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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:1:7 @ But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will (note:)For after their captivity he restored them miraculously by the means of Cyrus; (Ezr_1:1).(:note) save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
geneva@Hosea:1:9 @ Then said [God], Call his name (note:)That is, not my people.(:note) Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].
geneva@Hosea:1:11 @ Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be (note:)That is, after the captivity of Babylon, when the Jews were restored: but chiefly this refers to the time of Christ, who would be the head both of the Jews and Gentiles.(:note) gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the The calamity and destruction of Israel will be so great, that to restore them will be a miracle. day of Jezreel.
geneva@Hosea:2:1 @ Say ye unto your (note:)Seeing that I have promised you deliverance, it remains that you encourage one another to embrace this promise, considering that you are my people on whom I will have mercy.(:note) brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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:2:5 @ For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my (note:)Meaning the idol which they served, and by whom they thought they had wealth and abundance.(:note) lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
geneva@Hosea:2:6 @ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up (note:)I will punish you so that you may then test whether your idols can help you, and bring you into such straightness that you will have no lust to play the harlot.(:note) thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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:2:10 @ And now will I discover her (note:)That is, all her service, ceremonies, and inventions by which she worshipped her idols.(:note) lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
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:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will (note:)By my benefits in offering her grace and mercy, even in that place where she will think herself destitute of all help and comfort.(:note) allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
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:2:17 @ For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their (note:)No idolatry will come into their mouth at all, but they will fear me purely according to my word.(:note) name.
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:2:20 @ I will even betroth thee unto me in (note:)With a covenant that will never be broken.(:note) faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
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:3:3 @ 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: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:4:13 @ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall (note:)Because they take away God's honour, and give it to idols: therefore he will give them up to their lusts, so that they will dishonour their own bodies; (Rom_1:28).(:note) commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
geneva@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not (note:)I will not correct your shame to bring you to proper living, but will let you run headlong to your own damnation.(:note) punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people [that] doth not understand shall fall.
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:5:4 @ They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.
geneva@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made (note:)By the success they will know that I have surely determined this.(:note) known that which shall surely be.
geneva@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Judah were like them that (note:)They have turned upside down all political order and all manner of religion.(:note) remove the bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
geneva@Hosea:5:11 @ Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the (note:)That is, after King Jeroboam's commandment, and did not rather follow God.(:note) commandment.
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:5:15 @ I will go, and returne to my place, til they acknowledge their fault, and seeke me: in their affliction they will seeke me diligently.
geneva@Hosea:6:1 @ Come, and let (note:)He shows the people that they ought to turn to the Lord, so that he might stop his plagues.(:note) us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
geneva@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days will (note:)Though he correct us from time to time, yet his help will not be far off, if we return to him.(:note) he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
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: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:8:4 @ They have set up (note:)That is, Jeroboam, by whom they sought their own liberty, and to obey my will.(:note) kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
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:8:10 @ Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the (note:)That is, for the king and the princes will lay upon them: and by this means the Lord brings them to repentance.(:note) burden of the king of princes.
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:9:7 @ The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know [it]: (note:)Then they will know that they were deluded by those who claimed themselves to be their prophets and spiritual men.(:note) the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
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:9:12 @ Though they bring vp their children, yet I will depriue them from being men: yea, woe to them, when I depart from them.
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:9:15 @ All their wickedness [is] in (note:)The chief cause of their destruction is that they commit idolatry, and corrupt my religion in Gilgal.(:note) Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters.
geneva@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is smitten, their roote is dried vp: they can bring no fruite: yea, though they bring foorth, yet will I slaie euen the dearest of their bodie.
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:10:3 @ For now they shall say, We have no (note:)The day will come that God will take away their king, and then they will feel the fruit of their sins, and how they trusted in him in vain; (2Ki_17:6-7).(:note) king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
geneva@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria shall (note:)When the calf will be carried away.(:note) fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the These were certain idolatrous priests, who wore black apparel during their sacrifices, and cried with a loud voice: which superstition Elijah derided, (1Ki_18:27). {{See 2Ki_23:5}} priests thereof [that] rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
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: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:11:9 @ I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I [am] God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not (note:)To consume you, but will cause you to yield, and so have mercy on you: and this is meant of the final number who will walk after the Lord.(:note) enter into the city.
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:12:9 @ 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: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:13:14 @ I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O (note:)Meaning that no power will resist God when he will deliver his own, but even in death he will give them life.(:note) death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Because they will not turn to me, I will change my purpose. repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
geneva@Hosea:14:2 @ Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, (note:)He shows them that they ought to confess their sins.(:note) Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we render the calves of our Declaring that this is the true sacrifice that the faithful can offer, even thanks and praise; (Heb_13:15). lips.
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:14:7 @ 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@Joel:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. (note:)The Argument - The Prophet Joel first rebukes those of Judah, that being now punished with a great plague of famine, still remain obstinate. Secondly, he threatens greater plagues, because they grow daily to a more hardness of heart and rebellion against God in spite of his punishments. Thirdly, he exhorts them to repentance, showing that it must be earnest, and proceed from the heart, because they had grievously offended God. And in doing this, Joel promises that God will be merciful, and not forget his covenant that he made with their fathers, but will send his Christ, who will gather the scattered sheep, and restore them to life and liberty, even though they seem to be dead.(:note)
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: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:2:8 @ Neither shall one (note:)For none will be able to resist them.(:note) thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and [when] they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
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:2:14 @ Who knoweth [if] he will (note:)He speaks this to stir up their slothfulness, and not that he doubted of God's mercies, if they did repent. For the way in which God repents, {{See Jer_18:8}}(:note) return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
geneva@Joel:2:18 @ Then will the LORD be (note:)If they repent he shows that God will preserve and defend them with a most fervent affection.(:note) jealous for his land, and pity his people.
geneva@Joel:2:19 @ Yea, the Lord wil answere and say vnto his people, Beholde, I will send you corne, and wine, and oyle, and you shalbe satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproche among the heathen,
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:2:23 @ 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:2:28 @ 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:2:30 @ And I will shew (note:)He warns the faithful what terrible things would come, with the intent that they should not look for continual quietness in this world: and yet in all these troubles he would preserve them.(:note) wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
geneva@Joel:2:31 @ The (note:)The order of nature will seem to be changed because of the horrible afflictions that will be in the world; (Isa_13:10; Eze_32:7; Joe_3:15; Mat_24:29).(:note) sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
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:3:1 @ For, behold, in (note:)When I will deliver my Church, which consists of both Jews and Gentiles.(:note) those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
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:3:4 @ 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:3:7 @ Beholde, I will rayse them out of the place where ye haue sold them, and will render your reward vpon your owne head,
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:3:12 @ Let the heathen be wakened, and come vp to the valley of Iehoshaphat: for there will I sit to iudge all the heathen round about.
geneva@Joel:3:13 @ Put ye in the (note:)In this way he will encourage the enemies when their wickedness is completely ripe to destroy one another, which he calls the valley of God's judgment.(:note) sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness [is] great.
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:3:21 @ For I will (note:)He had allowed his Church before this to lie in their filthiness, but now he promises to cleanse them and to make them pure unto himself.(:note) cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
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:1:4 @ But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the (note:)The antiquity of their buildings will not avoid my judgments. {{See Jer_49:27}}(:note) palaces of Benhadad.
geneva@Amos: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:1:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they (note:)They united themselves with the Edomites their enemies, who carried them away captive.(:note) carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver [them] up to Edom:
geneva@Amos:1:7 @ Therefore will I sende a fire vpon the walles of Azzah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
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:1:9 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the (note:)For Esau (from whom came the Edomites) and Jacob were brothers, therefore they ought to have admonished them by their brotherly friendship, and not to have provoked them to hatred.(:note) brotherly covenant:
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:1:12 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Teman, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah.
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:1:14 @ Therefore will I kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battell, and with a tempest in the day of the whirlewinde.
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:2:2 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Moab, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Kerioth, and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of a trumpet.
geneva@Amos:2:3 @ And I will cut off the iudge out of the mids thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, sayth the Lord.
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:2:5 @ Therefore will I send a fire vpon Iudah, and it shall deuoure the palaces of Ierusalem.
geneva@Amos:2:6 @ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of (note:)If he did not spare Judah unto whom his promises were made, much more he will not spare this degenerate kingdom.(:note) Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of They esteemed most vile bribes more than men's lives. shoes;
geneva@Amos:2:7 @ That pant after the (note:)When they have robbed him and thrown him to the ground, they open wide their mouths for his life.(:note) dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:
geneva@Amos:2:8 @ And they lay [themselves] down upon clothes laid to pledge (note:)Thinking that by these ceremonies, that is, by sacrificing, and by being near my altar, they may excuse all of their other wickedness.(:note) by every altar, and they They rob others and offer it to God, thinking that he will exempt them, when he is made partaker of their iniquity. drink the wine of the condemned [in] the house of their god.
geneva@Amos:2:14 @ Therefore the flight shall perish from the (note:)None will be delivered by any means.(:note) swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
geneva@Amos:3:2 @ You (note:)I have only chosen you to be mine among all other people, and yet you have forsaken me.(:note) only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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:4:2 @ The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with (note:)He alludes to fishers, who catch fish by hooks or thorns.(:note) hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
geneva@Amos:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to (note:)Turn to him by repentance.(:note) meet thy God, O Israel.
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:5:13 @ Therefore (note:)God will so plague them that they will not allow the godly to open their mouths once to admonish them of their faults.(:note) the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.
geneva@Amos:5:15 @ Hate the euil, and loue the good, and establish iudgement in the gate: it may bee that the Lorde God of hostes will be mercifull vnto the remnant of Ioseph.
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:5:22 @ 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: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:6:10 @ 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:6:11 @ For behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the litle house with clefts.
geneva@Amos:6:12 @ Shall horses (note:)He compares them to barren rocks, upon which it is in vain to bestow labour: showing that God's benefits can have no place among them.(:note) run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into Read (Amo_5:7). hemlock:
geneva@Amos:6:14 @ But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of (note:)From one corner of the country to another.(:note) Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
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:8:7 @ The Lorde hath sworne by the excellencie of Iaakob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.
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:8:11 @ Beholde, the dayes come, sayeth the Lorde God, that I will send a famine in the lande, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.
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:9:2 @ Though they digge into the hel, thence shal mine hande take them: though they clime vp to heauen, thence will I bring them downe.
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:9:4 @ And though they goe into captiuitie before their enemies, thence wil I commande the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes vpon them for euill, and not for good.
geneva@Amos:9:8 @ Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly (note:)Though he destroys the rebellious multitude, yet he will always reserve the remnant of his Church to call upon his name.(:note) destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
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:9:11 @ 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:9:13 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall (note:)Signifying, that there will be great abundance of all things, so that when one type of fruit is ripe, another would follow, and every one in order; (Lev_26:5).(:note) overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall Read (Joe_3:18). drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
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:1:4 @ 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:1:7 @ All the men of thy confederacy (note:)Those in whom you trusted to have help and friendship, will be your enemies and destroy you.(:note) have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy That is, your familiar friends and guests have by secret practices destroyed you. bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him.
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@Obadiah:1:19 @ And [they of] the south shall possess the (note:)He describes how the Church will be enlarged and have great possessions: but this is mainly accomplished under Christ, when that faithful are made heirs and lords of all things by him who is their head.(:note) mount of Esau; and [they of] the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead.
geneva@Obadiah:1:21 @ And (note:)Meaning that God will raise up in his Church those who will rule and govern for the defence of it, and for the destruction of his enemies under the Messiah, whom the Prophet here calls the Lord and head of this kingdom.(:note) saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.
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: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:2:9 @ But I will sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thankesgiuing, and will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the Lorde.
geneva@Jonah:4:4 @ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be (note:)Will you judge when I do things for my glory, and when I do not?(:note) angry?
geneva@Jonah:4:9 @ And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be (note:)This declares the great inconveniences into which God's servants fall when they give place to their own affections, and do not in all things willingly submit themselves to God.(:note) angry, [even] unto death.
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:1:3 @ For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come (note:)Meaning by this that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and strongholds.(:note) down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
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:1:11 @ 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:1:14 @ 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:1:15 @ Yet will I bring an (note:)He prophesies against his own city: and because it signified a heritage, he says that God would send an heir to possess it.(:note) heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam For so they thought themselves because of the strength of their cities. the glory of Israel.
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:2:10 @ Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] (note:)Jerusalem will not be your safeguard, but rather the cause of your destruction.(:note) rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.
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:3:4 @ 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:3:5 @ Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that (note:)They devour all their substance, and then flatter them, promising that all will go well. But if someone does not feed them, then they invent all ways to do evil.(:note) bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
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:3:10 @ 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: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:4:2 @ And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will (note:)He shows that there is no true Church, except where the people are taught by God's pure word.(:note) teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
geneva@Micah:4:3 @ And he shall judge among many people, and (note:)By his corrections and threatenings he will bring the people into subjection who are in the utmost corners of the world.(:note) rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into They will abstain from all evil doing, and exercise themselves in godliness and in well doing to others. pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they Read (Isa_2:4) learn war any more.
geneva@Micah:4:5 @ For all people will walk (note:)He shows that the people of God ought to remain constant in their religion, even if all the world should give themselves to their superstition and idolatry.(:note) every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
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:4:13 @ 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:5:3 @ Therefore will he give them up, until the time [that] (note:)He compares the Jews to women with child, who for a time would have great sorrows, but at length they would have a comfortable deliverance; (Joh_16:21).(:note) she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
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:5:10 @ 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:5:11 @ And I will cut off the cities of thy land, & ouerthrowe all thy strong holdes.
geneva@Micah:5:12 @ And I will cut off thine enchanters out of thine hande: and thou shalt haue no more southsayers.
geneva@Micah:5:13 @ Thine idoles also will I cut off, and thine images out of the middes of thee: and thou shalt no more worship the woorke of thine hands.
geneva@Micah:5:14 @ And I wil plucke vp thy groues out of the middes of thee: so will I destroy thine enemies.
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:6:2 @ Heare ye, O mountaynes, the Lordes quarel, and ye mightie foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a quarell against his people, and he will pleade with Israel.
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:6:9 @ The LORD'S voice crieth unto the (note:)Meaning, that when God speaks to any city or nation, the godly will acknowledge his majesty and not consider the mortal man that brings the threatening, but God that sends it.(:note) city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
geneva@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
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:7:7 @ Therefore (note:)The Prophet shows that the only remedy for the godly in desperate evils, is to flee to God for help.(:note) I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
geneva@Micah:7:9 @ I will beare the wrath of the Lord because I haue sinned against him, vntill he pleade my cause, and execute iudgement for me: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.
geneva@Micah:7:11 @ [In] (note:)That is, when God will show himself to be a deliverer of his Church, and a destroyer of his enemies.(:note) the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall Meaning the cruel empire of the Babylonians. the decree be far removed.
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:7:17 @ They shall (note:)They will fall flat on the ground because of fear.(:note) lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
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:1:2 @ 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:1:8 @ 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:1:13 @ For nowe I will breake his yoke from thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
geneva@Nahum:1:14 @ And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, [that] no more of thy name be (note:)Meaning, Sennacherib, who would have no more children, but be slain in the house of his gods; (2Ki_19:36-37).(:note) sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
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:2:8 @ 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:3:2 @ 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:3:5 @ Beholde, I come vpon thee, saith the Lorde of hostes, and will discouer thy skirtes vpon thy face, and will shewe the nations thy filthines, & the kingdomes thy shame.
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@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:1:5 @ 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:1:7 @ They [are] terrible and dreadful: (note:)They themselves will be your judges in this cause, and none will have authority over them to control them.(:note) their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.
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:2:1 @ I will stand upon my (note:)I will renounce my own judgment, and only depend on God to be instructed what I will answer those that abuse my preaching, and to be armed against all temptations.(:note) watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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:2:11 @ For the (note:)The stones of the house will cry, and say that they are built from blood, and the wood will answer and say the same of itself.(:note) stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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:2:16 @ 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.
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