour: but altogether amased, they fled by euery way of the plaine and of the mountaines.}

geneva@Wis:15:3 @ {\cf2 They also that had camped in the mountaines rounde about Bethulia, were put to flight: then the children of Israel, euery one that was a warriour among them, rushed out vpon them.}

geneva@Wis:15:4 @ {\cf2 Then sent Ozias to Bethomasthem, and to Bebai, and Chobai, and Chola and to al the coastes of Israel, such as shoulde declare vnto them the things that were done, and that all shoulde rushe forth vpon their enemies to destroy them.}

geneva@Wis:15:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the children of Israel heard it, they all fell vpon them together vnto Choba: likewise also they that came from Ierusalem and from all the mountaines: for men had tolde them what things were done in the campe of their enemies, & they that were in Galaad and in Galile chased them with a great slaughter vntill they came to Damascus and to the coastes thereof.}

geneva@Wis:15:6 @ {\cf2 And the residue that dwelt at Bethulia, fell vpon the campe of Assur and spoyled them, and were greatly enriched.}

geneva@Wis:15:7 @ {\cf2 And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter, had the rest: and the villages and the cities that were in the mountaines and in the plaine, had a great bootie: for the abundance was very great.}

geneva@Wis:15:10 @ {\cf2 Thou hast done all these thinges by thine hande: thou hast done much good to Israel, and God is pleased therewith: blessed bee thou of the almightie Lorde for euermore: and all the people said, So be it.}

geneva@Wis:15:11 @ {\cf2 And the people spoyled the campe the space of thirtie dayes, and they gaue vnto Iudeth Olofernes tent, and all his siluer and beds, and basins, and all his stuffe, and she tooke it and laid it on her mules, and made readie her charets, & laied them thereon.}

geneva@Wis:15:13 @ {\cf2 They also crowned her with oliues, and her that was with her, and shee went before the people in the daunce, leading al the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armour, with crownes, and with songs in their mouthes.}

geneva@Wis:16:4 @ {\cf2 Assur came from the mountaines forth of the North: hee came with thousandes in his armie, whose multitude hath shut vp the riuers and their horsemen haue couered the valleis.}

geneva@Wis:16:5 @ {\cf2 He said that he would burne vp my borders and kill my yong men with the sworde, and dash the sucking children against the ground, and make mine infantes as a pray, and my virgins a spoyle.}

geneva@Wis:16:9 @ {\cf2 Her slippers rauished his eyes: her beautie tooke his minde prisoner, and the fauchin passed through his necke.}

geneva@Wis:16:10 @ {\cf2 The Persians were astonished at her boldenes, & the Medes were troubled with her hardines.}

geneva@Wis:16:12 @ {\cf2 The children of maides perced them, and wounded them as they fledde away like children: they perished by the battel of the Lord.}

geneva@Wis:16:14 @ {\cf2 Let all thy creatures serue thee: for thou hast spoken and they were made: thou hast sent thy Spirit, and he made them vp: and there is none that can resist thy voyce.}

geneva@Wis:16:18 @ {\cf2 After, when they wet vnto Ierusalem, they worshipped the Lorde, and assoone as the people were purified, they offred their burnt offrings, and their free offringes, and their giftes.}

geneva@Wis:16:21 @ {\cf2 After this time, euery one returned to his owne inheritance, and Iudeth went to Bethulia, and remayned in her owne possession, and was for her time honourable in all the countrey.}

geneva@Wis:16:22 @ {\cf2 And many desired her, but none had her companie all the dayes of her life after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.}

geneva@Wis:16:23 @ {\cf2 But shee increased more and more in honour, and waxed olde in her husbandes house, beeing an hundreth and fiue yeere olde, and made her maide free: so shee dyed in Bethulia, and they buried her in the graue of her husband Manasses.}

geneva@Wis:16:24 @ {\cf2 And the house of Israel lamented her seuen dayes, and before shee dyed, shee did distribute her goods to all them that were neerest of kinred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the neerest of her kinred.}

geneva@Wis:16:25 @ {\cf2 And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afrayde in the dayes of Iudeth, nor a long time after her death.}

geneva@Tob:1:2 @ {\cf2 For he wil be found of them that tempt him not, and appeareth vnto such as be not vnfaithfull vnto him.}

geneva@Tob:1:6 @ {\cf2 For the Spirit of wisdome is louing, and wil not absolue him, that blasphemeth with his lips: for God is a witnes of his reines, and a true beholder of his heart, and an hearer of the tongue.}

geneva@Tob:1:13 @ {\cf2 For God hath not made death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the liuing.}

geneva@Tob:2:1 @ {\cf2 For the vngodly say, as they falsly imagine with themselues, Our life is short & tedious: and in the death of a man there is no recouerie, neither was any knowen that hath returned from the graue.}

geneva@Tob:2:2 @ {\cf2 For we are borne at all aduenture, and we shall be hereafter as though we had neuer bene: for the breath is a smoke in our nostrels, & the wordes as a sparke raised out of our heart,}

geneva@Tob:2:3 @ {\cf2 Which being extinguished, the body is turned into ashes, and the Spirite vanisheth as the soft ayre.}

geneva@Tob:2:4 @ {\cf2 Our life shall passe away as the trace of a cloude, and come to naught as the miste that is driuen away with the beames of the sunne, and cast downe with the heate thereof. Our name also shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall haue our workes in remembrance.}

geneva@Tob:2:5 @ {\cf2 For our time is as a shadow that passeth away, and after our ende there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man commeth againe.}

geneva@Tob:2:6 @ {\cf2 Come therefore, and let vs enioy the pleasures, that are present, and let vs cheerefully vse the creatures as in youth.}

geneva@Tob:2:7 @ {\cf2 Let vs fill our selues with costly wine & ointments, & let not the floure of life passe by vs.}

geneva@Tob:2:9 @ {\cf2 Let vs all be partakers of our wantonnes: let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euery place: for that is our portion, and this is our lot.}

geneva@Tob:2:11 @ {\cf2 Let our strength be the lawe of vnrighteousnes: for the thing that is feeble, is reprooued as vnprofitable.}

geneva@Tob:2:12 @ {\cf2 Therefore let vs defraude the righteous: for he is not for our profite, and he is contrary to our doings: hee checketh vs for offending against the Law, and blameth vs as transgressers of discipline.}

geneva@Tob:2:13 @ {\cf2 He maketh his boast to haue the knowledge of God: & he calleth himselfe the sonne of ye Lord.}

geneva@Tob:2:15 @ {\cf2 It grieueth vs also to looke vpon him: for his life is not like other mens: his wayes are of another fashion.}

geneva@Tob:2:16 @ {\cf2 He counteth vs as bastards, and hee withdraweth himselfe from our wayes as from filthines: he commendeth greatly the latter end of the iust, and boasteth that God is his father.}

geneva@Tob:2:20 @ {\cf2 Let vs condemne him vnto a shamefull death: for he shalbe preserued as he himselfe sayth.}

geneva@Tob:2:21 @ {\cf2 Such things doe they imagine, and go astray: for their owne wickednes hath blinded them.}

geneva@Tob:3:2 @ {\cf2 In the sight of the vnwise they appeared to die, and their end was thought grieuous,}

geneva@Tob:3:6 @ {\cf2 He tryeth them as the golde in the fornace, and receiueth them as a perfect fruite offering.}

geneva@Tob:3:7 @ {\cf2 And in the time of their vision they shall shine, and runne thorowe as the sparks among the stubble.}

geneva@Tob:3:17 @ {\cf2 And though they liue long, yet shall they be nothing regarded, and their last age shalbe without honour.}

geneva@Tob:3:18 @ {\cf2 If they die hastely, they haue no hope, neither comfort in the day of tryall.}

geneva@Tob:4:3 @ {\cf2 But the multitude of the vngodly which abound in children, is vnprofitable: and the bastard plants shall take no deepe roote, nor lay any fast foundation.}

geneva@Tob:4:4 @ {\cf2 For though they bud foorth in the branches for a time, yet they shalbe shaken with the winde: for they stand not fast, and through the vehemencie of the winde they shalbe rooted out.}

geneva@Tob:4:6 @ {\cf2 For all the children that are borne of the wicked bed, shalbe witnes of the wickednes against their parents when they be asked.}

geneva@Tob:4:8 @ {\cf2 For the honourable age is not that which is of long time, neither that which is measured by the number of yeeres.}

geneva@Tob:4:10 @ {\cf2 He pleased God, and was beloued of him, so that where as he liued among sinners, he translated him.}

geneva@Tob:4:11 @ {\cf2 He was taken away, least wickednesse shouldalter his vnderstanding, or deceit beguile his minde.}

geneva@Tob:4:12 @ {\cf2 For wickednes by bewitching obscureth the thinges that are good, and the vnstedfastnesse of concupiscence peruerteth the simple minde.}

geneva@Tob:4:13 @ {\cf2 Though he was soone dead, yet fulfilled hee much time.}

geneva@Tob:4:14 @ {\cf2 For his soule pleased God: therefore hasted he to take him away from wickednes.}

geneva@Tob:4:19 @ {\cf2 So that they shall fall hereafter without honour, and shall haue a shame among the dead for euermore: for without any voice shal he burst them and cast them downe, & shake them from the fundations, so that they shalbe vtterly wasted, and they shalbe in sorow, and their memoriall shall perish.}

geneva@Tob:5:1 @ {\cf2 Then shall the righteous stande in great boldenesse before the face of such as haue tormented him, and taken away his labours.}

geneva@Tob:5:2 @ {\cf2 When they see him, they shall be vexed with horrible feare, and shall be amased for his wonderfull deliuerance,}

geneva@Tob:5:9 @ {\cf2 All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a poste that passeth bye}

geneva@Tob:5:10 @ {\cf2 As a ship that passeth ouer the waues of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither ye path of it in the floods:}

geneva@Tob:5:11 @ {\cf2 Or as a birde that flieth thorow in the ayre, and no man can see any token of her passage, but onely heare the noise of her wings beating the light winde, parting the aire through the vehemencie of her going, and fleeth on shaking her wings, whereas afterward no token of her way can be found:}

geneva@Tob:5:12 @ {\cf2 Or as when an arrow is shot at a marke, it parteth the aire, which immediately cometh together againe, so that a man canot know where it went thorow.}

geneva@Tob:5:13 @ {\cf2 Euen so we, assoone us we were borne, we began to drawe to our ende, & haue shewed no token of vertue, but are cosumed in our owne wickednes.}

geneva@Tob:5:14 @ {\cf2 For the hope of the vngodly is like the dust that is blowen away with the winde, & like a thinne fome that is scattered abroad with ye storme, & as the smoke, which is dispersed with the winde, and as the remembrance of him passeth, that tarieth but for a day.}

geneva@Tob:5:22 @ {\cf2 (5:21) As out of the bent bowe of the cloudes, and out of his anger that throweth stones, shall thicke haile be cast, and the water of the sea shalbe wroth against them, and the floods shall mightily ouerflowe.}

geneva@Tob:6:12 @ {\cf2 Wisedome shineth and neuer fadeth away, and is easily seene of them that loue her, and found of such as seeke her,}

geneva@Tob:6:16 @ {\cf2 For she goeth about, seeking such as are meete for her, and sheweth herselfe cheerefully vnto them in the wayes, and meeteth them in euery thought.}

geneva@Tob:6:18 @ {\cf2 And loue is the keeping of her lawes: and the keeping of ye lawes is the assurance of immortalitie:}

geneva@Tob:7:1 @ {\cf2 I my selfe am also mortall & a man like all other, and am come of him that was first made of the earth.}

geneva@Tob:7:2 @ {\cf2 And in my mothers wombe was I fashioned to be flesh in tenne moneths: I was brought together into blood of the seed of man, and by the pleasure that commeth with sleepe.}

geneva@Tob:7:3 @ {\cf2 And when I was borne, I receiued the common ayre, and fell vpon the earth, which is of like nature, crying & weeping at the first as all other do.}

geneva@Tob:7:4 @ {\cf2 I was nourished in swadling cloths, and with cares.}

geneva@Tob:7:7 @ {\cf2 Wherefore I prayed, and vnderstanding was giuen mee: I called, and the spirit of wisdome came vnto me.}

geneva@Tob:7:12 @ {\cf2 So I was glad in all: for wisdome was the author thereof, and I knewe not that she was the mother of these things.}

geneva@Tob:7:14 @ {\cf2 For she is an infinite treasure vnto men, which who so vse, become partakers of the loue of God, and are accepted for the giftes of knowledge.}

geneva@Tob:7:17 @ {\cf2 For he hath giuen me the true knowledge of the things that are, so that I knowe how the worlde was made, and the powers of the elements,}

geneva@Tob:7:18 @ {\cf2 The beginning & the end, and the mids of the times: how the times alter, & the change of ye seasons,}

geneva@Tob:7:20 @ {\cf2 The nature of liuing things, and the furiousnes of beastes, the power of the windes, and the imaginations of men, the diuersities of plantes, and the vertues of rootes.}

geneva@Tob:7:23 @ {\cf2 Courteous, stable, sure, without care, hauing all power, circumspect in all thinges, and passing through all, intellectuall, pure and subtil spirites.}

geneva@Tob:7:26 @ {\cf2 For she is the brightnesse of the euerlasting light, the vndefiled mirrour of the maiestie of God, and the image of his goodnesse.}

geneva@Tob:8:8 @ {\cf2 If a man desire great experience, she can tell the things that are past, & discerne things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of wordes, and the solution of darke sentences: she foreseeth the signes and wonders, or euer they come to passe, and the successe of seasons and times.}

geneva@Tob:8:13 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, by her I shall obtaine immortalitie, & leaue an euerlasting memoriall among them that come after me.}

geneva@Tob:8:18 @ {\cf2 And great pleasure is in her friendship, and that in the workes of her hands are infinite riches, and that in the exercise of talking with her is prudencie, and glory by communing with her, I went about, seeking how I might take her vnto me.}

geneva@Tob:8:19 @ {\cf2 For I was a wittie childe, and was of a good spirite.}

geneva@Tob:8:21 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles, when I perceiued that I could not enioy her, except God gaue her (and that was a point of wisdome also, to know whose gift it was) I went vnto the Lord, and besought him, and with my whole heart I sayd,}

geneva@Tob:9:1 @ {\cf2 O God of Fathers, and Lorde of mercy, which hast made all things with thy worde,}

geneva@Tob:9:2 @ {\cf2 And ordeined man through thy wisdome, that he should haue dominion ouer the creatures which thou hast made,}

geneva@Tob:9:7 @ {\cf2 Thou hast chosen me to be a King of thy people, and the iudge of thy sonnes and daughters.}

geneva@Tob:9:8 @ {\cf2 Thou hast commanded me to build a temple vpon thine holy Mount, & an altar in ye citie wherein thou dwellest, a likenes of thine holy Tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning,}

geneva@Tob:9:9 @ {\cf2 And thy wisdome with thee, which knoweth thy workes, which also was when thou madest the world, and which knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy commandements.}

geneva@Tob:9:14 @ {\cf2 For the thoughtes of mortall men are fearefull, and our forecastes are vncertaine,}

geneva@Tob:9:18 @ {\cf2 For so the wayes of them which are vpon earth, are reformed, and men are taught the things that are pleasant vnto thee, and are preserued through wisdome.}

geneva@Tob:10:1 @ {\cf2 She preserued the first father of the world, that was formed, and kept him when he was created alone, and brought him out of his offence,}

geneva@Tob:10:4 @ {\cf2 For whose cause the earth was ouerflowen, but wisdome preserued it againe, gouerning the iust man by a litle wood.}

geneva@Tob:10:5 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, when the nations were ioyned in their malicious confederacies, she knew the righteous, & preserued him faultles vnto God, and kept him sure, because she loued him tenderly as a sonne.}

geneva@Tob:10:7 @ {\cf2 Of whose wickednes the waste land that smoketh, yet giueth testimonie, and the trees that beare fruite that neuer commeth to ripenes: and for a remembrance of the vnfaithfull soule, there standeth a pillar of salte.}

geneva@Tob:10:8 @ {\cf2 For al such as regarded not wisdome, had not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good, but also left behinde them vnto men a memoriall of their foolishnes, so that in the things wherein they sinned, they can not lie hid.}

geneva@Tob:10:11 @ {\cf2 Against the couetousnes of such as defrauded him, she stood by him and made him rich.}

geneva@Tob:10:13 @ {\cf2 When the righteous was solde, she forsooke him not, but deliuered him from sinne: she went downe with him into the dungeon,}

geneva@Tob:10:17 @ {\cf2 She gaue the Saints the rewarde of their labours, and led them foorth a marueilous way: on the day time she was a shadowe vnto them, and a light of starres in the night.}

geneva@Tob:11:2 @ {\cf2 They went through the wildernes that was not inhabited, and pitched their tentes in places where there lay no way.}

geneva@Tob:11:4 @ {\cf2 When they were thirstie, they called vpon thee, & water was giuen them out of the hie rocke, and their thirst was quenched out of ye hard stone.}

geneva@Tob:11:6 @ {\cf2 For in steade of a fountaine of running water, the enemies were troubled at the corrupt blood, which was to rebuke the commandement of the killing of the children, but thou gauest vnto thine owne abundance of water vnlooked for,}

geneva@Tob:11:7 @ {\cf2 Declaring by the thirst that was at that time how thou haddest punished thine aduersaries.}

geneva@Tob:11:8 @ {\cf2 For when they were tried and chastised with mercy, they knewe howe the vngodly were iudged and punished in wrath.}

geneva@Tob:11:9 @ {\cf2 For these hast thou exhorted as a father, and proued them: but thou hast condemned ye other as a righteous King, when thou didst examine them.}

geneva@Tob:11:10 @ {\cf2 Whether they were absent or present, their punishment was alike: for their griefe was double with mourning, & the remembrance of things past.}

geneva@Tob:11:12 @ {\cf2 And seeing the things that came to passe, at the last they wondered at him, whom afore they had cast out, denyed and derided: for they had an other thirst then the iust.}

geneva@Tob:11:13 @ {\cf2 Because of the foolish deuices of their wickednes wherewith they were deceiued, & worshipped serpents, that had not the vse of reason, and vile beasts, thou sendedst a multitude of vnreasonable beasts vpon them for a vengeance, that they might know, that wherewith a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.}

geneva@Tob:11:14 @ {\cf2 For vnto thine almightie hande, that made the world of naught, it was not vnpossible to send among them a multitude of beares, or fierce lyons,}

geneva@Tob:11:15 @ {\cf2 Or furious beasts newly created, & vnknowen which should breathe out blastes of fire, & cast out smoke as a tempest, or shoote horrible sparkes like lightnings out of their eyes.}

geneva@Tob:11:17 @ {\cf2 Yea, without these might they haue bene cast downe with one winde, being persecuted by thy vengeance, and scattered abroad through the power of thy Spirite: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, number and weight.}

geneva@Tob:11:18 @ {\cf2 For thou hast euer had great strength and might, and who can withstande the power of thine arme!}

geneva@Tob:11:19 @ {\cf2 For as the small thing that ye balances weigheth, so is the world before thee, and as a drop of the morning dewe, that falleth downe vpon the earth.}

geneva@Tob:11:20 @ {\cf2 But thou hast mercie vpon all for thou hast power of al things, & makest as though thou sawest not the sinnes of men, because they should amend.}

geneva@Tob:11:21 @ {\cf2 For thou louest all things that are, & hatest none of them whome thou hast made: for thou wouldest haue created nothing that thou hadst hated.}

geneva@Tob:12:2 @ {\cf2 Therfore thou chastenest them measurably that go wrong, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance of the things wherein they haue offended, that leauing wickednes, they may beleeue in thee, O Lord.}

geneva@Tob:12:3 @ {\cf2 As for those olde inhabitants of the holy land, thou diddest hate them.}

geneva@Tob:12:4 @ {\cf2 For they committed abominable workes, as sorceries and wicked sacrifices,}

geneva@Tob:12:8 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles, thou sparedst them also as men, and sendedst the forerunners of thine hoste, euen hornets to destroy them by litle and litle,}

geneva@Tob:12:9 @ {\cf2 Not that thou wast vnable to subdue the vngodly vnto ye righteous in battel, or with cruell beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them together.}

geneva@Tob:12:10 @ {\cf2 But in punishing them by litle and litle, thou gauest them space to repent, knowing well, that it was an vnrighteous nation & wicked of nature, and that their thought could neuer be altered.}

geneva@Tob:12:11 @ {\cf2 For it was a cursed seede from the beginning: yet hast thou not spared them when they sinned, because thou fearedst any man.}

geneva@Tob:12:12 @ {\cf2 For who dare say, What hast thou done? Or who dare stand against thy iudgement? Or who dare accuse thee for the nations that perish, whome thou hast made? Or who dare stand against thee to reuenge the wicked men?}

geneva@Tob:12:14 @ {\cf2 There dare neither King nor tyrant in thy sight require accounts of them whome thou hast punished.}

geneva@Tob:12:15 @ {\cf2 For so much then as thou are righteous thy selfe, thou orderest all things righteously, thinking it not agreeable to thy power to condemne him, that hath not deserued to be punished.}

geneva@Tob:12:19 @ {\cf2 By such workes nowe hast thou taught thy people, that a man should be iust and louing, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope: for thou giuest repentance to sinners.}

geneva@Tob:12:20 @ {\cf2 For if thou hast punished the enemies of thy children that had deserued death with so great consideration, & requesting vnto them, giuing them time & place that they might change fro their wickednesse,}

geneva@Tob:12:21 @ {\cf2 With howe great circumspection wilt thou punish thine owne childre, vnto whose fathers thou hast sworne and made couenants of good promises?}

geneva@Tob:12:22 @ {\cf2 So when thou doest chasten vs, thou punishest our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that when we iudge, we shoulde diligently consider thy goodnesse, and when we are iudged, we shoulde hope for mercie.}

geneva@Tob:12:23 @ {\cf2 Wherfore thou hast tormented ye wicked that haue liued a dissolute life by their own imaginatios.}

geneva@Tob:12:24 @ {\cf2 For they went astray very farre in the wayes of errour, and esteemed the beastes, which their enemies despised, for gods, being abused after the maner of children, that haue none vnderstanding.}

geneva@Tob:12:25 @ {\cf2 Therefore hast thou sent this punishment that they should be in derisio as childre without reason.}

geneva@Tob:13:1 @ {\cf2 Svrely all men are vaine by nature, and are ignorant of God, and could not knowe him that is, by the good things that are seene, neither consider by the workes, the worke master.}

geneva@Tob:13:3 @ {\cf2 Though they had such pleasure in their beautie that they thought them gods, yet shoulde they haue knowen, howe much more excellent he is that made them: for the first authour of beautie hath created these things.}

geneva@Tob:13:10 @ {\cf2 But miserable are they, and among the dead is their hope, that call them gods, which are the workes of mens hands, golde, and siluer, & the thing that is inuented by arte, & the similitude of beastes, or any vaine stone that hath bene made by the hand of antiquitie.}

geneva@Tob:13:11 @ {\cf2 Or as when a carpenter cutteth downe a tree meete for the worke, and pareth off all ye barke thereof cunningly, & by arte maketh a vessell profitable for the vse of life.}

geneva@Tob:13:13 @ {\cf2 And that which is left of these things, which is profitable for nothing (for it is a crooked piece of wood and full of knobbes) he carueth it diligently at his leasure, and according as he is expert in cunning, he giueth it a proportion, and facioneth it after the similitude of a man,}

geneva@Tob:13:14 @ {\cf2 Or maketh it like some vile beast, and straketh it ouer with red, and painteth it, and couereth euery spotte that is in it.}

geneva@Tob:13:15 @ {\cf2 And when he hath made a conuenient tabernacle for it, he setteth it in a wall, and maketh it fast with yron,}

geneva@Tob:13:16 @ {\cf2 Prouiding so for it, least it fall: for he knoweth that it cannot helpe it selfe, because it is an image, which hath neede of helpe.}

geneva@Tob:13:17 @ {\cf2 Then he prayeth for his goodes, and for his mariage & for children: he is not ashamed to speake vnto it, that hath no life.}

geneva@Tob:14:1 @ {\cf2 Againe, another man purposing to saile, and intending to passe thorowe the raging waues, calleth vpon a stocke more rotten then the shippe that carieth him.}

geneva@Tob:14:2 @ {\cf2 For as for it, couetousnesse of money hath found it out, & the craftesman made it by cunning.}

geneva@Tob:14:3 @ {\cf2 But thy prouidence, O Father, gouerneth it: for thou hast made a way, euen in the sea, and a sure path among the waues,}

geneva@Tob:14:4 @ {\cf2 Declaring thereby, that thou hast power to helpe in all things, yea, though a man went to the sea without meanes.}

geneva@Tob:14:5 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse thou wouldest not, that the workes of thy wisdome should be vaine, & therfore doe men comit their liues to a small piece of wood, & passe ouer the stormie sea in a ship, and are saued.}

geneva@Tob:14:6 @ {\cf2 For in the olde time also when the proude giants perished, the hope of the worlde went into a ship which was gouerned by thine hand, and so left seede of generation vnto the world.}

geneva@Tob:14:8 @ {\cf2 But that is cursed that is made with hands, both it, and he that made it: he because he made it, and it being a corruptible thing, because it was called God.}

geneva@Tob:14:11 @ {\cf2 For the inuenting of idoles was the beginning of whoredome, and the finding of them is the corruption of life.}

geneva@Tob:14:14 @ {\cf2 When a father mourned grieuously for his sonne that was taken away suddenly, he made an image for him that was once dead, whom nowe he worshippeth as a god, and ordeined to his seruants ceremonies and sacrifices.}

geneva@Tob:14:15 @ {\cf2 Thus by proces of time this wicked custome preuailed, and was kept as a lawe, and idoles were worshipped by the commandement of tyrants.}

geneva@Tob:14:16 @ {\cf2 As for those that were so farre off that men might not worship them presently, they did counterfeit the visage that was farre off, and made a gorgeous image of a King, whom they would honour, that they might by all meanes flatter him that was absent, as though he had bene present.}

geneva@Tob:14:17 @ {\cf2 Againe the ambition of the craftesman thrust forward the ignorant to increase the superstition.}

geneva@Tob:14:18 @ {\cf2 For he peraduenture willing to please a noble man, laboured with all his cunning to make the image of the best fashion.}

geneva@Tob:14:19 @ {\cf2 And so thorowe ye beautie of the worke the multitude was allured, and so tooke him nowe for a God, which a litle afore was but honored as a man.}

geneva@Tob:14:20 @ {\cf2 And this was the deceiuing of mans life, when men, being in seruitude, through calamitie and tyrannie ascribed vnto stones and stockes the name, which ought not to be communicate vnto any.}

geneva@Tob:14:21 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, this was not ynough for the that they erred in the knowledge of God: but where as they liued in great warres of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.}

geneva@Tob:14:23 @ {\cf2 And so kept neither life nor mariage cleane: but either one slewe another by treason, or els vexed him by adulterie.}

geneva@Tob:14:28 @ {\cf2 For in so much as their trust is in the idoles, which haue no life, though they sweare falsely, yet they thinke to haue no hurt.}

geneva@Tob:15:8 @ {\cf2 So by his wicked labour he maketh a vaine God of the same clay: euen he, which a litle afore was made of earth himselfe, and within a litle while after goeth thither againe whence he was taken, when he shall make account for ye lone of his life.}

geneva@Tob:15:10 @ {\cf2 His heart is ashes, & his hope is more vile then earth, & his life is lesse worthy of honour then clay.}

geneva@Tob:15:12 @ {\cf2 But they count our life to be but a pastime, and our conuersation as a market, where there is gaine: for they say we ought to be getting on euery side, though it be by euill meanes.}

geneva@Tob:15:18 @ {\cf2 Yea, they worshipped beastes also, which are their most enemies, and which are the worst, if they be compared vnto others, because they haue none vnderstanding.}

geneva@Tob:15:19 @ {\cf2 Neither haue they any beautie to be desired in respect of other beastes: for they are destitute of Gods praise, and of his blessing.}

geneva@Tob:16:1 @ {\cf2 Therefore by such things they are worthily punished & tormented by ye multitude of beasts.}

geneva@Tob:16:2 @ {\cf2 In stead of the which punishment thou hast bene fauourable to thy people, and to satisfie their appetite, hast prepared a meat of a strange tast, euen quailes,}

geneva@Tob:16:3 @ {\cf2 To the intent that they that desired meat, by the things which were shewed & sent among them, might turne away their necessary desire, and that they, which had suffred penurie for a space, shoulde also feele a newe taste.}

geneva@Tob:16:4 @ {\cf2 For it was requisite, that they which vsed tyrannie, should fall into extreeme pouertie, and that to these onely it should be shewed, howe their enemies were tormented.}

geneva@Tob:16:5 @ {\cf2 For when the cruell fiercenes of the beasts came vpon them, & they were hurt with the stinges of cruell serpents,}

geneva@Tob:16:6 @ {\cf2 Thy wrath indured not perpetually, but they were troubled for a litle season, that they might bee reformed, hauing a signe of saluation, to remember the commandement of thy Lawe.}

geneva@Tob:16:7 @ {\cf2 For he that turned toward it, was not healed by the thing that he sawe, but by thee, O Sauiour of all.}

geneva@Tob:16:9 @ {\cf2 For the biting of grashoppers and flies killed them, and there was no remedie found for their life: for they were worthy to be punished by such.}

geneva@Tob:16:11 @ {\cf2 For they were pricked, because they should remember thy woordes, and were speedily healed, least they should fal into so deepe forgetfulnes, that they could not be called backe by thy benefite.}

geneva@Tob:16:12 @ {\cf2 For neither herbe nor plaster healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.}

geneva@Tob:16:13 @ {\cf2 For thou hast the power of life and death, and leadest downe vnto the gates of hell, & bringest vp againe.}

geneva@Tob:16:17 @ {\cf2 For it was a wonderous thing that fire might doe more then water, which quencheth all things: but the world is the auenger of the righteous.}

geneva@Tob:16:18 @ {\cf2 For sometime was the fire so tame, that the beasts, which were sent against the vngodly, burnt not: and that, because they should see & know, that they were persecuted with the punishment of God.}

geneva@Tob:16:20 @ {\cf2 In the steade whereof thou hast fed thine owne people with Angels foode, and sent them bread readie from heauen without their labour, which had aboundance of al pleasures in it and was meete for all tastes.}

geneva@Tob:16:21 @ {\cf2 For thy sustenance declared thy sweetenesse vnto thy children, which serued to the appetite of him, that tooke it, and was meete to that that euery man would.}

geneva@Tob:16:24 @ {\cf2 For the creature that serueth thee which art the maker, is fierce in punishing the vnrighteous: but it is easie to doe good vnto such as put their trust in thee.}

geneva@Tob:16:25 @ {\cf2 Therefore was it changed at the same time vnto all facions to serue thy grace, which nourisheth all things, according to the desire of them that had neede thereof,}

geneva@Tob:16:26 @ {\cf2 That thy children whome thou louest, O Lorde, might knowe, that it is not the increase of fruites that feedeth men, but that it is thy woorde, which preserueth them that trust in thee.}

geneva@Tob:16:29 @ {\cf2 For the hope of the vnthankfull shall melt as the winter yce, and flowe away as vnprofitable waters.}

geneva@Tob:17:2 @ {\cf2 For when the vnrighteous thought to haue thine holy people in subiection, they were bounde with the bandes of darkenesse, and long night, and being shut vp vnder the roofe, did lie there to escape the euerlasting prouidence.}

geneva@Tob:17:7 @ {\cf2 And the illusions of the magical artes were brought downe, & it was a most shamefull reproch for the boasting of their knowledge.}

geneva@Tob:17:9 @ {\cf2 And though no fearful thing did feare them, yet were they afraide at the beasts which passed by them, and at the hissing of the serpents: so that they died for feare, and sayd they saw not the aire, which by no meanes can be auoided.}

geneva@Tob:17:10 @ {\cf2 For it is a feareful thing, when malice is condemned by her owne testimonie: and a conscience that is touched, doeth euer forecast cruell things.}

geneva@Tob:17:11 @ {\cf2 For feare is nothing els, but a betraying of the succours, which reason offreth.}

geneva@Tob:17:13 @ {\cf2 But they that did endure the night that was intolerable, and that came out of the dungeon of hell, which is insupportable, slept the same sleepe,}

geneva@Tob:17:14 @ {\cf2 And sometimes were troubled with monstruous visions, and sometime they swooned, as though their owne soule should betraie them: for a sudden feare not looked for, came vpon them.}

geneva@Tob:17:15 @ {\cf2 And thus, whosoeuer fell downe, he was kept and shut in prison, but without chaines.}

geneva@Tob:17:16 @ {\cf2 For whether hee was an husband man, or a shepheard, or one that was set to worke alone, if he were taken, hee must suffer this necessitie, that hee could not auoide:}

geneva@Tob:17:17 @ {\cf2 (For with one chaine of darkenesse were they all bounde) whether it were an hissing winde, or a sweete song of the birdes among the thicke branches of the trees, or the vehemencie of hastie running water,}

geneva@Tob:17:18 @ {\cf2 Or a great noyse of the falling downe of stones, or the running of skipping beastes, that coulde not be seene, or the noise of cruell beastes, that roared, or the sounde that answereth againe in the holowe mountaines: these fearefull thinges made them to swoone.}

geneva@Tob:17:19 @ {\cf2 For al the world shined with cleare light, and no man was hindred in his labour.}

geneva@Tob:17:20 @ {\cf2 Onely vpon them there fell an heauie night, an image of that darkenesse that was to come vpon them: yea, they were vnto themselues more grieuous then darkenesse.}

geneva@Tob:18:2 @ {\cf2 And because they did not hurt them, which did hurt them afore, they thanked them, and asked pardon for their enimitie,}

geneva@Tob:18:5 @ {\cf2 Whereas they thought to slay the babes of the Saints, by one childe that was cast out, and preserued to reprooue them, thou hast taken away the multitude of their children and destroied them all together in the mightie water.}

geneva@Tob:18:8 @ {\cf2 For as thou hast punished the enemies, so hast thou glorified vs whome thou hast called.}

geneva@Tob:18:10 @ {\cf2 But a disagreeing crie was hearde of the enemies, and there was a lamentable noise for the children that were bewailed.}

geneva@Tob:18:12 @ {\cf2 So they all together had innumerable that died with one kinde of death: neither were ye liuing sufficient to burie them: for in the twinckling of an eye the noblest offspring of them was destroied.}

geneva@Tob:18:14 @ {\cf2 For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the middest of her swift course,}

geneva@Tob:18:15 @ {\cf2 Thine almighty woorde leapt downe from heauen out of thy royall throne, as a fierce man of warre in the middes of the lande that was destroied,}

geneva@Tob:18:16 @ {\cf2 And brought thine vnfained commaundement as a sharpe sworde, and stoode vp and filled all thinges with death, and being come downe to the earth, it reached vnto the heauens.}

geneva@Tob:18:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe tentation of death touched the righteous also, and among the multitude in the wildernesse there was a plague, but the wrath indured not long.}

geneva@Tob:18:21 @ {\cf2 For the blameles man made haste, and defended them, and tooke the weapons of his ministration, euen prayer, and the reconciliation by the perfume, and set himselfe against the wrath, and so brought the miserie to an ende, declaring that hee was thy seruaunt.}

geneva@Tob:18:24 @ {\cf2 For in the long garment was all the ornament, and in the foure rowes of the stones was the glory of the fathers grauen with thy maiestie in the diademe of his head.}

geneva@Tob:18:25 @ {\cf2 Vnto these the destroier gaue place, and was afraide of them: for it was sufficient, that they had tasted the wrath.}

geneva@Tob:19:1 @ {\cf2 As for the vngodly, the wrath came vpon them without mercy vnto the ende: for hee knewe what should come vnto them,}

geneva@Tob:19:3 @ {\cf2 For while yet sorowe was before them, and they lamented by the graues of the dead, they deuised another foolishnesse, so that they persecuted them in their fleeing, whome they had cast out afore with praier.}

geneva@Tob:19:4 @ {\cf2 For the destinie, whereof they were worthy, brought them to this ende, and caused them toforget the things that had come to passe, that they might accomplish the punishment, which remained by torments,}

geneva@Tob:19:5 @ {\cf2 Both that thy people might trie a marueilous passage, and that these might finde a strange death.}

geneva@Tob:19:6 @ {\cf2 For euery creature in his kinde was facioned of newe, and serued in their owne offices inioyned them, that thy children might be kept without hurt.}

geneva@Tob:19:7 @ {\cf2 For the cloude ouershadowed their tentes, and the drye earth appeared, where afore was water: so that in the red sea there was a way without impediment, and the great deepe became a greene fielde.}

geneva@Tob:19:11 @ {\cf2 But at the last they sawe a newe generation of birdes, when they were intised with lust, and desired delicate meates.}

geneva@Tob:19:16 @ {\cf2 Therefore they were stricken with blindnes, as in olde time certeine were at the doores of the righteous, so that euery one being compassed with darknesse, sought the entrance of his doore.}

geneva@Tob:19:17 @ {\cf2 Thus the elements agreed among themselues in this change, as when one tune is changed vpon an instrument of musike, and the melodie still remaineth, which may easily be perceiued by the sight of the things that are come to passe.}

geneva@Tob:19:20 @ {\cf2 Againe, the flames did not hurt ye flesh of the corruptible beasts that walked therein, neither melted they that which seemed to be yce, & was of a nature that would melt, and yet was an immortall meate.}

geneva@Tob:19:21 @ {\cf2 For in all things, O Lord, thou hast magnified and glorified thy people, and hast not despised to assist them in euery time and place.}

geneva@Sir:1:2 @ {\cf2 Who can number the sand of the sea, and the droppes of the raine, and the dayes of the worlde? who can measure the height of heauen, the bredth of the earth, and the depth?}

geneva@Sir:1:4 @ {\cf2 Wisdome hath bene created before al things, and ye vnderstanding of prudence from euerlasting.}

geneva@Sir:1:5 @ {\cf2 The word of God most high is the fountaine of wisdome, and the euerlasting commandements are the entrance vnto her.}

geneva@Sir:1:9 @ {\cf2 He is the Lord, that hath created her thorow the holy Ghost: he hath seene her, numbred her, and measured her.}

geneva@Sir:1:13 @ {\cf2 Who so feareth the Lord, it shall go well with him at the last, and he shall finde fauour in the day of his death.}

geneva@Sir:1:15 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisdome, and was made with the faithfull in the wombe: she goeth with the chosen women, and is knowen with the righteous and faithfull.}

geneva@Sir:1:19 @ {\cf2 She hath built her euerlasting foundations with men, and is giuen to be with their seede.}

geneva@Sir:1:25 @ {\cf2 In the treasures of wisedome is vnderstanding, and holy knowledge, but wisdome is abhorred of sinners.}

geneva@Sir:1:27 @ {\cf2 For wicked anger cannot be iustified: for his rashnes in his anger shall be his destruction.}

geneva@Sir:1:30 @ {\cf2 In the treasures of wisdome are the secrets of knowledge, but ye sinner abhorreth ye worship of God.}

geneva@Sir:1:31 @ {\cf2 If thou desire wisdome, keepe the commandements, and the Lord shall giue her vnto thee, and will fill her treasures.}

geneva@Sir:1:32 @ {\cf2 For the feare of ye Lord is wisdome and discipline: he hath pleasure in faith and meekenesse.}

geneva@Sir:1:35 @ {\cf2 Exalt not thy selfe, least thou fall and bring thy soule to dishonour, and so God discouer thy secrets, and cast thee downe in the middes of the congregation, because thou wouldest not receiue ye true feare of God, and thine heart is full of deceite.}

geneva@Sir:2:1 @ {\cf2 My sonne, if thou wilt come into the seruice of God, stand fast in righteousnesse and feare, and prepare thy soule to tentation.}

geneva@Sir:2:2 @ {\cf2 Settle thine heart, and be patient: bowe downe thine eare, and receiue the wordes of vnderstanding, and shrinke not away, when thou art assayled, but waite vpon God patiently.}

geneva@Sir:2:3 @ {\cf2 Ioyne thy selfe vnto him, and depart not away, that thou mayest be increased at thy last end.}

geneva@Sir:2:5 @ {\cf2 For as gold and siluer are tryed in the fire, eue so are men acceptable in ye fornace of aduersitie.}

geneva@Sir:2:6 @ {\cf2 Beleeue in God, and he will helpe thee: order thy way aright, and trust in him: hold fast his feare, and growe olde therein.}

geneva@Sir:2:9 @ {\cf2 O ye that feare ye Lorde, trust in good things, and in the euerlasting ioy and mercie.}

geneva@Sir:2:11 @ {\cf2 Consider the olde generations of men, ye children, and marke them well: was there euer any confounded, that put his trust in the Lorde? or who hath continued in his feare, & was forsaken? or whom did he euer despise, that called vpon him?}

geneva@Sir:2:17 @ {\cf2 They that feare the Lorde, will seeke out the things that are pleasant vnto him: and they that loue him, shalbe fulfilled with his Lawe.}

geneva@Sir:2:21 @ {\cf2 Yet as his greatnesse is, so is his mercie.}

geneva@Sir:3:5 @ {\cf2 And hee that honoureth his mother, is like one that gathereth treasure.}

geneva@Sir:3:8 @ {\cf2 He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, & doeth seruice vnto his parents, as vnto lords.}

geneva@Sir:3:13 @ {\cf2 My sonne, helpe thy father in his age, and grieue him not as long as he liueth.}

geneva@Sir:3:16 @ {\cf2 And in the day of trouble thou shalt bee remembred: thy sinnes also shall melt away as the yce in the faire weather.}

geneva@Sir:3:22 @ {\cf2 Seeke not out the things that are too harde for thee, neither searche the things rashly which are too mightie for thee.}

geneva@Sir:3:26 @ {\cf2 Thou canst not see without eyes: professe not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.}

geneva@Sir:3:27 @ {\cf2 A stubberne heart shall fare euill at the last: and he that loueth danger, shall perish therein.}

geneva@Sir:3:30 @ {\cf2 The perswasion of the proude is without remedie, and his steppes shall be plucked vp: for the plant of sinne hath taken roote in him, and he shal not be esteemed.}

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:4:10 @ {\cf2 Be as a father vnto the fatherlesse, and as an husbande vnto their mother: so shalt thou be as the sonne of the most High: and he shal loue thee more then thy mother doeth.}

geneva@Sir:4:18 @ {\cf2 Then will shee returne the streight way vnto him, and comfort him, and shewe him her secretes, and heape vpon him the treasures of knowledge, and vnderstanding of righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:4:21 @ {\cf2 And be not ashamed to say the trueth for thy life: for there is a shame that bringeth sinne, and a shame that bringeth worship and fauour.}

geneva@Sir:4:24 @ {\cf2 For by the talke is wisdome knowen, and learning by the woordes of the tongue, and counsel, wisdom and learning by the talking of the wise, and stedfastnes in the workes of righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:4:25 @ {\cf2 In no wise speake against the word of truth, but be ashamed of the lies of thine owne ignorace.}

geneva@Sir:4:26 @ {\cf2 Be not ashamed to confesse thy sinnes, and resist not the course of the riuer.}

geneva@Sir:4:29 @ {\cf2 Bee not hastie in thy tongue, neither slacke and negligent in thy woorkes.}

geneva@Sir:4:30 @ {\cf2 Be not as a Lyon in thine owne house, neither beate thy seruauntes for thy fantasie, nor oppresse them that are vnder thee.}

geneva@Sir:5:10 @ {\cf2 Stande fast in thy sure vnderstanding and in the way and knowledge of the Lord and haue but one maner of word, and follow the word of peace and righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:5:13 @ {\cf2 If thou hast vnderstanding, answer thy neighbour: if not, laie thine hande vpon thy mouth, least thou be trapped in an vndiscrete woorde, and so be blamed.}

geneva@Sir:5:16 @ {\cf2 Doe not rashly, neither in small thinges nor in great.}

geneva@Sir:6:1 @ {\cf2 Be not of a friend thy neighbours enemie: for such shal haue an euil name, shame and reproch, and he shall be in infamie as the wicked that hath a double tongue.}

geneva@Sir:6:2 @ {\cf2 Bee not proude in the deuice of thine owne minde, least thy soule rent thee as a bull,}

geneva@Sir:6:3 @ {\cf2 And eate vp thy leaues, & destroy thy fruite, and so thou be left as a drie tree in the wildernes.}

geneva@Sir:6:5 @ {\cf2 A sweete talke multiplieth the friendes and pacifieth them that bee at variance, and a sweete tongue increaseth much good talke.}

geneva@Sir:6:7 @ {\cf2 If thou gettest a friend, prooue him first, and be not hastie to credite him.}

geneva@Sir:6:8 @ {\cf2 For some man is a friend for his owne occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.}

geneva@Sir:6:11 @ {\cf2 But in thy prosperitie he will be as thou thy selfe, and wil vse libertie ouer thy seruants.}

geneva@Sir:6:14 @ {\cf2 A faithfull friend is a strong defence, and he that findeth such one, findeth a treasure.}

geneva@Sir:6:17 @ {\cf2 Who so feareth the Lorde, shall direct his friendship aright, and as his owne selfe, so shall his friende be.}

geneva@Sir:6:19 @ {\cf2 Goe to her as one that ploweth, and soweth, and wayte for her good fruites: for thou shalt haue but litle labour in her worke: but thou shalt eate of her fruites right soone.}

geneva@Sir:6:21 @ {\cf2 Vnto such one shee is as a fine touchstone, and he casteth her from him without delay.}

geneva@Sir:6:28 @ {\cf2 Seeke after her, and search her, and shee shal be shewed thee: and when thou hast gotten her, forsake her not.}

geneva@Sir:6:29 @ {\cf2 For at the last thou shalt finde rest in her, & that shalbe turned to thy ioy.}

geneva@Sir:6:32 @ {\cf2 Thou shalt put her on as a robe of honour, and shalt put her vpon thee, as a crowne of ioy.}

geneva@Sir:7:4 @ {\cf2 Aske not of the Lord preeminence, neyther of the king the seate of honour.}

geneva@Sir:7:5 @ {\cf2 Iustifie not thy selfe before the Lord: for he knoweth thine heart, and boast not thy wisedome in the presence of the king.}

geneva@Sir:7:6 @ {\cf2 Seeke not to be made a Iudge, least thou be not able to take away iniquitie, and least thou, fearing the person of the mightie, shouldest committe an offence against thine vprightnes.}

geneva@Sir:7:7 @ {\cf2 Offende not against the multitude of a citie, and cast not thy selfe among the people.}

geneva@Sir:7:20 @ {\cf2 Whereas thy seruant worketh truely, intreate him not euil, nor the hireling that bestoweth himselfe wholly for thee.}

geneva@Sir:7:28 @ {\cf2 Remember that thou wast borne of them, & how canst thou recompence them the things that they haue done for thee?}

geneva@Sir:7:31 @ {\cf2 Feare the Lord with all thy soule, & honour the Priestes, and giue them their portion, as it is commanded thee, the first fruites, & purifications & sacrifices for sinne, & the offrings of the shoulders, and the sacrifices of sanctification, and the first fruites of the holy things.}

geneva@Sir:7:33 @ {\cf2 Liberalitie pleaseth all men liuing, & from the dead restraine it not.}

geneva@Sir:7:34 @ {\cf2 Let not them that weepe, be without comfort: but mourne with such as mourne.}

geneva@Sir:8:1 @ {\cf2 Striue not with a mightie man, least thou fal into his handes.}

geneva@Sir:8:4 @ {\cf2 Play not with a man that is vntaught, least thy kinred be dishonoured.}

geneva@Sir:8:5 @ {\cf2 Despise not a man that turneth himselfe away from sinne, nor cast him not in the teeth withall, but remember that we are all worthy blame.}

geneva@Sir:8:6 @ {\cf2 Dishonour not a man in his olde age: for they were as we which are not olde.}

geneva@Sir:8:10 @ {\cf2 Kindle not the coles of sinners, when thou rebukest them, least thou be burnt in the fyerie flames of their sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:8:11 @ {\cf2 Rise not vp against him that doeth wrong, that he lay not wayte as a spie for thy mouth.}

geneva@Sir:8:15 @ {\cf2 Trauaile not by the way with him that is rash, least he doe thee iniurie: for he followeth his owne wilfulnesse, and so shalt thou perish through his follie.}

geneva@Sir:8:16 @ {\cf2 Striue not with him that is angry, and goe not with him into the wildernesse: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no helpe, he will ouerthrow thee.}

geneva@Sir:8:19 @ {\cf2 Open not thine heart vnto euery man, least he be vnthankful to thee, & put thee to reprofe.}

geneva@Sir:9:3 @ {\cf2 Meete not an harlot, least thou fall into her snares.}

geneva@Sir:9:4 @ {\cf2 Vse not the companie of a woman that is a singer, and a dancer, neither heare her, least thou be taken by her craftines.}

geneva@Sir:9:6 @ {\cf2 Cast not thy minde vpon harlots in any maner of thing, least thou destroy both thy selfe and thine heritage.}

geneva@Sir:9:8 @ {\cf2 Turne away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and looke not vpon others beautie: for many haue perished by the beautie of women: for through it loue is kindled as a fire.}

geneva@Sir:9:9 @ {\cf2 Euery woman that is an harlot, shalbe troden vnder foote as dongue, of euery one that goeth by the way.}

geneva@Sir:9:10 @ {\cf2 Many wondering at the beautie of a strange woman, haue bene cast out: for her wordes burne as a fire.}

geneva@Sir:9:12 @ {\cf2 Forsake not an olde friende: for the newe shal not be like him: a newe friend is as newe wine: when it is olde, thou shalt drinke it with pleasure.}

geneva@Sir:9:14 @ {\cf2 Delite not in the thing that ye vngodly haue pleasure in, but remember that they shall not bee found iust vnto their graue.}

geneva@Sir:9:15 @ {\cf2 Keepe thee from the man that hath power to slay: so shalt thou not doubt the feare of death: and if thou come vnto him, make no fault, least he take away thy life: remember that thou goest in the middes of snares, and that thou walkest vpon the towres of the citie.}

geneva@Sir:9:16 @ {\cf2 Trye thy neighbour as neere as thou canst, and aske counsell of the wise.}

geneva@Sir:9:20 @ {\cf2 A man ful of words is dangerous in his citie, and he that is rash in his talking, shalbe hated.}

geneva@Sir:10:2 @ {\cf2 As the iudge of the people is him selfe, so are his officers, and what maner of man the ruler of the citie is, such are all they that dwell therein.}

geneva@Sir:10:9 @ {\cf2 There is nothing woorse then a couetous man: why art thou proude, O earth and ashes? there is not a more wicked thing, then to loue money: for such one woulde euen sell his soule, and for his life euery man is compelled to pull out his owne bowels.}

geneva@Sir:10:10 @ {\cf2 All tyrannie is of small indurance, and the disease that is hard to heale, is grieuous to the physition.}

geneva@Sir:10:11 @ {\cf2 The physition cutteth off the sore disease, and he that is to day a king, to morowe is dead.}

geneva@Sir:10:12 @ {\cf2 Why is earth and ashes proude, seeing that when a man dieth, he is the heire of serpents, beastes and wormes?}

geneva@Sir:10:14 @ {\cf2 For pride is the original of sinne, and he that hath it, shall powre out abomination, till at last he be ouerthrowen: therefore the Lorde bringeth the perswasions of the wicked to dishonour, and destroyeth them in the ende.}

geneva@Sir:10:15 @ {\cf2 The Lord hath cast downe the thrones of the proude princes, and set vp the meeke in their steade.}

geneva@Sir:10:17 @ {\cf2 The Lorde ouerthroweth the landes of the heathen, and destroyeth them vnto the foundations of the earth: hee causeth them to wither away, and destroyeth them, and maketh their memoriall to cease out of the earth.}

geneva@Sir:10:19 @ {\cf2 Pride was not created in men, neither wrath in the generation of women.}

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:10:27 @ {\cf2 Seeke not excuses when thou shouldest doe thy worke, neither bee ashamed thereof through pride in the time of aduersitie.}

geneva@Sir:10:29 @ {\cf2 My sonne, get thy selfe prayse by meekenes, and esteeme thy selfe as thou deseruest.}

geneva@Sir:11:3 @ {\cf2 The Bee is but smal among the foules, yet doeth her fruit passe in sweetenesse.}

geneva@Sir:11:8 @ {\cf2 Giue no sentence, before thou hast heard the cause, neither interrupt men in the middes of their tales.}

geneva@Sir:11:9 @ {\cf2 Striue not for a matter that thou hast not to do with, and sit not in the iudgement of sinners.}

geneva@Sir:11:11 @ {\cf2 There is some man that laboureth and taketh paine, and the more hee hasteth, the more hee wanteth.}

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:11:23 @ {\cf2 Say not, What profite and pleasure shall I haue? and what good things shall I haue hereafter?}

geneva@Sir:11:26 @ {\cf2 For it is an easie thing vnto the Lorde in the day of death to rewarde a man according to his wayes.}

geneva@Sir:11:27 @ {\cf2 The aduersitie of an houre maketh one to forget pleasure: and in a mans ende, his workes are discouered.}

geneva@Sir:11:30 @ {\cf2 As a partriche is taken vnder a basket, and the hind is taken in the snare, so is the heart of the proud man, which like a spie watcheth for thy fall.}

geneva@Sir:11:32 @ {\cf2 Of one litle sparke is made a great fire, and of one deceitfull man is blood increased: for a sinfull man laieth waite for blood.}

geneva@Sir:12:4 @ {\cf2 Giue vnto such as feare God, and receiue not a sinner.}

geneva@Sir:12:5 @ {\cf2 Doe well vnto him that is lowly, but giue not to the vngodly: holde backe thy bread, and giue it not vnto him, least he ouercome thee thereby: else thou shalt receiue twise as much euill for all the good that thou doest vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:12:10 @ {\cf2 Trust neuer thine enemie: for like as an yron rusteth, so doeth his wickednesse.}

geneva@Sir:12:11 @ {\cf2 And though hee make much crouching and kneeling, yet aduise thy selfe, and beware of him, and thou shalt be to him, as he that wipeth a glasse, and thou shalt knowe that all his rust hath not bin well wiped away.}

geneva@Sir:12:12 @ {\cf2 Set him not by thee, least hee destroy thee, and stand in thy place.}

geneva@Sir:12:13 @ {\cf2 Neither set him at thy right hande, least hee seeke thy rowme, and thou at the last remember my words, and be pricked with my sayings.}

geneva@Sir:12:15 @ {\cf2 Who will haue pitie of the charmer, that is stinged of the serpent? or of all such as come neere the beastes? so is it with him that keepeth companie with a wicked man, and wrappeth him selfe in his sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:12:16 @ {\cf2 For a season wil he bide with thee: but if thou stumble, he tarieth not.}

geneva@Sir:13:7 @ {\cf2 Thus will he shame thee in his meate, vntill he haue supt thee cleane vp twise or thrise, and at the last hee will laugh thee to scorne: afterwarde, when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee.}

geneva@Sir:13:11 @ {\cf2 Preasse not thou vnto him, that thou be not shut out, but go not thou far off, lest he forget thee.}

geneva@Sir:13:16 @ {\cf2 Euery beast loueth his like, and euery man loueth his neighbour.}

geneva@Sir:13:17 @ {\cf2 Al flesh wil resort to their like, & euery man wil keepe company with such as he is himselfe.}

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:14:5 @ {\cf2 He that is wicked vnto himselfe, to whome will he be good? for such one can haue no pleasure of his goods.}

geneva@Sir:14:7 @ {\cf2 And if he do any good, he doth it, not knowing thereof, and against his will, and at the last he declareth his wickednes.}

geneva@Sir:14:11 @ {\cf2 My sonne, do good to thy selfe of that thou hast, and giue the Lord his due offrings.}

geneva@Sir:14:14 @ {\cf2 Defraude not thy selfe of the good day, & let not the portion of the good desires ouerpasse thee.}

geneva@Sir:14:17 @ {\cf2 All flesh waxeth olde, as a garment, and this is the condition of all times, Thou shalt die the death.}

geneva@Sir:14:18 @ {\cf2 As the greene leaues on a thicke tree, some fall, & some growe, so is the generation of flesh and blood: one cometh to an end, & another is borne.}

geneva@Sir:14:21 @ {\cf2 Blessed is the man that doeth meditate honest things by wisedome, and exerciseth himselfe in iustice, and he that reasoneth of holy things by his vnderstanding,}

geneva@Sir:14:23 @ {\cf2 Goe thou after her as one that seeketh her out, and lye in wayte in her wayes.}

geneva@Sir:14:25 @ {\cf2 He shall abide beside her house, and fasten a stake in her walles: he shal pitch his tent besides her}

geneva@Sir:15:2 @ {\cf2 As an honorable mother shal shee meete him, and she, as his wife maryed of a virgine, wil receyue him.}

geneva@Sir:15:4 @ {\cf2 He shal assure himselfe in her, & shall not be moued, and shal holde himselfe fast by her, and shal not be confounded.}

geneva@Sir:15:6 @ {\cf2 Shee shall cause him to inherite ioy, and the crowne of gladnes, and an euerlasting name.}

geneva@Sir:15:7 @ {\cf2 But foolish men wil not take hold vpon her: but such as haue vnderstanding, wil meete her: the sinners shal not see her.}

geneva@Sir:16:4 @ {\cf2 For by one that hath vnderstanding, shal the citie be inhabited: but the stocke of the wicked shalbe wasted incontinently.}

geneva@Sir:16:8 @ {\cf2 Neither spared he where as Lot dwelt, those whome he abhorred for their pride.}

geneva@Sir:16:10 @ {\cf2 And so he preserued the sixe hudreth thousand footemen, that were gathered in the hardnesse of their heart, in afflicting them and pitying them, in smiting them and healing them, with mercie, and with chastisement.}

geneva@Sir:16:11 @ {\cf2 Therefore if there be one stifnecked among the people, it is marueile if he scape vnpunished: for mercy & wrath are with him: he is mightie to forgiue, and to powre out displeasure.}

geneva@Sir:16:12 @ {\cf2 As his mercy is great, so is his punishment also he iudgeth a man according to his workes.}

geneva@Sir:16:23 @ {\cf2 He that is humble of heart, wil cosider these things: but an vnwise and erronious man casteth his minde vpon foolish things.}

geneva@Sir:16:27 @ {\cf2 He hath garnished his workes for euer, and their beginnings so long as they shall endure, they are not hungrie nor wearyed in their labours, nor cease from their offices.}

geneva@Sir:16:28 @ {\cf2 None of them hindreth another, neither was any of them disobedient vnto his wordes.}

geneva@Sir:16:30 @ {\cf2 With all maner of liuing beastes hath he couered the face thereof, and they returne into it againe.}

geneva@Sir:17:3 @ {\cf2 Hee clothed them with strength, as they had neede, and made them according to his image.}

geneva@Sir:17:4 @ {\cf2 He made all flesh to feare him, so that he had the dominion ouer the beastes, and foules.}

geneva@Sir:17:8 @ {\cf2 And gaue them occasion to reioyce perpetually in his miracles, that they should prudently declare his works, and that the elect should prayse his holy Name together.}

geneva@Sir:17:10 @ {\cf2 He made an euerlasting couenant with the, and shewed them his iudgements.}

geneva@Sir:17:16 @ {\cf2 And he did chuse Israel, as a peculiar people to himselfe, whom he nourisheth with discipline as his first borne, and giueth him most louing light, and doeth not forsake him.}

geneva@Sir:17:17 @ {\cf2 All their workes are as the sunne before him, and his eyes are continually vpon their wayes.}

geneva@Sir:17:19 @ {\cf2 And as he is merciful, & knoweth his worke, hee doeth not leaue them nor forsake them, but spareth them.}

geneva@Sir:17:20 @ {\cf2 The almes of a man, is as a thing sealed vp before him, & he keepeth the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and giueth repentance to their sonnes, and daughters.}

geneva@Sir:17:21 @ {\cf2 At the last shal he arise, and reward them, and shall repay their reward vpon their heads.}

geneva@Sir:17:22 @ {\cf2 But vnto them that will repent, he giueth them grace to returne, and exhorteth such as faile, with patience, and sendeth them the portion of the veritie.}

geneva@Sir:17:25 @ {\cf2 Knowe the righteousnesse and iudgements of God: stande in ye portio that is set forth for thee, and in the prayer of the most high God, and goe in the parts of the holy worlde with such as be liuing and confesse God.}

geneva@Sir:17:26 @ {\cf2 Who can prayse the most High in the hell, as doe all they that liue and confesse him?}

geneva@Sir:17:28 @ {\cf2 Thankefulnesse perisheth from the dead, as though he were not: but the liuing, and he that is sounde of heart, prayseth the Lord, and reioyceth in his mercy.}

geneva@Sir:17:29 @ {\cf2 How great is the louing kindnes of the Lord our God, and his compassion vnto such as turne vnto him in holines!}

geneva@Sir:17:30 @ {\cf2 For all things can not be in men, because the sonne of man is not immortal, and they take pleasure in the vanitie of wickednesse.}

geneva@Sir:17:33 @ {\cf2 He seeth the power of the high heauen, and all men are but earth and ashes.}

geneva@Sir:18:5 @ {\cf2 As for the wonderous workes of the Lorde, there may nothing bee taken from them, neither can any thing bee put vnto them, neither may the ground of them be found out.}

geneva@Sir:18:9 @ {\cf2 As droppes of raine are vnto the sea, and as a grauel stone is in comparison of the sand, so are a thousand yeres to the dayes euerlasting.}

geneva@Sir:18:11 @ {\cf2 He sawe and perceiued, that the arrogancie of their heart, and their ruine was euill: therefore heaped hee vp his mercie vpon them, and shewed them the way of righteousnesse.}

geneva@Sir:18:12 @ {\cf2 The mercie that a man hath, reacheth to his neighbour: but the mercy of the Lorde is vpon all flesh: he chasteneth, and nurtureth, and teacheth, and bringeth backe, as a shepheard his flocke.}

geneva@Sir:18:15 @ {\cf2 Shall not the dewe asswage the heate? so is a word better then a gift.}

geneva@Sir:18:22 @ {\cf2 Before thou prayest, prepare thy selfe, and be not as one that tempteth the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:18:24 @ {\cf2 When thou hast inough, remember the time of hunger: and when thou art rich, thinke vpon pouertie and neede.}

geneva@Sir:18:32 @ {\cf2 Take not thy pleasure in great voluptuousnes, and intangle not thy selfe with such company.}

geneva@Sir:18:33 @ {\cf2 Become not a begger by making bankets of that that thou hast borrowed, and so leaue nothing in thy purse: else thou shouldest slaunderously lye in waite for thine owne life.}

geneva@Sir:19:4 @ {\cf2 Hee that is hastie to giue credite, is light minded, and hee that erreth, sinneth against his owne soule.}

geneva@Sir:19:5 @ {\cf2 Who so reioyceth in wickednesse, shall be punished: he that hateth to be reformed, his life shall bee shortened, and hee that abhorreth babbling of wordes, quencheth wickednesse: but hee that resisteth pleasures, crowneth his owne soule.}

geneva@Sir:19:10 @ {\cf2 If thou hast heard a worde against thy neighbour let it die with thee, and bee sure, it will not burst thee.}

geneva@Sir:19:11 @ {\cf2 A foole trauaileth when hee hath heard a thing, as a woman that is about to bring forth a childe.}

geneva@Sir:19:12 @ {\cf2 As an arrowe that sticketh in ones thigh, so is a word in a fooles heart.}

geneva@Sir:19:13 @ {\cf2 Reproue a friend least he do euill, and if he haue done it, that he doe it no more.}

geneva@Sir:19:21 @ {\cf2 If a seruant say vnto his master, I wil not do as it pleaseth thee, though afterwarde he doe it, hee shall displease him that nourisheth him.}

geneva@Sir:19:22 @ {\cf2 The knowledge of wickednesse is not wisedome, neither is there prudencie whereas the counsell of sinners is: but it is euen execrable malice and the foole is voyde of wisedome.}

geneva@Sir:20:3 @ {\cf2 As when a gelded man through lust woulde defile a mayde, so is he that vseth violence in iudgement.}

geneva@Sir:20:14 @ {\cf2 The gift receiued of a foole, shall doe thee no good, neither yet of the enuious for his importunitie: for he looketh to receiue many things for one: he giueth litle, and he vpbraideth much: he openeth his mouth like a towne cryer: to day he lendeth, to morowe asketh he againe, and such one is to be hated of God and man.}

geneva@Sir:20:16 @ {\cf2 How oft, and of how many shal he be laughed to scorne? for he comprehendeth not by right iudgement that which he hath: and it is all one as though he had it not.}

geneva@Sir:20:17 @ {\cf2 The fall on a pauement is very sudden: so shall the fall of the wicked come hastely.}

geneva@Sir:20:18 @ {\cf2 A man without grace is as a foolish tale which is oft tolde by the mouth of the ignorant.}

geneva@Sir:20:19 @ {\cf2 A wise sentence loseth grace when it commeth out of a fooles mouth: for he speaketh not in due season.}

geneva@Sir:20:21 @ {\cf2 Some man there is that destroyeth his owne soule, because he is ashamed, and for the regarde of persons loseth it.}

geneva@Sir:20:26 @ {\cf2 A wise man shall bring him selfe to honour with his wordes, and he that hath vnderstanding, shall please great men.}

geneva@Sir:20:27 @ {\cf2 He that tilleth his lande, shall increase his heape: he that worketh righteousnesse, shalbe exalted, and he that pleaseth great men, shall haue pardon of his iniquitie.}

geneva@Sir:20:29 @ {\cf2 Wisedome that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded vp, what profite is in them both?}

geneva@Sir:21:1 @ {\cf2 My sonne, hast thou sinned? Doe so no more, but pray for the fore sinnes that they may be forgiuen thee.}

geneva@Sir:21:2 @ {\cf2 Flee from sinne, as from a serpent: for if thou comest to neere it, it will bite thee: the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lyon, to slay the soules of men.}

geneva@Sir:21:3 @ {\cf2 All iniquitie is as a two edged sworde, the woundes whereof cannot be healed.}

geneva@Sir:21:4 @ {\cf2 Strife and iniuries waste riches: so the house of the proude shalbe desolate.}

geneva@Sir:21:11 @ {\cf2 He that keepeth the Law of the Lord, ruleth his owne affections thereby: and the encrease of wisedome is the ende of the feare of God.}

geneva@Sir:21:12 @ {\cf2 He that is not wise, will not suffer him selfe to be taught: but there is some witte that encreaseth bitternesse.}

geneva@Sir:21:15 @ {\cf2 When a man of vnderstanding heareth a wise worde, he will commende it, and increase it: but if an ignorant man heare it, he will disalowe it, and cast it behinde his backe.}

geneva@Sir:21:18 @ {\cf2 As is an house that is destroyed, so is wisdom vnto a foole, and the knowledge of the vnwise is as wordes without order.}

geneva@Sir:21:19 @ {\cf2 Doctrine vnto fooles is as fetters on the feete, and like manicles vpon the right hand.}

geneva@Sir:21:22 @ {\cf2 A foolish mans foote is soone in his neighbours house: but a man of experience is ashamed to looke in.}

geneva@Sir:21:25 @ {\cf2 The lippes of talkers will be telling such things as pertaine not vnto them, but the wordes of such as haue vnderstanding, are weighed in the balance.}

geneva@Sir:22:3 @ {\cf2 An euill nurtured sonne is the dishonour of the father: & the daughter is least to be esteemed.}

geneva@Sir:22:6 @ {\cf2 A tale out of time is as musike in mourning: but wisedome knoweth the seasons of correction and doctrine.}

geneva@Sir:22:7 @ {\cf2 Who so teacheth a foole, is as one that gleweth a potsheard together, & as he that waketh one that sleepeth, from a sounde sleepe.}

geneva@Sir:22:10 @ {\cf2 Who so telleth a foole of wisedome, is as a man, which speaketh to one that is asleepe: when he hath told his tale, he saith, What is the matter?}

geneva@Sir:22:13 @ {\cf2 Talke not much with a foole, and goe not to him that hath no vnderstanding: beware of him, least it turne thee to paine, and least thou be defiled when he shaketh him selfe. Depart from him, and thou shalt finde rest, and shalt not receiue sorowe by his foolishnesse.}

geneva@Sir:22:15 @ {\cf2 Sand and salte, and a lumpe of yron is easier to beare, then an vnwise, foolish and vngodly man.}

geneva@Sir:22:16 @ {\cf2 As a frame of wood ioyned together in a building can not be loosed with shaking, so the heart that is stablished by aduised counsel, shal feare at no time.}

geneva@Sir:22:17 @ {\cf2 The heart that is confirmed by discrete wisdome, is as a faire plaistring on a plaine wall.}

geneva@Sir:22:18 @ {\cf2 As reedes that are set vp on hie, can not abide the winde, so the fearefull heart with foolish imagination can endure no feare.}

geneva@Sir:22:20 @ {\cf2 Who so casteth a stone at the birdes, frayeth them away: and he that vpbraydeth his friende, breaketh friendship.}

geneva@Sir:22:23 @ {\cf2 Be faithfull vnto thy friend in his pouertie, that thou mayest reioyce in his prosperitie. Abide stedfast vnto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heire with him in his heritage: for pouertie is not alwayes to be contemned, nor the rich that is foolish, to be had in admiration.}

geneva@Sir:22:24 @ {\cf2 As the vapour and smoke of the chimney goeth before the fire, so euill wordes, rebukes and threatnings goe before bloodsheading.}

geneva@Sir:22:25 @ {\cf2 I will not be ashamed to defende a friende: neither will I hide my selfe from him, though he shoulde doe me harme: whosoeuer heareth it, shall beware of him.}

geneva@Sir:23:2 @ {\cf2 Who will correct my thought, and put the doctrine of wisedome in mine heart, that they may not spare me in mine ignorance, neither let their faultes passe?}

geneva@Sir:23:3 @ {\cf2 Least mine ignorances increase, & my sinnesabounde to my destruction, and least I fall before mine aduersarie, & mine enemies reioyce ouer mee, whose hope is farre from thy mercy.}

geneva@Sir:23:10 @ {\cf2 For as a seruant which is ofte punished, cannot be without some skarre, so he that sweareth, & nameth God continually, shall not be fautelesse.}

geneva@Sir:23:13 @ {\cf2 Vse not thy mouth to ignorant rashnes: for therein is the occasion of sinne.}

geneva@Sir:23:14 @ {\cf2 Remember thy father & thy mother whe thou art set among great men, least thou bee forgotten in their sight, and so through thy custome become a foole, and wish that thou haddest not bene borne, and curse the day of thy natiuitie.}

geneva@Sir:23:16 @ {\cf2 There are two sortes of men that abound in sinne, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction: a minde hote as fire, that cannot be quenched till it bee consumed: an adulterous man that giueth his body no rest, till he haue kindled a fire.}

geneva@Sir:23:18 @ {\cf2 A man that breaketh wedlocke, and thinketh thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkenesse: the walles couer me: no body seeth me: whome neede I to feare? the most High will not remember my sinnes.}

geneva@Sir:23:20 @ {\cf2 He knewe al things or euer they were made, and after they bee brought to passe also, he looketh vpon them all.}

geneva@Sir:23:21 @ {\cf2 The same man shall bee punished in the streetes of the citie, and shal be chased like a yong horsefoale, and when hee thinketh not vpon it, he shalbe taken: thus shall hee be put to shame of euery man, because hee would not vnderstand the feare of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:23:23 @ {\cf2 For first shee hath disobeyed the Lawe of the most High, and secondly shee hath trespassed against her owne husband, and thirdlye, shee hath played the whore in adultery, and gotten her children by another man.}

geneva@Sir:24:3 @ {\cf2 In the middes of her people shall she be exalted, and wondred at in the holy assembly.}

geneva@Sir:24:4 @ {\cf2 In the multitude of the chosen shee shall bee commended, and among such as be blessed, she shal be praysed, and shall say,}

geneva@Sir:24:6 @ {\cf2 I caused the light that fayleth not, to arise in the heauen, and couered the earth as a cloude.}

geneva@Sir:24:8 @ {\cf2 I alone haue gone round about the compasse of heauen, and haue walked in the bottom of the depth.}

geneva@Sir:24:12 @ {\cf2 He created me from the beginning, & before the world, and I shall neuer faile: In the holy habitation haue I serued before him, and so was I stablished in Sion.}

geneva@Sir:24:13 @ {\cf2 In the welbeloued citie gaue he me rest, & in Ierusalem was my power.}

geneva@Sir:24:15 @ {\cf2 I am set vp on hie like a cedar in Libanus, & as a cypres tree vpon the mountaines of Hermon.}

geneva@Sir:24:16 @ {\cf2 I am exalted like a palme tree about the bankes, and as a rose plant in Iericho, as a faire oliue tree in a pleasant fielde, and am exalted as a plane tree by the water.}

geneva@Sir:24:17 @ {\cf2 I smelled as the cinnamum, and as a bag of spices: I gaue a sweete odour as the best mirrhe, as galbanum, and onix, and sweete storax, & perfume of incense in an house.}

geneva@Sir:24:18 @ {\cf2 As the terebinth, haue I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honor and grace.}

geneva@Sir:24:19 @ {\cf2 As the vine haue I brought forth fruite of sweete sauour, and my flowers are the fruite of honour and riches.}

geneva@Sir:24:25 @ {\cf2 Who so hearkeneth vnto me, shal not come to confusion, and they that worke by me, shall not offende: they that make me to be knowen, shall haue euerlasting life.}

geneva@Sir:24:29 @ {\cf2 Hee filleth all things with his wisedome, as Physon, and as Tygris, in the time of the newe fruites.}

geneva@Sir:24:30 @ {\cf2 Hee maketh the vnderstanding to abounde like Euphrates, and as Iorden, in the time of the haruest.}

geneva@Sir:24:31 @ {\cf2 He maketh the doctrine of knowledge to appeare as the light, and ouerfloweth as Geon in the time of the vintage.}

geneva@Sir:24:32 @ {\cf2 The first man hath not knowen her perfectly: no more shall the last seeke her out.}

geneva@Sir:24:34 @ {\cf2 I wisdome haue cast out floodes: I am as an arme of the riuer: I runne into Paradise as a water conduite.}

geneva@Sir:24:35 @ {\cf2 I sayd, I will water my faire garden, and will water my pleasant ground: and loe, my ditch became a flood, and my flood became a sea.}

geneva@Sir:24:36 @ {\cf2 For I make doctrine to shine as the light of the morning, and I lighten it for euer.}

geneva@Sir:24:37 @ {\cf2 I wil pearce thorow all the lower partes of the earth: I will looke vpon all such as be a sleepe, and lighten all them that trust in the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:24:38 @ {\cf2 I will yet powre out doctrine, as prophesie, and leaue it vnto all ages for euer.}

geneva@Sir:25:3 @ {\cf2 If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, what canst thou finde in thine age?}

geneva@Sir:25:4 @ {\cf2 Oh, how pleasant a thing is it when gray headed men minister iudgement, and when the elders can giue good counsell!}

geneva@Sir:25:8 @ {\cf2 Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of vnderstanding, and that hath not fallen with his tongue, and that hath not serued such as are vnworthie of him.}

geneva@Sir:25:11 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lorde passeth all things in clearenesse.}

geneva@Sir:25:16 @ {\cf2 Or any assault, saue the assault of them that hate, or any vengeance, saue the vengeance of the enemy.}

geneva@Sir:25:19 @ {\cf2 The wickednesse of a woman changeth her face, & maketh her countenance blacke as a sacke.}

geneva@Sir:25:22 @ {\cf2 As the climing vp of a sandie way is to the feete of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.}

geneva@Sir:25:23 @ {\cf2 Stumble not at the beautie of a woman, and desire her not for thy pleasure.}

geneva@Sir:25:27 @ {\cf2 Giue the water no passage, no not a litle, neither giue a wicked woman libertie to goe out.}

geneva@Sir:26:3 @ {\cf2 A vertuous woman is a good portion which shalbe giuen for a gift vnto such as feare the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:26:5 @ {\cf2 There be three things that mine heart feareth, and my face is afrayde of the fourth: treason in a citie: the assemblie of the people, and false accusation: all these are heauier then death.}

geneva@Sir:26:7 @ {\cf2 An euill wife is as a yoke of oxen that draw diuers wayes: he that hath her, is a though hee helde a scorpion.}

geneva@Sir:26:8 @ {\cf2 A drunken woman and such as can not be tamed, is a great plague: for she can not couer her owne shame.}

geneva@Sir:26:10 @ {\cf2 If thy daughter be not shamefast, holde her straitly, least she abuse her selfe through ouermuch libertie.}

geneva@Sir:26:11 @ {\cf2 Take heede of her that hath an vnshamefast eye: and marueile not if she trespasse against thee.}

geneva@Sir:26:12 @ {\cf2 As one that goeth by the way, and is thirsty, so shall she open her mouth, and drinke of euery next water: by euery hedge shall she sit downe, & open her quiuer against euery arrowe.}

geneva@Sir:26:14 @ {\cf2 A peaceable woman and of a good heart is a gifte of the Lorde, and there is nothing so much worth as a woman well instructed.}

geneva@Sir:26:15 @ {\cf2 A shamefast and faithful woman is a double grace, and there is no weight to be compared vnto her continent minde.}

geneva@Sir:26:16 @ {\cf2 As the sunne when it ariseth the high places of the Lorde, so is the beautie of a good wife the ornament of her house.}

geneva@Sir:26:17 @ {\cf2 As the cleere light is vpon the holy candlesticke, so is the beautie of the face in a ripe age.}

geneva@Sir:26:18 @ {\cf2 As the golden pillars are vpon the sockets of siluer: so are faire feete with a constant minde.}

geneva@Sir:26:21 @ {\cf2 When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the fieldes, sowe it with thine owne seede, trusting in thy nobilitie.}

geneva@Sir:26:23 @ {\cf2 An harlot is compared to a sowe: but the wife that is marryed, is counted as a towre against death to her husband.}

geneva@Sir:26:24 @ {\cf2 A wicked woman is giuen as a rewarde to a wicked man: but a godly woman is giuen to him that feareth the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:26:25 @ {\cf2 A shameles woman contemneth shame: but a shamefast woman will reuerence her husband.}

geneva@Sir:26:26 @ {\cf2 A shamelesse woman is compared to a dog: but she that is shamefast, reuerenceth the Lorde.}

geneva@Sir:26:27 @ {\cf2 A woman that honoureth her husband, shal be iudged wise of all: but she that despiseth him, shalbe blased for her pride.}

geneva@Sir:27:1 @ {\cf2 Because of pouertie haue many sinned: and he that seeketh to be rich, turneth his eyes aside.}

geneva@Sir:27:2 @ {\cf2 As a nayle in the wal sticketh fast betweene the ioynts of the stones, so doeth sinne sticke betweene the selling and the buying.}

geneva@Sir:27:4 @ {\cf2 As when one sifteth, the filthines remaineth in the sieue, so the filth of man remaineth in his thought.}

geneva@Sir:27:8 @ {\cf2 If thou followest righteousnesse, thou shalt get her, and put her on as a fayre garment, and shalt dwell with her, and she shall defende thee for euer: and in the day of knowledge thou shalt finde stedfastnesse.}

geneva@Sir:27:10 @ {\cf2 As the lyon waiteth for the beast, so doeth sinne vpon them that doe euill.}

geneva@Sir:27:11 @ {\cf2 The talking of him that feareth God, is all wisdome: as for a foole, he changeth as the moone.}

geneva@Sir:27:12 @ {\cf2 If thou be among the vndiscreete, obserue the time, but haunt still the assemblie of them that are wise.}

geneva@Sir:27:13 @ {\cf2 The talking of fooles is grieuous, and their sport is in the pleasure of sinne.}

geneva@Sir:27:18 @ {\cf2 For as a man destroyeth his enemie, so doest thou destroy the friendship of thy neighbour.}

geneva@Sir:27:19 @ {\cf2 As one that letteth a birde goe out of his hande, so if thou giue ouer thy friende, thou canst not get him againe.}

geneva@Sir:27:20 @ {\cf2 Followe after him no more, for he is too farre off: he is as a roe escaped out of the snare: for his soule is wounded.}

geneva@Sir:27:21 @ {\cf2 As for woundes, they may be bounde vp againe, and an euill worde may be reconciled: but who so bewrayeth the secrets of a friende, hath lost all his credit.}

geneva@Sir:27:23 @ {\cf2 When thou art present, he wil speake sweetly, and praise thy wordes: but at the last he will turne his tale, and slander thy saying.}

geneva@Sir:27:24 @ {\cf2 Many things haue I hated, but nothing so euill as such one: for the Lorde also hateth him.}

geneva@Sir:27:25 @ {\cf2 Who so casteth a stone on hie, casteth it vpon his owne head: and he that smiteth with guile, maketh a great wound.}

geneva@Sir:27:28 @ {\cf2 Mockerie and reproche follow the proude, and vengeance lurketh for them as a lyon.}

geneva@Sir:28:4 @ {\cf2 Hee will shew no mercy to a man, which is like him selfe: & will he aske forgiuenes of his own sinnes?}

geneva@Sir:28:5 @ {\cf2 If he that is but flesh, nourish hatred & aske pardon of God, who will intreate for his sinnes?}

geneva@Sir:28:6 @ {\cf2 Remember the ende, and let enimitie passe: imagine not death & destructio to another through anger, but perseuere in the commaundements.}

geneva@Sir:28:10 @ {\cf2 As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth, & mans anger is according to his power: and according to his riches his anger increaseth, & the more vehement the anger is, the more is he inflamed.}

geneva@Sir:28:11 @ {\cf2 An hastie brawling kindleth a fire, and an hasty fighting sheadeth blood: a tongue that beareth false witnesse, bringeth death.}

geneva@Sir:28:15 @ {\cf2 The double tongue hath cast out many vertuous women, and robbed them of their labours.}

geneva@Sir:28:18 @ {\cf2 There be many that haue perished by the edge of the sword, but not so many as haue fallen by the tongue.}

geneva@Sir:28:20 @ {\cf2 For the yoke thereof is a yoke of yron, and the bandes of it are bandes of brasse.}

geneva@Sir:28:23 @ {\cf2 Such as forsake the Lorde, shall fall therein: and it shall burne them, and no man shalbe able to quenche it: it shall fall vpon them as a lyon, and deuoure them as a leopard.}

geneva@Sir:29:2 @ {\cf2 Lend to thy neighbour in time of his neede, and pay thou thy neighbour againe in due season.}

geneva@Sir:29:4 @ {\cf2 Many when a thing was lent them, reckened it to be found, and grieued them that had helped them.}

geneva@Sir:29:5 @ {\cf2 Till they receiue, they kisse his handes, and for their neighbours good they huble their voyce: but when they should pay againe, they prolong the terme, and giue a careles answere, and make excuses by reason of the time.}

geneva@Sir:29:6 @ {\cf2 And though he be able, yet giueth hee scarce the halfe againe, & reckeneth the other as a thing found: els he deceiueth him of his money, and maketh him an enemie without a cause: he paieth him with cursing and rebuke, and giueth him euil words for his good deede.}

geneva@Sir:29:11 @ {\cf2 Bestowe thy treasure after the commandement of the most High, & it shall bring thee more profite then golde.}

geneva@Sir:29:13 @ {\cf2 A mans almes is as a purse with him, & shal keepe a mans fauour as the apple of the eye, and afterward shall it arise, and pay euery man his reward vpon his head.}

geneva@Sir:29:20 @ {\cf2 Suretieship hath destroyed many a rich man, and remooued them as the waues of the sea: mightie men hath it driuen away from their houses, and caused them to wander among strange nations.}

geneva@Sir:29:28 @ {\cf2 Come, thou stranger, and prepare the table, and feede me of that thou hast readie.}

geneva@Sir:30:2 @ {\cf2 He that chastiseth his sonne, shall haue ioy in him, & shal reioyce of him among his acquaintace.}

geneva@Sir:30:4 @ {\cf2 Though his father dye, yet is he as though he were not dead: for hee hath left one behinde him that is like him.}

geneva@Sir:30:5 @ {\cf2 In his life hee sawe him, and had ioye in him, and was not sorie in his death, neither was hee ashamed before his enemies.}

geneva@Sir:30:10 @ {\cf2 Laugh not with him, lest thou be sorie with him, and lest thou gnash thy teeth in the ende.}

geneva@Sir:30:13 @ {\cf2 Chastise thy childe, and be diligent therein, lest his shame grieue thee.}

geneva@Sir:30:15 @ {\cf2 Health and strength is aboue all golde, and a whole bodie aboue infinite treasure.}

geneva@Sir:30:18 @ {\cf2 The good things that are powred on a mouth shut vp, are as messes of meat set vpon a graue.}

geneva@Sir:31:2 @ {\cf2 This waking care breaketh the sleepe, as a great sicknes breaketh the sleepe.}

geneva@Sir:31:3 @ {\cf2 The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together, & in his rest hee is filled with pleasures.}

geneva@Sir:31:6 @ {\cf2 Many are destroyed by the reason of gold, and haue found their destruction before them.}

geneva@Sir:31:7 @ {\cf2 It is as a stumbling block vnto them that sacrifice vnto it, and euerie foole is taken therewith.}

geneva@Sir:31:8 @ {\cf2 Blessed is the riche which is found without blemish, and hath not gone after golde, nor hoped in money and treasures.}

geneva@Sir:31:20 @ {\cf2 A wholesome sleepe commeth of a temperate bellie: he riseth vp in the morning, and is wel at ease in him selfe: but paine in watching and cholericke diseases, and panges of the bellie are with an vnsatiable man.}

geneva@Sir:31:21 @ {\cf2 If thou hast bene forced to eate, arise, goe forth, vomite, and then take thy rest: so thou shalt bring no sicknesse vnto thy bodie.}

geneva@Sir:31:22 @ {\cf2 My sonne, heare me, and despise me not, & at the last thou shalt finde as I haue tolde thee: in all thy works be quicke, so shall there no sicknesse come vnto thee.}

geneva@Sir:31:28 @ {\cf2 Wine was made from the beginning to make men glad, and not for drunkennesse. Wine measurably drunken and in time, bringeth gladnes and cherefulnesse of the minde.}

geneva@Sir:31:30 @ {\cf2 Drunkennesse increaseth the courage of a foole, til hee offend: it diminisheth his strength and maketh woundes.}

geneva@Sir:32:1 @ {\cf2 If thou be made ye master of the feast, lift not thy selfe vp, but be among them, as one of the rest: take diligent care for them, and so sit downe.}

geneva@Sir:32:2 @ {\cf2 And when thou hast done all thy duetie, sit downe, that thou maiest be merie with them, and receiue a crown for thy good behauiour.}

geneva@Sir:32:5 @ {\cf2 The consent of musicians at a banket is as a signet of carbuncle set in golde.}

geneva@Sir:32:6 @ {\cf2 And as the signet of an emeraude well trimmed with golde, so is the melodie of musike in a pleasant banket.}

geneva@Sir:32:8 @ {\cf2 Thou that art yong speake, if neede bee, and yet scarcely when thou art twise asked.}

geneva@Sir:32:9 @ {\cf2 Comprehende much in fewe wordes in many things be as one that is ignorant: bee as one that vnderstandeth, and yet holde thy tongue.}

geneva@Sir:32:11 @ {\cf2 Before the thunder goeth lightning, and before a shamefast man goeth fauour.}

geneva@Sir:32:12 @ {\cf2 Stande vp betimes, and be not the last: but get thee home without delay,}

geneva@Sir:32:13 @ {\cf2 And there take thy pastime, and doe what thou wilt, so that thou doe none euil, or vse proud wordes.}

geneva@Sir:32:17 @ {\cf2 They that feare the Lorde, shall finde that which is righteous, & shal kindle iustice as a light.}

geneva@Sir:32:19 @ {\cf2 A man of vnderstanding despiseth not counsel: but a lewd and proud man is not touched with feare, euen when he hath done rashly.}

geneva@Sir:33:2 @ {\cf2 A wise man hateth not the Lawe: but he that is an hypocrite therein, is as a shippe in a storme.}

geneva@Sir:33:4 @ {\cf2 As the question is made, prepare the answere, and so shalt thou be heard: be sure of the matter, and so answere.}

geneva@Sir:33:6 @ {\cf2 As a wilde horse neyeth vnder euery one that sitteth vpon him, so is a scornefull friend.}

geneva@Sir:33:8 @ {\cf2 The knowledge of the Lord hath parted them asunder, and he hath by them disposed the times and solemne feastes.}

geneva@Sir:33:10 @ {\cf2 And all men are of the ground, and Adam was created out of the earth: but the Lord hath deuided them by great knowledge, and made their wayes diuers.}

geneva@Sir:33:12 @ {\cf2 As the clay is in the potters hand, to order it at his pleasure, so are men also in the hand of their Creator, so that hee may rewarde them as liketh him best.}

geneva@Sir:33:15 @ {\cf2 I am awaked vp last of all, as one that gathereth after them in the vintage. In the blessing of the Lorde I am increased, and haue filled my wine presse, like a grape gatherer.}

geneva@Sir:33:19 @ {\cf2 As long as thou liuest, and hast breath, giue not thy selfe ouer to any person.}

geneva@Sir:33:23 @ {\cf2 The fodder, the whippe and the burden belong vnto the asse: and meate, correction and worke vnto thy seruant.}

geneva@Sir:33:29 @ {\cf2 If thou haue a faithfull seruant, let him bee vnto thee as thine owne soule: for in blood hast thou gotten him. If thou haue a seruant, intreat him as thy brother: for thou hast neede of him, as of thy selfe. If thou intreat him euill, and hee runne away, wilt thou seeke him?}

geneva@Sir:34:3 @ {\cf2 Euen so is it with the appearings of dreames, as the likenes of a face is before another face.}

geneva@Sir:34:5 @ {\cf2 Southsayings, witchcraft, and dreaming is but vanitie, and a minde that is occupied with fantasies, is as a woman that trauaileth.}

geneva@Sir:34:6 @ {\cf2 Where as such visions come not of the most High to trie thee, set not thine heart vpon them.}

geneva@Sir:34:12 @ {\cf2 I was oft times in danger of death, yet I was deliuered by these things.}

geneva@Sir:34:18 @ {\cf2 He that giueth an offering of vnrighteous goods, offereth a mocking sacrifice, and the giftes of the vnrighteous, please not him.}

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:34:26 @ {\cf2 He that washeth himselfe because of a dead body, & toucheth it againe, what auaileth his washing?}

geneva@Sir:34:27 @ {\cf2 So is it with a man that fasteth for his sinnes, and committeth them againe: who will heare his prayer? or what doeth his fasting helpe him?}

geneva@Sir:35:1 @ {\cf2 Who so keepeth the Lawe, bringeth offerings ynough: he that holdeth fast the commandements, offereth an offring of saluation.}

geneva@Sir:35:10 @ {\cf2 Giue vnto the most High according as hee hath enriched thee, and looke what thine hande is able, giue with a chearefull eye.}

geneva@Sir:35:11 @ {\cf2 For the Lorde recompenseth, and will giue thee seuen times as much.}

geneva@Sir:35:17 @ {\cf2 The prayer of him that humbleth himselfe, goeth thorowe the cloudes, and ceaseth not till it come neere, and will not depart till the most High haue respect thereunto to iudge righteously, and to execute iudgement.}

geneva@Sir:36:4 @ {\cf2 As thou art sanctified in vs before them, so be thou magnified among them before vs,}

geneva@Sir:36:5 @ {\cf2 That they may know thee, as we know thee: for there is none other God but only thou, O Lord.}

geneva@Sir:36:11 @ {\cf2 Gather all the tribes of Iacob together, that they may knowe that there is none other God but only thou, and that they may shew thy wonderous works, and inherit thou them as fro the beginning.}

geneva@Sir:36:12 @ {\cf2 O Lord, haue mercie vpon the people, that is called by thy Name, and vpon Israel, whom thou hast likened to a first borne sonne.}

geneva@Sir:36:15 @ {\cf2 Giue witnes vnto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise vp the prophecies that haue bene shewed in thy Name.}

geneva@Sir:36:19 @ {\cf2 As the throte tasteth venison, so doeth a wise minde discerne false wordes.}

geneva@Sir:37:7 @ {\cf2 Seeke no counsell at him of whome thou art suspected, and disclose not thy counsell vnto such as hate thee.}

geneva@Sir:37:9 @ {\cf2 Beware of the counseller, and bee aduised afore whereto thou wilt vse him: for he wil counsell for himselfe, least he cast the lot vpon thee,}

geneva@Sir:37:11 @ {\cf2 Aske no counsell for religion of him, that is without religion, nor of iustice, of him that hath no iustice, nor of a woman touching her of whom she is ielous, nor of a coward in matters of warre, nor of a marchant concerning exchange, nor of a buyer for the sale, nor of an enuious man touching thankfulnesse, nor of the vnmercifull touching kindnesse, nor of an vnhonest man of honestie, nor of the slouthfull for any labour, nor of an hireling for the finishing of a worke, nor of an idle seruant for much busines: hearken not vnto these in any matter of counsell.}

geneva@Sir:37:16 @ {\cf2 Let reason goe before euery enterprise, and counsell before euery action.}

geneva@Sir:37:27 @ {\cf2 For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath euery soule pleasure in euery thing.}

geneva@Sir:37:28 @ {\cf2 Be not griedy in all delites, and be not too hastie vpon all meates.}

geneva@Sir:37:29 @ {\cf2 For excesse of meates bringeth sicknesse, and gluttonie commeth into cholericke diseases.}

geneva@Sir:38:5 @ {\cf2 Was not the water made sweete with wood, that men might know the vertue thereof?}

geneva@Sir:38:12 @ {\cf2 Then giue place to the phisicion: for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast neede of him.}

geneva@Sir:38:14 @ {\cf2 For they also shall pray vnto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which is giuen for ease, and their phisicke for the prolonging of life.}

geneva@Sir:38:16 @ {\cf2 My sonne, powre foorth teares ouer the dead, and begin to mourne, as if thou haddest suffered great harme thy selfe, and then couer his body according to his appointment, and neglect not his buriall.}

geneva@Sir:38:17 @ {\cf2 Make a grieuous lamentation, and be earnest in mourning, and vse lamentation as he is worthy, and that, a day or two, least thou be euil spoken of, and then comfort thy selfe for thine heauines.}

geneva@Sir:38:20 @ {\cf2 Take no heauines to heart: driue it away and remember the last end.}

geneva@Sir:38:24 @ {\cf2 The wisdome of a learned man commeth by vsing well his vacant time: and hee that ceaseth from his owne matters and labour, may come by wisdome.}

geneva@Sir:38:25 @ {\cf2 How can he get wisdome that holdeth the plough, and he that hath pleasure in the goad, and in driuing oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and talketh but of the breed of bullocks?}

geneva@Sir:38:27 @ {\cf2 So is it of euery carpenter, and workemaster that laboureth night and day: and they that cut, and graue seales, and make sundry diuersities, and giue themselues to counterfaite imagerie, and watch to performe the worke.}

geneva@Sir:38:30 @ {\cf2 Hee fashioneth the clay with his arme, and with his feete hee tempereth the hardnes thereof: his heart imagineth how to couer it with leade, and his diligence is to cleanse the ouen.}

geneva@Sir:38:33 @ {\cf2 And yet they are not asked their iudgement in the counsell of the people, neither are they hie in the congregation, neither sit they vpon the iudgement seates, nor vnderstand ye order of iustice: they cannot declare matters according to the forme of the Lawe, and they are not meete for hard matters.}

geneva@Sir:39:12 @ {\cf2 Yet will I speake of moe things: for I am full as the moone.}

geneva@Sir:39:13 @ {\cf2 Hearken vnto me, ye holy children, & bring forth fruit, as the rose that is planted by the brooks of the fielde,}

geneva@Sir:39:14 @ {\cf2 And giue ye a sweete smell as incense, and bring forth flowers as the lillie: giue a smell & sing a song of prayse: blesse the Lord in all his workes.}

geneva@Sir:39:16 @ {\cf2 All the workes of the Lorde are exceeding good, and all his commandements are done in due season.}

geneva@Sir:39:17 @ {\cf2 And none may say, What is this? wherefore is that? for at time couenient they shal al be sought out: at his commaundement the water stood as an heape, and at the worde of his mouth the waters gathered themselues.}

geneva@Sir:39:20 @ {\cf2 He seeth from euerlasting to euerlasting, and there is nothing wonderfull vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:39:22 @ {\cf2 His blessing shall runne ouer as the streame, and moysten the earth like a flood.}

geneva@Sir:39:23 @ {\cf2 As he hath turned the waters into saltnes, so shall the heathen feele his wrath.}

geneva@Sir:39:24 @ {\cf2 As his wayes are plaine and right vnto the iust, so are they stumbling blockes to the wicked.}

geneva@Sir:39:30 @ {\cf2 The teeth of wilde beastes, and the scorpions, and the serpents, and the sworde execute vengeance for the destruction of the wicked.}

geneva@Sir:39:31 @ {\cf2 They shalbe glad to do his commandements: and when neede is, they shall be readie vpon earth: and when their houre is come, they shall not ouerpasse the commandement.}

geneva@Sir:39:33 @ {\cf2 All the workes of the Lorde are good, and he giueth euery one in due season, & when neede is:}

geneva@Sir:39:34 @ {\cf2 So that a man neede not to say, This is worse then that: for in due seaso they are all worthy praise.}

geneva@Sir:40:3 @ {\cf2 From him that sitteth vpon ye glorious throne, vnto him that is beneath in the earth and ashes:}

geneva@Sir:40:6 @ {\cf2 A litle or nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleeping hee is as in a watchtowre in the day: hee is troubled with the visions of his heart, as one that runneth out of a battell.}

geneva@Sir:40:7 @ {\cf2 And when all is safe, hee awaketh, and marueileth that the feare was nothing.}

geneva@Sir:40:8 @ {\cf2 Such thinges come vnto all flesh, both man and beast, but seuen folde to the vngodly:}

geneva@Sir:40:15 @ {\cf2 The children of the vngodly shall not obtaine many branches: for the vncleane rootes are as vpon the high rockes.}

geneva@Sir:40:17 @ {\cf2 Friendlinesse is as a most plentifull garden of pleasure, and mercie endureth for euer.}

geneva@Sir:40:18 @ {\cf2 To labour and to bee content with that a man hath, is a sweete life: but he that findeth a treasure, is aboue them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:21 @ {\cf2 The pipe and the psalterion make a sweete noyse: but a pleasant tongue is aboue them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:25 @ {\cf2 Golde and siluer fasten the feete: but counsell is esteemed aboue them both.}

geneva@Sir:40:27 @ {\cf2 The feare of the Lord is a pleasant garden of blessing, and there is nothing so beautifull as it is.}

geneva@Sir:40:30 @ {\cf2 Begging is sweete in the mouth of the vnshamefast, and in his belly there burneth a fire.}

geneva@Sir:41:2 @ {\cf2 O death, howe acceptable is thy iudgement vnto the needefull, and vnto him whose strength faileth, and that is nowe in the last age, and is vexed with all things, and to him that despaireth, and hath lost patience!}

geneva@Sir:41:4 @ {\cf2 And why wouldest thou be against the pleasure of the most High? whether it bee tenne or an hundreth, or a thousand yeeres, there is no defence for life against the graue.}

geneva@Sir:41:8 @ {\cf2 Woe be vnto you, O ye vngodly, which haue forsaken the Law of the most high God: for though you increase, yet shall you perish.}

geneva@Sir:41:12 @ {\cf2 Haue regard to thy name: for that shal continnue, with thee aboue a thousande treasures of golde.}

geneva@Sir:41:14 @ {\cf2 My children, keepe wisedome in peace: for wisdome that is hid, and a treasure that is not seene, what profite is in them both?}

geneva@Sir:41:16 @ {\cf2 Therefore beare reuerence vnto my wordes: for it is not good in all things to be ashamed: neither are all things allowed as faithfull in all men.}

geneva@Sir:41:17 @ {\cf2 Be ashamed of whoredome before father and mother: bee ashamed of lyes before the prince and men of authoritie:}

geneva@Sir:41:23 @ {\cf2 Or to vpbraide when thou giuest any thing, or to report a matter that thou hast heard, or to reueile secret wordes.}

geneva@Sir:41:24 @ {\cf2 Thus mayst thou well be shamefast, and shalt finde fauour with all men.}

geneva@Sir:42:1 @ {\cf2 Of these thinges be not thou ashamed, neither haue regard to offende for any person:}

geneva@Sir:42:9 @ {\cf2 The daughter maketh the father to watch secretly, and the carefulnesse that he hath for her, taketh away his sleepe in the youth, least shee should passe the flower of her age: and when shee hath an husband, least she should be hated:}

geneva@Sir:42:10 @ {\cf2 In her virginitie, least she should bee defiled, or gotten with childe in her fathers house, & when she is with her husband, least she misbehaue herselfe and when she is married, least she cotinue vnfruitful.}

geneva@Sir:42:11 @ {\cf2 If thy daughter bee vnshamefast, keepe her straitely, least she cause thine enemies to laugh thee to scorne, and make thee a common talke in the citie, and defame thee among the people, and bring thee to publike shame.}

geneva@Sir:42:13 @ {\cf2 For as the moth commeth out of garments so doeth wickednes of the woman.}

geneva@Sir:42:19 @ {\cf2 He declareth the things that are past, and for to come, and discloseth the pathes of things that are secrete.}

geneva@Sir:42:21 @ {\cf2 Hee hath garnished the excellent workes of his wisdome, and hee is from euerlasting to euerlasting, and for euer: vnto him may nothing be added, neither can he be minished: he hath no neede of any counseller.}

geneva@Sir:43:4 @ {\cf2 The sunne burneth the mountaines three times more then hee that keepeth a fornace with continuall heate: it casteth out the fierie vapours, and with the shining beames blindeth the eyes.}

geneva@Sir:43:5 @ {\cf2 Great is the Lorde that made it, and by his commandement he causeth it to runne hastily.}

geneva@Sir:43:6 @ {\cf2 The moone also hath hee made to appeare according to her season, that it should be a declaration of the time, and a signe for the world.}

geneva@Sir:43:7 @ {\cf2 The feastes are appointed by the moone: the light thereof diminisheth vnto the ende.}

geneva@Sir:43:12 @ {\cf2 It compasseth the heauen about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High haue bended it.}

geneva@Sir:43:13 @ {\cf2 Through his commandement he maketh the snowe to haste, and sendeth swiftly the lightning of his iudgement.}

geneva@Sir:43:14 @ {\cf2 Therefore he openeth his treasures, and the cloudes flie forth as the foules.}

geneva@Sir:43:17 @ {\cf2 The sound of his thunder beateth the earth: so doeth the storme of the North: the whirlewinde also, as birds that flie, scattereth the snowe, and the falling downe thereof is as the grashoppers that light downe.}

geneva@Sir:43:18 @ {\cf2 The eye marueileth at the beautie of the whitenes thereof, and the heart is astonished at the raine of it.}

geneva@Sir:43:20 @ {\cf2 When the colde North winde bloweth, an yce is frosen of the water, it abideth vpon all the gatherings together of water, and clotheth the waters as with a brestplate.}

geneva@Sir:43:22 @ {\cf2 The remedie of all these is when a cloude commeth hastily, and when a dewe commeth vpon the heate, it refresheth it.}

geneva@Sir:43:23 @ {\cf2 By his worde he stilleth the winde: by his counsell he appeaseth the deepe, & planteth ylands therein.}

geneva@Sir:43:25 @ {\cf2 For there be strange, & wonderous workes, diuers maner of beasts, and the creation of whales.}

geneva@Sir:43:30 @ {\cf2 Prayse the Lord, and magnifie him as much as ye can, yet doeth hee farre exceede: exalt him with all your power, and be not wearie, yet can ye not attaine vnto it.}

geneva@Sir:43:31 @ {\cf2 Who hath seene him, that he might tel vs? and who can magnifie him as he is?}

geneva@Sir:43:33 @ {\cf2 For the Lord hath made all things, & giuen wisdome to such as feare God.}

geneva@Sir:44:9 @ {\cf2 There are some also which haue no memoriall, and are perished, as though they had neuer bene, and are become as though they had neuer bene borne, and their children after them.}

geneva@Sir:44:16 @ {\cf2 Enoch pleased the Lorde God: therefore was he translated for an example of repentance to the generations.}

geneva@Sir:44:17 @ {\cf2 Noe was found perfite, and in the time of wrath he had a rewarde: therefore was he left as a remnant vnto the earth, when the flood came.}

geneva@Sir:44:18 @ {\cf2 An euerlasting couenant was made with him, that all flesh should perish no more by the flood.}

geneva@Sir:44:19 @ {\cf2 Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was there none like vnto him.}

geneva@Sir:44:20 @ {\cf2 He kept the Law of the most High, and was in couenant with him, & he set the couenant in his flesh, and in tentation he was found faithfull.}

geneva@Sir:44:21 @ {\cf2 Therefore he assured him by an othe, that he would blesse the nations in his seede, and that he would multiplie him as the dust of the earth, and exalt his seede as the starres, and cause them to inherite from sea to sea, and from the Riuer vnto the end of the world.}

geneva@Sir:45:3 @ {\cf2 By his words he caused the wonders to cease, and he made him glorious in the sight of Kings, and gaue him commandements for his people, and shewed him his glory.}

geneva@Sir:45:7 @ {\cf2 An euerlasting couenant made he with him, and gaue him the Priesthode among ye people, and made him blessed through his comely ornament, and clothed him with the garment of honour.}

geneva@Sir:45:8 @ {\cf2 He put perfect ioy vpon him, and girded him with ornaments of strength, as with breeches, and a tunicle, and an ephod.}

geneva@Sir:45:9 @ {\cf2 Hee compassed him about with belles of golde, and with many belles round about, that when he went in, the sound might be heard, and might make a noyse in the Sanctuarie, for a remembrance to the children of Israel his people,}

geneva@Sir:45:10 @ {\cf2 And with an holy garment, with golde also, and blue silke, and purple, and diuers kindes of workes, and with a breastlap of iudgement, & with the signes of trueth,}

geneva@Sir:45:12 @ {\cf2 And with a crowne of golde vpon the mitre, bearing the forme and marke of holines, an ornament of honour, a noble worke garnished, and pleasant to looke vpon.}

geneva@Sir:45:15 @ {\cf2 Moyses filled his hands, and anointed him with holy oyle: this was appointed vnto him by an euerlasting couenant, & to his seede, so long as the heauens should remaine, that hee should minister before him, and also to execute the office of the Priesthood, and blesse his people in his Name.}

geneva@Sir:45:19 @ {\cf2 This the Lorde sawe, and it displeased him, and in his wrathfull indignation were they consumed: he did wonders vpon them, and consumed them with the firie flame.}

geneva@Sir:45:24 @ {\cf2 Therefore was there a couenant of peace made with him, that he should be the chiefe of the Sanctuarie and of his people, and that hee and his posteritie shoulde haue the dignitie of the Priesthood for euer,}

geneva@Sir:46:1 @ {\cf2 Iesus the sonne of Naue was valiant in the warres, and was the successour of Moyses in prophecies, who according vnto his name, was a great sauiour of the elect of God, to take vengeance of the enemies that rose vp against them, and to set Israel in their inheritance.}

geneva@Sir:46:3 @ {\cf2 Who was there before him, like to him? For he fought the battels of the Lord.}

geneva@Sir:46:4 @ {\cf2 Stoode not the sunne still by his meanes, and one day was as long as two?}

geneva@Sir:46:5 @ {\cf2 Hee called vnto the most High gouernour when the enemies preassed vpon him on euery side, and the mightie Lorde heard him with the haile stones, and with mightie power.}

geneva@Sir:46:7 @ {\cf2 In the time of Moyses also hee did a good worke: he and Caleb the sonne of Iephune stood against the enemie, and withhelde the people from sinne, and appeased the wicked murmuring.}

geneva@Sir:46:15 @ {\cf2 This Prophet was approued for his faithfulnesse, and he was knowen faithfull in his wordes and visions.}

geneva@Sir:46:16 @ {\cf2 He called vpon the Lord Almightie, when his enemies preassed vpon him on euery side, when he offered the sucking lambe.}

geneva@Sir:46:19 @ {\cf2 And before his long sleepe he made protestation in the sight of the Lorde, and his anointed, that he tooke no substance of any man, no, not so much as a shooe, and no man coulde accuse him.}

geneva@Sir:47:2 @ {\cf2 For as the fatte is taken away from the peace offering, so was Dauid chosen out of the children of Israel.}

geneva@Sir:47:3 @ {\cf2 He played with the lions, as with kiddes, and with beares, as with lambes.}

geneva@Sir:47:4 @ {\cf2 Slewe he not a gyant when he was yet but yong, and tooke away the rebuke from the people, when he lift vp his hand with the stone in the sling, to beate downe the pride of Goliah?}

geneva@Sir:47:10 @ {\cf2 He ordeyned to keepe the feast dayes comely, and appointed the times perfitly, that they might prayse the holy Name of God, and make the Temple to sound in the morning.}

geneva@Sir:47:13 @ {\cf2 Salomon reigned in a peaceable time, and was glorious: for God made all quiet round about, that he might build an house in his Name, and prepare the Sanctuarie for euer.}

geneva@Sir:47:14 @ {\cf2 Howe wise wast thou in thy youth, and wast filled with vnderstanding as with a flood!}

geneva@Sir:47:16 @ {\cf2 Thy Name went abrode in the yles, and for thy peace thou wast beloued.}

geneva@Sir:47:18 @ {\cf2 By the Name of the Lorde God, which is called the God of Israel, thou hast gathered golde as tinne and hast had as much siluer as lead.}

geneva@Sir:47:19 @ {\cf2 Thou diddest bowe thy loynes to women, and wast ouercome by thy body.}

geneva@Sir:47:20 @ {\cf2 Thou diddest staine thine honour, and hast defiled thy posteritie, and hast brought wrath vpon thy children, and hast felt sorowe for thy folie.}

geneva@Sir:47:21 @ {\cf2 So the kingdome was deuided, and Ephraim beganne to be a rebellious kingdome.}

geneva@Sir:47:22 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles the Lord left not off his mercy, neither was he destroyed for his workes, neither did he abolish the posteritie of his elect, nor tooke away the seede of him that loued him, but he left a remnant vnto Iacob, and a roote of him vnto Dauid.}

geneva@Sir:47:24 @ {\cf2 So that their sinnes were so much increased, that they were driuen out of the land.}

geneva@Sir:48:1 @ {\cf2 Then stood vp Elias the Prophet as a fire, and his worde burnt like a lampe.}

geneva@Sir:48:4 @ {\cf2 O Elias, how honorable art thou by thy woderous deedes! who may make his boast to be like thee!}

geneva@Sir:48:5 @ {\cf2 Which hast raised vp ye dead from death, and by the word of the most High out of the graue:}

geneva@Sir:48:6 @ {\cf2 Which hast brought Kings vnto destruction, and the honourable from their seate:}

geneva@Sir:48:9 @ {\cf2 Which wast taken vp in a whirle winde of fire, and in a charet of fierie horses:}

geneva@Sir:48:10 @ {\cf2 Which wast appointed to reproue in due season, and to pacifie the wrath of the Lordes iudgement before it kindled, and to turne the heartes of the fathers vnto the children, & to set vp the tribes of Iacob.}

geneva@Sir:48:12 @ {\cf2 When Elias was couered with the storme, Eliseus was filled with his spirit: while he liued, he was not moued for any prince, neither coulde any bring him into subiection.}

geneva@Sir:48:17 @ {\cf2 Ezekias made his citie strong, and conueied water into the middes thereof: he digged thorowe the rocke with yron, & made fountaines for waters.}

geneva@Sir:48:18 @ {\cf2 In his time came Sennacherib vp, and sent Rabsaces, & lift vp his hand against Sion, and boasted proudly.}

geneva@Sir:48:22 @ {\cf2 He smote the hoste of the Assyrians, and his Angel destroyed them.}

geneva@Sir:48:23 @ {\cf2 For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lorde, and remained stedfastly in the wayes of Dauid his father, as Esai the great Prophet, and faithfull in his vision had commanded him.}

geneva@Sir:48:25 @ {\cf2 He sawe by an excellent Spirit what shoulde come to passe at the last, and he comforted them that were sorowfull in Sion.}

geneva@Sir:48:26 @ {\cf2 He shewed what shoulde come to passe for euer, and secret things, or euer they came to passe.}

geneva@Sir:49:1 @ {\cf2 The remembrance of Iosias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of ye apothecarie: it is sweete as honie in al mouthes, and as musike at a banket of wine.}

geneva@Sir:49:4 @ {\cf2 All, except Dauid and Ezekias, and Iosias, committed wickednesse: for euen the Kings of Iuda forsooke the Lawe of the most High, and failed.}

geneva@Sir:49:6 @ {\cf2 He burnt the elect citie of the Sanctuarie, and destroyed the streetes thereof according to the prophesie of Ieremias.}

geneva@Sir:49:7 @ {\cf2 For they intreated him euill, which neuerthelesse was a Prophet, sanctified from his mothers wombe, that he might roote out, and afflict, and destroy, and that he might also builde vp, and plant.}

geneva@Sir:49:8 @ {\cf2 Ezechiel sawe the glorious vision, which was shewed him vpon the charet of the Cherubims.}

geneva@Sir:49:10 @ {\cf2 And let the bones of the twelue Prophets flourish out of their place, and let their memorie be blessed: for they comforted Iacob, and deliuered them by assured hope.}

geneva@Sir:49:11 @ {\cf2 Howe shall we prayse Zorobabel, which was as a ring on the right hand!}

geneva@Sir:49:12 @ {\cf2 So was Iesus also the sonne of Iosedec: these men in their time builded the house, and set vp the Sanctuarie of the Lord againe, which was prepared for an euerlasting worship.}

geneva@Sir:49:13 @ {\cf2 And among ye elect was Neemias whose renoume is great, which set vp for vs the walles that were fallen, and set vp the gates and the barres, and layed the foundations of our houses.}

geneva@Sir:49:14 @ {\cf2 But vpon the earth was no man created like Enoch: for he was taken vp from the earth.}

geneva@Sir:49:15 @ {\cf2 Neither was there a like man vnto Ioseph the gouernour of his brethren, and the vpholder of his people, whose bones were kept.}

geneva@Sir:49:16 @ {\cf2 Sem & Seth were in great honour among men: and so was Adam aboue euery liuing thing in the creation.}

geneva@Sir:50:1 @ {\cf2 Simon the sonne of Onias the hie Priest, which in his life set vp the house againe, & in his dayes established the Temple,}

geneva@Sir:50:2 @ {\cf2 Vnder him was the foundation of the double height layed, and the hie walles that compasseth the Temple.}

geneva@Sir:50:3 @ {\cf2 In his dayes the places to receiue water, that were decayed, were restored, and the brasse was about in measure as the sea.}

geneva@Sir:50:5 @ {\cf2 How honorable was his conuersation among the people, and when he came out of the house couered with the vaile!}

geneva@Sir:50:6 @ {\cf2 He was as the morning starre in the middes of a cloude, and as the moone when it is full,}

geneva@Sir:50:7 @ {\cf2 And as the sunne shining vpon the Temple of the most High, & as the rainebowe that is bright in the faire cloudes,}

geneva@Sir:50:8 @ {\cf2 And as the flowre of the roses in the spring of the yeere, and as lilies by the springs of waters, and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of sommer,}

geneva@Sir:50:9 @ {\cf2 As a fire and incense in the censer, and as a vessell of massie golde, set with all maner of precious stones,}

geneva@Sir:50:10 @ {\cf2 And as a faire oliue tree that is fruitfull, and as a cypresse tree, which groweth vp to the cloudes.}

geneva@Sir:50:11 @ {\cf2 When he put on the garment of honour and was clothed with all beautie, he went vp to the holy altar, & made the garment of holines honourable.}

geneva@Sir:50:12 @ {\cf2 When he tooke the portions out of ye Priests handes, he himselfe stoode by the herth of the altar, compassed with his brethren round about, as ye branches doe the cedar tree in Libanus, and they compassed him as the branches of the palme trees.}

geneva@Sir:50:16 @ {\cf2 Then showted the sonnes of Aaron, and blowed with brasen trumpets, & made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance before the most High.}

geneva@Sir:50:17 @ {\cf2 Then all the people together hasted, and fell downe to the earth vpon their faces to worship their Lord God almightie, and most high.}

geneva@Sir:50:18 @ {\cf2 The singers also sang with their voyces, so that the sound was great, and the melodie sweete.}

geneva@Sir:50:22 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore giue praise all ye vnto God, that worketh great things euery where, which hath increased our daies from the wombe, and dealt with vs according to his mercie,}

geneva@Sir:50:23 @ {\cf2 That he would giue vs ioyfulnesse of heart, and peace in our daies in Israel, as in olde time,}

geneva@Sir:51:2 @ {\cf2 For thou art my defender & helper, and hast preserued my body from destruction, and from the snare of the slanderous tongue, and from the lippes that are occupied with lies: thou hast holpen me against mine aduersaries,}

geneva@Sir:51:3 @ {\cf2 And hast deliuered me according to the multitude of thy mercie, and for thy Names sake, from the roaring of them that were readie to deuoure me, and out of the hands of such as sought after my life, and from the manifold afflictions, which I had,}

geneva@Sir:51:6 @ {\cf2 My soule shal praise the Lord vnto death: for my soule drewe neere vnto death: my life was neere to the hell beneath.}

geneva@Sir:51:7 @ {\cf2 They compassed me on euery side, and there was no man to helpe mee: I looked for the succour of men, but there was none.}

geneva@Sir:51:8 @ {\cf2 Then thought I vpon thy mercie, O Lorde, and vpon thine actes of olde, howe thou deliuerest such as waite for thee, and sauest them out of the hands of the enemies.}

geneva@Sir:51:11 @ {\cf2 I will praise thy name continually, and will sing praise with thanksgiuing: and my praier was heard.}

geneva@Sir:51:13 @ {\cf2 When I was yet young, or euer I went abroade, I desired wisedome openly in my praier.}

geneva@Sir:51:14 @ {\cf2 I praied for her before the Temple, & sought after her vnto farre countreis, & shee was as a grape that waxeth ripe out of the flower.}

geneva@Sir:51:17 @ {\cf2 And I profited by her: therefore wil I ascribe the glory vnto him, that giueth me wisedome.}

geneva@Sir:51:29 @ {\cf2 Let your soule reioyce in the mercie of the Lord, and be not ashamed of his praise.}

geneva@Bar:1:1 @ {\cf2 And these are the woordes of the booke, which Baruch the sonne of Nerias, the sonne of Maasias, the sonne of Sedecias, the sonne of Asadias, the sonne of Helcias wrote in at Babylon,}

geneva@Bar:1:2 @ {\cf2 In the fifth yeere, and in the seuenth day of the moneth, what time as the Chaldeans tooke Ierusalem, and burnt it with fire.}

geneva@Bar:1:3 @ {\cf2 And Baruch did reade the woordes of this booke, that Iechonias the sonne of Ioacim king of Iuda might heare, and al the people that were come to heare the booke,}

geneva@Bar:1:5 @ {\cf2 Which when they heard it, wept, fasted and made praiers before the Lord.}

geneva@Bar:1:7 @ {\cf2 And sent it to Ierusalem vnto Ioacim ye sonne of Helcias the sonne of Salom priest, and vnto the other priests, and to all the people which were with him at Ierusalem,}

geneva@Bar:1:8 @ {\cf2 When hee had receiued the vessels of the Temple of the Lorde, that were taken away out of the Temple, to bring them againe into the lande of Iuda, the tenth day of the moneth Sinan, to wit, siluer vessels, which Sedecias the sonne of Iosias King of Iuda had made,}

geneva@Bar:1:9 @ {\cf2 After that Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon had led away Iechonias from Ierusalem, & his princes, and his nobles, prisoners, and the people, and caried them to Babylon.}

geneva@Bar:1:11 @ {\cf2 And praie for the life of Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his sonne, that their daies may be vpon earth, as the daies of heauen,}

geneva@Bar:1:12 @ {\cf2 And that God woulde giue vs strength and lighten our eyes, that we may liue vnder the shadowe of Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon, and vnder ye shadowe of Baltasar his sonne, that we may long do them seruice, & finde fauour in their sight.}

geneva@Bar:1:14 @ {\cf2 And reade this booke (which we haue sent to you to be rehearsed in the Temple of the Lord) vpon the feast daies, and at time conuenient.}

geneva@Bar:1:15 @ {\cf2 Thus shall ye say, To the Lord our God belongeth righteousnesse, but vnto vs the confusion of our faces, as it is come to passe this day vnto them of Iuda, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem,}

geneva@Bar:1:20 @ {\cf2 Wherefore these plagues are come vpon vs, and the curse which the Lorde appointed by Moyses his seruaunt at the time that hee brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to giue vs a land that floweth with milke and hony, as appeareth this day.}

geneva@Bar:2:2 @ {\cf2 To bring vpon vs great plagues, such as neuer came to passe vnder the whole heauen, as they that were done in Ierusalem, according to things, that were written in the Lawe of Moises,}

geneva@Bar:2:4 @ {\cf2 Moreouer, hee hath deliuered them to be in subiection to all the kingdomes, that are rounde about vs, to bee as a reproche and desolation among all the people rounde about where the Lorde hath scattered them.}

geneva@Bar:2:6 @ {\cf2 To the Lord our God apperteineth righteousnes, but vnto vs and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.}

geneva@Bar:2:11 @ {\cf2 And nowe, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mightie hand, and an hie arme, and with signes, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thy selfe a Name, as appeareth this day,}

geneva@Bar:2:13 @ {\cf2 Let thy wrath turne from vs: for we are but a fewe left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered vs.}

geneva@Bar:2:20 @ {\cf2 But because thou hast sent out thy wrath andindignation vpon vs, as thou hast spoken by thy seruants the Prophets, saying,}

geneva@Bar:2:23 @ {\cf2 I will cause to cease in the cities of Iuda, and in Ierusalem, I wil cause to cease the voyce of mirth, and the voyce of ioye, and the voyce of the bridegrome, and the voyce of the bride, and the land shal be desolate of inhabitants.}

geneva@Bar:2:24 @ {\cf2 But we woulde not hearken vnto thy voyce, to serue the King of Babylon: therefore hast thou performed the wordes that thou spakest by thy seruants the Prophets: namely, that the bones of our Kings, and the bones of our fathers should be caried out of their places.}

geneva@Bar:2:25 @ {\cf2 And lo, they are cast out to the heate of the day, and to the colde of the night, and are dead in great miserie with famine, and with the sworde, and in banishment.}

geneva@Bar:2:26 @ {\cf2 And the Temple wherein thy Name was called vpon, thou hast brought to ye state, as appeareth this day, for the wickednesse of the house of Israel, and the house of Iuda.}

geneva@Bar:2:27 @ {\cf2 O Lorde our God, thou hast intreated vs according to equitie, and according to all thy great mercie.}

geneva@Bar:2:28 @ {\cf2 As thou spakest by thy seruant Moyses, in the day when thou diddest commande him to write thy Lawe before the children of Israel, saying,}

geneva@Bar:2:34 @ {\cf2 And I will bring them againe into the land, which I promised with an othe vnto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, and they shalbe Lordes of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.}

geneva@Bar:2:35 @ {\cf2 And I will make an euerlasting couenant with them, that I will be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more driue my people of Israel out of the land that I haue giuen them.}

geneva@Bar:3:7 @ {\cf2 And for this cause hast thou put thy feare in our hearts, that we should call vpon thy Name, and prayse thee in our captiuitie: for we haue considered in our mindes all the wickednesse of our fathers, that sinned before thee.}

geneva@Bar:3:8 @ {\cf2 Beholde, we are yet this day in our captiuitie, where thou hast scattered vs, to be a reproche and a curse, and subiect to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which are departed from the Lord their God.}

geneva@Bar:3:12 @ {\cf2 Thou hast forsaken ye fountaine of wisdome.}

geneva@Bar:3:15 @ {\cf2 Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?}

geneva@Bar:3:16 @ {\cf2 Where are the princes of the heathen, & such as ruled the beastes vpon the earth?}

geneva@Bar:3:17 @ {\cf2 They that had their pastime with the foules of the heauen, that hoarded vp siluer & gold, wherein men trust, & made none ende of their gathering?}

geneva@Bar:3:25 @ {\cf2 It is great, and hath none ende: it is hie, and vnmeasurable.}

geneva@Bar:3:32 @ {\cf2 But he that knoweth al things, knoweth her, and he hath found her out with his vnderstanding: this same is he which hath prepared the earth for euermore, and hath filled it with foure footed beastes.}

geneva@Bar:3:37 @ {\cf2 Afterwarde he was seene vpon earth, and dwelt among men.}

geneva@Bar:4:1 @ {\cf2 This is the booke of the commaundements of God, and the Lawe that endureth for euer: all they that keepe it, shal come to life: but such as forsake it, shall die.}

geneva@Bar:4:7 @ {\cf2 For ye haue displeased him that made you, offering vnto deuils and not to God.}

geneva@Bar:4:8 @ {\cf2 Ye haue forgotten him that created you, euen the euerlasting God, and ye haue grieued Ierusalem, that nourished you.}

geneva@Bar:4:10 @ {\cf2 I see the captiuitie of my sonnes and daughters, which the Euerlasting will bring vpon them.}

geneva@Bar:4:14 @ {\cf2 Come, ye that dwell about Sion, and call to remembrance the captiuitie of my sonnes & daughters, which the euerlasting hath brought vpon them.}

geneva@Bar:4:20 @ {\cf2 I haue put off the clothing of peace, and put vpon me the sackcloth of prayer, and so long as I liue, I will call vpon the Euerlasting.}

geneva@Bar:4:22 @ {\cf2 For I haue hope of your saluation through the Euerlasting, and ioy is come vpon me from the Holy one, because of the mercie, which shall quickly come vnto you from our euerlasting Sauiour.}

geneva@Bar:4:24 @ {\cf2 Like as now the neighbours of Sion saw your captiuitie, so shall they also see shortly your saluation from God, which shall come vnto you with great glory, and brightnes from the Euerlasting.}

geneva@Bar:4:26 @ {\cf2 My darlings haue gone by rough wayes, and were led away as a flock that is scattered by ye enemies.}

geneva@Bar:4:28 @ {\cf2 And as it came into your minde to goe astray from your God, so endeuour your selues ten times more, to turne againe and to seeke him.}

geneva@Bar:4:29 @ {\cf2 For he that hath brought these plagues vpon you, will bring you euerlasting ioy againe, with your saluation.}

geneva@Bar:4:31 @ {\cf2 They are miserable that afflict thee, and such as reioyce at thy fall.}

geneva@Bar:4:33 @ {\cf2 For as she reioyced at thy decay, & was glad of thy fal, so shal she be sory for her owne desolatio.}

geneva@Bar:4:35 @ {\cf2 For a fire shall come vpon her from the Euerlasting, long to endure, and she shall be inhabited of deuils for a great season.}

geneva@Bar:4:36 @ {\cf2 O Ierusalem, looke toward the East, and behold the ioy that cometh vnto thee from thy God.}

geneva@Bar:4:37 @ {\cf2 Lo, thy sonnes (whom thou hast let go) come gathered together from the East vnto the West, reioycing in the worde of the Holy one vnto the honour of God.}

geneva@Bar:5:2 @ {\cf2 Put on the garment of righteousnesse, that commeth from God, and set a crowne vpon thine head of the glorie of the Euerlasting.}

geneva@Bar:5:5 @ {\cf2 Arise, O Ierusalem, and stand vp on hie, and looke about thee towarde the East, and beholde thy children gathered from the East vnto the West by the worde of the holy one, reioycing in the remembrance of God.}

geneva@Bar:5:6 @ {\cf2 For they departed from thee on foote, and were led away of their enemies: but God will bring them againe vnto thee, exalted in glorie, as children of the kingdome.}

geneva@Bar:6:2 @ {\cf2 So when ye be come into Babylon, yee shall remaine there many yeeres, and a long season, euen seuen generations, and after that will I bring you away peaceablie from thence.}

geneva@Bar:6:7 @ {\cf2 As for their tongue, it is polished by the carpenter, & they them selues are gilted, and laide ouer with siluer: yet are they but lies, and can not speake.}

geneva@Bar:6:8 @ {\cf2 And as they take golde for a maide that loueth to be deckt,}

geneva@Bar:6:13 @ {\cf2 One holdeth a scepter, as though he were a certaine iudge of the countrey: yet can he not slaie such as offend him.}

geneva@Bar:6:15 @ {\cf2 Therefore feare them not: for as vessel that a man vseth, is nothing worth when it is broken:}

geneva@Bar:6:16 @ {\cf2 Such are their gods: when they be set vp in their temples their eyes be full of dust by reason of the feete of those that come in.}

geneva@Bar:6:17 @ {\cf2 And as the gates are shut in rounde about vpon him that hath offended the King: or as one that shoulde be ledde to be put to death: so the priestes keepe their temples with doores, and with lockes, and with barres, least their gods shoulde be spoyled by robbers.}

geneva@Bar:6:18 @ {\cf2 They light vp candles before them, yea, more then for them selues, whereof they can not see one: for they are but as one of the postes of the temple.}

geneva@Bar:6:25 @ {\cf2 They are borne vpon mens shoulders, because they haue no feete, whereby they declare vnto men, that they be nothing woorth: yea, and they that worship them, are ashamed.}

geneva@Bar:6:26 @ {\cf2 For if they fall to the grounde at any time, they can not rise vp againe of themselues, neither if one set them vp right, can they mooue of them selues, neither if they be bowed downe, can they make them selues streight: but they set gifts before them, as vnto dead men.}

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@Bar:6:31 @ {\cf2 They roare, and cry before their gods, as men doe at the feast of one that is dead.}

geneva@Bar:6:38 @ {\cf2 Their gods of wood, golde, and siluer, are as stones, that bee hewen out of the mountaine, and they that worship them, shall be confounded.}

geneva@Bar:6:41 @ {\cf2 And desire that hee woulde make him to speake, as though he had any feeling: yet they that vnderstande these thinges, can not leaue them: for they also haue no sense.}

geneva@Bar:6:43 @ {\cf2 And if one of them be drawen away, and lie with any such as come by, shee casteth her neighbour in the teeth, because shee was not so worthily reputed, nor her coarde broken.}

geneva@Bar:6:53 @ {\cf2 They can giue no sentence of a matter, neither preserue from iniurie: they haue no power, but are as crowes betweene the heauen and the earth.}

geneva@Bar:6:54 @ {\cf2 When there falleth a fire vpon the house of those gods of wood, and of siluer, and of golde, the priestes will escape and saue them selues, but they burne as the balkes therein.}

geneva@Bar:6:58 @ {\cf2 Therefore it is better to be a King, and so to shewe his power, or els a profitable vessell in an house, whereby hee that oweth it, might haue profite, then such false gods: or to bee a doore in an house, to keepe such thinges safe as be therein, then such false gods: or a pillar of wood in a palace, then such false gods.}

geneva@Bar:6:61 @ {\cf2 And when God commandeth the cloudes to go about ye whole world, they do as they are bidden.}

geneva@Bar:6:64 @ {\cf2 For so much nowe as yee are sure, that they be no gods, feare them not.}

geneva@Bar:6:66 @ {\cf2 Neither can they shewe signes in the heauen among the heathen, neither shine as the moone.}

geneva@Bar:6:67 @ {\cf2 The beastes are better then they: for they ca get them vnder a couert, & do themselues good.}

geneva@Bar:6:69 @ {\cf2 For as a skarcrowe in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so are their goddes of wood, and of siluer, and of golde:}

geneva@Bar:6:70 @ {\cf2 And likewise their gods of wood, and golde and siluer are like to a white thorne in an orcharde, that euery birde sitteth vpon, and as a deade bodie that is cast in the darke.}

geneva@Bar:6:71 @ {\cf2 By the purple also and brightnesse, which fadeth vpon them, yee may vnderstande, that they be no gods: yea, they themselues shall be consumed at the last, and they shall be a shame to the countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:1:1 @ {\cf2 After that Alexander the Macedonian, the sonne of Philippe, went forth of the land of Chettiim, and slewe Darius King of the Persians & Medes, and reigned for him, as he had before in Grecia,}

geneva@1Macc:1:3 @ {\cf2 So went he thorow to the endes of the world, and tooke spoyles of many nations, in so much that the world stood in awe of him: therefore his heart was puffed vp and was hawtie.}

geneva@1Macc:1:7 @ {\cf2 Then he called for the chiefe of his seruants, which had bene brought vp with him of children, and parted his kingdome among them, while he was yet aliue.}

geneva@1Macc:1:10 @ {\cf2 And they all caused them selues to be crownedafter his death, and so did their children after them many yeeres, and much wickednes increased in the worlde.}

geneva@1Macc:1:13 @ {\cf2 So this deuice pleased them well.}

geneva@1Macc:1:17 @ {\cf2 So when Antiochus kingdome was set in order, he went about to reigne ouer Egypt, that hee might haue the dominion of two Realmes.}

geneva@1Macc:1:19 @ {\cf2 And moued warre against Ptolemeus King of Egypt: but Ptolemeus was afrayd of him, & fled, and many were wounded to death.}

geneva@1Macc:1:23 @ {\cf2 And entred proudely into the Sanctuarie, & tooke away the golden altar, and the candlesticke for the light, & all the instruments thereof, and the table of the shewbread, and the powring vessels, & the bowles, and the golden basins, & the vaile, and the crownes, and the golden apparel, which was before the Temple, and brake all in pieces.}

geneva@1Macc:1:24 @ {\cf2 He tooke also the siluer and golde, and the precious iewels, & he tooke the secret treasures that he founde, and when he had taken away all, he departed into his owne land,}

geneva@1Macc:1:26 @ {\cf2 Therefore there was a great lamentation in euery place of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:1:27 @ {\cf2 For the Princes & the Elders mourned: the yong women, & the yong men were made feeble, and the beautie of the women was changed.}

geneva@1Macc:1:28 @ {\cf2 Euery bridegrome tooke him to mourning, and shee that sate in the marriage chamber, was in heauinesse.}

geneva@1Macc:1:29 @ {\cf2 The lande also was mooued for the inhabitants thereof: for all the house of Iacob was couered with confusion.}

geneva@1Macc:1:30 @ {\cf2 After two yeres the King sent his chiefe taxe master into the cities of Iuda, which came to Ierusalem with a great multitude.}

geneva@1Macc:1:33 @ {\cf2 And when he had spoiled the citie, he set fire on it, casting downe the houses thereof, and walles thereof on euery side.}

geneva@1Macc:1:41 @ {\cf2 Her Sanctuarie was left waste as a wildernes: her holy dayes were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproche, and her honour brought to naught.}

geneva@1Macc:1:42 @ {\cf2 As her glory had bene great, so was her dishonour, & her excellencie was turned into sorowe.}

geneva@1Macc:1:43 @ {\cf2 Also the King wrote vnto all his kingdome, that all the people should be as one, and that euery man should leaue his lawes.}

geneva@1Macc:1:48 @ {\cf2 And that they shoulde defile the Sabbaths and the feastes,}

geneva@1Macc:1:50 @ {\cf2 And to set vp altars, and groues, and chappels of idoles, and offer vp swines fleshe, and vncleane beastes,}

geneva@1Macc:1:57 @ {\cf2 The fifteenth day of Casleu, in the hundreth and fiue and fourtieth yeere, they set vp the abomination of desolation vpon the altar, and they buylded altars throughout the cities of Iuda on euery side.}

geneva@1Macc:1:60 @ {\cf2 Whosoeuer had a booke of the Testament founde by him, or whosoeuer consented vnto the Lawe, the Kings commaundement was, that they should put him to death by their authoritie.}

geneva@1Macc:1:62 @ {\cf2 And in the fiue & twentieth day of the moneth, they did sacrifice vpon the altar, which was in the stead of the altar of sacrifices.}

geneva@1Macc:1:67 @ {\cf2 And this tyrannie was very sore vpon the people of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:2:1 @ {\cf2 In those dayes stoode vp Mattathias the Priest, the sonne of Ioannes, the sonne of Simeon, of the sonnes of Ioarib of Ierusalem, and dwelt in Modin.}

geneva@1Macc:2:3 @ {\cf2 Simon called Thassi,}

geneva@1Macc:2:4 @ {\cf2 Iudas which was called Maccabeus,}

geneva@1Macc:2:5 @ {\cf2 Eleazar called Abaron, & Ionathan, whose name was Apphus.}

geneva@1Macc:2:6 @ {\cf2 Nowe he sawe the blasphemies, which were committed in Iuda and Ierusalem:}

geneva@1Macc:2:7 @ {\cf2 And he sayde, Woe is me: wherefore was I borne, to see this destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy citie, & thus to sit still? it is deliuered into the handes of the enemies,}

geneva@1Macc:2:8 @ {\cf2 And the Sanctuarie is in the hands of strangers: her Temple is as a man that hath no renoume.}

geneva@1Macc:2:14 @ {\cf2 And Mattathias rent his clothes, he, and his sonnes, and put sackcloth vpon them, and mourned very sore.}

geneva@1Macc:2:16 @ {\cf2 So many of the Israelites consented vnto them: but Mattathias and his sonnes assembled together.}

geneva@1Macc:2:17 @ {\cf2 Then spake the Commissioners of the King, and sayd vnto Mattathias, Thou art the chiefe and an honourable man, and great in this citie, & hast many children and brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:2:18 @ {\cf2 Come thou therfore first, & fulfil the Kings commandement, as all the heathen haue done, and also the men of Iuda, and such as remaine at Ierusalem: so shalt thou & thy familie be in the Kings fauour, and thou & thy children shalbe enriched with siluer and golde, and with many rewardes.}

geneva@1Macc:2:19 @ {\cf2 Then Mattathias answered and sayde with a loude voyce, Though all nations that are vnder the Kings dominion, obey him, & fall away euery man from the religion of their fathers, and consent to his commandements,}

geneva@1Macc:2:23 @ {\cf2 And when hee had left off speaking these words, there came one of the Iewes, in the sight of all to sacrifice vpon the altar which was at Modin, according to the Kings commandement.}

geneva@1Macc:2:24 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Mattathias sawe it, he was so inflamed with zeale, that his raynes shooke, and his wrath was kindled according to the ordinance of the Lawe: therefore he ranne vnto him, and killed him by the altar:}

geneva@1Macc:2:26 @ {\cf2 Thus bare hee a zeale to the Lawe of God, doing, as Phinees did vnto Zambri the sonne of Salom.}

geneva@1Macc:2:27 @ {\cf2 Then cryed Mattathias with a loude voyce in the citie, saying, Whosoeuer is zealous of the Law, and will stand by the couenant, let him come forth after me.}

geneva@1Macc:2:30 @ {\cf2 Went downe into the wildernesse to dwell there, both they, and their children, & their wiues, and their cattell: for the afflictions increased sore vpon them.}

geneva@1Macc:2:31 @ {\cf2 Nowe when it was tolde vnto the Kings seruants, and to the garisons, which were in Ierusalem in the citie of Dauid, that men had broken the Kings commandement, and were gone downe into the secret places in the wildernesse,}

geneva@1Macc:2:36 @ {\cf2 But the other answered them nothing, neyther cast any one stone at them, nor stopped the priuie places,}

geneva@1Macc:2:39 @ {\cf2 When Mattathias and his friendes vnderstood this, they mourned for them greatly,}

geneva@1Macc:2:40 @ {\cf2 And said one to another, If we all doe as our brethren haue done, and fight not against the heathen for our liues, and for our Lawes, then shal they incontinently destroy vs out of the earth.}

geneva@1Macc:2:41 @ {\cf2 Therefore they concluded at the same time, saying, Whosoeuer shall come to make battel with vs vpon the Sabboth day, we wil fight against him, that wee die not all, as our brethren that were murthered in the secret places.}

geneva@1Macc:2:42 @ {\cf2 Then came vnto them the assembly of the Asideans, which were of the strongest men of Israel, al such as were wel minded toward the Lawe.}

geneva@1Macc:2:45 @ {\cf2 Then Mattathias and his friendes went about, and destroyed the altars,}

geneva@1Macc:2:46 @ {\cf2 And circumcised the children by force that were vncircumcised, as many as they found within the coastes of Israel,}

geneva@1Macc:2:49 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the time drewe neere, that Mattathias should die, he saide vnto his sonnes, Nowe is pride and persecution increased, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation.}

geneva@1Macc:2:51 @ {\cf2 Call to remembrance what actes our fathers did in their time: so shall yee receiue great honour and an euerlasting name.}

geneva@1Macc:2:52 @ {\cf2 Was not Abraham found faithful in tentation, & it was imputed vnto him for righteousnesse?}

geneva@1Macc:2:53 @ {\cf2 Ioseph in the time of his trouble kept the commandement, and was made the lord of Egypt.}

geneva@1Macc:2:54 @ {\cf2 Phinees our father, because he was zealous and feruent, obtained the couenant of the euerlasting Priesthood.}

geneva@1Macc:2:55 @ {\cf2 Iesus for fulfilling the word, was made the gouernour of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:2:58 @ {\cf2 Elias, because he was zealous and feruent in the Lawe, was taken vp euen vnto heauen.}

geneva@1Macc:2:59 @ {\cf2 Ananias, Azarias and Misael by their faith were deliuered out of the flame.}

geneva@1Macc:2:60 @ {\cf2 Daniel, because of his innocencie, was deliuered from the mouth of the Lyons.}

geneva@1Macc:2:66 @ {\cf2 And Iudas Maccabeus hath bin mightie and strong, euen from his youth vp: let him bee your captaine, and fight you the battell for the people.}

geneva@1Macc:2:69 @ {\cf2 So hee blessed them, and was layed with his fathers,}

geneva@1Macc:3:1 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas his sonne, called Maccabeus, rose vp in his place.}

geneva@1Macc:3:3 @ {\cf2 So he gate his people great honour: he put on a breastplate as a gyant, and armed himselfe, and set the battell in array, and defended the campe with the sword.}

geneva@1Macc:3:4 @ {\cf2 In his actes he was like a Lion, and as a Lyons whelpe roaring after the pray.}

geneva@1Macc:3:9 @ {\cf2 So was hee renowmed vnto the endes of the earth, and hee assembled together those that were ready to perish.}

geneva@1Macc:3:11 @ {\cf2 Which when Iudas perceiued, he went forth to meete him, and smote him, and slewe him, so that many fell downe slayne, and the rest fled.}

geneva@1Macc:3:12 @ {\cf2 So Iudas tooke their spoyles, and tooke also Apollonius sworde, and fought with it all his life long.}

geneva@1Macc:3:13 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Seron a prince of the armie of Syria, heard that Iudas had gathered vnto him the Congregation, and Church of the faithfull, and went forth to the warre,}

geneva@1Macc:3:14 @ {\cf2 He sayd, I wil get me a name, and wil be glorious in the realme: for I will goe fight with Iudas, and them that are with him, which haue despised the kings commandement.}

geneva@1Macc:3:16 @ {\cf2 And when he came neere to the going vp of Bethhoron, Iudas went forth to meete him with a small companie.}

geneva@1Macc:3:17 @ {\cf2 But when they sawe the army comming against them, they sayde to Iudas, Howe are wee able, being so fewe, to fight against so great a multitude, and so strong, seeing we be so weary, and haue fasted all this day?}

geneva@1Macc:3:18 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudas, It is an easie thing for many to be shut vp in the hands of fewe, and there is no difference before the God of heauen, to deliuer by a great multitude, or by a small company.}

geneva@1Macc:3:23 @ {\cf2 And when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly vpon them: so was Seron and his host destroyed before him.}

geneva@1Macc:3:25 @ {\cf2 Then the feare and terrour of Iudas and his brethren fell vpon the nations round about,}

geneva@1Macc:3:26 @ {\cf2 So that his fame came vnto the king: for all the Gentiles could tell of the warres of Iudas.}

geneva@1Macc:3:27 @ {\cf2 But when king Antiochus heard these tidings, he was angry in his minde: wherefore he sent forth, and gathered all the power of his realme, a very strong army,}

geneva@1Macc:3:28 @ {\cf2 And opened his treasurie, and gaue his host a yeeres wages in hande, commanding them to be ready for a yeere for all occasions.}

geneva@1Macc:3:29 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, when he sawe that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes in the countrey were small, because of the dissention, and plagues that he had brought vpon the lande, in taking away the lawes which had bene of olde time,}

geneva@1Macc:3:30 @ {\cf2 He feared least he shoulde not haue nowe at the seconde time, as the first, for the charges and gifts that he had giuen with a liberall hande afore: for in liberalitie he farre passed the other kings that were before him.}

geneva@1Macc:3:31 @ {\cf2 Wherefore he was heauie in his minde, and thought to goe into Persia, for to take tributes of the countreys, and to gather much money.}

geneva@1Macc:3:32 @ {\cf2 So he left Lysias a noble man & of the kings blood to ouersee the kings businesse, from the riuer of Euphrates vnto the borders of Egypt,}

geneva@1Macc:3:37 @ {\cf2 And the king tooke the halfe of the hoste that remained, and departed from Antiochia his royall citie, in the yeere an hundreth fourtie and seuen, and passed the riuer Euphrates, and went thorowe the hie countreys.}

geneva@1Macc:3:38 @ {\cf2 Then Lysias chose Ptolemeus the sonne of Doriminus, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men, and the kings friends,}

geneva@1Macc:3:39 @ {\cf2 And sent with them fourty thousand footemen, and seuen thousand horsemen, to go into the lande of Iuda, and to destroy it, as the king commanded.}

geneva@1Macc:3:42 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudas and his brethren sawe that trouble increased, and that the hoste drewe neere vnto their borders, considering the kinges words, whereby he had commanded to destroy the people, and vtterly abolish them,}

geneva@1Macc:3:44 @ {\cf2 Then the Congregation were soone readie gathered to fight, and to pray, and to desire mercie and compassion.}

geneva@1Macc:3:45 @ {\cf2 As for Ierusalem, it was not inhabited, but was as a wildernesse. There went none that was borne in it, in or out at it, and the Sanctuarie was troden downe, and the strangers kept the fortresse, and it was the habitation of the heathen: and the mirth of Iacob was taken away: the pipe and the harpe ceased.}

geneva@1Macc:3:46 @ {\cf2 So they gathered them selues together, and came to Maspha before Ierusalem: for in Maspha was the place where they praied aforetime in Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:3:47 @ {\cf2 And they fasted that day, and put sackcloth vpon them, and cast ashes vpon their heads, & rent their clothes,}

geneva@1Macc:3:55 @ {\cf2 And after this Iudas ordeyned captaines ouer the people, euen captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreths, and captaines ouer fifties, and captaines ouer tenne.}

geneva@1Macc:3:58 @ {\cf2 And Iudas sayde, Arme your selues, and be valiant men, and be ready against the morning to fight with these nations, which are gathered together against vs, to destroy vs and our Sanctuarie.}

geneva@1Macc:3:60 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse as the will of God is in heauen, so be it.}

geneva@1Macc:4:1 @ {\cf2 Then tooke Gorgias fiue thousande foote men, and a thousande of the best horsemen, and departed out of the campe by night,}

geneva@1Macc:4:3 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudas heard it, he remoued, and they that were valiant men to smite the Kings armie which was at Emmaus,}

geneva@1Macc:4:4 @ {\cf2 Whiles yet the armie was dispersed from the campe.}

geneva@1Macc:4:5 @ {\cf2 In the meane season came Gorgias by night into Iudas campe: and when he founde no man there, he sought them in the mountaines: for said he, They flee from vs.}

geneva@1Macc:4:6 @ {\cf2 But assoone as it was day, Iudas shewed him selfe in the fielde with three thousand men, which had neither harnesse nor swordes to their mindes.}

geneva@1Macc:4:8 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudas to the men that were with him, Feare ye not their multitude, neither be afraid of their assault.}

geneva@1Macc:4:13 @ {\cf2 And they went out of their tentes into the battell, and they that were with Iudas, blewe the trumpets.}

geneva@1Macc:4:16 @ {\cf2 So Iudas turned againe with his hoste from pursuing them,}

geneva@1Macc:4:18 @ {\cf2 And Gorgias and the armie is here by vs in the mountaine: but stand ye now fast against your enemies, and ouercome them: then may ye safely take the spoyles.}

geneva@1Macc:4:19 @ {\cf2 As Iudas was speaking these words, there appeared one part which looked from ye mountaines.}

geneva@1Macc:4:20 @ {\cf2 But when Gorgias sawe that his were fled, & that Iudas souldiers burnt the tents: (for the smoke that was seene, declared what was done.)}

geneva@1Macc:4:21 @ {\cf2 When they saw these things, they were sore afraid, & when they saw also that Iudas & his hoste were in the field ready to set themselues in aray,}

geneva@1Macc:4:23 @ {\cf2 So Iudas turned againe to spoyle the tentes, where he gate much golde and siluer, and precious stones, and purple of the sea, and great riches.}

geneva@1Macc:4:26 @ {\cf2 Nowe all the strangers that escaped, came, and tolde Lysias all the things that were done.}

geneva@1Macc:4:27 @ {\cf2 Who when he heard these thinges, was sore afraid, & discouraged, because such things came not vpon Israel as he would, neither such things as the King had commanded him, came to passe.}

geneva@1Macc:4:28 @ {\cf2 Therefore the next yere following, gathered Lysias three score thousande chosen foote men, and fiue thousand horsemen to fight against Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:4:29 @ {\cf2 So they came into Idumea, & pitched their tents at Beth-sura, where Iudas came against them with ten thousand men.}

geneva@1Macc:4:30 @ {\cf2 And whe he saw that mightie armie, he praied, and saide, Blessed be thou, O Sauiour of Israel, which diddest destroy the assault of the mightie man by the hand of thy seruant Dauid, & gauest the hoste of the strangers into the hand of Ionathan, the sonne of Saul, and of his armour bearer:}

geneva@1Macc:4:32 @ {\cf2 Make them afraide, and consume their boldnesse and strength, that they may be astonished at their destruction.}

geneva@1Macc:4:33 @ {\cf2 Cast them downe by the sworde of them that loue thee: then shall all they that knowe thy Name, praise thee with songs.}

geneva@1Macc:4:34 @ {\cf2 So they ioyned together, and there were slaine of Lysias hoste, fiue thousande men, and they fell before them.}

geneva@1Macc:4:35 @ {\cf2 Then Lysias, seeing his armie put to flight, and the manlines of Iudas souldiers, and that they were ready, either to liue or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered strangers, and when he had furnished his armie, he thought againe (being prepared) to come against Iudea.}

geneva@1Macc:4:36 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudas and his brethren, Beholde, our enemies are discomfited: let vs nowe goe vp to clense, and to repaire the Sanctuarie.}

geneva@1Macc:4:38 @ {\cf2 Nowe when they sawe the Sanctuarie layde waste, and the altar defiled, and the doores burnt vp, and the shrubbes growing in the courtes, as in a forest, or as on one of the mountaines, and that the Priestes chambers were broken downe,}

geneva@1Macc:4:39 @ {\cf2 They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes vpon their heades,}

geneva@1Macc:4:41 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas commanded certaine of the me to fight against those which were in the castle, till he had clensed the Sanctuarie.}

geneva@1Macc:4:42 @ {\cf2 So he chose Priestes that were vndefiled, such as delited in the Lawe,}

geneva@1Macc:4:44 @ {\cf2 And consulted what to doe with the altar of burnt offrings, which was polluted.}

geneva@1Macc:4:45 @ {\cf2 So they thought it was best to destroy it, least it shoulde be a reproche vnto them, because the heathen had defiled it: therefore they destroyed the altar,}

geneva@1Macc:4:52 @ {\cf2 And vpon the fiue and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, which is called the moneth of Chaslu, in the hundreth and eight and fourtieth yeere they rose vp betimes in the morning,}

geneva@1Macc:4:54 @ {\cf2 According to the time, and according to the day, that the heathen had defiled it, in the same day was it made new with songs, and harpes, and lutes, and cymbales.}

geneva@1Macc:4:58 @ {\cf2 Thus there was very great gladnesse among the people, and the reproche of the heathen was put away.}

geneva@1Macc:4:59 @ {\cf2 So Iudas and his brethren with the whole congregation of Israel, ordeyned that the dayes of dedication of the altar should be kept in their season from veere to yere, by the space of eight dayes, from the fiue and twentieth day of the moneth Chaslu, with mirth and gladnesse.}

geneva@1Macc:4:60 @ {\cf2 And at the same time buylded they vp mout Sion with hie walles, & strong towres round about, lest the Gentiles should come, and tread it downe, as they had done afore.}

geneva@1Macc:5:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the nations rounde about heard, that the altar was buylded, and the Sanctuarie renued, as afore, they were sore grieued.}

geneva@1Macc:5:2 @ {\cf2 Therefore they thought to destroy the generation of Iacob that was among them, and began to slay and destroy the people.}

geneva@1Macc:5:3 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arrabathene, because they besieged the Israelites, & he smote them with a great plague, and droue them to straites, and tooke their spoyles.}

geneva@1Macc:5:9 @ {\cf2 Then the heathen that were in Galaad, gathered them together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to slay them: but they fled to the castle of Datheman,}

geneva@1Macc:5:10 @ {\cf2 And sent letters to Iudas, & to his brethren, saying, The heathen that are about vs, are gathered against vs, to destroy vs,}

geneva@1Macc:5:16 @ {\cf2 When Iudas, and the people heard these wordes, a great congregation came together, to consulte what they might doe for their brethren, that were in trouble, and whom they besieged.}

geneva@1Macc:5:17 @ {\cf2 Then said Iudas to Simon his brother, Chuse thee out men, and goe and deliuer thy brethren in Galile, and I and my brother Ionathan, wil goe into the countrey of Galaad.}

geneva@1Macc:5:18 @ {\cf2 So he left Iosephus the sonne of Zacharias, and Azarias to be captaines of the people, and to keepe the remnant of the hoste in Iudea,}

geneva@1Macc:5:20 @ {\cf2 And vnto Simon were giuen three thousand men to goe into Galile, and to Iudas eight thousand men for the countrey of Galaad.}

geneva@1Macc:5:24 @ {\cf2 Iudas Maccabeus also, and his brother Ionathan went ouer Iorden, and trauailed three dayes iourney in the wildernes,}

geneva@1Macc:5:25 @ {\cf2 Where they mette with the Nabathites, who receiued them louingly, and tolde them euery thing that was done vnto their brethren in the countrey of Galaad,}

geneva@1Macc:5:26 @ {\cf2 And how that many of them were besieged in Bosorra, and Bosor, in Alemis, Chasbon, Maged and Carnaim (all these cities are strong, and great)}

geneva@1Macc:5:28 @ {\cf2 So Iudas and his host turned in all haste by the way of the wildernesse towarde Bosorra, and wanne the citie, and slewe all the males with the edge of the sword, and tooke all their spoyle, and set fire vpon the citie.}

geneva@1Macc:5:30 @ {\cf2 And betimes in the morning when they looked vp, beholde, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders, and instruments of warre, to take the forte, and had assaulted them.}

geneva@1Macc:5:31 @ {\cf2 When Iudas sawe that the battel was begun, & that the cry of the citie went vp to heauen with trumpets, and a great sound,}

geneva@1Macc:5:34 @ {\cf2 Then the host of Timotheus knew, that it was Maccabeus, and they fled from him, and hee smote them with a great slaughter, so that there was killed of them the same day, almost eight thousand men.}

geneva@1Macc:5:35 @ {\cf2 Then departed Iudas vnto Maspha, & laid siege vnto it, and wanne it, and slewe all the males thereof, and spoyled it, and set fire vpon it.}

geneva@1Macc:5:36 @ {\cf2 From thence went he and tooke Chasbon, Maged, and Bosor, and the other cities in Galaad.}

geneva@1Macc:5:38 @ {\cf2 Now Iudas had sent to espie the host, and they brought him word againe, saying, All the heathen that bee rounde about vs, are gathered vnto him, and the host is very great,}

geneva@1Macc:5:39 @ {\cf2 And hee hath hired the Arabians to helpe them, and they haue pitched their tents beyond the flood, and are ready to come and fight against thee. So Iudas went to meete them.}

geneva@1Macc:5:40 @ {\cf2 Then Timotheus said vnto the captaines of his host, When Iudas and his host come neere the flood, if he passe ouer first vnto vs, we shal not be able to withstand him: for he wil be too strog for vs.}

geneva@1Macc:5:42 @ {\cf2 Now when Iudas came neere to ye flood, hee caused the gouernours of ye people to remayne by the flood, & commanded them, saying, Suffer none to pitch a tent, but let euery man come to ye battel.}

geneva@1Macc:5:43 @ {\cf2 So he went first ouer toward them, & all the people after him: & all the heathen were discofited before him, and cast away their weapons, and fled into the Temple that was at Carnaim.}

geneva@1Macc:5:44 @ {\cf2 Which citie Iudas wanne, and burnt the temple with all that were in it: so was Carnaim subdued, and might not withstand Iudas.}

geneva@1Macc:5:45 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas gathered all the Israelites that were in the countrey of Galaad, from the least vnto the most, with their wiues and their children, and their baggage, a very great hoste, to come into the land of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:5:46 @ {\cf2 So they came vnto Ephron, which was a great citie by the way, and strongly defensed: they coulde not passe, neither at the right hande nor at the left, but must goe thorow it.}

geneva@1Macc:5:47 @ {\cf2 But they that were in the citie, shutte themselues in, & stopped vp the gates with stones: & Iudas sent vnto them with peaceable wordes, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:5:48 @ {\cf2 Let vs passe thorowe your land, that we may goe into our owne countrey, and none shall hurt you: we will but onely goe thorowe on foote: but they would not open vnto him.}

geneva@1Macc:5:49 @ {\cf2 Wherefore Iudas commaunded a proclamation to bee made throughout the hoste, that euery man should assault it according to his standing.}

geneva@1Macc:5:50 @ {\cf2 So the valiant men set vpon it, and assaulted the citie all that day, and all that night, and the citie was giuen ouer into his handes:}

geneva@1Macc:5:53 @ {\cf2 And Iudas gathered together those that were behinde, & gaue the people good exhortation all the way thorow, til they were come into ye land of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:5:55 @ {\cf2 Nowe whilest Iudas and Ionathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon their brother in Galile before Ptolemais,}

geneva@1Macc:5:56 @ {\cf2 Ioseph the sonne of Zacharias, and Azarias the captaines, hearing of the valiant actes, and battels which they had atchieued, said,}

geneva@1Macc:5:59 @ {\cf2 But Gorgias and his men came out of the citie to fight against them.}

geneva@1Macc:5:60 @ {\cf2 And Ioseph and Azarias were put to flight, and pursued vnto the borders of Iudea: and there were slaine that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men: so that there was a great ouerthrow among the people of Israel,}

geneva@1Macc:5:61 @ {\cf2 Because they were not obedient vnto Iudas, and his brethren, but thought to doe some valiant thing.}

geneva@1Macc:5:62 @ {\cf2 Also they came not of ye stocke of these men, by whose handes deliuerance was giuen to Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:5:63 @ {\cf2 But the man Iudas, & his brethre were greatly commended in the sight of all Israel, & of all the heathen, wheresoeuer their name was heard of.}

geneva@1Macc:5:65 @ {\cf2 Afterwarde went Iudas foorth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land towarde the South, where hee wanne Hebron, & the townes thereof, and he destroyed the castel thereof, and burnt the towers thereof round about.}

geneva@1Macc:5:67 @ {\cf2 At the same time were the Priests of the cities slaine in the battel, which would shewe their valiantnes, and went forth to battel without counsell: and when Iudas came to Azotus in the strangers lande, he brake down their altars, and burnt with fire the images of their gods, and tooke away the spoyles of the cities, and came againe into the lande of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:6:1 @ {\cf2 Now when King Antiochus traueyled thorowe the high countreys, hee heard that Elimais in the countrey of Persia was a citie greatly renowmed for riches, siluer and golde,}

geneva@1Macc:6:2 @ {\cf2 And that there was in it a very riche temple, where as were couerings of golde, coate armours, and harnesse, which Alexander King of Macedonia the sonne of Philip (that reigned first in Grecia) had left there.}

geneva@1Macc:6:3 @ {\cf2 Wherefore hee went about to take the citie, and to spoyle it, but he was not able: for the citizens were warned of the matter,}

geneva@1Macc:6:6 @ {\cf2 And that Lysias, which went forth first with a great power, was driuen away of the Iewes, and that they were made strong by the armour, and power, and diuers spoyles which they had gotten of the armies whome they had destroyed,}

geneva@1Macc:6:7 @ {\cf2 And that they had pulled downe the abomination, which he had set vp vpon the altar at Ierusalem, and fensed the Sanctuarie with high walles, as it was afore, and Beth-sura his citie.}

geneva@1Macc:6:8 @ {\cf2 So when the king had heard these words, hee was astonished, and sore mooued: therefore hee laide him downe vpon his bed, and fell sicke for very sorowe, because it was not come to passe, as he had thought.}

geneva@1Macc:6:9 @ {\cf2 And there continued hee many dayes: for his griefe was euer more and more, so that he sawe hee must needes die.}

geneva@1Macc:6:11 @ {\cf2 And I thinke with my selfe, Into what aduersitie am I come? And into what flouds of miserie am I fallen now, whereas aforetime I was in prosperitie, and greatly set by, by reason of my power?}

geneva@1Macc:6:17 @ {\cf2 When Lysias knewe, that the king was dead, he ordeined Antiochus his sonne (whome hee had brought vp) to reigne in his fathers steade, and called him Eupator.}

geneva@1Macc:6:18 @ {\cf2 Now they that were in the castell at Ierusalem, kept in the Israelites round about the Sanctuarie, and sought alwayes their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.}

geneva@1Macc:6:19 @ {\cf2 Therefore Iudas thought to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them.}

geneva@1Macc:6:22 @ {\cf2 And they went vnto the king, saying, Howe long wilt thou cease from executing iudgement, and auenge our brethren?}

geneva@1Macc:6:26 @ {\cf2 And behold, this day are they besieging the castle at Ierusalem to take it, and haue fortified the Sanctuarie, and Beth-sura.}

geneva@1Macc:6:28 @ {\cf2 When the King heard this, hee was very angrie, and called all his friendes, the captaines of his armie, and his horsemen,}

geneva@1Macc:6:30 @ {\cf2 So the number of his armie was an hundreth thousande footemen, and twentie thousand horsemen, and two and thirtie elephantes excercised in battel.}

geneva@1Macc:6:31 @ {\cf2 These came through Idumea and drew neere to Beth-sura, and besieged it a log season, and made engins of warre: but they came out, and burnt them with fire, and fought valiantly.}

geneva@1Macc:6:32 @ {\cf2 Then departed Iudas from the castel, and remoued ye host toward Beth-zacarias ouer against the kings campe.}

geneva@1Macc:6:33 @ {\cf2 So the King arose very earely, and brought the army & his power toward the way of Beth-zacarias, where the army set themselues in aray to the battel, and blewe the trumpets.}

geneva@1Macc:6:35 @ {\cf2 And they set the beastes according to the ranges: so that by euery elephant there stoode a thousand men armed with coates of maile and helmets of brasse vpon their heades, and vnto euery beast were ordeined fiue hudreth horseme of ye best,}

geneva@1Macc:6:36 @ {\cf2 Which were readie at all times wheresoeuer the beast was: and whethersoeuer the beast went, they went also, and departed not from him.}

geneva@1Macc:6:37 @ {\cf2 And vpon them were strog towers of wood that couered euery beast, which were fastened thereon with instruments, and vpon euery one was twoand thirtie men that fought in them, and the Indian that ruled him.}

geneva@1Macc:6:39 @ {\cf2 And when the sunne shone vpon the golden shieldes, the mountaines glistered therewith, and gaue light as lampes of fire.}

geneva@1Macc:6:40 @ {\cf2 Thus parte of the Kings armie was spred vpon the high mountaines, and part beneath: so they marched forward warily and in order.}

geneva@1Macc:6:41 @ {\cf2 And all they that heard the noyse of their multitude, and the marching of the companie, and the ratling of the harnesse, were astonished: for the armie was very great and mightie.}

geneva@1Macc:6:42 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas and his hoste entred into the battell, and they slewe sixe hundreth men of the Kings armie.}

geneva@1Macc:6:43 @ {\cf2 Now when Eleazar, the sonne of Abaron, saw one of the elephants armed with royall harnes, and was more excellent then all the other beastes, he thought that the King should be vpon him.}

geneva@1Macc:6:51 @ {\cf2 And besieged the Sanctuarie many dayes, and made instruments to shoote, and other engins of warre, and instruments to cast fire and stones, & pieces to cast dartes and slings.}

geneva@1Macc:6:52 @ {\cf2 They also made engines against their engines, and fought a long season.}

geneva@1Macc:6:53 @ {\cf2 But in the garners there were no vitailes: for it was the seuenth yeere, and then they that were in Iudea, and were deliuered from the Gentiles, had eaten vp the residue of the store,}

geneva@1Macc:6:55 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Lysias heard that Philippe (whome Antiochus the King, whiles he liued, had ordeyned to bring vp Antiochus his sonne, that he might be King)}

geneva@1Macc:6:56 @ {\cf2 Was come againe out of Persia and Media, and the Kings hoste with him, and thought to take vnto him the rule of things,}

geneva@1Macc:6:57 @ {\cf2 He and his hasted, and were stirred forwarde by them in the castle to go and tell the King, and the captaines of the hoste, and to others, saying, We decrease daily, and our vitailes are but small: & the place that we lay siege vnto, is strong, and the affaires of the realme depende vpon vs.}

geneva@1Macc:6:59 @ {\cf2 And graunt them to liue after their Lawe, as they did afore: for they be grieued, and doe all these things, because we haue broken their Lawes.}

geneva@1Macc:6:62 @ {\cf2 And the King went vp to mount Sion: but when he sawe that the place was well defensed, he brake his othe that he had made, and commanded to breake downe the wall round about.}

geneva@1Macc:6:63 @ {\cf2 Then departed he in all haste, and returned vnto Antiochia, where he found Philip hauing dominion of the citie: so he fought against him, and tooke the citie by force.}

geneva@1Macc:7:1 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth, and one and fiftieth yeere, departed Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus from Rome, and came vp with a fewe men vnto a citie of the sea coast, and reigned there.}

geneva@1Macc:7:2 @ {\cf2 And when he came into the possession of his fathers kingdome, his souldiers tooke Antiochus and Lysias, and brought them vnto him.}

geneva@1Macc:7:3 @ {\cf2 But when it was tolde him, he said, Shew me not their faces.}

geneva@1Macc:7:4 @ {\cf2 So they put them to death. Now when Demetrius was set vpon the throne of his kingdome,}

geneva@1Macc:7:5 @ {\cf2 There came vnto him all the wicked and vngodly men of Israel, whose captaine was Alcimus, that would haue bene the hie Priest.}

geneva@1Macc:7:6 @ {\cf2 These men accused the people vnto ye king, saying, Iudas and his brethren haue slaine all thy friendes, and driuen vs out of our owne lande.}

geneva@1Macc:7:8 @ {\cf2 Then the King chose Bacchides a friende of his, which was a great man in the realme, and ruled beyond the flood, and was faithfull vnto the king, and sent him,}

geneva@1Macc:7:10 @ {\cf2 So they departed, and came with a great hoste into the land of Iuda, and sent messengers to Iudas and his brethren, deceitfully with peaceable wordes.}

geneva@1Macc:7:12 @ {\cf2 Then a company of the gouernours assembled vnto Alcimus and Bacchides to intreat of reasonable pointes.}

geneva@1Macc:7:13 @ {\cf2 And the Asideans were the first that required peace among the children of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:7:17 @ {\cf2 They haue cast the bodyes of thy Saintes, and their blood rounde about Ierusalem, and there was no man that would burie them.}

geneva@1Macc:7:19 @ {\cf2 Then Bacchides remoued from Ierusalem, and pitched his tent at Beth-zecha, where he sent foorth and tooke many of the men that had forsaken him, and certaine of the people whome hee slewe and cast into the great pit.}

geneva@1Macc:7:22 @ {\cf2 And all such as troubled the people, resorted vnto him: in so much, that they obteined the land of Iuda, and did much hurt in Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:7:23 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudas sawe all the mischiefe, that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites more then the heathen,}

geneva@1Macc:7:25 @ {\cf2 But when Alcimus sawe that Iudas and his people had gotten the vpper hande, and knew that he was not able to abide them, he went againe to the King, and accused them of wicked things.}

geneva@1Macc:7:27 @ {\cf2 So Nicanor came to Ierusalem with a great hoste, and sent vnto Iudas, and his brethren deceitfully with friendly wordes, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:7:29 @ {\cf2 So he came vnto Iudas, and they saluted one another peaceably: but the enemies were prepared to take away Iudas.}

geneva@1Macc:7:30 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, it was tolde Iudas, that hee came vnto him vnder deceite: therefore he feared him, and woulde not see his face no more.}

geneva@1Macc:7:31 @ {\cf2 When Nicanor perceiued that his counsell was bewrayed, he went out to fight against Iudas, beside Carphasalama.}

geneva@1Macc:7:33 @ {\cf2 After this came Nicanor vp vnto mount Sion, and some of the Priestes with the Elders of the people went foorth of the Sanctuarie to salute him peaceably, and to shewe him the burnt offring that was offred for the King.}

geneva@1Macc:7:35 @ {\cf2 And swore in his wrath, saying, If Iudas and his hoste be not deliuered nowe into mine handes, if euer I come againe in safetie, I will burne vp this house. With that, went he out in a great anger.}

geneva@1Macc:7:37 @ {\cf2 For so much as thou, O Lorde, hast chosen this House, that thy Name might be called vpon therein, and that it should be an house of prayer, and petition for thy people,}

geneva@1Macc:7:38 @ {\cf2 Be auenged of this man and his hoste, and let them be slaine by the sworde: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue.}

geneva@1Macc:7:39 @ {\cf2 When Nicanor was gone from Ierusalem, he pitched his tent at Beth-horon, and there an hoste met him out of Syria.}

geneva@1Macc:7:40 @ {\cf2 And Iudas pitched in Adasa with three thousande men, where Iudas prayed, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:7:41 @ {\cf2 O Lorde, because the messengers of King Sennacherib blasphemed thee, thine Angel went foorth, and slewe an hundreth, fourescore and fiue thousande of them.}

geneva@1Macc:7:43 @ {\cf2 So the armies ioyned together in battell, the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar: but Nicanors hoste was discomfited, and he him selfe was first slaine in the battell.}

geneva@1Macc:7:44 @ {\cf2 Nowe when his armie sawe that Nicanor was slaine, they cast away their weapons, and fled.}

geneva@1Macc:7:45 @ {\cf2 But they pursued after them a dayes iourney from Adasa vnto Gasera, blowing an alarme with the trumpets after them.}

geneva@1Macc:7:46 @ {\cf2 So they came foorth of all the townes of Iudea rounde about, and rushed vpon them, and threwe them from one to another, so that they all fell by the sworde, and there was not one of them left.}

geneva@1Macc:7:48 @ {\cf2 So the people reioyced greatly, and kept that day as a day of great gladnesse.}

geneva@1Macc:7:50 @ {\cf2 Thus the lande of Iuda was in rest a litle while.}

geneva@1Macc:8:1 @ {\cf2 Ivdas heard also the fame of the Romanes, that they were mightie, and valiant, and agreeable to all thinges that were required of them, and made peace with all that came vnto them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:4 @ {\cf2 And that by their counsell, and gentle behauiour they were rulers in euery place, though the place was farre from them, and that they had discomfited, and giuen great ouerthrowes to the Kings that came against them, from the vttermost parte of the earth, and that others gaue them tribute euery yeere,}

geneva@1Macc:8:6 @ {\cf2 And howe great Antiochus King of Asia that came against the in battel, hauing an hudreth and twentie elephants, with horsemen, & charets, and a very great armie, was discomfited by them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:7 @ {\cf2 And howe they tooke him aliue, and ordeined him, with such as should reigne after him, to pay a great tribute, and to giue hostages, and a separate porcion,}

geneva@1Macc:8:9 @ {\cf2 Againe when it was told them that the Grecians were comming to destroy them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:12 @ {\cf2 But that they kept amitie with their owne friendes, and those that stayed vpon them: finally, that they conquered kingdomes, both farre and neere, insomuch that whosoeuer heard of their renowme, was afraide of them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:14 @ {\cf2 Yet for all this that none of them ware a crowne, neither was clothed in purple, to bee magnified thereby,}

geneva@1Macc:8:16 @ {\cf2 And that they committed their gouernment to one man euery yere, who did rule ouer all their countrey, to whom euery man was obedient: and there was neither hatred nor enuie among them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:17 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas chose Eupolemus the sonne of Iohn, the sonne of Accus, and Iason, the sonne of Eleazar, and sent them vnto Rome to make friendship, and mutuall felowship with them,}

geneva@1Macc:8:19 @ {\cf2 So they went vnto Rome, which was a verie great iourney, and came into the Senate, where they spake and said,}

geneva@1Macc:8:20 @ {\cf2 Iudas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the Iewes hath sent vs vnto you, to make a bond of friendship, and peace with you, and yee to register vs as your partakers and friends.}

geneva@1Macc:8:21 @ {\cf2 And the matter pleased them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:22 @ {\cf2 And this is the copie of the epistle that they wrote in tables of brasse & sent to Ierusalem, that they might haue by them a memorial of the peace, and mutuall fellowship.}

geneva@1Macc:8:25 @ {\cf2 The people of the Iewes shall helpe them, as the time shalbe appointed, with all their heart,}

geneva@1Macc:8:26 @ {\cf2 Also they shall giue nothing to them that come to fight for them, nor serue them with wheat nor weapons, nor money, nor shippes, as it pleaseth the Romaines, but they shall keepe their couenants without taking any thing of them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:27 @ {\cf2 Likewise also if warre come first against the nation of the Iewes, the Romanes shall helpe them with a good will, according as the time shalbe appoynted them.}

geneva@1Macc:8:28 @ {\cf2 Neyther shall wheate be giuen vnto them, that take their part, nor weapons, nor money, nor ships, as it pleaseth the Romaines, who will keepe these couenants without deceit.}

geneva@1Macc:8:30 @ {\cf2 If after these points the one partie, or the other will adde or diminish, they may doe it, at their pleasures, and whatsoeuer they shall adde, or take away, shalbe ratified.}

geneva@1Macc:8:31 @ {\cf2 And as touching the euill that Demetrius hath done vnto ye Iewes, we haue written vnto him, saying, Wherefore layest thou thine heauy yoke vpon our friends, and confederates the Iewes?}

geneva@1Macc:9:1 @ {\cf2 In the meane season when Demetrius had heard how Nicanor, and his hoste had giuen the battel, he sent Bacchides, and Alcimus againe into Iudea, and his chiefe strength with them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:5 @ {\cf2 Now Iudas had pitched his tent at Eleasa, and three thousand chosen men with him.}

geneva@1Macc:9:6 @ {\cf2 And when they saw, that the multitude of the armie was great, they were sore afraid, & many conueied themselues out of the hoste, so that there abode no mo of them, but eight hundreth men.}

geneva@1Macc:9:7 @ {\cf2 When Iudas saw that his host fayled him, and that he must needes fight, he was sore troubled in mind that he had no time to gather them together, and was discouraged.}

geneva@1Macc:9:10 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas said, God forbid, that we should doe this thing, to flie from them: if our time bee come, let vs die manfully for our brethren, and let vs not staine our honour.}

geneva@1Macc:9:12 @ {\cf2 And Bacchides was in the right wing. So the armie drewe neere on both sides, and blewe the trumpets.}

geneva@1Macc:9:13 @ {\cf2 They of Iudas side blewe the trumpets also, and the earth shooke at the noyse of the armies, & the battel continued from morning to night.}

geneva@1Macc:9:14 @ {\cf2 And when Iudas sawe that Bacchides & the strength of his armie was on ye right side, he tooke with him all the hardie men,}

geneva@1Macc:9:16 @ {\cf2 Nowe when they which were of the left wing, sawe that the right wing was discomfited, they followed Iudas behinde, and them that were with him hard at the heeles.}

geneva@1Macc:9:17 @ {\cf2 Then was there a sore battel: for many were slaine of both the parties.}

geneva@1Macc:9:18 @ {\cf2 Iudas also himselfe was killed, and the remnant fled.}

geneva@1Macc:9:19 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan and Simon tooke Iudas their brother, and buryed him in his fathers sepulchre in the citie of Modin.}

geneva@1Macc:9:22 @ {\cf2 Concerning the other things of Iudas, both the battels and the valiant actes that hee did, and of his worthines, they are not writte: for they were verie many.}

geneva@1Macc:9:23 @ {\cf2 Now after the death of Iudas, wicked men came vp in all the coastes of Israel, and there arose all such as gaue themselues to iniquitie.}

geneva@1Macc:9:24 @ {\cf2 In those dayes was there a very great famine in the lande, and all the countrey gaue ouer themselues with them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:26 @ {\cf2 These sought out, and made search for Iudas friends, & brought the vnto Bacchides, which auenged himselfe vpon them, and mocked them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:27 @ {\cf2 And there came so great trouble in Israel, as was not since the time that no Prophet was seene among them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:28 @ {\cf2 Then came all Iudas friendes together, and saide vnto Ionathan,}

geneva@1Macc:9:29 @ {\cf2 Seeing thy brother Iudas is dead, and there is none like him to goe forth against our enemies, euen against Bacchides, and against them of our nation that are enemies vnto vs,}

geneva@1Macc:9:31 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan tooke the gouernance vpon him at the same time, and ruled in stead of his brother Iudas.}

geneva@1Macc:9:33 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan and Simon his brother, perceiuing that, fled into the wildernes of Thecua with all their companie, and pitched their tents by the water poole of Asphar.}

geneva@1Macc:9:35 @ {\cf2 (Nowe had Ionathan sent his brother Iohn, a captaine of the people, to pray his friendes the Nabathites, that they would keepe their baggage which was much.}

geneva@1Macc:9:37 @ {\cf2 After this came worde vnto Ionathan, and to Simon his brother, that the children of Ambri made a great marriage, and brought the bride from Medaba with great pompe: for she was daughter to one of the noblest Princes of Canaan.}

geneva@1Macc:9:39 @ {\cf2 So they lift vp their eyes, and looked, and beholde, there was a great noyse, and much preparation: then the bridegrome came forth, and his friends and his brethre met them with tymbrels, & instruments of musike, and many weapons.}

geneva@1Macc:9:41 @ {\cf2 Thus the marriage was turned to mourning, and the noyse of their melodie into lamentation.}

geneva@1Macc:9:44 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan saide vnto his companie, Let vs rise nowe, and fight against our enemies: for it is not to day as in time past.}

geneva@1Macc:9:45 @ {\cf2 Beholde, the battel is before vs, and behinde vs, and the water of Iorden on this side and that side, and the marise, and forest, so that there is no place for vs to turne aside.}

geneva@1Macc:9:47 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan stretched out his hande to smite Bacchides: but hee turned aside from him & reculed.}

geneva@1Macc:9:48 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan, & they that were with him, leapt into Iorden, and swimmed ouer vnto the further banke: but the other would not passe through Iorden after them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:50 @ {\cf2 Then hee turned againe to Ierusalem, and buylt vp the strong cities in Iuda, as the castell of Iericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Thamnatha, Pharathoni, & Tepho, with high walles, with gates, and with barres,}

geneva@1Macc:9:52 @ {\cf2 He fortified also the citie Beth-sura, and Gazara, and the castel, and set a garison in them with prouision of vitailes.}

geneva@1Macc:9:53 @ {\cf2 Hee tooke also the chiefest mens sonnes in the countrey for hostages, and put them in the castell at Ierusalem to be kept.}

geneva@1Macc:9:55 @ {\cf2 But at the same time Alcimus was plagued, and his enterprises were hindered, and his mouth was stopped: for he was smitten with a palsie, and could no more speake, nor giue order concerning his house.}

geneva@1Macc:9:57 @ {\cf2 And when Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, he turned againe to the King, and so the land of Iuda was in rest two yeeres.}

geneva@1Macc:9:58 @ {\cf2 Then all the vngodly men helde a counsell, saying, Behold, Ionathan and his companie dwell at ease, and without care: wherefore let vs bring Bacchides hither, and he wil take them all in one night.}

geneva@1Macc:9:60 @ {\cf2 Who arose and came with a great hoste, and sent letters priuily to his adherents, which were in Iudea, to take Ionathan and those that were with him: but they coulde not, for their counsell was knowen vnto them.}

geneva@1Macc:9:62 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan and Simon with their companie departed vnto Beth-basin which is in the wildernes, and repaired the decay thereof, and made it strong.}

geneva@1Macc:9:64 @ {\cf2 Then came he and layd siege to Beth-basin, and fought against it a long season, and made instruments of warre.}

geneva@1Macc:9:66 @ {\cf2 And slewe Odomeras and his brethren and the children of Phasiron in their tentes: so hee began to slay, and increased in power.}

geneva@1Macc:9:68 @ {\cf2 And fought against Bacchides, and discomfited him, and vexed him sore, so that his counsell and iourney was in vaine.}

geneva@1Macc:9:69 @ {\cf2 Wherefore he was very wroth at the wicked men, that gaue him counsel to come into the countrey, and slewe many of them, and purposed to returne into his owne countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:9:70 @ {\cf2 Whereof when Ionathan had knowledge, he sent Ambassadours vnto him, to intreate of peace with him, & that the prisoners should be deliuered.}

geneva@1Macc:9:73 @ {\cf2 Thus the sworde ceased from Israel, and Ionathan dwelt at Machmas, and began there to gouerne the people, and destroyed the vngodly men out of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:10:3 @ {\cf2 Also Demetrius sent letters vnto Ionathan, with louing words, as though he would preferre him.}

geneva@1Macc:10:6 @ {\cf2 And so he gaue Ionathan leaue to gather an hoste, and to prepare weapons, and to be confederate with him, and commaunded the hostages that were in the castell, to be deliuered vnto him.}

geneva@1Macc:10:7 @ {\cf2 Then came Ionathan to Ierusalem, and read the letters in the audience of all the people, and of them that were in the castell.}

geneva@1Macc:10:9 @ {\cf2 So they that were of the castell, deliuered the hostages vnto Ionathan, who restored them to their parents.}

geneva@1Macc:10:12 @ {\cf2 Then the strangers that were in the castles which Bacchides had made, fled,}

geneva@1Macc:10:14 @ {\cf2 Onely at Beth-sura remained certaine which had forsaken the Lawe and the commaundements: for it was their refuge.}

geneva@1Macc:10:15 @ {\cf2 Nowe when King Alexander had heard of the promises that Demetrius had made vnto Ionathan: and when it was tolde him of the battels and noble actes, which hee and his brethren had done, and of the paines that they had endured,}

geneva@1Macc:10:21 @ {\cf2 So in the seuenth moneth of the hundreth and three score yeere, vpon the feast day of the tabernacles, Ionathan put on the holy garment, and gathered an hoste, and prepared many weapons.}

geneva@1Macc:10:22 @ {\cf2 Which when Demetrius heard, he was marueilous sory, and said,}

geneva@1Macc:10:28 @ {\cf2 And will release you of many charges, and giue you rewards.}

geneva@1Macc:10:30 @ {\cf2 And from the halfe of the fruite of the trees which is mine owne duetie, I so release them that from this day foorth, none shall take any thing of the land of Iuda, or of the three gouernments which are added thereunto, as of Samaria and of Galile, from this day foorth for euermore.}

geneva@1Macc:10:32 @ {\cf2 Also I release the power of the castel which is at Ierusalem, and giue it vnto the hie Priest, that he may set in it such men, as he shall chuse to keepe it.}

geneva@1Macc:10:34 @ {\cf2 And all the feastes, and Sabbaths, and newe Moones, and the dayes appointed & the three dayes before the feast, and the three dayes after the feast, shall be dayes of freedome and libertie for all the Iewes in my realme,}

geneva@1Macc:10:36 @ {\cf2 Also thirtie thousande of the Iewes shall be written vp in the Kings hoste, and haue their wages payed them as appertaineth to all them that are of the Kings armie: and of them shall be ordeined certaine to keepe the Kings strong holdes.}

geneva@1Macc:10:37 @ {\cf2 And some of them shalbe set ouer the Kings most secret affaires, and their gouernours and their Princes shalbe of themselues, and they shall liue after their owne lawes, as the King hath commaunded in the land of Iuda.}

geneva@1Macc:10:38 @ {\cf2 And the three gouernements that are added vnto Iudea from the countrey of Samaria, shall be ioyned vnto Iudea, and they shall be as vnder one, and obey none other power, but the hie Priest.}

geneva@1Macc:10:41 @ {\cf2 And all the ouerplus which they haue not payed for the things due, as they did in the former yeeres, from hencefoorth they shall giue it towarde the workes of the Temple.}

geneva@1Macc:10:42 @ {\cf2 And besides this, the fiue thousande sicles of siluer which they receiued yeerely of the account appointed for the interteinment of the Sanctuarie these yeeres passed, euen these things shalbe released because they apperteine to the Priests that minister.}

geneva@1Macc:10:47 @ {\cf2 Wherefore they agreed vnto Alexander: for he was the first that had intreated of true peace with them, and so were confederate with him always.}

geneva@1Macc:10:50 @ {\cf2 So that sore battell continued till the sunne went downe, & Demetrius was slaine the same day.}

geneva@1Macc:10:51 @ {\cf2 Then Alexander sent Ambassadours vnto Ptolemeus the King of Egypt with these words, saying,}

geneva@1Macc:10:52 @ {\cf2 For so much as I am come againe to my realme, and am set in the throne of my fathers, and haue gotten the dominion, and haue destroyed Demetrius, and enioy my countrey,}

geneva@1Macc:10:58 @ {\cf2 Where King Alexander met him, and he gaue vnto him his daughter Cleopatra, and marryed them at Ptolemais with great glorie, as the maner of Kings is.}

geneva@1Macc:10:61 @ {\cf2 And there assembled certaine pestilent fellowes of Israel, and wicked men to accuse him: but the King would not heare them.}

geneva@1Macc:10:64 @ {\cf2 So when his accusers sawe his honour according as it was proclaimed, and that he was clothed in purple, they fled all away.}

geneva@1Macc:10:68 @ {\cf2 Whereof when King Alexander heard, hee was very sorie, and returned vnto Antiochia.}

geneva@1Macc:10:72 @ {\cf2 Aske and learne who I am, and they shall take my part: and they shall tell thee that your foote is not able to stand before our face: for thy fathers haue bene twise chased in their owne land.}

geneva@1Macc:10:74 @ {\cf2 When Ionathan heard the wordes of Apollonius, he was moued in his minde: wherefore hee chose ten thousand men, & went out of Ierusalem, and Simon his brother met him for to helpe him.}

geneva@1Macc:10:75 @ {\cf2 And he pitched his tentes at Ioppe: but they shut him out of the citie: for Apollonius garison was in Ioppe.}

geneva@1Macc:10:77 @ {\cf2 Apollonius hearing of this, tooke three thousand horsemen with a great hoste of foote men, and went toward Azotus, as though he would go forward, and came immediatly into the plaine fielde, because he had so many horsemen, and put his trust in them.}

geneva@1Macc:10:80 @ {\cf2 And Ionathan knew that there was an ambushment behinde him, and though they had compassed in his hoste, and shot dartes at the people from the morning to the euening,}

geneva@1Macc:10:81 @ {\cf2 Yet the people stood still, as Ionathan had commanded them, till their horses were wearie.}

geneva@1Macc:10:86 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan remooued the hoste from thence, and camped by Ascalon, where the men of the citie came foorth, and met him with great honour.}

geneva@1Macc:10:89 @ {\cf2 And sent him a coller of golde, as the vse is to be giuen vnto such as are of the Kings blood: he gaue him also Accaron, with the borders thereof in possession.}

geneva@1Macc:11:2 @ {\cf2 Vpon this he went into Syria with friendly wordes, and was let into the cities, and men came foorth to meete him: for king Alexander had commanded them to meete him, because hee was his father in lawe.}

geneva@1Macc:11:4 @ {\cf2 And when he came neere to Azotus, they shewed him the temple of Dagon that was burnt, and Azotus, and the suburbs thereof that were destroyed, and the bodies cast abroad, and them that hee had burnt in the battell: for they had made heapes of them by the way where he should passe.}

geneva@1Macc:11:7 @ {\cf2 So when Ionathan had gone with the king vnto the water that was called Eleutherus, hee turned againe to Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:11:8 @ {\cf2 So King Potolemeus gate the dominion of the cities by the sea vnto Seleucia vpon ye sea coast, imagining wicked counsels against Alexander,}

geneva@1Macc:11:9 @ {\cf2 And sent Ambassadours vnto King Demetrius, saying, Come, let vs make a league betweene vs, and I wil giue thee my daughter, which Alexander hath, and thou shalt reigne in thy fathers kingdome.}

geneva@1Macc:11:11 @ {\cf2 Thus he slandered Alexander, as one that should desire his Realme.}

geneva@1Macc:11:12 @ {\cf2 And he tooke his daughter from him, and gaue her vnto Demetrius, and forsooke Alexander, so that their hatred was openly knowen.}

geneva@1Macc:11:13 @ {\cf2 Then Ptolemeus came to Antiochia, where he set two crownes vpon his owne head, of Asia and of Egypt.}

geneva@1Macc:11:14 @ {\cf2 In the meane season was King Alexander in Cilicia: for they that dwelt in those places, had rebelled against him:}

geneva@1Macc:11:16 @ {\cf2 Then fled Alexander into Arabia, there to be defended: so Ptolemeus was exalted.}

geneva@1Macc:11:20 @ {\cf2 At the same time gathered Ionathan them that were in Iudea, to lay siege vnto ye castell, which was at Ierusalem, and they made many instruments of warre against it.}

geneva@1Macc:11:21 @ {\cf2 Then went there certaine vngodly persons (which hated their owne people) vnto King Demetrius, and tolde him that Ionathan besieged the castell.}

geneva@1Macc:11:22 @ {\cf2 So when he heard it, he was angry, and immediatly came vnto Ptolemais, and wrote vnto Ionathan, that he should lay no more siege vnto it, but that he should meete him and speake with him at Ptolemais in all haste.}

geneva@1Macc:11:26 @ {\cf2 Yet the King intreated him as his predecessours had done, and promoted him in the sight of all his friends,}

geneva@1Macc:11:31 @ {\cf2 We send you here a copy of the letter which we did write vnto our cousin Lasthenes concerning you, that ye should see it.}

geneva@1Macc:11:32 @ {\cf2 King Demetrius vnto Lasthenes his father sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:11:34 @ {\cf2 Wherefore we assigne to them the coasts of Iudea with the three gouernments Apherema, and Lydda, and Ramathe (which are added vnto Iudea from the countrey of Samaria) and all that appertaineth to all them that sacrifice in Ierusalem: both concerning the paiments which the King tooke yeerely aforetime, both for the fruites of the earth, and for the fruites of the trees.}

geneva@1Macc:11:35 @ {\cf2 As for the other things appertaining vnto vs of the tenthes and tributes, which were due vnto vs, and the customes of salte, and crowne taxes, which were payed vnto vs, we discharge them of all from hencefoorth.}

geneva@1Macc:11:38 @ {\cf2 After this when Demetrius the King sawe that his land was in rest, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his hoste, euery man to his owne place, except certaine bands of strangers, whome he brought from the yles of the heathen: wherefore all his fathers hoste hated him.}

geneva@1Macc:11:39 @ {\cf2 Now was there one Tryphon, that had bene of Alexanders part afore, which when he saw that all the hoste murmured against Demetrius, he went to Simaleue the Arabian, that brought vp Antiochus the sonne of Alexander,}

geneva@1Macc:11:40 @ {\cf2 And lay sore vpon him, to deliuer him this yong Antiochus, that he might reigne in his fathers steade: hee tolde him also what great euill Demetrius had done, and howe his men of warre hated him, and he remained there a long season.}

geneva@1Macc:11:41 @ {\cf2 Also Ionathan sent vnto King Demetrius to driue them out which were in the castell at Ierusalem, and those that were in the fortresses: for they fought against Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:11:43 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore thou shalt doe me a pleasure, if thou wilt send me men to helpe me: for all mine armie is gone from me.}

geneva@1Macc:11:44 @ {\cf2 So Ionathan sent him three thousand strong men vnto Antiochia, and they came vnto the King: wherefore the King was very glad at their comming.}

geneva@1Macc:11:50 @ {\cf2 Graunt vs peace, and let the Iewes cease from vexing vs and the citie.}

geneva@1Macc:11:51 @ {\cf2 So they cast away their weapons, and made peace, and the Iewes were greatly honoured before the King, and before all that were in his Realme, and they came againe to Ierusalem with great pray.}

geneva@1Macc:11:54 @ {\cf2 After this returned Tryphon with the yong childe Antiochus, which reigned, and was crowned.}

geneva@1Macc:11:56 @ {\cf2 So Tryphon tooke the beastes, and wanne Antiochia.}

geneva@1Macc:11:59 @ {\cf2 He made his brother Simon also captaine fro the coastes of Tyrus vnto the borders of Egypt.}

geneva@1Macc:11:60 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan went foorth, and passedthorow the cities beyond the flood, and all the men of warre of Syria gathered vnto him for to helpe him: so he came vnto Ascalon, and they of the citie receiued him honourably.}

geneva@1Macc:11:62 @ {\cf2 Then they of Gaza made supplication vnto Ionathan, and he made peace with them, and tooke of the sonnes of the chiefe men for hostages, and sent them to Ierusalem, and went thorow the countrey vnto Damascus.}

geneva@1Macc:11:65 @ {\cf2 And Simon besieged Beth-sura, and fought against it a long season, and shut it vp.}

geneva@1Macc:11:70 @ {\cf2 So that all that were of Ionathans side, fled: and there was not one of them left, except Mattathias the sonne of Absalomus, and Iudas the sonne of Calphi the captaines of the hoste.}

geneva@1Macc:11:71 @ {\cf2 Then Ionathan rent his clothes, and cast earth vpon his head, and prayed,}

geneva@1Macc:12:1 @ {\cf2 Ionathan nowe seeing that the time was meete for him, chose certeine men, and sent them vnto Rome, to establish & renue the friedship with them.}

geneva@1Macc:12:3 @ {\cf2 So they went vnto Rome, and entred into the Senate, and saide, Ionathan the high Priest and the nation of the Iewes sent vs vnto you, for to renue friendship with you, and the bond of loue, as in times past.}

geneva@1Macc:12:4 @ {\cf2 So the Romanes gaue them free pasports, that men should leade them home into the land of Iuda peaceably.}

geneva@1Macc:12:7 @ {\cf2 Heretofore were letters sent vnto Onias the hie Priest, from Arius, which then reigned among you, that ye would be our brethren, as the copy hereunder written specifieth.}

geneva@1Macc:12:8 @ {\cf2 And Onias intreated the ambassadour honourably, and receiued the letters: wherein there was mention made of the bond of loue and friendship.}

geneva@1Macc:12:9 @ {\cf2 But as for vs, we neede no such writings: for we haue the holy bookes in our hands for comfort.}

geneva@1Macc:12:10 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse wee thought it good to sende vnto you, for the renuing of the brotherhoode and friendship, least we should be strange vnto you: for it is long since the time that ye sent vnto vs.}

geneva@1Macc:12:11 @ {\cf2 Wherefore wee remember you at all seasons continually, and in the feasts & other dayes appointed, when we offer sacrifices & prayers, as it is meete and conuenient to thinke vpon our brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:12:16 @ {\cf2 Yet haue wee chosen Numenius the sonne of Antiochus, and Antipater the sonne of Iason, and sent them vnto the Romaines, for to renue the former friendship with them, and league.}

geneva@1Macc:12:18 @ {\cf2 And now ye shall doe vs a pleasure to giue vs an answere of these things.}

geneva@1Macc:12:19 @ {\cf2 And this was the copie of the letters, which Arius the King of Sparta sent vnto Onias.}

geneva@1Macc:12:20 @ {\cf2 The King of the Spartians vnto Onias the high Priest sendeth greeting.}

geneva@1Macc:12:22 @ {\cf2 And nowe for so much as this is come to our knowledge, yee shall doe well, to write vnto vs of your prosperitie.}

geneva@1Macc:12:23 @ {\cf2 As for vs, wee haue written vnto you, that your cattell and goods are ours, and ours are yours: these thinges haue wee commaunded to be shewed vnto you.}

geneva@1Macc:12:27 @ {\cf2 Wherefore, when the sunne was gone downe, Ionathan commaunded his men to watch, and to be in armes readie to fight all the night, & sent watchmen round about the hoste.}

geneva@1Macc:12:28 @ {\cf2 But when the aduersaries heard that Ionathan was readie with his men to the battel, they feared, & trembled in their hearts, and kindled fires in their tents, and fled away.}

geneva@1Macc:12:32 @ {\cf2 He proceeded further also, and came vnto Damascus, and went thorow all the countrey.}

geneva@1Macc:12:33 @ {\cf2 But Simon his brother went forth, and came to Ascalon and to the next holdes, departing vnto Ioppe, and wanne it.}

geneva@1Macc:12:36 @ {\cf2 And to make the walles of Ierusalem hyer, and to make a great mount betwixt the castell and the citie, for to separate it from the citie, that it might be alone, and that men shoulde neither bye, nor fell in it.}

geneva@1Macc:12:37 @ {\cf2 So they came together to builde vp the citie: for part of the wall vpon the brooke of the Eastside was fallen downe, and they repaired it, and called it Caphenatha.}

geneva@1Macc:12:39 @ {\cf2 In the meane time Tryphon purposed to reigne in Asia, & to be crowned when he had slaine the King Antiochus.}

geneva@1Macc:12:40 @ {\cf2 But he was afraide that Ionathan would not suffer him, but fight against him: wherefore he went about to take Ionathan, and to kill him: so hee departed, and came vnto Bethsan.}

geneva@1Macc:12:43 @ {\cf2 But receiued him honourably, and commended him vnto all his friendes, and gaue him rewards, and commaunded his men of warre to be as obedient vnto him as to himselfe,}

geneva@1Macc:12:44 @ {\cf2 And said vnto Ionathan, Why hast thou caused this people to take such trauaile, seeing there is no warre betweene vs?}

geneva@1Macc:12:46 @ {\cf2 Ionathan beleeued him, and did as hee saide, and sent away his hoste, which went into the lande of Iuda,}

geneva@1Macc:12:48 @ {\cf2 Nowe assoone as Ionathan entred into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates, and tooke him, and slew all them with the sword, that came in with him.}

geneva@1Macc:12:50 @ {\cf2 But when they knewe that Ionathan was taken, and slaine, and those that were with him, they incouraged one another, and came foorth against them readie to the battell.}

geneva@1Macc:12:51 @ {\cf2 But when they which followed vpon them, sawe that it was a matter of life, they turned backe againe.}

geneva@1Macc:13:2 @ {\cf2 And sawe that the people was in great trembling and feare, he came vp to Ierusalem, and gathered the people together,}

geneva@1Macc:13:4 @ {\cf2 By reason whereof all my brethren are slaine for Israels sake, and I am left alone.}

geneva@1Macc:13:8 @ {\cf2 So that they cried with a lowd voyce, saying, Thou shalt be our captaine in steade of Iudas and Ionathan thy brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:13:10 @ {\cf2 So hee gathered all the men of warre, making hast to finish the walles of Ierusalem, and fortified it round about.}

geneva@1Macc:13:12 @ {\cf2 Tryphon also remoued from Ptolemais with a great armie, to come into the land of Iuda, and Ionathan was with him as prisoner.}

geneva@1Macc:13:15 @ {\cf2 Whereas we haue kept Ionathan thy brother, it is for money that hee is owing in the Kings account concerning the busines that he had in hand.}

geneva@1Macc:13:17 @ {\cf2 Neuertheles Simon knew that he dissembled in his wordes, yet commaunded he the money and children to be deliuered vnto him, least he should be in greater hatred of the people of Israel.}

geneva@1Macc:13:21 @ {\cf2 Now they that were in the castell, sent messengers vnto Tryphon, that hee should make haste to come by the wildernes, & to send them vittailes.}

geneva@1Macc:13:23 @ {\cf2 And when hee came neere to Bascama, he slewe Ionathan, and he was buried there.}

geneva@1Macc:13:31 @ {\cf2 Nowe as Tryphon went foorth with the yong King Antiochus, he slew him traiterously,}

geneva@1Macc:13:32 @ {\cf2 And reigned in his steade, and crowned him selfe King of Asia, and brought a great plague vpon the land.}

geneva@1Macc:13:33 @ {\cf2 Simon also built vp the castels of Iudea, and compassed them about with hie towers, and great walles, euen with towers, and gates, and barres, and layde vp vittailes in the strong holdes.}

geneva@1Macc:13:37 @ {\cf2 The golden crowne, and precious stone that ye sent vnto vs, haue we receiued, and are ready to make a stedfast peace with you, and to write vnto the officers, to release you of the things wherein we made you free.}

geneva@1Macc:13:39 @ {\cf2 Also we forgiue the ouersights, and faultes committed vnto this day, and the crowne taxe that ye ought vs: and whereas was any other tribute in Ierusalem, it shalbe nowe no tribute.}

geneva@1Macc:13:41 @ {\cf2 Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken from Israel in the hundred and seuentie yeere.}

geneva@1Macc:13:44 @ {\cf2 So they that were in the engine, leapt into the citie, and there was great trouble in the citie,}

geneva@1Macc:13:48 @ {\cf2 So when he had cast all the filthines out, he set such men in it as kept the Law, and fortified it, and builded there a dwelling place for him selfe.}

geneva@1Macc:13:49 @ {\cf2 Nowe, when they in the castell at Ierusalem were kept, that they could not come foorth nor goe into the countrey, neither buy nor sell, they were very hungry, & many of them were famished to death,}

geneva@1Macc:13:50 @ {\cf2 In so much that they besought Simon to make peace with them: which he graunted them, and put them out from thence, and clensed the castell from filthines.}

geneva@1Macc:13:51 @ {\cf2 And vpon the three and twentie day of the second moneth, in the hundreth seuentie and one yeere, they entred into it with thankesgiuing, and branches of palme trees, and with harpes, and with cymbales, and with violes, & with psalmes, & songs, because the great enemie of Israel was ouercome.}

geneva@1Macc:13:53 @ {\cf2 And he fortified the mount of the Temple that was beside the castell where he dwelt himselfe with his company.}

geneva@1Macc:13:54 @ {\cf2 Simon also seeing that Iohn his sonne was now a man, he made him captaine of all the hostes, and caused him to dwell in Gazaris.}

geneva@1Macc:14:2 @ {\cf2 But when Arsaces the King of Persia and Media heard, that Demetrius was entred within his borders, hee sent one of his princes to take him aliue.}

geneva@1Macc:14:4 @ {\cf2 Thus all the land of Iuda was in rest, so long as Simon liued: for he sought the wealth of his nation: therefore were they glad to haue him for their ruler, and to doe him worship alway.}

geneva@1Macc:14:7 @ {\cf2 He gathered vp many of their people that were prisoners, & he had the dominion of Gazaris, and Beth-sura, & the castell, which he clensed from filthines, and there was no man that resisted him,}

geneva@1Macc:14:10 @ {\cf2 He prouided vittailes for the cities, and all kinde of munition, so that his glorious fame was renoumed vnto the end of the world.}

geneva@1Macc:14:12 @ {\cf2 For euery man sate vnder his vine, and the fig trees, and there was no man to fray them.}

geneva@1Macc:14:13 @ {\cf2 There was none in the land to fight against them: for then the Kings were ouercome.}

geneva@1Macc:14:14 @ {\cf2 He helped all those that were in aduersitie among his people: hee was diligent to see the Law kept, and he tooke away the vngodly, and wicked.}

geneva@1Macc:14:15 @ {\cf2 He beautified the Sanctuarie, and encreased the vessels of the Temple.}

geneva@1Macc:14:16 @ {\cf2 When the Romanes heard, and the Spartians had knowledge, that Ionathan was dead, they were very sorie.}

geneva@1Macc:14:17 @ {\cf2 But when they heard, that Simon his brother was made hie Priest in his steade, and howe he had wonne the land againe with the cities in it,}

geneva@1Macc:14:18 @ {\cf2 They wrote vnto him in tables of brasse, to renue the friendship, and bond of loue, which they had made with Iudas and Ionathan his brethren.}

geneva@1Macc:14:21 @ {\cf2 When your ambassadours that were sent vnto our people, certified vs of your glory and honour, we were glad of their comming,}

geneva@1Macc:14:22 @ {\cf2 And haue registred their ambassage in the publique records in this maner, Nvmenivs the sonne of Antiochus, and Antipater the sonne of Iason the Iewes ambassadours came vnto vs, to renue amitie with vs.}

geneva@1Macc:14:23 @ {\cf2 And it pleased the people, that the men should be honourably intreated, and that the copy of their ambassage should be registred in the publique records, that it might be for a memoriall vnto the people of Sparta: and a copy of the same was sent to Simon the chiefe Priest.}

geneva@1Macc:14:26 @ {\cf2 For he and his brethren, and the house of his father haue stablished Israel, and ouercome their enemies, and haue confirmed the libertie thereof: therefore they wrote this in tables of brasse, and set it vpon pillars in mount Sion.}

geneva@1Macc:14:29 @ {\cf2 Wherein Simon ye sonne of Mattathias (come of the children of Iarib) and his brethren put them selues in danger, and resisted the enemies of their nation, that their Sanctuarie, and Lawe might be mainteined, and did their nation great honour.}

geneva@1Macc:14:36 @ {\cf2 For in his time they prospered well by him, so that the heathen were taken out of their countrey, and they also which were in the citie of Dauid at Ierusalem, where they had made them a castell, out of the which they went, and defiled all things that were about the Sanctuarie, & did great hurt vnto religion.}

geneva@1Macc:14:37 @ {\cf2 And he set Iewes in it, and fortified it, for the assurance of the land, and citie, and raised vp the walles of Ierusalem.}

geneva@1Macc:14:40 @ {\cf2 For it was reported that the Romanes called the Iewes their friends, and confederates, and that they honourably receiued Simons Ambassadours,}

geneva@1Macc:14:46 @ {\cf2 So it pleased all the people to agree that it shoulde bee done to Simon according vnto these wordes.}

geneva@1Macc:14:47 @ {\cf2 Simon also accepted it, and was content to be the high Priest, and the captaine, and the Prince of the Iewes, and of the Priestes, and to be the chiefe of all.}

geneva@1Macc:14:48 @ {\cf2 And they commanded to set vp this writing in tables of brasse, and to fasten it to the wall that compassed the Sanctuarie in an open place,}

geneva@1Macc:14:49 @ {\cf2 And that a copie of the same should be laide vp in the treasurie, that Simon and his sonnes might haue it.}

geneva@1Macc:15:3 @ {\cf2 For so much as certeine pestilent men haue vsurped the kingdome of our fathers, I am purposed to chalenge the Realme againe, and to restore it to the olde estate: wherefore I haue gathered a great hoste, and prepared shippes of warre,}

geneva@1Macc:15:4 @ {\cf2 That I may goe thorowe the countrey, and be auenged of them, which haue destroyed our countrey, and wasted many cities in the Realme.}

geneva@1Macc:15:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore I doe confirme vnto thee all the liberties, whereof all the Kings my progenitours haue discharged thee, and all the payments, whereof they haue released thee.}

geneva@1Macc:15:7 @ {\cf2 And that Ierusalem, and the Sanctuarie be free, and that all the weapons, that thou hast prepared, and the fortresses, which thou hast builded, and keepest in thine hands, shall be thine.}

geneva@1Macc:15:14 @ {\cf2 So he compassed the citie about, & the ships came by the sea. Thus they pressed the citie by land and by sea, in so much that they suffered no man to goe in nor out.}

geneva@1Macc:15:15 @ {\cf2 In the meane season came Numenius, and his companie from Rome, hauing letters written vnto the Kings and countreys, wherein were conteyned these wordes,}

geneva@1Macc:15:17 @ {\cf2 The Ambassadours of the Iewes are come vnto vs as our friendes and confederates from Simon the hie Priest, and from the people of ye Iewes to renewe friendship, and the bond of loue,}

geneva@1Macc:15:23 @ {\cf2 And to all countreis, as Sampsames, and to them of Sparta, and to Delus, and to Mindus, and to Sicion, and to Caria, and to Samos, and to Pamphylia, and to Lycia, and to Halicarnassus, and to Rhodus, and to Phaselis, and to Cos, and to Siden, and to Cortyna, and to Gnidon, and to Cyprus, and to Cyrene.}

geneva@1Macc:15:28 @ {\cf2 And sent vnto him Athenobius one of his friendes to commune with him, saying, Ye withhold Ioppe, and Gazara with the castell that is at Ierusalem, the citie of my Realme,}

geneva@1Macc:15:32 @ {\cf2 So Athenobius the Kings friend came to Ierusalem, and when he sawe the honour of Simon, and the cupborde of golde and siluer plate, and so great preparation, he was astonished, and tolde him the Kings message.}

geneva@1Macc:15:34 @ {\cf2 But when we had occasion, we recouered the inheritance of our fathers.}

geneva@1Macc:15:35 @ {\cf2 And whereas thou requirest Ioppe and Gazara, they did great harme to our people, and thorowe our countrey, yet will we giue an hundreth talents for them. But Athenobius answered him not one worde,}

geneva@1Macc:15:36 @ {\cf2 But turned againe angrie vnto the King, and tolde him all these wordes, and the dignitie of Simon, with all that he had seene: and the King was very angrie.}

geneva@1Macc:15:37 @ {\cf2 In the meane time fled Tryphon by shippe vnto Orthosias.}

geneva@1Macc:15:38 @ {\cf2 Then the King made Cendebeus captaine of the sea coast, and gaue him bands of footemen and horsemen,}

geneva@1Macc:15:41 @ {\cf2 And he built vp Cedron, where he set horsemen and garisons, that they might make outrodes by the wayes of Iudea, as the King had commanded him.}

geneva@1Macc:16:2 @ {\cf2 So Simon called two of his eldest sonnes, Iudas and Iohn, and saide vnto them, I, and my brethren, and my fathers house, haue euer from our youth vnto this day fought against the enemies of Israel, & the matters haue had good successe vnder our hands, and we haue deliuered Israel oftentimes.}

geneva@1Macc:16:5 @ {\cf2 In the morning they arose, and went into the plaine fielde: and beholde, a mightie great hoste came against them both of footemen, and horsemen: but there was a riuer betwixt them.}

geneva@1Macc:16:6 @ {\cf2 And Iohn ranged his armie ouer against him, and when he sawe that the people was afraide to go ouer the riuer, he went ouer first himselfe, and the men seeing him, passed through after him.}

geneva@1Macc:16:9 @ {\cf2 Then was Iudas Iohns brother wounded: but Iohn followed after them, till he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had built.}

geneva@1Macc:16:11 @ {\cf2 Nowe in the fielde of Iericho was Ptolemeus the sonne of Abubus made captaine, and he had abundance of siluer and gold.}

geneva@1Macc:16:14 @ {\cf2 Nowe as Simon went about thorowe the cities of the countrey, and studied carefully for them, he came downe to Iericho with Mattathias, and Iudas his sonnes in the hundreth, seuentie and seuen yeere, in the eleuenth moneth, which is the moneth Sabat.}

geneva@1Macc:16:15 @ {\cf2 Then the sonne of Abubus receiued them by treason into a litle holde, called Dochus, which he had built, where he made them a great banket, and had hid men there.}

geneva@1Macc:16:22 @ {\cf2 When he heard this, he was sore astonished, and laid hands of them that were come to him, and slewe them: for he knewe that they went about to kill him.}

geneva@1Macc:16:24 @ {\cf2 Beholde, they are written in the Chronicles of his Priesthood, from the time, that he was made high Priest after his father.}

geneva@2Macc:1:7 @ {\cf2 When Demetrius reigned, in the hundreth, threescore and ninth yere, we Iewes wrote vnto you in the trouble, and violence that came unto vs in those yeeres, after that Iason, and his companie departed out of the holy land and kingdome,}

geneva@2Macc:1:9 @ {\cf2 Nowe therefore keepe ye the daies of ye feast of the Tabernacles in the moneth Chasleu.}

geneva@2Macc:1:10 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth, fourescore & eight yeere, the people that was at Ierusalem, and in Iudea, and the counsell and Iudas, vnto Aristobulus King Ptolemeus master, which is of the stocke of the anointed Priestes, and to the Iewes that are in Egypt, sendeth greeting and health.}

geneva@2Macc:1:11 @ {\cf2 In so much as God hath deliuered vs from great perils, wee thanke him highly, as though wee had ouercome the King.}

geneva@2Macc:1:13 @ {\cf2 For albeit the captaine, and the armie, that was with him, seemed inuincible, yet they were slaine in the Temple of Nanea, by the deceit of Naneas Priests.}

geneva@2Macc:1:14 @ {\cf2 For Antiochus, as though hee would dwell with her, came thither, he, and his friends with him, to receiue money vnder the title of a dowrie.}

geneva@2Macc:1:15 @ {\cf2 But when the Priests of Nanea had laide it foorth, and hee was entred with a small companie within the Temple, they shut the Temple, when Antiochus was come in,}

geneva@2Macc:1:16 @ {\cf2 And by opening a priuie doore of the vaute, they cast stones, as it were thunder, vpon the captaine and his, and hauing bruised them in pieces, they cut off their heads and threwe them to those that were without.}

geneva@2Macc:1:18 @ {\cf2 Whereas we are nowe purposed to keepe the purification of the Temple vpon the fiue and twentie day of the moneth Chasleu, we thought it necessarie to certifie you thereof, that yee also might keepe the feast of the Tabernacles, and of the fire which was giuen vs when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had built the Temple, and the altar.}

geneva@2Macc:1:19 @ {\cf2 For when as our fathers were led away vnto Persia, the Priests, which sought the honor of God, tooke the fire of the altar priuilie, and hid it in an hollowe pit, which was drie in the bottome, and therein they kept it, so that ye place was vnknowen vnto euery man.}

geneva@2Macc:1:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe after many yeres when it pleased God that Neemias shoulde be sent from the king of Persia, he sent of the posteritie of those Priestes, which had hid it to fetche the fire, and as they tolde vs, they found no fire, but thicke water.}

geneva@2Macc:1:21 @ {\cf2 Then commaunded he them to drawe it vp, and to bring it: and when the things apperteining to the sacrifices were brought, Neemias commaunded the Priests to sprinkle the woode, and the things laide thereupon with water.}

geneva@2Macc:1:22 @ {\cf2 When this was done, and the time came that the sunne shone, which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that euery man marueiled.}

geneva@2Macc:1:23 @ {\cf2 Nowe the Priests, and all praied, while the sacrifice was consuming: Ionathan began, and the other answered thereunto.}

geneva@2Macc:1:24 @ {\cf2 And the praier of Neemias was after this maner, O Lord, Lord God maker of all things, which art feareful, and strong, and righteous, and merciful, and the onely and gratious king,}

geneva@2Macc:1:25 @ {\cf2 Onely liberall, onely iust and almightie and euerlasting, thou that deliuerest Israel from al trouble, & hast chosen the fathers, and sanctified them,}

geneva@2Macc:1:29 @ {\cf2 Plant thy people againe in thine holy place as Moyses hath spoken.}

geneva@2Macc:1:31 @ {\cf2 Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the great stones to be sprinkled with the residue of the water.}

geneva@2Macc:1:32 @ {\cf2 Which when it was done, there was kindeled a flame, which was consumed by the light, that shined from the altar.}

geneva@2Macc:1:33 @ {\cf2 So when this matter was knowen, it was told the King of Persia, that in the place where the Priests, which were led away, had hid fire, there appeared water, wherewith Neemias and his companie had purified the sacrifices.}

geneva@2Macc:1:36 @ {\cf2 And Neemias called the same place Ephthar, which is to say, purification: but many men call it Nephthar.}

geneva@2Macc:2:1 @ {\cf2 It is founde also in the writings of Ieremias the Prophet, that he commaunded them, which were caried away, to take fire, as was declared, and as the Prophet commanded them that were led into captiuitie,}

geneva@2Macc:2:5 @ {\cf2 Ieremias went foorth, and founde an hollow caue, wherein he laide the Tabernacle, & the Arke, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the doore.}

geneva@2Macc:2:7 @ {\cf2 Which whe Ieremias perceiued, he reproued them, saying, As for that place: it shalbe vnknowen, vntil the time that God gather his people together againe, and that mercie be shewed.}

geneva@2Macc:2:8 @ {\cf2 Then shall the Lord shew them these things, and the maiestie of the Lorde shall appeare and the cloude also, as it was shewed vnder Moyses, and as when Salomon desired, that the place might be honourably sanctified.}

geneva@2Macc:2:10 @ {\cf2 And as when Moyses praied vnto the Lord, the fire came downe from heauen, and consumed the sacrifice: so, when Salomon prayed, the fire came downe from heauen, and consumed the burnt offering.}

geneva@2Macc:2:11 @ {\cf2 And Moyses saide, Because the sinne offering was not eaten, therefore is it consumed.}

geneva@2Macc:2:13 @ {\cf2 These things also are declared in the writings, and registers of Neemias, and howe he made a librarie, and howe he gathered the acts of the Kings, and of the Prophets, and the acts of Dauid, and the epistles of the Kings concerning the holy gifts.}

geneva@2Macc:2:14 @ {\cf2 Euen so Iudas also gathered all things that came to passe by the warres that were among vs, which things we haue.}

geneva@2Macc:2:16 @ {\cf2 Whereas we then are about to celebrate the purification, we haue written vnto you, and ye shall doe well, if ye keepe the same daies.}

geneva@2Macc:2:18 @ {\cf2 As he promised in the lawe, wil shortly haue mercy vpon vs, and gather vs together from vnder the heauen into his holy place: for he hath saued vs from great perils, and hath clensed the place.}

geneva@2Macc:2:19 @ {\cf2 As concerning Iudas Maccabeus, and his brethren, the purification of the great Temple, and the dedication of the altar,}

geneva@2Macc:2:22 @ {\cf2 And repaired the Temple that was renowmed throughout all the worlde, and deliuered the citie, and established the Lawes, that were like to be abolished, because the Lorde was mercifull vnto them with all lenitie)}

geneva@2Macc:2:23 @ {\cf2 Wee will assaie to abbridge in one volume those things, that Iason the Cyrenian hath declared in fiue bookes.}

geneva@2Macc:2:25 @ {\cf2 We haue endeuoured, that they that woulde reade, might haue pleasure, and that they which are studious, might easily keepe them in memorie, and that whosoeuer reade them, might haue profite.}

geneva@2Macc:2:26 @ {\cf2 Therefore to vs that haue taken in hand this great labour, it was no easie thing to make this abbridgement, but required both sweat, & watching.}

geneva@2Macc:2:27 @ {\cf2 Like as hee that maketh a feast, and seeketh other mens commoditie, hath no smal labour: so we also for many mens sakes are very well content to vndertake this great labour.}

geneva@2Macc:2:29 @ {\cf2 For as he that will builde a newe house, must prouide for the whole building, but he that setteth out the plat or goeth about to paint it, seeketh but onely what is comely for the decking thereof:}

geneva@2Macc:3:1 @ {\cf2 What time as the holy citie was inhabited with all peace, and when the Lawes were very well kept, because of the godlinesse of Onias the hie Priest, and hatred of wickednesse,}

geneva@2Macc:3:2 @ {\cf2 It came to passe that euen the kings did honour the place, and garnished the Temple with great gifts.}

geneva@2Macc:3:3 @ {\cf2 In so much that Seleucus king of Asia of his owne rents, bare all the costes belonging to the seruice of the sacrifices.}

geneva@2Macc:3:5 @ {\cf2 And when hee coulde not ouercome Onias, he gate him to Apollonius the sonne of Thraseas, which then was gouernour of Coelosyria and Phenice,}

geneva@2Macc:3:6 @ {\cf2 And tolde him that the treasurie in Ierusalem was full of innumerable money, which did not belong to the prouision of the sacrifices, and thatit were possible that these things might come into the Kings hands.}

geneva@2Macc:3:7 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Apollonius came to the King, and had shewed him of the money, as it was tolde him, the King chose out Heliodorus his treasurer, and sent him with a commandement, to bring him the foresaid money.}

geneva@2Macc:3:8 @ {\cf2 Immediatly Heliodorus tooke his iourney as though he would visite the cities of Coelosyria and Phenice, but in effect to fulfill the Kings purpose.}

geneva@2Macc:3:9 @ {\cf2 So when he came to Ierusalem, & was courteously receiued of the hie Priest into the citie, he declared what was determined concerning the money, and shewed the cause of his comming, and asked if these things were so in deede.}

geneva@2Macc:3:11 @ {\cf2 And that a certaine of it belonged vnto Hircanus the sonne of Tobias a noble man, and not as that wicked Simon had reported, and that in all, there were but foure hundreth talents of siluer, and two hundreth of gold,}

geneva@2Macc:3:13 @ {\cf2 But Heliodorus because of the Kings commandement giuen him, said that in any wise it must be brought into the Kings treasurie.}

geneva@2Macc:3:14 @ {\cf2 So he appointed a day, and went in to take order for these things: then there was no small griefe throughout the whole citie.}

geneva@2Macc:3:15 @ {\cf2 For the Priest fell downe before the altar in the Priestes garments, and called vnto heauen vpon him which had made a Lawe concerning things giuen to be kept, that they shoulde be safely preserued for such as had committed them to be kept.}

geneva@2Macc:3:17 @ {\cf2 The man was so wrapped in feare and trembling of the body, that it was manifest to them that looked vpon him, what sorowe he had in his heart.}

geneva@2Macc:3:18 @ {\cf2 Others also came out of their houses by heapes vnto the common prayer, because the place was like to come vnto contempt.}

geneva@2Macc:3:19 @ {\cf2 And the women, girt with sackcloth vnder their breastes, filled the streetes, and the virgins that were kept in, ranne some to the gates & some to the walles, and others looked out of the windowes.}

geneva@2Macc:3:21 @ {\cf2 It was a lamentable thing to see ye multitude that fell downe of all sortes, and the expectation of the high Priest being in such anguish.}

geneva@2Macc:3:23 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse, the thing that Heliodorus was determined to doe, that did he performe.}

geneva@2Macc:3:24 @ {\cf2 And as he and his souldiers were nowe there present by the treasurie, he that is the Lorde of the spirits, and of al power, shewed a great vision, so that all they which presumed to come with him, were astonished at the power of God, and fell into feare, and trembling.}

geneva@2Macc:3:27 @ {\cf2 And Heliodorus fell suddenly vnto ye ground, and was couered with great darkenes: but they that were with him, tooke him vp, & put him in a litter.}

geneva@2Macc:3:28 @ {\cf2 Thus he that came with so great companie, and many souldiers into the said treasurie, was borne out: for he coulde not helpe himselfe with his weapons.}

geneva@2Macc:3:29 @ {\cf2 So they did knowe the power of God manifestly, but he was domme by the power of God, and lay destitute of all hope and health.}

geneva@2Macc:3:30 @ {\cf2 And they praysed the Lord that had honoured his owne place: for the Temple which a litle afore was full of feare and trouble, when the almightie Lord appeared, was filled with ioy and gladnesse.}

geneva@2Macc:3:31 @ {\cf2 Then streightwayes certaine of Heliodorus friends prayed Onias, that he woulde call vpon the most High to graunt him his life, which lay ready to giue vp the ghost.}

geneva@2Macc:3:33 @ {\cf2 Now when the hie Priest had made his prayer, the same yong men in the same clothing appeared, and stoode beside Heliodorus, saying, Giue Onias the hie Priest great thankes: for, for his sake hath the Lord graunted thee thy life.}

geneva@2Macc:3:34 @ {\cf2 And seeing that thou hast bene scourged from heauen, declare vnto all men the mightie power of God: and when they had spoken these wordes, they appeared no more.}

geneva@2Macc:3:35 @ {\cf2 So Heliodorus offered vnto the Lorde sacrifice, and made great vowes vnto him, which had graunted him his life, and thanked Onias, and went againe with his hoste to the King.}

geneva@2Macc:3:37 @ {\cf2 And when the King asked Heliodorus, who were meete to be sent yet once againe to Ierusalem, he said,}

geneva@2Macc:3:38 @ {\cf2 If thou hast any enemie or traitor, sende him thither, and thou shalt receiue him well scourged, if he escape with his life: for in that place, no doubt, there is a speciall power of God.}

geneva@2Macc:3:40 @ {\cf2 This came to passe concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasurie.}

geneva@2Macc:4:1 @ {\cf2 This Simon nowe, of whom we spake afore, being a bewrayer of the money and of his owne naturall countrey, reported euill of Onias, as though he had mooued Heliodorus vnto this, and had bene the inuenter of the euill.}

geneva@2Macc:4:2 @ {\cf2 Thus was he bolde to call him a traitour that was so beneficiall to the citie, and a defender of his nation, and so zealous of the Lawes.}

geneva@2Macc:4:3 @ {\cf2 But when his malice increased so farre, that through one that belonged to Simon, murthers were committed,}

geneva@2Macc:4:4 @ {\cf2 Onias considering the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as hee that was the gouernour of Coelosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increased Simons malice,}

geneva@2Macc:4:5 @ {\cf2 He went to the King not as an accuser of the citizens, but as one that intended the common wealth both priuately and publikely.}

geneva@2Macc:4:6 @ {\cf2 For he sawe it was not possible except the King tooke order to quiet the matters, and that Simon would not leaue off his follie.}

geneva@2Macc:4:7 @ {\cf2 But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, tooke the kingdome, Iason the brother of Onias laboured by vnlawfull meanes to be hie Priest.}

geneva@2Macc:4:11 @ {\cf2 And abolished the friendly priuiledges of the Kings, that the Iewes had set vp by Iohn, the father of Eupolemus, which was sent ambassadour vnto Rome, to become friends and confederates: he put downe their Lawes and policies, and brought vp newe statutes, and contrary to the Lawe.}

geneva@2Macc:4:12 @ {\cf2 For he presumed to builde a place of exercise vnder the castell, and brought the chiefe yong men vnder his subiection, and made them weare hattes.}

geneva@2Macc:4:13 @ {\cf2 So there beganne a great desire to followe the maners of the Gentiles, and they tooke vp the fashions of strange nations by the exceeding wickednesse of Iason, not the hie Priest, but the vngodly person,}

geneva@2Macc:4:14 @ {\cf2 So that the Priestes were nowe no more diligent about the seruice of the altar, but despised the Temple, and regarded not the sacrifices, but made haste to be partakers of the wicked expences at the play after the casting of the stone.}

geneva@2Macc:4:16 @ {\cf2 By reason whereof great calamitie came vpon them: for they had them to be their enemies and punishers, whose custome they followed so earnestly, and desired to be like them in all things.}

geneva@2Macc:4:19 @ {\cf2 This wicked Iason sent from Ierusalem men to looke vpon them, as though they had bene Antiochians, which brought three hundreth drachmes of siluer for a sacrifice to Hercules: albeit they that caried them, desired they might not be bestowed on the sacrifice (because it was not comely) but to be bestowed for other expenses.}

geneva@2Macc:4:21 @ {\cf2 Now Apollonius the sonne of Menestheus was sent into Egypt because of the coronation of King Ptolemeus Philometor: but when Antiochus perceiued that he was euill affectioned towarde his affaires, he sought his owne assurance, and departed from thence to Ioppe, and so came to Ierusalem,}

geneva@2Macc:4:22 @ {\cf2 Where he was honourably receiued of Iason, and of the citie, and was brought in with torchlight, and with great showtings, and so he went with his hoste vnto Phenice.}

geneva@2Macc:4:23 @ {\cf2 Three yeere afterward Iason sent Menelaus, the foresaid Simons brother, to beare the money vnto the King, and to bring to passe certaine necessarie affaires, whereof he had giuen him a memoriall.}

geneva@2Macc:4:24 @ {\cf2 But he, being commended to the King, magnified him for the appearance of his power, and turned the Priesthood vnto himselfe: for he gaue three hundreth talents of siluer more then Iason.}

geneva@2Macc:4:25 @ {\cf2 So he gate the Kings letters patentes, albeit he had nothing in himselfe worthie of the hie Priesthood, but bare the stomacke of a cruell tyrant, and the wrath of a wilde beast.}

geneva@2Macc:4:26 @ {\cf2 Then Iason, which had deceiued his owne brother, being deceiued by another, was compelled to flee into the countrey of the Ammonites.}

geneva@2Macc:4:27 @ {\cf2 So Menelaus gate the dominion: but as for the money that he had promised vnto the King, he tooke none order for it, albeit Sostratus the ruler of the castell required it.}

geneva@2Macc:4:29 @ {\cf2 Nowe Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus in his steade in the priesthood, and Sostratus left Crates which was gouernour of the Cyprians.}

geneva@2Macc:4:31 @ {\cf2 Then came the King in all haste, to appease the busines, leauing Andronicus a man of authoritie to be his lieutenant.}

geneva@2Macc:4:33 @ {\cf2 Which when Onias knewe of a suretie, he reproued him, and withdrewe himselfe into a Sanctuarie at Daphne by Antiochia.}

geneva@2Macc:4:34 @ {\cf2 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him to slaye Onias: so when he came te Onias, he counseled him craftily, giuing him his right hand with an othe: (howbeit he suspect him, and persuaded him to come out of the Sanctuarie) so he slewe him incontinently without any regarde of righteousnesse.}

geneva@2Macc:4:36 @ {\cf2 And when the king was come againe from the places about Cilicia, the Iewes that were in the citie, and certeine of the Greeks that abhorred the fact also, complained because Onias was slaine without cause.}

geneva@2Macc:4:37 @ {\cf2 Therefore Antiochus was sorie in his minde, and he had compassion, and wept because of the modestie and great discretion of him that was dead.}

geneva@2Macc:4:38 @ {\cf2 Wherefore being kindled with anger, he tooke away Andronicus garment of purple, and rent his clothes, and commaunded him to be led throughout the citie, and in the same place where hee hadcommitted the wickednesse against Onias, hee was slaine as a murtherer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserued.}

geneva@2Macc:4:39 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Lysimachus had done many wicked deedes in the citie through the counsell of Menelaus, and the bruit was spred abroad, the multitude gathered them together against Lysimachus: for he had caried out nowe much vessell of golde.}

geneva@2Macc:4:40 @ {\cf2 And when the people arose, and were full of anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousande, and began to vse vnlawfull power, a certaine tyrant being their captaine, who was no lesse decaied in wit then in age.}

geneva@2Macc:4:41 @ {\cf2 But when they vnderstoode the purpose of Lysimachus, some gate stones, some great clubs, and some cast handfuls of dust, which lay by, vpon Lysimachus men, and those that inuaded them.}

geneva@2Macc:4:42 @ {\cf2 Whereby many of them were wounded, some were slaine, and all the other chased away: but the wicked Churchrobber himselfe, they killed be sides the treasurie.}

geneva@2Macc:4:43 @ {\cf2 For these causes an accusation was laide against Menelaus.}

geneva@2Macc:4:46 @ {\cf2 So Ptolemeus went to ye king into a court, where as he was to coole himselfe, and turned the kings minde.}

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.}

geneva@2Macc:4:50 @ {\cf2 And so through the couetousnesse of them that were in power, Menelaus remained in authoritie, increasing in malice, and declared himselfe a great traitour to the citizens.}

geneva@2Macc:5:2 @ {\cf2 And then were there seene throughout all the citie of Ierusalem, fourtie daies long, horsemen running in the aire, with robes of gold, & as bands of speare men,}

geneva@2Macc:5:3 @ {\cf2 And as troupes of horsemen set in aray, incountering and coursing one against another with shaking of shields and multitude of darts, and drawing of swordes, and shooting of arrowes, and the glittering of the golden armour seene, and harnesse of all sortes.}

geneva@2Macc:5:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had beene dead, Iason tooke at the least a thousand men, & came suddenly vpon the citie, and they that were vpon the wals, being put backe, and the citie at length taken,}

geneva@2Macc:5:6 @ {\cf2 Menelaus fled into the castell, but Iason slew his owne citizens without mercie, not considering, that to haue the aduantage against his kinsemen is greatest disaduantage, but thought that hee had gotten the victorie of his enemies, and not of his owne nation.}

geneva@2Macc:5:7 @ {\cf2 Yet hee gate not the superioritie, but at the last receiued shame for the rewarde of his treason, and went againe like a vagabounde into the countrey of the Ammonites.}

geneva@2Macc:5:8 @ {\cf2 Finally he had this ende of his wicked conuersation, that hee was accused before Areta the king of the Arabians, and fled from citie to citie, being pursued of euery man, and hated as a forsaker of the Lawes, and was in abomination, as an enemie of his countrey and citizens, and was driuen into Egypt.}

geneva@2Macc:5:9 @ {\cf2 Thus hee that had chased many out of their owne coutrey, perished as a banished man, after that he was gone to the Lacedemonians, thinking there to haue gotten succour by reason of kinred.}

geneva@2Macc:5:10 @ {\cf2 And hee that had cast many out vnburied, was throwen out himselfe, no man mourning for him, nor putting him in his graue: neither was hee partaker of his fathers sepulchre.}

geneva@2Macc:5:12 @ {\cf2 He commaunded his men of warre also, that they should kill and not spare such as they met, and to slaie such as went into their houses.}

geneva@2Macc:5:13 @ {\cf2 Thus was there a slaughter of yong men, and olde men, and a destruction of men & women and children, and virgins, and infants were murthered:}

geneva@2Macc:5:14 @ {\cf2 So that within three daies were slaine fourescore thousand, & fourtie thousand taken prisoners, and there were as many solde as were slaine.}

geneva@2Macc:5:15 @ {\cf2 Yet was hee not content with this, but durst goe into the most holy Temple of all the worlde, hauing Menelaus that traitour to the Lawes, and to his owne countrey, to be his guide,}

geneva@2Macc:5:17 @ {\cf2 So hautie in his minde was Antiochus, that he considered not, that God was not a litle wroth for the sinnes of them that dwelt in the citie, for the which such contempt came vpon that place.}

geneva@2Macc:5:18 @ {\cf2 For if they had not beene wrapped in many sinnes, hee, assoone as he had come, had suddenly beene punished, and put backe from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to viewe the treasurie.}

geneva@2Macc:5:20 @ {\cf2 And therefore is the place become partaker of the peoples trouble, but afterward shal it be partaker of the benefites of the Lord, and as it is nowe forsaken in the wrath of the Almightie, so when the great Lord shalbe reconciled, it shalbe set vp in great worship againe.}

geneva@2Macc:5:21 @ {\cf2 So when Antiochus had taken eighteene hundred talents out of the Temple, he gate him to Antiochia in all haste, thinking in his pride to make men saile vpon the dry land, and to walke vpon the sea: such an hie minde had he.}

geneva@2Macc:5:23 @ {\cf2 And at Garizin Andronicus, and with them Menelaus, which was more grieuous to the citizens then the other, and was despiteful against the Iewes his citizens.}

geneva@2Macc:5:25 @ {\cf2 So when hee came to Ierusalem, hee fained peace, and kept him still vntil the holy day of Sabbath: and then finding the Iewes keeping the feast, he commanded his men to take their weapons.}

geneva@2Macc:5:27 @ {\cf2 But Iudas Maccabeus, being as it were the tenth, fled into the wildernesse, and liued there in the mountaines with his companie among the beastes, and dwelling there, and eating grasse, least they should be partakers of the filthinesse.}

geneva@2Macc:6:2 @ {\cf2 And to defile the Temple that was at Ierusalem, and to call it the Temple of Iupiter Olympius, and that of Garizin, according as they did that dwelt at that place, Iupiter, that keepeth hospitalitie.}

geneva@2Macc:6:3 @ {\cf2 This wicked gouernment was sore and grieuous vnto the people.}

geneva@2Macc:6:4 @ {\cf2 For the Temple was full of dissolution, and gluttonie of the Gentiles, which dallied with harlots, and had to doe with women within the circuit of the holy places, and brought in such thinges as were not lawfull.}

geneva@2Macc:6:5 @ {\cf2 The altar also was ful of such things, as were abhominable and forbidden by the Lawe.}

geneva@2Macc:6:6 @ {\cf2 Neither was it lawful to keepe the Sabbaths, nor to obserue their ancient feastes, nor plainely to confesse himselfe to be a Iewe.}

geneva@2Macc:6:7 @ {\cf2 In the day of the kings birth they were grieuously compelled perforce euery moneth to banket, and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were constrained to goe in the procession of Bacchus with garlands of yuie.}

geneva@2Macc:6:10 @ {\cf2 For there were two women brought foorth, that had circumcised their sonnes, whom when they had led rounde about the citie (the babes hanging at their breastes) they cast them downe headlong ouer the walles.}

geneva@2Macc:6:12 @ {\cf2 Now I beseech those which read this boke, that they bee not discouraged for these calamities, but that they iudge these afflictions, not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.}

geneva@2Macc:6:14 @ {\cf2 For the Lord doeth not long waite for vs, as for other nations, whome hee punisheth when they are come to the fulnesse of their sinnes.}

geneva@2Macc:6:18 @ {\cf2 Eleazar then one of the principall scribes, an aged man, and of a well fauoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eate swines flesh.}

geneva@2Macc:6:20 @ {\cf2 As they ought to goe to death which suffer punishment for such thinges, as it is not lawfull to taste of for the desire to liue.}

geneva@2Macc:6:21 @ {\cf2 But they that had the charge of this wicked banket, for that olde friendship of the man, tooke him aside priuilie, and praied him, that he woulde take such flesh, as was lawfull for him to vse, and as hee woulde prepare for himselfe, and dissemble as though hee had eaten of the things appoynted by the king, euen the flesh of the sacrifice,}

geneva@2Macc:6:22 @ {\cf2 That in so doing he might be deliuered from death, and that for the olde friendship that was among them, he would receiue this fauour.}

geneva@2Macc:6:23 @ {\cf2 But he began to consider discreetely, and as became his age, and the excellencie of his ancient yeres, and the honour of his graie heares, whereunto he was come, and his most honest conuersation from his childehoode, but chiefly the holy Lawe made and giuen by God: therefore hee answered consequently, and willed them straight wayes to send him to the graue.}

geneva@2Macc:6:27 @ {\cf2 Wherefore I will nowe change this life manfully, & wil shew my self such as mine age requireth,}

geneva@2Macc:6:28 @ {\cf2 And so will leaue a notable example for such as be yong, to die willingly & courageously for the honourable and holy Lawes; when he had said these wordes, immediatly he went to torment.}

geneva@2Macc:6:30 @ {\cf2 And as hee was ready to giue the ghost because of the strokes, he sighed and sayde, The Lorde that hath the holy knowledge, knoweth manifestly, that whereas I might haue beene deliuered fromdeath, I am scourged and suffer these sore paynes of my body: but in my minde I suffer them gladly for his religion.}

geneva@2Macc:7:1 @ {\cf2 It came to passe also, that seuen brethren, with their mother, were taken to be compelled by the King against the Lawe, to taste swines flesh, & were tormented with scourges and whippes.}

geneva@2Macc:7:3 @ {\cf2 Then was the King angry, and commanded to heate pannes and cauldrons, which were incontinently made hote.}

geneva@2Macc:7:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when he was thus mangled in all his members, he commanded him to be brought aliue to the fire, and to frye him in the panne: and while the smoke for a long time smoked out of the panne, the other brethren with their mother, exhorted one another to die couragiously, saying in this maner,}

geneva@2Macc:7:6 @ {\cf2 The Lord God doeth regard vs, and in deede taketh pleasure in vs, as Moyses declared in the song wherein he testified openly, saying, That God will take pleasure in his seruants.}

geneva@2Macc:7:7 @ {\cf2 So when the first was dead after this maner, they brought the second to make him a mocking stocke: and when they had pulled the skinne with the heare ouer his head, they asked him, if he would eate, or he were punished in all the members of the body.}

geneva@2Macc:7:8 @ {\cf2 But he answered in his owne language, and sayd, No. Wherefore he was tormented forthwith like the first.}

geneva@2Macc:7:9 @ {\cf2 And when he was at the last breath, he sayd, Thou murtherer takest this present life from vs, but the king of the world wil rayse vs vp, which die for his Lawes, in the resurrection of euerlasting life.}

geneva@2Macc:7:10 @ {\cf2 After him was the thirde had in derision, and when they demaunded his tongue, hee put it out incontinently, and stretched forth his handes boldely,}

geneva@2Macc:7:12 @ {\cf2 Insomuch that the King & they which were with him, marueiled at the yong mans courage, as at one that nothing regarded the paynes.}

geneva@2Macc:7:13 @ {\cf2 Now when he was dead also, they vexed & tormented the fourth in like maner.}

geneva@2Macc:7:14 @ {\cf2 And when he was now ready to die, he sayd thus, It is better that we shoulde change this which we might hope for of men, and wayte for our hope from God, that we may be raised vp againe by him: as for thee, thou shalt haue no resurrection to life.}

geneva@2Macc:7:16 @ {\cf2 Who looked vpon the King, and sayd, Thou hast power among men, and though thou be a mortall man, thou doest what thou wilt: but thinke not, that God hath forsaken our nation.}

geneva@2Macc:7:20 @ {\cf2 But the mother was marueilous aboue all other, & worthy of honourable memory: for when she sawe her seuen sonnes slaine within the space of one day, shee suffred it with a good will, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.}

geneva@2Macc:7:23 @ {\cf2 But doutles the Creator of the world, which formed the birth of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his owne mercy giue you breath and life againe, as yee now regarde not your owne selues, for his Lawes sake.}

geneva@2Macc:7:24 @ {\cf2 Now Antiochus thinking himselfe despised, & considering the iniurious wordes, while the yongest was yet aliue, he did exhort him not only with wordes, but swore also vnto him by an othe that he would make him rich and wealthy, if he would forsake the Lawes of his fathers, & that he would take him as a friend, and giue him offices.}

geneva@2Macc:7:25 @ {\cf2 But when the yong man woulde in no case hearken vnto him, the King called his mother, and exhorted that she should counsell the yong man to saue his life.}

geneva@2Macc:7:28 @ {\cf2 I beseech thee, my sonne, looke vpo the heauen and the earth, and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of things that were not, and so was mankinde made likewise.}

geneva@2Macc:7:30 @ {\cf2 While she was yet speaking these words, the yong man said, Whom wayte ye for? I wil not obey the Kings commaundement: but I will obey the commandement of the Lawe that was giuen vnto our fathers by Moyses.}

geneva@2Macc:7:33 @ {\cf2 But though the liuing Lorde be angry with vs a litle while for our chastening & correction, yet wil he be reconciled with his owne seruants.}

geneva@2Macc:7:35 @ {\cf2 For thou hast not yet escaped the iudgemet of almightie God, which seeth all things.}

geneva@2Macc:7:36 @ {\cf2 My brethren that haue suffred a litle payne, are nowe vnder the diuine couenant of euerlasting life: but thou through the iudgement of God, shalt suffer iust punishments for thy pride.}

geneva@2Macc:7:37 @ {\cf2 Therefore I, as my brethren haue done, offer my body & life for the Lawes of our fathers, beseeching God, that he will soone be merciful vnto our nation, and that thou by torment and punishment mayst confesse, that he is the only God,}

geneva@2Macc:7:38 @ {\cf2 And that in mee and my brethren the wrath of the almightie, which is righteously fallen vpon all our nation, may cease.}

geneva@2Macc:7:39 @ {\cf2 Then the King being kindled with anger, raged more cruelly against him then the others, and tooke it grieuously, that he was mocked.}

geneva@2Macc:7:41 @ {\cf2 Last of all after the sonnes, was the mother put to death.}

geneva@2Macc:8:1 @ {\cf2 Then Iudas Maccabeus, & they that were with him, went priuily into the townes, and called their kinsfolks and friends together, & tooke vnto them all such as continued in the Iewes religion, & assembled sixe thousand men.}

geneva@2Macc:8:2 @ {\cf2 So they called vpon the Lord, that he would haue an eye vnto his people, which was vexed of euery man, and haue pitie vpon the Temple that was defiled by wicked men,}

geneva@2Macc:8:3 @ {\cf2 And that he woulde haue compassion vpon the citie that was destroyed, and almost brought to the grounde, and that he woulde heare the voyce of the blood that cryed vnto him,}

geneva@2Macc:8:4 @ {\cf2 And that hee woulde remember the wicked slaughter of the innocent children, & the blasphemies committed against his name, & that he would shew his hatred against the wicked.}

geneva@2Macc:8:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Maccabeus had gathered this multitude, he could not be withstand by ye heathen: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.}

geneva@2Macc:8:7 @ {\cf2 But specially he vsed the nights to make such assaults, in so much that the bruite of his manlines was spread euery where.}

geneva@2Macc:8:8 @ {\cf2 So when Philippe sawe that this man increased by litle and litle, and that things prospered with him for the most part, hee wrote vnto Ptolemeus the gouernour of Coelosyria and Phenice, to helpe him in the kings busines.}

geneva@2Macc:8:9 @ {\cf2 Then sent hee speedily Nicanor the sonne of Patroclus, a speciall friend of his, & gaue him of all nations of the heathen no lesse then twenty thousand men, to roote out the whole generation of the Iewes, & ioyned with him Gorgias a captaine, which in matters of warre had great experience.}

geneva@2Macc:8:11 @ {\cf2 Therefore immediately he sent to the cities on the sea coast, prouoking them to bye Iewes to bee their seruantes, promising to sell foure score and ten for one talent: but he considered not the vegeace of almighty God, that should come vpo him.}

geneva@2Macc:8:12 @ {\cf2 When Iudas then knewe of Nicanors coming, hee tolde them that were with him, of the coming of the armie.}

geneva@2Macc:8:19 @ {\cf2 Moreouer he admonished them of the helpe that God shewed vnto their fathers, as when there perished an hundreth and fourescore, & fiue thousand vnder Sennacherib,}

geneva@2Macc:8:20 @ {\cf2 And of the battell that they had in Babylon against the Galatians, how they came in all to the battell eight thousand, with foure thousand Macedonians: and when the Macedonians were astonished, the eyght thousande slewe an hundreth and twentie thousande through the helpe that was giuen them from heauen, whereby they had receiued many benefites.}

geneva@2Macc:8:23 @ {\cf2 And when Eleazarus had read the holie booke, and giuen them a token of the helpe of God, Iudas which lead the forewarde, ioyned with Nicanor,}

geneva@2Macc:8:26 @ {\cf2 For it was the day before the Sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.}

geneva@2Macc:8:29 @ {\cf2 When this was done, and they all had made a general prayer, they besought the mercifull Lorde to be reconciled at the length with his seruants.}

geneva@2Macc:8:32 @ {\cf2 They slewe also Philarches a most wicked person, which was with Timotheus, and had vexed the Iewes many wayes.}

geneva@2Macc:8:33 @ {\cf2 And when they kept the feast of victorie in their countrey, they burnt Calistenes that had set fire vpon the holy gates, which was fled into a litle house: so he receiued a rewarde meete for his wickednesse.}

geneva@2Macc:8:35 @ {\cf2 He was through ye helpe of the Lord brought downe of them whom he thought as nothing, in so much that he put off his glorious rayment, & fled ouerthwart the countrey like a fugitiue seruant, & came alone to Antiochia, with great dishonour through the destruction of his hoste.}

geneva@2Macc:9:2 @ {\cf2 For when he came to Persepolis, and went about to robbe the Temple, and to subdue the citie, the people ranne in a rage to defende them selues with their weapons, and put them to flight, and Antiochus was put to flight by the inhabitants, and returned with shame.}

geneva@2Macc:9:4 @ {\cf2 And the being chased in his fume, he thought to impute to the Iewes their faute, which had put him to flight, and therefore commanded his charet man to driue continually, and to dispatch the iourney: for Gods iudgement compelled him: for hee had sayde thus in his pride, I will make Ierusalem a common burying place of the Iewes, when I come thither.}

geneva@2Macc:9:5 @ {\cf2 But the Lorde almightie and God of Israel smote him with an incurable and inuisible plague: for assoone as he had spoken these wordes, a payne of the bowels, that was remediles, came vpon him, and sore torments of the inner parts,}

geneva@2Macc:9:7 @ {\cf2 Howbeit he woulde in no wise cease from his arrogancie, but swelled the more with pride, breathing our fire in his rage against the Iewes, & commaunded to hast the iourney: but it came to passe that he fell downe from the charet that ran swiftely, so that al the members of his body were bruised with the great fall.}

geneva@2Macc:9:8 @ {\cf2 And thus hee that a litle afore thought hee might commande the floods of the sea (so proude was he beyond the condition of man) & to weigh the hie mountaines in the balance, was nowe caste on the grounde, and caried in an horselitter, declaring vnto all the manifest power of God,}

geneva@2Macc:9:9 @ {\cf2 So that the wormes came out of the bodie of this wicked man in aboundance: and whiles hee was aliue, his flesh fell off for payne and torment, and all his armie was grieued at his smell.}

geneva@2Macc:9:11 @ {\cf2 Then hee began to leaue off his great pride, and selfewill, when hee was plagued and came to the knowledge of himselfe by the scourge of God, and by his paine which increased euery moment.}

geneva@2Macc:9:14 @ {\cf2 And saide thus that he woulde set at libertie the holy citie vnto the which he made haste to destroy it, and to make it a burying place.}

geneva@2Macc:9:15 @ {\cf2 And as touching the Iewes whome hee had iudged not worthie to be buried, but woulde haue cast them out with their children to bee deuoured of the foules and wilde beastes, he would make the all like the citizens of Athenes.}

geneva@2Macc:9:16 @ {\cf2 And whereas he had spoyled the holy Temple afore, he would garnish it with great giftes, and increase the holy vessels, and of his owne rentes beare the charges belonging to the sacrifices.}

geneva@2Macc:9:17 @ {\cf2 Yea, and that he would also become a Iewe himselfe, and goe thorowe all the worlde that was inhabited, and preach the power of God.}

geneva@2Macc:9:18 @ {\cf2 But for all this his paines woulde not cease: for the iust iudgement of God was come vpon him: therfore despairing of his health, he wrote vnto the Iewes this letter vnder written, conteining the forme of a supplication.}

geneva@2Macc:9:21 @ {\cf2 Though I lie sicke, yet I am mindful of your honour, and good will for the loue I beare you: therefore when I returned from the countrey of Persia, and fell into a sore disease, I thought it necessarie to care for the common safetie of all,}

geneva@2Macc:9:25 @ {\cf2 Againe, when I ponder howe that the gouernours, that are borderers, and neighbours vnto my kingdome, waite for all occasions, and looke but for opportunitie, I haue ordeined that my sonne Antiochus shalbe king, whome I oft commended and committed to many of you, when I went into the hie prouinces, and haue written vnto him as followeth hereafter.}

geneva@2Macc:9:28 @ {\cf2 Thus the murtherer and blasphemer suffered most grieuously, and as he had intreated other men, so he died a miserable death in a strange coutrey among the mountaines.}

geneva@2Macc:9:29 @ {\cf2 And Philippe that was brought vp with him, caried away his body, who fearing the sonne of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemeus Philometor.}

geneva@2Macc:10:4 @ {\cf2 When that was done, they fell downe flat vpon the grounde, and besought the Lorde, that they might come no more into such troubles: but if they sinned any more against him, that hee him selfe woulde chasten them with mercy, and that they might not bee deliuered to the blasphemous, and barbarous nations.}

geneva@2Macc:10:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe vpon the same day, that the straungers polluted the Temple, on the very same day it was clensed againe, euen the fiue and twentie day of the same moneth, which is Chasleu.}

geneva@2Macc:10:6 @ {\cf2 They kept eight dayes with gladnesse as in the feast of the Tabernacles, remembring, that not long afore they held the feast of the Tabernacles when they liued in the mountaines and dennes like beastes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:9 @ {\cf2 And this was the ende of Antiochus called Epiphanes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:10 @ {\cf2 Nowe will we declare the actes of Antiochus Eupator, which was the sonne of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of the warres, that followed.}

geneva@2Macc:10:11 @ {\cf2 For when he had taken the kingdome, hee made one Lysias, which had bene captaine of the hoste in Phenice, and Coelosyria, ruler ouer the affaires of the realme.}

geneva@2Macc:10:12 @ {\cf2 For Ptolemeus that was called Macron, purposed to doe iustice vnto the Iewes for the wrong, that had bene done vnto them, and went about to behaue himselfe peaceably with them.}

geneva@2Macc:10:13 @ {\cf2 For the which cause hee was accused of his friendes before Eupator, and was called oft times traitour, because he had left Cyprus that Philometor had committed vnto him, and came to Antiochus Epiphanes: therefore seeing that hee was no more in estimation, he was discouraged, and poysoned himselfe, and died.}

geneva@2Macc:10:14 @ {\cf2 But when Gorgias was gouernour of the same places, hee interteined strangers, and made warre oft times against the Iewes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:17 @ {\cf2 And assaulted them sore, that they wan the places, and slewe all that sought against them on the wall, and killed all that they met with, & slewe no lesse then twentie thousand.}

geneva@2Macc:10:18 @ {\cf2 And because certaine (which were no lesse then nine thousand) were fled into two strong castles, hauing all maner of things conuenient to susteine the siege,}

geneva@2Macc:10:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe they that were with Simon, being led with couetousnes, were intreated for mony (through certaine of those that were in the castel) & tooke seuentie thousand drachmes, and let some of them escape.}

geneva@2Macc:10:21 @ {\cf2 But when it was tolde Maccabeus what was done, hee called the gouernours of the people together, and accused those men, that they had solde their brethren for money, and let their enemies goe.}

geneva@2Macc:10:22 @ {\cf2 So he slew them when they were conuict of treason, and immediately wan the two castels:}

geneva@2Macc:10:23 @ {\cf2 And hauing good successe, as in al the warres that he tooke in hande, hee slewe in the two castels moe then twentie thousand.}

geneva@2Macc:10:24 @ {\cf2 Nowe Timotheus whom the Iewes had ouercome afore, gathered an armie of strangers of al sorts, and brought a great troupe of horsemen out of Asia to winne Iewrie by strength.}

geneva@2Macc:10:26 @ {\cf2 And fell downe at the foote of the altar, and besought the Lorde to bee mercifull to them, and to bee an enemie to their enemies, and to bee an aduersarie to their aduersaries, as the Lawe declareth.}

geneva@2Macc:10:28 @ {\cf2 And when the morning appeared, they both ioyned together: the one part had the Lord for their refuge, and pledge of prosperitie, and noblevictorie, and the other tooke courage as a guide of the warre.}

geneva@2Macc:10:32 @ {\cf2 As for Timotheus himselfe, he fled vnto Gazara, which was called a very strong holde, wherein Chereas was captaine.}

geneva@2Macc:10:34 @ {\cf2 And they that were within, trusting to the height of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and spake horrible wordes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:35 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse vpon the fifth daye in the morning, twentie yong men of Maccabeus companie, whose heartes were inflamed, because of the blasphemies, came vnto the wall, and with bolde stomakes smote downe those that they met.}

geneva@2Macc:10:36 @ {\cf2 Others also that climed vp vpon the engines of warre against them that were within, set fire vpo the towres, and burnt those blasphemers quicke with the fires that they had made, and others brake vp the gates, and receiued the rest of the armie, and tooke the citie.}

geneva@2Macc:10:37 @ {\cf2 And hauing founde Timotheus, that was crept into a caue, they killed him, and Chereas his brother with Apollophanes.}

geneva@2Macc:10:38 @ {\cf2 When this was done, they praysed the Lorde with psalmes, and thanksgiuing, which had done so great thinges for Israel, and giuen them the victorie.}

geneva@2Macc:11:1 @ {\cf2 Very shortly after this, Lysias the kings steward, and a kinsman of his, which had the gouernance of the affaires, tooke sore displeasure for the things that were done.}

geneva@2Macc:11:5 @ {\cf2 He came into Iudea, and drew neere to Bethsura, which was a castle of defence, fiue furlongs from Ierusalem, and layde sore siege vnto it.}

geneva@2Macc:11:8 @ {\cf2 And as they were there besides Ierusalem, there appeared before them vpon horsebacke a man in white cloathing, shaking his harnesse of golde.}

geneva@2Macc:11:9 @ {\cf2 Then they praysed the mercifull God all together, and tooke heart, in so much that they were ready, not onely to fight with men, but with the most cruell beasts, and to breake downe walles of yron.}

geneva@2Macc:11:10 @ {\cf2 Thus they marched forwarde in aray, hauing an helper from heauen: for the Lord was mercifull vnto them.}

geneva@2Macc:11:12 @ {\cf2 Many of them also being wounded, escaped naked, and Lysias himselfe fled away shamefully, & so escaped,}

geneva@2Macc:11:13 @ {\cf2 Who as he was a man of vnderstanding, cosidering what losse he had had, and knowing, that the Hebrewes could not be ouercome because the almightie God helped them, sent vnto them,}

geneva@2Macc:11:14 @ {\cf2 And promised, that he would consent to all things which were reasonable, & perswade the king to be their friend.}

geneva@2Macc:11:15 @ {\cf2 Maccabeus agreed to Lysias requests, hauing respect in all things to the common wealth, and whatsoeuer Maccabeus wrote vnto Lysias concerning the Iewes, the King granted it.}

geneva@2Macc:11:16 @ {\cf2 For there were letters written vnto ye Iewes from Lysias conteining these wordes, Lysias vnto the people of the Iewes sendeth greeting.}

geneva@2Macc:11:18 @ {\cf2 Therefore what things soeuer were meete to be reported to the King himselfe, I haue declared them, and he granted that that was possible.}

geneva@2Macc:11:19 @ {\cf2 Therefore if ye behaue your selues as friends toward his affaires, hereafter also I will endeuour my selfe to do you good.}

geneva@2Macc:11:20 @ {\cf2 As concerning these things, I haue giuen commandement to these men, and to those whom I sent vnto you, to commune with you of the same particularly.}

geneva@2Macc:11:22 @ {\cf2 Nowe the Kinges letter conteined these words, King Antiochvs vnto his brother Lysias sendeth greeting.}

geneva@2Macc:11:27 @ {\cf2 And this was the Kings letter vnto the nation, King Antiochvs vnto the Elders of the Iewes, and to the rest of the Iewes, sendeth greeting.}

geneva@2Macc:11:29 @ {\cf2 Menelaus declared vnto vs that your desire was to returne home, and to applie your owne businesse.}

geneva@2Macc:11:31 @ {\cf2 That the Iewes may vse their owne maner of liuing and lawes, like as afore, and none of them by any maner of wayes to haue harme for thinges done by ignorance.}

geneva@2Macc:11:34 @ {\cf2 The Romanes also sent a letter conteining these wordes, Qvintvs Memmivs & Titus Manslius ambassadours of the Romanes, vnto the people of the Iewes send greeting.}

geneva@2Macc:11:35 @ {\cf2 The things that Lysias the Kings kinseman hath granted you, we grant the same also.}

geneva@2Macc:11:36 @ {\cf2 But concerning that which he shall report vnto the King, send hither some with speede, when ye haue considered the matter diligently, that wee may consult thereupon as shall be best for you: for we must go vnto Antiochia.}

geneva@2Macc:11:37 @ {\cf2 And therefore make haste and sende some men, that we may know your minde.}

geneva@2Macc:12:1 @ {\cf2 When these couenantes were made, Lysias went vnto the King, and the Iewes tilled their grounde.}

geneva@2Macc:12:2 @ {\cf2 But the gouernours of the places, as Timotheus and Apollonius the sonne of Genneus, and Ieronimus, and also Demophon, and besides them Nicanor the gouernour of Cyprus, woulde not let them liue in rest and peace.}

geneva@2Macc:12:3 @ {\cf2 They of Ioppe also did such a vile acte: they prayed the Iewes that dwelt among them, to goe with their wiues and children into the shippes, which they had prepared as though they had ought them none euill will.}

geneva@2Macc:12:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Iudas knewe of this crueltie shewed against his nation, hee commanded those men that were with him, to make them readie.}

geneva@2Macc:12:7 @ {\cf2 And when the citie was shut vp, hee departed as though he would come againe, and roote out all them of the citie of Ioppe.}

geneva@2Macc:12:9 @ {\cf2 He came vpon the Iamnites by night, and set fire in the hauen with the nauie, so that the light of the fire was seene at Ierusalem, vpo a two hundreth and fourtie furlongs.}

geneva@2Macc:12:11 @ {\cf2 So the battell was sharpe, but it prospered with Iudas through the helpe of God: the Nomades of Arabia; being ouercome, besought Iudas to make peace with them, and promised to giue him certaine cattell, and to helpe him in other things.}

geneva@2Macc:12:12 @ {\cf2 And Iudas thinking that they shoulde in deede be profitable concerning many things, granted them peace: whereupon they shooke hands, and so they departed to their tents.}

geneva@2Macc:12:13 @ {\cf2 Iudas also assaulted a citie called Caspis, which was strong by reason of a bridge, and fenced round about with walles, and had diuers kindes of people dwelling therein.}

geneva@2Macc:12:14 @ {\cf2 So they that were within it, put such trust in the strength of the walles, and in store of vitailes, that they were ye slacker in their doings, reuiling the that were with Iudas, and reproching them: yea, they blasphemed and spake such wordes as were not lawfull.}

geneva@2Macc:12:15 @ {\cf2 But Maccabeus souldiers, calling vpon the great Prince of the world (which without any instruments, or engins of warre, did cast downe the walles of Iericho, in the time of Iesus) gaue a fierce assault against the walles,}

geneva@2Macc:12:18 @ {\cf2 But they founde not Timotheus therefor he was departed from thence, and had done nothing, and had left a garison in a very strong hold.}

geneva@2Macc:12:21 @ {\cf2 When Timotheus had knowledge of Iudas coming, he sent the women, and children, and the other baggage afore vnto a fortresse called Carnion (for it was hard to besiege, and vneasie to come vnto because of the straites on all sides.)}

geneva@2Macc:12:22 @ {\cf2 But when Iudas first band came in sight, the enemies were smitten with feare, and a trembling was among them through the presence of him that seeth all thinges, in so much that they fleeing one here, another there, were oft times hurt by their owne people, and wounded with the poyntes of their owne swordes.}

geneva@2Macc:12:23 @ {\cf2 But Iudas was very earnest in pursuing, andslewe those wicked men yea, hee slewe thirtie thousand men of them.}

geneva@2Macc:12:25 @ {\cf2 So when hee had assured them with many wordes, and promised that he woulde restore them without hurt, they let him goe for the health of their brethren.}

geneva@2Macc:12:27 @ {\cf2 And after that hee had chased away, and slayne them, Iudas remoued the hoste towarde Ephron a strong citie, wherein was Lysias and a great multitude of all nations, and the strong yong men kept the walles defending them mightily: there was also great preparation of engins of warre, and dartes.}

geneva@2Macc:12:31 @ {\cf2 They gaue them thankes, desiring them to be friendly still vnto them, and so they came to Ierusalem, as the feast of the weekes approched.}

geneva@2Macc:12:32 @ {\cf2 And after the feast called Pentecost, they went forth against Gorgias ye gouernor of Idumea:}

geneva@2Macc:12:35 @ {\cf2 And Dositheus one of the Baccenors, which was on horsebacke and a mighty man, tooke Gorgias, and laide holde of his garment, and drewe him by force, because he woulde haue taken the wicked man aliue: but an horseman of Thracia fell vpon him, & smote off his shoulder, so that Gorgias fled into Marisa.}

geneva@2Macc:12:36 @ {\cf2 And when they that were with Eserin, had foughten long, and were weary, Iudas called vpon the Lord, that he would shewe him selfe to be their helper, and captaine of the fielde.}

geneva@2Macc:12:37 @ {\cf2 And then hee began in his owne language, and sung psalmes with a loude voyce, in so much that straightwaies hee made them that were about Gorgias, to take their flight.}

geneva@2Macc:12:38 @ {\cf2 So Iudas gathered his hoste, and came into the citie of Odolla; when the seuenth day came, they clensed them selues (as the custome was) and kept the Sabbath in the same place.}

geneva@2Macc:12:39 @ {\cf2 And vpon the day following, as necessitie required, Iudas and his companie came to take vp the bodyes of them that were slaine, and to burie them with their kinsmen in their fathers graues.}

geneva@2Macc:12:40 @ {\cf2 Nowe vnder the coates of euery one, that was slaine, they founde iewels that had bene consecrate to the idoles of the Iamnites, which thing is forbidden the Iewes by the Lawe. Then euery man sawe, that this was the cause wherefore they were slaine.}

geneva@2Macc:12:42 @ {\cf2 And they gaue them selues to prayer, and besought him, that they should not, vtterly be destroyed for the fault comitted. Besides that, noble Iudas exhorted the people to keepe them selues from sinne, for so much as they sawe before their eyes the things which came to passe by the sinne of these that were slaine,}

geneva@2Macc:12:45 @ {\cf2 And therefore he perceiued, that there was great fauour laid vp for those that dyed godly. (It was an holy, and a good thought.) So he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be deliuered from sinne.}

geneva@2Macc:13:1 @ {\cf2 In the hundreth, fourtie and nine yeere it was tolde Iudas, that Antiochus Eupator was comming with a great power into Iudea,}

geneva@2Macc:13:2 @ {\cf2 And Lysias the stewarde and ruler of his affaires with him, hauing both in their armie an hundreth and ten thousande men of foote of the Grecians, and fiue thousande horsemen, and two and twentie elephants, and three hundreth charets set with hookes.}

geneva@2Macc:13:4 @ {\cf2 But the King of Kings moued Antiochus minde against this wicked man, and Lysias infourmed the King that this man was the cause of all mischiefe, so that the King commaunded to bring him to Berea to put him vnto death, as the maner was in that place.}

geneva@2Macc:13:5 @ {\cf2 Nowe there was in that place a towre of fiftie cubites high, full of ashes, and it had an instrument that turned rounde, and on euery side it rowled downe into the ashes.}

geneva@2Macc:13:6 @ {\cf2 And there whosoeuer was condemned of sacriledge, or of any other grieuous crime, was cast of all men to the death.}

geneva@2Macc:13:7 @ {\cf2 And so it came to passe that this wicked man should die such a death, and it was a most iust thing that Menelaus should want buriall,}

geneva@2Macc:13:8 @ {\cf2 For because he had committed many sinnes by the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy: hee him selfe also dyed in the ashes.}

geneva@2Macc:13:10 @ {\cf2 Which things when Iudas perceiued, he comanded the people to call vpon the Lord night & day, that if euer he had holpen them, he would now helpe the, when they should be put from their law, from their countrey and from the holy Temple:}

geneva@2Macc:13:11 @ {\cf2 And that he would not suffer the people, which a litle afore began to recouer, to be subdued vnto the blasphemous nations.}

geneva@2Macc:13:12 @ {\cf2 So when they had done this all together, & besought the Lorde for mercie with weeping, and fasting, and falling downe three dayes together, Iudas exhorted them to make them selues readie.}

geneva@2Macc:13:17 @ {\cf2 This was done in the breake of the day, because the protection of the Lorde did helpe them.}

geneva@2Macc:13:18 @ {\cf2 Nowe when the King had tasted the malinesse of the Iewes, he went about to take the holdes by policie,}

geneva@2Macc:13:19 @ {\cf2 And marched toward Beth-sura, which was a strong holde of the Iewes: but he was chased away, hurt and lost of his men.}

geneva@2Macc:13:20 @ {\cf2 For Iudas had sent vnto them that were in it, such things as were necessarie.}

geneva@2Macc:13:21 @ {\cf2 But Rhodocus which was in the Iewes hoste, disclosed the secrets to the enemies: therefore he was sought out, and when they had gotten him, they put him in prison.}

geneva@2Macc:13:22 @ {\cf2 After this did the King commune with them that were in Beth-sura, & tooke truce with them, departed, and ioyned battel with Iudas, who ouercame him.}

geneva@2Macc:13:23 @ {\cf2 But when he vnderstoode, that Philippe (whome he had left to be ouerseer of his businesse at Antiochia) did rebell against him, he was astonished, so that he yeelded him selfe to the Iewes, and made them an othe to doe all things that were right, and was appeased towarde them, and offered sacrifice and adorned the Temple, and shewed great gentlenesse to the place,}

geneva@2Macc:13:26 @ {\cf2 Then went Lysias vp into the iudgement seate, and excused the facte as well as he could, and perswaded them, and pacified them, and made them well affectioned, & came againe vnto Antiochia. This is the matter concerning the Kings iourney, and his returne.}

geneva@2Macc:14:1 @ {\cf2 After three yeeres was Iudas enformed that Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus was come vp with a great power and nauie by the hauen of Tripolis,}

geneva@2Macc:14:2 @ {\cf2 When he had wonne the countrey, and slaine Antiochus and his Lieutenant Lysias.}

geneva@2Macc:14:5 @ {\cf2 But when hee had gotten opportunitie, and occasion for his rage, Demetrius called him to cousell, and asked him what deuises or counsels the Iewes leaned vnto.}

geneva@2Macc:14:6 @ {\cf2 To the which hee answered, The Iewes that be called Asideans, whose captaine is Iudas Maccabeus, maintaine warres, and make insurrections, and will not let the Realme be in peace.}

geneva@2Macc:14:8 @ {\cf2 Partly, because I was well affectioned vnto the kings affaires, and secodly, because I sought the profit of mine owne citizens: for all our people, thorow their rashnes, are not a little troubled.}

geneva@2Macc:14:10 @ {\cf2 For as long as Iudas liueth, it is not possible that the matter should be well.}

geneva@2Macc:14:11 @ {\cf2 When hee had spoken these wordes, other friendes also hauing euil will at Iudas, set Demetrius on fire.}

geneva@2Macc:14:13 @ {\cf2 And sent him forth, commanding him to slay Iudas, and to scatter them that were with him, & to make Alcimus high Priest of the great Temple.}

geneva@2Macc:14:14 @ {\cf2 Then the heathen which fled out of Iudea from Iudas, came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the harme and calamities of the Iewes to bee their welfare.}

geneva@2Macc:14:17 @ {\cf2 Where Simon Iudas brother had ioyned battel with Nicanor, and was somewhat astonished through the sudden silence of the enemies.}

geneva@2Macc:14:18 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse Nicanor hearing the manlines of them that were with Iudas, and the bolde stomackes that they had for their countrey, durst notproue the matter with bloudsheading.}

geneva@2Macc:14:19 @ {\cf2 Wherefore, he sent Posidonius, Theodocius, and Matthias before, to make peace.}

geneva@2Macc:14:21 @ {\cf2 And they appointed a day when they should particularly come together: so when the day was come, they set for euery man his stoole.}

geneva@2Macc:14:22 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse Iudas commaunded certeine men of armes to waite in conuenient places, least there should suddenly arise any euil through the enemies: and so they communed together of the things whereupon they had agreed.}

geneva@2Macc:14:24 @ {\cf2 Hee loued Iudas, and fauoured him in his heart.}

geneva@2Macc:14:26 @ {\cf2 But Alcimus perceiuing the loue that was betweene them, and vnderstanding the couenants that were made, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor had taken strange matters in hande, and ordeined Iudas a traytour to the Realme, to be his successour.}

geneva@2Macc:14:27 @ {\cf2 Then the King was displeased, and by the reportes of this wicked man, hee wrote to Nicanor, saying, that hee was very angry for the couenants, commanding him that hee should send Maccabeus in all haste prisoner vnto Antiochia.}

geneva@2Macc:14:28 @ {\cf2 When these things came to Nicanor, he was astonished and sore grieued, that hee should breake the things wherein they had agreed, seeing that that man had committed no wickednesse.}

geneva@2Macc:14:29 @ {\cf2 But because it was not commodious to him to withstand the King, hee sought craftily to accomplish it.}

geneva@2Macc:14:30 @ {\cf2 Notwithstanding when Maccabeus perceiued that Nicanor began to be rough vnto him, and that he intreated him more rudely then hee was wont, he perceiued that such rigour came not of good, & therefore he gathered a fewe of his men, and withdrewe himselfe from Nicanor.}

geneva@2Macc:14:31 @ {\cf2 But the other perceiuing that he was preuented by Maccabeus worthy pollicie, came into the great and holy Temple, and commaunded the Priests, which were offering their vsuall sacrifices, to deliuer him the man.}

geneva@2Macc:14:32 @ {\cf2 And when they sware that they could not tell where the man was, whome he sought,}

geneva@2Macc:14:33 @ {\cf2 He stretched out his right hand towarde the Temple, and made an othe in this maner, If ye will not deliuer me Iudas as a prisoner, I will make this Temple of God a plaine fielde, and will breake downe the altar, and will erect a notable Temple vnto Bacchus.}

geneva@2Macc:14:34 @ {\cf2 After these wordes he departed: then the Priestes lift vp their handes towarde heauen, and besought him that was euer the defender of their nation, saying in this maner,}

geneva@2Macc:14:35 @ {\cf2 Thou, O Lord of all things, which hast need of nothing, wouldest that the Teple of thine habitation shoulde be among vs.}

geneva@2Macc:14:36 @ {\cf2 Therefore nowe, O most holy Lord, keepe this house euer vndefiled, which lately was clensed, and stoppe all the mouthes of the vnrighteous.}

geneva@2Macc:14:37 @ {\cf2 Nowe was there accused vnto Nicanor, Razis one of the Elders of Ierusalem, a louer of the citie, and a man of very good report, which for his loue was called a father of the Iewes.}

geneva@2Macc:14:41 @ {\cf2 But when this companie would haue taken his castle, and woulde haue broken the gates by violence, and commaunded to bring fire to burne the gates, so that he was ready to be taken on euery side, he fell on his sworde,}

geneva@2Macc:14:43 @ {\cf2 Notwithstanding what time as he missed of his stroke for haste, and the multitude russhed in violently betweene the doores, he ranne boldly to the wall, and cast him selfe downe manfully among the multitude.}

geneva@2Macc:14:45 @ {\cf2 Neuerthelesse while there was yet breath in him, being kindled in his minde, he rose vp, and though his blood gushed out like a fountaine, and he was very sore wounded, yet he ran thorowe the middest of the people,}

geneva@2Macc:14:46 @ {\cf2 And gate him to the toppe of an high rock: so when his blood was vtterly gone, he tooke out his owne bowels with both his handes, and threwe them vpon the people, calling vpon the Lorde of life and spirit, that he woulde restore them againe vnto him, and thus he dyed.}

geneva@2Macc:15:1 @ {\cf2 Nowe when Nicanor knewe that Iudas and his companie were in the countrey of Samaria, he thought with all assurance to come vpon them, vpon the Sabbath day.}

geneva@2Macc:15:6 @ {\cf2 For Nicanor lifted vp with great pride, purposed to set vp a memorial of the victorie obteined of all them that were with Iudas.}

geneva@2Macc:15:11 @ {\cf2 Thus he armed euery one of them, not with the assurance of shieldes & speares, but with wholesome wordes and exhortations, and shewed them a dreame worthie to be beleeued, and reioyced them greatly.}

geneva@2Macc:15:12 @ {\cf2 And this was his vision, He thought that he sawe Onias (which had bene the high Priest, a vertuous and a good man, reuerent in behauiour, and of sober conuersation, well spoken, and one that had bene exercised in all pointes of godlinesse from a childe) holding vp his handes towardes heauen, and praying for the whole people of the Iewes.}

geneva@2Macc:15:13 @ {\cf2 After this there appeared vnto him another man which was aged, honourable, and of a wonderfull dignitie, and excellencie aboue him.}

geneva@2Macc:15:14 @ {\cf2 And Onias spake, and said, This is a louer of the brethren, who prayeth much for the people, and for the holy citie, to wit, Ieremias the Prophet of God.}

geneva@2Macc:15:15 @ {\cf2 He thought also that Ieremias helde out his right hande, and gaue vnto Iudas a sworde of gold: and as he gaue it, he spake thus,}

geneva@2Macc:15:17 @ {\cf2 And so being comforted by the wordes of Iudas, which were very sweete & able to stirre the vp to valiantnesse and to incourage the heartes of the yong men, they determined to pitch no campe, but couragiously to set vpon them, and manfully to assaile them, and to trie the matter hand to hand, because the citie and the Sanctuarie and the Temple were in danger.}

geneva@2Macc:15:18 @ {\cf2 As for their wiues, and children, and brethre and kinsfolkes, they set lesse by their danger: but their greatest and principall feare was for the holy Temple.}

geneva@2Macc:15:19 @ {\cf2 Againe they that were in the citie, were carefull for the armie that was abroad.}

geneva@2Macc:15:20 @ {\cf2 Nowe whiles they all wayted for the tryall of the matter, and the enemies nowe mette with them, and the hoste was set in aray, and the beasts were separated into conuenient places, and the horsemen were placed in the wings,}

geneva@2Macc:15:21 @ {\cf2 Maccabeus considering the coming of the multitude, and the diuers preparations of weapons, and the fiercenesse of the beastes, helde vp his handes toward heauen, calling vpon the Lord that doeth wonders, and that looked vpon them, knowing that the victorie commeth not by ye weapons, but that he giueth the victorie to them that are worthy, as seemeth good vnto him.}

geneva@2Macc:15:22 @ {\cf2 Therefore in his prayer he said after this maner, O Lord, thou that diddest sende thine Angel in the time of Ezechias King of Iudea, who in the host of Sennacherib slewe an hundreth, foure score and fiue thousand,}

geneva@2Macc:15:24 @ {\cf2 And let them be discomfited by the strength of thine arme, which come against thine holy people to blaspheme. Thus with these wordes he made an ende.}

geneva@2Macc:15:26 @ {\cf2 But Iudas & his company praying & calling vpon God, encountered with the enemies,}

geneva@2Macc:15:28 @ {\cf2 Now when they left off, & were turning againe with ioy, they vnderstoode that Nicanor himselfe was slaine for all his armour.}

geneva@2Macc:15:30 @ {\cf2 Therefore Iudas, which was euer the chiefe defender of his citizens both in body and minde, and which bare euer good affection towards them of his nation, commaunded to smite off Nicanors head, with his hand and shoulder, and to bring it to Ierusalem.}

geneva@2Macc:15:31 @ {\cf2 And when he came there, he called all them of his nation, and set the Priests by the altar, and sent for them of the castel,}

geneva@2Macc:15:32 @ {\cf2 And shewed them wicked Nicanors head, and the hand of that blasphemour which he had holden vp against the holy Temple of the Almightie with proude bragges.}

geneva@2Macc:15:33 @ {\cf2 He caused the tongue also of wicked Nicanor to be cut in litle pieces, and to be cast vnto the foules, & that the rewardes of his madnesse should be hanged vp before the Temple.}

geneva@2Macc:15:35 @ {\cf2 He hanged also Nicanors head vpon the hie castell, for an euident and plaine token vnto all of the helpe of God.}

geneva@2Macc:15:36 @ {\cf2 And so they established all together by a common decree, that they would in no case suffer this day without keeping it holy:}

geneva@2Macc:15:37 @ {\cf2 And that the feast should be the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth, which is called Adar in the Syrians language, the day before Mardocheus day.}

geneva@2Macc:15:38 @ {\cf2 Thus farre as concerning Nicanors matters, and from that time the Hebrues had the citie in possession; here will I also make an ende.}

geneva@2Macc:15:39 @ {\cf2 If I haue done wel, and as the storie required, it is the thing that I desired: but if I haue spoken slenderly and barely, it is that I could.}

geneva@2Macc:15:40 @ {\cf2 For as it is hurtfull to drinke wine alone, & then againe water: and as wine tempered with water is pleasant and delighteth the taste: so the setting out of the matter deliteth the eares of them that reade the storie; here shall be the ende.}